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10 best books like Nova Swing (M. John Harrison): The Outside, Blue Remembered Earth, Glasshouse, On the Steel Breeze, The Prefect, Idoru, The Fractal Prince, Supernova Era, Virtual Light, The Sword of the Lictor

The Outside
AuthorAda Hoffmann
ISBN0857668145
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their...
Blue Remembered Earth
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
ISBN0575088273
BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history...out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society.

One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where...
Glasshouse
AuthorCharles Stross
ISBN0441014038
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...
On the Steel Breeze
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
ISBN0575090456
It is a thousand years in the future. Mankind is making its way out into the universe on massive generation ships.

On the Steel Breeze is the follow-up to Blue Remembered Earth. It is both a sequel and a standalone novel, which just happens to be set in the same universe and revolves around members...
The Prefect
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
ISBN0575077166
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life.

A murderous attack against a Glitter...
Idoru
AuthorWilliam Gibson
ISBN0425190455
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.


Techno-Dystopia: "Idoru" by William Gibson



I think it's very telling - and promising, that this guy who thinks he can predict an apocalyptic future for Earth where 80% of people are killed has had at least the...
The Fractal Prince
AuthorHannu Rajaniemi
“The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to.”
A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of “fast ones,” shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate...
Supernova Era
AuthorLiu Cixin
ISBN1250306035
From Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author of The Three Body Problem, comes a new science fiction masterpiece.

In those days, Earth was a planet in space.
In those days, Beijing was a city on Earth.
On this night, history as known to humanity came to...
Virtual Light
AuthorWilliam Gibson
ISBN0140157727
William Gibson begins his Bridge trilogy with this 1993 publication that was nominated for both the Hugo and the Locus awards.

In the air of great protagonist names won hands down by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 cyberpunkapalooza Snow Crash with Hiro Protagonist, Gibson introduces us to Chevette...
The Sword of the Lictor
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0671631934
This, as well as the first two books and theoretically the last in the series, is rapidly becoming the most difficult work of SF I've ever read. Why? It's not particularly difficult to follow; the Hero's Quest is rather straightforward throughout. Nor is the main character Severian particularly uninteresting...
Firefall
AuthorPeter Watts
ISBN1784080462
This is the Omnibus edition of Blindsight and Echopraxia .

FIRST CONTACT: 13 FEBRUARY 2082.

The day sixty-five thousand objects burned briefly around Earth: an unexplained moment of surveillance by an alien intelligence. We called it Firefall.

Two months later,...
All Tomorrow's Parties
AuthorWilliam Gibson
ISBN0425190447
Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see "nodal points" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points...
Poseidon's Wake
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
ISBN0575090499
Reynolds continues to amaze. I remembered Blue Remembered Earth very fondly and this third book, taking place several hundred years after the events taking place there, captures more than just the spirit, but gives us one hell of an adventure among the stars.

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