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When Gravity Fails
George Alec Effinger
Orb Books
Marid Audran agrees to help a 200-year-old "godfather" of crime defeat the psychopathic killer roaming the streets of their Arabic ghetto. But to do so, he must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to stop a killer with the powers...
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China Mountain Zhang
Maureen F. McHugh
Orb Books
This "New York Times" Notable Book, one of the core works of modern science fiction, returns to print in trade paperback. The novel is the coming-of-age story of Raphael "China Mountain" Zhang in a wired world dominated by expansionist China. "A wonderfully engaging...
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Brasyl
Ian McDonald
Pyr
McDonald's novel channels the vitality of South America's largest country into an edgy, post-cyberpunk free-for-all. "Brasyl" sets up three separate characters in different eras then slams them together as strands within an immense quantum multiverse.
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Air
Or, Have Not Have
Geoff Ryman
St. Martin's Griffin
""Air" is wonderful...Ryman is a true, graceful writer and this is a novel you move into and inhabit for as long as you can make it last."Kit Reed - author of" Seven for the Apocalypse" & "@expectations""Reading the first sentence of Geoff Ryman's brilliant new...