Literature - Sci-fi

Artificial condition

"Artificial Condition" by Martha Wells is the second installment in The Murderbot Diaries. The story follows Murderbot, an autonomous artificial intelligence, as it investigates a dark incident from its...

All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells (born 1964) is the recipient of a Nebula Award, four Hugo Awards, and two Locus Awards. With the work reviewed here, she launched the science fiction series The Matabot Diaries, which follows a...

Expeditionary Force

A standard military story of a fight with Ruhar who attack from outer space on Columbus Day. Technically advanced warships engage Kristang starships who seem to be battling against at a massive disadvantage...

Delta-V

The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation.

Wool

The first of six post-apocalyptic science fiction novels, a community of humans now live in a 144-floor underground silo many hundreds of years after the air above became toxic. Those unwisely wishing to go...

The War of the Worlds

An apocalyptic vision of the world invaded by Martians seeking a warmer world. They land on the Earth and humans put up a pathetic defense against the powerful, destructive intelligence of the aliens. Their...

The Martian Cronicles

The book is a collection of short narratives set in the colonization of Mars by humans, located between 1999 and 2026. Frequent and brief dialogues. For its time - the book was published in 1950, but some...

Edison's alley

Book number 2 of The Accelerati trilogy, after Tesla's Attic.

After having saved the world in extremis from its complete destruction, Nick, Caitlin and their friends continue to search for the sold...

Hawking's Hallway

End of the Accelerati trilogy.

With Nick missing (and the suspicion that he has gone over to the enemy), Caitlin tries to keep the Accelerati from getting their hands on the few remaining Tesla items...

Tesla's Attic

Nick Slate and his family have lost everything, even his mother, in a house fire. His father, out of work, decides to move into Great Aunt Greta's old house in Colorado, a Victorian building full of junk....