The Wreck of The River of Stars
10 best books like The Wreck of The River of Stars (Michael Flynn): Memory, Faith, Learning the World: A Scientific Romance, Slant, Permanence, Infinity Beach, In War Times, Gardens of the Sun, Evolution's Shore, The Well of Stars
| Author | Linda Nagata |
| ISBN | 1937197123 |
A quest, a puzzle, and multiple lives: On an artificial world with a forgotten past, floods of "silver" rise in the night like fog, rewriting the landscape and consuming those caught in its cold mists. Seventeen-year-old Jubilee knows that no one ever returns from the silver--but then a forbidding...
| Author | John Love |
| ISBN | 1597803901 |
Moby Dick meets Duel in John Love''s debut novel of Space Opera and Military Science Fiction! Faith is the name humanity has given to the unknown, seemingly invincible alien ship that has begun to harass the newly emergent Commonwealth. 300 years earlier, the same ship destroyed the Sakhran Empire,...
| Author | Ken MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0765351773 |
Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0812524829 |
In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a revolution in both human psychotherapy and artificial...
| 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 | Jack McDevitt |
| ISBN | 0061020052 |
Though I “discovered” Jack McDevitt after he was already a well-established sci-fi writer, I’ve read a good share of his books now—most notably the series featuring Priscilla Hutchins (Engines of God, Deepsix, Chindi, etc.). McDevitt does a great job, I think, at illustrating the grandeur,...
| Author | Kathleen Ann Goonan |
| ISBN | 0765313553 |
Sam Dance is a young enlisted soldier in 1941 when his older brother Keenan is killed at Pearl Harbor. Afterwards, Sam promises that he will do anything he can to stop the war.
During his training, Sam begins to show that he has a knack for science and engineering, and he is plucked from the...
| Author | Paul McAuley |
| ISBN | 0575079371 |
The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, founded by descendants of refugees from Earth’s repressive regimes, the Outers, have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union, and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational...
| Author | Ian McDonald |
| ISBN | 0553374354 |
I read this book a few years ago, but was reminded of it today. In looking it up just now I realised that it was also known as Evolution's Shore, but I definitely read the Chaga edition.
The weird thing is that there's a lot to recommend about this book. It's an interesting concept that's full of imaginative...
| Author | Robert Reed |
| ISBN | 0765347644 |
In The Well of Stars, Hugo award-nominated author Robert Reed has written a stunning sequel to his acclaimed novel Marrow. The Great Ship, so vast that it contains within its depths a planet that lay undiscovered for generations, has cruised through the universe for untold billions of years. After...
| Author | James P. Hogan |
| ISBN | 0345388852 |
Discover the first three books in the ground-breaking 21st century hard-science fiction saga by James P. Hogan:
INHERIT THE STARS
The skeletal remains of a human body are found on the moon. His corpse is 50,000 years old, and nobody knows who he was, how he got there, or what killed him.
THE...
| Author | Sean McMullen |
| ISBN | 0765344572 |
The great Calculor of Libris was forced to watch as Overmayor Zarvora had four of its components lined up against a wall and shot for negligence. Thereafter, its calculations were free from errors, and that was just as well-for only this strangest of calculating machines and its two thousand enslaved...
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 8466617167 |
En 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, genio matemático y capitán de la marina estadounidense, colabora con Allan Turing y los especialistas británicos de Bletchley Park en el trabajo de descifrar los códigos secretos de las potencias del Eje. Sesenta años más tarde, la empresa de su nieto...
| Author | Donald Moffitt |
| ISBN | 0743458338 |
The first title in ibooks' reissues of classic science fiction adventures by bestselling author Donald Moffit! After intercepting a message from Earth, Nar scientists have learned the secret of human life. The alien species understands everything about human technology and culture and uses this...
| Author | Syne Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0451459105 |
3.5 stars. This was a fast paced, extremely quick read with a really good plot concept. In the near future, a genetically engineered treatment for cystic fibrosis unleashes a plague that literally re-writes its victims' DNA. The reason I did not rate this higher is that the depth of the story and the level...
Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea
| Author | Adam Roberts |
| ISBN | 0575134429 |
It is 1955. Funded, in part, by a reclusive Swiss millionaire and working -- it is claimed -- from Nemo's actual blueprints discovered in India, the French Navy build a replica Nautilus. Crewed with sailors and scientists, and commanded by the short-tempered Captain Mason, it is launched in great secrecy...
| Author | Geoff Ryman |
| ISBN | 0312312121 |
What if you could have sex with anyone in the world?
The ultimate fantasy? Or a nightmare of self-discovery? Michael Blasco, a young scientist investigating what happens to the brain during the process of learning, suddenly finds himself on the other end of experimentation. On the way home...
