Factoring Humanity
10 best books like Factoring Humanity (Robert J. Sawyer): Blind Lake, Mindbridge, Inversions, Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story, Orbital Resonance, Doctor Who: Cat's Cradle-Witch Mark, Mirrored Heavens, Five Great Novels (The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Martian Time-Slip, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly), Parasyte, Volume 9, Gantz/36
Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
ISBN | 0765341603 |
At Blind Lake, a large federal research installation in northern Minnesota, scientists are using a technology they barely understand to watch everyday life in a city of lobster like aliens upon a distant planet. They can't contact the aliens in any way or understand their language. All they can do is...
Author | Joe Haldeman |
ISBN | 0575071141 |
The discovery of a remarkable alien technology light years from Earth could have devastating consequences for humanity in this science fiction classic by the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel The Forever War
In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known...
On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king, despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies to...
"I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though,...
Author | John Barnes |
ISBN | 0812532384 |
Melpomene Murray's concerns are those of any teenager: homework, friends, dates. But Melpomene lives on the Flying Dutchman, an asteroid colony located thousands of miles from an Earth almost destroyed by disease, war, and pollution. She and her spaceborn classmates are humanity's last hope, and...
Author | Andrew Hunt |
ISBN | 0426203682 |
'Spare no sympathy for those creatures. They were witches, they deserved to die.'
A coach crashes on the M40. All the passengers are killed. The bodies carry no identification; they are wearing similar new clothes. And each has a suitcase full of banknotes.
A...
Author | David J. Williams |
ISBN | 0553385410 |
In this thrilling debut, David J. Williams delivers a hard-hitting blend of military SF and dystopian cyberpunk, set in a futuristic landscape where hostilities rage from the Eastern and Western hemispheres to the outer ranges of space.
In the 22nd century, the first wonder of a brave...
Author | Philip K. Dick |
ISBN | 0575075813 |
An omnibus volume of five of the best novels by 'the most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world' (John Brunner). Dick's tales of twisted perceptions and false realities have shaped modern SF and provided the inspiration for numerous blockbuster movies.
'For everyone lost in the endlessly...
Author | Hitoshi Iwaaki |
ISBN | 1931514097 |
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No one knows where the Parasytes came from or what their purpose is - not even the Parasytes themselves. Creatures of instinct, they occupy their human "hosts" and kill others for food or in self-defense. But one Parasyte has begun to ask why, and she may have...
okay just one last volume this thing was so big that i lost my excitement in the middle let alone that the story didn't continue the same way it started
we first had death matches with aliens on earth and then we got a whole damned invasion
so all the teams are on the aliens mother ship
and as usual...
Author | Clifford D. Simak |
ISBN | 0283988819 |
The return of Simak's favorite themes--including esp, robots & religion--in a thoughtful, gentle, delightfully original treatment. On the remote planet End of Nothing, a colony of advanced robots has established project Vatican-17: the building of an infallible computerized pope whose...
Author | Kazuo Umezu |
ISBN | 1421507242 |
In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers of find themselves somewhere far away¿somewhere cold and dark... a lifeless, nightmarish wasteland...
Author | Jack McDevitt |
ISBN | 0441012108 |
I'm of two minds on this book.
It's pretty damn awesome when it comes to characters and the gentle push toward an alternate Star Trek kind of universe with almost no posturing and no overpowered gunships. The dearth of alien species is a nice touch, making it more of an archeological mystery....