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This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-blindharper Recent reviews written by member blindharper en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_490774630020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - It is the Age of Emotional Machines.  It is so far in the future that they don't even measure time the same way any more.  Human life has been transfigured by technology - the Assembly Gate, able to manufacture practically anything, even break... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490774630020 Fri, 6 Nov 2009 05:16:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490774630020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489416724100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - I recently saw Grace at the Dark Bridges film festival in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  Never have I been so proud of the local Canadian indie film scene.  Grace is the most unsettling and viscerally disturbing film I've seen in years, maybe in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489416724100 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:32:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489416724100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488545095300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - Terrible howls are heard, and a ghostly, glowing creature seen on a barren moor.  A man dies of heart failure, his face contorted into a rictus or pure terror.  Another disappears into a bottomless swamp, seemingly while on the run from the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488545095300 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:05:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488545095300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462005767812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - Zydrate comes in a little glass vial / a little glass vial / a little glass vial And the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery And the Zydrate gun goes somewhere against your anatomy And... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462005767812 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:40:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462005767812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_410454036100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - Centuries ago, a terrible battle between the forces of the Empress and the nomads of the Turasynd Waste ended in cataclysm. Waves of wild magic swept over and through the land, changing the shape of mountains and coastlines, reducing civilization to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~410454036100 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:02:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_410454036100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_410208013956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - The Green Lantern Corps has had a rough few decades. They were created at the dawn of the universe by the Guardians of Oa, people of every race in the universe given rings of immense power and set to police their sector for the forces of good. During... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~410208013956 Sun, 9 Dec 2007 18:44:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_410208013956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_409048616580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - "...Beyond the gardens, in an isolated dell, he entered a grove of silver-crowned trees. He paced slowly through the grove, hands clasped behind his back, sniffing the air and gazing up at the stars between the leaves above. In the gloom, the dark and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~409048616580 Sat, 1 Dec 2007 15:38:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_409048616580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408780639876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - So you're a prostitute and a heroin-patch addict, living in a nightmarish future of European socialism ruled by the 'U-Gov'. What could possibly be worse? How about having a programmed killer after you, getting an AI download of your ex-boyfriend... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408780639876 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:53:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408780639876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_134353030788?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - Welcome to the near future. Peer-to-peer music sharing has hit the highways with drivers tolled for the tunes they download by wifi on the way to work. Instant 24-hour communication through ubiquitous computer-cellphones known as 'comms' is slowly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~134353030788 Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:38:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_134353030788?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_132761357956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - Paul Sinclair is the newest ensign to be assigned to the USS Michaelson, a space warship bristling with advanced weaponry and warfare systems and detailed on a long cruise to protect the United States' 'territorial sovreignty' over a huge swath of empty... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~132761357956 Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:25:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_132761357956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_130413792900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - The year is 1999, and all over the world people are getting ready to party. Though some may fret at the approach of the New Millennium, others have reason to be more ebullient: tech stock millionaires. E-Commerce is the Wave of the Future, breaking... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~130413792900 Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:48:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_130413792900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_128786009732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - System by agonizing system, the Pax Galacticus built itself from the rubble and anarchy of galactic war. Now, this monolithic terran empire has control over all of human space - all except a tiny 5-planet holdout calling itself the Empyrean. Based... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~128786009732 Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:02:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_128786009732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_128101027460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - I don't know about you, but I'm really starting to get tired of time travel. Oh, when it's done well and presents original or at least interesting concepts, it can be some of the best scifi out there. And in fact, ChronoSpace by Allen Steele does in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~128101027460 Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:22:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_128101027460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_127977688708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - Centuries ago, the bombs fell, plunging the world into the epoch-making disaster called the Greatwinter and leaving what was left of humanity to pick up the pieces. As if that's not bad enough, the orbital battle stations orbiting the earth use their... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~127977688708 Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:32:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_127977688708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_126753410692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - On the planet of Latent Emanations, humans are held in bondage by monstrous creatures known as the Lords of Night and their cyborg collaborators, the Unpriests. While the wealthy and powerful revel in decadence and jaded entertainments, the poor must... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~126753410692 Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:25:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_126753410692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_125452390020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - Is it just me, or did John Woo just sort of stop making new movies after Face/Off? "Two guys with the guns at each other, slow-motion dove, bunch of random montagery, there you go, now give me my millions of dollars MUHAHAHAHAHA!!" Seriously, I expected... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~125452390020 Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:30:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_125452390020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_120800251524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - In ancient days, when the great War of the Necromancers ended, the Oracle at Afra spoke a prophecy: "So long as a daughter of Thelatimos' line defends and rules, Skala shall never be subjugated." Thus it is that Skala has always been ruled by queens... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~120800251524 Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:51:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_120800251524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_119809609348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - It was a grand and decadent age, and the MSS River of Stars was its greatest symbol. A luxury liner, plying the Void between LEO habitats and far-flung habitats throughout the solar system, it was the largest and most luxurious Magnetic Sail ever... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~119809609348 Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:00:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_119809609348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_114307403396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - Matthew O'Brien is a painting restorer and an expert on the art and culture of the Quattrocento - 'that period of the fourteen hundreds in Italy that was the foundation of the early Renaissance'. An artist of untapped potential himself, O'Brien is relati... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~114307403396 Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:35:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_114307403396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_113312370308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - It is 1988. Cheryl Anway is 17, a devout Christian, and pregnant by her husband Jason, whom she secretly married in Las Vegas a week earlier. She is sitting in the cafeteria of her Vancouver high school when 3 boys in camo gear enter, armed with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~113312370308 Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:57:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_113312370308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_113222323844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - Something amazing and strange is happining in Blind Lake, Minnesota. This high-security research facility is built around an O/BEC telescope, a self-evolving quantum computer which, via means which remain mysterious even to the array's creators, has bee... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~113222323844 Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:03:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_113222323844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_112920006276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - WARNING SPOILERS FOR FIRST BOOK A Forest of Stars is the second novel of Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns. This review assumes that the reader has read the first volume, Hidden Empire, and thus uses terminology and proper name... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~112920006276 Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:29:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_112920006276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_108855529092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - They have lived among us for millennia, their lives lasting centuries. They walk among us in human... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~108855529092 Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:12:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_108855529092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_108683759236?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - Jenna Amalfi saw the Earth die, destroyed in a nanotech holocaust by the dreaded Erinye - a conspira... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~108683759236 Sat, 9 Aug 2003 15:11:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_108683759236?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_108402282116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blindharper - Welcome to Australia, one of the growing family of USA owned and operated nations. Where the Police... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~108402282116 Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:32:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_108402282116?linkin_id=8003929