Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds
By: Alastair Reynolds , None , None
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
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1. Spiderlight
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.12
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
The Church of Armes of the Light has battled the forces of Darkness for as long as anyone can remem… read more
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"Like a bloody cave,"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Spiderlight
"What was building a web but a gustatory expression of hope?"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Spiderlight
"Were all beings just a thin skin of volition floating on a sea of drives and directives they could not control?"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Spiderlight
2. Against a Dark Background
By: Iain M. Banks
4.11
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
She came from one of the more disreputable aristocratic families. Sharrow was once the leader of… read more
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"We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it."-Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background
"He might come in useful.' 'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head."-Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background
"It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves."-Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background
"She walked away down the broad grey curve of the causeway, the rain spattering her face while the evil-smelling wind whipped her hair, and realised with some surprise that, after nearly eight years o…"-Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background
3. Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.24
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bris… read more
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- science fiction
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"My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
"Sometimes it is hard because we have to make choices. I remember when having to make choices scared me more than anything else except Master being angry with me. Now I know that making choices is the…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
"There are still fierce pressure groups shouting about letting go of humanity, but they are the same groups who cry that Bioforms are less than human. One day the world will be ready to accept that hu…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
4. Excession (Culture, #5)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.20
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical ta… read more
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"[A]ll her hardships had been self-inflicted and recreational in the past."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
"the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
"But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
"Somehow, later, exhausted and dismayed by these sapping, abrasive, attriting episodes, they came to a sort of truce; but it was at the expense of any closeness."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
5. Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds
By: Alastair Reynolds , None , None
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an… read more
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- short stories
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- horror
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6. A Second Chance at Eden
By: Peter F. Hamilton
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From the author of the bestselling 'Night's Dawn' trilogy, a novella and six stories set in the sam… read more
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7. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
By: Dan Simmons
4.27
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more
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"You have to live to really know things, my love"-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
8. Salute the Dark (Shadows of the Apt, #4)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.33
Format: 277 pages,
The vampiric sorcerer Uctebri has at last got his hands on the Shadow Box and can finally begin his… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
9. The State of the Art (Culture, #4)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella,… read more
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10. The Wandering Earth
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more
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11. Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.16
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
Special Circumstances had always been the Contact section's moral espionage weapon, the very cuttin… read more
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"They also,"-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
"Do you want to work with us?"-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
"Can I cuddle up with you when you sleep?"-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
"I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk."-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
12. The Bridge
By: Iain Banks
4.17
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A darkly brilliant novel of self-discovery the cutting edge of experimental fiction. It leads from … read more
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13. Blood of the Mantis (Shadows of the Apt, #3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town o… read more
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14. One Day All This Will Be Yours
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.04
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The bold new work from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky - a smart, funny tale of time-trave… read more
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"Who’d have ever thought I’d find a soulmate in the end times? Not me, obviously, what with my trying my damnedest to eliminate the rest of the human race."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours
"I honestly think someone invented the time machine just so they could go grab a burger when the urge took them. Anyway, turns out saving the planet by eating soy was a bit of a non-starter given how …"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours
"And even if I met a fellow agent who seemed to jibe with me, no guarantee they’d be the same when I rendezvoused with them later and/or earlier (let me tell you, it’s frankly embarrassing to clap you…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours
15. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
16. Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.20
Format: 596 pages, ebook
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extr… read more
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17. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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18. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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19. The Strange
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more
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20. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
By: Ken Liu
3.93
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
original cover of ISBN 9781982134037 From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipate… read more
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- anthologies
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"Nostalgia is a wound that we refuse time to heal."-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
"The act of remembering is an act of retracing, and by doing so we erase and change the stencil."-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
"As the author, I construct an artifact out of words, but the words are meaningless until they're animated by the consciousness of the reader. The story is co-told by the author and the reader, and ev…"-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
21. Not Long Before the End
By: Larry Niven
3.70
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
[First in a series.] A Warlock discovers the energy source that powers all magic, and is forced to … read more
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