Clarke County, Space
10 best books like Clarke County, Space (Allen M. Steele): Carnival, Gradisil, Steel Beach, TekWar, Summertide, Hour of the Horde, Orion Arm, Mudd's Angels, A Miracle of Rare Design, The Ring of Charon
| Author | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 0553589040 |
In Old Earth's clandestine world of ambassador-spies, Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen were once a starring team. But ever since a disastrous mission, they have been living separate lives in a universe dominated by a ruthless Coalition - one that is about to reunite them.
The...
| Author | Adam Roberts |
| ISBN | 1591025389 |
Gradisil is a multi-generational story of murder, betrayal and revenge. It is told through the eyes of three characters and against a background where mankinds rush into space has faded away leaving individual pioneers to force their way independently into space after the collapse of the big government...
| Author | John Varley |
| ISBN | 0441785654 |
Fleeing Earth after an alien invasion, the human race stands on the threshold of evolution, like a fish cast on artificial shores. Their new home is Luna, a moon colony blessed with creature comforts, prolonged lifespans, digital memories, and instant sex changes. But the people of Luna are bored,...
| Author | William Shatner |
| ISBN | 0441802087 |
Throughout this short read, I imagined I was watching a bad 80's sci-fi flick on VHS, complete with laughable special effects. The tracking might be a bit off too, and the audio's a bit fuzzy. It smells like must and cigarette smoke, and it likely has a garage sale sticker on the front that won't come off....
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0345369378 |
It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both—but Quake in particular— to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, due to the Grand Conjunction of the system's stars and planets, something...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0671559052 |
Annihilating everything before it, a horde of monstrous space travelers were advancing through the stars. And Earth lay in their route.
To defend their home planets, the worlds that lay in the path of the monsters created a super defense force, asking each planet to contribute one especially talented...
| Author | Julian May |
| ISBN | 0006482147 |
Second in the major new science fiction series from bestselling author Julian May. Two hundred years into the future, the great corporations of Earth dominate all life in our Galaxy. But their endless pursuit of wealth and power is about to open the door to a malevolent alien race, intent on engulfing...
| Author | J.A. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1852865105 |
Scheming to take over the starship Enterprise and ultimately the entire galaxy, the infamous Harry Mudd paralyzes the galactic economy by creating a monopoly on the most valuable fuel source in the universe--dilithium.
This book consists of adaptations of two Star Trek episodes ("Mudd's...
| Author | Mike Resnick |
| ISBN | 0812524241 |
Reprint coming soon from Dog Star Books, in affiliation with Raw Dog Screaming Press.
Big fan of Mike Resnick, he always comes out with a character of awesome likeness. A man of many awards, for his sci-fi work. I recommend his Stalking The Vampire and his other "Stalking Titles"
In...
| Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
| ISBN | 0812530144 |
Roger M. Allen's "Ring of Charon" is great science-fiction. A hence-undiscovered alien race causes the Earth to disappear through a wormhole due to the unauthorized experiments of a gravity scientist, and the remaining off-Earth scientists try to find out what really happened. The story is told...
| Author | Sarah Zettel |
| ISBN | 0446602922 |
"Reclamation" Heretic priest turned data pirate, Eric Born has run from his past for years. Then his steady clients - a self-proclaimed master race called the Vitae - kidnap a mysterious pariah named Arla Stone from the Realm of the Nameless, the shattered, pre-technological planet Eric fled long...
| Author | Pat Murphy |
| ISBN | 0553286153 |
Points of Departure is a collection of short stories about alternating between hope and despair. Pat Murphy's stories range from "Rachel in Love," which portrays a chimpanzee whose brain is implanted with the personality of a young girl who has died, to "His Vegetable Wife," the story of a farmer who...
| Author | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| ISBN | 0553563416 |
I found this to be SF written very light. There's nothing that really stood out for me as either good or bad. For the amount of time it spends on character and plot set up, for all its emphasis on cutting edge biology and space travel, for the amount of talk dedicated to politics...none of all that--characters,...
BILL - the perfect Starship Trooper: big, brawny, and brainwashed. Possessor of two right arms (impressive when it comes to saluting) and a foot that is threatening to turn into something more suited to being an umbrella stand than anything that could be squeezed into a size 11 sneaker. BILL - a perfect...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0765356465 |
They had fought long and hard, and damn near won in spite of everything. But now the men who hired them are going to sell them to the enemy...and so begins a novel of adventure in which a band of Star Mecenaries is driven across the face of a planet by enemies bent on their distruction. With only the guns in their...
| Author | David Feintuch |
| ISBN | 0446603333 |
THE SEAFORT SAGA
A guilt-ridden politician, an earnest young boy, a sick old man eking out a living in the broken streets -- can they alone stop humanity from destroying itself in urban Armageddon?
In a divided world, wealthy citizens look down from skytop aeries to crumbling streets...
| Author | Jody Lynn Nye |
| ISBN | 0446363359 |
I'd read this one before, but it was a LONG time ago and I'd forgotten most of the plot. It's the (3rd?) in a series. The first in the series was pretty good, the rest were so-so. There's some humor in the books. Fantasy, set in modern times. Seems there there are "little people" that immigrated to America...
| Author | William Tuning |
| ISBN | 0441261825 |
Decent men everywhere rejoiced in the Pendarvis Decision, which declared the species Fuzzy sapiens to be a sentient race entitled to all the rights and privileges of man. But of course that was only the beginning. Men had a long way to go before they would get over the habit of thinking of Fuzzies as adorable...
