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Jack Faust
Michael Swanwick
Jack Faust is a breathtaking and masterful new spin on Goethe's story of a scholar who sells his soul to the Devil for the gift of unlimited knowledge. But unlike the classic Mephistopheles, the seductive demon who approaches Swanwick's Johannes Faus...
Jack Four
Neal Asher
Created to die – determined to live . . . Jack Four – one of twenty human clones – has been created to be sold. His purchasers are the alien prador and they only want him for their experimentation program. But there is something different about Jack....
Jack Glass
Adam Roberts
Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start.Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the en...
The Jagged Orbit
John Brunner
In THE JAGGED ORBIT, Brunner, writing at the peak of form that allowed him to create STAND ON ZANZIBAR, takes a long, hard, disturbing, hilarious look at the near, and not-so-distant, future and the catastrophic changes that widespread and rampant dr...
Jem
Frederik Pohl
The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instea...
The Jennifer Morgue
Charles Stross
Laundry Files [2]: Bob Howard — a T-shirt–wearing computer geek and field agent for the super-secret British government agency The Laundry — must save the world from eldritch horrors, codenamed Jennifer Morgue, in this fast-paced spy thriller.Bob's c...
Jenny Trapdoor
Neal Asher
During the prador-human war the Dark Intelligence, the AI Penny Royal, fractured and went rogue. The manipulations of this insane and incredibly dangerous intelligence were grotesque. It granted wishes that were deals with the devil, and transformed ...
The Jesus Incident
Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
Pandora Sequence [2]: A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable.But they have more to deal with than just murderous...
The Jewels of Aptor
Samuel R. Delany
One of the most universally acclaimed first novels in science fiction - by the man who become one of the most stellar writers in the genre's history.On the orders of Argo, the White Goddess, an itinerant poet and his three companions journey to the i...
Job: A Comedy of Justice
Robert A. Heinlein
After he firewalked in Polynesia, the world wasn't the same for Alexander Hergensheimer, now called Alec Graham.As natural accidents occurred without cease, Alex knew Armageddon and the Day of Judgement were near. Somehow he had to bring his beloved ...
Jocasta
Brian W Aldiss
A Theban adventure from the master of Science-Fiction, here proving himself adept at imagining historical worlds.In Jocasta, Aldiss brings vividly to life the ancient world of dreaming Thebes: a world of sun-drenched landscapes, golden dust, sphynxes...
Johnny Mnemonic
William Gibson
The screenplay for the film about a smuggler of the future who uses a computer chip implanted in his brain to transfer valuable information.
The Jonah Kit
Ian Watson
When a young Russian boy disappears from a top-secret Soviet research establishment and turns up in Tokyo, he presents a major problem for the American security officials. For the boy appears to be part of a sophisticated experiment and to have the m...
The Journal of Nicholas the American
Leigh Kennedy
College student Nicholas Dal shares the family talent, or curse - he is an empath, a man who experiences the emotions of other people. Too-powerful emotion can induce seizures, so to stay sane he must live alone and dull his senses with vodka.This, i...
The Judas Rose
Suzette Haden Elgin
Native Tongue [2]: An instant cult classic, and groundbreaking forerunner to Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale. Native Tongue Trilogy revealed to its audiences a frightening future world where the women of Earth are once again property.In Volume II...
Judas Unchained
Peter F. Hamilton
Commonwealth Saga [2]: Humanity's interstellar Commonwealth is in serious trouble. Thirteen of its hundreds of worlds (linked by wormholes and high-speed trains) were lost to a first mass attack by the insanely hostile alien Primes. The controlling P...
Juggler of Worlds
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner
For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings...Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary - of ...
Julian Comstock
Robert Charles Wilson
In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the ...
Juniper Time
Kate Wilhelm
Man reached for the stars - and failed to keep the Earth in his grasp.With the western United States devastated by drought, the survivors huddle in squalid concentration camps in the east. And still the dream won't go away. In high orbit, an artefact...
Jupiter
Ben Bova
Grand Tour [8]: Grant Archer only wanted to study astrophysics. But the forces of the "New Morality," the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run 21st-century America, have other plans for him. To his distress, Grant is torn from his young bride...
The Jupiter Plague
Harry Harrison
Unexpectedly, long thought lost, the first manned Jupiter probe has returned - but only a madman would have tried to land it at Kennedy International!The result is the biggest air disaster in history. And that's only the beginning...
Jupiter Project
Gregory Benford
Jupiter Project [1]: Matt Bohles was content with the pleasures of low-g life in the Jovian Orbital Lab. Even if a young man did get to feel a bit squeezed, growing up in a tin can 600 million klicks from Mother Earth...But the International Space Ad...
Jupiter War
Neal Asher
Owner Trilogy [3]: Alan Saul is now part-human and part-machine, and our solar system isn't big enough to hold him. He craves the stars, but can't leave yet. His sister Var is trapped on Mars, on the wrong side of a rebellion, and Saul's human side w...