Ring

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0812576403

When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and...

Author	Alastair Reynolds
ISBN	0441015131

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SF will not become SciFi: "Galactic North" by Alastair Reynolds



Is SF becoming SciFi? I hope not.

Dumbing down is the order of the day. Our marketing and publishing departments no longer want to...

Author	David Brin
ISBN	0553258397

I put off reading this book for a very long time, for mathematical reasons. David Brin is one of my absolute favorite writers; let's say my opinion of him is a 9 out of 10 (and nobody gets a 10). Gregory Benford was an unknown quantity, but probability told me that I wouldn't like his writing as much as Brin's....

Author	Ben Bova
ISBN	0812579402

The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon...

Author	Peter F. Hamilton
ISBN	0446605182

Comme tous les autres, je l'ai déja lu, en 2006, et j'en avais dit ça


Enfin, voici que se profile le dernier tome de cette fresque immense, pléthorique, voire même démesurée.
On y retrouve nos héros désormais bien connus, avec toutefois une nuance très importante : la plupart...

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0446611522

I confess. My guilty pleasure is good "hard" science fiction and this guy is the best. This book is the last of a series called "The Galactic Center Novels". I got hooked on this genre about 10 years ago and love it for the complete departure from the world as I experience it. The characters are well drawn...

Author	Robert Reed
ISBN	0765347644

In The Well of Stars, Hugo award-nominated author Robert Reed has written a stunning sequel to his acclaimed novel Marrow. The Great Ship, so vast that it contains within its depths a planet that lay undiscovered for generations, has cruised through the universe for untold billions of years. After...

Author	Greg Bear
ISBN	1857238869

The first big thing I have to say about this book is: why is it a prequel to Eon and Eternity? The text is a lot more concerned with the world of Lamarkia than it is with the Hexamon. Even the end of the book, as everybody starts figuring out who Olmy is, could have been reworked without the idea of people from...

Author	Wil McCarthy
ISBN	0553584464

In his Nebula Award nominated novel The Collapsium, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy introduced a richly imagined future of boundless possibility, where poverty, war, and even death are banished forever. Only now that world's exquisite perfection propels one restless young man toward the ultimate...

Author	Roger MacBride Allen
ISBN	0553583646

A decent sequel to Depths of Time, though not as much gets accomplished. There's a whole two hundred pages or so where the heroes run around in circles, only to find the key they were looking for right under their nose. A whole lot of introspection during the search for DeSilvo, which then culminates in...