Category: Science Fiction

By Philip K. Dick

ISBN-10: 0307495620

ISBN-13: 9780307495624

Within the aftermath of a devastating worldwide struggle, the few last people divert themselves with an obsessive online game known as Bluff--a video game performed for brand spanking new spouses and whole towns. yet what if Bluff draws one other type of participant, who will possibly not also be human?

By David Drake

ISBN-10: 1416555242

ISBN-13: 9781416555247

The tyrannical Alliance maintains its conflict opposed to the Republic of Cinnabar, and Daniel Leary, newly promoted to Commander, and his staff have a brand new challenge: cease Dunbar’s international from falling to an invasion by means of the planet Pellegrino. Nataniel Arruns, son of the dictator of Pellegrino, has landed with a wide contingent, desiring to set himself up because the ruling warlord, with the planet’s inhabitants changing into workers—serfs—of the Pellegrinian overlords. And Dunbar’s global has not more than their neighborhood police strength to oppose him.
 
Leary back instructions the corvette Princess Cecile, yet in this project her missile tubes are empty. just one guy is able to relief Leary, however the wealthy and strong may particularly see him fail than reach preventing the invasion. Leary needs to by some means conquer a wide entrenched strength on an island defended via strong plasma cannon and shipkilling missiles and subsidized up by means of a seriously armed warship in orbit, all whereas commanding just a small and nearly unarmed spacecraft.
 
But Leary back has assistance from indications Officer Adele Mundy, who could make desktop networks do the it seems that very unlikely. Leary, Mundy and the workforce of the Princess Cecile have long gone up opposed to very unlikely odds prior to . . . and their rivals in these effective missions are nonetheless thinking about simply what hit them.

By Richard K. Morgan

ISBN-10: 0575081279

ISBN-13: 9780575081277

*Woken Furies* is Richard Morgan's 3rd *noir* SF event starring strive against veteran Takeshi Kovacs, who debuted in *Altered Carbon* (2002; winner of the Philip okay. Dick Award). Kovacs operates in an interstellar way forward for severe violence and unique weaponry, the place swapping our bodies is as effortless as buying and selling in an previous car.

The surroundings is Harlan's international, ninety five% ocean, the place old alien orbital platforms nonetheless vaporize whatever that flies too excessive. Kovacs, older and madder, is working a personal vendetta opposed to Taliban-like fundamentalists whose principles--in an international the place loss of life is reversible--forced an previous girl-friend and her baby to die completely. Wounded and at the run as traditional, he escapes through becoming a member of a "deCom" squad weeding out human-built guns structures that don't are looking to be decommissioned. quickly he's entangled with a girl who (some of the time) *seems* to be a reincarnation of long-dead innovative chief Quellcrist Falconer…

Meanwhile, the dictatorial ruling family members of Harlan's international has set the deadliest attainable murderer on Kovacs' trail--an unlawful replica of his more youthful self, in a brand-new body.

High-energy problems keep on with. There's unforeseen violence in a virtual-reality monastery. Kovacs and "Quellist" sympathizers plan a loopy James Bond attack on an impregnable island citadel, an assault that leads to a shock twist. The idealistic Quellcrist (if that's who she is) has the foremost to a genetic time-bomb by no means ahead of used: "A entire new kind of death." Even these implacable orbital guns that smite high-fliers with "angelfire" have secrets and techniques in their personal.

By Bob Shaw

ISBN-10: 0886771641

ISBN-13: 9780886771645

Whilst Ray Jerome, a crotchety journalist at the Whiteford Examiner, is requested to enquire a case of spontaneous human combustion, his first reation is to ridicule the belief - yet he's not in a position to again out of doing the story.

To his personal shock, he turns into interested by the phenomenon of people that fritter away for no seen cause. it's a fascination in an effort to make 1996 the main unimaginable 12 months of his lifestyles.

By Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore

Tensions among planets within the Rhaax procedure have abated to the purpose the place the edges have agreed to disarmament. The S.C.E. team at the U.S.S. da Vinci is distributed in addition to a Federation diplomat to behave as guns inspectors to ensure that the phrases of the cease-fire and disarmament are followed.
But quickly the S.C.E. learns that neither part has any goal of really disarming -- after which Tev, P8 Blue, and Soloman are captured by means of one facet. Captain Gold needs to have the ability to rescue his team, and hold the peace, ahead of either planets explode!

By Stanisław Lem

ISBN-10: 1937624668

ISBN-13: 9781937624668

Solaris is a 1961 Polish philosophical technology fiction novel via Stanisław Lem. The e-book facilities upon the subjects of the character of human reminiscence, event and the last word inadequacy of communique among human and non-human species.

In probing and studying the oceanic floor of the planet Solaris from a soaring study station the human scientists are, in flip, being studied via the sentient planet itself, which probes for and examines the ideas of the people who're interpreting it. Solaris has the power to appear their mystery, to blame issues in human shape, for every scientist to for my part confront.

Solaris is certainly one of Lem’s philosophic explorations of man’s anthropomorphic obstacles. First released in Warsaw in 1961, the 1970 Polish-to-French-to-English translation of Solaris is the best-known of Lem's English-translated works.

By Gordon R. Dickson

ISBN-10: 1627934804

ISBN-13: 9781627934800

The computer that managed all existence wouldn't tolerate any interference. those that refused to be regulated needed to be disposed of - remoted, pushed insane, murdered. A small staff of fellows had devoted themselves to combating this Frankenstein of man's technological fulfillment. Secretly they laid plans to ruin the desktop and all its works together with the thousands of people that had approved their robot-like life. both means, the human race was once doomed!

By Philip José Farmer

ISBN-10: 1429949147

ISBN-13: 9781429949149

Milton Firebrass, as soon as Mark Twain's enemy and now his maximum best friend, plans to construct an immense airship which can fly to the North Pole of Riverworld. as soon as there, he hopes to profit the key of the mysterious tower that dominates the panorama and find the solution to his such a lot pressing query: may possibly the tower comprise the Ethicals, the enigmatic beings that created Riverworld?

Meanwhile, Jill Gulbirra is challenged for the activity of piloting the airship by way of none except Cyrano de Bergerac. as though there have been now not adequate demanding situations dealing with the team, they quickly suspect there's an agent of the Ethicals between their quantity, plotting their destruction….

By Simon R. Green

ISBN-10: 1101176288

ISBN-13: 9781101176283

Branded an outlaw and hunted by way of brokers of the Empire, Lewis Deathstalker needs to cease the encroaching Terror that threatens all of humanity. yet he can be successful simply with the aid of Owen Deathstalker, who supposedly died greater than two hundred years in the past.

By Stephen Moss

In 11 years time, one million individuals of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years prior to they input orbit, their procedure should be introduced via the flare of one thousand flames within the sky, their ships' large engines burning not easy to sluggish them from the big speeds had to go interstellar space.

These foreboding lighting will shine in our evening sky like new stars, getting ever brighter till they outshine even the solar, casting ominous shadows and banishing the evening until eventually they unexpectedly blink out.

Their expertise is tremendously better to ours, they usually understand they can't in all probability lose the arrival clash. yet they, like us, have discovered no solution to the damaging strength of the atom, and so they don't have any goal of dealing with the onslaught of our primitive nuclear arsenal, or the devastation it is going to wreak in the world they crave.

So they've got flung out a sophisticated celebration in entrance of them, hidden inside one of many numerous asteroids randomly roaming the void.

They don't want us, they wish our planet. Their brokers are arriving.