Across Realtime
Author: Vernor Vinge
“The intricately plotted progress of characters from near to farfuture… on an Earth which, like an abandon playground, has long ago been left behind by an evolving humanity… human-scale action within a vast canvas.”– The Excyclopedia of Science Fiction.Encompassing time-travel, powerful mystery and the future history of humanity to its last handful of survivors, Acros….Read More
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A Deepness in the Sky
The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. The Queng Ho… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Life On Other Planets, Science Fiction
Interface
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Marooned in Realtime
Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.In this taut… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Time Travel Science Fiction, United States
Rainbows End
Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during… Continue Reading Posted in: Memory, Patients, Spanish Language
Heavy Weather
Why hack computers when you can hack nature? Sterling's Storm Troupe lives in a post-greenhouse world ravaged by monster storms and finds itself hacking the ultimate storm: the F-6 tornado.… Continue Reading Posted in: Cyberpunk Science Fiction, English Fiction, Technothrillers, United States
The Peace War
The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any… Continue Reading Posted in: Dystopian Science Fiction, English Fiction, Time Travel Fiction, United States
Against a Dark Background
Alternate cover edition can be found here and here. Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Marine Science Fiction eBooks
A Fire Upon the Deep
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… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Science Fiction, United States
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell", Susanna Clarke delivers a delicious collection of ten stories set in the same fairy-crossed world… Continue Reading Posted in: Fairy Tales, Fantasy Anthologies & Short Stories, Short Stories In English 2000 Texts, U.S. Short Stories
Stand on Zanzibar
Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in… Continue Reading Posted in: Population, Themes
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