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Summary: To the publisher
Review: This book is brilliant. I want to assign it in a course at UCLA, but can't. Please do consider reprinting it.
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Summary: More than a great science-fiction, a great novel as well
Review: This is a wonderful book for anyone who's ever dreamed of time travel. It also showes you a first-hand view of the Summer of Love. Mason does an excellent job of describing her characters and how they feel, even when under the influence. Her view of the future seems realistic enough, (Although we'll never know) and the way she twists the plot around Chiron, Starbright, Ruby, and the other characters is quite clever. All in all this is a book that I will read many times.
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Summary: Fantastic narrative and imagary- you feel like you're THERE.
Review: This is one of my all time favorite books, thanks to the amazing narrative, plot, characterization, and colorful vivid imagery. From the very first paragraph you feel as if you're really there, in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. You see, hear, smell, taste and feel everything that's happening, and there's never a dull moment with all the colorful characters. With this book there's a little something for everyone. Time travel for sci fi buffs, historical references for history buffs, and a large assortment of characters for a great story in general.
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Summary: Hippies and Time Travelers
Review: Two types of people will like this book: Hippies/wannabe hippies and Sci-Fi fans.
Some people like to read about them hippies. This books is pratically a textbook for hippie slang, hippie music, hippie clothes, hippie's nicknames for drugs, hippie lifestyle. It does not sugarcoat any of it. It just tells it like it was. Poor Starbright (aka Susan Stein) runs away from the Cleveland suburbs to find her friend Penny Lane (aka Nance Jones, aka Crinky) in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Fransisco in 1967. Along the way she tries LSD, gets pregnant, gets an abortion, drops the mod look, picks up some new vernacular, goes to enough concerts to make you jealous, and ends the book a hippie. People who like to hear about that stuff will like this book.
Some people like reading about time travelers. They want to hear Chiron Cat's Eye in Draco tell five hundred years of history from the perspective of 2467. They want to hear about him consulting the computer on his knuckletop to find whether the Prime Probability has collapsed. They like when he uses his maser and explains Cosmicism. They like the descriptions of tachyportation. They'll love this book too.
Like, wow, man, the WHOLENESS of the universe that I glimpsed while tripping on...uh...this book tells me to, like, tell ya this book is really groovy and I bet you'll really dig it, y'know what I mean??
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