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 | The Skinner | Neal Asher |  |
| The Skinner was the first Neal Asher book I read, and it is still my favourite. Set on the highly dangerous waterworld of Spatterjay, which is infested by a wide variety of suicidally voracious aquatic life forms, this is a hugely enjoyable and action packed novel. The Skinner features quirky charac... |
 | Phule's Company | Robert Asprin |  |
| Just added all the new to me books to my wishlist - hint! Hint! Mother's day is coming. Read the other reviews if you want to know what it is about - I won't bore you with the same ole' But read these books - that is a command. |
 | Use of Weapons (The Culture) | Iain M. Banks | |
| Use of weapons is mind-boggling. |
 | The Forge of God | Greg Bear |  |
| I hate giving this book a bad review. I loved two other books by this author (Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children) and this one was highly recommended so I ordered it. But I was very disappointed here. [Some mild spoilers ahead] I'll try not to give anything important away, but while the book start... |
 | Eon (Sf Masterworks) | Greg Bear | |
| The nice thing about a SF novel that deals in alternate realities is it's staying power: when current events go differently than imagined in the book, you can always just say "That's the way things went in that reality." The strength of Eon is this staying power. Despite the fall of the Soviet Union... |
 | Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, Book 1) | David Brin |  |
| I was immidiately hooked to David Brin's writing when I started Sundiver. He has a style akin to many sci-fi authors that I've come to love and he creates a vivid universe with an epic scope. The ideas of this universe are great. I love the hierarchy of Uplifted races, the social orders this crea... |
 | The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies | Damien Broderick | |
| If we are to believe the projections outlined in Damien Broderick's The Spike, the acceleration of change is increasing so sharply that the future is not just unknowable but unrecognizable. Dr. Broderick pulls together his vast learning to expand on Vernor Vinge's notion of the technological ... |
 | Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the new Enlightenment | Damien Broderick | ![]() |
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 | Idolon | Mark Budz | |
| The title says it all. If you have never found yourself interested in nano technology, this story will certainly pique your interest. |
 | The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) | Mikhail Bulgakov, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky | |
| Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that ... |
 | War With the Newts | Karel Capek | |
| The visionary Czech writer Karel Capek (1890-1938), one of the century's great authors, first gained fame during the 1920s and 1930s when his short stories, novels, satires, journalism, children's books, and plays made him the most important writer in his native country. War With the Newts, o... |
 | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel | Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg | |
| It's 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the c... |
 | Little, Big (Fantasy Masterworks) (Fantasy Masterworks) | John Crowley | |
| I bought this book because i was looking for a unique adult fairytale. This book had great reviews and i am very open minded, so i got a copy. I gave this book all of my attention for at least a couple hundred pages, waiting for something to happen, or for something to make even the slightest bit of... |
 | The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | |
| Hey, after reading this book, I'm still not 100% sure where I stand, but I think that's okay. I am much more trusting and comfortable with someone who freely admits that he or she does NOT have all the answers than someone who thinks he or she is right "because the bible told them so." One section... |
 | Infoquake (The Jump 225 Trilogy) | David Louis Edelman | |
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 | Permutation City | Greg Egan | |
| First, a note, this book makes slightly more sense if you've read Egan's earlier short story "Dust". This is available in Year's Best Science Fiction Tenth Annual Collection, and is probably anthologized elsewhere too. |
 | House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer | |
| Fields of white opium poppies stretch away over the hills, and uniformed workers bend over the rows, harvesting the juice. This is the empire of Matteo Alacran, a feudal drug lord in the country of Opium, which lies between the United States and Aztlan, formerly Mexico. Field work, or any menial ... |
 | QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Princeton Science Library) | Richard P. Feynman, A. Zee | |
| When I was a senior in high school, I asked my physics teacher why light bent when it entered a lens. He responded with an analogy about soldiers marching on a field and entering a marsh. The first soldiers entering the marsh would slow down and "bend" the column until all the soldiers were in the m... |
