Magnificat
10 best books like Magnificat (Julian May): The Legacy of Heorot, The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die, The Reality Dysfunction Part 2: Expansion, Helliconia Winter, Children of the Lens, The Cassini Division, An Alien Light, The White Mountain, The Exile Waiting, Earthclan
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0671695320 |
The colonists from Earth have spent a century in cold sleep to make the first journey, one way, to settle a planet in another solar system. Avalon seems perfect, a verdant, livable world still in its prehistoric age. The biologists and engineers who busy themselves planting and building scoff at the...
| Author | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| ISBN | 0553071807 |
If you can't stand violence, horrible people and or anything unpleasant do not even think of touching these books. They will utterly repulse you, and probably scar you for life.
But they are fantastic.
The Gap series, spanning five novels is a saga of abhorrent charters, deep space...
| 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 | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0743445163 |
This is the final volume of the Helliconia Trilogy -- a monumental saga that goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. The centuries-long winter of the Great Year on Helliconia is upon us, and the Oligarch is taking harsh measures to ensure the survival of the...
It was beginning to look as if no one could prevent the destruction of the Universe. For a strange intelligence was directing the destruction of all civilization from the icy depths of space.
Kim Kinnison of the Patrol was one of the few men who knew how near the end was. And in the last desperate...
| Author | Ken MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0812568583 |
Ellen May Ngewthu is a soldier and leader of the Cassini Division, the elite defense force of the utopian Solar Union. Here in the twenty-fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around Jupiter, are the front line in humanity's long standoff with the unknowable post-humans godlike beings...
| Author | Nancy Kress |
| ISBN | 0380707063 |
The human species is at war with the Ged, a collective species that is baffled by humankind’s ability to turn violence upon itself & yet advance into space. In order to defeat the humans, the Ged must first understand them.
So they go to a world called Qom, where a lost Earth colony has forgotten...
| Author | David Wingrove |
| ISBN | 0440213568 |
A towering world-city covers almost every acre of every continent. Seven high-tech fiefdoms, ruled by seven lords united in unimaginable power. But now the wheel is broken. the Seven are divided at last. Armed rebellion has broken out in Chung Kuo's few remaining open spaces;...
| Author | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| ISBN | 0575021896 |
The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable for much of the year by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside.
Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation,...
David Brin's Uplift Universe portrays humanity's desperate struggle for survival in a dangerous universe... and how we may cope by taking wise partners with us on this journey. Artificial intelligence is one way that we may add diversity to our civilization. But in this series we've done it by giving...
| Author | Sheri S. Tepper |
| ISBN | 1857983254 |
This book is one I picked up as I wanted to continue reading some older SF by ladies, and it did not disappoint. It's also my first foray into Sheri S Tepper's work and will no doubt be the first of many as I definitely enjoyed this one.
This is largely set on two different planets: Hobbs land, and Voorstod....
| Author | Hammond Innes |
| ISBN | 0394442407 |
Originally published on my blog here in September 2000.
An unusual thriller which manages to combine palaeontology with international politics, Levkas Man is one of the best novels Innes wrote, probably because it arose from an obsessive interest in the origins of the human race.
Paul...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0441679536 |
While the current Lord of the universe in question was busy with the events of the previous book his friend Earthman Kickaha (Trickster in the language of the local descendants of Native Americans)
was minding his own business visiting interesting places of his new bizarre world. Suddenly...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0446605603 |
Finity's End is the oldest Merchanter ship in the universe. In an era of spies, pirate traders, and uneasy alliances, the Company Wars are now over, the hunt for the fleet is winding down, and the ship is coming home to reclaim her trade routes. Having lost an entire generation, the youngest crew members,...
