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Summary: Slow River
Review: The story Slow River is truly "An Astonishing Piece of Work." The difference bewteen a great SF story and an award winning SF story becomes apparent within a few pages.
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Summary: A wonderful book.
Review: This book has romance, lesbian love scenes, and industrial espionage, but mostly its about sewage treatment. She describes a future when toxic metals and pesticides can be removed from wastewater by genetically manipulated bacteria. It was very interesting.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: This book started out interestingly enough, and I figured the plot would make it worth the read. However, after forcing myself through the story (that ended up having a very skimpy plot), I realised the book was nothing more than a dreary commentary on the destruction and despair that lie beneath relationships based primarily on sexual exploration.I was very disappointed in the book and would definitely warn readers that unless you are a perverted 13 year old looking to get aroused, don't waste your time. And if you _are_ a 13 year old looking to get aroused, you may find looking at pornography to be more fun, unless you're also doing research on Futuristic Sewage Processing Plant Techniques which also takes up a large portion of the book. I rate this at 1 star only because that is the lowest. Really, I'd say 0 stars. The only reason this book has won awards at all is because the literary community is being politically strongarmed into some crazy form of affirmative action for lesbians and gays.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: This book started out interestingly enough, and I figured the plot would make it worth the read. However, after forcing myself through the story (that ended up having a very skimpy plot), I realised the book was nothing more than a dreary commentary on the destruction and despair that lie beneath relationships based primarily on sexual exploration. I was very disappointed in the book and would definitely warn readers that unless you are a perverted 13 year old looking to get aroused, don't waste your time. And if you _are_ a 13 year old looking to get aroused, you may find looking at pornography to be more fun, unless you're also doing research on Futuristic Sewage Processing Plant Techniques which also takes up a large portion of the book. I rate this at 1 star only because that is the lowest. Really, I'd say 0 stars. The only reason this book has won awards at all is because the literary community is being politically strongarmed into some crazy form of affirmative action for lesbians and gays.
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Summary: Did Not Dig It
Review: This book was well-written enough that I didn't trip over my eyeballs or anything, but frankly I didn't see the point. Slumming rich gal works at a sewage plant, spots safety violations, and sleeps with her boss. This is entertainment? This is science fiction? Slow year for the Nebulas, I guess.
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Summary: The 1996 Nebula Award winner.
Review: This book won the 1996 Nebula Award for best science fiction book of the year. Over several years, I have read all of the Hugo and Nebula Award winners, and seeing that "Slow River" was a recipient, I naturally had to read it as well. However, upon reading the jacket information, I became angry once again with the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America who vote on the Nebula Awards. It seemed that, once again, the SFWA members are being swayed by one or more of several groups who have their own agenda and who are not concentrating on what really is science fiction (or even, in some cases, speculative fiction). The Nebula Award is losing the prestige that it once had by awarding the prize to novels that represent subgenres. Reading the jacket information leads one to the conclusion that this particular book falls in that subgenre of lesbian science fiction (which has a significant following). But, I read it anyway. And, I'm glad that I did. It was pretty good after all and did contain some good science, particularly of waste and toxic controls. There aren't too many science fiction novels that rely on hydrodynamics. I personally may not have voted for it as the best novel of the year, but it is up near the top. A young woman, who is a member of a rich family who control the market of bioengineered organisms needed for the repurification system of water, has been kidnapped. She escapes, discovers that her family were not going to pay the ransome, and hides herself in an English city in the mid-21st century. She has to regain control of her life, find out who was behind her kidnapping, why her sister had committed suicide, and discover who is trying to sabotage the water purification plant where she has obtained a job.
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Summary: Slow River
Review: This gripping story explores the boundaries that our identities form and how we see life through these limitations. How a single event can change you entire world. Good dose of future: web communication, big brother ID tracking, dangers and remeditions of environmental damage. Women in tender relationships defining love vs need, choice vs acceptance. I can touch these characters
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Summary: Deep, Powerful, and gripping
Review: This has to be one of the best books I have ever read. Breaking away from over used plots and storylines, this book kept me totally engrossed. I loved the idea of changing from first to third person. My brother made me read it and I am forever grateful to him for it. I olny wish is that it had a sequel good enough to rival it.
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Summary: Bore
Review: This is one of the most boring science fiction novels I have ever read. The story just kind of plods along. I may as well of stared at a wall for a few hours as to have read this. Avoid. It's overrated. Nebula award? Oh boy.
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Summary: Bore
Review: This is one of the most boring science fiction novels I have ever read. The story just kind of plods along. I may as well of stared at a wall for a few hours as to have read this. Avoid. It's overrated. Nebula award? Oh boy.
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