Harvest of Stars

The Cassini Division

Ken MacLeod · 256 pages

Xenocide

Orson Scott Card · 562 pages

On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entir

We Are Legion

Dennis E. Taylor · 345 pages

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie · 401 pages

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the *Justice of Toren*--a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, a

The Golden Transcendence

John C. Wright · 350 pages

In spite of the sanctions against him, Phaeton risks everything to journey across the solar system in order to recover his lost memory and the Phoenix Exultant, humankind's first true starship.

Implied Spaces

Walter Jon Williams · 264 pages

Aristide is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatenin

Excession

Iain M. Banks · 455 pages

Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.

The Annals of the Heechee

Frederik Pohl · 316 pages

From back cover Del Ray paperback May 1988: HORIZON'S GATEWAY Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality. He passed the time flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence was interrupted by disaster -- a powerful alien race, intent on the utter dest

Singularity Sky

Charles Stross · 337 pages

Foundation's Fear

Gregory Benford · 620 pages

Thrust into the First Ministership of the Empire, Hari Seldon must administer twenty-five million inhabited worlds from the all-steel planet of Trantor. He's also developing the science that will transform history, and ultimately pit him against future history's most awesome threat.Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a

Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-machine Interface

Masamune Shirow · 312 pages

A Closed and Common Orbit

Becky Chambers · 384 pages

Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very human emotions. But when her ship was badly damaged, Lovelace was forced to reboot and reset. Now housed in an illegal synthetic body, she's never felt so isolated. But Lovelace is not alone. Pepper, an engineer who risked her life to reinstall Lovelace's program, has r

Altered Carbon

Richard K. Morgan · 480 pages

Mankind is strung out across interstellar space, and human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies, but some things never change, so when Takeshi is downloaded into the body of a ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer he shouldn't be surprised.

Queen of Angels

Greg Bear · 426 pages

In a world of wonders, wealth, and "perfect" mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder. Why? That crime, that question, leads a policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a writer to the bohemian shadows of a vast city; and a scientist directly into the mind -- the nightmare soul -- of the psychopath himself.

Trans-Human

David Simpson · 246 pages

Echopraxia

Peter Watts · 383 pages

A follow-up to the Hugo Award-nominated Blindsight, Echopraxia is set in a 22nd-century world transformed by scientific evangelicals, supernatural beings and ghosts, where defunct biologist Daniel Bruks becomes trapped on a spaceship destined to make an evolutionary-changing discovery.

Crashing Heaven

Al Robertson · 352 pages

The Six

Mark Alpert · 373 pages

Adam's muscular dystrophy has stolen his motility, his friends, and in a few short years, it will take his life. Virtual reality games are Adam's only escape from his wheelchair. In his alternate world, he can defeat anyone. Running, jumping, scoring touchdowns: Adam is always the hero. Then an artificial intelligence program, Sigma, hacks into Adam's game. Created by Adam's computer-genius father

Permutation City

Greg Egan · 340 pages

Immortality can be yours . . . at a price Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes grows beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not e

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Roger Williams · 176 pages

Deals with the ramifications of a powerful, superintelligent supercomputer that discovers a method of rewriting the "BIOS" of reality while studying a little known quirk of quantum physics discovered during the prototyping of its own specialised processors, ultimately heralding a technological singularity. Originally published on the kuro5in.org web community.

Robots and Empire

Isaac Asimov · 423 pages

Esta quinta novela de la «Serie de los robots» supone un sensacional hito en la galaxia de ciencia ficción de Asimov y constituye la apasionante continuación del bestseller Los robots del amanecer . En Robots e imperio vemos cómo el futuro del universo corre peligro. Aunque se han debilitado las fuerzas de los siniestros Spacers, el doctor Kelden Amadiro no ha olvidado -ni perdonado- su humilla

WWW: Wake

Robert J. Sawyer · 360 pages

One of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation(SF Site) comes to Ace with a trilogy of the Webs awakening.Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at mathand blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlins brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receive

Sword Art Online, Vol. 09: Alicization Beginning

Reki Kawahara · 264 pages

"Kirito and Sinon's battle with Death Gun is over, but mere weeks later, something strange is afoot in the next-generation VRMMO ALfheim Online. A new duelist with a custom sword skill is defeating all comers--including Kirito. But when Asuna goes to face this duelist, she receives something she never expected: an invitation to an exclusive guild. But what is their goal?"--Amazon.com.

Idoru

William Gibson · 304 pages

From first page Berkley paperback September 1997: **21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Is something different here, in the very nature of reality? Or is it that something violently *new* is about to happen...** *Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, the "signature" an individual creates simply by going about the business