The Miocene Arrow

Author	John Barnes
ISBN	0812533453

In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake.

A world linked by a virtual-reality network experiences the devastation first hand, witnessing the death of civilization as we know it and the violent birth of...

Author	Ken MacLeod
ISBN	0812577590

Centuries after the catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship-construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating...

Author	Kathleen Ann Goonan
ISBN	1857988884

What would it feel like to live through a biological revolution? Many science fiction writers chronicling a vast technological shift lose sight of the people who would have to deal with it. Not so Kathleen Ann Goonan, whose Crescent City Rhapsody is the third of her Nanotech Cycle novels. Each of her...

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0380790572

Serialized in Amazing Science Fiction Magazine in 1972, published as a novel in 1975.

The Jovian Astronautical-Biological Orbital Laboratory, a.k.a. "the Can", is the only home 17-year-old Matt Bohles has ever known. Concerned about the aging space station's failure to find evidence...

Author	Tara K. Harper
ISBN	0345380525

On Risthmus, the Landing Pact was law: felines were off limits. And for ten years Tsia, the rogue guide, had tried to honor that Pact and ignore the irresistible pull of her forbidden link to the cats.

For ten years, she had hidden among the mercenaries. But now her latest mission was going awry....

Author	Julie E. Czerneda
ISBN	0756401399

Picco’s Moon was where it all began for Esen-alit-Quar, Youngest of Ersh’s Web. It was here where Ersh, the Oldest, had chosen to make her home; here, too, where Esen received her early training as a shapeshifter and a member of the Web.

When Ersh’s Web was destroyed, Esen and her human...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	1596873493

A collection of three Flandry tales: The Game Of Glory: Captain Flandry follows a dying man's clue to the watery provincial world of Nyanza, where a rebellion against the Empire may be brewing. A Message In Secret: Flandry ventures to the remote colonial world of Altai, whose human inhabitants haven't...

Author	W. Michael Gear
ISBN	0886774772

Book one of The Forbidden Borders trilogy, is the story of Staffa Kar Therma, an extraordinarily brilliant military strategist. He is the leader of an elite mercenary group, The Companions, whose services are sought out by the two competing empires of Sassa and Rega. Staffa has in turns helped both...

Author	S.L. Viehl
ISBN	0451460294

After driving their mutual enemy out of the Pmoc quadrant, the Allied League of Worlds gather for a peace summit on K-2, the homeworld of the underwater-dwelling 'Zangians. With the Bio Rescue team assigned to protect the delegates, Sub-Lieutenant Burn mu Znora's attention is placed on the daughter...

Author

James Blish

A SF story of futuristic earth that has become overpopulated with males and the sun is about to explode, so mankind has to take to the stars in a hurry to find a new planet to colonize. The premise sounds interesting, with added in gender issues a SF creatures called familiars you would think this book would...

Author	Walter M. Miller Jr.
ISBN	0803283156

In Beyond Armageddon, the distinguished science fiction writer Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923–96) and the famed anthologist Martin H. Greenberg (1941-2011) have together collected stories that address one of the most challenging themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life after nuclear war....

Author

Ian Stewart

In the year 2270, with travel to the nearby planets well established, a bizarre discovery is made on Callisto, the eighth moon of Jupiter. Dozens upon dozens of strange wheeled artifacts ("wheelers"), hundreds of thousands of years old, are found buried beneath the icy surface. What were they used...

Author	Michael Flynn
ISBN	0812542991

This is the sequel to the novel Firestar, which tells the story of a wealthy businesswoman's efforts to spearhead a private multinational space program. Expanding into outer space is not so much Mariesa Van Huyten's dream as a palliative for her nightmare: she is obsessed with the fear of a planet-killing...

Author

Allen M. Steele

In all but name, this can be thought of as an unofficial sequel to The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke, pictured here:
I've always been DEEP into fiction centered on and surrounded by the ocean, whether it be fantasy, sci-fi, or horror.

When I came across this book at one of my favorite...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0671876651

Disappointing sequel to the masterful "Man Plus" story; pretty much completely missing all of the admirable qualities of its predecessor. Honestly, I'd be happier if Pohl hadn't put his name on this and let his writing partner take full credit - it feels like he had almost no influence on this at all....

Author	L.E. Modesitt Jr.
ISBN	0765323028

What lies beneath the millions of orbiting nanotech satellites that shroud the world called Haze? Major Keir Roget’s mission is to make planetfall in secret, find out, and report back to his superiors in the Federation, the Chinese-dominated government that rules Earth and the colonized planets....

Author

Greg Keyes

There has never been an epic quite like The Age of Unreason. By interweaving reality with arcane fantasy, J. Gregory Keyes proves himself a literary alchemist who vividly recreates the eighteenth century–and brings it brilliantly to new life.

When Sir Isaac Newton uncovered the secrets...

Author	Charles Sheffield
ISBN	0553577395

Earth has been ravaged by galactic disaster--but the real devastation is yet to come.

The end draws nigh....

The year is 2053, and Earth has barely recovered from the Alpha Centauri supernova that destroyed much of the planet's infrastructure. Now the supernova's residual effect--a...

Author	K.A. Bedford
ISBN	1894063732

For "Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait" specialist, Aloysius "Spider" Webb, time travel has lost its luster.

Working as a senior time machine repair technician, Spider has seen it all - past, present and future. Wanting more out of life, Spider hates time travel and everything that goes...

Author	Bob Shaw
ISBN	0671698303

Another good Bob Shaw read. Like most of his books, the structure is a bit off-balance and the female characters underdeveloped (although they are at least distinctive and original). But it's a clever blend of speculative sci-fi, politics, action, and psychology. It's a page-turner epic, with visceral...