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Old 01-29-2013, 07:33 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Yes, I´ve seen other people here enthusing about The Handmaid´s Tale, although I´ve never read any Atwood myself. Maybe I´ll try to find that though, as you think so highly of it.

You know how the fiction bit of Jurassic Park is just a development of existing technology ? Well, there´s a great book called The Philosopher´s Stone by Colin Wilson, which also develops slowly from the real to the unreal. Again, not too dramatic, but a real page-turner none the less, as you follow the protagonist´s discovery of something plausibly presented, but completely unexpected .....
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