Across Realtime

Author	John C. Wright
ISBN	0765343541

The Phoenix Exultant is a continuation of the story begun in The Golden Age and like it, a grand space opera in the tradition of Jack Vance and Roger Zelazny (with a touch of Cordwainer Smith-style invention).

At the conclusion of the first book, Phaethon of Radamanthus House, was left an exile...

Author	David Brin
ISBN	0553567675

Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin is one of the most eloquent, imaginative voices in science fiction.  Now he returns with a new novel rich in texture, universal in theme, monumental in scope--pushing the genre to new heights.

Young Maia is fast approaching a turning point...

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Jack L. Chalker

I cannot believe this series slipped under my radar for 30 years. Refreshing and original, I've no doubt I'll read them again before the Grim Reaper claims me. Each of the four books almost stand alone, but add up to a greater whole. Humanity is threatened by an alien menace like never before, which appears...

Author	John Varley
ISBN	0441785654

Fleeing Earth after an alien invasion, the human race stands on the threshold of evolution, like a fish cast on artificial shores. Their new home is Luna, a moon colony blessed with creature comforts, prolonged lifespans, digital memories, and instant sex changes. But the people of Luna are bored,...

Author	Ken MacLeod
ISBN	0812568583

Ellen May Ngewthu is a soldier and leader of the Cassini Division, the elite defense force of the utopian Solar Union. Here in the twenty-fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around Jupiter, are the front line in humanity's long standoff with the unknowable post-humans godlike beings...

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Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Another excellent book from this author. Prison camp war survival adventure in Tibet, I like books with slow evolving plots this one progressed nicely along didn't realize it was a disaster end of world type of book till well into it, found the story even more interesting as it progressed. Don't wish...

Author	Alastair Reynolds
ISBN	1597800589

When Reynolds opens his heart, his mind obeys and he produces lovely mini-masterpieces: Enola (here), Turquoise Days, Zima Blue (here) and Weather. Surely his finest works.


Mostly solid collection of stories here, with some true gems.

*** The Real Story
Good solid sci-fi....

Author	Peter F. Hamilton
ISBN	0330351826

This is a collection of six short stories and a novella taking place in the Night's Dawn universe before the events of the main trilogy took place. To be fair I need to say "Peter F. Hamilton" and "short" do not belong to the same sentence - the guy does not know the meaning of the word. Thus these allegedly...

Author	Charles Stross
ISBN	0441017193

Science fiction guru Charles Stross "sizzles with ideas" ("Denver Post") in his first major short story collection.
The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as "Accelerando, Halting State," and "Saturn's Children" delivers a rich selection of speculative...

Author	Walter Jon Williams
ISBN	0812514092

Read this one recently on the strength of a friend's recommendation, and was rather glad I did; it's one of the more unusual SF novels I've had the pleasure of reading. Aristoi is set in the far future, when humanity has unlocked the ability to manipulate matter at the molecular level and has spread out...

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0446611549

Make no mistake. There are some mind-blowing concepts in this book. A band of humans are on the run from a race of mechanical beings. They've stolen a ship and eluded pursuit, heading for a star system that should support them. But when they arrive, they find a destroyed and abandoned mech civilization--it...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345319036

"When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches the Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and its seriousness, you'd expect the President to talk. Problem is, in the late twenty-first century, there is no...

Author	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0553264532

The epic science fiction trilogy--Homeworld, Wheelworld, and Starworld--from the author of West of Eden and Winter in Eden is now available in one volume.

Homeworld introduces us to Jan Kulozik, an upper-class engineer who has taken his privileges for granted. While vacationing at a luxurious...

Author	James P. Hogan
ISBN	0671577980

This story is based on the idea of what if you could completely disconnect a generation of humans, if they could grow up without our prejudices, without our mythology, but with our scientific knowledge. The book begins as a group of humans from earth are about to end a voyage arriving at a planet that was...

Author	Robert Reed
ISBN	1841492558

In the deepness of space there are millions of worlds like our own - and each with its own humanity. They are linked by the Bright, an ancient pathway between the stars created by an ancient, godlike race known only as the Makers. Now humanity travels the Bright, uniting its worlds to a common desiny. But...

Author	Desmond Bagley
ISBN	0671434543

Jan Willem Hendryk's legacy amounts to a staggering £40 million - £34 million to go to an agricultural college in Kenya's Rift Valley, and the remaining £6 million to be divided equally between his only surviving descendants: Dirk, a South African, and Henry, a young drop-out living in California....

Author	Robert Charles Wilson
ISBN	0765302616

A Hidden Place is RCW’s first novel. If I hadn’t read so, I wouldn’t have even guessed, that’s how skillfully written is.

The story takes place in a small rural American town, the eerie and creepy kind, due to both harsh conditions of Depression years and its inhabitants.

After...

Author	Clifford D. Simak
ISBN	0380455005

A collection of sci-fi stories. Contents:
All the Traps of Earth (1960) novelette by Simak
Good Night, Mr James (1951) novelette by Simak
Drop Dead (1956) novelette by Simak
No Life of Their Own (1959) novella by Simak
The Sitters (1958) novelette by Simak
Crying...