Coalescent
10 best books like Coalescent (Stephen Baxter): Surface Detail, The Light of Other Days, Redemption Ark, The Line Of Polity, Permafrost, Hilldiggers, Brass Man, Zima Blue and Other Stories, Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days, Line War
| Author | Iain M. Banks |
| ISBN | 0316123404 |
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0812576403 |
When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and...
Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors - alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons -and a renegade named Clavain...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0330484354 |
Short Review vs Long Review
Dooble-ooble-caro-flock!
- Gabbleduck quote
(very) Short review
This book (and the Polity series so far) is friggin’ awesome, read it! The end.
(fairly) Long review
The Outlink stations were poised on the surface...
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.
2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 1405055006 |
During a war between two planets in the same solar system - each occupied by adapted humans - what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0765317311 |
Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future, is hunting an interstellar dragon, little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected an horrific killing machine named "Mr. Crane" to assist in a similar hunt, ecompassing whole star systems. Mr....
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1597800589 |
When Reynolds opens his heart, his mind obeys and he produces lovely mini-masterpieces: Enola (here), Turquoise Days, Zima Blue (here) and Weather. Surely his finest works.
Mostly solid collection of stories here, with some true gems.
*** The Real Story
Good solid sci-fi....
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0575075163 |
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into interstellar space . . . Alastair Reynolds burst onto the SF scene with the Arthur C. Clarke Award-shortlisted REVELATION SPACE, British Science Fiction Award-winning CHASM CITY, and REDEMPTION ARK. Now experience the phenomenal imagination and breathtaking...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 1405055014 |
The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebuss wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345452518 |
"Sunstorm" è il riuscitissimo seguito de "L'occhio del tempo", del leggendario autore di fantascienza Arthur C. Clarke e di uno dei suoi piu capaci eredi, Stephen Baxter. Dopo cinque anni passati su Mir, il pianeta costruito dalla misteriosa razza dei Primogeniti con migliaia di schegge temporali...
