Frontera

10 best books like Frontera (Lewis Shiner): Redshift Rendezvous, Mission Child, The Devil Is Dead, The Silent Strength of Stones, Juniper Time, The Embedding, To Crush the Moon, Eternity's End, The Exile Waiting, Good News from Outer Space

Redshift Rendezvous
AuthorJohn E. Stith
ISBN0441711456
Aboard the hyperspace liner Redshift is a relativistic world of slow light and treachery. The first sign of trouble is the apparent suicide of a passenger. When first officer Jason Kraft discovers that she was murdered, Kraft wants to know why. Before long, a desperate group of people tries to use the...
AuthorMaureen F. McHugh
ISBN0380791226
Mission Child is an expansion of Maureen McHugh's "The Cost to Be Wise," a fascinating novella from the original anthology Starlight 1.

Janna's world was colonized long ago by Earth and then left on its own for centuries. When "offworlders" return, their superior technology upsets the balance...
AuthorR.A. Lafferty
ISBN1880448955
This tells of an astonishing band of adventurers seeking the Devil himself. It is a tale of demons and changelings, monsters and mermaids--and of how it is not always serious to die, the first time it happens.
The Devil is Dead Trilogy:
-Archipelago ('79): 1st book of trilogy. Manuscript Press,...
AuthorNina Kiriki Hoffman
ISBN0380777606
In summer, magic is warmly borne on the gentle, wafting breeze.

It is a season of many wonders, with many secrets ripe for discovering...and some best left in shadow, unexplored. Summer has come to Sauterelle Lake. And inquisitive young Nick is discovering many things he doesn't want to know:...
AuthorKate Wilhelm
ISBN0671436848
Juniper Time is a 1st-rate sf novel. Kate Wilhelm has done her usual excellent job of weaving an intricate plot & sympathetically portraying believable & complex characters in settings that are described with force & clarity. This '79 novel is set in the not-too-distant future, when...
AuthorIan Watson
Not really science-fiction, more linguistics-fiction - if you're a linguist who is the least bit interested in SF, this is a must, whether or not it happens to make sense. Super-intelligent aliens arrive on Earth in a giant spaceship. Their mission is find visitors from another dimension ("The Change...
AuthorWil McCarthy
In the conclusion to this epic interstellar adventure by Nebula Award nominee Wil McCarthy, humanity stands at a crossroads as the heroes who fashioned a man-made heaven must rescue their descendants from eternal damnation….

TO CRUSH THE MOON

Once the Queendom of Sol was a glowing...
AuthorJeffrey A. Carver
ISBN0812534433
Jeffrey A. Carver, author of The Infinity Link and The Rapture Effect, returns with a new science fiction epic set against a sweeping backdrop of interstellar war, space piracy, and star-spanning conspiracy.After seven years of captivity at the hands of interstellar pirates, Star Rigger Renwald...
AuthorVonda N. McIntyre
ISBN0575021896
The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable for much of the year by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside.

Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation,...
AuthorJohn Kessel
ISBN0312931786
George Eberhart is dead. Or was. The newsnet he works for has illegally revived him. But he finds himself examining the sensationalist stories he has been reporting on - for evidence that there are Aliens among us.
Lucky Eberhart, George's wife, loses her job for her role in reviving him, and finds...
AuthorWalter Jon Williams
ISBN0061054429
Aiah worked for the Plasm Authority, metering the shimmering substance that powered the world-city, until she fell in love with Constantine, the rebel Metropolitan fighting a war to overthrow the corrupt dynasty of the Keremaths. Now the war is over, and Aiah is at the mercy of the tyrant she created....
AuthorRichard Cowper
ISBN0708881955
On the Eve of the Fourth Millennium a slowly-building civilization, struggling out of the rubble of the Drowning, was crushed beneath the sceptor of a powerful and repressive Church. But on the Eve of the Fourth Millennium the sound of a magical pipe was heard, and the air was filled with songs of freedom...
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0451152999
THE SECRET OF THE SIGMAN

Skip Wayburn, artist drifter, sigaroon, gulped down his food with nothing on his mind but a long evening of lovemaking.

Far above him, the first emissary from interstellar space continued to orbit the globe. For three years it had been there, and still there...
AuthorK.W. Jeter
ISBN0451147669
"The world we perceive is the result of what we analyze of what we perceive; what then did we perceive in the first place, and what did we analyze?" (p. 130)
This is about the strongest tie that I've seen between Philip K Dick and the modern expressions of cyberpunk. The narrative darts between the original...
AuthorJohn Brunner
ISBN0575070528
Matthew Flamen, the last of the networks' spoolpigeons, is desperate for a big story. He needs it to keep his audience and his job. And there is no shortage of possibilities: the Gottschalk cartel is fomenting trouble among the knees in order to sell their latest armaments to the blanks; which ties in...
AuthorGregory Benford
ISBN0553290053
A gripping, masterfully written adventure set against the violent beauty of a planet in the throes of cataclysmic transformation, Against Infinity is Gregory Benford's timeless portrait of a young man's coming of age.On the poisonous, icy surface of Ganymede, a man and a boy are on a deadly hunt. Their...
Light Music
AuthorKathleen Ann Goonan
ISBN0380803518
Once the world worked differently -- before "the Silence" from space quieted the airwaves. Once there was a haven called Crescent City, built through the wonders of nanotechnology to transport its enlightened inhabitants into the cosmos. But humanity has failed the city.

Dania Cooper,...
AuthorRobert A. Metzger
‘In the early twenty-first century, a team of scientists has done the impossible – ripped apart the fabric of space-time and created a brand new universe… one million-millionth the size of our own. Now they’re going to see where it takes them.

PICOVERSE

A big bang of and adventure’

Blurb...
AuthorPaul Park
ISBN0312862857
I can't tell if I liked this or not.

It truly makes us humans look the most inhumane than any other sci-fi book I've ever read.

Simon, a kind of attache to the gov't, is sent to a party in place of his boss. Katharine is an altered human, a native to the planet who has taken drugs and surgery...
AuthorGeoffrey A. Landis
ISBN0812576489
By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has finally landed men on Mars-only to watch helplessly as the first two missions end in catastrophe and death.

With resources running out, a third-and perhaps final-mission to Mars is hastily mounted, with a crew of four men and two women. But from...
AuthorJoanna Russ
ISBN0425041352
His name was Jai Vedh; he was an Earthman. But his ship had blown up on a star voyage and now he was a castaway on an uncharted Earth-like planet.

There were people here: humans, apparently an Earth colony that had lost contact with the home world centuries before. They had developed telepathy,...
AuthorKevin J. Anderson
ISBN0553299212
Nebula Award Nominee. The crew of Moonbase Columbus make an amazing discovery on the far side of the Moon a massive alien structure is erecting itself, built up atom by atom by living machines, microscopically small, intelligent, and unstoppable, consuming everything they touch. The mysterious...
AuthorGeorge Alec Effinger
ISBN0759225923
Doctor, watch out! As Dore stood by, he saw the Doctor backing slowly into the corner where he would meet his fate. Initially defending himself with a torch, the Doctor searched frantically for a new method of defense. The crimson mass is lunging forward using long, tentacle-like attachments: what...
AuthorNorman Spinrad
ISBN0312868251
In the Second Starfaring Age, humans travel the universe via a technology they barely understand, propelled by a space drive consisting of mysteriously complex mechanisms and, symbiotically linked to it, a living woman, the Void Pilot. Pilots are rare, and the ability to be a Pilot also entails physical...
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