Icehenge
10 best books like Icehenge (Kim Stanley Robinson): How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Fall, or Dodge in Hell, The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma, Midnight Robber, Nova, Permafrost, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was, Immortal Hulk, Volume 2: The Green Door, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964, Ancient Mystery Cults (Revised)
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
| Author | Charles Yu |
| ISBN | 0307379205 |
A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time.
Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people...
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 0062458736 |
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Phillip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.
In his youth, Richard “Dodge”...
The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma
| Author | Thant Myint-U |
| ISBN | 0374163421 |
For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma--through sanctions and tourist boycotts--only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know...
| Author | Nalo Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0446675601 |
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It's Carnival time, and the Carribean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. But to young Tan-Tan, the...
| Author | Samuel R. Delany |
| ISBN | 0375706704 |
These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the S-F idiom... the reader observes, recollects, or participates...
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.
2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch...
| Author | Angélica Gorodischer |
| ISBN | 1931520054 |
This is the first of Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral...
Immortal Hulk, Volume 2: The Green Door
| Author | Al Ewing |
| ISBN | 1302912569 |
As Bruce Banner struggles to control the undying monster within, he finds himself hunted by his old friends and allies. To what lengths will the Avengers go to stop a monster of their own making? And the mysterious scientists of Shadow Base have their own plans for Banner, though they may just find horror...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0765305372 |
If you own only one anthology of classic science fiction, it should be The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964. Selected by a vote of the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), these 26 reprints represent the best, most important, and most influential stories and...
Ancient Mystery Cults (Revised)
| Author | Walter Burkert |
| ISBN | 0674033876 |
The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This...
