Infinity's Shore

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0446608904

When the rocket launching the Mars Transit Vehicle into orbit explodes on the launch pad, killing four crewmen, the President announces the U.S. will redirect its energies to near-Earth projects. The manned mission to Mars is officially dead. That is until billionaire John Axelrod steps in to fund...

Author	Kij Johnson
ISBN	0312875592

Yoshifuji is a man fascinated by foxes, a man discontented and troubled by the meaning of life. A misstep at court forces him to retire to his long-deserted country estate, to rethink his plans and contemplate the next move that might return him to favor and guarantee his family's prosperity.Kitsune...

Author	Peter F. Hamilton
ISBN	0446605158

In the far future, humanity has divided into two diametrically opposed groups. The Edenists are genetically engineered space-dwellers with telepathic affinity for their biotechnological homes and ships. The Adamists, effectively the Luddites of the future, are willing to pioneer new worlds,...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	1857989465

Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster -- a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345418417

1. Some Non-Trivial Calculus

As the MIT students sang back in 1971:Oh, the Ringworld is unstable
the Ringworld is unstable
did the best that they were able
and it's good enough for me!People who want the details should check out Non-Linear Dynamics of Ringworld Systems, by...

Author	A. Lee Martinez
ISBN	0316041270

Divine was the perfect little quickie, a fast irreverent read at a time when I couldn't give a book quality attention. You know how it is--some books deserve contemplation (Claire DeWitt, I'm talking to you), some require intellectual engagement (China is notorious for this), some insist you immerse...

Author	Peter F. Hamilton
ISBN	0446605166

This review is for The Reality Dysfunction part 1 and 2 (The American edition I read divides this monster of a book into two books, which equal book 1 of The Night's Dawn trilogy)


So after reading the two books that comprise the Commonwealth Sagan and the Void trilogy, I can safetly say that...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0765310244

Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond-to...

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

Gregory Benford

Contains Introduction Essay
Cover Artist: Don Dixon

2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he instead discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck...

Author	Brian Daley
ISBN	0345345142

Han Solo and the Lost Legacy is the last of the original Han Solo trilogy published way back between 1979 and 1980. The Indiana Jones movies began to appear in 1981. Keep those dates in mind.

Why? I'll get to it right now. Perhaps it would have been better to name this book Han Solo and the Temple of...

Author	Steven Erikson
ISBN	0765376857

Nothing to see here, traveler. Move along. Just me tracking my UMCRO progress.
What is UMCRO?
While, it's an Ultimate Malazan Chronological Reading Order, silly.

1.) Forge of Darkness 3.83 ✔
2.) Fall of Light 3.91 ✔
3.) Walk in Shadow*
4.) Dancer's Lament...