Title Matter Axis of Time Trilogy Happiness The Hydrogen Sonata Surface Detail The Lincoln Lawyer Act

of Treason The Brethren The Ghost The Portable Door Changing Places Haze Hyperion The Dark River A Fire upon the Deep Transition Evolution The Last Testament Ender's Game Ready Player One The Two Minute Rule The Blue Nowhere Martian Dawn The Fear Index Black Cross Nice Work The Prometheus Deception Slick Redshirts The Code Book Where in the world is OS Laden Dark Ararat Snowcrash Cryptonomicon Glasshouse The Traveller (4th Realm Trilogy 1) The Golden City The chemistry of death

Author Banks Iain M Birmingham John Ferguson Will Banks Iain M Banks Iain M. Connelly Michael Flynn Vince Grisham John Harris Robert Holt Tom Lodge David Modesitt Jr LE Simmons Dan Twelve Hawks John Vinge Vernor Banks Iain Baxter Stephen Bourne Sam Card Orson Scott Cline Ernest Crais Robert Deaver Jeffrey Friedman Michael Harris Robert Iles Greg Lodge David Ludlum Robert Price Daniel Scalzi John Singh Simon Spurlock Morgan Stableford Brian Stephenson Neal Stephenson Neal Stross Charles Twelve Hawks John Twelve Hawks John Beckett Simon

Type SF SF Comedy SF SF Thriller Thriller Thriller Thriller Comedy Comedy SF SF SF SF SF SF Thriller SF SF Thriller Thriller SF Thriller Thriller Comedy Thriller Comedy SF Non-fiction Non-fiction SF SF SF SF SF SF Thriller

Year 2007 2012 2011 2005 2000

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1985 2011 2001 2011 1995 1988 2004 2012

1992 1999 2006 2009

Opinion brilliant brilliant and well written brilliant just persevere, it's top stuff page turner-but same-ish good but not his best great read good story Clever page turner page turner good story Funny, witty book-good read Entertaining, clever story page turner 2nd page turner of trilogy Clever & imaginative heavy going-ok story good but difficult well paced story unnerving, good read Good read, a bit OTT not bad Ok, a bit up its own arse clever OK-not as good has past stuff ok read but no classic Ok -not as good as Changing Places ok but too far fetched Starts well but too long OK-not as good as past stuff good but difficult interesting complex not bad but no classic ok but a slog-to long meanders interesting, dystopian stuff weak 3rd of trilogy but ok ok but plods

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Alexandria Link In the Dark World War Z Advise & Consent Down & out in the magic kingdom Consent to Kill Nature Girl Odd Hours Paper The Atrocity Archives Digital Fortress Strike Back Cats Cradle The Information Oryx & Crake The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Makers Chart Throb The Big Over Easy Whiteout The Execution Channel The twelfth insight The Plot against America Up The Line Accelerando A Confederacy of Dunces

Berry Steve Billingham Mark Brooks Max Devry Allen Doctorow Corey Flynn Vince Hiaasen Carl Koontz Dean McCabe John Stross Charles Brown Dan Ryan Chris Vonnegut Kurt Amis Martin Atwood Margaret Chabon Michael Clarke Susanna Doctorow Corey Elton Ben Fforde Jasper Follet Ken Macleod Ken Redfield James Roth Phillip Silverberg Robert Stross Charles Toole John Kennedy

Thriller Thriller SF Thriller SF Thriller Comedy Thriller Comedy SF Thriller Action SF Comedy SF Comedy Fantasy SF Comedy Comedy Thriller Thriller Thriller Thriller SF SF Comedy

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2004 2007 2011

2005 1980

average ok plods a bit slow saw film, a bit hysterical bland, hardly funny right wing nonsense not up to usual quality average ok but plods ok but plods average same old stuff To weird & disjointed Boring-unfinished unfinished Could not get going-unfinished Boring-unfinished starts ok then yawn-no story unfinished unfinished Boring-unfinished Did not gel unfinished Poor, unfinished unfinished unfinished Tech babble-unfinished no story-unfinished

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