Beggars in Spain

Author	Barry B. Longyear
ISBN	0441206727

I read 0595309763, an "authors Guild backinprint.com edition." Iow, the original novelette, not Gerrold's novel created from the movie. I wanted to read it because I remember loving the movie. I had only a vague memory of it, mainly just the attempt, over a campfire, to move from trying to kill each other...

Author	Seb Doubinsky
ISBN	1940456258

Williams Burroughs meets Philip K. Dick in this dystopian drug-fueled novel set in the not-so-distant future.

Synth is a drug able to induce hallucinations indistinguishable from reality. But it’s brand new, highly addictive, and more than likely dangerous. Even the dealers peddling...

Author	A.A. Attanasio
ISBN	0061090921

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4 stars

Charles Outis had his brain frozen post-mortem. A millennium later, he's reawakened - as a piece of property, first a tool for erotic fantasies, then the control for a mining machine. When he calls for help, he's answered by Munk, an androne...

Author

Ted Chiang

Which would you prefer: a judgemental God who causes suffering to sinners, or a reality where there is no justice at all?


Calvin: “Do you believe in the Devil... dedicated to the temptation corruption, and destruction of man?”
Hobbes: “I'm not sure man needs the help.”

This...

Author	Spider Robinson
ISBN	0523485719

Any future book written in 1977 is not only going to get a few things wrong, but have a very different sensibility. Fortunately, this book is not handicapped by that, because of its focus on dance and music as a way to communicate-- with aliens. When you think about that, it makes sense.

Our narrator...

Author	John Varley
ISBN	1568652798

This award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.

Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through...

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	1568652275

Home Is the Hangman' shows Zelazny at his very best grappling with questions of what is good and evil, what makes something truly alive. 'Home is The Hangman' is part of a series of novellas where the premise is that when the world databases are unified, a programmer takes the opportunity to completely...

Author

Vernor Vinge

The main protagonist is Juan who has to achieve an "offline" school project with Miriam given the restriction that they have to do it without connection to the Internet - a hard task for those always-connected teenagers. In addition, the project has to generate income for the school - Miriam found strange...

Author

Mike Resnick

Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:

In this Hugo and Nebula award-winning novella by Mike Resnick, humanity once controlled much of the galaxy due to its ambition and ruthlessness, but then declined for unspecified reasons and is now an extinct race. About five thousand years...

Author

Connie Willis

Only Connie Willis could provide such a depth of detail to what should have been the death of dogs and not only made it work but make it work wonderfully.

She started with the weird concept of the Animal Humane Society becoming a black bag operation after all dogs have been wiped out, turning the...

Author	Lou Aronica
ISBN	1936558254

Reviewers have called Lou Aronica’s novel BLUE “compelling,” “beautifully written,” “a story to remember and cherish,” and “one of those books that everyone should find a moment to read.” Readers have said it was “a great inspiration,” “I’ve never been more moved or...

Author	Tullio Avoledo
ISBN	8806173391

Tutto ha inizio in uno spettrale e labirintico condominio di una cittadina di provincia, dove vive Giulio Rovedo, responsabile dell'ufficio legale di una piccola banca che sta per essere assorbita da un importante colosso finanziario. Dietro la fusione però non ci sono gli interessi di una qualsiasi...

Author	Stephanie Saulter
ISBN	1780878923

When confiscated genestock is stolen out of secure government quarantine, DI Sharon Varsi finds herself on the biggest case of her career... chasing down a clever thief, a mysterious hacker, and the threat of new, black market gemtech.

Zavcka Klist, ruthless industrial enforcer, has reinvented...

Author	Carolyn Ives Gilman
ISBN	1604504544

Humans live deep within an apparently lifeless planet covered by massive ice sheets. Having to survive in confined spaces has bred a unique culture where deference and non-confrontation make co-existence possible. **** Osaji's opportunities are limited by the need to care for her aging grandmother....

Author

Neil Clarke

FICTION
"Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard
"If The Mountain Comes" by An Owomoyela
"You Were She Who Abode" by E. Catherine Tobler

NON-FICTION
"Energizing Futures: How SF Fuels Itself" by Stephen Gaskell
"Neither the Billionaire nor the Tramp: Economics in Speculative...

Author	Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN	1612420478

Main Story by Kevin J. Anderson. Sequel Novelette by Steven Savile. The Stellar Guild Series. *** Jorie Taylor has lived her whole life on the generation ship Beacon. Fleeing an Earth tearing itself apart from its exhaustive demand for resources, the Beacon is finally approaching Sarbras, the planet...

Author	Margherita Oggero
ISBN	8804512814

La protagonista e voce narrante di questa storia è una "profia": una professoressa quarantenne, una donna informata e curiosa , a volte un pò irritabile e frustrata. Quando a scuola si presenta un'insegnante nuova, bionda, bella, ricca, nessuno sembra disposto a trovarla simpatica. Ma quando...

Author

Ken Liu

A scientific invention makes it possible to virtually travel back in time and witness historical events. It is only possible to witness it once from the same perspective, because the process eats up the record. The inventor and her husband draw attention to the atrocities of Unit 731 during WWII. They...

Author	Harry Turtledove
ISBN	0671578359

Harry Turtledove is to alternate history fiction as the Bee Gees were to disco music; but in his 1999 compilation of three novellas, Turtledove pays tribute to L. Sprague de Camp as an inspiration.

Beginning with his very good story (and Hugo award winner for best novella in 1994) Down in the...

Author

Peter Cawdron

To the credit of its title, "Galactic Exploration" has a predominately essayistic flair, one of intelligent speculation and discovery, perhaps with philosophical repercussions. It is comprised of 4 novellas, that explore complementary facets of humanity's search for intelligent alien species,...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	2277241091

Група храбри пионери поема на епично пътешествие към далечните звезди, пътешествие, което обещава да се превърне в най-великата изследователска мисия...

Author

Mur Lafferty

From the 2012 John W. Campbell Award Nominee and Two Time Parsec Award Winner

"Lafferty's most memorable and exciting creation to date." ~Goodreads.com

"...a really fun read. I love the setting (an alien settlement on the moon becomes "Mollywood", the hottest cultural Mecca of...

Author	Adam M. Berger
ISBN	0615925596

Though you may not be aware of it, whenever you’re playing in any of Disney’s many theme parks, the Imagineers who designed those parks are busy playing with your head. EVERY GUEST IS A HERO reveals for the first time how the artists and technical wizards of Walt Disney Imagineering have harnessed...