Flight of the Dragonfly

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

Robert Charles Wilson

One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout....

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0575077026

The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0449208133

Full review (links and all) at https://clsiewert.wordpress.com/2015/... because I am going to digress like you won't believe...

Good grief, reading hasn’t been such a chore since Professional Nursing Practice Foundations and Concepts. And in the fiction world, Jonathan Strange...

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0345438205

One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening...

Author

Larry Niven

Very entertaining, interesting, intriguing, thought provoking, etc.

Good science fiction.

Robert A. Heinlein himself is quoted as saying something to the effect that this was the best science fiction novel he had ever read. I don’t know that I’d go that far, but this was very...

Author	Joan D. Vinge
ISBN	0590329294

Star Wars Return of the Jedi is a fun a read for the early 80’s - 90’s kid.

As a young child in the early 90’s I picked this book up several times, primarily to enjoy the images of the hero’s I admired, I constantly loved to envision myself in the fantasy as Luke Skywalker or Han Solo battling...

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	1857231945

"Entertaining. . .[Clark] handles both ideas and characters with deftness and wit; in short, the outstanding living science fiction writers is romping".-- "Chicago Sun-Times". In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, an amateur astronomer...

Author	Robert Jordan
ISBN	0812538366

This a big commitment...

I want to start this review by being very explicit -- don't start unless you have the time to finish in one go (over many months). There is so much detail and so many characters (all sounding similar) that it would be difficult to get through without an online guide...or...