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A hymn before battle / John Ringo.
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: PC Rating: 7 out of 10 Audience: Adults
SciFi Military Book of Us versus Them with some twists thrown in. Very fast pace and enjoyable to read. I recommend it. First in an trilogy.
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A swiftly tilting planet
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Beusephalas Rating: 7 out of 10 Audience: Kids
This was a really good book. personally I like the first two in the series better, but this one's good.
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Reviewed by: James Bond Rating: Not rated Audience: Kids
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry, whom readers first met in A Wrinkle in Time, has a little task he must accomplish. In 24 hours, a mad dictator will destroy the universe by declaring nuclear war--unless Charles Wallace can go back in time to change one of the many Might-Have-Beens in history. In an intricately layered and suspenseful journey through time, this extraordinary young man psychically enters four different people from other eras. As he perceives through their eyes "what might have been," he begins to comprehend the cosmic significance and consequences of every living creature's actions. As he witnesses first-hand the transformation of civilization from peaceful to warring times, his very existence is threatened, but the alternative is far worse.
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Achilles' choice
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Howard G. Rating: 5 out of 10 Audience: Teens
Light fiction, set in the future. Not sure if this really makes it 'Science Fiction', as there is very little science in the story at all. It also lacks significantly in character development, and the plot is very predictable. The main character Jillian Shomer debates whether she should 'boost' - undergo medical enhancements to make her more competitive in the Olympics. Nobody has ever won gold in the olympics that hasn't boosted, and if you don't win you aren't chosen to be one of the 'linked' - those people who are neurally connected throughout the world. If you do boost, and aren't chosen then the enchancements will essentiallly kill you within 9 years or so.
The book is listed as adult science fiction, but it likely would be better suited as young adult, due to the reading level, etc.
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Among the brave
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Abby Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Kids
I thought that this book was amazing. Of course to thoroughly understand it, you would have to read the rest of the series. It was intruiging, suspensful, and made you believe anything that you read. It would twist and turn and make you believe one thing, and then explain everything much later. I would definitely recommend this series to others.
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Reviewed by: jc Rating: 9 out of 10 Audience: Kids
this book was thrilling the whole time it kept my attention i definetly recommend it.
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Among the hidden
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: SweetPenguin Rating: 9 out of 10 Audience: Kids
Ask yourself this question: what would it be like to live your entire life hiding, scared that if you're seen you'll be killed? Luke knows what it's like, and asks himself the opposite. He's an illegal third child, in a community where families cannot have more than two children. They're called shadow children. His only chance of being outside, something that he loved, is gone. In the new neighborhood being built by Luke's house another shadow children hides. Luke is curious. But is he brave enough to go over to the house, and to help other children like himself?
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Among the impostors
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Goog Rating: 7 out of 10 Audience: Kids
I think this is a very good book if you had read the first book amoung the hidden.
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Reviewed by: rnfv Rating: 7 out of 10 Audience: Kids
I think this was an excellent book. But i cant seem to grasp the theme of the book.
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Reviewed by: goldensunshine Rating: 7 out of 10 Audience: Kids
It is a excellent book, just if you read the first book but not very easy to understand if you haven't. But still a great read, Haddix is a engaging author!
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Reviewed by: Amy Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Kids
This book is the greatest! If you read the first one, "Among The Hidden" then you would totally understand this sequel of it! It is my all time favorite book! I recommend this to anyone who loves to read juvenille books!
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Barrayar / Lois McMaster Bujold.
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Sith_Warrior Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Adults
This book is the second in a series-Vorkosigan Saga. The author is one of my favorites. If you like science fiction, I would definitely recommend this book. Even if you don't like SF, I would urge you to try this one. It's an exceptional book. This book also won the HUGO AWARD (the awarsd gven to the best science-fiction or fanstasy novels of the year). The author has won 4 HUGO AWARDS .
this book is set in some where around 2300 a.d. and the humans have colonized dozens of worlds. one particular one is a planet called barrayar. after the Time Of Isolation the planet has emerged from long years of bloody civil wars. Young Miles Vorkosigan, who graduated his final year in the Imperial academy, tries to become an Admiral. but before he was born his fathers enemies tried to assasinate him, but instead almost killed miles while his mom was pregnant.luckily, the doctors saved him and he was born as a mutant, with fragile bones,timyhead(but with a brilliant tactical mind), and his growth stunted. he has to face the hardships and show his enemies that he can do it. his journey takes him to all the corners of the galaxy.
