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Marrow

Robert Reed

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The Ship is a rock larger than worlds. The Ship is a world full of vast hollows in which live thousands of alien races. The Ship is a mysterious starship, billions of years old, crewed by the near-immortal humans who discovered it, empty, at the fringes of the galaxy. And, as a select inner circle of the crew is astonished to discover, there is a planet at the center of the Ship. They descend to the surface of the planet, Marrow, hoping to discover the origin of the Ship--only to find themselves trapped on that hellish world and abandoned by their fellow captains, even as tremendous, inexplicable changes in Marrow may doom the Ship and everyone aboard.

Robert Reed's Marrow is high-concept, epoch-spanning SF in the tradition of Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Greg Egan's Diaspora. Unlike Last and First Men and Omega, Marrow features a continuing cast of well-drawn, believable characters in addition to the brain-busting big ideas and sense of wonder. --Cynthia Ward

The Well of Stars

Robert Reed

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In The Well of Stars, Hugo award-nominated author Robert Reed has written a stunning sequel to his acclaimed novel Marrow. The Great Ship, so vast that it contains within its depths a planet that lay undiscovered for generations, has cruised through the universe for untold billions of years. After a disastrous exploration of the planet, Marrow, the Ship's captains face an increasingly restive population aboard their mammoth vessel.

And now, compounding the captains' troubles, the Ship is heading on an irreversible course straight for the Ink Well, a dark, opaque nebula. Washen and Pamir, the captains who saved Marrow from utter destruction, send Mere, whose uncanny ability to adapt to and understand other cultures makes her the only one for the job, to investigate the nebula before they plunge blindly in. While Mere is away, Pamir discovers in the Ink Well the presence of a god-like entity with powers so potentially destructive that it might destroy the ship and its millions.

Faced with an entity that might prevent the Ship from ever leaving the Ink Well, the Ship's only hope now rests in the ingenuity of the vast crew . . . and with Mere, who has not contacted them since she left the Ship…

With the excitement of epic science fiction adventure set against a universe full of wonders, the odyssey of the Ship and its captains will capture the hearts of science fiction readers.

The Dragons of Springplace

Robert Reed

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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Robert Reed is blessed with a wide-ranging imagination. In this retrospective of his work to date--which includes several Hugo- and Nebula-nominated stories--readers will find a multitude of themes, voices, and futures. A predator on the hunt crosses over to our Earth from an alternate universe, AIs gently shepherd humanity on an aeons-long postapocalyptic trip through the galaxies, and a truly bizarre tale examines the real connection between aliens and...corn. As impressive as his ideas is Reed's ability to form believable characters; the scope of the story never overwhelms the crucial human element. Reed succeeds admirably in both building complete, new worlds and in showing us an existence that is just one step away from our own. In "The Utility Man," a social outcast at a factory hopes to find a friend in the newest employee, an alien from Tau Ceti, while in "Sowing Good" a woman returns, changed, to her home and friends on the moon after years of forced labor on a ravaged Earth.

These stories thrum with tension, character, and shadow.

"Phillip remembers the touch of hands, claws dimpling the skin of his neck and the breath close, warm and damp and steady. And he remembers the face inches from his face, smiling black eyes staring at him, the voice deep and rough and strange as it said: 'Bless the meat.' Then: 'Run.' Like never in his life, the meat runs."

The Dragons of Springplace offers the perfect introduction to what one customer calls "the best modern SF author you never heard of." --Jhana Bach

Remarkables, The

Robert Reed

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Ranier Lu accompanies a group of Pitcairns, the genetically tailored human beings living on the planet Pitcairn, and juvenile Remarkables on a ritual wilderness journey that will mark the Remarkables journey into adulthood.

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Robert Reed

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A startling debut from a writer with potential 4 out of 5 stars.
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This first novel of Robert Reed delves into a fascinating world with a bizarre ecology and the human boy who grow up there. A typical science fiction theme of one characters voyage of discovery and renewal is done suberbly. Reed shows a remarkable dexterity with prose and places his characters in memorable situations from which they and the reader emerge changed for the better. Out of Print but worth tracking down.

Beneath The Gated Sky (Beyond the Veil of Stars)

Robert Reed

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Reed's best book yet. A superlative sequel to Veil of Stars 4 out of 5 stars.
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Beneath the Gated Sky is a wonderfully conceived and joyously written followup to the New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Beyond the Veil of Stars.

In this outing, Reed seems to concentrate more on the character of Porsche. I found Porsche to be a rather one-dimensional, predictable character in Beyond the Veil of Stars. In this book, however, a great deal is told from Porsche's point of view. As such we get a greater glimpse into her psyche, which makes for a much more rewarding read.

Perhaps Robert Reed's greatest strength as an author is his ability to introduce stunning scientific ideas while still maintaining believable situations and believable, likeable characters. Beneath the Gated Sky is no exception. Reed expands greatly upon the ideas first put forth in Beyond the Veil of Stars. To go into any detail about his extensions would be to take away the thrill of discovery, so suffice it to say that Beyond the Veil of Stars is just the tip of the iceberg.

