In a not-too-distant future, the assassination of an all-powerful New York City Mayor has plunged the five boroughs back into a dangerous cesspool of crime, drugs, and prostitution. Professional prognosticator Lew Nichols joins the campaign team of a fast-rising politico running for the city's top office, and is introduced to a man who privately admits to being able to view glimpses of the future. Lew becomes obsessed with capturing the man's gift and putting it to use for his candidate, but struggles to accept the strict terms he arranges with his mentor… and the unforgiving predetermination of the future.Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1975.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best SF Novel, and John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1976.
Ulysses Singing Bear had no idea that his scientific work would result in a twenty-million-year journey to a world peopled by the descendants of present-day animals. It was the world of Awina, the cat-woman with an impossible love for Ulysses. It was the planet of a mammoth continent-spanning intelligence — The Tree — who knew that Ulysses, the newly-awakened Stone God, could destroy his reign. To enable his species to survive, Ulysses had to find a human mate. To do so, and to fulfill the single condition set by his worshippers, he had to confront The Tree. It would have been an easy task for a god, but he was only a man — and the only man at that.
Dr. Louise Banks is enlisted by the military to communicate with a race of radially-symmetrical aliens who initiated first contact with humanity. Woven through the story are remembrances of her daughter.
Micheal: He's still having flashbacks of his escape from the underground compound. Only Cameron, the mysterious girl he met behind bars, seems to understand him--and understand that the sheriff may be gone but an even more dangerous enemy is out there…Cameron: She fell for Micheal in the compound…while spying on him for Sheriff Valenti. Now she feels guilty and wishes she could tell him the truth. But how can she be honest--without losing Micheal?
After Lew Alton unwittingly roused the fire demon Sharra, the Sword of Aldones was the only weapon that could lay her to rest again. But only one man could wield the sword, and getting it was an even bigger problem.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963.Later the novel was revised and rewritten by author and published as in 1981.
Why pay for costumes, scenery, props or actors when the most brilliant drama of all time is unfolding before your very eyes, in vivid color — in 1050 A.D.? Just the film crew of that stupendous motion picture saga as they journey back in time to capture history in the making.First published as .
The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the Living Dream's deadline for launching its Pilgrimage into the Void draws closer. Not only is the Ocisen Empire fleet fast approaching on a mission of genocide, but also an internecine war has broken out between the post-human factions over the destiny of humanity.Countering the various and increasingly desperate agents and factions is Paula Myo, a ruthlessly single-minded investigator, beset by foes from her distant past and colleagues of dubious allegiance…but she is fast losing a race against time.At the heart of all this is Edeard the ...
has propelled Robert J. Sawyer into the limelight as one of science fiction's hot new writers, earning him the prestigious Nebula Award in the process. In this fast-paced thriller, Dr. Peter Hobson's investigations into death and afterlife lead him to create three separate electronic versions of himself: one has no memory of physical existence and represents life after death; one has no knowledge of death or aging and represents immortality; and the third is left unaltered as a control. But all three have escaped into the worldwide matrix...and one of them is a killer.The story was first serialised in magazine in the mid-December 1994 to March 1995 issues, under the name , before its first novel publication in May, 1995.Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1995.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996.
In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like—or perhaps Satanic—takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch moving as well as genuinely visionary.
A sequel to by H. G. Wells, it was officially authorized by the Wells estate to mark the centenary of the original’s publication.Won:British SF Association Award in 1995John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel in 1996Philip K. Dick Award in 1996Nominated for:Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996Locus Award for Best SF Novel in 1996Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1996
