Ringworld (S.F.Masterworks)169 reviews Larry Niven Gollancz, 2005 Ring world is solid entertaining reading + Probably the best novel that is pure Niven. + One of the Ten Quadrillion Wonders of the Universe! This is the first of the ring world series of books, and all of them are entertaining and fun to read as a whole set. These are stay up all night reading books good, with compelling characters, an excellent story line, and an awesome plot to go along with it that unfolds over the book and ...             The Stars My Destination222 reviews Alfred Bester Vintage, 1996 Bester's Best + Best sci fi + firey vengence sparks adventure and self-improvement + Dated, but Great             The Left Hand of Darkness184 reviews Ursula K. LeGuin Ace, 1987 Revisit this Sci-Fi classic if you haven't read it since college + Le Guin's Masterpiece + Can't put it down The intriguing notion that our gender dictates not only our personal life, but the society we create and our political systems was quite a radical thought for me in the 1970s when I first read this book in college. I was immersed in an on-going sexual revolution and a feminist awakening. Ursula ...             Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)35 reviews Mary Shelley Pocket, 2004 Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley + The Pusuit of Greatness I bought this for my son for a school reading assignment. He did not like the book at all. Me, on the other hand, I liked it. I read it years & years ago but I enjoyed it the 2nd time around.             The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1 (Complete Hammer's Slammers)4 reviews David Drake, Vincent di Fate Night Shade Books, 2005 The Slammers Complete + Excellent Compilation + Part one of a comprehensive collection of the Hammers Slammers Works + Great Compendium of Early Hammer's Slammers Tales             The Man in The Maze7 reviews Robert Silverberg I Books, 2004 Tragic Tale of Self Induced Exile + Classic + Sophocles Redux + A complex and fascinating epistemological web             Neuromancer452 reviews William Gibson Ace Hardcover, 2004 Still Good After All These Years + If Only Gibson Had Continued With This Story... + Lives up to the hype I first read Gibson's "Neuromancer" when it first came out (about 24 years ago) and really enjoyed it. I just finished reading it again, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it's weathered the intervening decades very well. This book created a genre by envisioning a wired world when, at the ...             Cordelia's Honor70 reviews Lois McMaster Bujold Baen, 1999 Excellent Space Opera + As always, a terrific read + Cordella's Honor + great book             Envoy to New Worlds (Jaime Retief Series #1)4 reviews Keith Laumer Pocket Books, 1987 Envoy to New Worlds + 'Envoy' great, but almost the same as 'Retief Unbound' + pretty good This is one of the better Reteif books. I like the whole series for the sense of humor Keith Laumer has. Reteif is a 6ft. hunk of a hero with a sidekick who happens to be his boss (at least on paper). He never follows directions from the home office but uses his head to fix the situation and ...             Glasshouse43 reviews Charles Stross Ace Hardcover, 2006 Incredible, even as a standalone + "In the Village" Sometimes I like to go into bookstores and buy a book at random without reading the description. I did that with Glasshouse, and I was very pleased. Apparently it's part of a series, but I read it as a standalone novel and understood everything. Stross is incredibly creative, and the book is ...             The Moon is a Harsh Mistress240 reviews Robert A. Heinlein Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks, 2005 Heinlein at his best. + Distilled Libertarian Goodness + The moon is a harsh mistress + perfect             Animal Farm and 198426 reviews George Orwell Harcourt, 2003 Worthy literature that transcends the genre of political fable + Animal Farm + 1984 = Great Edition + Best Orwell's edition + WORTH READING AGAIN - AND HAVING IN YOUR LIBRARY + Boy, this cover is attractive.             The War of the Worlds1 review H. G. Wells Ann Arbor Media, 2006 The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells is a story of Martians invading England during the last years of the nineteenth century. The story starts out with a cylinder falling out of the sky and landing in England. Then Martians emerge from the cylinder and kill many people around the cylinder using one ...             The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy117 reviews Douglas Adams Del Rey, 2002 Amazing Book!!! + Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy + great book, a must read for fans of the movie. + How to be happyh + genius. end of story.             Ender's Game (The Ender saga)2531 reviews Orson Scott Card ATOM, 2002 Get Into The Game + The reason I read + Great Book + A Lot To Like + Ender's Game book review             Star Flight7 reviews Andre Norton Baen, 2007 The First Interstellar Settlement + The Stars Are Ours and Star Born. Star Flight (2007) is an omnibus edition of the two SF novels in the Astra series. It includes The Stars Are Ours and Star Born. In The Stars Are Ours (1954), mankind has reached the Moon, Mars and Venus, but found little to justify terraforming. However, the three space stations provided a ...             2001: A Space Odyssey1 review Arthur C. Clarke Orbit, 2000 Similarities to "Contact" **Some Spoilers!*** Love how Clarke uses factual science like the most obvious crater on the moon to house the monolith, the tycho crater, as well as the very strange Saturn moon that has an all white side, Iapetus. How more obious can an alien make it for us to make first contact by keeping ...             Brave New World729 reviews Aldous Huxley Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1998 Open the book and open your eyes (please comment) + This book is more enjoyable with some soma! + Frighteningly Prophetic + Dystopia, i long for thee + Good Book             The Speed of Dark88 reviews Elizabeth Moon Del Rey, 2005 A new look at "normal" + Speed of Dark + A view from an intriguing mind facing an intriguing choice + A Realistic Autism Story             Dawn (Xenogenesis, Bk. 1)56 reviews Octavia E. Butler Aspect, 1997 SF Classic, apocalypse / slavery / gender themes + A Good Series Opener + Lilith's Struggle + what if the salvation of humanity was to be come less than human?