A Thousand Words for Stranger
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| Author | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 0553587501 |
Once Jenny Casey was somebody’s daughter. Once she was somebody’s enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life...
| Author | S.L. Viehl |
| ISBN | 0451457730 |
Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil leaves Earth and accepts a position as a physician at Kevarzanga-2's FreeClinic. Her surgical skills are desperately needed on a hostile frontier world with over 200 sentient species--and her understanding of alien physiology is nothing short of miraculous. But the truth behind...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 0756403995 |
As military SF, maybe 4 stars. Better than most.
But I'm starting to think that military fiction has become so rigid that it's almost an automatic minus when you judge it just as SF.
Military SF checklist:
* Protagonist is a hard-boiled NCO - check (but a point for her being female)
*...
| Author | Sharon Lee |
| ISBN | 0441009115 |
Master trader Er Thom knows the local custom of Liaden is to be matched with a proper bride, and provide his prominent clan Korval with an heir. Yet his heart is immersed in another universe, influenced by another culture, and lost to a woman not of his world. And to take a Terran wife such as scholar Anne...
| Author | Sandra McDonald |
| ISBN | 0765316439 |
Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is a hero. She has the medals and the scars to prove it.
She's cooling her heels on Kookaburra, recovering from injuries sustained during the fiery loss of her last ship, the Yangtze, and she's bored -- so bored, in fact, that she takes a berth on the next ship out. ...
| Author | Wen Spencer |
| ISBN | 0451458370 |
Wow. This book was exactly what I needed. Everything is just about perfect, from the very well-drawn characters to the setting (which I don't normally pay attention to but which I was impressed with) and the themes explored.
First the characters. I loved Ukiah Oregon. In fact, he may have to...
| Author | C.S. Friedman |
| ISBN | 0886777992 |
TL;DR version: The bastard love-child of Dune and Neuromancer, but the awesome kind of bastard-child, the one that ends up forging his own destiny and writing his name in the stars.
Longer version:
I read this book as a teenager, and was deeply affected by it. Later, I read it as an adult,...
| Author | Debra Doyle |
| ISBN | 0812517040 |
Freebooter at heart, spacer by trade, Beka Rosselin-Metadi doesn't want to hear about how her father whose rugged generalship held back the Mageworlds -- or her highborn mother whose leadership has held the galaxy together since. Beka pilots spacecraft -- as far from her famous family as possible.Then...
| Author | Lisanne Norman |
| ISBN | 0886775752 |
Cut off from Earth by alien conquerors, the human colony on Keiss was slowly building an underground resistance movement to stand against the Valtegan invaders. But for many of the colonists, it was already too late.
Her twin sister Elise captured by Valtegan soldiers, Carrie telepathically...
| Author | Karen Traviss |
| ISBN | 0060541709 |
Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a lost colony on a distant and dangerous planet -- a hostile world coveted by two alien races and fiercely protected by a third. But in the course of her mission, she overstepped a boundary and stumbled into forbidden lands. And...
| Author | Adam-Troy Castro |
| ISBN | 0061443727 |
Two murders have occurred on One One One, an artificial ecosystem created by the universe's dominant AIs to house several engineered species, including a violent, sentient race of sloth-like creatures. Under order from the Diplomatic Corps, Counselor Andrea Cort has come to this cylinder world...
