Olympos
10 best books like Olympos (Dan Simmons): Revelation Space, Chasm City, A Fire Upon the Deep, Rainbows End, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap, A Deepness in the Sky, Heaven's Reach, Dune I, Opowieści z meekhańskiego pogranicza. Północ - Południe
| 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 | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0441010644 |
The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -from the people to the very buildings they inhabit- only...
| Author | Vernor Vinge |
| ISBN | 0812515285 |
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.
A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined...
| Author | Vernor Vinge |
| ISBN | 0812536363 |
Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet....
Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors - alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons -and a renegade named Clavain...
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0441012914 |
The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little...
| Author | Vernor Vinge |
| ISBN | 0812536355 |
Alternative Cover Edition can be found here.
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.
The...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553574736 |
Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his most imaginative and powerful novel to date--the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation.
The brutal enemy that has relentlessly...
| Author | Frank Herbert |
| ISBN | 2266155482 |
Tome 2 : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Il n'y a pas, dans tout l'Empire, de planète plus inhospitalière que Dune.
Partout des sables à perte de vue. Une seule richesse : l'épice de longue vie, née du désert, et que tout l'univers achète à n'importe quel prix....
Opowieści z meekhańskiego pogranicza. Północ - Południe
Topór i skała - oto skarby Północy. Wiedzą o tym nieustraszeni żołnierze Szóstej Kompanii, górskiego oddziału strzegącego północnych granic Imperium Meekhańskiego. A jeśli istnieją starcia nie do wygrania? Jedyne, na co może wtedy liczyć Górska Straż to honor górali....
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0553574418 |
Connie Willis's acclaimed time travel novel, "Doomsday Book," swept the major science fiction awards the year it was published. Now, in this new novel, Willis explores the timeless themes of emotion and technology, reality and illusion, and the bittersweet place where they intersect to make art....
| Author | Frank Herbert |
| ISBN | 0450017982 |
This book may be the ultimate secret agent novel.
It could also be the most insanely ambitious work of anthropological science fiction.
It's also a gold mine for anyone interested in Frank Herbert's work.
Let me explain...
The Godmakers is a fix-up novel, a cluster of short...
Każde martwe marzenie. Opowieści z meekhańskiego pogranicza
Deana d’Kllean, niegdyś Pieśniarka Pamięci i mistrzyni miecza, a dziś rządząca pustynnym księstwem wybranka Boga Ognia, stoi na progu wojny. Powstanie niewolników, które wybuchło u południowych granic państwa, zatacza coraz szersze kręgi. Genno Laskolnyk wraz ze swoim czaardanem...
| Author | Vernor Vinge |
| ISBN | 0312875622 |
After nearly twenty years, Vernor Vinge has produced an enthralling sequel to his memorable bestselling novel A Fire Upon the Deep.
Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout...
