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by Jan Mark (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Definitions; New edition edition (7 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099473003
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099473008
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 378,170 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Are you a useful idiot too?, 15 April 2004
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This review is from: Useful Idiots (Hardcover)
Useful Idiots are people who think that what they do is for the best, not realizing that it is for someone else's best. As it turns out, most people in Jan Mark's new novel - Useful Idiots - are useful idiots, the pawns of unscrupulous people, which makes the novel is a truly pessimistic book.
We know that Jan Mark never makes it easy for her readers, especially at the end of her novels. The reader is forced to think and draw his or her own conclusions, however reluctant he or she may be. This is also the case in this spell-binding story, of the same category as The Eclipse of the Century, so much more than just a crossover or "kidult" novel. It is a fantasy that needs some time to get going - as it carefully creates a new world - but when the first 100 pages have been processed, it absorbs the reader to a point that it haunts him (or her?) during the night.
It is a fantasy that must be based on detailed research. I can imagine the writer with maps on her desk showing which parts of Europe could be flooded in 2255 and which would not. I do not have to look up information about the tabanus bovinus rex to know that what she writes about this insect must have been thoroughly researched. Realizing this when you are reading, in fact realizing that what you are reading could one day be true, makes Jan Mark's fantasies even more appealing.
As a European it is interesting to be confronted with the question of federalism versus nationalism, and all its implications. Also in this field the novel really makes you think
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5.0 out of 5 stars A soggy, muddy story, 28 April 2006

This book bursts with the squelch and mud of the Fens, written in a spell-binding fashion that lingers with the reader long after the pages are closed. Although this is a book for young adults, older readers will find it very good as well. The Fens are invoked very well, the emptiness, the mud, the water all seep out of the page. I particularly liked the hero Korda as he is more like an ordinary person, vulnerable and manipulated, rather than the traditional sci-fi trash action hero. I also found Jan Mark's ideas on national identity and archeology very interesting. This is a tale of manipulation, dressed up in the dark gothic of the Fens. The future world is very different to most we are presented with, one without spaceships and silly aliens, more focussed upon human characters. The Global Warming Jan Mark presents is all too plausible and thankfully steers clear of a lot of the more unrealistic ideas. All in all a very good read.
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