Amnesiascope
9 best books like Amnesiascope (Steve Erickson): Before She Sleeps, The Sheep Look Up, The Shore of Women, And All Between, Floating Worlds, Ambient, Children of the Thunder, Dinner at Deviant's Palace, The Poison Master
| Author | Bina Shah |
| ISBN | 1883285763 |
In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible.
Yet...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 1932100016 |
I think I might DNF this one.
Honestly, I feel like I'm reading the newspaper and the Sierra Club's journal on a particularly bad day. Knowing that this was written forty years ago makes it even worse; you mean we knew these problems were coming and still didn't fix them? We start with gas masks...
| Author | Pamela Sargent |
| ISBN | 1932100369 |
I really enjoyed this book's exploration of daring feminist themes like "Wouldn't it be awful if the world was controlled by domineering man-hating lesbian separatists who forced all the men to live in primitive squalor? I bet they'd ostracize any woman who even wondered if men should be treated like...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0595370306 |
Eight-year-old Teera finds herself above the powerful Root that keeps her Erdling community captive underground. The Erdlings are feared and despised by the Kindar people who live in the massive trees above. Raamo and Neric, two young Kindar discover Teera and for reasons of their own decide to keep...
| Author | Cecelia Holland |
| ISBN | 0575071427 |
2000 years in the future, runaway pollution has made the Earth uninhabitable except in giant biodomes. The society is an anarchy, with disputes mediated through the Machiavellian Committee for the Revolution. Mars, Venus and the Moon support flourishing colonies of various political stripes....
| Author | Jack Womack |
| ISBN | 0802134947 |
Set in a decaying and violent twenty-first-century New York, Ambient tells the story of O'Malley, a very special bodyguard for an outrageously ruthless CEO named Dryden, and of his attempts to woo Dryden's personal femme fatale, Avalon. But what begins as a simple case of unrequited love quickly turns...
Science writer Peter Levin sensed a major story behind Claudia Moriss's research into juvenile deliquency. For the American sociologist had uncovered a disturbing pattern of crimes that were unusual even in the rapidly deteriorating society of 1990s Britain.
David had made a fortune creating...
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 1892284847 |
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award: In a nuclear-ravaged California, a humble musician sets out on a dangerous quest to rescue his lost love from the clutches of a soul-devouring religious cult
In the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having long...
| Author | Liz Williams |
| ISBN | 0553584987 |
Liz Williams is one of science fiction’s boldest new writers and this novel is one of her most profound speculations on freedom, love, and human destiny. On a distant world ruled by an alien race, humanity is enslaved, having forgotten its own past and condemned to have no future--until one woman is...
