Beggars Ride

Author	Sheri S. Tepper
ISBN	0553573985

A wave of fundamentalism is sweeping across the globe as the millennium approaches, and a power-hungry presidential candidate sees his ticket to success in making an example out of a teenage girl who abandoned her infant in a Dumpster. Taking the girl's case is Carolyn Crespin, a former attorney, who...

Author	Suzy McKee Charnas
ISBN	0425050971

"Everything I've always wanted from an adventure, and then some!"
Samuel R Delany

"[Motherlines is] a pioneer exercise in women's fantasies of independence, skill, freedom. It has a robust, earthy beauty. She has a genius for grasping ideas and dreams that are in the air and making them...

Author	Joan D. Vinge
ISBN	0812523687

I was genuinely surprised by how much I loved this book. I think I was judging it by the totally tacky 80s cover so I was expecting it to be kind of cheesy. Instead I got a completely solid sequel to The Snow Queen. I did think that this was an insignificant part of the overall story. Perhaps it's unimportant...

Author	Suzette Haden Elgin
ISBN	1558614036

An instant cult classic upon first publication, Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue trilogy has earned wide critical acclaim, shocking and captivating a loyal readership among science fiction and women's literature audiences alike.

Sequel to the enormously popular Native Tongue, The...

Author	Michael Flynn
ISBN	0812530063

Michael Flynn continues to work with economic/mathematical predictive models of the future that are dead on target. In this book, he (correctly) predicts a recession leading to a small war in the year 2001-2 from the time of his authorship in the mid-1990s.

Perhaps more importantly, Flynn...

Author	Rebecca Ore
ISBN	0812503139

16-year old boy finds an alien crash-landed on a farm and ends up being recruited to join the Federation of Sapients - and adventuring out among the stars.

First book of a trilogy, although ends in a way that does not require continuation to the other books. Sequels are "Being Human" and "Human...

Author

Kay Kenyon

Clio Finn is a Dive pilot on a troubled Earth in 2019. Public paranoia about the AIDS virus and its successors has led to the imprisonment of the "subversives" of the society (namely, drug users and gays) in forced labor quarantine camps known as quarries. Meanwhile, Earth itself is dying from a progressive...

Author	Robert Charles Wilson
ISBN	0812575741

In the 22nd century, humankind has colonized the solar system. Starflight is possible but hugely expensive, so humakind's efforts are focused on Isis, the one nearby Earthlike world. Isis is verdant, Edenic, rich with complex DNA-based plant and animal life. And every molecule of Isian life is spectacularly...

Author	Joan Slonczewski
ISBN	0812568621

Usually "hard SF" refers to physics and engineering — crunchy orbital mechanics and interplanetary travel with terms like "delta-v," weapons and other technology that at least has some plausible physics behind it. The most esteemed SF novels are those written by actual scientists and engineers...

Author	Gardner Dozois
ISBN	0312274785

The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:

Stephen Baxter, M.Shayne...

Author	Kage Baker
ISBN	1892389851

"There were three Empresses of Mars. The first one was a bar at the Settlement. The second was the lady who ran the bar; though her title was strictly informal, having been bestowed on her by the regular customers, and her domain extended no further than the pleasantly gloomy walls of the only place you...

Author	David G. Hartwell
ISBN	0061020559

The Barnes & Noble Review

Science fiction as short fiction is perhaps my favorite form of the literary genre, and David G. Hartwell's Year's Best series is a collection -- full of humor, drama, style, and surprises -- that never disappoints. Here are just some of the high points in the Sixth...

Author

John Zakour

Still ridiculous in the most amazing of ways, but some minor irks makes this the only book of the series I've given four stars to.

Ah, where to start? If you've read the four books that preceded this one, there is simply no point in telling you why this is awesome. If you've not read the other four...

Author	Greg Bear
ISBN	0345448367

Greg Bear’s Nebula Award–winning novel, Darwin’s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution—one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where...

Author	Charles Sheffield
ISBN	0345369823

Trancendence (1992) 293 pages by Charles Sheffield.

Well paced, lots of adventures, good interaction between the characters.

The third book of The Heritage Universe. When book two left off, Speaker-Between had kept Louis Nenda and Atvar H'Sial to duel it out to see which species...

Author	Deborah Chester
ISBN	0441005616

Here is an epic set in a far distant universe--a saga of faraway planets and of races strange and more fantastic than an ever seen on our world. Yet their struggles are universal: for justice, for freedom, for peace. "Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles" is a sweeping adventure that will transport you to another...

Author	Emma Bull
ISBN	0441225691

His life is a race against time. And time is winning.


He was a prince, until his world was plunged into civil war. He was a son, until he discovered his mother’s secret. He was an exile, until he became Niki Falcon, piloting a ship linked to his nervous system, crossing light-years in a breath,...