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Review title: just a comment
Product review: This is my first Stirling book and I'm not through with it yet. I've read a lot of sci-fi and I guess this is fairly good but his references to popular culture are kind of annoying. Al Stewart for heaven's sake? This is supposed to be set in 2009! But the funniest one is his continued reference to "safari wear" from Banana Republic. Someone needs to tell Mr. Stirling that Banana Republic dropped the safari format many years ago! As far as "alternate history" goes I'm not sure this even classifies in that category since it really involves an alternate world, not what might have been in this one.
