Sheri Tepper's gift is to address unflinchingly worst-case futures and confront head-on the reader's fears. It's a polemicist's strategy, invigorating, addictive, sharing the burden of contemplating big issues and the threat they may pose to the individual as well as the whole world. The book's title, The Family Tree, like Gibbon's Decline and Fall, has a hidden double meaning for the reader to fathom: trees have suddenly become rampant in our near future, growing at a fantastic rate to conquer...
The Jacq of Spades (Red Dog Conspiracy, #1)
by Patricia Loofbourrow
Virtual Light (Bridge Trilogy, #1) (Penguin audiobooks)
by William Gibson
NEW YORK TIMES bestseller • 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech...
Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme - Young Adventurers Ltd. Their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, plunges the pair into danger.