By Charls de Lint First Published: 1989 Rating: So bad it’s good. “Svaha means “the time between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder—a waiting for promises to be fulfilled.” In 2094, protective technology shields Native Enclaves from an outer world devastated by pollution and corruption. Beyond those Enclaves, in the ruins between cities, a Native flyer has been downed and a chip encoded with…
By Chuck Wendig First Published: 2016 Rating: Trash Fire. Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI—a futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It’s her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland. Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to…
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…
By J.N. Chaney & Ell Leigh Clarke First Published: 2013 Jack Burner is a former intelligence officer who now drifts from system to system doing whatever he pleases. That is until he is pulled backing into the action by an assassination plot, but that’s only the beginning of his troubles. 1. Deadland Drifter When a dental appointment goes sideways, former Union Operative Jack Burner wakes…
By Samuel R. Delany First Published: 1975 A mysterious disaster has stricken the Midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona,…
By Jason Werbeloff First Published: 2016 Defragmenting Daniel is a three novel series that forms the first three books in Werbeloff’s The Bubble series. Defragmenting Daniel: The Organ Scrubber Rating: Good. In a world where orphans are discarded… One young man must take up the fight. The Gutter Orphanage, 2064. As a child, Daniel had no choice but to trade his body parts for room…
By Amy Thomson First Published: 1993 In the beginning, Arnold created Maggie .. She was called forth from the computer landscape of Virtual Reality. Arnold, her programmer and creator, gave Maggie a memory, a body, and finally, self-awareness. And Arnold saw that she was good. In an illegal experiment, Arnold develops his perfect companion–a robot named Maggie. She’s everything he ever wanted in a woman,…