Starfarers

Author

Stephen Baxter

It Eats Planets. And It's Here. It starts when Venus explodes into a brilliant cloud of dust and debris, showering Earth with radiation and bizarre particles that wipe out all the crops and half the life in the oceans, and fry the ozone layer. Days later, a few specks of moon rock kicked up from the last Apollo...

Author	Margaret Bechard
ISBN	1596430583

Jack knows who belongs out in the Black. And who doesn't -- until Kit comes walking into the pub and changes everything he believes about the Black, about the people who live there, about what it takes to be a human being. Margaret Bechard set out to write an adventure story with laser guns ad spaceships....

Author

Ryk E. Spoor

Jason Wood was just an information specialist - finding data for research, enhancing photos for the police, a nice, usually quiet profession whose only dangers came from and occasional crook trying to eliminate the evidence. The a body with two holes in its neck and no blood left turned up at his back...

Author	Ben Bova
ISBN	0380793156

In the Future, Everything is Different.
But Nothing Has Changed.
The Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landless revolutionaries and global anarchy seems imminent.Yet...

Author	John Barnes
ISBN	0812516338

Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut--swordsman, troubador, lover--is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity's Thousand Cultures.

But the winds of change have come to Nou Occitan. As...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0671460471

Frederik Pohl, one of the most honored science fiction writers of our time, gives us an extraordinary vision of a New York yet to come - from the wounded, struggling behemoth of tomorrow to the domed, atmospherically controlled megalopolis of the twenty-first century. In Pohl's prophetic novel, a...

Author	Robert Reed
ISBN	0765341476

"An epic tale of visionary futures and scientific speculation."
--Library Journal

Millions of years from now, humanity will be on the brink of self-destruction. The world's great leaders have created an elite group who, by their superior wisdom and abilities, keep the peace, maintain...

Author	K.D. Wentworth
ISBN	0671319795

This book is a sequel to Black on Black, one of the few books I’ve rated with five stars. I think I liked this sequel even more than its predecessor. This book, Stars over Stars, built logically from the events and character growth of the previous book. However, it told an entirely new story on a new planet....

Author	Spider Robinson
ISBN	0743499174

The place: a future New York City torn by racial tension and ripe for rebellion. The revolutionaries have high technology and careful planning on their side, their soldiers are well trained and sworn to secrecy, and their plans are unsuspected . . . until the Night of Power. Caught in the middle of the...

Author	Eric Flint
ISBN	1416555854

The planet Miran had sent a spaceship to rendezvous with the enormous vessel that was approaching their star system. The vessel’s design was odd—a multitude of separate globular habitats in a framework—and most of the alien team that entered one of the habitats were slaughtered by savage creatures...

Author	Roger MacBride Allen
ISBN	0812530144

Roger M. Allen's "Ring of Charon" is great science-fiction. A hence-undiscovered alien race causes the Earth to disappear through a wormhole due to the unauthorized experiments of a gravity scientist, and the remaining off-Earth scientists try to find out what really happened. The story is told...

Author	Mercedes Lackey
ISBN	0671721453

Though I have yet to play a game from the Wing Commander series, this book has gotten me interested in the universe and has started me looking for a sale on Origin to buy a copy. I enjoyed how the book takes some time in delving into the characteristics of the cultures and differences between the Humans, Kilrathi,...

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	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0812508890

2 stars, Metaphorosis Reviews

As with Dayworld Rebel, there's not a great amount of logic to this book. Farmer doesn't worry much about cause, effect, and logical outcomes. Instead, he simply posits a situation, inhabits it for a while, and then tells us that he's moved on.

The series...

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...