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Algis Budrys
Birth date: January 09, 1931
Died: June 09, 2008
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Farnaz
Farnaz rated it 11 years ago
Explorers found a strange formation on Moon. It kills volunteers in very sophisticated ways. Actually, It loves to kill them. All attempts to investigate the thing failed.Doctor Pawks thought out a new idea. What will happen if he finds a volunteer who himself loves death so much as the formation o...
FriedEgg
FriedEgg rated it 12 years ago
A piece of classic SF with an intriguing premise that explores some of my favourite themes but for me seemed to lack focus and was distracted by pointless character interactions and conversations.Many a time I've pondered what really happens to you if you were teleported from one location to another...
Book Ramblings
Book Ramblings rated it 13 years ago
This book is one of the SF Masterworks series of classic sf novels so it clearly is not something to be sniffed at, plus it was cited by Alastair Reynolds as a favorite so I duly added it to my reading list (a year or so ago!) and finally got around to it. Really not what I was expecting to be hones...
modusa
modusa rated it 13 years ago
from the troll by t.h. white:"You know that eye-to-eye recognition, when two people look deeply into each other's pupils, and burrow to the soul? It usually comes before love. I mean the clear, deep, milk-eyed recognition expressed by the poet Donne. Their eyebeams twisted and did thread their eyes ...
Itinerant Librarian on Books
Itinerant Librarian on Books rated it 22 years ago
I read this book back in 2003. By the way, the paperback cover I have is different from the one pictured here in GR, even though it is the same edition from what I gather. Still, a good book. Here is what I wrote back then: >>The paperback edition is less than 200 pages (184 or so). The story is fai...
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