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Science Fiction December 2016
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| Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake CrouchScience Fiction. Once a rising star in the scientific community for his research on quantum superposition, physicist Jason Dessen now teaches undergraduate physics at a small college. It's a good life, just not the one he imagined for himself. One night, a mysterious assailant abducts him at gunpoint; after an ill-fated escape attempt, Jason finds himself living a life that's not the one he remembers. As he tries to return home (wherever and whenever that is), he must confront the road(s) not taken. Readers who enjoyed Peter Clines' The Fold or David Walton's Superposition may be interested in this suspenseful novel of an ordinary man contending with alternate realities. |
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| The Tourist by Robert DickinsonSF Mystery. In this intricately plotted novel, recreational time travel is a 24th-century growth industry and the most popular destinations are time periods before the Near Extinction Event (NEE) that changed the course of human history. Multiple narratives converge (and, at times, contradict one other) as Tri-Millenium guide Spens pursues a missing tourist through a 21st-century world of shopping malls and airports and a 25th-century prisoner carries out a covert mission that could alter several timelines. |
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| A Night Without Stars: A Novel of the Commonwealth by Peter F. HamiltonSpace Opera. In this sequel to The Abyss Beyond Dreams, the human colony planet Bienvenido, cast out of the Void and into space, fight for survival as the alien Fallers attempt to annihilate the colony's inhabitants. It seems to be a losing battle until an unexpected arrival tips the scales. This 2nd book in the Chronicle of the Fallers series expands the universe introduced the author's previous Commonwealth saga and Void trilogy. |
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| Death's End by Cixin Liu; translated by Ken LiuHard SF. Stay hidden while threatening to reveal your enemy's position. That's the essence of Luo Ji's "dark forest" doctrine of deterrence, which has allowed rival planets Earth and Trisolaris to coexist for centuries. Without giving too much away, all that's about to change. Don't miss this final volume of the trilogy, which begins with The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest. With its sprawling cast of characters, intricate plot, and willingness to tackle complex moral and philosophical questions, this series may appeal to fans of other millennia-spanning SF sagas. |
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The Dark Side
by Anthony ONeill
SF Mystery. On Purgatory, the lawless moon colony of eccentric billionaire Fletcher Brass that is rife with war criminals, murderers, sex fiends and adventurous tourists, an exiled cop arrives and is immediately drawn into a murder investigation in which Brass himself is a chief suspect, while an amnesiac android waits in the wings to conquer this world.
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| Crosstalk by Connie WillisScience Fiction. When her boyfriend Trent asks her to get an EED ("even better than getting engaged," gushes a coworker), telecommunications executive Briddey Flannigan undergoes the "minor procedure," hoping that neurological enhancement will strengthen their relationship. Instead, she ends up telepathically linked to a coworker, her company's (sub-)basement-dwelling misanthrope C.B. Schwartz. Madcap romantic comedy combined with a satirical look at modern technology makes this latest offering from multi-award-winning author Connie Willis a must-read. |
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| Barren Cove: A Novel by Ariel S. WinterSocial SF. Broken and on the verge of obsolescence, an android named Sapien contemplates self-deactivation as he travels to Barren Cove, a stately home that dates from the time when humans reigned. Upon arrival, Sapien meets the robot inhabitants of the estate, learns of their tragic history, and witnesses firsthand their dysfunctional family dynamics. Isaac Asimov meets Wuthering Heights in this lyrical, if bleak, novel. |
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Super Extra Grande
by Yoss
Science Fiction. In a distant future in which Latin Americans have pioneered faster-than-light space travel, Dr. Jan Amos Sangan Dongo has a job with large and unusual responsibilities: he's a veterinarian who specializes in treating enormous alien animals. Mountain-sized amoebas, multisex species with bizarre reproductive processes, razor-nailed, carnivorous humanoid hunters: Dr. Sangan has seen it all. When a colonial conflict threatens the fragile peace between the galaxy's seven intelligent species, he must embark on a daring mission through the insides of a gigantic creature and find two swallowed ambassadors--who also happen to be his competing love interests. Funny, witty, raunchy, and irrepressibly vivacious, Super Extra Grande is a rare specimen in the richly parodic tradition of Cuban science fiction, and could only have been written by a Cuban heavy-metal rock star with a biology degree: the inimitable Yoss.
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