Holy
Fire : A Novel
by Bruce Sterling
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In an era when life expectancies stretch 100 years or more and adhering to healthy habits is the only way to earn better medical treatments, ancient "post humans" dominate society with their ubiquitous wealth and power. By embracing the safe and secure, 94-year-old Mia Ziemann has lived a long and quiet life. Too quiet, as she comes to realize, for Mia has lost the creative drive and ability to love -- the holy fire -- of the young. But when a radical new procedure makes Mia young again, she has the chance to break free of society's cloying grasp.
Bruce Sterling, named "one of the best thinkers in science fiction today" by Newsweek, now presents a cutting-edge novel about the beginning of the transformation of the human race. "Brilliant . . . fascinating . . . exciting . . . a full complement of thrills." -- The New York Review of Science Fiction.
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The setting is the future, and a ninety-four-year-old medical economist is
about to undergo the greatest medical transformation of her life: immersion
in a younger body, which brings with it a change in personality and incredible
complications in dealing with the experimental fountain of youth. Mia's quest
for spiritual gratification joins with her bodily transformation in Sterling's
involving, unusual story.
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In the Hollywood of the future there's no need for actors since any star
can be digitally recreated and inserted into any movie. Yet young Alis wants
to dance on the silver screen. Tom tries to dissuade her, but he fears she
will pursue her dream -- and likely fall victim to Hollywood's seamy underside,
which is all to eager to swallow up naive actresses. Then Tom begins to find
Alis in the old musicals he remakes, and he has to ask himself just where
the line stands between reality and the movies.
Remake depicts a film industry that no longer creates original movies, but uses computer technology to remake old stories from existing footage. It's a Hollywood of simulated sex, drugs, and special effects, where anything is possible--except for Alis's dream of dancing in the movies.
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Feersum
Endjinn
by Iain Banks,
Iain M. Banks, Lain Banks
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In a future where the ancients have long since departed Earth for the stars,
those left behind live complacent lives filled with technological marvels
they no longer understand. Then a cosmic threat known as the Encroachment
begins a devastating ice age on Earth, and it sets in motion a series of
events that will bring together a cast of original characters who must struggle
through war, political intrigues and age-old mysteries to save the world.
(B 4worned, 1 oph Banx' carrokters theenx en funetic inglish, which makes
for some tough reading but also some innovative prose.)
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The
Terminal Experiment
by Robert J. Sawyer
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The Terminal Experiment has propelled Robert J. Sawyer into the limelight as one of science fiction's hot new writers, earning him the prestigious Nebula Award in the process. In this fast-paced thriller, Dr. Peter Hobson's investigations into death and afterlife lead him to create three separate electronic versions of himself: one has no memory of physical existence and represents life after death; one has no knowledge of death or aging and represents immortality; and the third is left unaltered as a control. But all three have escaped into the worldwide matrix...and one of them is a killer.
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Four
Ways to Forgiveness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ursula K. Le Guin revisits her popular Hainish universe with four interconnected stories that together weave a tapestry of revolution and political turmoil. Le Guin tells the tale of two worlds where decades of slavery and class distinction are about to come to an end. She begins at the end with the story of a woman who survived the perilous times and now must face what comes after. Then in turn come tales of a naive envoy, an aloof observer forced to choose sides, and a young slave who wins freedom, only to confront the bonds of her own mind.
In this new collection of four intimately interconnected novellas, Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of America's best science fiction authors. Here is a society as complex and as troubled as any on our world, peopled with characters struggling to become fully human. Named "Best Book of the Year" by Publishers Weekly. HC: HarperPrism.
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The
Time Ships
by Stephen Baxter, Les Edwards
(Illustrator)
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What if the time machine from H.G. Wells' classic novel of the same name
had fallen into government hands? That's the question that led
Stephen Baxter to create this modern-day sequel,
which combines a basic Wellsian premise with a Baxteresque universe-spanning
epic. The Time Traveller, driven by his failure to save Weena from the Morlocks,
sets off again for the future. But this time the future has changed, altered
by the very tale of the Traveller's previous journey.
The author of Flux and Anti-Ice, and the acknowledged heir to the visionary legacy of Wells, Heinlein, and Clarke, returns to the distant conflict between the Eloi and the Morlocks in a story that is at once an exciting expansion, and a radical departure based on the astonishing new understandings of quantum physics. Original.
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The
Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein
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Tom Clancy has said of Robert A. Heinlein, "We proceed down the path marked by his ideas. He shows us where the future is." Nowhere is this more true than in Heinlein's gripping tale of revolution on the moon in 2067, where "Loonies" are kept poor and oppressed by an Earth-based Authority that turns huge profits at their expense. A small band of dissidents, including a one-armed computer jock, a radical young woman, a past-his-prime academic and a nearly omnipotent computer named Mike, ignite the fires of revolution despite the near certainty of failure and death.
