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  • Reckoning by W. Michael Gear

    Reckoning by W. Michael Gear

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sixth book in the thrilling Donovan sci-fi series returns to a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.Three years after Ashanti spaced for Solar System, Turalon reappears in the Donovanian sky. The Corporation has returned. Donovan's wealth is a lure for the powerful families who control the Board...
  • More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

    More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles...
  • The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt

    The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Two hundred years ago, humans made a stunning discovery in the far reaches of the solar system: a huge statue of an alien creature, with an inscription that defied all efforts at translation. Now, as faster-than-light drive opens the stars to exploration, humans are finding other relics of the race they call the Monument-Makers - each different, and each heartbreakingly beautiful...
  • Freeware by Rudy Rucker

    Freeware by Rudy Rucker

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rudy Rucker has seen the future. . .and it is extreme.The Godfather of cyberpunk--a mad scientist bravely meddling in the outrageous and heretical--Rucker created Bopper Robots, who rebelled against human society in his award-winning classic "Software...
  • The Return by Ben Bova

    The Return by Ben Bova

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had acquired alien powers. Using these new powers, he built a new starship and left Earth...
  • Afterparty by Daryl Gregory

    Afterparty by Daryl Gregory

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass...
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  • Moxyland by Lauren Beukes

    Moxyland by Lauren Beukes

    Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A new paperback edition of Lauren Beukes's frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable that follows four narrators living in a dystopian near-future.Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program. Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers. Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid...
  • I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein

    I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Johann Sebastian Bach Smith is immensely rich; and very old. His mind is still keen, so he has surgeons transplant his brain into a new body; the body of his gorgeous, recently deceased secretary, Eunice. But Eunice hasn't completely vacated her body..
  • Light by M. John Harrison

    Light by M. John Harrison

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness.In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill...
  • Gantz/17 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/17 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    It seems like every new alien creature the Gantz gang fights is just practice for another, tougher, more demented future alien battle. Every new alien means another crew of newly dead citizens, reborn as alien hunters. Except for those who survive for the next battle. And Kei is the only one who’s survived since volume 1...
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