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Bionicle
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Rating: 8 out of 10 Audience: Teens
very good and exciting great storyline
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Chobits
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: ~innocent_angel~ Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Teens
i think this one is the best, because it mainly talks about a girl who has mystical powers that can actually kill all the persecons in the world. but she mainly lives with a guy who found her in the trash can.
I say every manga/anime lover should read this.
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Reviewed by: Takeshi Tomoe Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Teens
I've only read certain books of this series
However I have found it to be one of the best
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Reviewed by: Chobits>_< Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Teens
I think this book is actually the best one for anime and manga lovers because it has a twist to the whole book like Hideki finding a cute persocom named Chi and seeing if she does have feelings(which she totally does) and two bad guys trying to get her so I think everyone should actually read the whole series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Chobits. Volume 1 of 8
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: D Rating: 9 out of 10 Audience: Teens
By best-selling authors CLAMP, you'd sure to love these books. Chobits is about your average, living-by-himself Hideki Motosuwa, and soon he finds those gotta-buy thing-persocom. A persocom is a computer shaped like a person, but this one's a bit-or should I say...a LOT...different from others.
Chobits is also crossed with Angelic Layer, Cardcaptor Sakura(but only once), and a bit of Tsubasa Resorvir Chronicles (in one of the stores, there is a Piffle Store. And one of the characters is from Tsubasa.)
Be sure to read it!
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Code, Veronica
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: yzabj666 Rating: 9 out of 10 Audience: Adults
A very good book, for fans the best over all.
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Destiny's shield
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Davies Rating: 8 out of 10 Audience: Adults
The official reviewer quoted above doesn't know what he's saying. Not only was this book clearly not intended to be the last book in the series (which continued for three more volumes) it is also the one that, for the first time, explored the greater context of the struggle in which the characters had found themselves, by revealing its truely awesome scope. Aide, in previous volumes restricted to communicating through visions and later short phrases, began to speak in the volume at hand, becoming every bit as much of a main character as Belisarius himself.
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Dragonflight
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Jeni Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Adults
You will never read a better book. This book has inspired me through out much of my life. The first written in one of the best and most well-known fanasty/Sci-Fi series ever written. The first line in this book "Lessa woke cold" has always held a place in my head and heart.
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Reviewed by: Allan Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Adults
a book full of fantasy and dragons, the dragons of Pern, and their riders are the only protection Pernese have against the dreadful thread, can they save Pern? with so few riders.
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Dragonsong
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Lingfeng Rating: Not rated Audience: Adults
Dragonsong was a really good book. Some of the parts were really sad, like how cruel Menolly's parents were to her because she was born with music talents and perfect pitch. They were so cruel that she ran away but she ran to the cave where she had first seen the fire lizards. Her life began to change when she first saw them and completely changed when she impressed a fire lizard. I think the author did a really good job except the Forward to the story just confused me.
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Dune / by Frank Herbert.
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: SK Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Adults
As far as sci-fi goes, this novel definately tops the list. Frank Herbert has an amazing imagination. Even if you're not a sci-fi fan, you'll enjoy this complex and creative storyline.
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Empire from the ashes
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Sith_Warrior Rating: 7 out of 10 Audience: Adults
First of all D.Weber is one of my fav authors of all time. if you really love reading first-class space opera, then this is just the ticker for you. Set in the far future it is the story of rebuilding and once great galactic empire which was wrecked by aliens, whose industrial economy far outmatches The Empire.
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Ender's game
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Camel Rating: 9 out of 10 Audience: Teens
Awesome
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Reviewed by: Si-fi Geek Rating: 9 out of 10 Audience: Adults
an amazing sci-fi book. Orson Scott Card at his best. See the others in the series as well!
