Four and a Half Star Science Fiction Novels I Have Read
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Undertow
by Elizabeth Bear
On a remoted, frontier planet, hired assassin Andr Deschnes wants nothing more than to escape his murderous past and to find someone who can teach …
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The Hounds of Skaith
by Leigh Brackett
Eric John Stark rides again! Leigh Brackett's unforgettable science-fantasy hero of The Secret of Sinharat and The Ginger Star cuts a red swath across the …
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Startide Rising
by David Brin
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times …
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Ender's Shadow
by Orson Scott Card
Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.
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Distress
by Greg Egan
In the year 2055, a disease called "Distress" affects millions, and when investigative reporter Andrew Worth travels to the virtual planet of Stateless to document …
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Schild's Ladder
by Greg Egan
Twenty-thousand years in the future, a dangerous experiment in quantum physics creates an expanding vacuum in space that threatens to wipe out all humanity. By …
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Judas Unchained
by Peter F. Hamilton
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • “An interstellar suspense thriller . . . sweeping in scope and emotional range.”—San Antonio Express-News In the star-spanning civilization known …
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Dune Messiah
by Frank Herbert
Muad'dib, heir to unimaginable power, has a scheme to create a superbeing.
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Liege-Killer
by Christopher Hinz
Two hundred years after Earth is devastated by nuclear war and genetically engineered Paratwa assassins, the humans of orbiting Earth colonies are at peace, until …
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The Adversary
by Julian May
The fourth and final volume of The Saga of Pliocene Exile. Until the arrival of Aiken Drum, the 100,000 humans who had fled backward in …
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Intervention
by Julian May
By the middle of the 20th century, the number of people with higher "metapsychic" mind power has risen. As the world hovers on the brink …
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Jack the Bodiless
by Julian May
In the year 2051, Earth stood on the brink of acceptance as full member of the Galactic Milieu, a confederation of worlds spread across the …
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The Last Colony
by John Scalzi
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior …
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Endymion
by Dan Simmons
The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph--the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion --with a novel …
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In the Courts of the Crimson Kings
by S.M. Stirling
In the parallel world first introduced in S. M. Stirling’s The Sky People, aliens terraformed Mars (and Venus) two hundred million years ago, seeding them …
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Blindsight
by Peter Watts
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens …
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Implied Spaces
by Walter Jon Williams
Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where …