The winner of four Hugo Best Novel Awards--a record that still stands--Robert A. Heinlein was the greatest science fiction writer of his era. His bestselling Stranger in a Strange Land was one of the biggest cult books of the century. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress tells an unforgettable tale of a Lunar revolution in 2076--led by a one-armed computer technician, an aging academic, and a sentient all-knowing computer.
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The
Diamond Age
Or, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
by Neal Stephenson
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Decades into the future, near the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians, by making an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. Seattle Weekly called Stephenson's Snow Crash "The most influential book since... Neuromancer."
"In The Diamond Age, the wonders of cyberspace pale before the even more dazzling powers of nanotechnology." --The New York Times Book Review
John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw's daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the stifling neo-Victorian society. But Hackworth loses the primer before he can give it to Fiona, and now the "book" has fallen into the hands of young Nell, an underprivileged girl whose life is about to change.
Stephenson looks at a future ruled by Neo-Victorian thought, and the brilliant technologist who publishes an illegal primer designed to encourage girls to think for themselves. Stephenson's 1992 bestselling novel Snow Crash has been optioned for film.
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Brightness Reef : Book One of a New Uplift
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by David Brin
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Eight years is too long to wait for a continuation of a series as good as David Brin's "Uplift" trilogy, but now we wait no more!
Set in a universe Brin'ing with imagination, a multitude of exotic aliens search for the answer to the greatest puzzle of all: the origin of intelligence itself in this vast and complex cosmos.
If you haven't already read the previous Uplift books, you are fortunate (oh, so fortunate), because you can still experience the pleasure of reading them for the very first time. The original Uplift books are Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War -- all are truly excellent. Be prepared for full immersion in a richly detailed universe.
Millennia ago the Five Galaxies decreed the planet Jijo off limits. But in the last thousand years six races have begun resettling Jijo, embracing a pre-industrial life to hide their existence from the Galactics. Overcoming their differences, the Six have built a society based on mutual tolerance for one another and respect for the planet they live on. But that has all changed with an event the Six have feared for hundreds of years: the arrival of an outside ship. Author David Brin has returned to his popular Uplift universe in this, the first book of a new trilogy.
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Gibbon's Decline and Fall
by Sheri S. Tepper
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Science fiction is a genre traditionally dominated by male fantasy and values,
where Terminator-style machismo saves the universe. Sheri
S. Tepper writes feminist science fiction. Exit Terminator, enter Sophy.
Sophy was a standout in her college class, for all kinds of reasons from
looks to brains to spiritual qualities; she was also reticent about her origins.
It is only when she disappears that her former classmates begin to discover
just how special she was. Woven into Tepper's cosmology is the matriarchal
system that once held sway on earth before males usurped that power. It turns
out the "Goddess" is alive.
In the year 2000, semi-retired lawyer Carolyn Crespin is forced back into action to defend a 15-year-old illiterate girl accused of killing her newborn. Opposing Crespin is Jake Jagger, a ruthless prosecutor who once dealt Crespin a devastating defeat and who is now a pawn in a global conspiracy to oppress women. Around them the world is struggling with starvation, overpopulation and violent crime, as well as a mysterious epidemic that is destroying sex drives and reducing the testosterone level in men.
The New York Times Book Review:
For years now, male science fiction writers have been turning out futuristic
tales of wish fulfillment . . .
Gibbon's
Decline and Fall . . . is part of the feminist backlash.
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Full Spectrum 5
by Jennifer Hershey (Editor) , Tom Dupree (Editor) (Editor) , Jann Silverstein
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Full Spectrum is one of the few ongoing original SF anthology series still in existence. It owes much of its success to an impressive mix of talent, ranging from up-and-coming authors like Jonathan Lethem to acknowledged masters such as Gene Wolfe. This fifth volume collects 28 stories in all, including both the short and humorous and the long and delicious. Savor this volume, for the impressive editorial team that put it together has gone their separate ways.
Here is the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology series at its biggest and best, bubbling over with 28 scintillating science fiction stories. "The most important original anthology series in the field."--The Washington Post Book World.
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The
Road to Science Fiction: From Heinlein to Here
by James Gunn (Editor)
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James Gunn is one of the preeminent science fiction
scholars working in the field today, and his
Road
to Science Fiction historical anthology series has been called "as definitive
an SF anthology as one can obtain," by Publishers Weekly. This third
volume in the series collects the best work published between 1940 and 1977,
showcasing such notable authors as Isaac Asimov,
Ray Bradbury, Arthur C.
Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin. This is a must-have
primer for both veteran SF fans and newcomers alike.
The Road to Science Fiction has been called "the best historical anthology of SF ever assembled" (Anatomy of Wonder). The series offers more than 2,000 pages of science fiction, including discussions of the genre and its authors. The third volume carries the story of SF forward from 1940 to 1977, through the Golden Age and the New Wave to their reconciliation.
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