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Earthling [Paperback]

Tony Daniel (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)


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  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (1997)
  • ISBN-10: 0312855710
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312855710
  • ASIN: B001VTS62S
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Tony Daniel is the author of five science fiction books, the latest of which is Guardian of Night, as well as an award-winning short story collection, The Robot's Twilight Companion. He is Hugo finalist for his story "Life on the Moon," which also won the Asimov's Reader's Choice Award. Daniel's short fiction has been much anthologized and has been collected in multiple year's best compilations. Daniel has also cowritten screenplays for SyFy Channel horror movies and during the early 2000s was the writer and director of numerous audio dramas for critically-acclaimed SCIFI.COM's Seeing Ear Theatre. Born in Alabama, he has lived in St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Prague, and New York City. Daniel is currently an editor at Baen Books. He is married and has two children.

 

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1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible, March 7, 2010
This review is from: Earthling (Hardcover)
There's no getting around it - this book was terrible. From the beginning it is nearly incoherent. There is no real introduction of characters (and characters are invented for a single page then dropped). There's no scale. After the dated entries I could never be sure what century it was placed in. And it jumps from a personal journal to a robot to a random human hundreds of years in the future to... well, I can't even describe the finale. The tectonic plates are *spoiler* sentient? Planets are dolphins?


In short, Avoid this book at all costs. Not worth the read. The author needs to pick a character and focus on it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars moooo, May 21, 2009
This review is from: Earthling (Paperback)
I really enjoyed this book for the most part. The first two stories were real page turners, but the third (the last 30 pages) felt rushed and was a bit to metaphysical for me. The ending is forced and hardly and ending to the story as a whole. I would have like to see the first two stories made into books of their own and the third thrown in the bin.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent. and beautiful. I was moved and love this book., September 5, 2002
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This review is from: Earthling (Hardcover)
This was a surprising, fascinating read. I am turned on by his stark, earthy and pure poetry. Daniel is immensely imaginative, intelligent and courageous writer. I was moved and inspired. I definitely enjoyed 'Earthling'. Looking forward to the sequel of 'Metaplanetary'- another must read!
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