 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | |
| In the 1970s Joe Haldeman approached more than a dozen different publishers before he finally found one interested in The Forever War. The book went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, although a large chunk of the story had been cut out before it saw publication. Now Haldeman and ... |
 | Watching Trees Grow/Tendeleos Story (Gollancz SF S.) | Peter Hamilton, Ian McDonald | ![]() |
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 | Light | M. John Harrison |  |
| Light is a surreal, profound story of fragile humanity and scientific wonder told from three divergent and sometimes uncomfortable perspectives. Harrison's mastery of the written word elevates this novel above the genre ghetto, weaving the three characters fates into a cohesive theme that culminates... |
 | A Briefer History of Time | Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow | |
| Amazingly Hawking and Mlodinaw discuss the concepts of energy, time, relativity, space, time travel, black holes, quantum gravity, wormholes and string theory using almost no equations, excepting Einstein's famous E=mc2. They use common sense and mundane examples to explain some of the most complex... |
 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| Stranger in a Strange Land, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowled... |
 | Hellstroms Hive | Frank Herbert | |
| In Oregon, filmmaking entomologist Nils Hellstrom establishes the human hive in which 50,000 peoplewill live together based on how insects work as a unit regardless of size. The Agency is concerned about the influence of the Hive and has begun spying on the entity especially wanting to steal a meta... |
 | The Portable Door | Tom Holt | |
| What fun! Holt plays brilliantly off literary references both new and old (everything from Harry Potter to Shakespeare to Gilbert & Sulivan) and his dry British wit is right up my alley. An absolutely delightful read. Funny, adventuresome, and clever to boot! |
 | Lord of Chaos (The Wheel of Time, Book 6) | Robert Jordan | |
| This is book 6 of the 12-book Wheel of Time series (book 12 will be released in 2008 or 2009, depending upon the author's health and ability to write -- he has a serious blood disease). Each of the previous volumes weighed in at 750-900+ pages paperback as do the ones that follow, and this one is a... |
 | The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2) | Stephen King | |
| The Drawing of the Three is the second, and possibly the best, of the Dark Tower novels. On a desolate beach in the middle of nowhere, Roland of Gilead must start to gather his ka-tet, his group of close companions; however, he is hampered by injuries caused by the horrible denizens of that beach. S... |
 | The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology | Ray Kurzweil | |
| THere are many research papers published on the computational capability of the biological brain, which is considered to be superior to conventional silicon processors, the mechanism of which was not fully explained from the conventional physics. I hoped that this book gave us a key (or hint) to cla... |
 | Fiasco | Stanislaw Lem | |
| Almost all of Lem's science fiction centers around one or two variations of one theme. The theme is "What is intelligence?" and the two variations are "What would robotic life be like?" and "What would a truly alien intelligence be like?" "Fiasco" is in the latter category. An expedition from Ear... |
 | The Cyberiad | Stanislaw Lem | |
| An excellent travel in space and mind by the most brilliant science fiction author of our days! |
 | Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (Star Wars) | James Luceno | |
| Like Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, this novel pits the title Sith Lord against protagonists. Yes, this is the novel featuring the events immediately after Episode III, including Darth Vader's early missions for the Empire. Vader hunts down Jedi who escaped Order 66 and other enemies of the new Galact... |
 | Dragonflight (Corgi Science-Fiction) | Anne McCaffrey | ![]() |
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 | Bloom | Wil Mccarthy | |
| In the distant future, nanotechnology has gotten out of control. The inner solar system has been overrun by Mycora, atom-size machines that devour everything they touch. Humanity has long since fled Earth for the cold reaches of the outer system, where the lack of heat and sunlight make it difficul... |
 | Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms | Wil McCarthy | |
| Despite my intrinsic interest in such futuristic topics as programmable matter, the subject of Wil McCarthy's interesting journalistic account of research underway at laboratories around the world, I never know how much I should believe concerning these possibilities. More likely than not it will tu... |
 | Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials | Michael A.G. Michaud | |
| Before the publication of David Grinspoon's Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life (2003), which I highly recommend (see my review), I was frankly starved for speculations and information about the search for extraterrestrial life. With this volume however I think I am sated. This c... |
