The White Mountain

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	Julian May
ISBN	0345362497

The eagerly awaited finale of a modern SF classic--May's Galactic Milieu Trilogy, which began with Jack the Bodiless and continued with Diamond Mask. The mystery involving Jack the Bodiless, the metaphysically talented Dorothea, and Fury, the insane metaphysic creature determined to become sole...

Author	Bob Shaw
ISBN	0575070986

[He] was a man who had looked on many worlds in his lifetime, yet his face was the face of a man in shock.

You’ll be forgiven if Orbitsville reminds you a lot of Ringworld. Both deal with megastructures around a star. Around a star, just in case you missed that part; these things are huge. Where...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345245075

Introduction by Lester del Rey.

Contents:
The Tunnel under the World (1955)
Punch (1961)
Three Portraits and a Prayer (1962)
Day Million (1966)
Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus (1956)
We Never Mention Aunt Nora (1958)
Father of the Stars (1964)
The Day the Martians...

Author	Vonda N. McIntyre
ISBN	0575021896

The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable for much of the year by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside.

Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation,...

Author	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0553207806

THE RETURN OF THE REBEL The stars are afire with rebellion against the tyranny of Earth. Jan Kulozik, rebel in exile, returns home as a prisoner on a ship bearing a cargo of death. But Kulozik escapes his captors and ignites the flames of revolt across half a world. With the aid of Dvora, a lovely but lethal...

Author	Wilson Tucker
ISBN	0340250879

THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER
Corporal Russell Gary - operator-angle man-black marketeer, junior grade-liberator of anything loose - veteran of Salerno and Normandy - a man who knew how to live by his wits and a gun.

Celebrating ten years in khaki, Gary went on a monumental binge...

While...

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0446611549

Make no mistake. There are some mind-blowing concepts in this book. A band of humans are on the run from a race of mechanical beings. They've stolen a ship and eluded pursuit, heading for a star system that should support them. But when they arrive, they find a destroyed and abandoned mech civilization--it...

Author	Walter Jon Williams
ISBN	0812501802

early work by an sf writer i really like. bit too early, maybe - he doesn't quite pull it off, though in its own way it's plenty ambitious, juggling alternate history, quantum theory, the western genre, psychological thrillers, and a biblical theme to make its mean. the result is interesting, but the...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0722111312

In the immeasurable past a mysterious alien race known as The Others left mankind a challenging legacy, a 'gate' to the unexplored reaches of the stars. Humanity has utilized the gate to painstakingly colonize the Phoebus star system but has left the rest of the galaxy unexplored. In the midst of turbulent...

Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN	0586046224

Even in her early stories, Le Guin's writing is illustrative and graceful without excessive description. Reading her is always an exercise is learning how to better write. However, I found the plots and characterization in some of the stories somewhat wanting, compared to other Le Guin works. Many...

Author	Katharine Kerr
ISBN	0553285041

Polar City Blues holds up very well for SF first published in 1990. Of course, I'm inclined to like tales mixing psychics, aliens, and murder mysteries. Kerr has built a universe which deliberately 'others' Caucasians, which succeeds reasonably well.

If I had a negative, it would be the use...

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0340260963

JUST SAY NO TO IMMIGRANTS! so say the malign leaders known as the "Whispers" at the start of this novel. although they have a genuine antipathy towards immigrants, their actual goals are more subtle yet also predictably banal: they seek personal gain, and a lot of it; the question of immigration is simply...

Author	Malcolm Hulke
ISBN	0426103726

The evil MASTER has stolen the Time Lords' file on the horrifying DOOMSDAY WEAPON with which, when he finds it, he can blast whole planets out of existence and make himself ruler of the Galaxy!

The Time Lords direct DOCTOR WHO and Jo Grant in TARDIS to a bleak planet in the year 2471 where they find...

Author	Orson Scott Card
ISBN	0812533658

This is 1 part of 5 in a large volume of Card's short fiction, called Maps in a Mirror, and the book is divided by genre into 5 sections. Each "book" includes an introduction of Card's take on the genre, as well as an afterward where he talks about the ideas and influences behind each tale. It's an interesting...

Author	Ian McDonald
ISBN	0553277634

A playful romp and the onset of rebellion among the citizens of a utopia run by computers. It is about 500 years since the big “Break”, when most of humanity destroyed itself in some war or ecological disaster, and one city, Yu, was preserved and nurtured by the AIs and now comprises about 1.5 billion...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0722163940

Seven brilliant short stories by the award-winning author of Ringworld.
INCONSTANT MOON: a moon so bright could mean only one thing. The sun had gone nova.

DEATH BY ECSTASY: Belters didn't get addicted to current stimulation, so why did the spacer die with electrodes in his brain?

BORDERED...

Author	James Tiptree Jr.
ISBN	0312890214

These are the heroes of the Starry Rift, a dark river of night that flows between the arms of our galaxy: A headstrong teenaged runaway who makes first contact with a strange alien race. A young officer on a deep-space salvage mission who discovers an exact double of a woman he thought he'd lost. The crew...

Author	Robert L. Forward
ISBN	0812534581

If there were a science-fiction university, Robert L. Forward would be the dean of the Xenobiology Department. As he deals with alien beings in a heavy gravity environment for Dragon’s Egg, he now deals in Saturn Rukh with creatures that float through gaseous clouds in the same way that whales and...

Author	Jack L. Chalker
ISBN	0345343093

This was a disappointing end to The Lords of the Middle Dark series. I think I'd just grown tired of the time it took for all the rings to be gathered.

On the plus side this book did feature characters like Hawks, Raven, and China in a more prominent role which was an improvement on the last installment....

Author	Jody Scott
ISBN	0879973307

When a dolphin-like alien comes to Earth disguised in a female human body, it sets the stage for a wild feminist romp that outstranges Stranger in a Strange Land. "The pace of the story never lets up, yet it finds room for serious contemplation of humanity's woes. The style is easy, with an edge of noir....