By Laura J. Mixon First Published: 1998 In a near-future Southwest sizzling under the effects of global warming, a top-secret project blends the latest advances in biotechnology and brain-to-machine interfaces to create human-shaped machines that are guided by faraway pilots, or proxies. Carli D’Auber, who has invented a new form of communication that enables people to transfer their consciousness thousands of miles away, finds herself…
By Ian McDonald First Published: 1992 For almost 30, 000 years The Land has been a dependency of The Empire Across The River. The Empire retains a mechanistic technology in the hands of the wealthy and the civil service, but The Land uses its dead, whose brains are linked to a massive data network.
By Ian McDonald First Published: 1992 Grandfather was a tree, Father grew trux, in fifteen colours. Mother could sing the double-helix song, sing it right into the hearts of living things and change them… The Land is a living, breathing, sentient world, where careful skills and talent can manipulate its very substance into a myriad different shapes and forms. This is the world in which…
By Ian McDonald First Published:1994 It’s the Second of November 2063. It’s the Day of the Dead. In the 21st Century, nanotechnology has revolutionized the laws of birth and death. The resurrected dead account for almost one third of the human population, and the backbone of its workplace. They have their own culture and their own ghettos, the Necrovilles. And the Day of the Dead…
By Paul McAuley First Published: 1995 “In the next century, an underground chemist becomes obsessed a child genius who is the ultimate product of gene-splicing technology.” The 21st century. Europe is divided between the First World bourgeoisie, made rich by nanotechnology and the cheap versatile slave labour of genetically engineered Dolls and the Fourth World of refugees and homeless displaced by war and economic upheaval.…
By Anne Harris First Published: 1996 “The Outrageous Novel Of One Tough Riot Grrl Against The World!” Running away from her dysfunctional family, Cid flees Ohio to New York City. There she meeta Magnolia, who is enmeshed in the lethal schemes of brilliant megalomaniac Rahul. With the help of Cid and a biophysicist, Magnolia is able to escape a deadly fate and remake the world.…
By Anne Harris First Published: 1998 Anne Harris returns with an outstanding look at the near future. Never before has her technological insight been so acute, or her portrayal of sex and gender issues more startling or insightful. A bio-technology corporation has created a new species, intelligent, four-armed, humanoid “tetras” who can live in the vats in which “the company” grows biopolymers. Both the tetras…