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Shadow Twin

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Shadow Twin is a great little story in a beautifully designed book. This book took over 10 years to write, as the 3 authors all took turns writing and then moving onto various commitments. That being said, the story is not very long, but it is suspenseful and exciting from page 1.
Ramon wakes up in a mysterious tank surrounded by aliens that have a quest for him. He must find the other human that escaped from them. Since he is human, he would know how the other man will behave. Ramon is leashed like a police tracking dog, and sent out with an alien to supervise his mission. The tension of the chase, the harsh wilderness, and being a captive himself culminate into an unforgettable ending where Ramon discovers an unbelievable truth.
This story took a long time to produce, but it was worth the wait.

Relic113

"Shadow Twin" is a finely crafted science-fiction novel that was started in the mid-1970s by Gardner Dozois. A few years later, Dozois passed the unfinished manuscript on to George R.R. Martin to complete -- but while both writers agreed the story had promise, neither could work up the initiative to finish it. Over the next 20-some years, the story languished in a creative limbo between them; both worked on it now and again, but neither could or would finish it. Then, in 2002, young turk Daniel Abraham got his mitts on it and finally polished the thing off. Whew!

An especially nice thing about this novel is that it doesn't read like a story assembled piecemeal over the course of three decades. Nor does it read like the work of three writers with their own voices and styles. "Shadow Twin" is a short science-fiction novel that packs a punch and leaves you thinking, and the three authors involved deserve kudos for a successful -- if long delayed -- collaboration.

by Tom Knapp, Rambles.(n e t) editor

This is more of a short story then an actual novel surprising since one of the main guys is GRRM man of 1000 pages. Its not going to win any awards but it is a decent enough story with more then a few interesting characters. Best of all it reads like a continuous story written in one shot not like one slowly written by 3 authors over the course of almost 30 years.