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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://www.sfsite.com/03a/em291.htm  popomo | Oct 28, 2009 |  hyperpat | Aug 21, 2009 | Reading Kage Baker is like eating a puff-pastry infused with alcohol. It sits lightly on the palate, disolves effortless and far too quickly and leaves a lingering after-taste with a kick. Unlike most novels of Martian independence, this one is about a commercial struggle rather than a military one; and the hand of the Company, while veiled, is quite visible to those with eyes to see. There are 3 cameos: one overt, one covert (though not very) and one I didn't recognize until after the novel was over and I had a chance to think about it...although I probably should have realized that X was Y much earlier. The one true spoiler I'll give you is that this takes place _before_ the space-based events of the main Company sequence. No shuttles blow up. I say this only because I kept waiting for that act of sabotage and I think it distracted me a little. 1  Herewiss13 | Jul 25, 2009 | jtl | Jun 6, 2009 | 
 The feel of frontier society runs strong in The Empress of Mars. The reader might find fond comparisons with Steinbeck's Cannery Road and Twain's Roughing It with sly humor and vivid, memorable characters. There are rough patches in the writing. Some passages definitely feel inserted to stretch the adventure to novel-length. The climax also feels very sudden — bang, and it's all over. I really would have enjoyed more stories of Kage Baker's Martians.
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