Einstein's Bridge
10 best books like Einstein's Bridge (John G. Cramer): Here, There, and Everywhere, The Martian Race, Starstrike, Camelot 30K, Michaelmas, Plague from Space, They Walked Like Men, High Justice, The Reproductive System, From a Changeling Star
Here, There, and Everywhere
| Author | Chris Roberson |
| ISBN | 1591023319 |
When Roxanne Bonaventure is eleven years old, a dying woman gives her a gift that changes her life utterly, making her a singular creature, with no analogue or equivalent. With the strange device called the "Sofia," she is granted the ability to travel anywhere in space and time, not only through times...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0446608904 |
When the rocket launching the Mars Transit Vehicle into orbit explodes on the launch pad, killing four crewmen, the President announces the U.S. will redirect its energies to near-Earth projects. The manned mission to Mars is officially dead. That is until billionaire John Axelrod steps in to fund...
| Author | W. Michael Gear |
| ISBN | 0886774276 |
Humanity's first contact with alien life is no less than a nightmare, as the Ahimsa take control of Earth and force humanity to do their bidding. Soon Earth's most skilled strike force, composed of Russian, American, and Israeli experts in the art of war and espionage, find themselves aboard the Ahimsa...
| Author | Robert L. Forward |
| ISBN | 0812516478 |
It's been a while since I read a "hard SF" book. I had almost forgotten how much I enjoy them. There's usually at least one clever idea buried somewhere inside which makes the reading worthwhile.
Camelot doesn't have great characters (though I've certainly read worse) and it doesn't have dazzling...
| Author | Algis Budrys |
| ISBN | 0425038122 |
Cover Artist: Don Brautigam
The eponymous protagonist, Laurent Michaelmas, is an ex-hacker who had, early in the computer era, left back doors in many key pieces of software which run vital government & commercial computers. As a result, by the turn of the millennium, he's become one...
Spacecraft: Pericles
Type: Manned exploration
Destination: Jupiter
Cargo: Extinction
Bertolli was there when the Pericles returned to Earth. He was the first to reach Commander Rand as he staggered, hideously disfigured & close to death, from the crew's cabin. From that...
| Author | Clifford D. Simak |
| ISBN | 0532959302 |
Money was worthless; it had no value! It couldn't buy housing, clothing, or food. Someone with enormous quantities of cash was buying houses and tearing them down, buying stores and closing them.
Perhaps a few people could have stopped the transactions before it was too late. They could have...
High Justice begins Jerry Pournelle's own Future History, a universe which he shared with Larry Niven in their collaborative novel, The Mote in God's Eye. Here we see, with all the vivid detail for which Pournelle is known, the Fall of the West, and how in its death throes it gave birth to a society that...
| Author | John Sladek |
| ISBN | 0575071168 |
Wompler's Walking Babies once put Millford, Utah, on the map. But they aren't selling like they used to. In fact, they aren't selling at all and the only alternative to winding the company up is to tap the government for a research grant. And so Wompler Research Laboratories and Project 32 come into being....
| Author | Jeffrey A. Carver |
| ISBN | 0743486978 |
Across the galaxy, tensions are rising between the authoritarian Tandesko Triune and the free-marketers of the Auricle Alliance. Nevertheless, scientists of both sides have come together in Project Starmuse to observe the giant star Betelgeuse as it goes supernova. At the space station embedded...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0765351293 |
The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society...
| Author | M.J. Locke |
| ISBN | 0765315157 |
Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes...
| Author | John Barnes |
| ISBN | 0061056596 |
Combining the suspense of the detective thriller with the awesome wonder of space/time adventure. Crux of Battle begins an epic tale of a war across one million alternate Earths."One of the most able and impressive of SF's rising stars!" --The Washington PostAn exciting blend of time travel, alien...
| Author | Steven R. Boyett |
| ISBN | 0441029051 |
Jim Bentley's plans for the evening were simple: a movie and the graveyard shift at the 7-Eleven. That was before he stumbled into another world. Evolution has taken a very different direction on this parallel Earth, but some things are constant. Jim Bentley has fallen straight from his ordinary life...
Mars was harsh and unforgiving, but for the colonists who called it home, its future was as bright as the comets that hung in the night sky, for locked in those icy bodies were the water and gases that would make Mars live again, mined from the vast Oort Cloud beyond Pluto. Young Dekker DeWoe yearned to become...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 9997405137 |
The time is the future. The place, an America so isolated by fear that it is cut off from the rest of the world by a massive defense system. Into this armed, barricaded state comes a young Russian scientist bearing a strange & almost unbelievable story:
Superior, intelligent life of a far higher...
Darwin's Radio
A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE
Greg Bear's powerfully written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies--and their dangers. Now, in Darwin's Radio, Bear draws on state-of-the-art...
| Author | Steve Perry |
| ISBN | 0441544762 |
Saval Bork, matador, one of the top 10 strongest men in the galaxy helps his sister, a police officer, as she investigates a series of impossible murders, Behind it all is an insane religious cult devoted to the artifacts of an ancient alien race, who have seemingly attained the power to walk through walls....
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0749301260 |
In a mega-city of the future...
They were nice ladies, really. Just bored. And they never expected to succeed. But intoning ancient rituals to raise the devil, they unwittingly began a rampage of rape, torture and murder. For they concocted a new devil, Golem100. And the Golem continues to...
| Author | John E. Stith |
| ISBN | 0312852851 |
MANHATTAN TRANSFER When aliens abduct New York City, carrying it into space inside a huge dome, the citizens trapped inside must find out why, what they can do to save themselves . . . and to save the dozens of other cities which the aliens have stolen from other planets. A stunning tour-de-force of science...
| Author | L.E. Modesitt Jr. |
| ISBN | 0812545842 |
Four hundred years after winning Secession from the Terran Empire, the star system Accord wants to sign a simple trade treaty on microchip export tariffs. But if the agreement is so minor, why is Professor Nathaniel Whaler--top economist at the Ecolitan Institute, and his world's top commando killer--chosen...
