Queen City Jazz
10 best books like Queen City Jazz (Kathleen Ann Goonan): Nekropolis, Gather, Darkness!, Dark Universe, The Execution Channel, The Genocides, Slant, The Bohr Maker, Spin Control, Crashcourse, Earth Made of Glass
| Author | Maureen F. McHugh |
| ISBN | 0380791234 |
Fleeing an empty future in the Nekropolis, twenty-one-year-old Hariba has agreed to have herself "jessed," the technobiological process that will render her subservient to whomever has purchased her service. Indentured in the house of a wealthy merchant, she encounters many wondrous things....
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1585861065 |
GATHER, DARKNESS! is a science-fiction classic. It tells the story of Armon Jarles, a man on the edge, living amidst the disputes of two rival powers at large in the world. 360 years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, throwing society back into the dark ages, the world is fraught with chaos and...
| Author | Daniel F. Galouye |
| ISBN | 0575071370 |
The above rating graphic provides a pretty good assessment of my opinion of the story...which stands to reason in a "DUH, thank you Col. Obvious" sorta way since I created it. Well, at the risk of raining down obvious all over you, let me add that this is certainly a book on which I would recommend...
| Author | Ken MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0765313324 |
It's after 9/11. After the bombing. After the Iraq war. After 7/7. After the Iran war. After the nukes. After the flu. After the Straits. After Rosyth. In a world just down the road from our own, on-line bloggers vie with old-line political operatives and new-style police to determine just where reality...
| Author | Thomas M. Disch |
| ISBN | 0375705465 |
This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells
In this harrowing novel, the world's cities have been reduced to cinder and...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0812524829 |
In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a revolution in both human psychotherapy and artificial...
| Author | Linda Nagata |
| ISBN | 1937197026 |
Nikko is the first true "post human"-a man genetically engineered to survive in the airless void of space-but the research permit that allows his existence is about to expire. His body has already begun an insidious, pre-programmed failure that will end in his death. Nikko's only hope for survival...
| Author | Chris Moriarty |
| ISBN | 0553586254 |
Call Arkady a clone with a conscience. Or call him a traitor. A member of the space-faring Syndicates, Arkady has defected to Israel with a hot commodity: a genetic weapon powerful enough to wipe out humanity. But Israel’s not buying it. They’re selling it–and Arkady–to the highest bidder....
| Author | Wilhelmina Baird |
| ISBN | 0441121632 |
Read for the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge, the Second Best Reading Challenge, and the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge.
I originally chose to read this book because I needed to read women I had not read for the Women of Genre Fiction challenge, this one had been nominated...
| Author | John Barnes |
| ISBN | 0812551613 |
Welcome to the Thousand Cultures--in which humanity's hundreds of settled worlds are finally coming back together, via the recently invented technology of instantaneous travel. And in which Giraut and Margaret work as professional diplomats, helping to finesse the stresses and strains of so much...
| Author | Neal Barrett Jr. |
| ISBN | 0373303025 |
Post Apocalypse America...
Bluevale was about all Howie had seen of the world. Even his Pa, who knew everything, didn’t know much about the way it was before the war.
Scriptures said all of the unclean animals had been wiped out. Howie didn’t know what that meant exactly. He’d seen...
| Author | Amy Thomson |
| ISBN | 0441865003 |
I read this book when I was 13, and remember only some of it, but here are the compelling things about it that have stuck with me ever since!
-the AI girl at the heart of this book is created to be basically a companion and lover to her creator, who fantasizes about shaping a person in his image. Some...
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0553577387 |
It's 2026, and catastrophe has struck from an unexpected source. The Alpha Centauri supernova has risen like a second sun, rushing Earth toward its last summer. Floods, fires, starvation, and disease paralyze the planet. In a blue aurora flash of gamma rays, all microchips worldwide are destroyed,...
| Author | Justina Robson |
| ISBN | 1591023386 |
Silver Screen presents an enjoyably different, subversive slant on the science fiction themes of AI and cyberspace. Insecure and overweight heroine Anjuli O’Connell is one of a group of friends who have been hot-housed from an early age to perform in genius-level jobs. But Anjuli worries that her...
The Trappers, hunter-gatherers who live beside a mammoth wall of ice, have none of the wonders their carefully hand-copied, ancient Warm Times books describe, like cars, guns, or plows. When bloodthirsty invaders slaughter most of the tribe, a small band of survivors heads south, led by a man few of...
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0312858760 |
Scott returns to the world of her earlier novel, Dreamships, and, as in several of her novels, takes up the theme of artificial intelligence. Persephone is a planet racked by class struggle and economic and political upheaval. Celinde Fortune is an entertainer - an illusionist who makes good money...
| Author | Elizabeth Hand |
| ISBN | 0061012165 |
From the author of the breakout bestseller "Waking the Moon," comes this stunning millennial thriller It is 1999. The Last Days -- some say; the First, say others. The climate has altered irrevocably, the cities have imploded into vicious shards and the stars haven't been seen for months. The sky is...
I failed.
I made it sixty-five pages into Necroville before I sank down onto the baking-hot sands of defeat, dazzled by McDonald's bright prose, but confused, lost and thirsty for something else to read. I lay there - watching the unread novels in my collection circling - and wanted to give in,...
| Author | Michaela Roessner |
| ISBN | 0812516729 |
I've read this book numerous times and it's still just as engrossing to me as it was the first time. I love how the Winchester Mystery House feels like it's another character. I finally had the chance to visit the house last week which prompted me to pick this book up again to reread once more. I'm not sure...
| Author | Philip Wylie |
| ISBN | 1663373825 |
Earth is destroyed in a collision with the rogue planet Bronson Alpha, with about a year of warning enabling a small group of survivors to build a spacecraft and escape to the rogue planet's moon, Bronson Beta. Filmed, with major changes to the story, as When Worlds Collide (1951).
After Worlds...
