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DrNefario
Posted 2015-01-29 4:01 AM (#9379 - in reply to #9162)
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Location: UK		I finished Green Hills of Earth yesterday. It was fine. Not outstanding, but readable. Mostly tales of everyday life in the space age that never happened. I have no idea what it's doing on the Baen Military SF list.

Two Masterworks coming up for 1952 and 1953: City by Clifford D Simak and Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke. The latter is the highest-ranked book I haven't read on the Locus All-time Top 100 (in fact, my top 3 unread books on that list are the 3 headliners from the 50s I haven't read.) I have to say I'm looking forward to the Simak more than the Clarke. I've always found Clarke a bit stodgy.

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