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So the short version is: if you like character-driven near-future sf with plenty of mystery, both world-building and crime, this is absolutely the book for you.
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We've built this wall ourselves, with our esoteric world-building, peculiar technologies and heady concepts.
MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2) 2009
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The research on SF stories, and the world-building involved in getting them to hold together with some degree of stability, drove me to some strange corners of the net, following (Hänsel and Grethel-like) bread crumb after bread crumb of tantalizingly vague links.
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BOTTOM LINE: Covet builds on the already established Black Dagger Brotherhood world-building and was an equally-engaging read especially for existing Ward readers.
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Ward continues with her over-the-top world-building and characterization with this first installment in the Fallen Angels series.
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The world-building was as interesting as the story (for me) because I was able to apply everything which already exists (in some form) to the reality which limits our day to day existence.
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The world-building was as interesting as the story (for me) because I was able to apply everything which already exists (in some form) to the reality which limits our day to day existence.
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Kirkus Reviews called the 448-page book, “A far-future thriller combines riveting adventure and masterful world-building with profound undertones … Like the finest chocolate, a rich confection of darkness, subtlety and depth, bittersweet and absolutely satisfying.”
Fox to Adapt Incarceron - The Next Harry Potter-type Franchise? | /Film 2010
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The research on SF stories, and the world-building involved in getting them to hold together with some degree of stability, drove me to some strange corners of the net, following (Hänsel and Grethel-like) bread crumb after bread crumb of tantalizingly vague links.
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Great for near-future sf readers who appreciate world-building and unique characters.
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