Manifold: Space
10 best books like Manifold: Space (Stephen Baxter): Timescape, Pushing Ice, 2010: Odyssey Two, Revelation Space, The Evolutionary Void, The Light of Other Days, Singularity Sky, Schild's Ladder, Fallen Dragon, Permafrost
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0553297090 |
The Coolness—
• This book won the Nebula in 1980! Pretty cool for it and the author, Gregory Benford. It would have been nice for Hilary Foister to share in the credit, though, considering she supposedly co-wrote this with Benford.
• It deals with tachyons! (once in a while)
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| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0441014011 |
2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclearpowered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345413970 |
Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft--to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong...and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.
Without...
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0441009425 |
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal,...
| Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0345496574 |
Exposed as the Second Dreamer, Araminta has become the target of a galaxywide search by government agent Paula Myo and the psychopath known as the Cat, along with others equally determined to prevent-- or facilitate --the pilgrimage of the Living Dream cult into the heart of the Void. An indestructible...
| 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 | 1841493341 |
In the twenty-first century man created the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence. It pushed Earth through the greatest technological evolution ever known, while warning that time travel is forbidden, and transgressors will be eliminated.
Distant descendants of this ultra high-tech...
Twenty thousand years into the future, an experiment in quantum physics has had a catastrophic result, creating an enormous, rapidly expanding vacuum that devours everything it comes in contact with. Now humans must confront this deadly expansion. Tchicaya, aboard a starship trawling the border...
| Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0330480065 |
Deploying invulnerable twenty-fifth-century soldiers called Skins, Zantiu-Braun's corporate starships loot entire planets. But as the Skins invade bucolic Thallspring, Z-B's strategy is about to go awry, all because of: Sgt. Lawrence Newton, a dreamer whose twenty years as a Skin have destroyed...
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...
| 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...
All the best in humanity rises to meet a powerful alien threat in the sequel to Salvation—part of an all-new trilogy from “the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction” (Ken Follett).
The comparative utopia of twenty-third-century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345452518 |
"Sunstorm" è il riuscitissimo seguito de "L'occhio del tempo", del leggendario autore di fantascienza Arthur C. Clarke e di uno dei suoi piu capaci eredi, Stephen Baxter. Dopo cinque anni passati su Mir, il pianeta costruito dalla misteriosa razza dei Primogeniti con migliaia di schegge temporali...
