Brightness Reef
10 best books like Brightness Reef (David Brin): The Legacy of Heorot, The Space Merchants, Fallen Dragon, Little Fuzzy, The Reality Dysfunction 1: Emergence, Man Plus, The Reality Dysfunction Part 2: Expansion, Fuzzies and Other People, Moving Mars, Eternity
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0671695320 |
The colonists from Earth have spent a century in cold sleep to make the first journey, one way, to settle a planet in another solar system. Avalon seems perfect, a verdant, livable world still in its prehistoric age. The biologists and engineers who busy themselves planting and building scoff at the...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0575075287 |
An alternate cover edition can be found here.
It is the 22nd Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers...
| Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0330480065 |
Deploying invulnerable twenty-fifth-century soldiers called Skins, Zantiu-Braun's corporate starships loot entire planets. But as the Skins invade bucolic Thallspring, Z-B's strategy is about to go awry, all because of: Sgt. Lawrence Newton, a dreamer whose twenty years as a Skin have destroyed...
| Author | H. Beam Piper |
| ISBN | 0843959118 |
The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government....
| Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0446605158 |
In the far future, humanity has divided into two diametrically opposed groups. The Edenists are genetically engineered space-dwellers with telepathic affinity for their biotechnological homes and ships. The Adamists, effectively the Luddites of the future, are willing to pioneer new worlds,...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 1857989465 |
Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster -- a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath...
| Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0446605166 |
This review is for The Reality Dysfunction part 1 and 2 (The American edition I read divides this monster of a book into two books, which equal book 1 of The Night's Dawn trilogy)
So after reading the two books that comprise the Commonwealth Sagan and the Void trilogy, I can safetly say that...
| Author | H. Beam Piper |
| ISBN | 0441261779 |
Forgot to add this to my shelf. I finally read up on Piper after finishing his trilogy and the real tragedy is that he committed suicide the year the second book (Fuzzy Sapiens) was published. Fuzzies and Other People was found in his basement years after his death. The tragedy (beyond the suicide) is that...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0765318237 |
Moving Mars is a story of human courage and love set within the greater saga of a planetary liberation movement. Mars is a colonial world, governed by corporate interests on Earth. The citizens of Mars are hardworking, but held back by their lack of access to the best education, and the desire of the...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0446601888 |
I saw positive references to Eon, the first book in the series, in Brian Aldiss's Trillion Year Spree, and I bought it before a long flight. I think I had read most of it, or even all of it, before I arrived in California. It was pretty dull, but somehow I bought the second one too, and it was even duller. Chris...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0671795740 |
For the safety of mankind, the aliens called Moties have been quarantined for 25 years (see THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE) and are now poised to break out of their solar system and spread rapidly into humanity's space. Kevin Renner, Horace Bury, Rod Blaine and other characters introduced in THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0446364037 |
This direct sequel to The Forge of God is as far removed from its predecessor in tone and content as could possibly be. The concept of the 'Law' is fascinating, made more so by the enigmatic nature of the Benefactors. Many questions that are raised throughout the novel are left unanswered and the morality...
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2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he instead discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck...
