Breaking Strain

5 best books like Breaking Strain (Paul Preuss): The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Rescue Party (When the World Ends, #1), The Deep Range, The Sentinel, Reading the Bones

The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Author	Ray Kurzweil
ISBN	0143037889

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step...

Rescue Party (When the World Ends, #1)

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	1884214371

A spaceship crew from an advanced alien civilization notices that Earth faces imminent destruction as its sun begins to explode. With time rapidly ticking down, the crew desperately searches a now-desolate planet for any possible human survivors.

This is a dramatisation of the very first...

The Deep Range

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0575077115

This story takes place about 100 years in the future, when the earth's population is fed principally from the sea--on whale products or from plankton farms. Its hero is Walter Franklin, a grounded space engineer now assigned to a submarine patrol tending the whale herds.
DEEP RANGE vibrates with...

The Sentinel

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0743479750

Few masters of science fiction have brought us glimpses of the near future as vividly as Arthur C. Clarke. It is the startling realism of his vision that has made classics of his novels, such as CHILDHOOD'S END and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. It has also made Clarke himself one of the genre's most successful...

Reading the Bones

Author	Sheila Finch
ISBN	1892391082

Nebula Award, 1998 - Best Novella
Locus Online Recommended Reading 2001

A struggling linguist, a sheltered debutante, and a strangely silent child are running for their lives, trapped in the violent confluence of three species, only one of which is human.

The Xenolinguist...