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damned iine book.”

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Bob Shaw ma> well be the most important science fiction discweiy of Ifiis decade. He has a rare talent fo« młegrating truły ftuman characters and vaiues with smcothly plausibte science. Abow all, he's a natutal sloty teiler who can croate suspensę without urtnaturai ccotrwances. Reading THE IWO-T1MERS gave me a mobntfflg sense o( pleasure and excitemenr, and I finished wth a feelfag of complete satisfaction. Ift a

painfullygocd." mienseJy ■•eadable."

' If anyor.e needed ir,controverlibJe proof Wiat the fiction of wonder has cone of age. Bob Shaw has proYided >t in one extraordmary norol of power, warmth, ideas and imagination. THE TWO-TłMERS’ says somettang fresh and memarabie about the moncmania of love, about the wajr we we ar oui uni-verse, about a fev» of the eternał veritles that sod-denly seem less sectjre. Aside from the sheer impetus of the story_; which grasps and won't release till the unexpecfed conclusion, the writing is exquis-ite. it hnocked me cold:

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