Terminal World
10 best books like Terminal World (Alastair Reynolds): Learning the World: A Scientific Romance, Queen of Candesce, Hilldiggers, Empire of Light, Full Steam Ahead, Flaming London, The Light Ages, Phase Space, Manhattan In Reverse, A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
| Author | Ken MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0765351773 |
Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty...
| Author | Karl Schroeder |
| ISBN | 0765315440 |
Venera Fanning was last seen falling into nothingness at the end of Sun of Suns. Now, in Queen of Candesce, Venera finds herself plunging through the air among the artificial worlds of Virga, far from home and her husband, who may or may not be alive. Landing in the ancient nation of Spyre, Venera encounters...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 1405055006 |
During a war between two planets in the same solar system - each occupied by adapted humans - what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology...
| Author | Gary Gibson |
| ISBN | 0230706819 |
The third novel in the Shoal space opera series featuring Dakota Merrick continuing from Stealing Light and Nova War
The nova war has begun to spread as the Emissaries wage a fierce and reckless campaign, encroaching on the area of space occupied by humanity and forcing the Shoal into a desperate...
| Author | Nathalie Gray |
| ISBN | 1603104488 |
This is a race against time. Against oneself. This is the Vendée Globe, the most grueling race around the world. Singlehanded. No stopovers. On board is Laurel Benson-Desmarais, a thirty-six-year-old racer from a family of sailors. Five foot and a quarter inch of pure adrenaline junkie. One hundred...
| Author | Joe R. Lansdale |
| ISBN | 1596060255 |
Ned Lives!
That's right. Ned the Seal of Zeppelins West survived the shark attack from his last adventure, and he's back in a new escapade starring Jules Verne, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells and his Martian invaders, as well as a number of surprise guests you may or may not recognize.
Yes, my...
| Author | Ian R. MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0441012744 |
If this book had been a movie, I can imagine that the pitch session would have gone like this:
Writer: Think: Great Expectations meets Germinal!
Producer: Germa-what?
Writer: It's this French novel by …
Producer: Nobody's gonna wanna watch a French story. What are you? Crazy?
Writer:...
| Author | Stephen Baxter |
| ISBN | 0006511856 |
Phase Space is a collection of 25 SF stories by Stephen Baxter, many thematically linked to his "Manifold" trilogy (Time, Space and Origin) and other novels of cosmic scope. "The phase space of a system is the set of all conceivable states of that system," says the first page. As with "Manifold" these...
| Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0230750303 |
Another great collection of stories from one of my favorites sci-fi writers.
Watching Trees Grow - 1832: the beginning of industrial revolution. Fuel has been banned due to pollution and limited resources, car batteries are emerging, genetics begin to develop, human longevity strives...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0575071346 |
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (aka Tunnel Through the Deeps) is an alternate history. Harrison began by positing two changes which would've allowed this changed history to exist. In this story, set in an alternate 1973, Washington lost the Battle of Lexington & was executed as a traitor. America...
| Author | Ian Whates |
| ISBN | 1906735654 |
On the brink of perfecting the long sought-after human/AI interface, Philip Kaufman finds his world thrown into turmoil as a scandal from the past returns to haunt him and dangerous information falls into his hands. Pursued by assassins and attacked in his own home, he flees. Leyton, a government...
| Author | Sean McMullen |
| ISBN | 0765344572 |
The great Calculor of Libris was forced to watch as Overmayor Zarvora had four of its components lined up against a wall and shot for negligence. Thereafter, its calculations were free from errors, and that was just as well-for only this strangest of calculating machines and its two thousand enslaved...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0812579895 |
Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing...
