The Void Captain's Tale
10 best books like The Void Captain's Tale (Norman Spinrad): Timescape, Growing Things and Other Stories, A Deepness in the Sky, Startide Rising, The Vor Game, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, The Healer's War, No Enemy But Time, The Dark Country, Synners
Author | Gregory Benford |
ISBN | 0553297090 |
The Coolness—
• This book won the Nebula in 1980! Pretty cool for it and the author, Gregory Benford. It would have been nice for Hilary Foister to share in the credit, though, considering she supposedly co-wrote this with Benford.
• It deals with tachyons! (once in a while)
•...
Growing Things and Other Stories
Author | Paul Tremblay |
ISBN | 0062679147 |
A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.
A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting...
Author | Vernor Vinge |
ISBN | 0812536355 |
Alternative Cover Edition can be found here.
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.
The...
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species...
Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
ISBN | 0671720147 |
A buddy read with Choko and Maria.
Miles Vorkosigan graduated from the Military Academy despite his handicap. He hoped for a decent assignment, but his superiors thought he had an insubordination problem, so they decided a good way to fix it is to assign him to a remote place which in this case...
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
Author | Ellen Datlow |
ISBN | 1534413472 |
The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.
Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially...
Author | Elizabeth Ann Scarborough |
ISBN | 0553282522 |
A novel of the Vietnam War, with a magical, mystical twist.
Lt. Kitty McCulley, a young and inexperienced nurse tossed into a stressful and chaotic situation, is having a difficult time reconciling her duty to help and heal with the indifference and overt racism of some of her colleagues and...
Joshua Kampa, the illegitimate son of a mute Spanish whore and a black serviceman, has always dreamed of Africa. But his dreams are of an Africa far in the past and are so vivid and in such hallucinatory detail that he is able to question the understanding of eminent palaeontologists. As a result, Joshua...
Author | Dennis Etchison |
ISBN | 1930235046 |
After reading a handful of The Dark Country stories, I began to think of the paintings of Edward Hopper. At first my reaction was a puzzle. I wonderer why.
After all, Etchison writes vividly of Southern California in the late 70’s and early ‘80’s, of LA airports, highways and rest...
Author | Pat Cadigan |
ISBN | 1568581858 |
Cyberpunk.
Is it all pretty much a mess wrapped up with mirror shades and spinal shunts, hacking and guns?
NOT this one!
Well, it was pretty much a mess of characters and mediots for more than half the novel and I'll be honest, I was rather mystified and wondering where the novel...
Author | Pat Cadigan |
ISBN | 0553295128 |
In her first novel, Mindplayers, Pat Cadigan introduced a very cool setting and technology. Unfortunately, in my opinion, she didn't do much with it, storywise. Cadigan returns to the setting of Mindplayers in her third novel, Fools, and this time she delivers an engrossing story that takes full advantage...