The Gap Into Madness: Chaos and Order
10 best books like The Gap Into Madness: Chaos and Order (Stephen R. Donaldson): Manifold: Time, Dragonsong, Blue Remembered Earth, The Integral Trees, Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, Diamond Mask, Magnificat, The Traveler, Firefall, Foundation and Chaos
The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world’s governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant,...
A book doesn't have to be Great Literature or even particularly good to appear on my "formative fiction" shelf, it just has to be a book with a meaning that changed me or helped me to understand myself and the world in a new way. Fortunately, Dragonsong is also a very good book of its type.
The best...
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0575088273 |
BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history...out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society.
One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0345320654 |
When leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline was prepared for a routine assignment. Dispatched by the all-powerful State on a mission of interstellar exploration and colonization, Discipline was aided (and secretly spied upon) by Sharls Davis Kendy, an emotionless computer intelligence...
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young...
| Author | Julian May |
| ISBN | 0330322990 |
The 21st century was drawing to a close, and metapsychic humankind was poised at last to achieve Unity to be admitted into the group mind of the already unified alien races of the Galactic Milieu. But a growing corps of rebels was plotting to keep the people of Earth forever separate in the name of human...
| Author | Julian May |
| ISBN | 0345362497 |
The eagerly awaited finale of a modern SF classic--May's Galactic Milieu Trilogy, which began with Jack the Bodiless and continued with Diamond Mask. The mystery involving Jack the Bodiless, the metaphysically talented Dorothea, and Fury, the insane metaphysic creature determined to become sole...
| Author | John Twelve Hawks |
| ISBN | 1400079292 |
The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. A world that exists in the shadows of our own. A conflict we will never see. One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.
A world that exists in the shadows of...
| Author | Peter Watts |
| ISBN | 1784080462 |
This is the Omnibus edition of
Blindsight
and
Echopraxia
.
FIRST CONTACT: 13 FEBRUARY 2082.
The day sixty-five thousand objects burned briefly around Earth: an unexplained moment of surveillance by an alien intelligence. We called it Firefall.
Two months later,...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 1857237366 |
ENGLISH
It is always complicated when an author adapts or continues another's work. In this case, it is a complete success.
Greg Bear has been zealous to be e worthy of Asimov´s legacy. The effort that an author is likely to take to get into such a complex universe might be significant....
| Author | Bernard Beckett |
| ISBN | 0547225490 |
Anax thinks she knows history. Her grueling all-day Examination has just begun, and if she passes, she’ll be admitted into the Academy—the elite governing institution of her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history she’s been taught isn’t the whole...
| Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0399178848 |
Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett).
In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of...
It is two hundred years since the deity known as the Absolved went mad and destroyed the Kingdom of Alnachim, transforming it into the Execration, a blasted wasteland filled with nameless terrors. For decades, desperate souls have made pilgrimage to the centre of this cursed land to seek the Mad God’s...
