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I look at the new novel from Adam Roberts:

http://locusmag.com/2018/10/paul-di-filippo-reviews-by-the-pricking-of-her-thumb-by-adam-roberts/

I look at a new anthology:

http://locusmag.com/2018/10/paul-di-filippo-reviews-the-apex-book-of-world-sf-5/

I look at Peter Hamilton's new book:

http://locusmag.com/2018/09/paul-di-filippo-reviews-salvation-by-peter-f-hamilton/

I look at a collection of novellas from Michael Bishop:

http://locusmag.com/2018/09/paul-di-filippo-reviews-michael-bishop-2/

I look at John Varley's newest:

https://locusmag.com/2018/09/paul-di-filippo-reviews-irontown-blues-by-john-varley/

I look at Jack McDevitt's new story collection:

http://locusmag.com/2018/08/paul-di-filippo-reviews-a-voice-in-the-night-by-jack-mcdevitt/

STAR KING, 1964.

"He went to a branch office of the Amalgamated Distribution Service, another of the monster semipublic utility companies with agencies throughout the Oikumene. In a booth he consulted catalogues which offered him a choice of a million products, produced by thousands of fabricators. Making his choice, he punched the requisite buttons, went to the service counter. There was a wait of three minutes while automatic machinery ranged the shelves of the enormous underground warehouse; then the mechanism Gersen had ordered appeared on a belt. He examined it, paid the clerk, departed..."