 | The Good Fairies of New York | Martin Millar, Neil Gaiman | |
| This is actually the second time that Mr. Gaiman has recommended something I found ho hum. The first was perhaps above me intellectually. this is below most of the fifth graders I know. Real Fairies in New York? If someone had sprayed a can of Raid on these things I think it would have been the high... |
 | Burning the Ice | Laura J. Mixon | |
| Like everyone else in the tiny, struggling human colony on the isolated ice planet Brimstone, Manda is a clone--yet she is unique, and outcast, because she's a singleton. All the colonists are twins or triplets--and so is Manda, but her twin brother died at birth. Alien to her own kind, Manda pr... |
 | Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind | Hans Moravec | |
| This is science fiction without the fiction--and more mind-bending than anything you ever saw on Star Trek. Moravec, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, envisions a not-too-distant future in which robots of superhuman intelligence have picked up the evolutionary baton from ... |
 | Altered Carbon (Gollancz) | Richard Morgan | |
| A world of cortical (brain memory) "stacks" & supralight needle-streams of data. A vivid gritty yarn with a super-hero. One gripe is that sub-plots are over-complex. Has gangster-ish lingo, with 007 Bond-style interludes i.e. caricatured at times, but that's OK. |
 | Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Haruki Murakami | |
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 | More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement | Ramez Naam | |
| Whether you are a technoprogressive biohacking singularity buff, or you think "H+" is just a hydrogen ion, this book will definitely interest you. Providing an incredibly optimistic view of the biotechnological advances soon to be made, Ramez Naam gives us a comprehensive overview of the potential b... |
 | Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Dover Thrift Editions) | Friedrich Nietzsche, William Kaufman, Helen Zimmern | |
| This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. |
 | Ringworld | Larry Niven | |
| It's nearly impossible to visualize the size of this Ringworld, the construction of it, the composition of it and the maintenance of it. Having my mind tested like this keeps me entranced with the expectation that more will be revealed eventually. But I hate being disappointed, as I was here. Not mu... |
 | The Mote in God's Eye | Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle | |
| In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated ... |
 | Zima Blue and Other Stories | Alastair Reynolds, Paul J. McAuley | |
| This collection of stories written over a number of years is a very enjoyable way to pass a few hours. Readers of Reynold's novel works will recognize a number of themes in some of the stories, including interstellar 'genocidal' efforts against humanity, the impact of relativity when travelling at ... |
 | The Dark Beyond the Stars: A Novel | Frank M. Robinson | |
| There seem to be two main streams in SF. Action packed or meditative. |
 | Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy | Rudy Rucker | |
| This is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. Rudy Rucker is an accomplished science fiction author and popularizer of mathematics and computer science. In this book he seems to bring together everything he has written in the past while playing with constructing a coherent world-view a... |
 | Air (Gollancz) | Geoff Ryman | ![]() |
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 | Factoring Humanity | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| Factoring Humanity will undoubtedly satisfy Sawyer fans, as well as those looking for positive-future scenarios à la Carl Sagan's Contact. Rather than a galactic vision of war and peace, this novel is localized in the extreme: the plot revolves around Heather, a psychology profe... |
 | Golden Fleece | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| The narrator of this book is the artificially intelligent computer running a huge starship, and the first thing it says (prior to killing a character who has uncovered some uncomfortable facts regarding the mission,) is "I love that they trusted me blindly." I felt like telling it "Well of course th... |
 | The Ghost Brigades (Sci Fi Essential Books) | John Scalzi | |
| The Ghost Brigades is a worthy sequel to Old Man's War. A bit less "Heinleinesque", it is a deeper book, tackling the issue of what it is to be human. But it remains an exciting SF novel nonetheless - it doesn't get too bogged down. |
 | The Android's Dream | John Scalzi | |
| This joky book is an easy entertaining read. The title is a bit of a tease. Its a reference to one of Philip Dick's novels but this mildly book seems to be based more on Keith Laumer's Retief novels. Another example of Scalzi's creative recycling of old SF themes. |
 | Ventus | Karl Schroeder | |
| A good story in which all the many dangling threads are resolved, but without seeming overly tidy about it. As others have pointed out, Vernor Vinge is probably the best point of comparative reference here: the numerous, complex characters (including women); the multiple, intersecting plotlines; and... |
 | Way Station (SF Collector's Edition) (Gollancz Collectors' Editions) | Clifford D. Simak | |
| This was a most satisfying read. The depth of imagination, and the prescience of events was a treasure to experience. |
 | Olympos | Dan Simmons | |
| Welcome back to the Trojan War gone round the bend. Hector and Achilles have joined forces against the Olympic Gods. Back on a future Earth, assorted creatures from Shakespeare's The Tempest get ready to rumble in a winner-takes-the-universe battle royale. And amid it all, a group of confused... |
 | In the Beginning...was the Command Line | Neal Stephenson | |
| Neal Stephenson, author of the sprawling and engaging Cryptonomicon, has written a manifesto that could be spoken by a character from that brilliant book. Primarily, In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line discusses the past and future of personal computer operating systems. "It is t... |
 | The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | |
| John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw's daughter and to teach her how to think f... |
 | The Atrocity Archives | Charles Stross | |
| Bob Howard is his section IT geek in The Laundry - the UK's version of government sponsored supernatural protection agency. Life is pretty predictable for him till he decides to apply for active duty, and his first "simple" job goes pear-shaped on him. From this point onwards Bob is going to learn... |
 | Slan | A. E. Van Vogt | |
| Slan is legendary science fiction author A. E. Van Vogt's first and best-known novel, back in print from Tor Books's Orb imprint. The story is classic golden age science fiction: Jommy Cross is a slan, a genetically bred superhuman whose race was created to aid humanity but is now despised b... |
 | The World of Null-A | A. E. van Vogt | |
| This is one of the best bad books I know. |
 | Titan | John Varley | |
| This book begins my all time favorite Science Fiction series: the Gaea Trilogy. I first discovered it by accident in my high school library. I was intrigued by the illustrations and decided to check it out. I quickly was captivated and amazed the High School would stock such a sexually explicit book... |
 | Across Realtime | Vernor Vinge | |
| Looking over what some of these reviewers wrote, I'm wondering, "What color is the sky of their planet of origin?" Sure, it's science fiction, but Vinge is writing about something that, given the current rate of Moore's Law, is going to hit us in less than two decades. |
 | A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought) | Vernor Vinge | |
| This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep--but 30,000 years earlier. The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditional... |
 | Howard Who?: Stories (Peapod Classics) | Howard Waldrop | |
| Howard Who? is a short story collection by Howard Waldrop with an introduction by George R. R. Martin. |
 | On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington) | David Weber | |
| On Basilisk Station (or "HH1" as it's known to the faithful) is the first installment in David Weber's cult hit Honor Harrington series, which has charmed the socks off schoolgirls and sailors alike. Honor--the heroine of this fast-paced, addictive space opera--is a polished, plucky bulldog o... |
 | Spin | Robert Charles Wilson | |
| Wilson does a nice job of sort of throwing a mysterious quandary into normal reality and then showing how it affects humanity. There are things I would expect to happen if the earth suddenly were to become surrounded by such a shield, and Wilson hit most of them, which was satisfying, as often auth... |
 | Darwinia | Robert Charles Wilson | |
| In 1912, the entire European continent and all of the United Kingdom mysteriously vanished during the Miracle, replaced by an alien landscape known as Darwinia. Darwinia seems to be a slice of another Earth, one that diverged from our own millions of years ago and took a separate evolutionary path.... |
 | The Book of the New Sun (Fantasy Masterworks) | Gene Wolfe | |
| Have you ever read one of those books that you keep thinking about a year after first reading it, until you find yourself cracking it open to read it again? This is one of those books, and on a second read it is every bit as enjoyable as the first. Through the eyes of Severian the torturer, we see... |
 | The Phoenix Exultant: The Golden Age, Volume 2 (The Golden Age) | John C. Wright | |
| You just know going into it that nothing much is going to happen in this second volume of The Golden Age trilogy, that author John C Wright is simply setting the stage for the last chapter. You know this not only because that's the way most trilogies are structured, but also because you've read tha... |
 | The Scientific Conquest of Death | Immortality Institute | |
| The first part of this book provides a good introduction to the medical arguments that provide hope that within a few decades everyone will be able to achieve the health needed to have a life expectancy of a millennium or more. It's less technical than I would like, but probably provides good enough... |
