Wide Eyed

Author

Thomas Pynchon

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0575077026

The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a...

Author	Richard K. Morgan
ISBN	0575075147

Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.And now he's back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember.An ex-corporate...

Author	Miranda July
ISBN	0743299396

I bought this book cause I was walking through a bookstore with a friend of mine... a friend I adore more than newborn puppies and tiny rabbits hopping in fields of grass, and she said, "MIRANDA JULY! I love her. She made the movie You, Me, and Everyone We Know."
I hadn't seen the movie, but I remember...

Author	Ottessa Moshfegh
ISBN	0399562885

An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time.

There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345418417

1. Some Non-Trivial Calculus

As the MIT students sang back in 1971:Oh, the Ringworld is unstable
the Ringworld is unstable
did the best that they were able
and it's good enough for me!People who want the details should check out Non-Linear Dynamics of Ringworld Systems, by...

Author	Justina Robson
ISBN	0553587412

A daring and original new novel from one of sci fi’s most provocative voices, Natural History is a stunning work of bold ideas, unforgettable characters, and epic adventure as one woman seeks to explore what may be the greatest mystery of all....

IMAGINE A WORLD...
Half-human, half-machine,...

Author	Justina Robson
ISBN	0553587420

Where do you run when a world is out to get you?

AIs, Forged beings, superheroes, angels, and worlds that change in the blink of an eye–here is a richly imagined tale of ordinary redemption in an extraordinary world from one of the most provocative writers working today.…

Francine...