Genre: Hard SF, Space Opera, Adventure
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: October 3, 2006
ISBN-10: 0765315432
ISBN-13: 978-0765315434
Author Website: Karl Schroeder
Karl Schroeder’s Sun of Suns is an interesting mashup of fiction. It borrows bits and pieces from the great stories by C. S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian, the hard science of Vernor Vinge, and the adventure of [...]
Posts under ‘Hard SF’
Audiobook Review: Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
Book Review: Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
# Genre: Sword and Planet; Hard SF
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Night Shade Books
#Publication Date: April 15, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1597801518
# ISBN-13: 978-1597801515
They are the greatest questions humanity has ever faced. Who are we? Why do we exist? What is our purpose? We live in a time of questing for the answers, a time of existentialism [...]
Book Review: Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
# Author: Ian McDonald
# Paperback: 330 pages
# Publisher: Pyr
# Publication Date: February 24, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1591026997
# ISBN-13: 978-1591026990
# Author Website: Cyberabad
At first, I didn’t think I was going to enjoy reading Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald. I think I can boil my reasoning down to three factors:
1. Near future SF has never been [...]
Book Review: The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld
* Genre: Space Opera, Hard SF
* Paperback: 352 pages
* Publisher: Tor Books
* Publication Date: Reprint edition (July 22, 2008)
* ISBN-10: 0765319985
* ISBN-13: 978-0765319982
* Author Website
Breaking the traditional format of book, chapter, and section in a novel can be a bold move. Many readers like knowing that the novels they read will have a standardized format [...]
Book Review: The Van Rijn Method by Poul Anderson (compiled by Hank Davis)
* Genre: Hard SF, Science Fiction
* ISBN: 1416555692
* ISBN-13: 9781416555698
* Format: Hardcover, 464pp
* Publisher: Baen Books
* Pub. Date: September 2008
* Series: Technic Civilization Series, #1
* Author Wikipedia Page
“Imagination is cheap.” Or [...]
Book Review: Plague Year by Jeff Carlson
* Genre: Apocalyptic Fiction, Hard SF
* ISBN: 044101514X
* ISBN-13: 9780441015146
* Format: Paperback, 304pp
* Publisher: Ace Books
* Pub. Date: July 2007
* Author Website (with excerpts and live action book trailer)
Plague Year, by [...]
