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Anthony G Williams
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  		   Posted 5/21/2008 4:03 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I read it decades ago and recall nothing of the plot - but if I remembered the title and author's name, it must have made an impression on me (a good one, in this case).
 
 

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  		   Posted 5/9/2008 9:20 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Umm...define big?

A-and existing?

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Bill Ward
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  		   Posted 5/8/2008 9:53 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
OK, I'm sold -- I went ahead and bought it.

As for syndication . . . how big is your existing fanbase? :p

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  		   Posted 5/7/2008 9:10 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
lol bandito
 
Yep, it was written in '75. She writes in a very sparse, economical style, and you are expected to fill in the gaps for yourself. There is a large cast, much political intrigue, and a pretty wild mutant race called the Styth.
 
Each chapter contains a lot of information and not a sentence is wasted. It is dense but not hard to read.
 
So why do I like it? Because it is very hard to predict where it is going? Because the female protagonist is smart as hell? Because the prose is finely crafted? All of these, but particularly because her vision of the future is unlike any I've read yet, a real eye opener.
 
Hey Bill, you can syndicate this luscious review on your site if you wanna. scool

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  		   Posted 5/7/2008 5:39 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Some very interesting stuff. I'm not sure if that's the only thing, as she was featured on the cover of Locus a couple of years ago--- I'd have to go back and read the article.
She wrote it a long time ago, at least 20 years.

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  		   Posted 5/7/2008 2:34 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Tell me more, bandito bedford.

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  		   Posted 5/7/2008 11:41 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Anybody ever read Cecilia Holland's 'Floating Worlds'?
 
I'm about halfway through and I'm having a blast!
 
Pity this is the only sci-fi book she appears to have written, so far at least.

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