Gardens of the Sun
10 best books like Gardens of the Sun (Paul McAuley): The Walls of the Universe, The Sky Road, Faith, Red Claw, Steal Across the Sky, Mind Over Ship, The Exile Waiting, The New Space Opera 2, Osiris, Ex-KOP
Author | Paul Melko |
ISBN | 0765319977 |
John Rayburn thought all of his problems were the mundane ones of an Ohio farm boy in his last year in high school. Then his doppelgänger appeared, tempted him with a device that let him travel across worlds, and stole his life from him. John soon finds himself caroming through universes, unable to return...
Author | Ken MacLeod |
ISBN | 0812577590 |
Centuries after the catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship-construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating...
Author | John Love |
ISBN | 1597803901 |
Moby Dick meets Duel in John Love''s debut novel of Space Opera and Military Science Fiction! Faith is the name humanity has given to the unknown, seemingly invincible alien ship that has begun to harass the newly emergent Commonwealth. 300 years earlier, the same ship destroyed the Sakhran Empire,...
Author | Philip Palmer |
ISBN | 1841496243 |
from the Earth Journal of Scientific Analyst SLJLK92349UO,
Earth Invasion Exploratory Unit
as much as I would like to extend my dismay towards Goodreads' new policy of censorship by posting solely on the much less offensive BookLikes, my programming will unfortunately not allow me...
Author | Nancy Kress |
ISBN | 0765319861 |
After I received book recommendation, I checked the GR information and I confused. The rating of this book is pretty low, around 3.4. After I read it, I understand why. The idea of this book is fresh, and it is the main strength of the book. The problem is at the execution.
The beginning is pretty...
Author | David Marusek |
ISBN | 0765317494 |
The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth’s orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke’s head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles...
Author | Vonda N. McIntyre |
ISBN | 0575021896 |
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,...
Author | Gardner Dozois |
ISBN | 0061562351 |
All-new stories of science fiction adventure from some of the most beloved names in science fiction spin all-new tales of interstellar adventure and wonder.
Contents
3 • Utriusque Cosmi • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
27 • The Island • (2009) • novelette...
Author | E.J. Swift |
ISBN | 1597804193 |
Nobody leaves Osiris. Osiris is a lost city. She has lost the world and world has lost her...
Rising high above the frigid waters, the ocean city of Osiris has been cut off from the land since the Great Storm fifty years ago. Most believe that Osiris is the last city on Earth, while others cling to...
Author | Warren Hammond |
ISBN | 0765312743 |
In this hardboiled science fiction thriller, Juno, having been booted off the police force, is barely getting by as a low-level bagman and photographer for the scandal rags. But it gets worse: his wife is in critical condition at the hospital and Juno doesn’t have the money to pay her bills. Desperate...
Author | Ian McDonald |
ISBN | 1591026997 |
A collection of eight stories, "Cyberabad Days" is a triumphant return to the India of 2047 (the India of
River of Gods
); a new, muscular superpower in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, strange new genders, and genetically improved children.
contents:
9...
Author | S. Andrew Swann |
ISBN | 0756405416 |
It’s been nearly 200 years since the collapse of the Confederacy, the last government to claim humanity’s colonies. So when signals come in revealing lost human colonies that could shift the power balance, the race is on between the Caliphate ships and a small team of scientists and mercenaries....
Author | Karen Traviss |
ISBN | 0060882328 |
The worlds orbiting Cavanagh's Star are in turmoil.
Civil war on Umeh—ignited by outsiders—threatens to annihilate the teeming masses of a grossly overpopulated planet. On Bezer'ej, the handful of native aquatic creatures who survived extermination must take extraordinary and...
Author | Walter Jon Williams |
ISBN | 0380820226 |
“Space opera the way it ought to be [...] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” -- George R.R. Martin
At last, the climactic final episode of the Dread Empire’s Fall trilogy--what started with The Praxis and The...
I will admit that my choice of rating for this book varies from moment to moment but I a kind soul so shall leave it at this.
The reason for my indecision is that the book has many good points but a rather weak ending - normally I would mark it accordingly but there is more to this author.
You see this...
Author | Gary Gibson |
ISBN | 0330420178 |
Aeons ago, a super-scientific culture known as 'Angels' had left incomprehensible relics all over the galaxy. Among these phenomena were the Stations, whereby human spacecraft could jump instantly from one part of the galaxy to another. And from them the brilliant Angel technology could be explored...
Author | David Louis Edelman |
ISBN | 1591027926 |
The Defense and Wellness Council is enmeshed in full-scale civil war between Len Borda and the mysterious Magan Kai Lee. Quell has escaped from prison and is stirring up rebellion in the Islands with the aid of a brash young leader named Josiah. Jara and the apprentices of the Surina/Natch MultiReal...
Author | Mike Resnick |
ISBN | 1591027888 |
The date is 1970 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, finds itself in an all-out war against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man’s growing military and economic power.
The rebel...
Author | John Meaney |
ISBN | 1591025427 |
Nulapeiron: a world isolated for twelve centuries. Its billions of inhabitants occupy subterranean strata, ruled by a logosophically trained aristocracy of Lords and Ladies whose power base is upheld by Oracles. But revolution has touched all of its many cultures - failing in its intent, yet changing...