In the Drift
10 best books like In the Drift (Michael Swanwick): Little Heroes, Queen City Jazz, Rim, Davy, Crystal Express, The Silicon Man, Halo, Memory Wire, A Signal Shattered, Heathern
| Author | Norman Spinrad |
| ISBN | 0586203621 |
An over-the-hill rock star, a Puerto Rican street kid, and two children of the electronic age discover strength in numbers when they take on the power of Musik, Inc., in a war of nerves, passion, and rock 'n' roll. Spinrad uses the violent, sexually explicit language of new wave sf to communicate an ultimately...
| Author | Kathleen Ann Goonan |
| ISBN | 0765307510 |
In Verity's world, nanotech plagues decimated the population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities. Growing up on an isolated farm, she finds her happy life changing course when Blaze, the only young man in the community and Verity's best friend, is shot. With Blaze's body wrapped...
| Author | Alexander Besher |
| ISBN | 1857235460 |
A little more than a year ago I acquired this book from a neighbor who was getting rid of boxes and boxes of books and was kind enough to let me root through them beforehand. The front cover design and back cover synopsis spoke to me (much like a bag of Combos does at a rest stop during a long trip). I stuck it in...
Davy is set in the far future of our world, in the fourth century after the collapse of what we describe as the twentieth-century civilisation. In a land turned upside-down and backwards by the results of scientific unwisdom, Davy and his fellow Ramblers are carefree outcasts, whose bawdy, joyous adventures...
| Author | Bruce Sterling |
| ISBN | 0441124232 |
Short stories which depict worlds full of scientific advancement, genetic and surgical modifications of people, colonization of the solar system and alien contact. But they also show concern for the future of real people.
CONTENTS:
Swarm (1982)
Spider Rose (1982)
Cicada...
| Author | Charles Platt |
| ISBN | 0553289500 |
The Silicon Man has been endorsed by William Gibson as "A plausible, well-crafted narrative exploring cyberspace in a wholly new and very refreshing way".
What is the price of immortality? On the track of high-tech black-market weapons, FBI Agent James Bayley has stumbled on a top-secret...
| Author | Tom Maddox |
| ISBN | 1419122711 |
The curse of the missing half star strikes again. Calling this book a three would be a disservice, but it's not quite entertaining enough to be a full four.
A Creative Commons novel freely available at Manybooks.net as well as the authour's own site and traditional formats, it's a trippy examination...
| Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
| ISBN | 0553268538 |
What did you have for breakfast three Mondays ago? Was it raining that day? Can you remember?
What about a trauma you experienced or witnessed? Is it fuzzy edged, made indistinct by adrenaline and fear? Is it perhaps better that you don’t remember all the details?
Imagine everything...
Looking for a new author, found this gem in the SciFi section of B&N. After reading the 1st page, was completely hooked. This is the sequel to a previous book titled Signal To Noise. If you are looking for scifi that is completely outside the realm of standard scifi, if you think scifi is just about robots...
| Author | Jack Womack |
| ISBN | 0802135633 |
Heathern, the sequel to Ambient and Terraplane, has been praised by William Gibson as a "savage urban baroque informed by a penetrating humanity ... his best so far!" Tautly written and appallingly funny, Heathern is a dystopian tale of corporate combat and media warfare in the fading years of our century.
Thatcher...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 1596873493 |
A collection of three Flandry tales: The Game Of Glory: Captain Flandry follows a dying man's clue to the watery provincial world of Nyanza, where a rebellion against the Empire may be brewing. A Message In Secret: Flandry ventures to the remote colonial world of Altai, whose human inhabitants haven't...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0671559052 |
Annihilating everything before it, a horde of monstrous space travelers were advancing through the stars. And Earth lay in their route.
To defend their home planets, the worlds that lay in the path of the monsters created a super defense force, asking each planet to contribute one especially talented...
| Author | Thomas J. Ryan |
| ISBN | 0671559702 |
This is the story of P-1, the most charming--and frightening--literary "child" since Robert Heinlein's Mycroft Holmes, and a tour de force in the literary exploration of artificial intelligence.
A young college student writes a self replicating computer “virus,” programed to survive,...
| Author | Antony Johnston |
| ISBN | 1932664599 |
A hundred years after the Big Wet, Earth has been left a broken, infertile world of rock and sand. The town of Providens is like many others on the post-Big Wet planet—small, mostly illiterate and struggling for survival. But while most communities are like Providens, not all the cities that survived...
| Author | Brendan DuBois |
| ISBN | 0515129496 |
Very good alternative history book. The Cuban Missile crisis is not averted; instead, the Soviets launch 10 missiles, causing devastation in a number of cities and the U.S. destroys the Soviet Union. Ten years later, the U.S. is still recovering, with substantial support from the British. Boston...
"Rendezvous with Rama": listened to the audio version of this book. I'm not a big fan of the science fiction genre, but my husband is; he chose this audiobook for our road trip in Michigan (he had read the book years earlier). He agrees with the 3 star rating of this review. The storyline was interesting,...
| Author | Jeff Carlson |
| ISBN | 0441016170 |
The author provided me a free copy of this book for the purpose of Beta-reading. This review was not a condition of our agreement; it is entirely my own idea to share with potential readers the fantastic story within the pages of this volume.
"Plague War" by Jeff Carlson is Book #2 of the "Plague"...
| Author | Charles de Lint |
| ISBN | 0312876505 |
Out beyond the Enclaves, in the desolation between the cities, an Indian flyer has been downed. A chip encoded with vital secrets is missing. Only Gahzee can venture forth to find it--walking the line between the Dreamtime and the Realtime, bringing his people's ancient magic to bear on the poisoned...
| Author | Len Barnhart |
| ISBN | 0595318436 |
In Reign of the Dead the Apocalypse had just begun
Mankind is an endangered species! The dead walk and the living search for refuge from the waking nightmare. Strap on your weapons and reinforce your means of travel! In Reign of the Dead the Apocalypse had just begun. Apocalypse End: Reign of the Dead...
