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In the Mouth of the Whale

9 best books like In the Mouth of the Whale (Paul McAuley): Red Moon, The Quantum Magician, Chasm City, Permafrost, The Wandering Earth, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Die Neuromancer-Trilogie, Salvation

Red Moon
AuthorKim Stanley Robinson
ISBN0316262374
American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding.

It is also the first visit for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts...
The Quantum Magician
AuthorDerek Künsken
ISBN1781085706
Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright...
Chasm City
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
ISBN0441010644
The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -from the people to the very buildings they inhabit- only...
Permafrost
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
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...
The Wandering Earth
AuthorLiu Cixin
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000.

I’ve never seen the night, nor seen a star; I’ve seen neither spring, nor fall, nor winter. I was born at the end of the Reining Age, just as the Earth’s rotation was coming to a final halt.

The Sun is about to unleash a helium flash,...
Count Zero
AuthorWilliam Gibson
ISBN0441013678
The coolest thing about reading Gibson is jacking in to his urbane and hip way of descriptive narration.

William Gibson, as prophet of cyber punk and also as the herald of his later Blue Ant works, returns to The Sprawl for a continuation of the setting he began in his masterwork, Neuromancer.

But...
Mona Lisa Overdrive
AuthorWilliam Gibson
ISBN0553281747
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations...
Die Neuromancer-Trilogie
AuthorWilliam Gibson
ISBN3453164105
"Der Himmel über dem Hafen hatte die Farbe eines Fernsehers, der auf einen toten Kanal geschaltet war." Mit diesem denkwürdigen Satz beginnt das 1984 erschienene Erstlingswerk von William Gibson. Damals ahnte noch niemand, dass dieses unscheinbare Taschenbuch einmal zu den besten und einflussreichsten...
Salvation
AuthorPeter F. Hamilton
ISBN0399178848
Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett).

In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of...
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