The Naked God 2: Faith

Author	Alastair Reynolds
ISBN	0441015131

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SF will not become SciFi: "Galactic North" by Alastair Reynolds



Is SF becoming SciFi? I hope not.

Dumbing down is the order of the day. Our marketing and publishing departments no longer want to...

Author	Stephen Baxter
ISBN	0061056944

Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that...

Author	Neal Asher
ISBN	1405055014

The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebuss wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent...

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0446611522

I confess. My guilty pleasure is good "hard" science fiction and this guy is the best. This book is the last of a series called "The Galactic Center Novels". I got hooked on this genre about 10 years ago and love it for the complete departure from the world as I experience it. The characters are well drawn...

Author	Timothy Zahn
ISBN	0553575627

Rating: 5!!

Mini, spoiler-free review

Conquerors' Legacy, the 3rd book in The Conquerors Saga, is a cherry on a top of a cupcake - the best in the entire trilogy. In its final conclusion, we are finally able to learn the real reason for the war, motives of either of the sides, but also we...

Author	Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN	0446528714

Five years have passed since humans set fire to the gas-giant planets, unwittingly committing genocide of the Hydrogues--an infinitely powerful species of aliens--and igniting a war of epic proportions. Meanwhile, as humans struggle to fight against increasing hostilities from the Hydrogues,...

Author	Jeffrey A. Carver
ISBN	0743486978

Across the galaxy, tensions are rising between the authoritarian Tandesko Triune and the free-marketers of the Auricle Alliance. Nevertheless, scientists of both sides have come together in Project Starmuse to observe the giant star Betelgeuse as it goes supernova. At the space station embedded...

Author	Karen Traviss
ISBN	0060882409

The Eqbas have come, bringing justice, change, hope to some . . . and death to many.

Seeking to punish the human gethes who caused the near destruction of an ocean-dwelling race in the distant Cavanagh’s Star system, the Eqbas have finally landed on Earth. But another, equally important obligation...

Author	Jack McDevitt
ISBN	0441012108

I'm of two minds on this book.

It's pretty damn awesome when it comes to characters and the gentle push toward an alternate Star Trek kind of universe with almost no posturing and no overpowered gunships. The dearth of alien species is a nice touch, making it more of an archeological mystery....

Author	David Brin
ISBN	0553577778

For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As starships fill the skies, the threat of genocide hangs over the planet that once peacefully sheltered six bands of sapient beings. Now the human settlers of Jijo and their alien neighbors must make heroic—and terrifying—choices....

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	Larry Niven
ISBN	0708880622

This book, like many short story collections, has its good parts and not so good parts. There are some great stories in here that grabbed me from page one like Bordered in Black and The Schumann Computer and then there are a few that I just didn't enjoy. Although you could always argue if its the story or if...