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posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 11:46am on 20/01/2008
The Merchants' War Charles Stross

Cowboy Angels Paul McAuley

Nice take on alternate worlds, US politics and time travel all bound up in a crackingly paced thriller plot. Recommended. I was especially impressed with the use of alternate USs as commentary on US imperialism in the real world. I think this is McAuley's best book since The Secret of Life and would be happy to see it gracing award nominations later this year.
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posted by [identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com at 12:49pm on 20/01/2008
I'm interested in reading the McAuley to see how his book stands up to Mike Kube-McDowell's 1988 novel Alternaties, which has a very similar premise.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 01:17pm on 20/01/2008
I read Alternities ages ago. It was certainly a good book, but I think McAuley is rather more emphatic on the political relevance. I also think he does the 'americana' better, but that's often the way with writers foreign to the country that they're writing about - they see things that the locals are too used to to notice.
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