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Summary: Deep and rich with concept and characters.
Review: Of all of Ian McDonald's novels -- which I love -- this is the only one I simply couldn't bear. Molasses from beginning to wherever it was I gave up.
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Summary: Did I read the same book?
Review: Of all of Ian McDonald's novels -- which I love -- this is the only one I simply couldn't bear. Molasses from beginning to wherever it was I gave up.
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Summary: The NanoTech resurrection of 600 million wax dolls
Review: The First Resurrection of the Dead will start sooner than Terminal Cafe would suggest! My guess is that it will start in about 55 years.
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Summary: The NanoTech resurrection of 600 million wax dolls
Review: The First Resurrection of the Dead will start sooner than Terminal Cafe would suggest! My guess is that it will start in about 55 years.
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Summary: Incomprehensible
Review: This was one of the very, very few books that I actually could not read. At all. The combination of bad writing, ridiculous premise and an excessive collection of side plots makes this book only marginally more entertaining than a core dump in hex. Now, I could be wrong - maybe the book gets better later on. However, I haven't been able to read enough of the book to actually find out. I'd suggest Cyteen (by C.J.Cherryh) or Diamond Age (by Neal Stephenson) as books that deal with some of the issues that Terminal Cafe supposedly covers; however, these two books are pretty well written, so that a human being can actually comprehend them.
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