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I get a recommendation on a blog, come over here, and find a widget offering a preview, and another offering a download. If goodreads can find a way to offer me time to read in, I'll be set.

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Great fun. Rather draggy in bits with long discourses on the meaning of sapience. I like that it had a diverse cast (at least as far as the names go) although there weren't many women. It was funny to see everyone smoking and carrying guns. That's two of the things Scalzi changed. He also adopted a less paternalistic attitude toward the fuzzys. For all the talk about sapience, Piper shows them as really cute pets. They can do neat stuff, but they're like very amusing children. ( )