science fiction books

Here's what I remember. The main character has had recurring dreams all his life about an alien planet and some sound that he associated with that planet Somewhere in the world a radio telescope detects a strange sound coming from space (perhaps from an alien incoming ship?) and the main...

Okay, this is an odd one, because I've been trying to find a book I read as a kid... and I actually know exactly what this book is called. But it doesn't help! The book was a sci-fi novel called "His Master's Voice". The problem is that is was most emphatically NOT the one written by Stanisław...

I remember reading a book (a series?) when I was a kid during the late 70s. I remember almost nothing about it other than the spaceship had a 'food replicator' that you only had to think about the food you wanted and it would be produced. However, as a result of someone in the family thinking...

Unfortunately, I can't remember a great deal about it, so I'm hoping someone here is familiar enough with it to recognise it from very sparse information. The premise, as I remember it, has a contemporary man (I'm thinking 80s, but maybe 70s) killed in some unique way and then being resurrected...

I am currently reading "Revenger", the latest book by Alastair Reynolds. Reynolds is very fond of the concept of Deep Time -- many of his books (sometimes parts of books) take place tens of thousands or millions years from now, with enough time in between for many civilizations to arise and fall...

Who was her boss?

Today I was delighted to find out that Charlie Stross plans to write third Freyaverse book, that is sequel to "Neptune's Brood". He said it will be about first contact gone wrong " to about the same extent that The Marriage of Figaro is a straightforward romance gone wrong". The tentative title...

I just re-read this. I found it at a yard salel for a quarter. I first read it as a teen. I enjoyed it then but not as much as I enjoyed it as an adult. The irony of the book completely escaped my young senses, but not not my adult ones. Just wondering if anyone else has, as an adult v...

Please feel free to expand on your answer- in your opinion what did he do right, what (if anything) did he do wrong. Also, do you prefer his adult novels or his teen fiction?

I am two thirds the way through this book and I am really liking it. He really makes telepathy sound like a possibility, rather than a woo-woo dream. I haven't had much time to read before, but now that I am disabled I am lucky to have a shelf full of paperback science fiction novels. I had...

Scientists discover an alien craft approaching Earth. Donald Rumsfeld launches a preemtive thermonuclear strike destroying it outside the orbit of Jupiter. The End Movie Version Donald Rumsfeld- Yahoo Serious Missle Launch Commander- Keanu Reeves President- Laurence Fishburn Alien Craft-...