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User Review - rrainer - LibraryThingI've always had a secret fondness for Ace Doubles--what could be better than two science fiction books in one? My mother's shelves used to be full of them when I was a kid, so when I started finding ... Read full review
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User Review - shevek - LibraryThing'The Ballad of Beta-2' is pretty good journeyman work - as if Delany had done one too many undergraduate exercises in close reading and suddenly thought: 'I bet I can turn this into a story hook'. I ... Read full review
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