Tea from an Empty Cup
10 best books like Tea from an Empty Cup (Pat Cadigan): The Fortunate Fall, Rim, Vacuum Flowers, City Come a-Walkin', Crashcourse, The Silicon Man, Metrophage, The Artificial Kid, Halo, Crystal Nights and Other Stories
| Author | Raphael Carter |
| ISBN | 0312863276 |
I don't believe it.
I just realized that I haven't updated my top ten book list in my own mind for almost a decade. I certainly haven't modified my top three in over 25 years.
What I have just read has just supplanted number three. Perhaps even number two.
For the moment, I feel...
| Author | Alexander Besher |
| ISBN | 1857235460 |
A little more than a year ago I acquired this book from a neighbor who was getting rid of boxes and boxes of books and was kind enough to let me root through them beforehand. The front cover design and back cover synopsis spoke to me (much like a bag of Combos does at a rest stop during a long trip). I stuck it in...
| Author | Michael Swanwick |
| ISBN | 0441858767 |
Vacuum Flowers is a grand tour of the inhabited Solar System, set in a medium-term future. The book opens in Eros Kluster, one of many asteroid-based settlements that form the bulk of Human space, after all of humanity on Earth was absorbed into the Comprise, a world-wide AI- and net-mediated group-mind....
| Author | John Shirley |
| ISBN | 1568581912 |
HOLY SHIT.
Really, just...holy shit. This book takes "amazing" to a whole new level. Aside from one typographical error (a capital A following a comma), not one piece of this novel was out of place.
Forewarning, I may just write "holy shit" a lot to convey my love of this book.
First...
| Author | Wilhelmina Baird |
| ISBN | 0441121632 |
Read for the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge, the Second Best Reading Challenge, and the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge.
I originally chose to read this book because I needed to read women I had not read for the Women of Genre Fiction challenge, this one had been nominated...
| Author | Charles Platt |
| ISBN | 0553289500 |
The Silicon Man has been endorsed by William Gibson as "A plausible, well-crafted narrative exploring cyberspace in a wholly new and very refreshing way".
What is the price of immortality? On the track of high-tech black-market weapons, FBI Agent James Bayley has stumbled on a top-secret...
| Author | Richard Kadrey |
| ISBN | 1888869186 |
Welcome to Los Angeles...where anger, hunger and disease run rampant, and life and hope are strictly rationed. This is Jonny's world. He's a street-wise hustler, a black-market dealer in drugs that heal the body and cool the mind. All he cares about is his own survival. Until a strange plague turns L.A....
-El Derek Zoolander de los gladiadores futuristas-.
Género. Ciencia-Ficción.
Lo que nos cuenta. Hace ya bastantes años, Rominuald Tanglin, Primer Secretario de Gobierno de Niwlind, emigró al planeta Reveria y traslado parte de su conciencia a un nuevo cuerpo, el Chico Artificial,...
| Author | Tom Maddox |
| ISBN | 1419122711 |
The curse of the missing half star strikes again. Calling this book a three would be a disservice, but it's not quite entertaining enough to be a full four.
A Creative Commons novel freely available at Manybooks.net as well as the authour's own site and traditional formats, it's a trippy examination...
| Author | Greg Egan |
| ISBN | 1596062401 |
The nine stories in Greg Egan's new collection range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.
In "Lost Continent", a time traveler seeking refuge from a war-torn land faces hostility and bureaucratic incompetence. "Crystal...
| Author | Rudy Rucker |
| ISBN | 0380701782 |
In 2030, bopper robots in their lunar refuge have founds a way to infuse DNA wetware with their own software code. The result is a new lifeform: the meatbop. Fair is fair, after all. Humans built the boppers, now bops are building humans. . .sort of. Its all part of an insidious plot thats about to ensnare...
| Author | Gary Ballard |
| ISBN | 1449509673 |
Artemis Bridge is the know-to, go-to guy, the amoral fixer in 2028 Los Angeles with the connection for any illicit desire no matter how depraved. He prides himself on remaining above it all, but when an associate dies in his arms, he is burdened with a damaging video of the current mayor he can't sell or...
| Author | Jon Courtenay Grimwood |
| ISBN | 0671022601 |
RedRobe is a fastpaced and entertaining read, a SF thriller where - as in some of his previous work - Grimwood answers accusations of 'you can't get there from here' by setting it in the future of a parallel world where history diverges from our own somewhere in the mid-19th century. Religious orders are...
