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Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, Reviewed
Serialized in Analog, reprinted in Harrison & Aldiss and Terry Carr's Year's Best Sci-Fi, it was rejected by seventeen publishers before St. Martin's Press published it.
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Zoë's Tale by John Scalzi, Reviewed
The fourth nominee available from Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention is a retelling of The Last Colony from a YA perspective.
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Saturn's Children by Charles Stross, Reviewed
The new book from the bestselling author of Halting State, Accelerando and The Merchant Princes series is dedicated to Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein
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Eon by Greg Bear Reviewed
Volume one of the series including Eternity, Legacy and a story in Robert Silverberg's Far Horizons anthology introduces the asteroid/spaceship Thistledown and The Way
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Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
James Blish named it the ultimate hard SF novel; Greg Bear's father-in-law, the sixteenth SFWA Grand Master, never bettered a starship's flight to the end of the universe
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Gridlinked by Neal Asher
Hard SF from an emerging British talent in which Dragons and matter-transmitters mix with Artificial Intelligence, Bond-style secret agents and inter-galactic terrorists
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The Time Masters by Wilson Tucker
The success of the 1970 classic The Year of The Quiet Sun clearly called for a quick follow-up, and the SFBC and Lancer Books agreed to an update of an older novel.
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The Gods Themselves
This novel was Asimov's first for fifteen years, but there's a feeling that it beat novels such as Silverberg's Dying Inside to the Hugo and Nebula through sentiment
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Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
Serialized in Astounding in 1956, Heinlein was already overdue a Hugo on his way to becoming SFWA Grand Master, even though only only two such awards had been made.
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Seeker by Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt's 2006 Nebula Award winning novel is the third in his Alex Benedict series, following A Talent for War and Polaris, and tells of a search for a lost colony.
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Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
Winner of the 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novel, Camouflage is a gritty new-future thriller that's as lean and as taut as a marathon-runner.
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Scatterbrain by Larry Niven
This new collection is a useful sampler for those unfamiliar with his work, with collaborations and extracts from several of his major novels and universes.
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