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Summary: A Fantastic Read!
Review: Loved the book....it was a terrific read. I hope she writes a sequel..
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Summary: Good book, neat story
Review: This is a good story by Friedman. Much of the technology in it is a logical step beyond our current Internet, definitely not groundbreaking. I also did find the story a bit choppy, cutting out some character development. Friedman's characters are real, breathing people. And as always she creates a complete universe for her story. Her other SF stories are even better, The Madness Season is her best. I highly recommend reading all her stories, as each world is unique.
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Summary: If you only read one book this year read this one.
Review: This book is so good ! A danger is that it might persuade other authors that the cyber-punk genre now has been perfected as an art form and they can give up. Even in the context of a "mystery and pursuit" novel it is truly great, John Buchan may never have bothered with The 39 Steps if he had to beat this one. He does the capitalism red in tooth and claw scene as well as William Gibson and evokes the wonder of the far future on a par with Cordwainer Smith, who he generously credits. (Probably wondering how many kids today have read "The Game of Rat and Dragon".) Wonderful escapism, tension, plot...how do you get hold of a Hugo award nomination form ?
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Summary: just finished and loved it
Review: this book was hard to put away, and kept me up at night. i loved the brainware idea and wellseeker, it was just enough tech without losing character or storyline punch. i will be thinking about this book for weeks!!!
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Summary: Great Summer Read!
Review: Friedman shows great skill in combining a suspenseful story and wonderful ideas into a book that will bring back previous fans and gain new acolytes. Interesting ideas include the emergence of company owned habitats and the innernet and outernet, brainware, and the next generation of computer-based interactivity.Friedman's universe feels real. Pick this one up!
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Summary: Fantastic!!!!
Review: I really enjoyed This Alien Shore. The world that C.S. Friedman has created left me craving for more---I was truly sorry to see this story end. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of another super series for C.S. Friedman. This Alien Shore reminded me a little of the current Tad Williams series, but I thought it was better.
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Summary: A great read with a complicated (and intruiging) plot!
Review: I have, like many of the other reviewers, read and thoroughly enjoyed all of Ms.Friedman's previous work. I was so excited when I saw this one, I had to buy it immediately! It is a pretty great book, with wonderful characters, and imagainative new races of humans. I would agree, though, that the end was a little disappointing. It is the type of thing you get mad at a tv show about... Maybe there is a sequal to follow, and then it wouldn't be so bad. I read it in 4 days, so it couldn't have been that bad!
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Summary: This book was truly amazing.
Review: i loved this book! i'm not really into sci-fi but i couldn't put this book down. U've got to read it!
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Summary: Encore!
Review: C.S. Friedman has yet to write a work I haven't liked a lot. This one is no exception. It doesn't have quite the gut-twisting immediacy of her other works; it reminds me a little more of Cherryh's work in that it's tending in the direction of being more about a society and a situation than an individual. I've felt that the societies she's created in previous works were sufficiently explored--in three books, for _Coldfire_, and in one book each for _The Madness Season_ and _In Conquest Born._ In this case, though, I'm intriqued by the Guerans, particularly, and would like to hear more about Masada.
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Summary: Enjoyable Book That Lacks Somewhat In Narrative Power
Review: A parable set in the future that in part mirrors the present, "This Alien Shore" was engaging yet lacked the narrative power to fully capture my interest. Due to a necessity to create and explain the technological aspects of her future world, C.S. Friedman is forced to expend energy away from the narrative, thereby sapping some of its force and energy. As this is a recurring complaint that I have with much science fiction, perhaps this criticism is an individual response and should be weighed against those who find interest in the technological and theoretical concepts that I find often overburdening this genre. Those among you who turn to science fiction for its theoretical content will undoubtedly find my criticism over harsh, and I expect will enjoy this work immensely. Nonetheless I find the storyline weakened by the explanatory excursions into brainware systems, data codes, virus creations, and Guild operations. My loss, perhaps.
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