Robert Sawyer concludes his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy with this book. Contact between a world where humans were the dominant evolutionary path, and a world where Neanderthals survived instead continues to heat up, as the two worlds share aspects of science, … Continue reading
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The second book of Robert Sawyer’s Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Humans, continues the story begun in Hominids. Neanderthal Ponter Boddit’s returned to his own dimension, but his thoughts continually bring him back to the strange world where his race didn’t survive … Continue reading
Acclaimed author Robert Sawyer begins a daring new trilogy with this tale of overlapping alternate histories. When a quantum-computing experiment in one world meets a neutrino observation post in another, things go horribly wrong. Scientist Ponter Boddit is thrust into … Continue reading
John Ringo brings to a close the first part of his Legacy of the Aldenata series with Hell’s Faire. Originally intended to be the final part of When the Devil Dances, the material in this book was delayed due to … Continue reading
Sharon Shinn’s latest novel delves deep into the nature of love and racism, setting the age-old concepts on a world where three separate races must manage to coexist without letting their underlying distrust of each other destroy them all. For … Continue reading
When the aliens finally come, it’s not going to be to kill us, mate with our women, enslave us, destroy us, or enlighten us. No, it’s going to be to open up new trade routes, and do to the Earth … Continue reading
In this sequel to Archangel Protocol, Lyda Morehouse takes another look at a future society forever transformed after a disastrous war. Religion has taken hold in a serious way; either you believe, or you’re a non-citizen. Now, the world’s only … Continue reading
Zachary Nixon Johnson, the last freelance private investigator on Earth, is called upon to unravel yet another bizarre case in The Doomsday Brunette, his second outing. This time, he and his AI partner are summoned to the estate of Ona … Continue reading
In the future, we’ve finally made contact with alien races. The only problem is, they come complete with laws and mores that occasionally seem incomprehensible to us, and part of the diplomatic concessions made to these aliens grants them the … Continue reading
In the latest installment of Simon Green’s universe-spanning space opera, things just keep getting worse for the main characters, and the universe as a whole. Former Paragon and King’s Champion Lewis Deathstalker is on the run, disgraced and condemned by … Continue reading