Saturn Rukh

Author	Tony Daniel
ISBN	0061020257

The human race has extended itself into the far reaches of our solar system -- and, in doing so, has developed into something remarkable. The inner system of the Met -- with its worlds connected by a vast living network of cables -- is supported by the repression and enslavement of humanity's progeny,...

Author	Christopher Rowley
ISBN	0345331761

Eons ago, a war was fought to the death between the parasitic and ferocious Vang and a gifted but doomed race. As a last resort, these gentle beings were forced to use the Starhammer to smash the Vang spacefleets and homeworld, leaving only a handful of survivors. For a billion years a silvery shape drifted...

Author

Jerry Pournelle

High Justice begins Jerry Pournelle's own Future History, a universe which he shared with Larry Niven in their collaborative novel, The Mote in God's Eye. Here we see, with all the vivid detail for which Pournelle is known, the Fall of the West, and how in its death throes it gave birth to a society that...

Author	John Meaney
ISBN	1591024978

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)

So what do you think -- is it possible to adequately analyze a sprawling 1,500-page science-fiction...

Author	Leo Frankowski
ISBN	0743471911

I have been a big fan of the Cross Time Engineer series since the beginning. However, this novel was a bit of a let down. I guess the biggest thing that it did was fill in some of the blanks with regards to how things came to be. However, the writing was a bit wonky as I knew where they were going with the story line,...

Author	James P. Hogan
ISBN	0671578669

"THAT PLANET HAS NO RIGHT TO BE THERE!"

Among the Saturnian moons, farsighted individuals, working without help or permission from any government, have established a colony. They call themselves the Kronians, after the Greek name for Saturn. Operating without the hidebound restrictions...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345321421

• The Lion in His Attic - (1982)
• Spirals - (1979) - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• A Teardrop Falls - (1983)
• Talisman - (1981) - Larry Niven and Dian Girard
• Flare Time - (1978)
• The Locusts - (1979) - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
• Yet Another Modest Proposal:...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0671653393

The time is the 23rd century, and ships are crawling outward from Earth into the interstellar depths. It will take them centuries to reach even the nearest stars - but once they do, future travel will be instantaneous, because the ships carry matter transmitters that are not subject to the limitations...

Author

Frederik Pohl

Mars was harsh and unforgiving, but for the colonists who called it home, its future was as bright as the comets that hung in the night sky, for locked in those icy bodies were the water and gases that would make Mars live again, mined from the vast Oort Cloud beyond Pluto. Young Dekker DeWoe yearned to become...

Author	Jack L. Chalker
ISBN	0345402944

Wasn’t a bad book. I would not want to live like Littlefeet and Spotty. The time different with the space travel is crazy, it makes sense just crazy when you think about it. I was a little confused with the last chapter. It was basically an epilogue which is fine just wish it was titled that. When I started...

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0446530581

Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Victor the most famous astronauts of all time. Now, decades later, they are ordered by the Consortium to Pluto, where they will rendezvous with another starship led by the brilliant, arrogant Captain Shanna Axelrod. Here, on the frozen ammonia shore of...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0441002188

This story started off promising. A group of biologists arrive on a planet hoping to study the terrain. What they find is not only does the planet have with crazy plants, animals, and insects, there are also aliens.
I don't want to give away too much of the plot but everything on this planet is not as...

Author	Charles Sheffield
ISBN	0812538900

When a misfired practical joke gets him kicked out of school, Rick Luban thinks he has nowhere to go but down. Instead, he gets a second chance--and a whole new life--when he signs up for a career in asteroid mining.

But life in space proves more challenging than Rick expected. Competition is...

Author

Robert Silverberg

What can I say about Silverberg, except that he's the greatest sci-fi writer since Asimov? His use of language, his amazing longevity as a published writer (over 50 years!), and his inventiveness are all legendary. THE ALIEN YEARS is about surviving under alien domination, and spans decades of life...

Author	Sarah Zettel
ISBN	0446609412

At eighty-three, Dr. Helen Failia is nearing middle age but has lost none of her fighting spirit. The founder of Earth’s first fully functioning colony on Venus, she will do anything to ensure that the home she’s built and nurtured not only survives, but thrives. Despite her constant work, funding...