Alastair Reynolds
1) Slow Bullets
Author
Language
English
Description
From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilization itself.
A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur-and for humanity-peace is not to be.
On the brink of the ceasefire,...
Author
Series
Revenger novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Adrana and Fura Ness have finally been reunited, but both have changed beyond recognition. Once desperate for adventure, now Adrana is haunted by her enslavement on the feared pirate Bosa Sennen's ship. And rumors of Bosa Sennen's hidden cache of treasure have ensnared her sister, Fura, into single-minded obsession. Neither is safe; because the galaxy wants Bosa Sennen dead and they don't care if she's already been killed. They'll happily take whoever...
3) Elysium fire
Author
Series
Inspector Dreyfus novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction...
4) Revenger
Author
Language
English
Description
Revenger is a rocket-fueled tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism. . . and of vengeance. . .
Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest crew members of the legendary Captain Rackamore's ship, using their mysterious powers as Bone Readers to find clues about their next score. But there might be more waiting for them in space than adventure and fortune: the fabled and feared Bosa Sennen,...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Orbit edition.
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the last surviving human city, an ex-spy gets sucked into a dangerous quest that will take him beyond the city walls when a winged man turns up dead in his morgue in this innovative and original dystopian space adventure. Spearpoint, the last human city, is an enormous atmosphere-piercing spire. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different--and rigidly enforced--level of technology....
6) Pushing Ice
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Language
English
Description
The year is 2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form and Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, are the best at what they do: pushing ice. Near the end of their current mission cycle, startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed. Bella Lind and the Rockhopper have been assigned...
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Ace hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
473 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Now someone is eliminating them."--From publisher description.
8) Eversion
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Silas Coade tries to keep his crew safe while figuring out why maritime disasters keep happening to him in different centuries.
Author
Series
Poseidon's children volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Ace hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
505 p. cm.
Language
English
11) Absolution gap
Author
Series
Revelation space universe volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 565 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
12) Chasm City
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Edition
Ace hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
524 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) Century rain
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
504 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
14) Revelation space
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Orbit Print Edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 547 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes...
15) Redemption ark
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Orbit print edition.
Physical Desc
581 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors -- alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons -- and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own purposes -- and the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether......
16) Inhibitor phase
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Orbit edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 483 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For thirty years a tiny band of humans has been sheltering in the caverns of an airless, crater pocked world called Michaelmas. Beyond their solar system lie the ruins of human interstellar civilization, stalked by a ruthless, infinitely patient cybernetic entity determined to root out the last few bands of survivors. One man has guided the people of Michaelmas through the hardest of times, and given them hope against the wolves: Miguel de Ruyter....
17) Permafrost
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity's future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics...
18) The prefect
Author
Series
Inspector Dreyfus novels volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
410 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous--a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than...
Author
Language
English
Description
Horton's elegiac anthology of 15 mostly hard SF stories illuminates a broad spectrum of grief over love thwarted through time, space, human frailty or alien intervention, from the gentle melancholy of Michael Swanwick's "Triceratops Summer," which posits tame Technicolored time-warped dinosaurs in Vermont, to newcomer Leah Bobet's "Bliss," an agonizing riff on near-future drug addiction. Several selections address current political-social issues,...