Susan Nussbaum's debut novel, winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, is, as Rosellen Brown says, "a celebration of...
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Jena, March 3, 2007 (view all comments by Jena)
I'm not a huge science fiction fan, but this book had me hooked till the end. I frequently felt like I was in a video game that someone else was playing, even though the internal conflicts in the story far outweigh the external. Brilliant characters, wonderful descriptions, fabulous book.
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Kjirstin, February 16, 2007 (view all comments by Kjirstin)
This book was first written by OSC when he was only 15, and ran in a Sci-fi magazine. Later, he worked it into a novel, and it remains, to this day, my #1 pick of Sci-fi favorites. I understand it is soon to be made into a full length feature film (as movies are finally able to portray the intensity of this book) but you will want to read it first.
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