Dave Ames rated The Cassini Division: 5 stars
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Curriculum Development Manager - I get to play with cool tech and then write courses using it. Lover of Science Fiction and all sorts of speculative fiction.
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Dave Ames rated Pandora's Star: 5 stars
Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such sf giants as …
Dave Ames rated Judas unchained: 5 stars
Judas unchained by Peter F. Hamilton (The second book in the Commonwealth Saga series)
The previous novel, Pandora's Star, introduced the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of the twenty-fourth century. Robust, peaceful, and confident, …
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars Trilogy, #1)
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research & cutting-edge science in …
Dave Ames rated Don't Panic: 5 stars
Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman, David K. Dickson, M. J. Simpson, and 1 other
'It's all absolutely devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies' Douglas Adams
Don't Panic celebrates the life of …
Dave Ames rated Altered Carbon: 4 stars
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
It's the twenty-fifth century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in …
Dave Ames rated Ender's Game: 4 stars
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game, #1)
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more …
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, Neal Stephenson
When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An …
Dave Ames rated The Diamond Age: 4 stars
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)
Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth …
Dave Ames rated Cloud Atlas: 5 stars
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. It was published in 2004. It won the British …
Dave Ames rated The Andromeda Strain: 3 stars
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton, Michael Crichton
The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to …
Dave Ames rated A Fire Upon The Deep: 5 stars
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #1)
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined …
Ringworld by Larry Niven (S.F.Masterworks S.)
Dave Ames rated Starship Troopers: 4 stars
Dave Ames rated A Canticle for Leibowitz: 4 stars
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (St. Leibowitz, #1)
In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries …