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From the April 2000 Locus
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter, The Light of Other Days (Tor 2/00) Two masters of hard SF have fun with history as they use quantum physics to open windows to anywhere - and any time, postulating the transformation of society when privacy becomes impossible and unexpected truths of the past are revealed, contradicting cherished beliefs.
Mary Gentle, The Book of Ash #2: Carthage Ascendant (Avon Eos 2/00) Some mysteries are unraveled in this second volume of four (originally written as one novel) about the female mercenary Ash, set in an alternate medieval Europe. Warfare, bizarre science, mysterious magics, and glimpses of near-future researchers’ reactions - make a powerful and entertaining mix that walks a tantalizing line between fantasy and SF.
Kathleen Ann Goonan, Crescent City Rhapsody (Avon Eos 2/00) The third book of Goonan’s ‘‘Nanotech Quartet’’ goes back to the beginnings to explain how her nano-transformed world came to be, an ambitious meditation on art and music and technology - perhaps her most solidly SF novel yet. Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber (Warner Aspect 3/00) Once again, Hopkinson brings her distinctive, original voice to shock us out of our SF expectations. Caribbean customs and folklore and future technology combine on the planet Toussaint and its prison planet, where a desperate young woman takes on the persona of a Carnival character, the masked avenger called the Robber Queen. Guy Gavriel Kay, Lord of Emperors (HarperPrism 3/00) The sequel to Sailing to Sarantium, this historical fantasy probes into the workings of art and memory, a triumphant conclusion to a tale of alternate versions of ancient Byzantium and Persia, full of intrigues - and the art and magic of mosaics.
Jack McDevitt, Infinity Beach (HarperPrism 2/00) Mystery, space opera, and first-contact SF combine in this far-future novel that explores the place of humanity in a vast cosmos. Humans have spread to other worlds without finding signs of non-terrestrial life - but rumors of one ship’s suppressed encounter sets a physicist on a desperate search for the truth.
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, The Burning City (Pocket 3/00) Los Angeles -- or the pre-historic equivalent in Niven’s world of The Magic Goes Away -- is the setting for this fantasy of a boy growing up in a strangely familiar city near-ruined by fading magic, recurrent fires, riots, and street gangs.
Allen Steele, Oceanspace (Ace 2/00) Steele heads for the deadly frontier of the ocean depths in this near-future, hard-SF thriller of a self-sufficient undersea research station, and the forces within and without that seek to manipulate it to their own ends.
David Weber, Ashes of Victory (Baen 3/00) In this ninth volume in the compelling military SF series, Honor Harrington returns to family and friends who believed her dead, only to find new political and military complications waiting.
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