The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century
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| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0756403847 |
All in all, a good book. Like any compilation of short stories by different authors, some were better than others. Usually, I found I had a preference for the more humorous stories ("Gordie Culligan vs Dr. Longbeach and the HVAC of Doom" for example), but I really feel my favorite stories were the ones...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0786719052 |
The Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing, including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. Their writing helped science fiction gain wide public attention, and left a lasting impression upon...
| Author | Ian Watson |
| ISBN | 1845297792 |
As usual, I've reviewed each story as I've come to it.
The Raft of the Titanic by James Murrow
The problem with taking the obvious route when applying alternative history to HMS Titanic is that if you create a story where the Titanic doesn’t ship it becomes a case of “so what?” The interesting...
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0312336608 |
The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and to the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Daniel Abraham • Eleanor Arnason...
| Author | David G. Hartwell |
| ISBN | 0060873418 |
Travel farther than you've ever dreamed Man has mused about the nature of our universe since he first gazed up in wonder at the stars. Now some of the most fertile imaginations in speculative fiction offer bold and breathtaking visions of "what's out there" and "what's next" in the eleventh annual celebration...
| Author | Jaym Gates |
| ISBN | 1937009262 |
War is everywhere. Not only among the firefights, in the sweat dripping from heavy armor and the clenching grip on your weapon, but also wedging itself deep into families, infiltrating our love letters, hovering in the air above our heads. It’s in our dreams and our text messages. At times it roars...
| Author | Stephen Baxter |
| ISBN | 0575073063 |
Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge (mathematics) and Southampton Universities (doctorate in aeroengineering research). Baxter is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, most recently...
Nebula Awards Showcase 2010: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy
| Author | Bill Fawcett |
| ISBN | 0451463161 |
This is June’s book group selection. We’ve read eight Nebula Awards books to this point – in fact, when the book is brought to the table, it is the one selection we don’t bother with the voting process. We’re going to read this one!
This year’s Nebula Awards (which is always about...
| Author | David Gunn |
| ISBN | 0345500016 |
With Death’s Head, David Gunn rocketed onto the scene in the most explosive and entertaining science fiction debut since Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon. Now Gunn is back–and so is Sven Tveskoeg: antisocial, antihero, anti-you-name-it, a one-man killing spree whose best friend is an intelligent...
