By Neal Asher Night Shade Books, $15.99, 412 pages As overpopulation chokes vital resources and condemns millions to starvation, virtually all human rights have been ceded to the Committee, a staggering bureaucracy as ruthless as it is ponderous. As the …
By George R.R. Martin Bantam, $16.00, 448 pages From 1979-1986, bestselling author of the Song of Ice and Fire series, George R. R . Martin wrote a series of science fiction short stories about the intrepid adventurer and unique character named Tuf. The …
By M. John Harrison Night Shade Books, $14.99, 280 pages In Empty Space: A Haunting, M John Harrison continues, if not potentially concludes, the Kefahuchi Tract sequence after a gap of some five years. By any standards this is a remarkable piece …
By A. Lee Martinez Orbit, $13.99, 320 pages Emperor Mollusk is an inventor, a leader, and the ex-warlord of Earth. As a supervillain, he’s done it all and then some. Not too shabby for an invertebrate genius in a robotic body. Now …
By Timothy Zahn LucasBooks, $27.00, 432 pages It’s hard being Han Solo. Saving the galaxy is all well and good, but it doesn’t pay the bills. And with a debt to Jabba the Hutt hanging over his head, Han’s willing …
By Michael Cobley Orbit, $7.99, 632 pages In the future, humanity faces a desperate fight against an alien enemy that we seemingly can’t beat. On the edge of defeat, a desperate plan is put into motion: send out three colony …
By Iain M. Banks Orbit, $25.99, 517 pages Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks is the ninth Culture novel and, as such, an event for everyone who enjoys the best in SF. I would like to report this as another …
By Kim Stanley Robinson Orbit $25.99 576 pages From the author of the Mars trilogy, as well as many other bestsellers, comes a science fiction novel that pushes the boundaries of the genre through story, character, and writing to keep the …
By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston Tor Books, $24.99, 368 pages The wait is over. A new story about the Ender’s Game world is here. Orson Scott Card has teamed up with novelist Aaron Johnston to write Earth Unaware: The First Formic War. …
By Douglas Adams and Gareth Roberts Ace Hardcover, $26.95, 400 pages For over fifty years, the name Doctor Who has reigned over science fiction. While there is no shortage of books based on the Doctor, this one book is very special. …
By Peter F. Hamilton Subterranean Press, $40.00, 272 pages Peter F. Hamilton is known for his epic science fiction books. Epic both in length and in the ideas he packs into each book. It is a rare treat to get a …
By Alastair Reynolds Ace, $26.95, 505 pages Alastair Reynolds’s new hard science fiction novel, Blue Remembered Earth, is a solar system-spanning adventure centered around the death of the Akyina family’s matriarch. One hundred and fifty years from now, when Eunice Akyina …
By Paul Melko Tor Books, $27.99, 384 pages Tricked out of his life by a duplicitous alternate version of himself, John Rayburn found himself alone, stranded, and hunted by a brutal band of exiled extradimensional conquerors. Now their leader is dead, …
By Robert J. Sawyer Ace, $25.95, 340 pages The United States is under siege by terrorists. While preparations for a counteroffensive are laid, the president is struck down. As he’s rushed to the nearest hospital for surgery, a scientist begins …
By Jonathan Green Solaris, $9.99, 325 pages Anno Frankenstein is the seventh book in Jonathan Green’s Pax Britannia alternate-reality series featuring Ulysses Quicksilver, agent of the Crown. This book has us traveling back in time to 1943 when Magna Britannia …
