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		<title>Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baen, 1941/1995
248 pp.
ISBN 0-671-72026-0
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In Heinlein&#8217;s defense, back in 1941 when this novel was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, he had only published under a dozen short stories.  It was SF pulp thriller filler, published under the pseudonym &#8220;Anson MacDonald&#8221; because he was filling up the inventory at Astounding. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space Cops: Mindblast by Diane Duane &amp; Peter Morwood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Avon Books, 1991
250 pp.
ISBN 0-380-75852-0
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Diane Duane first impinged upon my awareness with a couple of Star Trek novels which were probably the most ambitious and exciting of the &#8220;regular&#8221; novels, before Pocket Books started releasing giant &#8220;event&#8221; Star Trek novels.  Her husband, Peter Morwood, is a fantasy novelist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Robot City, Book 1: Odyssey by Michael P. Kube-McDowell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ace, 1987
211 pp.
ISBN 0-44173122-8
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Today, franchised novels predominate on the bookstore&#8217;s genre shelves, but back in the misty days of the mid-&#8217;80s when we rode to the local bookseller on our giant ground sloths,  the only established franchise novels aimed at a wide readership (that&#8217;s my way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TOR, 2007
331 pp.
ISBN 0-7653-5453-5
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Among the many subgenres of science fiction, none garners as much automatic respect as the worldbuilding novel.  I&#8217;m not talking about the worldbuilding which has to accompany every SF or fantasy novel, the groundwork of culture and technology which will form the backdrop of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Our Yesterdays by Robert B. Parker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dell, 1994
466 pp.
ISBN 0-440-22146-3
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For over a decade after I bought it, the paperback copy of All Our Yesterdays sat on my bookshelf unread.  I enjoy all of Parker&#8217;s Spenser novels, even the declining ones of the last couple of decades which have simply become retreads of his earlier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Penguin Group, 1924/2005
222 pp.
ISBN 0 14 30.3933 4
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Guest review by Dave DeMoss
For all Zorro’s continued popularity you’d think Johnston McCulley’s Curse of Capistrano would be an easier book to find. My edition (retitled The Mark of Zorro by the fine folks at Penguin Classics in some damn fool’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Many-Colored Land by Julian May</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Del Rey, 1981/1988
429 pp.
ISBN 0-345-32444-7
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I burned out on category fantasy in high school, and I haven&#8217;t been back for twenty years except for rare incursions such as re-reading Tolkien.  (Which isn&#8217;t really category fantasy, as it predates the category.)  I will occasionally peruse some heroic fantasy in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ace, 1916/1973
144 pp.
ISBN 0-441-49292

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Despite Edgar Rice Burroughs&#8217; century of popularity (and the income thus generated for his great-grandchildren), The Lost Continent isn&#8217;t one of his better-known books, probably because it isn&#8217;t a part of a series and was never made into a movie starring Doug McClure.  It&#8217;s a fairly early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ballantine Books, 1955/1976
163 pp.
ISBN 345-25314-0
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The Martians in Fredric Brown&#8217;s comic novel are not the two-dimensional invaders common to so many alien invasion novels, defined only by their rapacious appetite for stuff that&#8217;s ours (and, of course, by the single exploitable flaw in their technology or biology by which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nanny State by David Harsanyi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Broadway Books, 2007
291 pp.
ISBN 978-07679-2432-0
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Nanny State is not a measured political meditation, as you may guess. It&#8217;s a libertarian diatribe of rage. Those have their places, I guess, and David Harsanyi&#8217;s book is satisfying in its way if you have any sympathy with its thesis, but preaching to the converted doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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