The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress233 reviews Robert A. Heinlein Orb Books, 1997 Hands down, Heinlen's best + Remarkable + Once in a Generation + All Smiles             Robot Dreams (Remembering Tomorrow)20 reviews Isaac Asimov Ace, 1990 Mostly NON-robot short stories + Great Read! + Not Free SF Reader + It's Isaac Asimov- Of Course it's Great! + Asimov Delivers             Steel Beach46 reviews John Varley Ace, 1993 Slow start, but incredible story with fantastic writing + Great Book + Only Deserves Five Stars This is one of my favorite SF books. The story starts slow; you don't really know where it is going, what his point is, or really what the plot is about at all. That is a flaw for many authors, but Varley can get away with it simply because he has legions of dedicated fans who know that the true ...             Accelerando84 reviews Charles Stross, 2005 Picking up the shattered pieces of my pre acceleration brain + A pretty amazing book. I believe Cory Doctorow said it best when he said something like 'makes hallucinogens obsolete' This book is brain meltingly lovely. Instead of being sci fi to inspire the dreams of yesterday (which seems to be so much of what's out there), Stross creates sci fi that is truly future speculative ...             Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)407 reviews Orson Scott Card Tor Books, 1994 A step behind the first novel... + 4.5 stars ...but an excellent follow up. Worth reading and some excellent concepts explored. Highly recommend it.             Singularity Sky69 reviews Charles Stross Orbit, 2005 Wonderful but probably not for everyone I personally was absolutely spellbound by this book. Wonderful creative ideas: A space-going civilization called "The Festival" that attacks by raining down telephones that, if you pick on up, will grant you your every wish if you only tell it a story... "The Eschaton", a sort-of god that evolved ...             Caves of Steel (Robot City)82 reviews Isaac Asimov Spectra, 1991 The Laws of Robotics ... this is where it all started! + Enjoyable for a novice sci-fi reader + Caves of Steel A thousand years ago, mankind began the process of leaving mother Earth and colonizing the galaxy. Fifty planets have been now been colonized by thinly spread populations of hardy pioneering spirits - rough and ready types willing to work in hostile environments with robots as help-mates and ...             The Ship Who Sang29 reviews Anne McCaffrey Del Rey, 1985 The Book that hooked me on McCaffrey + SHE SINGS + Classic Sci-Fi with a unique concept + Good fun book             The Golden Age (The Golden Age)78 reviews John C. Wright, 2002 Absolutely amazing- and I very rarely use that word. + What does it mean to really live? + A little deep, but well worth the dive! + Not Free SF Reader             Man Plus (SF Masterworks) (Sf Masterworks 29)9 reviews Frederik Pohl Gollancz, 2000 Its Evolution Baby + Just plain great SF + An Interesting Novel + The science of turning man into machine was page turning.             Gridlinked (Tor Science Fiction)39 reviews Neal Asher Tor Science Fiction, 2004 Exciting, interesting universe + Gridlinked + Fun adventure + Fast paced carnage, lacks character depth             Flash13 reviews L. E. Modesitt Jr. Tor Science Fiction, 2005 Opposing the Power Structure + Pretty good for a free book + Sweet Cyberpunk Flash (2004) is a standalone novel in the Archform: Beauty universe. In the twenty-fourth century, the ecology has collapsed and the population has been greatly reduced. The political environment has also changed, with the whole of North America united as one country. In this novel, Jonat ...             Colossus8 reviews D. F. Jones Berkley, 1985 Underrated Classic + Before HAL . . . before Skynet . . . there was - COLOSSUS! + Imaginative speculation about mankind's successor + Colossus             All the Weyrs of Pern (Dragonriders of Pern Series)70 reviews Anne McCaffrey Del Rey, 1992 Telepathic dragons and a millennia-old computer - this is the perfect capper to the Pern series... + Just Wonderful + One of my favorites + A time for every purpose under heaven + Great if you like Sci Fiction             Rainbows End75 reviews Vernor Vinge, 2006 Tomorrow's Science, Youthful Energy, and Family Fun + A disappointment, but only by comparison Another terrific sci-fi adventure from Vernor Vinge, who once again makes the virtual world of tomorrow come stunningly alive. Aging poet Robert Gu, his granddaughter Miri, and the rest of their family become embroiled in a plot to deploy mind-controlling YGBM (You Gotta Believe Me) technology. ...             Demon Seed100 reviews Dean Koontz Berkley, 1997 Impossibly Possible!!! + Can computers and humans mate? Find out... + Per Koontz, "A scathing satire of a panoply of male attitudes" I love the way Dean Kontz makes the most implausibal things seem possible. This book was very suspensful, and the plot is so unique that the reader cant help but be held captive. Koontz did an amazing job giving life and character to the machine. Check this one out!             The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy661 reviews Douglas Adams Del Rey, 1995 My go-to gift for 12 year old boys + improbably great + A clever little book Not that this is a kid's book. This book is just so engaging and funny and is just perfect for keeping the cynicism of teenagerdom at bay for a bit, that it's a great gift for a difficult to buy for age. I've read it so many times, I sometimes forget that parts of it haven't actually happened ...             Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)34 reviews David Weber Baen, 1992 my favorite book + Weber Takes On New Ground + Space Opera at its finest + perfect + Great reading and great stress relief.             Neuromancer449 reviews William Gibson Ace, 1984 Case Meets the Matrix [T] + enjoyacble Neuromancer bends your thoughts and concepts with its theme of man integrating self with computerized Artificial Intelligence - what we commonly dub as AI. Written in a style reminiscent to James Cain, Micky Spillane, Dashiell Hammett and other authors of that 19th century mystery genre, the ...             Time Enough for Love140 reviews Robert A. Heinlein Ace, 1987 genius + Epic, Sci-fi romance + gr8 fun!! Back in the infamous 60's Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein was part of the moment for my friends and I......he introduced us to some of our first metaphysical concepts . Time enough for Love is a classic too. I love the philosophy of Lazarus the main character. I find myself in agreement all ...