Gollancz, 2003, 0-575-08526-0

Alastair Reynolds is an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. He understands space. He is predominantly known for his three novels Revelation Space, Chasm City, and Redemption Ark. Although I liked the first two, the last one is not only unreadable, being too long by half, but worse than that, has the ( Read more... )

ROC, 2003, 0-451-45908-3

Fans of alternate history remember S. M. Stirling's Nantucket Trilogy; Island in the Sea of Time, Against the Tide of Years, and On the Oceans of Eternity. The series started out strongly with the premise that the island of Nantucket and nearby boats, were transported back in time hundreds of years. There is the usual ( Read more... )

G. P. Putnam, 2003, 0-399-14986-4

William Gibson burst on the science fiction field with the novel, Neuromancer in 1984, practically inventing the genre of cyberpunk. He had published several other short stories starting in 1981, "Johnny Mnemonic" and "Burning Chrome" being the most memorable, but the novel both sold well and won a Hugo in 1985 ( Read more... )

Macmillan, 2002, 0-333-90070-7 ( Read more... )

Golden Gryphon Press, 2002, 1-930846-12-6 ( Read more... )