The forge of God by Greg Bear

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Ring Around the Sun
Clifford D. Simak
1953 · 203 pages · 1 review
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The world would never be the same again. First there was the razor blade that never wore out, then the everlasting light bulb, then the car that never broke down. The world's biggest industries were rapidly being squeezed out, the planet heading for economic collapse. People began to disappear—families, whole towns, vanished without a trace. Then Jay Vickers spun a child's top and found himself, literally, on another world...
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Dark light
Ken MacLeod
2001 · 292 pages · 1 review
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As the humans of Earth finally achieve space travel, they discover that the universe is filled with an infinite variety of intelligent alien life and that they have become pawns in the deadly wars of the alien gods.
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Dark Eden
Chris Beckett
2012 · 404 pages · 5 reviews
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Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Aware 2013. The story of the Family, 532 descendants of two abandoned explorers who huddle, slowly starving, in the warmth of geothermal trees, confined to one barely habitable valley of an alien, sunless world.
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The Legacy of Heorot
Larry Niven
1987 · 367 pages · 3 reviews
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Life in a colony on a newly settled planet.
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The Genocides
Thomas M. Disch
1967 · 167 pages · 5 reviews
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This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells In this harrowing novel, the world's cities have been reduced to cinder and ash and alien plants have overtaken the earth. The plants, able to grow the size of maples in only a month and eventually reach six hundred feet, have commandeered the world's soil and are sucking even the Great Lakes dry. In northern Minnesota, Anderson, an aging farmer armed with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other, desperately leads the reduced citizenry of a small town in a daily struggle for meager existence. Throw into this fray Jeremiah Orville, a marauding outsider bent on a bizarre and private revenge, and the fight to live becomes a daunting task.
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Natural history
Justina Robson
2004 · 325 pages · 5 reviews
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A daring and original new novel from one of sci fi's most provocative voices, Natural History is a stunning work of bold ideas, unforgettable characters, and epic adventure as one woman seeks to explore what may be the greatest mystery of all....IMAGINE A WORLD... Half-human, half-machine, Voyager Isol was as beautiful as a coiled scorpion--and just as dangerous. Her claim that she'd found a distant but habitable earthlike planet was welcome news to the rest of the Forged. But it could mean the end of what was left of the humanity who'd created and once enslaved them.IMAGINE A FATE...It was on behalf of the "unevolved" humans that Professor Zephyr Duquesne, cultural archaeologist and historian of Earth's lost worlds, was chosen by the Gaiasol military authority to uncover the truth about this second "earth." And her voyage, traveling inside the body of Isol, will take her to the center of a storm exploding across a spectrum of space and time, dimension and consciousness. IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE...On an abandoned planet, in a wrinkle of time, Isol and Zephyr will find a gift and a curse: a power so vast that once unlocked, it will change the universe forever. With civil war looming, Zephyr's perilous journey will lead her to a past where one civilization mysteriously vanished...and another may soon follow.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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