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Station Zero
Philip Reeve
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The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Vess
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Robert Chandler
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
Patrick O'Brian
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Marguerite de Navarre
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John Masefield
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Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
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U A Fanthorpe
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The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Mick Imlah, Robert Crawford
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Station Zero - Philip Reeve
Vanishing Bath - Peter Coard, Ruth Coard
The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 4 - Neil Gaiman, Jon J. Muth, Dean Ormston, Glyn Dillon, Marc Hempel, Teddy Kristiansen, Kevin Nowlan, Richard Case, Daniel Vozzo, D'Israeli, Todd Klein, Michael Zulli, Dave McKean, Charles Vess

The Centauri Device, M. John Harrison

12:54 pm 5 June 2019
Centauri Device (S.F.Masterworks) - M. John Harrison

Purple prose and a listless, largely unsympathetic protagonist make a surprisingly action-packed political thriller cum space opera an unexpectedly difficult read. Additionally, I'm not sure what message I'm meant to take home, other than ideology and individuals in power do not serve the people at large. The final 30p or so are completely baffling. I here-by formally give up on Harrison SF novels.

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