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Science Fiction - Future
Recommended Reading to help you through
the wait for Jean's next book!

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The Morgaine Saga by C. J. Cherryh
Morgaine is from the future, but to Nhi Vanye, she is a legend from the past. She drafts Vanye into her service according to his customs, so that she can accoplish her goal: Destroy the Gates that have connected many worlds, breaching time and space, poisoning the worlds they connect. Morgaine and Vanye overcome many obstacles to close the Gates behind them as they travel from world to world.
Esther Wood gave this a 10 on 14-Jan-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 10.00 / Votes: 6 / Rate It

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
This book is the first in a series of seven about four siblings--Peter, Susan, Edward, and Lucy--who discover another world by walking through a wardrobe. This first book tells how they are able to save this world, called Narnia, and their adventures while in it. I have read and reread this series as much as I do the EC series. This book is excellent; I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys science fiction/fantasy.
blue moon gave this a 9 on 6-Apr-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 9.90 / Votes: 10 / Rate It

Contact by Carl Sagan
The story of a very independant woman who lost her father at a young age and grew up to become a scientist specializing in radio transmitting. She takes a job working for SETI and is among the first to know when extra terrestrials make contact with earth.
Katrina gave this a 9 on 10-Feb-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 8.00 / Votes: 4 / Rate It

The Warlock In Spite Of Himself by Christopher Stasheff
A man and his robot travel back in time to a planet where magic is possible. The man discovers that he is capable of performing magic, falls in love with a witch, and helps prevent a revolution that would change the course of democracy in the future. (Part of the Warlock Series.)
luckyjinx gave this a 8 on 19-Apr-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 8.00 / Votes: 2 / Rate It

Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Garion is a scullery boy who, along with Aunt Pol and Mister Wolf, goes on a quest to retrieve the Orb of Aldur from Torak, God of the Angaraks. If there is anyone who has not read this incredible series of books you are in for a treat.
Sledge gave this a 10 on 19-Jan-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 9.28 / Votes: 29 / Rate It

Dune by Frank Herbert
Go ahead, watch all those movie & TV versions, but pretty soon you'll ask for the Real Thing, so I highly recommend reading this - seminal book, full of adventure & romance, political intrigue, struggle for domination, environmental manipulation, psychological depth, varying methods of warfare, & hope/warning for the future...
Ani gave this a 10 on 8-Jan-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 9.52 / Votes: 21 / Rate It

A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin
First book in Martin's excellent Song of Fire and Ice series. It's not your standard good vs evil fantasy. And don't get too attached because Martin is willing to kill off anyone.
Kinda Blue gave this a 10 on 31-Jan-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 9.60 / Votes: 5 / Rate It

Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
A unique blend of evolution theory, archeology/anthropology and biology. With a strong powerful woman as the protagonist and a Jondolar like lover this book has it all for Auel fans. She's even mentioned! Follow Kaye Lang as she searches to find out exactly what is this strange new virus that is popping up all around the world. Or is it even a virus at all? This is one of the best reads I've had since The Clan of the Cave Bear series.
Jack Dope gave this a 10 on 21-Feb-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 8.75 / Votes: 4 / Rate It

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
One of Kay's best! A story of a land so cursed that even its name cannot be spoken and the revolutionaries struggling to free Tigana from the foreign wizard that cursed it.
Kinda Blue gave this a 10 on 25-Apr-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 10.00 / Votes: 3 / Rate It

King's Dragon by Kate Elliot
First book in a brilliant series (number 4 still being written). An "historical fantasy" about a prince, a sorcerers child and a fosterling boy. Gripping and ehthralling! The second book Prince of Dogs was even better.
shell gave this a 10 on 1-Feb-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 8.75 / Votes: 4 / Rate It

Green Rider by Kristen Britain
Karigan has just run away from college after knocking down an aristocrat's son in response to his torments. Stumbling across a King's messenger - one of the famous Green Riders - dying in the road, she unwillingly takes up his message and finds herself embroiled in a web of deceit and sorcery.
Claire de Brey gave this a 10 on 21-Jan-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 9.14 / Votes: 15 / Rate It

