Heart of the Comet
10 best books like Heart of the Comet (David Brin): The Legacy of Heorot, Titan, Great Sky River, Time Scout, The Trikon Deception, The Stars are Also Fire, Dealing in Futures, Ragamuffin, Anvil of Stars, The Hard SF Renaissance
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0671695320 |
The colonists from Earth have spent a century in cold sleep to make the first journey, one way, to settle a planet in another solar system. Avalon seems perfect, a verdant, livable world still in its prehistoric age. The biologists and engineers who busy themselves planting and building scoff at the...
| Author | Stephen Baxter |
| ISBN | 2290309737 |
2004 : les analyses de la sonde Cassini-Huygens sur la composition de la surface de Titan, l'une des lunes satellites de Saturne, révèlent que toutes les conditions atmosphériques et chimiques permettant l'existence d'une vie organique y sont rassemblées.
Motivée par les spectaculaires...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0446611557 |
After the events of Across the Sea of Suns, small groups of humans have settled on other star systems. However, there is a constant threat from the Mechs, a civilization of machines left over from other civilizations and evolved to see all biological civilization as unstable and dangerous.
Great...
| Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
| ISBN | 0671876988 |
Recipe for Ruin:
Take one REALLY GREAT time travel framework.
Add one REALLY TERRIBLE main character.
Mix in one REALLY CREEPY romance.
Yes, Robert Asprin: you ruined it! Or more accurately, your character Margo Smith from the book ruined it!
So what's so great...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0765355361 |
In the near future: Earth is an ecological nightmare, and humanity may well go the way of the dinosaurs. But overhead orbits salvation. A vast metallic island in space, Trikon conducts research too risky to be held on earth--research which could save the planet.
Yet Commander Dan Tighe discovers...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0812530225 |
After being less than impressed by “a harvest of stars” I decided to give the sequel a go.
And let’s get it over with from the start, it is a far better story. 3.5 stars.
Where “harvest” focussed on the humans leaving earth, this one focuses on the ones who stayed behind.
In...
| 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 | Tobias S. Buckell |
| ISBN | 0765315076 |
The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically "free," mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. The secretive alien Satraps tightly restrict the technological...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0446364037 |
This direct sequel to The Forge of God is as far removed from its predecessor in tone and content as could possibly be. The concept of the 'Law' is fascinating, made more so by the enigmatic nature of the Benefactors. Many questions that are raised throughout the novel are left unanswered and the morality...
Something exciting has been happening in modern SF. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, "hard SF" - science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. Now, World Fantasy Award-winning...
