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Academy award-winning artist Doug Chiang and best-selling sci-fi author Orson Scott Card join forces for an extraordinary publishing adventure: Robota. An original illustrated science fiction novel, Robota follows the fortunes of a strangely powerful amnesiac named Caps as he navigates an ancient, decaying world in which a dwindling human population battles a society of merciless robot warriors. Aided by talking animals and stalked by terrifying hunter robots, Caps slowly rises to fulfill an awesome destiny. Integrating word and image, Card's masterful storytelling is interwoven with 75 pieces of Chiang's wildly imagined, meticulously rendered art. Packaged in a dramatic metallic case, this unusual and powerful collaboration is tailor-made ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"You know those Rama books? The ones he did with somebody else?" he asked. "Yes." I said. "Well, they were really terrible. Not much of Clarke at all." "True." "But he's put out a new one. `3001.' Another in the `2001' series. It's vintage Clarke. You'll have to get it." So I looked forward to it with great anticipation. We all enjoy Clarke a lot. I mean Heinlein is OK for adventure junkies and Ayn Rand fans, and Niven has a few interesting astrophysics tricks, but Clarke is the only one for techies when they want to avoid gnashing their teeth every three pages over some egregious scientific error. He was right. This is vintage Clarke. And that is not altogether good. For one thing, those familiar with the Clarke corpus wi... Rest of this review on the detail page
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It Was The Worst of Times...Fifteen feet tall, the Entities land in cities across Earth. Ignoring humankind, they wall themselves in impenetrable enclaves, enslaving a few willing collaborators with their telepathic PUSH. Then they plunge humans into a new Dark Age without electricity, allowing us to live--but no longer as a dominant species.But a few refuse to submit to fate, including the Carmichael family, whose patriarch, an aging colonel devoted to resistance, will inspire a daring new generation of dissidents. United in spirit, these diverse rebels--an aging hippie, a cold-blooded Muslim assassin, a prodigal son, and a renegade hacker--will carry on the colonel's legacy as they attempt to kill the mysterious Prime Entity and free the ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Ayn Rand is known as the darling of the right-wing crowd, as evidenced by numerous jokes about the Monstrous Monolithic Multinational MegaCorporation (and the drafting committee for the Multilateral Agreement on Investment) with its daily readings from the works of Ayn Rand. I was somewhat surprised to note the adulation for Miss Rand that appears on the net, given that most companies see the Internet as a haven of wild-eyed lefties. Initially I attributed this fan club to the recent surveys indicating that netizens are a fairly fascist crowd after all, but having been prompted to actually read some of this stuff I understand the attraction. Rand's work, in similar manner to "Terminal Compromise," is geek wish fulfillment writ large. (... Rest of this review on the detail page
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