Comet Dis'Aster by L. Eduardo Vega
Categorized in Sci-Fi, but provides an explanation of "why the Ice Age."
Lane Yoshiyama gave this a 9 on 23-Jan-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 10.00 / Votes: 1 / Rate It

Destiny's Road by Larry Niven
A man -- a boy, really -- caught up in circumstances whose result he reviles, takes to the unknown road. His long journey across a land that is losing civilization takes a lifetime. It parallels Jondalar's journey to Crimea and back. "Destiny's Road" can be traveled year after year while we wait for Ayla to meet her in-laws.
Geni Certain gave this a 8 on 28-Feb-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 7.00 / Votes: 3 / Rate It

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Skip the movie (it was sort of ok, but doesn't stand up next to the original book), this'll blow your mind away. A horrifying Puritanical nightmarish future of infertility & forced gender-roles & "caste" system based on reproduction... Chilling but Great story!
Ani gave this a 10 on 8-Jan-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 8.70 / Votes: 17 / Rate It

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Enthralling time-travel, gender-role switching & blending, mind-boggling vision of what "could be". Imagine a place without hate, without abuse...
Ani gave this a 8 on 8-Jan-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 7.50 / Votes: 2 / Rate It

Ember From the Sun by Mark Canter
This is the story of a neaderthal girl named Ember Ozette. A modern day scientist finds the frozen body of a neanderthal woman. He thaws out her body, does an autopsy, and discovers that she is pregnant. The embryo is then transplanted into a surrogate mother, and nine months later Ember is born. This book tells her story - about her lonely childhood, the search for her birth parents, and so much more. I cried and laughed while reading this book, often within just a few pages of each other.
Lydia Schoch gave this a 10 on 20-Apr-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 8.90 / Votes: 10 / Rate It

Timeline by Michael Chrichton
About time travel between the 21st century and 14th century France. Some of the quantum physics bits took a bit of wading through but otherwise a gripping read.
julie jeffreys gave this a 8 on 11-Jun-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 6.86 / Votes: 7 / Rate It

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick
Excellent mental visuals the basis for Blade Runner. It's mind numbing! A Cop hunts down artificial life forms for termination. The main character learns to value all life, even his own!
Sergio gave this a 10 on 11-Jan-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 8.00 / Votes: 2 / Rate It

The Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
Stunning satire + incredible observations: this novel will Really make you question the human/man's assumption of 'superiorty' over other Animals... or other People, for that matter... Definitely worth reading, whether or not you're a fan of the movies or series. It'll really give your mind something to ponder!
Ani gave this a 10 on 28-Sep-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 5.50 / Votes: 2 / Rate It

Total Recall by Piers Anthony
Great read, much better than the movie, cool story with a fine hero & nice mystery to solve...
Ani gave this a 8 on 8-Jan-2001. / More information. Amazon / Rate It

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
Each time I try to describe this book, it comes out way too long. I can't shorten it any more or it will just be lost in the editing. All I can say is it changed my life. The probability of it, the truth in it and the power lying dormant within those pages is immense. Enjoy!
Trudy gave this a 10 on 27-Dec-2000. / Amazon Amazon.co.uk / Rating: 9.50 / Votes: 8 / Rate It

Star Wars : Episode 1 the Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks
If you were somewhat disappointed by the movie (I was), here's your chance to get the whole story in a fully detailed & Better version, complete with more emotion, more psychology, more culture - just plain better!
Ani gave this a 10 on 8-Jan-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 8.00 / Votes: 1 / Rate It

Ancient Future by Traci Harding
This is the first book in a trilogy by a wonderful Australian author. A woman - Tory Alexander - goes back in time to the dark ages. Too much information from me will spoil the story, do yourself a favour and get a copy. Highly recommended.
Sledge gave this a 10 on 19-Jan-2001. / / Rating: 9.62 / Votes: 13 / Rate It

Moon of Three Rings by Andre Norton
This is a story about two different people. One a space trucker and the other, a witch. He (trucker) has his mind transfered into a dog's body and the witch tries to help him get back into his body
Brugger gave this a 6 on 26-Sep-2002. / / Rate It

