Adam Roberts. Thing and Sick. (Solaris Rising 3)
In a remote Antartic research station, the Fermi Paradox is solved, which has a big impact on the two men in the cabin..
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Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts. Trademark Bugs : a legal history. (Reach for Infinity)
A wry take on the pharma companies and just how low they would stoop in the search for profits, and just how limited the response by governments and the public at large might be.
Read moreAdam Roberts. What Did Tessimond Tell You? (Solaris Rising 1.5)
Do physicists use words like ‘geezer’, ‘galoomph’, ‘cahoots’, and ‘bald bonce’ ?
Read moreAdam Roberts. Shall I Tell You the Problem with Time Travel. (Solaris Rising)
Clever and amusing time travel story, if you accept that the scientists involved don’t quite have the same grasp on the relationship between cause and effect that you would expect.
Read moreAdam Roberts. The Ice Submarine. (Further Conflicts)
A tense science thriller, with an interesting background – a West/East conflict is underway, but the protagonist is the commander of a Muslim nuclear submarine
Read moreAdam Roberts. Hair. (Year’s Best Science Fiction 27th Annual Collection).
An intriguing story, one that you read and want to think about, and then re-read.
Read moreExtraordinary Engines : the definitive Steampunk Anthology, ed Nick Gevers pub Solaris 2008
An excellent collection, with only a couple of weaker contributions. A couple are more fantasy than steampunk, but there is high quality writing throughout and a couple of stories that linger (Youmans, Lanagan and Lake) for some time.
Read moreThe Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three. (ed George Mann, Solaris 2009.)
The third in the Solaris series hits the street just as the word on those streets is that the imprint
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