Spin Control
10 best books like Spin Control (Chris Moriarty): Mindplayers, Bitter Angels, Homunculus, Four Hundred Billion Stars, Elvissey, Signal to Noise, Headcrash, The Troika, Terminal Mind, King of Morning, Queen of Day
| Author | Pat Cadigan |
| ISBN | 0575042427 |
Ok, I'll start by saying that it's not the best book in the world or anything. But I love it. Taking place in a slightly futuristic Earth where people have learned to control and manipulate their minds for fun and profit (mostly for fun), the main character is a Mind Player, sort of like a psychiatrist who...
| Author | C.L. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0553592173 |
An Imploding Star System.
A Murdered Galactic Spy.
A Woman Seeking the Truth—and Finding the Unbelievable…
The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies—and constant, creeping decrepitude. Here everyone who is not part of the ruling Four Families...
| Author | James P. Blaylock |
| ISBN | 1930235135 |
3.5 stars
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.
"Does the night seem uncommonly full of dead men and severed heads to you?"
Langdon St. Ives is a man of science and a member of the Royal Society. With the help of his dependable and discreet manservant, St. Ives prefers to...
| Author | Paul J. McAuley |
| ISBN | 0345351754 |
Dorothy Yoshida is a telepath, and a really rather good one at that. She's also a scientist, and when a small planet begins to manifest some unusual signs she is sent to investigate. The planet is more than it seems, and on further investigation the scientists begin to suspect it has been artificially...
| Author | Jack Womack |
| ISBN | 0802134955 |
At once a biting satire and a taut, fast-paced thriller, Elvissey is the story of Isabel and John, a troubled couple who voyage from the year 2033 to a strangely altered 1954. They are on a desperate mission to kidnap the young Elvis Presley and bring him back to the present day to serve as a ready-made cult...
| Author | Eric S. Nylund |
| ISBN | 0380792923 |
Jack Potter puts computer cryptography to work for the highest bidder: sometimes for private corporations, sometimes for the government. Sometimes the work is legal; if not, Jack simply raises his price. But one day, Jack discovers something cloaked in the hiss of background radiation streaming...
| Author | Bruce Bethke |
| ISBN | 0446673145 |
When Jack Burroughs, a brilliant young computer programmer, is given his pink slip, he is offered the opportunity to use his skills for a little industrial espionage. Donning the guise of his online alter ego, Max Kool, Burroughs transforms himself into one of the hippest cybernetic surfers on the...
| Author | Stepan Chapman |
| ISBN | 1890464023 |
Beneath the glare of three purple suns, three travelers - an old Mexican woman, an automated jeep, and a brontosaurus - have trudged across a desert for hundreds of years. They do not know if the desert has an end, and if it does, what they might find there. Sometimes they come across perfectly-preserved...
| Author | David Walton |
| ISBN | 0978732634 |
The Philip K. Dick award-winning SF dystopian novel. Years in the future, the U.S. is a splintered country. The city-state of Philadelphia is ripe for revolution. Mark McGovern, the son of a rich politician, lives in a world of expensive parties and frivolous biological mods, a sharp contrast to the...
| Author | Ian McDonald |
| ISBN | 0553290495 |
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and the Prix Imaginales: Three generations of women share a mysterious power—one that threatens to destroy them
In early-twentieth-century Ireland, life for Emily Desmond is that of the average teenage girl: She reads, she’s bored with school, and...
| Author | Adam-Troy Castro |
| ISBN | 0061443727 |
Two murders have occurred on One One One, an artificial ecosystem created by the universe's dominant AIs to house several engineered species, including a violent, sentient race of sloth-like creatures. Under order from the Diplomatic Corps, Counselor Andrea Cort has come to this cylinder world...
| 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...
| Author | Pat Murphy |
| ISBN | 0553286153 |
Points of Departure is a collection of short stories about alternating between hope and despair. Pat Murphy's stories range from "Rachel in Love," which portrays a chimpanzee whose brain is implanted with the personality of a young girl who has died, to "His Vegetable Wife," the story of a farmer who...
| Author | Patricia Geary |
| ISBN | 0553268724 |
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, Strange Toys is a stunningly original and penetrating novel blending the real and unreal, the fantastic and the mundane, in a story of love, power, and the occult that carries one young woman on a difficult and dangerous journey.
Pet is her name. At nine, she is struggling...
| Author | Gwyneth Jones |
| ISBN | 0974655929 |
The lyrical opening was beautiful, and the world intriguing but I almost stopped reading around page 90, it was the kind of story I didn't like, about emotions and relationships and college years and the crowd. I felt stuck in this narrow world, as stuck as the main character unable to see inside of herself...
| Author | John M. Ford |
| ISBN | 0553568140 |
I read this one based on a recommendation in a book by Jo Walton, otherwise I'd have never heard of it. Nevertheless, it's the kind of thing I love: a coming of age / slice of life story set on the moon, where the characters are a bunch of kids who grew up there and take everything for granted. There are big events...
| Author | Joan Slonczewski |
| ISBN | 0812579143 |
Brain Plague is the new hard SF novel by Joan Slonczewski, set in the same future universe as her award-winning A Door into Ocean and The Children Star (a New York Times Notable Book). An intelligent microbe race that can live symbiotically in other intelligent beings is colonizing the human race throughout...
| Author | Jon Courtenay Grimwood |
| ISBN | 0553589962 |
From Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the celebrated Arabesk series, comes a stunningly inventive novel of futuristic noir set in a world of shifting realities. Here a man is drawn into a gritty postmodern subculture and a secret kingdom of otherworldly beings to find what he lost long ago: a reason...
| Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
| ISBN | 0553569538 |
An Essay on Theocracy
Mysterium uses sci-fi to compare and contrast a theocratic state with its secular equivalent within which religion is practised. It’s an interesting idea. And Robert Wilson does an intelligent job of identifying where and how the differences are established and...
| Author | Kristine Smith |
| ISBN | 0060503580 |
Former captain Jani Kilian is a genetically altered human-idomeni hybrid who acts as a bridge of communication between two fiercely incompatible races. With intergalactic civil war looming large -- with renegades in the Service secretly plotting extermination -- Jani Kilian is being pulled once...
| Author | Geoff Ryman |
| ISBN | 0312182953 |
Tremendously popular on the Internet, 253 is one of the year's most imaginative, unclassifiable books.
What it is:
A London tube train, with all seats occupied, carries 252 passengers. The driver makes 253. Each one has a secret history, thoughts about themselves and the world. And each...