Freedom's Landing by Anne McCaffrey
This book's one of McCaffrey's best! It's about Kris Bjornsen, who gets abducted by aliens called the Catteni. She is enslaved and sent to another planet. Kris escapes to the jungle and meets Zainal, a Catteni, who tries to rape her. She decks him and takes him back to the city, but gets caught. Kris gets put on a planet with hundreds of others to see if they'd survive. All of this by the second chapter! (Kris is blond, tall, and falls in love with a man who's even taller and has strange eyes.)
Eekeedeeka gave this a 10 on 30-Jul-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 9.64 / Votes: 11 / Rate It

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur c. Clark
A alien spaceship, 50 km long, enter the solar system.A humanship is send for rendezvous.first of a serie of 4 books.
Dominique Lortie gave this a 10 on 24-Sep-2003. / / Rating: 9.33 / Votes: 3 / Rate It

Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
Originally a 3-parter just before World War I about a man and a woman who re-establish civilization after a cosmic catastrophe. Remarkably similar in tone to EC. Hard to find, most recent edition published around 1970.
bartholomewcm gave this a 8 on 16-Mar-2002. / / Rate It

The Silent Vulcan by James Follett
this is the second in a series about a town called Pentworth(based on Petworth) that becomes trapped in an invisable bubble, the story follows the townspeoples degeneration into a medivel society suspicious of everyone to the extent that they attempt to burn 'witches' this is a fascinating and insightful look at human nature under pressure
queenadreena gave this a 10 on 11-Jun-2004. / / Rate It

The Many-Colored Land by Julian May
Julian May blends everything imaginable into a science fiction tale that takes place primarily in the Pliocene Era, long before Jean Auel's books. And she makes it all work in an amazing introduction to The Saga of the Pliocene Era!
Steve van Keuren gave this a 10 on 26-Oct-2003. / / Rating: 9.00 / Votes: 2 / Rate It

Half a Life and Other Stories by Kirill Bulychev
A collection by one of the few Soviet science fiction authors who has achieved something like regular publication in the West. Bulychev is a master of whimsy and blending familiar fairy tale elements with the conventions of science fiction, as in his short gem "Snow Maiden." The propagandizing of much Russian Cold War fiction is virtually absent from his work. He has also produced "Alice," a 21st-century version of the Lewis Carroll classic that has been translated in a children's edition.
Mike Bartholomew gave this a 8 on 6-Jul-2003. / / Rate It

Battleaxe by Sara Douglass
This is the first book of the Axis Trilogy, but all books by Douglass(Australian author) are great.
Tanya gave this a 9 on 22-Mar-2002. / / Rating: 10.00 / Votes: 2 / Rate It

Grass by Sherri S Tepper
The only sc-fi (?) book I've read where horses are the turning point in the story. This is a great book... although I have liked all her books. Some more than others and disagree more with some than others. I personally think this one is her best. It actually is the middle of three loosely connected books. I didn't really like the third until I re-read it. Like Auel, Tepper's book bear re-reading.
skitz gave this a 10 on 21-Jul-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 10.00 / Votes: 3 / Rate It

The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
A "not to successful" 30 year old man finds himself in a world not his own-Magic is their science, and our science is magic to them.
Abigail gave this a 10 on 3-Dec-2004. / Amazon Amazon.co.uk / Rate It

Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
This is the first in a series (7 to date) it's a fantasy but not one that looses you in wierd language etc. There is little I could say that would truly do justice to this wonderful story. Earth's Children spoiled me really but then I found Tony Goodkind - this is the first author (Since EC)that has created anything to match the feeling and the passion for the characters and the environment. The best part is there is a new book about every 2 years!
Nicci gave this a 10 on 23-May-2002. / / Rating: 10.00 / Votes: 4 / Rate It

Ingathering : The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson by Zenna Henderson
Short stories of an alien race stranded and taking refuge in the southwest. Lovely, gentle stories of trying to fit in. Written in the 60's. (Also a TV series.)
Carol Taylor gave this a 10 on 28-Jul-2001. / Amazon / Rating: 9.00 / Votes: 5 / Rate It

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