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[Damien Broderick]

I shamelessly present the following `Small Press Roundup' review from 
ASIMOV'S SF magazine, March 2005, just out.

Anyone who wishes to consider buying either a trade paperback or an 
e-readable download of my novel (and Rory's) can find a link at

http://www.ereads.com/book.asp?bookid=642

The paper book is nice, with a cover by our >H pal Anders Sandberg.

Damien Broderick
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Paul Di Filippo's column `On Books':

In The Hunger of Time (E-Reads, trade paper, $17.95, 252 pages, ISBN 
0-7592-5512-1) Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes have unleashed one of the 
most satisfying cosmic romps in a long time. As if Rudy Rucker had 
collaborated with Olaf Stapledon, or H. G. Wells with Neal Stephenson, 
these authors have managed to combine vigorous and mind-croggling 
cosmological speculations with entertainingly off-the-wall dialogue and 
characterization. Stylistically slick, relentlessly zooming forward so fast 
it catches up with its own tail, this book will leave you gob-smacked. Our 
story opens in the near-future. A global plague is about to destroy 
civilization. But luckily our protagonists--husband and wife Hugh and Grace 
D'Anzso, their daughters Natalie and Suzanna, and the family dog, 
Ferdy--have an escape hatch. Genius Hugh has perfected an interdimensional 
vacuole which exists outside of time and space. Sequestered inside, the 
family can leap forward in time--with one catch: every jump is 
exponentially larger than the prior one. Luckily, the jumps start small. 
The family ventures forward one year, then fourteen, then a few hundred, 
seeking the perfect place to stop. Well, they don't quit travelling till 
the years mount up into the trillions, and there's a hell of a lot of 
weirdness to encounter along the way. Narrated by Natalie, this tale 
possesses the pulp vigor of a 1930s Jack Williamson story with the 
sophistication to be found in Broderick's non-fiction opus, The Spike 
(2002). And in one of their cleverest nods to past SF, these authors have 
rehabilitated one of Heinlein's most controversial novels, Farnham's 
Freehold (1964), right down to the incestuous subtext. Do you recall Papa 
Farnham's first name? Hubert, it was....