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Old 12-07-2011, 03:49 AM   #31
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The novella Fire Watch (available to read free online at the now-defunct-but-still-available Infinity Plus magazine) encapsulates all this very neatly in fewer words.
I made my own epub with TOC and chapters etc out of Fire Watch from that website. Just in-case the website ever goes away. Haven't read it yet since its a couple hundred books down my CRL though.
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Old 12-07-2011, 06:56 PM   #32
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It's easy to copy and paste Fire Watch into NotePad, then into a Word template formatted for your reader and saved as rtf.
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Old 12-07-2011, 07:17 PM   #33
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I feel better after viewing some of the comments here. I thought that something was happening with my sensibilities when I finished reading the Doomsday Book with kind of a blasé feeling about the whole experience, and a sudden hunger to immediately start reading something completely different.

Connie Willis is a gifted writer, I'm sure, but --- I haven't had the desire to read anything by her since my first engagement...
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Old 12-12-2011, 11:52 AM   #34
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I started, it did not like it. Dropped it.
Same category as Robin Hobb - extremely boring, miserable and predictable.
Somehow this kind of writing is fashionable.

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Old 12-26-2011, 09:17 PM   #35
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I consider it a very good book. I discovered her when I read Lincoln's Dreams. I like her 'hectic living' writing style.

I've read science fiction for almost 50 years and I think she has her place in the fold. But, each to her or his own.

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I enjoyed it a lot... when it was first published. I've not tried any of her recent works, though. I thoroughly enjoyed Lincoln's Dreams, too.
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