Spider Legs

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Summary: A wonderful first novel from Cliff Pickover
Review: Spider Legs is not your ordinary science fiction book. The characters and motives are different to anything I have read. It remind me a lot of Relic and Relicary, where science, horror and suspense are intermingle together to create one bizarre but enthrilling story. The action is great and really scary. But what I love best is the relationship between Nathalie and Nathan and later Elmo and Lisa. The only thing that I think it was a little overboard was some of the scientic information that take away a little from the story but in itself the information is amazing about sea spider, marine life in general and our pollution situation in the world right now. It is a waking call of a sort about our interaction with Nature and how that can affect us. I really recommend this book if you love the sea and care about our world ecology, with an added amount of action and love to spice up things. ;-) I can't wait for more new science-fiction from Pickover. Also it is nice to see that Piers Anthony collaborate in this novel, adding some really nice dimesion to the characters and situation. Really a very nice combination.

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Summary: collaborations not for Anthony
Review: Spider Legs was just plain awful. No offense to Mr. Pickover, who, it seems is the main author of this book, but you are going to need a little more practice. Piers Anthony is the author who, along with Heinlein and Uris, made me want to read. This slapping your name onto someone else's book is awful. If you actually claim responsibility for this, it's even worse. Natalie Sheppard and her lover, Nathan are both very one-dimensional characters. So are Elmo, Martha and Lisa. The two most interesting characters in the entire book are dispatched in the first 50 pages. I found it difficult to fathom the tone of most of the chapters. The action of the pycno attacks was disjointed and confusing. The adjectives and adverbs used were annoying and repetitive. Did I mention repetitve?, oh yeah, and repetitive. You want good Anthony? Read the incarnations of immortality, Tatham Mound, Apprentice Adept, Macroscope, Battle Circle, Bio of a Space Tyrant, Chthon, even the fluffy Xanth series, but avoid Spider Legs...

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Summary: Demented
Review: That's the only word that could describe whoever "green lighted" this book. It's insane, the facts, the scenery, the characters are all horribly inconsistent.....

If you read this unctuous absurdity, you'll find yourself regreting the three hours lost from your life when you finish. Comic books are better reading than this book

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Summary: I loved the setting and strange creatures!
Review: The aspect I liked best about the book was the beautiful New Foundland setting and strange creatures. I think other readers will be fascinated!

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Summary: Daphne Dumaurier meets Herman Melville.
Review: This book a fascinating first (science fiction) effort from one author, Pickover, and change of pace from the other, Anthony. It is remeniscent of both Dumaurier's Birds, complete with lurking terror, and Anthony's Firefly, without the blatant eroticism. While the ecological aspects of the plot are not without company in modern fiction, this workscores high points for originality and attention to detail. Were it not for a one or two relatively minor technical glitches, it would be a flat-out "10".

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Summary: Superb and Full of Suspense and Curiosities
Review: This book has so many wonderful and strange ideas that it is a must read for anyone wanting a "JAWS meets X-FILES" kind of book. There is suspense, horror, humor, oddness, absurdity, and a creature sure to win attention if this book is turned into a movie.

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Summary: Fantastic characters. Superb Action. Cutting Edge Science.
Review: This book has so much action that the reader barely has time to breathe... Bloody. Riveting. Spider Legs definitely has some well-developed and unusual characters, but the book is primarily about action. Spider Legs kept me awake until 2 A.M. This is not just another sea monster story.

After I catch my breath, I await a sequel!

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Summary: ok but not the best
Review: This book is ok if you like to read because it is very dull for the first 100 pages. It was boring in the beginning because the author just talked about every little detail, most were not important.The beginning and end were very interesting because it involves many battles with the enemy. This book is about a woman who loves fish, she hates humans though because they are destroying the earth. Her name is Martha. She conducts experiments to make a large sea spider known as a psychonid. The spider was supposed to be the first of many of its kind to keep humans away from the coasts by killing them. A group of humans try to stop the giant spider from killing. Since this book contains so much detail you will feel very accustomed to the characters. As they battle with the monster. At times it was difficult to read so I recommend it to ages 15+.

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Summary: OK!
Review: This book was good but I found it a little inconsistent. It did not flow. And giant spiders COME ON!!!

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Summary: Mixes Stephen King type horror with eco-sci-fi
Review: This is a science fiction collaboration with a lot of science input by Dr Pickover, and fictional input by Piers Anthony. It has more in common with Stephen King than Arthur C Clarke, but the "baddies" are motivated by modern fears and play on modern fears by the way they wreck their havoc. It looks as though it also had a lot of research in common with Pickover's book The Science of Aliens, and the plot has a lot in common with Halperin's The Chimeras of Loppet Creek which I personally preferred of the two. But that is a personal preference, and I think the public at large may well like the King-like Spider Legs with its graphic descriptions of people of all sized and genders being eaten alive by monsters. I must say that recovery from some of the injuries described by Pickover and Anthony seems a bit fanciful, I should think.