Stealing Light

Author	Ken MacLeod
ISBN	0765340739

Matt Cairns is a 21st-century outlaw Programmer who takes on the shady jobs no one else will touch. Against his better judgment, he accepts an assignment to crack the Marshall Titov, a top-secret orbital station operated by the European Space Agency. But what Matt will discover there will propel him...

Author

Neal Asher

The Polity Collective is the pinnacle of space-faring civilization. Academic and insightful, its dominion stretches from Earth Central into the unfathomable reaches of the galactic void. But when the Polity finally encounters alien life in the form of massive, hostile, crab-like carnivores known...

Author	Paul McAuley
ISBN	0575079339

This book changed my view of the solar system forever.
McAuley shows a superb understanding and vision of the post-Global Warming catastrophe on earth, clearly presented, fascinating. One of the best and most likely scenarios:
1. Global Warming causes severe disruptions to society and...

Author	Michael Flynn
ISBN	0765318172

A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled!
Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, "The...

Author	Peter F. Hamilton
ISBN	0330351826

This is a collection of six short stories and a novella taking place in the Night's Dawn universe before the events of the main trilogy took place. To be fair I need to say "Peter F. Hamilton" and "short" do not belong to the same sentence - the guy does not know the meaning of the word. Thus these allegedly...

Author	Robert Reed
ISBN	0812566572

The Ship has traveled the universe for longer than any of the near-immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown. It is larger than many planets, housing thousands of alien races and just as many secrets.

Now one of those secrets has been discovered: at the center of the Ship...

Author	Marianne de Pierres
ISBN	1841494283

While drifting in space, lost, due to navigational failure, a mineral scout discovers God. When word gets out, academics from the studiums across Orion scramble to gain the Entity's favour. However, not all the sentients of Orion hold this 'god' in awe - some, like the philosophers of Scolar and the...

Author	Charles Sheffield
ISBN	0345369378

It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both—but Quake in particular— to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, due to the Grand Conjunction of the system's stars and planets, something...

Author	John Meaney
ISBN	0575085339

A very ambitious series but quite mediocre execution so far; Absorption is not really a novel but more a collection of snippet threads that never coalesce and late in the book seem very rushed to boot; it is the first volume of a series true, but still I expected more coherence - maybe the number of pages...

Author	Jaine Fenn
ISBN	0575082925

Khesh City floats above the surface of the uninhabitable planet of Vellern. Topside, it's extravagant, opulent, luxurious; the Undertow is dark, twisted and dangerous. A place where nothing is forbidden, Khesh City is also a democracy, of sorts, policed by the Angels—elite, state-sponsored...

Author	S. Andrew Swann
ISBN	0756405416

It’s been nearly 200 years since the collapse of the Confederacy, the last government to claim humanity’s colonies. So when signals come in revealing lost human colonies that could shift the power balance, the race is on between the Caliphate ships and a small team of scientists and mercenaries....

Author	Sean Williams
ISBN	0441014933

(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.)

This is one of four books that recently came in and out of my life without me finishing, which...

Author	Michael Cobley
ISBN	1841496324

And he awoke to the steel pains of his aged, wounded body, lying on a cold seabed on an alien world in an alien universe.

There is a clear divide here, as far as the reviews are concerned. Some people really enjoyed this novel, while others, well, really didn’t. I’d read some of the reviews...