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 May 24, 2006The Travelerby John Twelve Hawks“
Big Brother is Watching The Traveler and the Harlequin
The Traveler” Will Have Readers racing as good gal Harlequin and her Traveler evade the evil Tabula. And the chase moves from London to Prague to LA to the desert Southwest to New York. The reader will experience of roller coaster ride all along the way.
 The Shockwave Rider
by John Brunner
The dark side of the information superhighway
The cyberpunk science fiction of writers such as John Brunner predicts corporations and big government will wield the technology to amass power over the individual. The tool of choice to effect this control is a pervasive information network.
 Mona Lisa Overdrive
by William Gibson
Struggling for control of the virtual and real world
Having completed another futuristic William Gibson novel, Mona Lisa Overdrive, I recalled how several characters in the book were electronic circuits that contained the knowledge of individuals who had died as well as individuals who were created from scratch. It dawned on me that it is becoming increasingly possible to capture the skills of humans in electronics circuits. That being said would it not then be possible given sufficient memory and compute power to capture the entire life experience of humans sometime in the future.
 Rendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke
Earthlings are confronted and confounded by an alien culture
Arthur C. Clarke won the 1974 Hugo Award and 1973 Nebula Award for his novel Rendezvous with Rama. And for good reason. The book examines man’s most compelling curiosity to meet and communicate with an race totally alien to earth.
 Hand of Prophecy
by Severna Park
A young female slave’s desperate quest for freedom amid a planetary system on the verge of war
The story begins at a bar in the town Kagda on the planet Naya. Yaeylie Frenna is the slave of Olney a veterinarian, assigned to the planet located on the frontier ruled by the Emirate. The Emirate had driven the Faraqui from this planet and its neighbors, including Traja some many years before. Now, the Faraqui appear ready to retake what was once theirs.
 Count Zero
by William Gibson
Three powerful forces vie for the most precious possession in a future earth: information as a life force
"They set a slamhound on Turner’s trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair," Thus, begins Count Zero by William Gibson. "It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT."
 The Left Hand Of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A envoy from Earth confront a people who confounds his own perception of himself
One of the most compelling science fiction books I’ve ever read, The Left Hand of Darkness is a complex novel containing several layers. Its main plot is relatively straightforward, the protagonist, Genly Ai, on a mission to bring a remote planet into the Federation of Planets. Beneath this main story line, there is a yet another even richer and more intriguing tale earthling Ai confronting a race of people with a psychological and physiological make-up entirely different from his own.
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