The city of Silk hangs in the sky 200 miles above the planet Deception Well, a planet full of biological complexity believed to be fatal to anybody who descends the space elevator. And yet the citizens of Silk can't got anywhere else, stranded there for generations. Lot is the son of a charisma...
_Limit of Vision_ by Linda Nagata is an interesting relatively near future science fiction thriller, one that was a little slow going and perhaps even choppy at first, with disparate storylines and at least at first with characters fairly light on detail, but about a quarter of the way into the b...
He is a shadow, lost amid the mottled shadows of the trees. The woman he hunts does not see him. She is alone, hurrying south toward Nefión. A gauntlet of imagined fears lies before her—roots to bruise her toes, windfalls to block the way, wolves within the shadows—but none of these slow her pace...
“This is what we know about my lifeboat. It was sighted when the solar sail began to grow. The sail was huge, like a metal flag reflecting Kheth’s light, very easy to see. Tannasen was in command of Spindrift, and immediately he took the research ship to investigate.” “Soo...
That means there are no ‘sides.’ There are no real allies, no fixed enemies, no certain battlefield. Conflict occurs across financial, communications, propaganda, terroristic, and military channels in a continuously shifting matrix that can destroy a culture, crash an economy, or ignite combat de...
Kheth roved below the city’s horizon, its honey rays leaping up the prim slope to touch his face with a soft heat—igniting unexpectedly a doubtful inner voice . . . for didn’t the library face the eastern sky?Lot stopped short in stunned surprise as he realized he’d stepped out into morning. But ...
It’s an isolated farmhouse with a couple of outbuildings and miles of wheat fields all around it. There are no lights on as we roll up, and no vehicles in sight. Jaynie takes Harvey to check things out. No explosives go off, no commandos fall out of the sky, so we cut the ...