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Reviewed by: Helllllo Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Teens
It is a great book lots of suspense and excitement (even with some swears) One of the better books I've read.
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Enders game / Orson Scott Card.
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Teens
Enders game is a really great book!
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Fushigi yûgi = The mysterious play
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: jon Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Teens
2 girls striving to acheive thier best at school find a mysterious book that warps them to another world...
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Halo. Ghosts of Onyx
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: halo4lyfe Rating: 8 out of 10 Audience: Adults
It was an exellent book! It is a great addition to the halo books and a great ending
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Halo. The Cole Protocol
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: SPARTAN-117 Rating: 7 out of 10 Audience: Adults
This book is good, wish there was more SPARTAN time, but you find out alot about alot...
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Halo. The fall of reach
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: badboyforlyf Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Adults
This was a great book my friend gave me the book and I read it in a week it was so good. Now you are probably thinking it was hard reading 369 pages in a week but it wasn't when you have a great book like that. So read the book please.
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Imzadi / Peter David.
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Peter Rating: 9 out of 10 Audience: Adults
A very strong novel, filling in a huge hole in the Star Trek saga. Worth checking out!
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Inversions / Iain M. Banks.
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Maiorlive Rating: 7 out of 10 Audience: Adults
All in all, a more diverting than taxing read, and worth it for that reason alone.
Harder to write a review of this novel because so much of its force comes from its plot. To critique it properly would involve too much detailed description which would spoil the suspense. And it is the suspense - created right in the narrator's opening passage - that is the thrust of this book.
By way of general commentary, this is a story of political intrigue told from two perspective that developes two different philosophical views of human progress. That focus on issues of progress places the novel squarely in the sci fi canon, which gives it perhaps its most endearing quality: sci fi fans will devour this book without need of deeper reflection on its underlying moral themes. The familiar questions of progress raised by this story have been addressed before and arguably in more novel ways. (On the other hand, this would make an excellent introduction to sci fi for a non- or new fan.)
As a portrayal of political intrigue, I think the characters too polished (say instead "worn smooth"), even considering the narrators' points of view. Although there are a few characters who point out that life in politics is messy, they seem to do so wearing commendably tidy personal morals and motives.
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Larklight, or, The revenge of the white spiders!, or, To Saturn's rings and back! : a rousing tale of dauntless pluck in the farthest reaches of space
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Sheri Rating: 7 out of 10 Audience: Teens
Think of a book about space travel, set in Victorian times, with great British Galleon Ships floating through space... that culminates in a scene where a great glass aviary building transforms into a giant robotic spider, set upon destroying Buckingham Palace, and you get the general idea. Really strange! I remember studying some philosophy, the name of which escapes me know, in university that has at its centre a belief in god... god as a great mechanical genius who built the earth, set everything in motion, and took off, leaving everyone & everything to fend for itself. This book sort of plays with that idea.
In this story, one of those creators, a "Shaper," decided to stick around (trying on the form of a dinosaur, then a bird, and then a person), became very interested in how civilizations develop, gave "inspiration" and gentle nudging to the theories of Isaac Newton (she's the one who dropped the apple on his head), and history took a new course... great floating pirate-type ships in the sky became common place. And the British Navy went out conquering Saturn in its colonization quest (not just the countries of Africa and the New World). Like I said... weird!
What sets this book apart, aside from its creative twists and detalis (like "hover pigs"... hogs that float in the air on space ships, eating garbage and farting... helium that helps to keep them afloat in artificail gravity), are the remarkable illustrations. There are pen & ink drawings on almost every page. Sometimes these are tucked into corners. Sometimes they take up entire pages. And the drawings are very Victorian in style themselves, full of cross hatching and incredible detail.
If you are looking for something unique to either read to your kids, to spice up their interpretation of the British colonial period of European history, or to give your artist-wanna-be teenager for inspiration, give this book a try. It's different. It's unique. It's really kind of fun.
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Mai, the psychic girl
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: MAnga Artist Rating: 8 out of 10 Audience: Teens
This book was well written and drawn. It's really good! I totally suggest you borrow it.
