Heaven's Reach
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| Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
| ISBN | 0441006582 |
Robert Asprin books must be read for their fun factor and not for well-reasoned story-telling. For example, in the prior book in this series Captain Phule and company were ordered to guard a casino, resulting in Capt. Phule being taken hostage. In spite of this lesson in personal security this book begins...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0812524829 |
In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a revolution in both human psychotherapy and artificial...
1. Poul Anderson remains one of science fiction's most popular writers, and this generous volume of his best work, with wide-ranging themes and settings, will attract his thousands of fans and win him many new ones.
2. Included is a complete novel, Satan's World, and a number of equally...
| Author | John Barnes |
| ISBN | 0812532384 |
Melpomene Murray's concerns are those of any teenager: homework, friends, dates. But Melpomene lives on the Flying Dutchman, an asteroid colony located thousands of miles from an Earth almost destroyed by disease, war, and pollution. She and her spaceborn classmates are humanity's last hope, and...
| Author | Stephen Baxter |
| ISBN | 0061056944 |
Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345418611 |
In the years after first contact, humans and the intelligent insect like Thranx agree to a tentative sharing of ideas and cultures despite the ingrained repulsion they have yet to overcome. Thus, a slow, lengthy process of limited contact begins.
Yet they never plan for a chance meeting between...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0446611549 |
Make no mistake. There are some mind-blowing concepts in this book. A band of humans are on the run from a race of mechanical beings. They've stolen a ship and eluded pursuit, heading for a star system that should support them. But when they arrive, they find a destroyed and abandoned mech civilization--it...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0749302127 |
A million people were about to die! The entire population of the planet Priamos was marked for death if one person on the surface could not be found in time. The staggering order was emotionless and inhuman — exactly like the iduve, the strange aliens who had handed down the decree.
Perhaps...
| Author | W. Michael Gear |
| ISBN | 0886774926 |
Alternate-cover edition can be found here
The call to battle…
The Forbidden Borders, an unassailable gravity-powered barrier, confine rival human empires to a few star systems, leaving them to strive endlessly against one another for domination. Now the balance of power has...
| Author | Lisanne Norman |
| ISBN | 0886778980 |
This book was a little different then the other books in the series. It was the first one to jump forward in time, by about 6 months. But then the bulk of the book was in flashbacks. Different typeface helped to tell the reader they were "in the future" or "back on the original timeline". At first that was a...
A collection of David Drake short stories, including a couple of groups of related short stories. Many of the stories come from shared universe books, so it sometimes feels like only part of the story is included.
The quality of the stories is pretty good. None bad, none really outstanding....
| Author | Brian Daley |
| ISBN | 0345329198 |
Giving it more of a 3.5/3.75. The end of the trilogy is bittersweet as author Brian Daley died before writing more exploits of Hobart and Alacrity (one wonders why he abandoned the characters in favor of Robotech novels, but oh well). A few things become blazingly apparent with this entry, most specifically...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0671795740 |
For the safety of mankind, the aliens called Moties have been quarantined for 25 years (see THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE) and are now poised to break out of their solar system and spread rapidly into humanity's space. Kevin Renner, Horace Bury, Rod Blaine and other characters introduced in THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE...
