by Paul McAuley
Topical, entertaining near-future thriller about ubiquitous surveillance in the UK.

by Nancy Kress
Excellent, unjustly overlooked novel of humanity’s use of genetic engineering to adapt to a post-ecodisaster world.

The last volume in the Manifold trilogy. The conclusion is brilliant, but what a brutal trip to get there. Baxter’s conception of early hominid behavior may be accurate, but its stomach-turning.

by Stephen Baxter
Volume 2 in the Manifold trilogy. Humbling take on what the most likely result of first contact might be.

by Stephen Baxter
The first (and best) in a mind-bending, three-volume speculative riposte to the Fermi paradox.