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Critical Essay by Christopher Priest

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Critical Essay by Christopher Priest [With The Snow Queen we] are in the presence … of a successor to [Frank Herbert's] Dune and [Ursula Le Guin's] The Left Hand of Darkness. Howe... Read more

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Critical Essay by Carl Yoke But she wore the nomad's tunic she had brought back with her from Persiponë's, the only clothing she owned, its gaudy color as alien as she suddenly f... Read more

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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly There are memorable characters [in "The Snow Queen"] and a complex, suspensefully orchestrated plot that builds with steady inevitability from a slow ... Read more

Critical Essay by James Gunn

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Critical Essay by James Gunn [The Snow Queen] has a complicated plot, whose complications—unfortunately for the success of the novel—unfold so deliberately that its final shape is clear ... Read more

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Critical Essay by Lindsy Van Gelder This delicious book [The Snow Queen] is a futuristic translation of the girl-rescues-boy fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen: the love story of Moon and Sparks&#x... Read more

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Critical Essay by Jack Sullivan ["The Snow Queen"] gets nicely off the ground several times only to be dragged down again and again by banality. The best passages occur in the exposition... Read more

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Critical Essay by Richard Lubbock Science, religion, magic, moral philosophy, anthropology, and indeed almost all the arts and sciences intermingle most deliciously in Joan D. Vinge's The Snow ... Read more

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