Greg Bear
21) Moving Mars
Author
Series
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Sacrifice, revolution, the promise of freedom. These flood into the life of Casseia Majumdar, daughter of the Binding Multiples. Rebelling against her conservative family, the colonists who occupy Mars, Casseia takes part in the brewing revolution sparked by student protests in the year 2171. Meanwhile, her love life is in a very precarious situation, with her beloved Charles Franklin's seeking to merge his mind with the most advanced artificial mind....
22) [Slant]
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In the second half of the twenty-first century, nanotechnology has transformed every aspect of society. Humans can now change their abilities, their appearance, their very bodies on microscopic level. Advanced psychotherapy seems to have wiped away violence and illness. The world is sane and in balance. However, that balance teeters with the grisly murder of two prostitutes and a series of suicides. Soon, public defender Mary Cho's investigation finds...
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Greg Bear explores the power of music to open a portal between worlds in this pair of brilliantly imagined fantasy novels. The Infinity Concerto: Following the instructions of a virtuoso composer-whose controversial Concerto Opus 45 is actually a song of power-young poet Michael Perrin passes through a gateway between Earth and the Realm of the Sidhedark, where faeries reign by rule of magic, and Michael's epic...
24) Blood music
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Series
Language
English
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Experimenting with biochips, Vergil Ulam creates instead a microscopic intelligence that mutates. Vergil injects himself with the disease culture to smuggle it out of the country. That is how the end of the world begins.
25) Anvil of stars
Author
Series
Forge of God ; 2
Language
English
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Description
Follows the mission of a select group of human survivors as they search in the Ship of Law for the aliens who destroyed their planet.
26) Dinosaur summer
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Language
English
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Description
Peter Belzoni and his father, a photojournalist, accept the nearly impossible task of returning "a menagerie of avisaurs, centrosaurs, and ankylosaurs, as well as one large predatory raptor named Dagger" from their previous home in the Lothar Gluck Circus in Venezuela to "the wild."--Jacket
27) Halo: Primordium
Author
Series
Forerunner saga ; 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
In the wake of apparent self-destruction of the Forerunner empire, two humans--Chakas and Riser--are like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed. Captured by the Master Builder, misplaced during a furious battle in space, they now find themselves on an inverted world where horizons rise into the sky, and where humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of horror and neglect. For they have become both research animals and strategic...
28) Halo: Cryptum
Author
Series
Forerunner saga ; 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner who seeks out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors --long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent -- an act that forces his father's hand and forever changes Bornstellar's destiny ... and the fate of the entire galaxy.
29) Halo: Silentium
Author
Series
Forerunner saga ; 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect...
30) Queen of angels
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
A writer, a scientist, and a policewoman collaborate to discover the motive of a famous poet who murdered eight close friends.
31) Legacy
Author
Series
Way ; 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A new world has been discovered via a time tunnel. It is called Lamarckia and it is home to novel forms of life, among them hybrids of plants and animals. But access is restricted and the story concerns an agent investigating illegal immigration to this new world.
32) Hull zero three
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Language
English
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Description
A small band of humans on a long journey wake up to find themselves lightyears from known space, on a ship that has gone mad. The ship is an unmanned terraformer, designed to bring life to dead planets, but not to transport the living. Now, five humans find themselves struggling to understand how they came to be here and just where it is they are going. They must find a way to survive in these cold, dark halls.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This collection of newly revised stories and rare screenplay by Greg Bear combines his intense concern with the human condition with a deep understanding of science. Here are mind-bending explorations of the near future, or just beyond the border of conventional reality." --
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Greg Bear is one of the greatest science fiction writers of the late twentieth century. He has a powerful voice, combining the intense rationality of science with the intensely passionate characters that can only be created by a writer who loves humanity. Bear's novel Moving Mars won the Nebula Award in 1994, and he did it again, in 2000, with Darwin's Radio. He has been honored with Hugo and Nebula nominations for novel-length work eight more times....
Series
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the world-shattering Mongolian invasion of 1241, Shield Brethren, an order of warrior monks, search for a way to overthrow the horde; Haakon must prove his mettle or lose his life in the ring; and Father Rodrigo takes up arms in the name of his Lord.
39) The time machine
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Language
English
Description
"First published in 1895, Time machine, follows the adventures of a hypothetical Time Traveller who journeys into the future to find that humanity has evolved into two races: the peaceful Eloi -- vegetarians who tire easily -- and the carnivorous, predatory Morlocks. After narrowly escaping from the Morlocks, the Time Traveller undertakes another journey even further into the future where he finds the earth growing bitterly cold as the heat and energy...
Author
Publisher
Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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