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Roz Kaveney of The Independent said that this was a poor book to introduce new readers to the Culture, but "far from the worst introduction to Banks's series." [4] Alastair Mabbott of The Herald described the story as having "murder, revenge, pursuit and subterfuge taking place against a backdrop of escalating tension [that] stands up very well, and makes the prospect of further books in the ...
Idoru is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk future. One of the main characters, Colin Laney, has a talent for identifying nodal points , analogous to Gibson's own: Laney's node-spotter function is some sort of metaphor for whatever it is that I actually do.
Tunnel in the Sky is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles.The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet, who soon realise they are stranded there.
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for the best novel in Japanese translation (where it is published by Tokyo Sogensha) [2] and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, [3] the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, [4] and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction ...
Ilium/Olympos is a series of two science fiction novels by Dan Simmons.The events are set in motion by beings who appear to be ancient Greek gods.Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, it is a form of "literary science fiction"; it relies heavily on intertextuality, in this case with Homer and Shakespeare as well as references to Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (or ...
The Girl with All the Gifts is a science fiction book by M. R. Carey, published in June 2014 by Orbit Books.It is based on his 2013 Edgar Award-nominated short story Iphigenia In Aulis and was written concurrently with the screenplay for the 2016 film.
The Fall of Hyperion is the second novel in the Hyperion Cantos, a science fiction series by American author Dan Simmons. The novel, published in 1990, won both the 1991 British Science Fiction and Locus Awards. [1] It was also nominated for the Hugo Award [1] and the Nebula Award. [2]
The Urth of the New Sun is a 1987 science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe that serves as a coda to his four-volume Book of the New Sun series. Like Book of the New Sun, it is of the Dying Earth subgenre. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1988. [2]