Tenured Radical rated Brightness reef: 4 stars
Brightness reef by David Brin (Bantam spectra book)
On the planet Jijo, humans and aliens organize to defend themselves from space pirates in search of genes. The inhabitants …
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Tenured Radical rated Earth: 4 stars
Earth by David Brin (A Bantam spectra book)
A microscopic black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core, threatening to destroy the entire planet within two years. …
Tenured Radical rated Infinity's Shore (The Uplift Saga, Book 5): 4 stars
Infinity's Shore (The Uplift Saga, Book 5) by David Brin (Uplift, #5)
For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As starships fill the skies, the …
Tenured Radical rated Cryptonomicon: 5 stars
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods—World War II and the present. …
Tenured Radical rated Ender's Shadow: 4 stars
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
When Bean is sent to Battle School, he is constantly compared to the great Ender Wiggin, but Bean knows things …
Tenured Radical rated Blind Lake: 4 stars
Tenured Radical rated Eon: 4 stars
Tenured Radical rated Pastwatch: 5 stars
Tenured Radical rated Xenocide: 4 stars
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Saga, #3)
On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania …
Tenured Radical rated Chrysalids: 5 stars
Chrysalids by M. John Harrison, John Wyndham
This book is about a post apocalyptic world returned back to the times of the horse and carriage seen through …
Tenured Radical rated Rendezvous with Rama: 4 stars
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (Rama, #1)
Written in 1973, a massive 50 kilometre long alien cylinder begins to pass through the solar system provoking a hurried …
Tenured Radical rated The lost world: 4 stars
The lost world by Arthur Conan Doyle
Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and that's exactly what he finds when he meets the eccentric Professor …
Tenured Radical rated Revelation Space: 4 stars
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space, #1)
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin.
For the humans now settling the Amarantin homeworld, it's of …
Tenured Radical rated Speaker for the Dead: 4 stars
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game, #2)
Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this …