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io9.com - 11/10/2008
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The best science fiction novel of 2008 was Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation , according to Amazon.com's new top 10 list, compiled by io9 contributor Jeff VanderMeer. The story of a gang of super-criminals reuniting to save a fallen America that's reinstated human slavery beat out Neal ...
omnivoracious.com - 11/9/2008
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omnivoracious.com —
Diversity of approach and subject matter marked the
best science fiction and fantasy of 2008, with notable...
titles by two new writers and excellent efforts by several seasoned pros. Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation combined the serious and the ...
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Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Titles of 2008
tor.com - 11/18/2008
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tor.com —
Tom Shippey, who isn’t an idiot, called Neal
Stephenson’s Anathem “high fantasy” in the Times . So...
in my second reading of Anathem in the two months since it came out, I was trying to figure out what he meant when he used that term about a book ...
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Anathem: what does it gain from not being our world?
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 11/10/2008
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s new novel is a great thick brick
of a book, weighing one-and-a-half kilos, its 937 pages...
ending with three appendices, or Calcas , which are in effect geometric puzzles-cum-explanations. Phrases like six-dimensional space are common enough in ...
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Neal Stephenson, spaceman Tom Shippey TLS
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EmilyBlips I've been strongly considering Liberation for the next book club pick since I became aware of it. That said, since we're all going to be buying Panedmonium anyways, maybe we should read that.
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Tor.com —
... Here at Tor.com, we err on the side of being overly humble about what Tor’s books are up to. But now that io9 has scooped us, we might as well mention that the second book by Brian Slattery, a blogger here and the author of this month’s ...
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