The Parasite
10 best books like The Parasite (Neal L. Asher): Africa Zero, Dark as Day, The Robert Sheckley Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories, Shiva in Steel, Tumbler, Velvet Dogma, Dark Matter, The Eighth Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Stories, 2184, The Fourth World
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0809556642 |
Another high octane orgy of gore-strewn violence, savage technology and uber badassery, delivered with a droll casualness that masks the emotional underbelly hiding at the core of the story…in other words, another fine outing by Mr. Neal Asher.
This is a fix up novel combining a pair of...
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0812580311 |
Set in the universe as Sheffield's previous novel Cold As Ice, Dark As Day is a hard science fiction novel set 30 years after the Great War, and interplanetary war that nearly destroyed the entire human race, and left horrifyingly dangerous weapons caches to threaten human survival.
The Solar...
The Robert Sheckley Megapack presents 14 short stories and 1 novel by the author Neil Gaiman called "probably the best short-story writer during the '50s to the mid-1960s working in any field." Here are tales of adventure in strange futures, full of the wry wit and piercing characterizations that made...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0312863268 |
A master of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, Saberhagen is one of the most gifted novelists of our time. Now, in Shiva in Steel, he returns to the riveting saga of the Berserkers, a race of intelligent machines devoted to exterminating all organic life.
In a sector of the galaxy occupied...
This book was a real treat. At less than 200 pages, I breezed through it in a few hours, my attention completely focused on it the whole time I was reading. The pace is perfect—as soon as Libby thinks she might have a handle on her life, something crashes and she is forced to reevaluate and find a solution....
PK Dick Meets William Gibson
In the year 2040, the world has finally achieved the perfect merging of human and machine by developing a method by which the computer has direct integration into the brain. Called Personal Ocular Devices, or PODS, the interface fits over the eye feeding information...
| Author | S.W. Ahmed |
| ISBN | 0981526306 |
Dark matter, the invisible substance that constitutes the bulk of all matter in the universe, remains one of science's greatest mysteries. But what if it actually is nothing more than ordinary matter purposely hidden from our view? What if we are only allowed to see a small fraction of the stars in our...
The Eighth Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Stories
"The Eighth Science Fiction Megapack" presents another stellar lineup of classic science fiction, new and old. Here are 25 stories (plus a bonus interview with best-selling author George R.R. Martin) by some of the field's greatest authors. Included are:
THE TRUE DARKNESS, by Pamela Sargent
PERMANENT...
In a future where science has accelerated human evolution, humankind diverges into two separate species: a genetically enhanced "super race" and ordinary humans or Mongrels. Decades of discrimination lead to a brutal war that ends with the super race in full control; the Mongrels, defeated and subservient,...
Buried deep below the Nevada desert, is a very special school where the best and brightest children come from around the world to learn the technology that will bring mankind to its next step of evolution -- a place amongst the stars. 'The Fourth World' follows four children through a year in this school...
| Author | James White |
| ISBN | 0812541960 |
It's where human and alien medicine meet: a massive hospital space station on the Galactic Rim, with 384 levels and a multispecies staff of thousands.
In the course of practicing deep-space medicine, that staff has seen more than its share of challenges--from plagues caused by cafeteria...
Fredric Brown (1906-1972), one of science fiction's greatest masters from the Golden Age, is famous for his many classic short stories -- quite a few of which are presented here, including "Arena," "Knock," "Earthmen Bearing Gifts," "The Star Mouse," and many more. The 32 tales of science fiction...
