Best Books About Nanotechnology
Top 10 Best Books About Nanotechnology
: Pretties, Specials, The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Prey, Pandemonium, The Angel Experiment, Blood Music, Robopocalypse, Born at Midnight, A Fire Upon the Deep
| Author | Scott Westerfeld |
| ISBN | 0689865392 |
Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect.
Perfectly wrong.
Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted.
But beneath all the fun -- the nonstop...
| Author | Scott Westerfeld |
| ISBN | 0689865406 |
"Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting...
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 0553380966 |
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes...
| Author | Michael Crichton |
| ISBN | 0061015725 |
In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.
It has been...
The old life is dead. But the old Lena is dead too. I buried her. I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame. In this electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller Delirium, Lauren Oliver sets Lena on a dangerous course that hurtles through the unregulated Wilds and...
| Author | James Patterson |
| ISBN | 0446617792 |
Now this is a terrible book.
Written with all the wit and grace of a one-legged puppy, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment reveals its intentions within the first chapter alone. This is not a book of striking prose or even serviceable but entertaining MOR lit. It is merely a cash cow, another mindless...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 1596871067 |
I HAVE BEEN TOLD THIS REVIEW IS SPOILERY!! BEWARE!!
(dude, you seriously want an audio version of this??)
so i read this because bird-brian told me to.
i don't know that i am the best person to review sci-fi books. i have zero background in the genre, but for whatever reason,...
| Author | Daniel H. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0385533853 |
In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network...
| Author | C.C. Hunter |
| ISBN | 0312624670 |
Don’t miss this spectacular new series that will steal your heart and haunt your dreams, Welcome to Shadow Falls camp, nestled deep in the woods of a town called Fallen…
One night Kylie Galen finds herself at the wrong party, with the wrong people, and it changes her life forever. Her mother...
| Author | Vernor Vinge |
| ISBN | 0812515285 |
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.
A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined...
| Author | Caragh M. O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1596435690 |
In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the walled Enclave and those, like sixteen-year-old Gaia Stone, who live outside. Following in her mother's footsteps Gaia has become a midwife, delivering babies in the world outside the wall and handing a quota over...
Part 2 of the Touchstone trilogy:
In the months since Cassandra Devlin walked off Earth onto another planet, she has grappled with everything from making blankets to helping psychics battle the memories of monsters. Not able to find a way home, she has instead gained friends and a purpose....
The Four Lords of the Diamond
I cannot believe this series slipped under my radar for 30 years. Refreshing and original, I've no doubt I'll read them again before the Grim Reaper claims me. Each of the four books almost stand alone, but add up to a greater whole. Humanity is threatened by an alien menace like never before, which appears...
| Author | Kathleen Ann Goonan |
| ISBN | 0765307510 |
In Verity's world, nanotech plagues decimated the population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities. Growing up on an isolated farm, she finds her happy life changing course when Blaze, the only young man in the community and Verity's best friend, is shot. With Blaze's body wrapped...
| Author | Catherine Fisher |
| ISBN | 0340893605 |
Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical...
| Author | Kathleen Ann Goonan |
| ISBN | 1857988884 |
What would it feel like to live through a biological revolution? Many science fiction writers chronicling a vast technological shift lose sight of the people who would have to deal with it. Not so Kathleen Ann Goonan, whose Crescent City Rhapsody is the third of her Nanotech Cycle novels. Each of her...
| Author | Meljean Brook |
| ISBN | 0425236676 |
After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power - and fear - of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0425190455 |
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.
Techno-Dystopia: "Idoru" by William Gibson
I think it's very telling - and promising, that this guy who thinks he can predict an apocalyptic future for Earth where 80% of people are killed has had at least the...
| Author | Linda Nagata |
| ISBN | 0765342111 |
A beautiful young scientist lies dead in a top-secret laboratory, a victim of an illegal experiment with the forbidden nanotechnology known as "LoVs"- intelligent organisms that live at the limits of human vision. In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, a daring journalist probes mysterious cult rumored to...
| Author | Caragh M. O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1596435704 |
Striking out into the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone survives, only to be captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where women rule the men who drastically outnumber them, and a kiss is a crime....
| Author | Caragh M. O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1596435712 |
After defying the ruthless Enclave, surviving the wasteland, and overthrowing Sylum, Gaia Stone now faces her greatest challenge yet--to lead the people of Sylum back to the Enclave and persuade the Protectorat to grant them refuge. But in Gaia's absence, the Enclave has become even more ruthless,...
| Author | Susan Beth Pfeffer |
| ISBN | 0152061548 |
Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda,...
| Author | David Marusek |
| ISBN | 0765312670 |
Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist: The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries....
