Wireless
10 best books like Wireless (Charles Stross): Pump Six and Other Stories, Learning the World: A Scientific Romance, Zima Blue and Other Stories, Engineering Infinity, Year's Best SF 15, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, Ribofunk, Crystal Nights and Other Stories, The New Space Opera 2, Enchanted Again
Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the...
| 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 | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1597800589 |
When Reynolds opens his heart, his mind obeys and he produces lovely mini-masterpieces: Enola (here), Turquoise Days, Zima Blue (here) and Weather. Surely his finest works.
Mostly solid collection of stories here, with some true gems.
*** The Real Story
Good solid sci-fi....
| Author | Jonathan Strahan |
| ISBN | 1907519513 |
Engineering Infinity is a fantastic collection of hard sci-fi. I'll admit, there's concepts in here that go over my head, but when they're wrapped up in an enjoyable story, I can live with that. I suspect no matter your preference on flavour, as long as you like science fiction in general, you'll find...
| Author | David G. Hartwell |
| ISBN | 0061721751 |
Who knows what awaits us tomorrow?
Much of the most innovative and exhilarating work performed in the boundary-less arena of SF is being done in the short form. This year's magnificent harvest--gathered, as always, by acclaimed award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell...
| Author | James Patrick Kelly |
| ISBN | 1892391538 |
Following the rapid evolution of cyberpunk from Bruce Sterling and William Gibson into the current millennium, this vivid anthology welcomes a new generation of exciting writers to take the genre in new and unexpected directions. Cyberpunk freewheels with punk rock energy, careening between...
| Author | Paul Di Filippo |
| ISBN | 1568580622 |
Following the shock wave of cyberpunk writing in the late 1980s, Paul Di Filippo's first book, The Steampunk Trilogy, burst on the scene in 1995, leading SF veteran William Gibson to declare the young writer's work "spooky, haunting, hilarious."
Cyberpunk concentrated on cold hardware....
| Author | Greg Egan |
| ISBN | 1596062401 |
The nine stories in Greg Egan's new collection range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.
In "Lost Continent", a time traveler seeking refuge from a war-torn land faces hostility and bureaucratic incompetence. "Crystal...
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0061562351 |
All-new stories of science fiction adventure from some of the most beloved names in science fiction spin all-new tales of interstellar adventure and wonder.
Contents
3 • Utriusque Cosmi • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
27 • The Island • (2009) • novelette...
| Author | Nancy Madore |
| ISBN | 0373605218 |
Following the overwhelming success of Enchanted, author Nancy Madore has responded to her fans' pleas for a follow-up with a brilliant second collection—this time comprised of superbly sensual, delightfully debauched and decidedly darker modern-day interpretations of classic nursery rhymes.Meet...
Perseids and Other Stories
| Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
Robert Charles Wilson's time has come. His first novel from Tor, Darwinia, was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo award, and a #1 Locus bestseller in paperback. His next novel, Bios, is a critical and commercial success. Now Wilson's brilliant short science fiction is available in book form for...
| Author | Ian McDonald |
| ISBN | 1591026997 |
A collection of eight stories, "Cyberabad Days" is a triumphant return to the India of 2047 (the India of
River of Gods
); a new, muscular superpower in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, strange new genders, and genetically improved children.
contents:
9...
| Author | Nick Gevers |
| ISBN | 0756405467 |
Eleven original stories about the different paths our world might've taken...
Alternate history explores the many possible directions our world could follow if certain key events didn't occur at all or were changed in some crucial way. Is our Earth the only Earth, our reality the only one...
| Author | John Varley |
| ISBN | 0441011950 |
From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection...
Nebula Awards Showcase 2010: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy
| Author | Bill Fawcett |
| ISBN | 0451463161 |
This is June’s book group selection. We’ve read eight Nebula Awards books to this point – in fact, when the book is brought to the table, it is the one selection we don’t bother with the voting process. We’re going to read this one!
This year’s Nebula Awards (which is always about...
| Author | Bruce Sterling |
| ISBN | 0929480708 |
Non so davvero perché, ma non riesco ancora a farmi piacere Sterling come vorrei. E dire che lui è proprio il padre cofondatore del genere che più amo, il cyberpunk. Alla fantascienza visionaria e ipertecnologica di Gibson, che preferisco, si affianca quella più sociologica e geopolitica di Sterling....
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0230709257 |
In the eight years since his first full-length novel Gridlinked was published by Pan Macmillan, Neal Asher has firmly established himself as one of the leading British writers of science fiction, and his novels are now translated in many languages. Most of his stories are set in a galactic future-scape...
