Joseph Carrabis
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The Augmented Man
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Tales Told 'Round Celestial Campfires
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2015
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Empty Sky
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The Shaman
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2023
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That Think You Do
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The Inheritors
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Search: The First John Chance Mystery
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The Goatmen of Aguirra
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Science and History (Reading Virtual Minds #1)
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2009
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The Settlement
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This is a brilliant history of yet antoher black period in North American history; the mistreatment and deceit perpetrated on English women from the lower classes with the hint of a better life in British Columbia. Oh, by the way, they'd have to marry ...more |
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This is an interesting novel which gets mired down in its attempts to be politically incorrect and completely inclusive. I'm fine with both when they're better written into the story and are part of character reveal or plot points or some story eleme ...more | |
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This is an interesting novel which gets mired down in its attempts to be politically incorrect and completely inclusive. I'm fine with both when they're better written into the story and are part of character reveal or plot points or some story eleme ...more | |
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A truly ambitious book that fails on most counts. That stated, I'm keeping it on my shelf in case I become wiser in my later years and am better able to pull meaning from it. But truth be told, I doubt I'll ever be that wise. ...more |
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No. It really says something about my response to a book when all I can muster is "No." But that's all there is. "No." ...more |
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I continue to wonder how editors pick stories for publication. I'm now a fiction editor for a journal so I'm well aware of my criteria, and know some stories are well-written and well-told, some aren't but are still interesting and need some work, an ...more | |
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I seem to have gotten a kick for stories written in the transition years from Golden Age to Modern sf. What I've noticed in several of them is rampant stealing of ideas from other authors. Case in point, Pictures Don't Lie is a variation of a Fredrick ...more |
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I seem to have gotten a kick for stories written in the transition years from Golden Age to Modern sf. What I've noticed in several of them is rampant stealing of ideas from other authors. Case in point, Pictures Don't Lie is a variation of a Fredrick ...more |
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End as a Hero comes near the transition from Golden Age to Modern science fiction, and it shows its confusion on several pages. The craft is there but the story shows the shift from needing tropes to get things across to using tropes laid down in the ...more |
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