Probability Moon
10 best books like Probability Moon (Nancy Kress): The Color of Distance, The Outback Stars, City of Pearl, The Empress of Mars, Counting Heads, The Depths of Time, Permanence, Summertide, Empire of Bones, Singularity's Ring
| Author | Amy Thomson |
| ISBN | 0441006329 |
See also my blog review: http://examinedworlds.blogspot.com/20...
The depth of world-building and character development in this book is amazing. The style of world-building is different than what you get in Herbert's Dune universe or Tolkien's Middle-Earth. Maybe it would have been...
| Author | Sandra McDonald |
| ISBN | 0765316439 |
Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is a hero. She has the medals and the scars to prove it.
She's cooling her heels on Kookaburra, recovering from injuries sustained during the fiery loss of her last ship, the Yangtze, and she's bored -- so bored, in fact, that she takes a berth on the next ship out. ...
| Author | Karen Traviss |
| ISBN | 0060541695 |
Three separate alien societies have claims on Cavanagh's Star. But the new arrivals -- the gethes from Earth -- now threaten the tenuous balance of a coveted world.Environmental Hazard Enforcement officer Shan Frankland agreed to lead a mission to Cavanagh's Star, knowing that 150 years would elapse...
| Author | Kage Baker |
| ISBN | 0765318903 |
When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet—only to be abandoned when the BAC discovered it couldn’t turn a profit on Mars.
This...
| Author | David Marusek |
| ISBN | 0765312670 |
Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist: The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries....
| Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
| ISBN | 0553574973 |
Time is of the essence when you're stranded in the future....
Humanity is running out of time.
The settled universe is filled with terraformed worlds linked by timeshafts -- temporal wormholes in deep space. These timeshafts are the only way to travel the vast distances between the stars....
| Author | Karl Schroeder |
| ISBN | 0765342855 |
Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running from her bullying brother, who has threatened to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole...
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0345369378 |
It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both—but Quake in particular— to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, due to the Grand Conjunction of the system's stars and planets, something...
| Author | Liz Williams |
| ISBN | 0553583778 |
From Liz Williams comes a bold and provocative novel of the future in which the vast Indian subcontinent, home to thousands of gods, is visited by all-powerful alien beings from a distant world of controlled, sterile perfection. But what is their purpose: to free humanity–or to enslave it?
EMPIRE...
The debut novel from a exciting new voice in SF—about what happens after ninety percent of humanity leaves Earth
There is an artificial ring around the Earth and it is empty after the Singularity. Either all the millions of inhabitants are dead, or they have been transformed into energy beings...
| Author | Julie E. Czerneda |
| ISBN | 0886779995 |
One of my favorite books of all time and one of my favorite Czerneda books. I also love A Thousand Words for Stranger. This was a very character driven novel and I think this was the first time I was really aware of a character driven story vs. a plot driven story. I loved the characters in this book. (I read...
| Author | Mike Resnick |
| ISBN | 0812524241 |
Reprint coming soon from Dog Star Books, in affiliation with Raw Dog Screaming Press.
Big fan of Mike Resnick, he always comes out with a character of awesome likeness. A man of many awards, for his sci-fi work. I recommend his Stalking The Vampire and his other "Stalking Titles"
In...
| Author | Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
A deadly conspiracy…
The Anniversary Day bombings on the Moon sent shockwaves throughout the Earth Alliance. No one knows who created the clones responsible and turned them into ruthless killers. No one knows where or when they’ll strike next.
The bombings compel Earth Alliance...
| Author | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 0553587498 |
As long as there's an Earth to defend, Jenny Casey has a job. But she may outlast the world she was custom-built to save. . . .
Give Canada's Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and she'll take a galaxy. That's just the kind of person a world on the brink of destruction needs. The year is 2063,...
En 2380, l'humanité a colonisé six cents planètes, toutes reliées entre elles par des trous de ver. Le Commonwealth Intersolaire s'est développé en une société tranquille et prospère, dans laquelle la " réjuvénation " permet à chaque citoyen de vivre pendant des siècles. C'est alors...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0812545443 |
The overcrowded Earth isn't room enough for Evesham Giyt, a solitary and brilliant computer hacker who yearns for the long-gone frontiers of the past. Chasing stories of unspoiled beauty and endless possibility, he takes a leap across the stars to the rugged colony world of Tupelo and soon finds himself...
