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date pub edition Jun 01, 1978
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I enjoyed just how breezy and stylishly this novel conjured a far future world and its inhabitants, many of whom were some effortless flavor of post-h
I enjoyed just how breezy and stylishly this novel conjured a far future world and its inhabitants, many of whom were some effortless flavor of post-human. The dramatic tension at the story's core didn't do much for me, and the language stuff was clever but a little silly, at least until it occurred to me that Babel-17, the mysterious language-as-weapon, could be read as an allegory of communism, and the baffling violence attributed to it in the novel could be a critique of sorts of the late sixties-era Cold War.
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avg rating 4.37
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date pub Sep 01, 2010
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avg rating 4.32
num ratings 46,940
date pub Sep 01, 2009
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192
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avg rating 4.16
num ratings 109,634
date pub Jan 01, 2008
date pub edition Sep 29, 2015
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avg rating 4.31
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date pub edition Jun 02, 2011
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A fun inner-solar system space opera with an intricate, mysterious conspiracy at its core. The second book in the series is sitting on my desk waiting
A fun inner-solar system space opera with an intricate, mysterious conspiracy at its core. The second book in the series is sitting on my desk waiting for me to get around to it.
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431
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date pub Jul 03, 2018
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287
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avg rating 3.67
num ratings 14,486
date pub Jan 01, 2007
date pub edition Jun 05, 2007
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date pub Aug 04, 2015
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413
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avg rating 4.49
num ratings 12,600
date pub Dec 11, 1990
date pub edition Dec 01, 2001
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avg rating 4.47
num ratings 12,922
date pub Jul 07, 1987
date pub edition Sep 19, 2001
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284
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avg rating 4.45
num ratings 14,307
date pub Jul 07, 1987
date pub edition Jul 10, 2001
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302
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avg rating 4.46
num ratings 16,566
date pub 1984
date pub edition Mar 01, 2001
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The thing in manga-world where kids, especially younger, weaker-looking kids, possess the most awesome, deadliest superpowers is such a viscerally app
The thing in manga-world where kids, especially younger, weaker-looking kids, possess the most awesome, deadliest superpowers is such a viscerally appealing concept, especially when set in contrast to the authoritarian adult figures. Here that authority figure, Colonel Shikishima, and his youthful antagonist for most of the volume is Tetsuo, who at one point nearly kills the Colonel. But the whole arc of this volume is a build-up to the release of Akira from cold storage deep underground. And Akira, of course, is an even younger child, slouchy and meek-looking, but who is the ultimate mega-weapon. The story turns the age/power dynamic on its head in a satisfying way. It also has just a great fast-pace thriller plot that can pull you through 500+ pages before breakfast.
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361
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avg rating 4.40
num ratings 38,328
date pub Sep 21, 1984
date pub edition Dec 26, 2000
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avg rating 4.18
num ratings 490
date pub Jun 17, 2014
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763
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avg rating 3.76
num ratings 15,202
date pub Jun 03, 2002
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304
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avg rating 4.14
num ratings 854
date pub Jan 21, 2014
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date pub Jan 01, 2015
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