Drowned Worlds

By Jonathan Strahan (editor), James Morrow, Kim Stanley Robinson , Charlie Jane Anders , Ken Liu , Paul McAuley , Kathleen Ann Goonan , Jeffrey Ford , Lavie Tidhar

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We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time - the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises.

Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if…

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I like a good fiction anthology, and this one, which focuses on the future if we do nothing to stop human-caused climate change, is really good. It focuses on the rising seas, looking at the future in a drowned world, both good and bad. There are a number of excellent speculative fiction writers here, including my favorites, Ken Liu and Stanley Robinson.

As bad as things are getting and will get, I like to be reminded of human resilience, and most of these stories do that. Some are apocalyptic, but I need to be reminded of that as well; what…

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Spoliation

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To hide a corporation’s failure to properly service a space ship, Captain Jonas Stryker is prosecuted but saved from imprisonment by a dying man, who hires Stryker to collect asteroids for their mineral content. Stryker soon finds he must stop a shadowy corporate group called The Board, who employ space piracy, terrorism, and even weaponised asteroids to overthrow the Federation government.

Set in Lagrange points, space stations, the Moon and outback Australia, it is a fast-moving story with some speculative future technology. If you were interested in the NASA attempt to alter the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos, you might…

Spoliation

By Ian J. Miller,

What is this book about?

When a trial to cover-up a corporate failure ends Captain Jonas Stryker's career, he wants revenge against The Board, a ruthless, shadowy organization with limitless funds that employs space piracy, terrorism, and even weaponised asteroids. Posing as a space miner, Stryker learns that The Board wants him killed, while a young female SCIB police agent wants retribution against him for having her career spoiled at his trial. As Stryker avoids attempts to kill him, he becomes the only chance to prevent The Board from overturning the Federation Government and imposing a Fascist-style rule.
A story of greed, corruption and honour,…


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