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Jaws of Darkness (World at War, Book 5) Best Price: $47.76 Harry Turtledove's major rewrite of World War Two fought in a world of magic moves to a... | Terraforming Earth Best Price: $7.28 When Jack Williamson wrote TERRAFORMING EARTH, he was NINETY-THREE years old, and in his... | In the Country of the Blind Best Price: $15.31 Fiction, science and otherwise, is full of conspiracy tales having to do with secret cabals... | Black Brillion: A Novel of the Archonate (Tor Science Fiction) Best Price: $39.99 This is average Matt Hughes, but average Matt Hughes is still good and better than much of what... | Crystal Rain Best Price: $2.00 Several reasons led me to pick up this book, the debut novel from Tobias S. Buckell. First of... |
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The Children of the Company Best Price: $59.99 Kage Baker's sixth book in her Company series, The Children of the Company, centers around... | Off Armageddon Reef Best Price: $4.66 I was disappointed by this book. I've read and enjoyed a lot of Weber's work, and have... | The Cylons' Secret: Battlestar Galactica 2 Best Price: $1.95 No Cylons have been spotted in twenty years and, for all intents and purposes, they have become... | Escape from Hell (Tor Science Fiction) Best Price: $3.25 In 1976 Science Fiction writing team Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, who had previously... | The Ender's Shadow Series Box Set: Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant Best Price: $20.85 Wonderful collection of all four Ender's Shadow series books. Though I personally expected... |
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The Golden Age (The Golden Age, Book 1) | Kiln People Best Price: $8.90 The first half or so of David Brin's "Kiln People" is written in the style of a... | Berserker's Star (Berserker Saga) Best Price: $1.98 This is the first berserker novel I have read in several years. I found it quite entertaining,... | Crossfire Best Price: $2.25 A private corporation is set up in order to travel to and colonize a habitable planet... | Kindling Best Price: $1.71 Only reason he did not get 5 stars...every once in a while character names would be switched in... |
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The Killing of Worlds (Successions, Book 2) Best Price: $1.98 Even if you are considering Westerfeld's two books as one (which you should, as it is indeed... | The Return: Book IV of Voyagers Best Price: $0.99 The Return (2009) is the fourth SF novel in the Voyagers series, following Star Brothers . The... | The Android's Dream Best Price: $4.43 It's four in the morning on a Wednesday (Harold Crick would appreciate the irony) and I... | Rollback Best Price: $3.23 "Rollback" is the second Robert Sawyer novel I've read (though I'm also a big... | Flash Best Price: $1.54 Flash (2004) is a standalone novel in the Archform: Beauty universe. In the twenty-fourth... |
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Escapement Best Price: $4.47 I finished reading Jay Lake's "Escapement" this morning. I enjoyed the book, which... | The Sons of Heaven (Company) Best Price: $4.00 This is not a book to read, if you haven't read any of the others in the series:
In the... | Dragon and Thief: The First Dragonback Adventure Timothy Zahn has been entertaining science fiction readers young and old for more than twenty... | The Forge of God Best Price: $41.27 Greg Bear has a pretty interesting idea about how aliens could destroy our planet. And some... | Saturn's Race Best Price: $0.01 I see a lot of people complaining that "Niven has lost his sense of wonder." The fact... |
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Antagonist (Bleys) | Eifelheim Best Price: $4.52 I wasn't surprised to see some negative reviews on this one, despite the fact that I found... | The Secret of Life Best Price: $3.99 A tense political thriller about possible bacteria that the Chinese might have discovered on the... | Probability Moon (Probability Trilogy) Best Price: $4.71 What I like best about Nancy Kress, as an author, is that she knows how to write a science... | Crucible Best Price: $2.47 Nancy Kress made her reputation in the early 90s with her multiple award-winning novella,... |
