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Earth

David Brin

Start date: October 1, 2006

Finish date: October 30, 2006

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Feb 05, 2013 Bill rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Great novel, well deserving of the 1991 Hugo, though it lost to Bujold's The Vor Game. It lost the SF Chronicle award and the Locus to Simmon's The Fall of Hyperion. All of these are great SF and I'd be hard pressed to chose among them. I give Earth 9 of 10 stars, very good, not perfect.

50 years in the future an extinction level event threatens the Earth. Noble laureate Alex and his many cronies have to figure out how to save us all using hard science, Maori mysticism, primate social behavior an ...more

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Nov 04, 2012 Kerry rated it it was amazing

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REREAD #1: 10/10 (18 September 2006 - 23 September 2006)

Earth by David Brin (10/10)
SF. This was a brilliant book 15 years ago and it still is today. It's hardly dated and is being discussed on [Beyond_Reality] this month. David Brin will comment.

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Aug 24, 2009 Frank Taranto rated it really liked it

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Very good story of mankind trying to save itself from itslef. Interesting characters that you get to learn about slowly as the story progresses.

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