Seton Hill Science Fiction Writers
Explore top science fiction books by Seton Hill writers. Discover thrilling fiction from Seton Hill's talented authors in this curated list of must-read sci-fi works.
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The Salt Roads
by Nalo Hopkinson
- The Salt Roads was published in Warner hardcover (0-446-53302-5) in 11/03 and received rave reviews. - Nalo Hopkinson made her debut with Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), winning the Aspect First Novel Contest and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. - The author's previous book, Skin Folk (Aspect, 2001), won the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection, was named Recommended Fiction for 2002 by Black Issues Book Review, and was named a New York Times Best book of the Year. Hopkinson's Midnight Robber (Aspect, 2000), a New York Times Recommended Book of Summer 2000, received an Honorable Mention for the Casa de las Americas Prize. It was a finalist for the Nubula Award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award.
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So Long Been Dreaming
by Uppinder Mehan
An anthology of stories of imagined futures, written by leading writers of color from around the world.
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The New Moon's Arms
by Nalo Hopkinson
"A mainstream magical realism novel set in the Caribbean on the fictional island of Dolorosse. It tells the story of a 50-something grandmother whose mother disappeared when she was a teenager and whose father has just passed away as she begins menopause.
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Skin Folk
by Nalo Hopkinson
A new collection of short stories from Hopkinson, including "Greedy Choke Puppy," which Africana.com called "a cleverly crafted West Indian story featuring the appearance of both the soucouyant (vampire) & lagahoo (werewolf)," "Ganger (Ball Lightning)," praised by the Washington Post Book World as written in "prose [that] is vivid & immediate," this collection reveals Hopkinson's breadth & accomplishments as a storyteller.
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Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root
by Nalo Hopkinson
The lushness of language and the landscape, wild contrasts, and pure storytelling magic abound in this anthology of Caribbean writing. Steeped in the tradition of fabulism, where the irrational and inexplicable coexist with the realities of daily life, the stories in this collection are infused with a vitality and freshness that most writing traditions have long ago lost. From spectral slaving ships to women who shed their skin at night to become owls, stories from writers such as Jamaica Kincaid, Marcia Douglas, Ian MacDonald, and Kamau Brathwaite pulse with rhythms, visions, and the tortured history of this spiritually rich region of the world.
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Identity
by Steven Piziks
Identity is a secret. Identity is a mystery. Identity is a killer. In the middle of a raging storm, ten strangers find themselves stranded at a run-down desert motel, cut off from the outside world. The bleak refuge of the motel provides them safety from the elements, but not from the true danger. There is a killer among them. With an almost inhuman savagery, the murderer strikes -- and soon the dead outnumber the living. As blinding mistrust and mortal fear threaten to tear the survivors apart, one thing slowly becomes clear: they were all drawn to the motel by something. Not by fate or circumstance, but by shadowy forces beyond their imagination -- forces that promise those who survive a destiny that may be worse than death....
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In the Company of Mind
by Steven Piziks
As the son of billionaire Jonathan Blackstone, it would seem that Lance has all the best toys and the best life. But things aren't always what they seem, for Jonathan uses his grown son as a guinea pig in illegal medical experiments. So before the bizarre events in his strange life go beyond his control, Lance escapes. His father mounts a worldwide manhunt. When Lance is tricked into boarding a space station owned by Blackstone Industries, he is forced to confront his past and the secrets buried in his own mind.
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Unity
by Steven Harper
An original adventure novel based on the hit Battlestar Galactica television series, written by Stephen Harper. The Cylons release a famous singer to the fleet who acts as a Typhoid Mary, carrying a virus that causes nerve and motor tissues to deteriorate. This works to weaken the fleet for a Cylon attack, which will only come when they can no longer fight it off.
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Dead Man on the Moon
by Steven Harper
Sci-Fi Meets CSI. When humanity's only moon colony suffers its first murder, it's up to the forensic experts of Luna City Special Investigations to solve the case.
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Offspring
by Steven Piziks Harper
In this fourth installment of the Silent Empire series, the Dream is a telepathic place where the Silent, a psychic race, can twist the laws of reality. But a madman's lust for power has torn the Dream asunder. Now, it's up to Kendi Weaver to protect the Dream. Original.
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Trickster
by Steven Harper
In this third novel in Harper's critically-acclaimed Silent Empire saga, the telepathic communications net known as The Dream is shattered. But Kendi Weaver has more pressing concerns: finding the family that slavers tore from him more than a decade before. Original.
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Dreamer
by Steven Harper
The Dream......is a plateau of mental existence where people are able to communicate by the power of their thoughts alone.The Silent...These people -- known as the Silent -- find that the Dream is threatened by a powerful Silent capable of seizing control of other people's bodies against their will...and may be causing tremors within the Dream itself.The Risk...And if the normals learn of this, they will do anything to capture the Silent for use as a weapon -- and the Dream itself may be shattered forever...
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Crystal Rain
by Tobias S. Buckell
The only hope for a planets delivery from the fearsome Azteca lies in a mythical artifact said to be hidden somewhere in the frozen north. Tobias S. Buckell is a dazzling new voice, and "Crystal Rain" is an explosive debut.--Hugo Award winner Robert J. Sawyer ("Hominids").
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Ragamuffin
by Tobias S. Buckell
“First-class space adventure, with tip-top characterization, action, and world-building.”—Booklist on Ragamuffin
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Myths for the Modern Age
by Win Scott Eckert
In his classic biographies of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author Philip Jose Farmer introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond. In books, stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further, adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree. MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSE FARMER'S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays. Expanding the family even farther are contributions from Farmer's successors-scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians-who bring even more fictional characters into the fold.
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Venus on the Half-shell and Others
by Philip José Farmer
The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of his own skin and assume the persona of another author. In Venus on the Half-Shell and Others, Philip Jose Farmer transforms himself into fictional personalities as compelling as they are diverse: Cordwainer Bird, Paul Chapin, Rod Keen, Harry "Bunny" Manders, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, John H. Watson, M.D. and even the real-life author William S. Burroughs.
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Halo: The Cole Protocol
by Tobias S. Buckell
In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems. Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble--and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of Kig-Yar . . . yet somehow survived. News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three-man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite, whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by his brutality . . . and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy and walk the Path.