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Best Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction (cover not available)

Best Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction

Which sub-genre of sci-fi can claim both the literary greats, the grandmasters of science fiction, like Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, and the recently departed Iain M. Banks and the...

Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century (cover not available)

Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century

The 21st Century was the focus of so  much 20th century Science Fiction. From Blade Runner to Robocop, it was visions of the 2000s that flourished in the scifi that...

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Behemoth

Behemoth

Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind...

Scott Westerfeld Buy on Amazon
Leviathan

Leviathan

Leviathan, is the Aurealis award-winning first book in the Leviathan trilogy, an alternate history, dieselpunk adventure. Set at the beginning of World War I, in a world where the battle...

Scott Westerfeld Buy on Amazon
The Risen Empire

The Risen Empire

If you think space opera is just a subset or spin-off of military science fiction, and that every novel or series or saga is yet another John Carter, prepare for...

Scott Westerfeld Buy on Amazon
The Killing Of Worlds

The Killing Of Worlds

"Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate faces a suicied mission: stopping the next thrust of the Rix invasion with just his own ship. While ship-to-ship combat rages among the...

Scott Westerfeld Buy on Amazon
The Other Valley

The Other Valley

Odile Ozanne lives in a valley that is one of many identical, repeating ones. The neighbouring valley is twenty years in the future and the other twenty years in the...

Scott Alexander Howard Buy on Amazon
Ender's Game

Ender's Game

What do you get when mix together a card carrying-homophobe and science-fiction? Ender's Game. Now it's an ethical struggle these days to decide what to do with the great writer...

Orson Scott Card Buy on Amazon
Speaker For The Dead

Speaker For The Dead

Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.

Orson Scott Card Buy on Amazon
Xenocide

Xenocide

On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans...

Orson Scott Card Buy on Amazon
Children Of The Mind

Children Of The Mind

The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race...

Orson Scott Card Buy on Amazon
Ender Series

Ender Series

Ever read a book that is good in spite of its author's controversial reputation? Card has landed himself in a lot of hot water for his political commentary, primarily driven...

Orson Scott Card Buy on Amazon
The Redemption Of Christopher Columbus

The Redemption Of Christopher Columbus

Why is it that fundamentalists Christians who don't believe in things like caffeine and alcohol always have the most fantastic imaginations? Orson Scott Card, everyone's favorite Mormon (and trust me,...

Orson Scott Card Buy on Amazon
Keeper Of Dreams

Keeper Of Dreams

Keeper of Dreams is a short story collection by Orson Scott Card. It contains twenty-two stories by Card which do not appear in his collection Maps in a Mirror. This...

Orson Scott Card Buy on Amazon
A War Of Gifts

A War Of Gifts

At the Battle School, there is only one purpose, only one curriculum: the strategy and tactics of war. The children are drawn from all nations, all races, all religions. There...

Orson Scott Card Buy on Amazon
Blade Runner

Blade Runner

No film has managed to so successfully navigate two separate genres at the same time as Blade Runner. Based on a Philip K Dick novel, Blade Runner is both a...

Ridley Scott Buy on Amazon
Alien (cover not available)

Alien

Alien is a horror film in a science fiction setting. It's also just as powerful today as it was when it was released. Ridley Scott gets the aspect of horror...

Ridley Scott Buy on Amazon
The Martian (cover not available)

The Martian

Mark Watney is an astronaut. Oh yeah, he also got left behind on Mars. That's the basic premise for The Martian starring Matt Damon, but really, it's about space-farming, as...

Ridley Scott 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

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