Triggers
March 21, 2012
- Author:
- Robert J. Sawyer
- Published:
- Ace Hardcover, 2012
Science Fiction
Post Mortal Syndrome: A Science Fiction Novel
January 11, 2012
- Author:
- Damien Broderick, Barbara Lamar
- Published:
- Borgo Press, 2011
Amazon | Attorney Jill Shannon’s clients include Blick Pharmaceuticals, which is pursuing research into life-extending drugs.
Blick has reawakened the homicidal maniac Payback, whom they created twenty years earlier, to literally kill off the competition by targeting research scientists.
Jill’s boyfriend, Paul Gibson, one of the scientists, is forced to…
Reamde: A Novel
October 4, 2011
- Author:
- Neal Stephenson
- Published:
- William Morrow, 2011
Amazon | Neal Stephenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Anathem, returns to the terrain of his groundbreaking novels Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon to deliver a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure thriller in which a tech entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of his own online war game.
End of Days
September 12, 2011
- Author:
- Robert Gleason
- Published:
- Forge Books, 2011
Amazon | Lydia Lozen Magruder — the great-granddaughter of a female Apache war-shaman — has seen visions of the End since childhood. She has constructed a massive ranch-fortress in the American Southwest, stocked with everything necessary to rebuild civilization.
Now her visions are coming true. John Stone, once a baseball star and now a famous
Rule 34
July 6, 2011
- Author:
- Charles Stross
- Published:
- Ace Hardcover, 2011
Publisher’s Weekly | Hugo winner Stross blends plausible near-future SF and crime in this brisk sequel to 2007′s Halting State. In the mid-2020s, the police monitor the Internet full-time to prevent crime. In Edinburgh, this job falls to DI Liz Kavanaugh’s Rule 34 Squad (whose name refers to the Internet truism that “if…
Postsingular
May 17, 2011
- Author:
- Rudy Rucker
- Published:
- Tor Books, 2009
Booklist | Always willing and able to embrace sf’s trendiest themes, Rucker here takes on the volatile field of nanotechnology and the presumed inevitable “Singularity” of human and computer unification.
In a series of interrelated vignettes, he describes the calamity that befalls nanotech inventor Ond Lutter and his would-be benefactors when…
The Quantum Thief
April 6, 2011
- Author:
- Hannu Rajaniemi
- Published:
- Tor Books, 2011
Amazon | Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist, and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy — from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of Mars. Now he’s confined inside…
The Children of the Sky
March 28, 2011
- Author:
- Vernor Vinge
- Published:
- Tor Books, 2011
RisingShadow.net | At last, the direct sequel to the Hugo Award–winning bestseller A Fire Upon the Deep! Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the…
Prey
March 16, 2011
- Author:
- Michael Crichton
- Published:
- Harper, 2008
Amazon | In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles — micro-robots — has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.
We, Robot: Skywalker’s Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact
February 24, 2011
- Author:
- Mark Stephen Meadows
- Published:
- Lyons Press, 2010
Amazon | We, Robot does for robotics what Michio Kaku’s bestselling Physics of the Impossible has done for physics. How close to becoming reality are our favorite science fiction robots? And what might be the real-life consequences of their existence? Robotics and artificial intelligence expert (and science fiction fan) Mark Stephen Meadows answers that question…
One Second After
February 3, 2011
- Author:
- William R. Forstchen
- Published:
- Forge Books, 2009
Amazon | New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real, a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages —…
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
February 3, 2011
- Author:
- Richard K. Morgan
- Published:
- Del Rey, 2003
Amazon | In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a…
Futures from Nature
January 3, 2011
- Author:
- Henry Gee
- Published:
- Tor Books, 2007
Amazon | Here are 100 very short stories on the subject of the future and what it might be like. The authors include scientists, journalists, and many of the most famous SF writers in the world. Futures from Nature includes everything from satires and vignettes to compressed stories and fictional book reviews, science articles,…