Stations of the Tide23 reviews Michael Swanwick Eos (HarperCollins), 2001 Fascinating, canny, and powerful + You should read this + 1991 Nebula Award Winner, 4-1/2 stars + One of my favorite SF novels of all time             The Falling Woman13 reviews Pat Murphy Orb Books, 1993 Outstanding Writer + Intuition in Anthropology + Hauntingly beautiful, sombre, yet intense! + Good, but not SF             Camouflage74 reviews Joe Haldeman Ace, 2005 Best book ive read this year + An Enjoyable Read + Great aliens, blase humans i ran throgh this book. read it in less than two days. very fast paced. i loved it. i have recently fell in love with this author. i am currently working my way through his work. you can really feel for the changling in this book. i think the last chapter went too quickly. kind of like the author ...             Doomsday Book438 reviews Connie Willis Spectra, 1993 4.5-Star title, really hard to find fault + Very competent time travel tale This is the first book by this author I have read. She writes a time-travel story while maintaining a present-time plot and thread, which is no easy challenge. Eifelheim, which I read recently, had notable problems with this Then and Now 2-thread structure. Some spoilers will appear in this ...             American Gods702 reviews Neil Gaiman HarperTorch, 2002 A deep understanding + Thought provoking...makes you question your beliefs + How Neil Gaiman Re-invents the Fantasy Novel + interesting and engaging, a little stretching             Dreamsnake22 reviews Vonda Mcintyre Spectra, 1994 Unusual and Amazing + Brilliant story, riveting + Not Free SF Reader + a fine read + Totally Engrossing...             Falling Free (Nebula Award Stories)26 reviews Lois McMaster Bujold Baen, 1999 Great book on its own + Loved it + Character-driven ethical dilemma meets space opera + Falling Free + Excellent prequel to the Vorkosigan Universe             Ringworld169 reviews Larry Niven Del Rey, 1985 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 ...             Parable of the Talents60 reviews Octavia E. Butler Grand Central Publishing, 2000 Utterly brilliant and equally harsh + One of favorite novels - a masterpiece + I Miss Octavia Butler / Love this Book! + It helps to know what a "talent" is!             The Rites of Passage2 reviews Arnold van Gennep University Of Chicago Press, 1961 A book worth reading + A good text in anthropology This book is worth reading. As an early work (published in 1908), it has influenced many Anthropologists. Amazingly, it was not translated into English from French until 1960, so students (and others) who wished to read it had to be either fluent in French or willing to translate it sentence by ...             Moving Mars: A Novel71 reviews Greg Bear Tor Science Fiction, 1994 Coming of Age on Mars + Ambition that delivers. Wow. + Worth reading despite some major problems + great story inspite of slow start             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             The Gods Themselves79 reviews Isaac Asimov Spectra, 1990 so misunderstood + Asimov's favorite + One of my favorites. + read for the middle section only             The Moon and the Sun40 reviews Vonda N. McIntyre Pocket, 1998 Alternative History of France + A startling gift from McIntyre "The Moon and Sun" by Vonda N. McIntyre, © 1997 For a science fiction novel, you could not get much more odder. This is set in the reign of King Louis the Fourteenth of France. The heroes are a woman, Marie-Josephe, her brother, Yves, a priest, and a dwarf, Lucien. They are all part of the ...             Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon18 reviews Orson Scott Card Tor Books, 2002 Enders Game Box Set + Starts strong, ends with a whimper (not a bang) + Fast pace, High Tempo, Leaves you wandering + the game + repeat reader             Seeker (Alex Benedict)57 reviews Jack McDevitt Ace, 2006 The Search for Seeker + Twist near the end saves this from 3 stars + Interplanetary Thrill-Ride + Character driven SciFi + Another Solid Sci-fi Mystery from McDevitt             Sword and Citadel (The Book of the New Sun, Vol. 2)8 reviews Gene Wolfe Gollancz, 2000 One of the best books you're likely to read. + Quite possibly the best fantasy book(s) ever written + Amazing Science Fiction, Somewhat Unrealistic Sexual Prowess + The second half of what is surely the book of gold, although this is the UK edition + This book is incredible             The Einstein Intersection19 reviews Samuel R. Delany Wesleyan, 1998 The best of the "New Wave" + Well written but not everyone's cup of tea While many of the "New Wave" science fiction writers of the 1960s did little more than adapt long-dead literary styles to their own work (as John Brunner, in "Stand on Zanzibar" adapted the style of John Dos Passos), Delany forged a new style of his own, telling a science fiction story through the ...             The Terminal Experiment68 reviews Robert J. Sawyer Eos, 1995 A murder mystery that deals with the very definition of life and death! + An acquired taste + It's all in the brain... Robert J Sawyer has never been an author to think small and he certainly didn't start in "The Terminal Experiment"! Soul-searching (literally) provocative discussions on the nature and the very definition of death, immortality, spirituality, morality, love, compassion, hatred, infidelity and more ...             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 ...