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There's a good review of The Oblivion Society up on CurledUp.com, apparently written by a guy who has never heard of "alternate history" or "period fiction."
"But the key to getting into The Oblivion Society, or any book that involves an apocalypse that’s supposed to occur in the near future but at a date which has come and gone, is to ignore any dated references, no matter how hard it may be - or how annoying they might be. Stick your fingers in your ears, if need be, and repeat 'Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!' over and over again to drown out your own objections based on logic and the impossibility of the timeframe. I was able to do this, more or less; if you can do the same, and take the rest of this novel on its own merits, it’s a pretty good read, albeit in a comic-book sort of way (which is good or bad, depending on how you look at it, I suppose)."
(Read the whole review here...)
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