Earth

Author

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two qualities that are often at odds in this genre: an interest in the emotional lives of its characters and a fascination with all things technological and scientific. In Tau Zero these components are not...

Author	Sheri S. Tepper
ISBN	1857987985

Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. But before humanity arrived, another species had already claimed Grass for its own. It too had developed a culture......

Now a deadly plague is spreading across the stars, leaving no planet untouched, save for Grass. But the...

Author	Greg Bear
ISBN	0345459814

So I keep on reading Bear novels, feeling disappointed, waiting a while, then rinse and repeat.

This time I've clarified why I am so ambivalent about this guy: he has fascinating ideas then writes dull books about them. The premise here is an extreme example. Our "junk" DNA turns out to be a collection...

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0553297090

The Coolness—

• This book won the Nebula in 1980! Pretty cool for it and the author, Gregory Benford. It would have been nice for Hilary Foister to share in the credit, though, considering she supposedly co-wrote this with Benford.

• It deals with tachyons! (once in a while)

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Author	Anne Rice
ISBN	0345396936

Anne Rice brings to life the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing...

Author	Greg Bear
ISBN	0765301075

On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw, a geologist working in Death valley, finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area As more unexplained phenomena spring up...

Author	Iain M. Banks
ISBN	0316071986

There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful...

Author	Charles Stross
ISBN	1841493368

When the planet of New Moscow was brutally destroyed, its few survivors launched a counter-attack against the most likely culprit - the neighbouring system of trade rival New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn't responsible, and as the deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour is assigned...

Author	Neal Stephenson
ISBN	0553383434

From his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a shocking tale with an all-too plausible premise.

There's...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345418425

They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star.

The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first...

Author	Keith Brooke
ISBN	1781080011

The aliens are here, all around us. They always have been. And now, one by one, they're destroying our cities. Dodge Mercer deals in identities, Hope Burren has no identity and no past, but she does have a multitude of voices filling her head. In a world where humans are segregated and aliens can tear worlds...

Author	Evert Hartman
ISBN	9060694546

ik las dit boek zo'n kleine 30 jaar geleden al eens, en ben het nooit vergeten. Over jongeren die vechten voor een betere, schonere wereld, zonder ongelijkheid. Maar de ecologisten die ze aan de macht brengen blijken ecofanatisten te zijn. Met al die klimaatdiscussies en - marsen wilde ik dit boek absoluut...

Author	Evert Hartman
ISBN	9060693787

Dit is een ongewoon boek over de Tweede Wereldoorlog. De hoofdpersoon, de 14-jarige Arnold, is geen verzetsheld. Hij is zelfs niet tegen de Duitsers! Arnolds vader is ervan overtuigd dat bij volk en vaderland het beste dient door het nieuwe bewind te steunen. Hij is dus lid van de NSB en Arnold van de jeugdstorm....