Polar City Blues

Author	James H. Schmitz
ISBN	0441845770

Telzey Amberdon, at age 15, had enormously developed psionic powers. She could read, as well as change, human minds! In part I, she enjoys an extraordinary telepathic rapport with a feline non-human.

Then her dreams become nightmares dominated by a weird "psionic traffic cop," and she realizes...

Author

Janet Kagan

Murder, Mystery, and Interstellar Intrigue Hugo Award winner Janet Kagan's Hellspark is now back in print Lassti, a newly discovered planet, is the center of political intrigue. Recently, Oloitokitok, the planet survey team's physicist was found dead. Was he killed? If so, by whom? One of his fellow...

Author	Eric Frank Russell
ISBN	0345277007

Eric Frank Russell was a B-lister of the Campbellian Golden Age. A decent enough prose stylist, Russell sent his square jawed astronauts against big cosmological themes like intelligence, conquest, and survival, with mixed results. His stories have a tendency to culminate in punchline based around...

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	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0553207806

THE RETURN OF THE REBEL The stars are afire with rebellion against the tyranny of Earth. Jan Kulozik, rebel in exile, returns home as a prisoner on a ship bearing a cargo of death. But Kulozik escapes his captors and ignites the flames of revolt across half a world. With the aid of Dvora, a lovely but lethal...

Author

Brian W. Aldiss

The human species has begun to racket about the galaxy. When they reach the planet Grudgrodd, they come across another space-faring species. It's a case of instant dislike. The gentle Utods do not feel pain, they change sex as the planet changes suns, they live long pleasurable lives, free of stress....

Author	Ian McDonald
ISBN	0553277634

A playful romp and the onset of rebellion among the citizens of a utopia run by computers. It is about 500 years since the big “Break”, when most of humanity destroyed itself in some war or ecological disaster, and one city, Yu, was preserved and nurtured by the AIs and now comprises about 1.5 billion...

Author	Debra Doyle
ISBN	0812517059

A broken and drifting ship, its long-dead captain still strapped in the command seal: that's what free-spacers call a starpilot's grave. When one of these derelict craft appears in the Net, the artificial barrier zone separating the Republic from the Mageworlds, the discovery is no accident. It's...

Author	Holly Lisle
ISBN	0671877682

Cadence Drake is a finder of lost things. Badger Bede is a technical wizard adept at creating programs that make Cady's life easier. Both are handy with a stunner.

All their talents are put to the test as they search for the CORRIGAN'S BLOOD, a new kind of TFN-drive spaceship with some very special...

Author

Andrea K. Höst

The complete Touchstone Trilogy, containing "Stray", "Lab Rat One" and "Caszandra". Rescue is only the beginning...

On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary,...

Author

Elizabeth Bear

The year is 2062, and after years on the run, Jenny Casey is back in the Canadian armed forces. Those who were once her enemies are now her allies, and at fifty, she’s been handpicked for the most important mission of her life–a mission for which her artificially reconstructed body is perfectly suited....

Author	Jaine Fenn
ISBN	0575082925

Khesh City floats above the surface of the uninhabitable planet of Vellern. Topside, it's extravagant, opulent, luxurious; the Undertow is dark, twisted and dangerous. A place where nothing is forbidden, Khesh City is also a democracy, of sorts, policed by the Angels—elite, state-sponsored...

Author	Doris Egan
ISBN	0886775000

You know, I think in some ways I liked this follow up even better than the first book. I just adore these characters. And plenty of new and interesting characters were introduced here. I love the way Theodora's character narrates the story, there's so much humor injected. (The salad incident! I love the...

Author	Melissa Scott
ISBN	0812513029

This is one of the most realistic, absorbing sci-fi universes I have ever dived into so I've got to dedicate a bit to it:

What got me hooked most of all was how it manages to stay clear of one of the most common pitfalls of catapulting modern Western society forward a few thousand years and instead...

Author	Andre Norton
ISBN	0839824173

While advertised as two novels, it's really a novella and a short story. Star Hunter is one of the earlier stories that has a down and out youngster as a protagonist. Norton uses this theme more successfully in later full-length novels. The ending is also a bit too neat and tidy.

Voodoo Planet...

Author	C.J. Cherryh
ISBN	0879979577

Freedom was an isolated planet, off the spaceways track and rarely visited by commercial spacers. It wasn't that Freedom was inhospitable as planets go. The problem was that outsiders—tourists and traders—claimed the streets were crowded with mysterious characters in blue robes and with members...