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This sequel to "Beyond the Veil of Stars" will intrigue and entertain all the way to its riveting end. Porsche and Cornell fall in love as they infiltrate an alien world for the sake of humanity. Having survived their harrowing ordeal, they return to Earth, only to discover a conspiracy so profound that it casts doubt on those they've trusted with their very lives.

An Exaltation of Larks

Robert Reed

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An Exaltation of Larks -review- 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I'm only in junior high, so adults who read this might not count my opinion, but I thought this book was so good! I couldn't put it down and I definitely can't say that for a lot of books. I agree its not the best I've EVER read, but Reed creates such an interesting and thought provoking synopsis that I was blowen away! This was actually fun to analyse! I've never read a book twice but I'm thinking of making an exception for this one, there's just so much I could of missed. I understand that older people have to sound more distinguished than authors, acting like this novel just lacked plot, flow or whatever and acting like they could write better, but sometimes your wrong. This was a good book, stop kidding yourself! For all of the rest of you out there...read this one!

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A major scandal involving the faculty at a small college stretches to the limits of space and time, pitting two characters against each other in a passionate battle for power. By the author of Beyond the Veil of Stars.

Down the Bright Way

Robert Reed

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Find this book and read it! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This is one of the rare almost-perfect SF novels, featuring parallel worlds, nano-tech, genetic engineering, ecological disaster, planetary-scale warfare. It is so cool it's hard to believe it's out of print. Read it and see if it did not somehow inspire or forecast much of what's great in current SF. It would in fact make a pretty good movie.

not really that compelling 2 out of 5 stars.
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Recommended by Time-legend Stephen Baxter as "The new century's
most compelling SF voice" I had to read this Robert Reed book.
But somehow I didn't find it an epic of breathtaking scope and
boundless imagination. Instead much of it felt like something
I had heard before. Left me without the kick of discovery.

-Simon

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In the deepness of space there are millions of worlds like our own - and each with its own humanity. They are linked by the Bright, an ancient pathway between the stars created by an ancient, godlike race known only as the Makers. Now humanity travels the Bright, uniting its worlds to a common desiny. But the Bright can also be travelled by those bent on destruction - those who have chosen a different path, whose sole purpose is conquest. Find out more about this title and others at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

Black Milk

Robert Reed

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It is a crying shame... 5 out of 5 stars.
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Black Milk is an outstanding book. It takes a long, hard child's-eye look at the idea of genetic engineering. Reed plays a classy trick on the reader by making his narrative first-person--in the person of a child with a slightly faulty gene set who remembers everything he witnesses exactly as it happened. Black Milk is suitable for young readers, but it is also a good read for adult SF fans.

It is a crying shame this book is so hard to find: I would love to teach it in a college literature class (I've tried and failed because it is out of print).

An Awesome Book 5 out of 5 stars.
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One of the best books I've read in a long time. From the back cover, I was expecting one of those cruel evil scientist tries to control the oh so wonderfully gifted team of saintly youngsters. What I found instead was a poignant and honest portrayal of childhood. The characters stay young (about ten years old) throughout the book, except a short epilogue. Their perspective of the genetic crisis does not diminish the fright of the situation, but makes it hit very close to home. This is not a story of great daring space commanders, but of civilians, of people like you and me. That is what makes it scary. Scary's not exactly the word, though. The novel is nothing like horror. It leaves you with a sick, hollow kind of dread of the inevitable. The characters are excellently drawn. Cody is a hoot (and the female athlete - yea!) but the author manages to make the reader feel sympathy for even the whiny Marshall. The world is mostly like our own, but little details about how genetics have changed it make it very believable. My only complaint is that the end came too quickly and conveniently. Overall, a fantastic book.

Beyond the Veil of Stars

Robert Reed

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Great characters no surprises 2 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Good writing and characterization but not much on plot and definitely no action. Don't be fooled by the interesting looking cover. The surprises didn't surprise. It's like a 1st contact story that condenses the contact to 10 pages after 300 pages of setup and then ends abruptly with nothing happening in between.

makes the reader think about his real purpose in reality 5 out of 5 stars.
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"beyond the veil of star" a book solely for those who haven't forgotten what dreaming was all about. The world of dreams has no defined landscape exept the mind which is limitless, robert reed takes me back to a childlike state in the nostalgia of this book.

Posing as SF 2 out of 5 stars.
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This novel did not work for me. The plot was built around a silly premise, and several idiotic notions. Cornell, as a character, seemed like a two-dimensional cardboard cut-out, and gave me absolutely no sense of feeling for him. At the end, I felt like I had been stuffed full of too much Sweet 'n' Low - the book had a few good ideas and themes stuffed in behind the rest, but not nearly enough to constitute anything of any real worth. However, out of everything bad I've said about the book, it earns an extra star because of the author's writing style. While I didn't enjoy the book, I did like the style of writing the author used to elaborate on those ideas. Unfortunately, this is one of Reed's better novels. Which isn't saying much.

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Witnessing a spacial manifestation that changes the view of the sky from a starry universe to a mirror image of the Earth, UFO researcher's son Cornell Novak begins a journey that takes him into an alien world. Reprint. AB.