Summertide

Author	Gary Gibson
ISBN	0330445960

For a quarter of a million years, an alien race has been hiding a vast and terrible secret

In the 25th century, only the Shoal possess the secret of faster-than-light travel (FTL), giving them absolute control over all trade and exploration throughout the galaxy. Mankind has operated within...

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	Nancy Kress
ISBN	0380707063

The human species is at war with the Ged, a collective species that is baffled by humankind’s ability to turn violence upon itself & yet advance into space. In order to defeat the humans, the Ged must first understand them.
So they go to a world called Qom, where a lost Earth colony has forgotten...

Author	Colin Greenland
ISBN	0380763958

A fast-moving space adventure featuring mysterious aliens, a journey to a de-populated planet, a mad run from space cops, a ship captain in trouble, and her AI (Artificially Intelligent) companion/ship's computer. Winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year...

Author	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0553207806

THE RETURN OF THE REBEL The stars are afire with rebellion against the tyranny of Earth. Jan Kulozik, rebel in exile, returns home as a prisoner on a ship bearing a cargo of death. But Kulozik escapes his captors and ignites the flames of revolt across half a world. With the aid of Dvora, a lovely but lethal...

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	Allen M. Steele
ISBN	0712638954

This was an enjoyable read, if not too deep. It was written in the early '90s, so it was interesting to see how technology was expected to have advanced. Quite a bit of what's described we're well past, particularly in the field of computers, but others we seem to be behind where things were expected to be...

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

Wil McCarthy

In this stunningly original tale, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy imagines a wondrous future in which the secrets of matter have been unlocked and death itself is but a memory. But it is also a future imperiled by a bitter rivalry between two brilliant scientists--one perhaps the greatest genius in the...

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0446611549

Make no mistake. There are some mind-blowing concepts in this book. A band of humans are on the run from a race of mechanical beings. They've stolen a ship and eluded pursuit, heading for a star system that should support them. But when they arrive, they find a destroyed and abandoned mech civilization--it...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345360265

Years ago, Nolly Stennis had been a promising baritone. On the threshold of a great career with Narabedla Ltd., illness had ruined his voice. Then a cellist friend received an offer from Narabedla, only to disappear shortly thereafter. When Nolly set out to investigate, he found intergalatic intrigue...

Author	Robert Lynn Asprin
ISBN	0441113826

One of Asprin's earlier works, but one that still has impact and relevance in today's world, some 35 years after he wrote it. He took his cue from one of Frederick Pohl's books, "The Space Merchants". Multi-national corporations have become bigger and more powerful that governments. Instead of just...

Author

Ian Stewart

In the year 2270, with travel to the nearby planets well established, a bizarre discovery is made on Callisto, the eighth moon of Jupiter. Dozens upon dozens of strange wheeled artifacts ("wheelers"), hundreds of thousands of years old, are found buried beneath the icy surface. What were they used...

Author	Sean Williams
ISBN	0441006728

Commander Morgan Roche of the Commonwealth of Empires is assigned to escort the artificial intelligence unit known as "The Box" to her superiors. With the help of Adoni Cane -- a genetically enhanced warrior who suffers from amnesia -- Roche must protect "The Box" at all costs. But what about Cane? Who...

Author	Gardner Dozois
ISBN	0312157029

Presents 23 of the finest science-fiction works of 1995, including stories by such diverse writers as Michael Bishop, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maureen F. McHugh, Mike Resnick, and others.

Contents
ix • Summation: 1996 • essay by Gardner Dozois
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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	Larry Niven
ISBN	0441653162

Only one person could have been on the lunar surface... Her name is Naomi Mitchison. She's the most beautiful woman on the moon; she was also the only person who was outside on the lunar surface at the right moment to send a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker for the Asteroids. But...

Author	Robert L. Forward
ISBN	0595197590

This hard-science fiction novel by Robert L. Forward, renown scientist with a PhD in gravitational physics, makes one seriously consider the idea of time as physicists know it today, or knew it in the 1990's. The story is not bogged down with the details, providing an interesting read regardless of...

Author	James Blish
ISBN	0380202794

In the era of

ANTI-MATTER

When the scientists of the wandering planet HE - in their journeys through the furthest reaches of inter-galactic space - heard the sounds of hydrogen atoms coming into existence out of NOTHING, they realized that they had accidentally discovered the birthplace...

Author	Ben Bova
ISBN	0812513371

When Keith Stoner awoke, he found himself in a world changed almost beyond recognition. Eighteen years before, Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship. The Soviets had to pull out, but Stoner persisted, and while on the strange ship, he fell into suspended...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0441003990

I quite like this book. It's not one of those have-to-read-in-one-sitting sorts, but I quite like it. Mostly, I think, because of the conceit behind it: a down-home country boy who takes a mostly-dead alien on a cross-country trip--just because. It's an odd, quirky kind of book, and to be completely...