7 Feb, 2000
Millennial Reviews
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The Moon Goddess and the Son
Donald Kingsbury
Baen Books, 1987
471 pages
Synopsis: Boy, this is a hard one to sum up quickly. The following does not do the book justice:
6 Feb, 2000
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Dover Beach
Richard Bowker
Spectra 1987
265 pages
Technically, this is set as late as 2010 but 10 meg HD were standard equipment 22 years earlier.
Synopsis: 22 years after a limited nuclear war devastated the US, young Wally Sands is trying to set himself up as a private eye. Postwar Boston has little demand for detectives, and he does no business until Dr Charles Winfield hires him to find Professor Cornwall. Winfield believes Cornwall cloned himself pre-war and that Winfield is the clone.
4 Feb, 2000
Millennial Reviews
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Vertigo
Bob Shaw
Ace, 1979
236 pages
Synopsis: Rob Hasson is an air-cop, one of the much-disliked policemen whose job it is to police the sky now that contra-grav devices have put the power of flight into everyone’s hands. Prior to the book’s beginning he nearly died at the hands of an idiot teenager with mob connections. He lived but the teenager died, and Hasson’s superiors want him to finish his recovery well away from England to reduce the odds that he will be killed by vengeful relatives. To that end, Hassen is visiting a Canadian policeman named Al Werry.
4 Feb, 2000
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After Doomsday
Poul Anderson
Baen, 1986 [1961,1962]
209 pages
Synopsis: The U.S.S. Benjamin Franklin has returned from a three-year mission to the galactic core to find the Earth utterly lifeless, far beyond the current known abilities of humans. The obvious suspects are some species of intelligent extra-terrestrial, with whom the Earth has been in contact since the 1980s. There are a number of suspects in this SF mystery, from the imperialistic Kandemiri to some group of humans using extra-terrestrial technology.
2 Feb, 2000
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Oath of Fealty
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Pocket Books, 1981
324 pages
Synopsis: Todos Santos is an arcology, a 1000-foot-tall city-building built in the ruins of a section of LA leveled in a riot. TS is the only successful arcology to date, but its economic success is accompanied by a mutually hostile relationship with LA, a terrorist problem and a markedly insular culture.
1 Feb, 2000
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Human to Human
Rebecca Ore
Tor, 1990
282 pages
Synopsis: Part three of a trilogy. Tom Gentry was a teenage ex-con, a no-hoper heading towards a life of crime. As Tom Red-Clay he works for the Federation of Sapient Planets and has ever since he was picked by them after he and his brother killed an FSP researcher disguised as a human covertly examining Earth. Tom’s brother is dead. Tom is married and has a kid.