Flux
9 best books like Flux (Stephen Baxter): Echopraxia, Galactic North, Prador Moon, Permafrost, China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation, Adrift, Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days, Xenopath, Yoga for Osteoporosis: The Complete Guide
Prepare for a different kind of singularity in this follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight
It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where...
Author | Alastair Reynolds |
ISBN | 0441015131 |
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SF will not become SciFi: "Galactic North" by Alastair Reynolds
Is SF becoming SciFi? I hope not.
Dumbing down is the order of the day. Our marketing and publishing departments no longer want to...
The Polity Collective is the pinnacle of space-faring civilization. Academic and insightful, its dominion stretches from Earth Central into the unfathomable reaches of the galactic void. But when the Polity finally encounters alien life in the form of massive, hostile, crab-like carnivores known...
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...
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation
Author | Xinran |
ISBN | 0701180390 |
This hugely important and ground-breaking book — an unprecedented oral history — gives voice to a silent generation and tells the secret history of 20th century China.
In 1912, five thousand years of feudal rule ended in China. Warlords, Western businessmen, soldiers, missionaries...
Author | Rob Boffard |
ISBN | 0316519111 |
In the far reaches of space, a group of tourists board a small vessel for what will be the trip of a lifetime - in more ways than one...
They are embarking on a tour around Sigma Station - a remote mining facility and luxury hotel with stunning views of the Horsehead Nebula.
During the course...
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 | Eric Brown |
ISBN | 1844167429 |
The second installment of the Bengal Station Novels is 2009's "Xenopath". We join Telepath Jeff Vaughan, two years later than the first book, who is now working for a detective agency on Bengal Station. The space port which floats on the ocean between India and Burma. Vaughan is married and is expecting...
Yoga for Osteoporosis: The Complete Guide
Author | Loren Fishman |
ISBN | 0393334856 |
Osteoporosis leads to painful fractures due to loss of bone mass; yoga strengthens bones without endangering joints: it stands to reason that yoga is the perfect therapy for osteoporosis. Forty-four million Americans suffer from low bone mass, and osteoporosis is responsible for more than 1.5 million...