Brenda Cooper, Author . Tor $25.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-765-31597-7
Cooper's first solo flight into SF (after Building Harlequin's Moon
, with Larry Niven) doesn't quite get off the deadly colony planet Fremont, where 12 years earlier war raged between the original pure-human settlers and the "altered
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Brenda Cooper. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $14.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-60701-263-4
Cooper interweaves past and present in this elegantly understated narrative of the Mayan calendar ending in 2012, a pleasant outlier in a subgenre known for apocalyptic histrionics. Alice Cameron is an archeoastronomer visiting the Yucatán to view...
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Brenda Cooper. Pyr, $17.95 trade paper (356p) ISBN 978-1-61614-684-9
Cooper puts a science fiction spin on the life of Eva Perón in this fast-paced, teen-friendly series starter. Grays perform all menial labor on the generation ship Creative Fire. If the grays protest, the reds and the ship’s artificial intelligence...
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Brenda Cooper. Fairwood (fairwoodpress.com), $17.99 trade paper (298p) ISBN 978-1-933846-50-7
This capable collection of hard SF stories (mostly reprints) focuses squarely on world-
building, from the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. to the far reaches of space. Cooper (Edge of Dark) works hard to center each piece on a way that technology has...
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Brenda Cooper. WordFire, $19.99 trade paper (476p) ISBN 978-1-68057-110-3
The competent conclusion to Cooper’s Fremont’s Children series (after Wings of Creation) wraps up the stories of genetically engineered siblings, Joseph and Chelo Lee, and their allies in a multi-planet conflict. As Made beings, the Lees are...
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Larry Niven, Author, Brenda Cooper, Author . Tor $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1266-2
Fans of both hard and softer, psychological SF will welcome veteran Niven and newcomer Cooper's well-written tale of a 60,000-year layover in space, in which physical challenges of world building are matched by social challenges of collaboration
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Brenda Cooper, Author . Tor $25.95 (446p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1598-4
In this scattered sequel to 2007’s The Silver Ship and the Sea
, Cooper undercuts intriguing character development with awkward pacing and a weak resolution. Genetically enhanced adolescents Chelo, Liam and Kayleen remain on Fremont, a planet...
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Brenda Cooper, Author . Tor $27.99 (382p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2095-7
Lush landscapes and eerily beautiful quasi-human “fliers” don't quite compensate for a thin plot and jolting narrative shifts in the breathless sequel to 2008's The Silver Ship and the Sea
. Biologically engineered Chelo Lee...
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Brenda Cooper. Pyr, $18 trade paper (450p) ISBN 978-1-61614-855-3
In this unappealing second half of a space opera duology (after The Creative Fire) based loosely on the life of Evita Perón, Cooper bites off far more than she can chew, muddling her original saga of overcoming oppression with a first-contact...
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P.L. Gaus. Plume, $15 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-63388-050-4\t
In Gaus’s absorbing ninth mystery set in Ohio’s Holmes County (after 2013’s The Names of Our Tears), Sheriff Bruce Robertson is looking for Fannie Helmuth, an Amish woman who once served as an unwitting drug courier. A possible witness against the...
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Brenda Cooper. Pyr, $18 trade paper (410p) ISBN 978-1-63388-050-4
Cooper’s awkward trilogy launch assumes familiarity with the world of her Ruby’s Song series and leaves the new reader puzzling, for much of the book, over terms like "the Glittering" and "the Diamond Deep." Humans who experimented with the...
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Brenda Cooper. Pyr, $18 trade paper (350p) ISBN 978-1-63388-265-2
Cooper’s plodding coming-of-age novel posits a near future in which humankind has nearly destroyed Earth’s natural resources. Those in domed city-states such as Seacover (formerly Seattle and Vancouver) live in blissful ignorance of life Outside....
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