Space horror

Author	Joe Schreiber
ISBN	0345509625

When the Imperial prison barge Purge–temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves–breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned....

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	2290011150

Greatest book in the whole frickin' universe!!! (of course, having read it over 30 years ago this won't be a highly detailed review...)

Now,I was 11 years old when Alien came out. My mom wouldn't let me see R-rated flicks at the time and most older friends & cousins were afraid of my mother...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0708831826

If this has been an original novel, and the movie came from it, then it would have been a five star easy. Since it's a novelization of an existing movie that's superior, it gets a three star rating for different reasons.

First, the story most of us know and love is great written down. Reading it,...

Author	Neal Asher
ISBN	0765350483

Neal Asher, whom Tor introduced to the American audience with Gridlinked, takes us deeper into his unique universe with an even more remarkable second novel, The Skinner.

On the planet Spatterjay arrive three travelers: Janer, acting as the eyes of the hornet Hive mind, on a mission not yet...

Author	Tim Lebbon
ISBN	1781162689

As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell - and trimonite, the hardest material known to man.

When a shuttle crashed into the mining ship...

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	Christopher Golden
ISBN	1781162727

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426—now called Acheron—has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph—the killing machine known as the Alien.

Protected by the Colonial Marines,...

Author	C.L. Moore
ISBN	1601250819

75th Anniversary Edition! Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler Northwest Smith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0671695320

The colonists from Earth have spent a century in cold sleep to make the first journey, one way, to settle a planet in another solar system. Avalon seems perfect, a verdant, livable world still in its prehistoric age. The biologists and engineers who busy themselves planting and building scoff at the...

Author	George R.R. Martin
ISBN	0812545648

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.


Indistinguishable SF: "Nightflyers and Other Stories" by George R.R. Martin


Dragons have always been cool, Video games have always been cool, real ale has always been cool. (Union) Rugby has always been cool,...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0708852408

Here, even the wind screams. Abandoned hulks of machinery rust in the colorless landscape. Dark, oily seas beat against a jagged black shore. And the remnants of a reentry space vehicle crash into the rough waves. In it sleeps Ripley, a woman who has battled the enemy twice. It killed her whole crew the...

Author	Alastair Reynolds
ISBN	0441015131

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.



SF will not become SciFi: "Galactic North" by Alastair Reynolds



Is SF becoming SciFi? I hope not.

Dumbing down is the order of the day. Our marketing and publishing departments no longer want to...

Author	A.C. Crispin
ISBN	0446602299

At the farthest reaches of the solar system, Ellen Ripley awakens on board the space station "Auriga". Her last memory is of her own fiery death. And yet she is somehow alive. Ripley discovers that her "resurrection" is a result of an incredible experiment which has altered both her and the creature she...

Author	A.E. van Vogt
ISBN	0532601467

I read quite a few van Vogt books as a teenager. I remember saving up my pocket money, getting a 2/6 postal order and sending for the next book I wanted from Panther books from their list of books in the back of the book I had just read. The excitement of waiting for the next van Vogt (or Doc Smith or Asimov) to...

Author	Simon R. Green
ISBN	0451456491

Once the Empire spanned light years, uniting farflung mankind in peace and harmony. Now it is rotten to the core, and a half-mad empress rules with a fist of iron. This is the future fate of humanity as envisioned by the genius imagination of Simon R. Green
Before the rise of Owen Deathstalker, other...

Author	C.J. Cherryh
ISBN	0879979208

Rafe Murray, his sister Jillian, and Jillian's husband Paul Gaines, like many other out-of-luck spacers, had come to newly-built Endeavor Station to find their future. Their tiny ship, Lindy, had been salvaged from the junk heap, and fitted to mine ore from the mineral-rich rings which circled Endeavor....

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0812524969

A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived from Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however,...

Author	Eric Brown
ISBN	1781080232

Best-selling author Eric Brown has created a brand new shared world for Abaddon Books: Weird Space. This thrilling space-opera series will begin with the release of The Devil's Nebula. Brown will introduce readers to the human smugglers, veterans and ne’erdowells who are part of the Expansion...

Author	Peter F. Hamilton
ISBN	0330351435

Not every fallen angel comes from heaven...

The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world.

On...

Author	Philip Palmer
ISBN	1841496243

from the Earth Journal of Scientific Analyst SLJLK92349UO,
Earth Invasion Exploratory Unit

as much as I would like to extend my dismay towards Goodreads' new policy of censorship by posting solely on the much less offensive BookLikes, my programming will unfortunately not allow me...

Author

Peter Watts

Prepare for a different kind of singularity in this follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight

It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where...

Author	Jeffrey Thomas
ISBN	1844164470

A bizarre mashup of science fiction, Cthulhu mythos, and hardboiled detective noir, Deadstock almost seems like it was written specifically for me. As a fan of all of those genres, to find them all embodied in one novel was an unexpected treat. If Neal Asher and H.P. Lovecraft had collaborated on a novel,...

Author	Algis Budrys
ISBN	0380389509

Rogue Moon is a short sf novel by Algis Budrys, published in 1960. It was a 1961 Hugo Award nominee, losing to Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. A novella-length version of the story was included in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 2, edited by Ben Bova.

Before...