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Brain Wave
RosettaBooks 2002; US$ 4.99What if we´re all designed to be smarter than we actually are? That is, in short, the premise of master science fiction novelist Poul Anderson´s 1954 debut work, Brain Wave . Unbeknownst to its inhabitants, the solar system has, for millions of years, been caught in a force field that has had the effect of suppressing intelligence. When, in the... more...
Tau Zero
RosettaBooks 2002; US$ 4.99Poul Anderson´s Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two qualities that are often at odds in this genre: an interest in the emotional lives of its characters and a fascination with all things technological and scientific. In Tau Zero these components are not merely fused; they work together with a remarkable... more...
Schild's Ladder
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Twenty thousand years into the future, an experiment in quantum physics has had a catastrophic result, creating an enormous, rapidly expanding vacuum that devours everything it comes in contact with. Now humans must confront this deadly expansion. Tchicaya, aboard a starship trawling the border of the vacuum, has allied himself with the Yielders... more...
The Nemesis List
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 7.66Humanity has expanded into the stars but at the price of its freedom. An autocratic and overbearing Government now rigidly controls every technical and scientific advancement. Deviation is punishable by death. Out on the edges of space, criminals thwart the law, making money out of illegal tech, their ships jumping from galaxy to galaxy to avoid detection.... more...
Blue Mars
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 8.99The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert... more...
Green Mars
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 7.99In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars , Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier. Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but... more...
Galileo's Dream
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei. To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influence the subsequent history of the human race. From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade... more...
Mission of Gravity
RosettaBooks 2002; US$ 3.99When invaluable research equipment is lost on the planet Mesklin, astronaut Charles Lackland is dispatched to the planet?s surface to retrieve it. He is aided by the creature Barlennan, a native Mesklinte, and the crew of Barlennan?s ocean-going vessel. But Lackland and his alien companions face formidable challenges on the planet, most importantly... more...
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 11.65War is becoming increasingly 'SF-ized' with remotely controlled attack drones and robot warriors already in development and being tested. Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power, yet also in sophistication so that we no longer seem to live under the constant threat of all-out global thermonuclear... more...
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