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Title: a new age muddle
Review: T J MacGregor is a good writer-- it's too bad she didn't have a plot to match her writing. The plot, such as it is, has to do with Fortean phenomena (people vanishing into thin air, strange animal behavior, yadayadayada) which is somehow related to Man messing with the Environment. It all ends in a fuzzy feel-good New Age pep rally involving dolphins and flutes. If you want to read a (somewhat) better novel on this theme, check out Wilson Tucker's Ice and Iron. Or better yet, read Charles Fort's Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents, and New Lands.
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