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Reading by Starlight
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 40.00Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre. Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia'. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must... more...
Quipu
eReads 2009; US$ 6.99Caroline is about to go psychotic--and with her family, no surprise. Joseph can't talk to women even if he is a certified high IQ clever dick trying to take snapshots of the end of the universe. Ray and Marj have their own hassles with in-laws, but student terrorists get in the way. Meanwhile Brian, misogynist and wit, appalls everyone... more...
The Spike
Tom Doherty Associates 2001; US$ 16.99The rate at which technology is changing our world--not just on a global level like space travel and instant worldwide communications but on the level of what we choose to wear, where we live, and what we eat--is staggeringly fast and getting faster all the time. The rate of change has become so fast that a concept that started off sounding like... more...
Transcension
Tom Doherty Associates 2003; US$ 6.99Damien Broderick has been a leading Australian SF writer since the ?70s. His novel The Dreaming Dragons was listed in SF: the 100 best novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Spike , is a mind-stretching look at the wonders of the high-tech future. Now in Transcension he brings to life one of the futures he imagined in The Spike , a world pervaded... more...
Quipu
Orion 2012; US$ 7.24Caroline is about to go psychotic--and with her family, no surprise. Joseph can't talk to women even if he is a certified high IQ clever dick trying to take snapshots of the end of the universe. Ray and Marj have their own hassles with in-laws, but student terrorists get in the way. Meanwhile Brian, misogynist and wit, appalls everyone in the quipu... more...
The Hunger of Time
eReads 2003; US$ 6.99Technology has started to accelerate at a terrifying rate. By mid-21st century, we might see a Singularity: a convergence of artificial intelligence, advanced nanotechnologies for building things at the atomic scale, precise genomics, other wonders. What happens after that? Will the descendents of today's humanity become gods or demons,... more...
The Hunger of Time
Orion 2012; US$ 7.24Technology has started to accelerate at a terrifying rate. By mid-21st century, we might see a Singularity: a convergence of artificial intelligence, advanced nanotechnologies for building things at the atomic scale, precise genomics, other wonders. What happens after that? Will the descendents of today's humanity become gods or demons, or simply destroy... more...
Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010
NonStop Press 2012; US$ 6.99Inspired by David Pringle's landmark 1985 work Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels , this volume supplements the earlier selection with the present authors' choices for the best English-language science fiction novels during the past quarter century. Employing a critical slant, the book provides a discussion of the novels and the writers in the... more...
The Ruined Queen of Harvest World
Tom Doherty Associates 2011; US$ 0.99A story for everyone who ever loved the work of the late, great SF writer Cordwainer Smith. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied. more...
Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order
Tom Doherty Associates 2011; US$ 0.99Time travel, changing history, forestalling atrocities: it's not a job for the weak. For one thing, the things people in the future wear ? At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied. more...









