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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://www.sfreader.com/read_review.a... (  )sfreader.com | Jan 21, 2007 |   Set in the far future, Marrow's events take place on a planet-sized starship discovered and then captained by super-evolved humans whom technology has made near immortal. This setting allows Reed some unusual plot devices; whereas most books have to unwind their stories within a few years, Marrow progresses over the course of millenia. The primary driver behind Marrow is its imagination. Its base assumption of immortality and hyper-advanced technology is used to maximum effect to further complicate an endlessly twisting plot. Marrow is the ultimate in space opera: strange, imaginative and fascinating. It is well written, engaging and with some strong characters (in particular the hatchet-faced, ruthless Miocene) and a denoument that is as grand as its setting. A page-turner. ( )laphroaig | Dec 27, 2005 | 0.056 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 0812566572, Mass Market Paperback)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 (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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