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      the Earth</CITE></P>

    <H1><CITE>Bones Of The Earth</CITE> by Michael Swanwick</H1>

    <H2>(discussed June 26, 2003)</H2>

    <P><STRONG>On a ten-point scale (1=bad, 10=good), the people who
      read the book gave the following ratings:</STRONG> <?php
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      <STRONG>Average:</STRONG> <?php echo(voteAverage()); ?></P>

    <P>The author has a website at <A
      HREF="http://www.michaelswanwick.com/">http://www.michaelswanwick.com/</A></P>

    <P><STRONG>Ignacio</STRONG> posted to the mailing list about
      &quot;A very good interview with the author, Michael Swanwick.
      But I'd say you read it only after having read the novel. <A
      HREF="http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue320/interview.html">http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue320/interview.html</A>
      &quot;

    <P><STRONG>Raja</STRONG> said that in his opinion this was the
      worst Michael Swanwick's novel he's read--while it's better than
      average, and an enjoyable time travel romp with dinosaurs, it's
      not as ambitious or as powerful as <CITE>Vacuum Flowers</CITE>
      or <A HREF="specific-StationsOfTheTide.html"><CITE>Stations of
      the Tide</CITE></A>. Also, Swanwick's short story &quot;Scherzo
      with Tyrannosaur&quot; covers most of the same territory in only
      14 pages!</P>

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