Natural History
10 best books like Natural History (Justina Robson): Solitaire, Trouble and Her Friends, Mindplayers, Spin State, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, Steal Across the Sky, Postsingular, A Woman of the Iron People, Becoming Alien, The Fortunate Fall
| Author | Kelley Eskridge |
| ISBN | 0060086602 |
At times, Solitaire is a fascinating read! Sadly, at other times, reading this book is about as exciting as...well...playing a game of solitaire!
In the not-too-distant future, world peace has finally been achieved. As a symbol of this new era, all children born on the first second of the first...
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0812522133 |
Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the computer nets. The hip, noir adventurers who get by on wit, bravado, and drugs, and haunt the virtual worlds of the Shadows of cyberspace, are up against the encroachments of civilization. It's time to adapt or...
| Author | Pat Cadigan |
| ISBN | 0575042427 |
Ok, I'll start by saying that it's not the best book in the world or anything. But I love it. Taking place in a slightly futuristic Earth where people have learned to control and manipulate their minds for fun and profit (mostly for fun), the main character is a Mind Player, sort of like a psychiatrist who...
| Author | Chris Moriarty |
| ISBN | 0553586246 |
From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware...
Spin State
UN Peacekeeper...
| Author | Minister Faust |
| ISBN | 0345466357 |
Hamza and Yehat are The Coyote Kings' best friends, one a disgruntled dishwasher and the other a video store clerk, but each brilliant in his own right. Yehat builds prototypes of space-age inventions in his spare time, while Hamza, a former English honors student who was kicked out of the university,...
| Author | Nancy Kress |
| ISBN | 0765319861 |
After I received book recommendation, I checked the GR information and I confused. The rating of this book is pretty low, around 3.4. After I read it, I understand why. The idea of this book is fresh, and it is the main strength of the book. The problem is at the execution.
The beginning is pretty...
| Author | Rudy Rucker |
| ISBN | 0765317419 |
It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first they succeed, but their...
| Author | Eleanor Arnason |
| ISBN | 0759224161 |
Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the Star Sigma Draconis which they have begun exploring. But the factions on the mother ship hovering above the planet may create an unintended chaos for both the life on the planet and the humans exploring...
| Author | Rebecca Ore |
| ISBN | 0812503139 |
16-year old boy finds an alien crash-landed on a farm and ends up being recruited to join the Federation of Sapients - and adventuring out among the stars.
First book of a trilogy, although ends in a way that does not require continuation to the other books. Sequels are "Being Human" and "Human...
| Author | Raphael Carter |
| ISBN | 0312863276 |
I don't believe it.
I just realized that I haven't updated my top ten book list in my own mind for almost a decade. I certainly haven't modified my top three in over 25 years.
What I have just read has just supplanted number three. Perhaps even number two.
For the moment, I feel...
| Author | Tony Daniel |
| ISBN | 0061020257 |
The human race has extended itself into the far reaches of our solar system -- and, in doing so, has developed into something remarkable. The inner system of the Met -- with its worlds connected by a vast living network of cables -- is supported by the repression and enslavement of humanity's progeny,...
| Author | James Tiptree Jr. |
| ISBN | 0312854072 |
They have gathered now on Damiem and are about to witness the last rising of a manmade nova. They are 16 humans in a distant world about to be enveloped by an eruption of violence--horror and murder oddly complemented by a bizarre unforgiving love. But justice is not all that's about to be found. Judgment...
| Author | Jon Courtenay Grimwood |
| ISBN | 0553383787 |
In a world where secrets kill, an ex-cop discovers he's got the biggest secret of all. . . .
Set in a 21st-century Ottoman Empire, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's acclaimed Arabesk series is a noir action-thriller with an exotic twist. Here an ex-cop with nothing to lose finds himself on the trail of...
| Author | Brenda Cooper |
| ISBN | 0765315971 |
The colony planet Fremont is joyous, riotous, and very wild. Its grasses can cut your arms and legs to ribbons, the rinds of its precious fruit can skewer your thumbs, and some of the predators are bigger than humans. Meteors fall from the sky and volcanoes erupt. Fremont is verdant, rich, beautiful,...
| Author | Paul J. McAuley |
| ISBN | 0345351754 |
Dorothy Yoshida is a telepath, and a really rather good one at that. She's also a scientist, and when a small planet begins to manifest some unusual signs she is sent to investigate. The planet is more than it seems, and on further investigation the scientists begin to suspect it has been artificially...
| Author | Walter Jon Williams |
| ISBN | 0812514092 |
Read this one recently on the strength of a friend's recommendation, and was rather glad I did; it's one of the more unusual SF novels I've had the pleasure of reading. Aristoi is set in the far future, when humanity has unlocked the ability to manipulate matter at the molecular level and has spread out...
| Author | L. Timmel Duchamp |
| ISBN | 0974655961 |
Seattle, February 2076. The Marq ssan bring business as usual to a screeching halt all over the world, and Professor Kay Zeldin joins Robert Sedgewick, US Chief of Security Services, in his war against the invaders. Soon Kay is making rather than writing history. But as she goes head-to-head against...
It's 2038 and the earth has been devastated by tectonic shifts accompanied by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The U.S. has undergone a socialist revolution, retro-viruses are rampant and most technology relies on a powerful organic "clay" instead of microprocessors. When aliens land near...
| Author | Sean Williams |
| ISBN | 0441014933 |
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)
This is one of four books that recently came in and out of my life without me finishing, which...
| Author | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 0553589059 |
A frontier world on the back end of nowhere is the sort of place people go to get lost. And some of those people have secrets worth hiding, secrets that can change the future–assuming there is one. . . .
André Deschênes is a hired assassin, but he wants to be so much more. If only he can find a teacher...
| Author | Élisabeth Vonarburg |
| ISBN | 0553297899 |
Only a handful of humans remains in the City, the final stronghold of science and technology in a war-ravaged world. Forged from genetic materials stolen from the Outsiders, Elisa is the first of a new race--endowed with the remarkable power of rejuvenation. A metamorphic journey into (the) disturbing...
