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Book descriptionWelcome to the Enderverse.When "Ender's Game" was first published as a novella twenty-five years ago few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history. Expanded into a novel in 1985, Ender's Game won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Never out of print and translated into dozens of languages, it is the rare work of fiction that can truly be said to have transcended a genre. Ender's Game and its sequels have won dozens of prestigious awards and are as popular today among teens and young readers as adults.First Meetings is a collection of three novellas-plus the original "Ender's Game"-that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin."The Polish Boy"...
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Book descriptionA spellbinding love story about a man caught by the whims of time and the woman who must wait for his return.This is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry finds himself periodically displaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences amusing, unpredictable, and devastating.The Time Traveler’s Wife is a story about fate, hope and belief, and more than that, it’s about the power of love to endure beyond the bounds of time.
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Dungeons, dragons, hobbits and all manner of fantasy hold endless fascination
for the techie crowd. Elements of sword and sorcery (wiz, daemon, etc.) have
even made it into the technical lexicon, quite aside from the round of MUDs
(multiple user domains) and other role playing games. So the idea that a
programmer, thrust into an alternate dimension where magic works, can make it
as a wizard is both appealing to the target audience and completely
unsurprising.
Anyone with the slightest familiarity with UNIX and the Internet will
understand the technical references herein. (To make it easier for the novice
to identify them, they are all printed in bold type.) What I'm not sure of is
the reason that said references are all garbled. Of...
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(Review by Rob Slade)
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