In the Ocean of Night
10 best books like In the Ocean of Night (Gregory Benford): The Speed of Dark, Darwin's Radio, Primary Inversion, Crystal Rain, Brightness Reef, The Light of Other Days, Glasshouse, The Uplift War, Galactic North, Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
| Author | Elizabeth Moon |
| ISBN | 0345481399 |
In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made. Through various programs, they will be...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0345459814 |
So I keep on reading Bear novels, feeling disappointed, waiting a while, then rinse and repeat.
This time I've clarified why I am so ambivalent about this guy: he has fascinating ideas then writes dull books about them. The premise here is an extreme example. Our "junk" DNA turns out to be a collection...
| Author | Catherine Asaro |
| ISBN | 0812550234 |
At the beginning of the year I decided to actively seek out and read SF&F written by women or with women occupying the titular roles. As you may imagine, when I first learned about Catherine Asaro , a female author who writes hard SF while reading the Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction, I was...
| Author | Tobias S. Buckell |
| ISBN | 0765312271 |
Long ago, so the stories say, the old-fathers came to Nanagada through a worm's hole in the sky. Looking for a new world to call their own, they brought with them a rich mélange of cultures, religions, and dialects from a far-off planet called Earth. Mighty were the old-fathers, with the power to shape...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553573306 |
David Brin's Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written. Now David Brin returns to this future universe for a new Uplift trilogy, packed with adventure,...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0812576403 |
When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and...
| Author | Charles Stross |
| ISBN | 0441014038 |
When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn’t take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It’s the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees’ personalities...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553279718 |
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species...
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0441015131 |
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.
SF will not become SciFi: "Galactic North" by Alastair Reynolds
Is SF becoming SciFi? I hope not.
Dumbing down is the order of the day. Our marketing and publishing departments no longer want to...
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture-a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into godlike beings-a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered.
Lucinda Carlyle, head of an ambitious clan...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553269828 |
Aus Band 1: Wer gab der Menschheit "Starthilfe"?
Schon längst ist die Menschheit nicht mehr die einzige intelligente Spezies auf dem Planeten. Als die Menschen ins Weltall vorstoßen und auf andere hoch entwickelte Zivilisationen treffen, ergeben sich allerdings Fragen: Hat sich die...
| Author | David Wellington |
| ISBN | 0356512290 |
Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth’s last astronaut–and last hope–in this gripping near-future thriller where a mission to make first contact becomes a terrifying struggle for survival in the depths of space.
Sally Jansen was NASA’s leading astronaut, until a mission to...
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0812520475 |
The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad.
For the Stone...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553574736 |
Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his most imaginative and powerful novel to date--the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation.
The brutal enemy that has relentlessly...
CONTENTS
THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN
The Fog Horn
The Pedestrian
The April Witch
The Wilderness
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
Invisible Boy
The Flying Machine
The Murderer
The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind
I See You Never
Embroidery
The...
| 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...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553577778 |
For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As starships fill the skies, the threat of genocide hangs over the planet that once peacefully sheltered six bands of sapient beings. Now the human settlers of Jijo and their alien neighbors must make heroic—and terrifying—choices....
