The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson

6 best books like The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (Kim Stanley Robinson): The Light of Other Days, Absolution Gap, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Novels & Stories 1950–1962: Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories, The Barefoot Mailman, 球状闪电

The Light of Other Days

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0812576403

When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and...

Absolution Gap

Author	Alastair Reynolds
ISBN	0441012914

The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little...

Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Author	Ken Liu
ISBN	1250297664

Broken Stars, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu-- is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Following Invisible Planets,...

Novels & Stories 1950–1962: Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories

Author	Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN	1598531506

Kurt Vonnegut’s signature qualities as a writer—what John Updike called “his free flow of invention, the surreal beauty of his imagery, and a colloquial American style justly ranked with Mark Twain’s”—are everywhere on display in this authoritative collection of his early fiction....

The Barefoot Mailman

Author	Theodore Pratt
ISBN	0912451327

When the great Florida Boom was just a dream....

The time was the 1880's -when Miami was little more than a mangrove swamp, Palm Beach was still looking for a name, dangerous beachcombers threatened respectable folk, and whole communities could live off goods from storm-wrecked ships thrown...

球状闪电

Author

Liu Cixin

3.5/5 stars

Cixin Liu greatly examined the effects of obsession, science, and weaponry in Ball Lightning.

I’m a fan of Cixin Liu’s Remembrance of Earth Past trilogy. The second book in that series, The Dark Forest remains in my personal top three sci-fi novels of all time and will...