Golden Fleece
10 best books like Golden Fleece (Robert J. Sawyer): Nobody's Son, Time Travelers Never Die, The Guardian of Isis, The Dark Beyond the Stars, The Silver Ship and the Sea, Rescue Party (When the World Ends, #1), Permanence, From a Changeling Star, Dealing in Futures, The Awakeners: Northshore & Southshore
| Author | Sean Stewart |
| ISBN | 0441001289 |
The magical tale of the unhappy things that happen to a hero after "happily ever after".
Suddenly Shielder's Mark is living a fairy tale come true. A commoner's son, he has broken the spell of Red Keep. Now he can collect the hero's reward promised by the king--whatever Mark names. Smitten, he...
| Author | Jack McDevitt |
| ISBN | 0441017630 |
When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time—or worse—Shel enlists the aid of Dave Dryden, a linguist, to accompany him on the rescue mission.
Their journey through...
| Author | Monica Hughes |
| ISBN | 0887765092 |
Years have passed on Isis, but life has gone backward, not forward. Under their leader, Mark London, the settlers have abandoned the technological knowledge of their forefathers. Upper Isis is now a forbidden zone, and the history of the first inhabitants from Earth has been replaced by myth. But one...
| Author | Frank M. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0312866240 |
For two thousand years, the starship Astron has searched the galaxy for alien life--without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space.
The ship's captain--immortal, obsessed--refuses...
| Author | Brenda Cooper |
| ISBN | 0765315971 |
The colony planet Fremont is joyous, riotous, and very wild. Its grasses can cut your arms and legs to ribbons, the rinds of its precious fruit can skewer your thumbs, and some of the predators are bigger than humans. Meteors fall from the sky and volcanoes erupt. Fremont is verdant, rich, beautiful,...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 1884214371 |
A spaceship crew from an advanced alien civilization notices that Earth faces imminent destruction as its sun begins to explode. With time rapidly ticking down, the crew desperately searches a now-desolate planet for any possible human survivors.
This is a dramatisation of the very first...
| Author | Karl Schroeder |
| ISBN | 0765342855 |
Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running from her bullying brother, who has threatened to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Carver |
| ISBN | 0743486978 |
Across the galaxy, tensions are rising between the authoritarian Tandesko Triune and the free-marketers of the Auricle Alliance. Nevertheless, scientists of both sides have come together in Project Starmuse to observe the giant star Betelgeuse as it goes supernova. At the space station embedded...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0451452585 |
As my first foray into Haldeman's writing, I was swept away with his twists and turns and original plots. Some stories were not overtly science fiction and I appreciated them equally. I was quite impressed with how much he could convey with so little and can't wait to pick up a novel to see where he takes...
| Author | Sheri S. Tepper |
| ISBN | 0312890222 |
Come to the world of the River.
Come to a world distant in time and space, a world where the pace of life is counted by tides of the great River, but where, as in the river itself, there are swift dark currents flowing under a placid surface.
Meet Pamra Don--a young woman scarred by her mother's...
| Author | Eileen Kernaghan |
| ISBN | 1894345142 |
*Winner 2001 Aurora Award for Long Form (English)
*Chosen for 2001 "Our Choice" Canadian Children's Centre literature guide
In this reworking of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, the magical worlds of Saami shamanism and the Kalevala coexist with the polite Victorian society...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 3453213483 |
Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist's beloved wife and partner — ex-astronaut-turned astronomer — is dying.But something looms alarningly on the far edge...
| Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
| ISBN | 0765302616 |
A Hidden Place is RCW’s first novel. If I hadn’t read so, I wouldn’t have even guessed, that’s how skillfully written is.
The story takes place in a small rural American town, the eerie and creepy kind, due to both harsh conditions of Depression years and its inhabitants.
After...
| Author | Wil McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0345424654 |
A++, amazingly good. Very likely his masterwork. Pretty near flawless.
It's been twenty years since humanity was driven from Earth and the Inner System by a runaway Bloom of mycora, a [nano] "technologically generated lebensform" (TGL) that's eaten all of Earth's life, and most of its crust....
| Author | Gary Gibson |
| ISBN | 0230748775 |
It's 2235 and through the advent of wormhole technology more than a dozen interstellar colonies have been linked to Earth; but this new mode of transportation comes at a price and there are risks.
Saul Dumont knows this better than anyone. He's still trying to cope with the loss of the wormhole...
| Author | Dave Duncan |
| ISBN | 0889952523 |
Set on a distant planet, far in the future, West of January tells the story of a world in which time moves very slowly. Because it takes a lifetime for each region of the planet to experience dawn, midday and dusk, the planet's population does not remember the catastrophes that occur as the sun moves across...
| Author | Julie E. Czerneda |
| ISBN | 0756408318 |
What would you risk for family?
The truthseer who won Jenn Nalynn’s heart, Bannan Larmensu, learns his brother-in-law was sent as a peace envoy to Channen, the capital of the mysterious domain of Mellynne, and has disappeared. When Bannan’s young nephews arrive in Marrowdell during...
| Author | John Varley |
| ISBN | 0441006434 |
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, John Varley is truly one of the "greats" of science fiction, comparable only to Heinlein, Herbert, Asimov, and Clark. Now the all-time master returns -- with his long-awaited epic novel of life beyond the great beyond...All the universe is a stage, and Sparky Valentine...
| Author | John Clute |
| ISBN | 0765303787 |
It is the dawn of the fourth millennium, and for trader Nathanael Freer it is business as usual. Tile Dance, his ship, is in the safe hands of KathKirtt, an AI with two minds, and a loyal krewe of cybernetic and android helpers. His latest commission-to deliver a shipment of nano-forges to the planet Eolhxir--is...
