The Neutronium Alchemist 1: Consolidation

Author	Jack McDevitt
ISBN	0441011020

On a routine survey mission studying a neutron star, an Academy starship receives a transmission in an unknown language. Before leaving the area, the starship launches a series of satellites to find the signal and perhaps discover its origins.
Five years later, a satellite finally encounters...

Author	Stephen Baxter
ISBN	0061059048

"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life..."
This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind - all the way to the end of the Universe itself.

Here, in...

Author	Neal Asher
ISBN	0330441523

From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien maker back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud.

Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut downbecause...

Author	Karl Schroeder
ISBN	0765342855

Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running from her bullying brother, who has threatened to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole...

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	Karen Traviss
ISBN	0060541709

Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a lost colony on a distant and dangerous planet -- a hostile world coveted by two alien races and fiercely protected by a third. But in the course of her mission, she overstepped a boundary and stumbled into forbidden lands. And...

Author

Harry Turtledove

When the Viking lander on the planet Minerva was destroyed, sending back one last photo of a strange alien being, scientists on Earth were flabbergasted. And so a joint investigation was launched by the United States and the Soviet Union, the first long-distance manned space mission, and a symbol of...

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	Alastair Reynolds
ISBN	1886778906

Deep Navigation is the 2010 Boskone Book by Boskone’s Guest of Honor Alastair Reynolds. It contains a broad spectrum of his work, from his first published story, "Nunivak Snowflakes," through "The Receivers" and "Monkey Suit," both published within the last year, plus an introduction by his friend,...

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	Larry Niven
ISBN	0765351293

The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society...