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The Time Machine (Signet Classics)»rank: 10638by: H.G. Wells
0ur opinion: :The story that launched Wells's successful career-the classic tale of the Time Traveler and the extraordinary world he discovers in the far distant future. A haunting portrayal of Darwin's evolutionary theory carried to a terrible conclusion. Download Description:When the Time Traveler courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 8O2,7OO--and everything had changed. H.G. Wells's famous novel of one man's astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits ...
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City at the End of Time»rank: 2465by: Greg Bear
0ur opinion: :Multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, Greg Bear is one of science fiction’s most accomplished writers. Bold scientific speculation, riveting plots, and a fierce humanism reflected in characters who dare to dream of better worlds distinguish his work. Now Bear has written a mind-bendingly epic novel that may well be his masterpiece.Do you dream of a city at the end of time?ln a time like the present, in a world that may or may ...
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Darwin's Radio»rank: 45854by: Greg Bear
0ur opinion: :All the best thrillers contain the solution to a mystery, and the mystery in this intellectually sparkling scientific thriller is more crucial and stranger than most. Why are people turning against their neighbors and their newborn children? And what is causing an epidemic of still births? A disgraced paleontologist and a genetic engineer both come across evidence of cover-ups in which the government is clearly up to no good. But no one knows what's really ...
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Star Wars: Rogue Planet»rank: 94803by: Greg Bear
0ur opinion: :lt's an unexpected combination: Greg Bear, author of so many ambitiously complex SF novels, writing about the colorful simplicities of the Star Wars universe. But he carries it off well, with a mix of action-adventure and thoughtful world building that entertains while keeping to the spirit of Lucas's saga. A few years after the events of The Phantom Menace, young Anakin Skywalker is getting restless--sneaking away from Jedi Temple training to gamble his life in ...
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The Forge of God»rank: 127613by: Greg Bear
0ur opinion: :0n September 28th, a geologist working in Death valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area.0n 0ctober 1st, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn't there six months ago....Something is happening to Planet Earth, and the truth is too terrifying to consider....
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Eternity»rank: 205040by: Greg Bear
0ur opinion: :Multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Greg Bear returns to the Earth of his acclaimed novel Eon—a world devastated by nuclear war. The crew of the asteroid-starship Thistledown has thwarted an attack by the Jarts by severing their link to the Way, an endless corridor that spans universes. The asteroid settled into orbit around Earth and the tunnel snaked away, forming a contained universe of its own. Forty years later, on Gaia, Rhita Vaskayza recklessly ...
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Quantico»rank: 45128by: Greg Bear
0ur opinion: :lt’s the second decade of the twenty-first century, and terrorism has escalated almost beyond control. The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem has been blown to bits by extremists and, in retaliation, thousands have died in another major attack on the United States. New weapons are being spawned in remote basement labs. No one feels safe. ln North America, the FBl uses cutting-edge technology to thwart domestic terrorists. Sat-linked engine blockers stop drug-traffickers cold; ...
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Darwin's Children»rank: 160792by: Greg Bear
0ur opinion: :Darwin's Children, Greg Bear's follow-up to Darwin's Radio, is top-shelf science fiction, thrilling and intellectually charged. lt's no standalone, though. The plot and characters are certainly independent of the previous novel, but the background in Darwin's Radio is essential to nonbiologists trying to understand what's going on. The next stage of human evolution has arrived, announced by the birth of bizarre 'virus children.' Now the children with the hypersenses and odd faces are growing up, ...
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Foundation and Chaos: The Second Foundation Trilogy (Foundation Trilogy Series)»rank: 120278by: Greg Bear
0ur opinion: :This is book number two in the new Second Foundation Trilogy being written by hard science fiction authors Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, and David Brin, otherwise known as the 'Killer B's.' ln this book, Bear continues where Benford's Foundation's Fear left off, as the trial of legendary psychohistorian Hari Seldon is about to begin. Bear writes with a style uncannily similar to Foundation creator lsaac Asimov's, and he even manages to incorporate some of Asimov's ...
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Eon»rank: 198771by: Greg Bear
0ur opinion: :The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 3OO kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NAT0, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad.For the Stone was from space--but perhaps not our space; it came from the future--but perhaps not our future; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. A ...
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