The Martian Race
 Amazon.com Review: Esteemed Mars guru Bob Zubrin calls The Martian Race "one of the finest novels about human exploration of the Red Planet ever written. "But then again, Bob is a character in the book (albeit in the briefest of cameos), so [... more]
$6.99
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Timescape
Amazon.com Review: Suspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It's 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, and a government faction [... more]
$7.50
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Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction
Amazon.com Review: In the decades since Michael Moorcock's magazine New Worlds and Harlan Ellison's anthology Dangerous Visions shattered taboos and transformed science fiction, editors have yearned to do likewise. But science fiction and Western society [... more]
$24.95
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Alternate Wars (What Might Have Been, Vol. 3)
If: Third in a volume of great alternative histories, Volume III, Alternate Wars, is an anthology of mediocre, poor, good, and great stories. Isn't every anthology? And Wild For to Hold is pretty good, describing history if Anne Boleyn hadn't been around [... more]
$11.95
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Eater
Great science, but disappointing old-school plot and characters: This is the first of Benford's I've read, and I was disappointed. The idea of the intelligent black hole, while not totally novel, was fascinating, and supported by utterly convincing fact- [... more]
$24.00
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Foundation's Fear (Foundation Trilogy)
Amazon.com Review: This is the first installment of The Second Foundation Trilogy, based on Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation series. Acclaimed hard science fiction writers Gregory Benford, David Brin, and Greg Bear will each produce a work for the [... more]
$7.99
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Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science
Amazon.com Review: Will we ever colonize space, and if we do will our settlements be more like EPCOT Center or a trailer park? Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science takes a broad-ranging look at space colonies through the eyes of some of this [... more]
$28.00
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Swift Thoughts
Highly Intellectual: Swift Thoughts (2002) is a collection of twenty-four SF short stories. These short works were originally published between 1973 and 2001 in a variety of venues. While most first appeared in the science fiction (and fantasy) magazines [... more]
$24.95
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Heart of the Comet
Captivating: I'm from the Heinlein, Colin Wilson, Lovecraft wing of SF, but I really enjoyed this book. It would make a great movie. Awesome Hard Science: I enjoyed this book immensely! The perfect balance of exploring scientific concepts and telling a [... more]
$23.00
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Eater
Great science, but disappointing old-school plot and characters: This is the first of Benford's I've read, and I was disappointed. The idea of the intelligent black hole, while not totally novel, was fascinating, and supported by utterly convincing fact- [... more]
$7.99
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The Chase of the Golden Meteor (Bison Frontiers of ...
A book by Jules and Michel Verne, Father and Son: It's happened again. A reputable publisher, Bison Books, distributed through the University of Nebraska Press, has attractively reprinted a Jules Verne book whole from the first British edition, on that [... more]
$17.95
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Across the Sea of Suns (Galactic Center)
Excellent. This is real sci-fi.: In reading science fiction of all kinds for over 25 years, I came across the best novels in the genre and also across some real stinkers. I've been a bit disappointed with my most recent sci-fi reads and have resorted to [... more]
$6.99
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