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Summary: Outstanding
Review: The best SF book I've read in the last three or so years. Immortality may seem to be a blessing, but when your spouse, children and friends all die before you, and when you must wander the earth for fear of being discovered and killed, the blessing seems faint indeed. In this historically accurate, episodic novel, Anderson introduces us to a series of immortals who strive to survive through the ages, and try to find a meaning and purpose in their life. The historically accurate settings vary from the shores of ancient Phoenicia to interstellar space, and watching how these characters reacted to the march of history was a treat indeed.
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Summary: One of the very best.
Review: The boat of a million years is one of the best sci-fi books I have ever read, and I've read a lot of them. It ranks right up there with "Alas Babylon", "Earth Abides", and "2001". Don't miss it!
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Summary: The journey of immortal humans through earths past & future
Review: The ship of a million years
By Poul Anderso
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Summary: to really live a story
Review: there are many great SF books, brilliant, interesting and all you can wish for in a story. but i've never felt when reading a story like i felt during reading this book, you actually live through it, and as a result live through the thousands of years. you can have this experience only by this one way... read the book.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: There can be only one worthwhile book on what it is to be immortal and this is it
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Summary: Helped my insomnia!
Review: This book goes on at great length about a bunch of immortal people who discover their immortality and others like them, starting from 1000BC all the way to the distant future. The ending is passably OK, but certainly not worth the huge mass of insignificant details you need to get through to reach the end. Don't buy it.
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Summary: An epic story told on a personal scale over millenia.
Review: This book is basically about the lives of several people who never grow old or sick covered from the gray fog of the forgotten past up to a distant future of interstellar travel and alien contact. The characters are sharply defined, four-dimensional people that you really get to know as the book goes on and care about as well. All the stories are exceptionally interesting and engrossing covering just about all eras of recorded time and all places where human beings dwell or have dwelt. Positively a masterpiece.
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Summary: Short version of Heinlein's Time Enough for Love
Review: This book provided nothing new. Throughout the book, I wondered if I was reading a comic book version of Heinlein's Time Enough for Love, or maybe an extended script for a Highlander the Series episode. Although not a bad read if you have 3-4 hours to kill, it is neither spectacular nor groundbreaking. If there is a sequel I would like to read it, as this seemed rushed and unfinished.
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Summary: Diamond in the Rough
Review: This is a rather short work not like Anderson's usual stuff. It is a series of vignettes about "eternals", individuals who are destined to live forever. Anderson brings these immortals to life (pardon the pun) with his ever-journeying tales of the past and the far, far future. It is his extraordinary vision of the future and how, in the end, it is companionship and love that matter. Our bodies may face and we may become all mind (doubtful since our brains require sensory input in order to conceive most concepts)but we will always be human and need human relationships. This is one of those superior scifi books (like Pamela Sarents' THE SHORE OF WOMEN) which serve as reminders that amid the garbage and throw away pamphlets, there exists stories that still have the power to invoke wonder and awe.
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Summary: Diamond in the Rough
Review: This is a rather short work not like Anderson's usual stuff. It is a series of vignettes about "eternals", individuals who are destined to live forever. Anderson brings these immortals to life (pardon the pun) with his ever-journeying tales of the past and the far, far future. It is his extraordinary vision of the future and how, in the end, it is companionship and love that matter. Our bodies may face and we may become all mind (doubtful since our brains require sensory input in order to conceive most concepts)but we will always be human and need human relationships. This is one of those superior scifi books (like Pamela Sarents' THE SHORE OF WOMEN) which serve as reminders that amid the garbage and throw away pamphlets, there exists stories that still have the power to invoke wonder and awe.
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