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Mai, the psychic girl / story by Kazuya Kudo ; art by Ryoichi Ikegami
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Manga girl Rating: 9 out of 10 Audience: Teens
This book is interesting and mindn-absorbing. This is a must read, and I strongly suggest it to people who enjoy manga. I loved it!
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Reviewed by: Anonymous Rating: 9 out of 10 Audience: Teens
It has one unappropiate part in it. Other than that, it's great! You've got to read it.
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Maxwell Strangewell
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Annette Rating: 9 out of 10 Audience: Adults
I was drawn to this book by the artwork on the cover. Although I don't usually read comic books, I found Maxwell Strangewell incredibly entertaining - funny, as well as soundly moral. A must read for anyone with a brain and a funny bone!
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: lover_gundam_seed Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Teens
Gundam SEED is the best manga i have ever read!!
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Neon Genesis Evangelion. Volume1
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Hikaru Rating: 6 out of 10 Audience: Teens
This is a good book. Somewhat futuristic, and it tests the loyalty of one boy. He must choose between his ruthless demanding father, and the life he used to live. His father uses his emotions, to make him do what he wants. Why should anyone be forced like that. But in the end, he makes the right choice, the one that will determine the end of the world or not. This is well written and plays on the emotions.
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Never let me go
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Anonymous Rating: Not rated Audience: Adults
This was a good book. It had the strange premise of cloned children being raised in a boarding school. I enjoyed the daily interaction of the children as they grew to adulthood and I enjoyed the way Ishiguro gradually explained what was going on at the school.
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Oryx and Crake [large print]
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Monkey Rating: 8 out of 10 Audience: Adults
This book reminded me of reading the diaries I kept as a teenager: fascinating but incredibly awkward. I love Jimmy/Snowman, he felt like the version of a human that most EPL card holders would turn into if they lived through a man-made apocalypse. And it was funny to boot. Excellent novel. Powerful, sad, and non-cheese.
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Pretties
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: ??????•?? Rating: 8 out of 10 Audience: Teens
Scott westerfeld is a fantastical writer who write happy-making books. but... I HATE ZANE!!!!
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Reviewed by: <> :( Rating: 8 out of 10 Audience: Teens
Pretties is an excellent book filled with adventure. It is quite fictional yet friends still have conflicts and love is another fun feature, wile Tally is pretty forgetting her ugly life she falls in love with Zane a handsome new pretty. But when she finally gets around her legions she meets her old boyfriend and a remembers a deadly secret shared between them. Fighting specials and torn between two boys Tally has an amazing adventure that you will defiantly enjoy. You should read the first book which I would give a 10 out of 10 on. Scott Westerfeld is an amazing author that is very creative in his writing and I hope you read this book and enjoy it a lot!!
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Reunion : a Pip
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: PC Rating: 7 out of 10 Audience: Teens
Latest book (ie. further adventures) of Flinx and Pip. It was an okay book, just that I thought it could had been better. My feeling was that it was not as good as some of the other ones in this series. Still I like it and would recommend it.
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Specials
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: ??????•?? Rating: 9 out of 10 Audience: Teens
I loved specials so much that i couldn't put it down ever. In specials Tally is a special under the control of Dr. Cable.
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Reviewed by: Queen Lauren Rating: 5 out of 10 Audience: Teens
i like my pupils better than this book
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Spider-man. The lizard sanction / by Diane Duane ; illustrations by Darick Robertson
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: cool_mo_d Rating: 10 out of 10 Audience: Adults
It was quite interesting especially the way spider-man had to save everyone and he was saving his friends father from destruction
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Star Trek. Crucible: Kirk : the star for every wandering
(Science Fiction)
Reviewed by: Anonymous Rating: Not rated Audience: Adults
I usually enjoy original Star Trek novels but this one is an exception. I found this novel somewhat difficult to read. The story doesn't flow well as it leaps from present to past and gallivants here and there. Basically, Kirk time travels and yet again manages to save Earth and some other planets in the Universe from being destroyed. The interesting twist happens when Kirk goes off and has to disappear forever after doing these things.
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