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Spin Best Price: $4.36 First, a linear summary of the plot: Suddenly, sometime during the first decade of the 21st... | Axis Best Price: $4.27 The sequel to the mind-bending novel Spin; sheathed in the mysteries of the Hypotheticals, the... | The Necessary Beggar Best Price: $0.01 When one son is accused of murder, his entire family is exiled from their glorious city of... | Building Harlequin's Moon Best Price: $1.12 I have been a fan of Larry Niven as well as his frequent co-writers (Jerry Pournelle, Steven... | The Valley-Westside War (Crosstime Traffic) Best Price: $3.09 Like many other reviewers, I was interested in this vision of a southern California where the... |
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Agent to the Stars Best Price: $2.55 Agent to the Stars (2005) is a standalone humorous SF novel. It is set in the current time... | Steal Across the Sky Best Price: $0.92 I prefer Nancy Kress' "hard" science fiction novels over those touched by horror,... | The Fleet of Stars Best Price: $1.78 Several times in the middle, I got so tired of reading repetitive speeches by the unctuous... | Reflex (Jumper) Best Price: $4.24 Although it took a while, it's a good thing that Reflex, the sequel to Steven Gould's... | The Road to Dune |
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Night Train to Rigel | Challenges Bova offers a new collection of wide-ranging science fiction stories, essays about the onrushing... | Gunpowder Empire (Tor Science Fiction) Best Price: $0.98 I like juvenile sci fi. This was poorly done. It reminded me of watching a Magic School Bus... | The Draco Tavern Best Price: $4.08 In 1973, Anne McCaffrey edited a book entitled _Cooking Out of This World: A Science Fiction... | The Stonehenge Gate Best Price: $1.00 _The Stonehenge Gate_ by Jack Williamson reminds me of some of the older, "Golden Age"... |
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The Golden Transcendence: Or, The Last of the Masquerade Best Price: $8.95 "The Golden Age" as a trilogy will take its place among notable space operas but... | The Skinner (Spatterjay, Book 1) Best Price: $1.60 This was a fun, interesting and original novel which both reminds one of the roots of science... | Ex-KOP Best Price: $1.25 Juno and Maggie are back in another brisk, violent story of life on Lagarto. The plot is... | The Disunited States of America (Crosstime Traffic) Best Price: $1.99 Fourth in the "Crosstime Traffic" series of books about a company which trades between... | The Ghost Brigades Best Price: $2.50 Humanity is not alone in the universe--and nobody else out there much likes them. Unfortunately,... |
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Archform: Beauty Best Price: $0.01 Archform: Beauty (2002) is a standalone SF novel set about four centuries in the future. After... | Old Man's War Best Price: $3.65 One of the downsides to getting older is that it is easy to get caught up in a past that... | In the Courts of the Crimson Kings (Lords of Creation, Bk 2) Best Price: $1.85 Such was my love of The Sky People that as soon as I finished it (December '06) I started a... | Odd Girl Out (Quadrail SF Thrillers) Best Price: $1.75 The first two books in the series, while a bit juvenile and hard to believe, kept up a decent... | Leviathans of Jupiter Best Price: $4.57 In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition... |
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Juggler of Worlds Best Price: $2.54 Summary: This book stands out from its series by retelling many of Niven's old stories, most... | Betrayer of Worlds (Fleet of Worlds) Best Price: $4.21 Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet... | The Precipice (Asteroid Wars) Best Price: $24.50 The Precipice (2001) is the first SF novel of the Asteroid Wars series. In this volume, Earth... | The Quantum Rose (The Saga of the Skolian Empire) | Voyagers II (Voyagers (Tor)) Best Price: $1.49 The second in the Voyager Series, and I think the best of the 4 books. We get to see a lot more... |
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Cold As Ice Best Price: $3.99 For years Charles Sheffield has been one of my favorite science fiction authors--right up there... | Challenges Best Price: $6.00 This was a book I recieved in 1993 and have kept since. This collage of short stories (and Mars... | The Chronoliths Best Price: $18.97 _The Chronoliths_ by Robert Charles Wilson has one of the most intriguing and original premises... | Echoes in Time (Time Traders) Best Price: $69.97 Echoes in Time (1999) is the sixth SF novel in the Time Trader series, following Firehand . In... | Time Travelers Strictly Cash |
