Zima Blue and Other Stories
10 best books like Zima Blue and Other Stories (Alastair Reynolds): Federations, Hilldiggers, Oceanic, The New Space Opera, Wireless, The Best of Michael Swanwick, Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, Perseids and Other Stories, Manhattan In Reverse, Getting to Know You
| Author | John Joseph Adams |
| ISBN | 0809573474 |
From Star Trek to Star Wars, from Dune to Foundation, science fiction has a rich history of exploring the idea of vast intergalactic societies, and the challenges facing those living in or trying to manage such societies. The stories in Federations will continue that tradition. What are the social/religious/environmental/technological...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 1405055006 |
During a war between two planets in the same solar system - each occupied by adapted humans - what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology...
| Author | Greg Egan |
| ISBN | 0575086521 |
Collected together here for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of the most exciting writers of science fiction working today. In these dozen glimpses into the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are,...
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0060846755 |
The brightest names in science fiction pen all-new tales of space and wonder.
Contents
1 • Introduction (The New Space Opera) • (2007) • essay by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
6 • Saving Tiamaat • (2007) • shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
24 • Verthandi's Ring...
| Author | Charles Stross |
| ISBN | 0441017193 |
Science fiction guru Charles Stross "sizzles with ideas" ("Denver Post") in his first major short story collection.
The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as "Accelerando, Halting State," and "Saturn's Children" delivers a rich selection of speculative...
| Author | Michael Swanwick |
| ISBN | 1596061782 |
It's here at last the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published stories both of them Nebula finalists to his most recent, these works bear witness to one of the most vivid and far-ranging...
Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
| Author | Jonathan Strahan |
| ISBN | 1597801178 |
An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the first volume in...
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 | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0230750303 |
Another great collection of stories from one of my favorites sci-fi writers.
Watching Trees Grow - 1832: the beginning of industrial revolution. Fuel has been banned due to pollution and limited resources, car batteries are emerging, genetics begin to develop, human longevity strives...
| Author | David Marusek |
| ISBN | 1596060883 |
David Marusek made quite a splash with his debut novel - the clever, dizzyingly dense sci-fi tale of a horribly breezy future, Counting Heads. this collection of short stories illustrates the many talents (and slight limitations) of a writer who may be agape at the potential wonder of our future, but...
| 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 | Lucius Shepard |
| ISBN | 1596061332 |
Lucius Shepard writes from the darkest, truest heart of America—not the heart of the United States or of North America, but all of America—and he writes of it with rare passion, honesty and intelligence. His earliest stories, the ones that made his name a quarter of a century ago, were set in the jungles...
