Rifters II: Maelstrom |
Peter Watts ( - ) http://www.rifters.com |
"Watts has expanded his focus without diminishing the obsessive drive of his plotting or his prose. [His] vision of the near future offers scant reason for hope. What makes his novel exhilarating instead of depressing is the conviction and control he brings to his material -- I have no hesitation in recommending both books to readers interested in up-to-date science fiction with a seriously paranoid edge. - The New York Times "A sequel of considerable merit. [Maelstrom] becomes something quite different from Starfish, and quite fascinating as well... A unique version of cyberspace rendered beautifully with literary skill and a technological sophistication admirably verging on mystical speculation... an excellent and, on balance, quite literarily-successful science fiction novel." - Norman Spinrad, Asimov's
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Rifters III: Behemoth |
Peter Watts ( - ) http://www.rifters.com |
ßehemoth ... is the most gripping and the most thought-out [book that Watts has yet written] ... Like Greg Egan's "Reasons to be Cheerful", Watts is arguing for an entirely different way of understanding and presenting character, one that reconfigures both how personality is constructed and how actions are to be understood. This seems to me a unique and particularly science-fictional contribution ... For all Watts's dark humor, and for all the incidental thrills of his future, ßehemoth caps a series which is one of the two or three most challenging works I've read in the last decade. - Graham Sleight, The NY Review of Science Fiction
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Halo |
Tom Maddox ( - ) |
Tom Maddox is one of the original cyberpunk writers, this his first novel became a cyberpunk classic. Exploring AI, machine self awareness, virtual realities, and philosophy.
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Blindsight |
Peter Watts ( - ) http://www.rifters.com |
Nominated for a Hugo for Best Novel in 2007 "Blindsight is a tour de force, redefining the First Contact story for good. Peter Watts' aliens are neither humans in funny make-up nor incomprehensible monoliths beyond human comprehension - they're something new and infinitely more disturbing, forcing us to confront unpalatable possibilities about the nature of consciousness. It'll make your skin crawl when you stop to think about it. Strongly recommended: this may be the best hard SF read of 2006." - Charles Stross
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Scratch Monkey. |
Charles Stross ( - ) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/index.html |
An early unpublished novel kindly made available on the web by the author. A dark novel set in a future where von Neumann probes build a growing interstellar computer network to house the uploaded minds of dead people, ruled by artificial intelligences.
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Ventus www.kschroeder.com Ventus |
Karl Schroeder ( - ) http://www.kschroeder.com |
Ventus is a novel of information apocalypse set in the far future. For a thousand years the sovereign Winds have maintained the delicate ecological balance of the terraformed planet Ventus. Now an alien force threatens to wrest control of the terraforming system away from the Winds... |
| Jordan Mason, a young tradesman, is thrust into the midst of an ancient galactic conflict when he becomes the only human on Ventus who can locate the source of the alien threat. But will he side with the Winds, who have brutally suppressed technological development among the human colonists of Ventus? Or will he throw in his lot with an entity that may be planning to remake Ventus in its own, deathly image? Ventus incorporates ideas about nanotechnology, terraforming, and information theory in an epic tale of war, tragic love, betrayal and transcendence. |
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| "The finest science fiction novel of the year 2000." |
| --Barnes&Noble.com editorial review |
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| "Delightful and engaging, both intellectually and viscerally: a superb achievement." |
| --Kirkus |
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Postsingular http://www.rudyrucker.com/postsingular/ |
Rudy Rucker ( - ) http://www.rudyrucker.com |
"Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channeling Kurt Gödel and Lenny Bruce might start to approximate full-on Ruckerian warp-space, but without the sweet, human, splendidly goofy Rudy-ness at the core of the singularity." --- William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition
"Rudy Rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in SF today" --- Charles Stross, author of Accelerando
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