The Windup Girl is a biopunk science fiction novel published in September 2009. It was named as the ninth best fiction book of 2009 by Time magazine, and as the best science fiction book of the year in the Reference and User Services Association's 2010 Reading List. This book is a 2009 Nebula Award and a 2010 Hugo Award winner for best novel.This book also won the 2010 Compton Crook Award and the 2010 Locus Award for best first novel.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 5 November 2010
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A Columbus of Space
In this classic space travel novel from 1909, author Garrett P. Serviss not only provides the reader with an exhilirating adventure, but also one of the first atomic-powered spacecraft in fiction.
Primo Levi, one of the most admired of Holocaust writers and survivors, was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz and also poetry, science fiction, historical fiction and a wide range of essays. This Companion brings together leading specialists and young scholars in the fields of Holocaust studies, Italian literature and language, and literature and science, to offer an accessible introduction to the work of this major writer of the twentieth century.
The Boat of a Million Years is a science fiction novel nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel that same year. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Prometheus Award in 1990.
Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond-to the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars.
A milestone in modern science fiction, a New York Times Notable Book on its first publication in 1989, this is one of a great writer's finest works.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 28 October 2010
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Backseat Saints
I have been a fan of Joshilyn Jackson's since gods in Alabama. She is a wonderful writer. Her descriptive powers amaze me. At one point in the book, she is writing about Rose's trip across the country in search of her mother. The line reads, "Desert air whirled through the car in a constant cyclone, catching up our hair and rifling through it, blowing all the Alabama off our skins." The words actually transport you to that car and that moment with Rose. I love it. In case you couldn't tell, I would highly recommend this book to fans of women's fiction or Southern fiction. It's a great book from a very talented author.