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Ender in Exile Best Price: $4.55 I have thoroughly enjoyed the Ender series-- and Card's work as a whole-- for almost two... | White Devils Best Price: $0.01 Nicholas Hyde works and lives in a world where offshore cloning and hybrid technology are... | The Ethos Effect Best Price: $0.34 This sequel to "The Parafaith War" is not Modesitt's best book. As other reviewers... | The Well of Stars Best Price: $1.20 At the conclusion of Robert Reed's MARROW, the Great Ship introduced in that novel was... | Land of the Dead (In the Time of the Sixth Sun) Best Price: $2.84 It?s a small change in our history: imagine that the Japanese made contact with the Aztec... |
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Cowl Best Price: $6.38 An utter mess of a novel. I had no idea what was going on even after I finished reading it. This... | The Life of the World to Come (Company) Best Price: $2.00 Plot Summary: Immortal cyborg botanist Mendoza has been living in the Back Way Back... | Null-A Continuum Best Price: $2.06 Null-A Continuum (2008) is a SF novel within the Null-A series. It is a sequel to the original... | Up Jim River Best Price: $1.19 Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn returns to space opera and to the... | Achilles' Choice Best Price: $0.39 Here's the deal, kids -- if you have never read any Larry Niven, go read almost anything... |
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Starfarers Best Price: $2.93 _Starfarers_ by Poul Anderson is an excellent "hard science fiction" novel, epic and... | Space Vulture | Echoes in Time (Time Traders) | Crucible | Escapement Best Price: $4.47 I finished reading Jay Lake's "Escapement" this morning. I enjoyed the book, which... |
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The Sons of Heaven (Company) Best Price: $4.00 This is not a book to read, if you haven't read any of the others in the series:
In the... | Dragon and Thief: The First Dragonback Adventure Timothy Zahn has been entertaining science fiction readers young and old for more than twenty... | The Forge of God Best Price: $41.27 Greg Bear has a pretty interesting idea about how aliens could destroy our planet. And some... | Saturn's Race Best Price: $0.01 I see a lot of people complaining that "Niven has lost his sense of wonder." The fact... | Antagonist (Bleys) |
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Eifelheim Best Price: $4.52 I wasn't surprised to see some negative reviews on this one, despite the fact that I found... | The Secret of Life Best Price: $3.99 A tense political thriller about possible bacteria that the Chinese might have discovered on the... | Probability Moon (Probability Trilogy) Best Price: $4.71 What I like best about Nancy Kress, as an author, is that she knows how to write a science... | Crucible Best Price: $2.47 Nancy Kress made her reputation in the early 90s with her multiple award-winning novella,... | By Schism Rent Asunder (Safehold 2) Best Price: $3.98 Mankind is hiding from aliens who have eliminated all but this last secret colony of humanity. ... |
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A Mighty Fortress (Safehold) Best Price: $5.29 1100 pages to move the story about one inch or so? I must say that, unlike the other books in... | Zoe's Tale Best Price: $3.66 John Scalzi graduated to my must-read list a while ago, never mind that he doesn't yet have... | Flashforward Best Price: $3.60 When the entire world blacks out, millions die in accidents, and the survivors are left to try... | For Love and Glory Best Price: $6.85 Like a lot of the written sentences found in this far-future SciFi novel, the entire book has a... | Coils Best Price: $3.00 The beginning of this 1982 novel seems familiar. Donald lives a carefree life. Money is... |
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Bios Best Price: $5.90 Since reading Spin, I'll buy any book with the name Robert Charles Wilson on the binding. I... | The Silent War: Book III of The Asteroid Wars Best Price: $5.77 The Silent War (2004) is the third SF novel of the Asteroid Wars series, following The Rock... | Calculating God Best Price: $6.58 David Gerrold once wrote that Science Fiction is about "what is possible" and Fantasy... | The Moon's Shadow (The Saga of the Skolian Empire) | |