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Top 25 Post Human Science Fiction Books (cover not available)

Top 25 Post Human Science Fiction Books

In 1859, prompted by the similar ideas being developed by Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Darwin finally published On the Origin of Species, perhaps the most revolutionary book in the history...

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Accelerando

Accelerando

Ever since the computer became a fixture in the ordinary life of every one of us, it has been one of the most potent images in the idea of posthumanity....

Charles Stross Buy on Amazon
Singularity Sky

Singularity Sky

The New Republic, a repressive state has launched an attack against an invasion of one of its colony, little does the New Republic realize, that they've actually been visited by...

Charles Stross Buy on Amazon
Saturn's Children

Saturn's Children

Stross himself calls this novel a "space opera and late period Heinlein tribute", referring to Heinlein's Friday. A Charles Stross sci-fi novel is always an entertaining read, and the cover...

Charles Stross Buy on Amazon
Neptune's Brood

Neptune's Brood

After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.

Charles Stross Buy on Amazon
The Paradox Men

The Paradox Men

Space opera is all about big concepts, what Brian Aldiss has called "wide screen baroque", and they don't come much wider or more baroque than The Paradox Men. Like much...

Charles L. Harness Buy on Amazon
Lunar Justice

Lunar Justice

If you want to see how much sf from the last quarter of the 20th century ignored the technical realities of the Moon, look no further than this sometimes absurd...

Charles L. Harness Buy on Amazon
Marque of Caine

Marque of Caine

"It's been two years since Caine Riordan was relieved of his command for following both his orders and his conscience. Now he's finally received the message he's been waiting for:...

Charles E. Gannon Buy on Amazon
Raising Caine (cover not available)

Raising Caine

Caine Riordan has just helped to repel an alien invasion of Earth when the Slaasriithi, mysterious and possibly helpful, ask him to lead a diplomatic mission to their worlds. A...

Charles E. Gannon Buy on Amazon
Spin

Spin

One night, when he is 12 years old, Tyler Dupree and two friends witness all the stars in the sky suddenly disappearing. It turns out that a membrane has been...

Robert Charles Wilson Buy on Amazon
Axis

Axis

We are taken to the mysterious planet Equatoria, a world apparently engineered for humanity by the inscrutable machine intelligences known as the Hypotheticals. Turk Findley, a man with a criminal...

Robert Charles Wilson Buy on Amazon
Vortex

Vortex

Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a...

Robert Charles Wilson Buy on Amazon
The Chronoliths

The Chronoliths

Scott and his buddy Hitch chance upon a huge monolith, made of an indestructible material, that suddenly appears in the Thai jungle. And it doesn't just appear quietly, but with...

Robert Charles Wilson Buy on Amazon
Galapagos

Galapagos

It was in the isolated environment of the Galapagos Islands that Charles Darwin made the observations that were crucial to the development of his ideas of natural selection, and it...

Kurt Vonnegut Buy on Amazon
The Dream Master

The Dream Master

Expanded from the Nebula Award winning novella, "He Who Shapes", this is a story about using dreams to both escape and change the world. Charles Render is the inventor of...

Roger Zelazny Buy on Amazon
The Difference Engine

The Difference Engine

In our top 25 dystopian list, we called him the King of Cyberpunk. In this delicious alternate history, steam punk offering, Gibson teams up with Bruce Sterling to serve up...

William Gibson Buy on Amazon
Service Model

Service Model

Task Item No. 1: Become Self-Aware Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a...

Adrian Tchaikovsky Buy on Amazon
The Ghost Brigades

The Ghost Brigades

From the back cover: The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect...

John Scalzi Buy on Amazon
Mission Of Gravity

Mission Of Gravity

Hard science fiction in its purest form didn't have villains; the implacable laws of the universe were enemy enough for anyone. After all, who needs enemies when you're faced with...

Hal Clement Buy on Amazon

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