James Patrick Hogan, Author . Baen $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-31844-4
In this modest SF-mystery hybrid, set on Mars circa the 22nd century, Kieran Thane (aka the Knight), a sort of futuristic Saint or Travis McGee, and his female companion, June, who's not quite a full partner but more than a sidekick, tackle the...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author . Baen $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7434-9902-6
In Hogan's intriguing fifth SF novel in the series that began with Inherit the Stars
(1978), Earth has reestablished contact with the Ganymeans, an alien race that manipulated proto-humans into homo sapiens on Minerva, a planet that once...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author Bantam Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28918-3
Bernard Fallon is a former agent for British intelligence who has gone freelance. He is approached by his retired boss, Col. Marlow, who himself has joined Infinity Limited, a private group that works to liberate oppressed peoples from dictators and
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James Patrick Hogan, Author Spectra Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-29971-7
Hogan's ( Voyage from Yesteryear ) police procedural with an SF twist is a patchwork of tired devices and worn-out plotting. Joe Kopeksky, who works for the New York City Bureau of Criminal Investigation, is dispatched to discover why time has...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author Baen Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-87710-1
The possibility of moving a person's consciousness between our world and others comes alive as Hogan (The Immortality Option), a dean of hard SF, parlays a standard SF gambit into an entertaining, imaginative yarn. The near-future Earth envisioned...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author Spectra Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-37454-4
While some may find the latest work from Prometheus Award winner Hogan to be a bit preachy, those who enjoy stories with a moral will find this near-future parable denouncing greed hard to resist. A rising star in the field of computer simulation,...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author Del Rey Books $25 (381p) ISBN 978-0-345-41240-9
When IBM's Deep Blue defeated World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov last spring, nearly every popular book on the subject of artificial intelligence went out of date. Though the good ones had predicted that specialized silicon brains would soon outdo...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author Baen Books $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-31945-8
The terrors of a capitalist society in free fall are amply illustrated in this cautionary tale about collusion between an alien superpower interested in exploiting Earth's natural resources (and reorganizing human society along stultifyingly...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author Spectra Books $16.95 (403p) ISBN 978-0-553-05095-0
Hogan, author of the best-selling Code of The Lifemaker, is one of the best science fiction writers around. Most readers will delight in this latest novel, especially if they have a nodding acquaintance with quantum theory. Some, however, may find...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author Del Rey Books $20 (418p) ISBN 978-0-345-36030-4
This latest entry in Hogan's popular Giants series ( Inherit the Stars , etc.) begins a year after humans on earth first make contact with the peaceful, advanced, nonhuman Ganymeans, who exerted a hitherto unknown but momentous influence on the...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author Spectra Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08999-8
In this unfocused SF thriller set in the near future, the bureaucracy governing America and Western Europe has used environmental protection as an excuse to wrest away personal liberty, while the military conducts secret experiments in transferring...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author Del Rey Books $21 (323p) ISBN 978-0-345-37915-3
In this somewhat humdrum sequel to Code of the Lifemaker, Hogan traces efforts of professional psychic/con man Karl Zambendorf and crew to protect the Taloids, a civilization of robots that has developed on Saturn's moon, Titan. The robots were sent
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James Patrick Hogan, Author Tor Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86243-5
When 15-year-old street punk Linc Marani is arrested during a routine shakedown, his life is set on a new course that leads to the stars. Faced with the choice of spending the rest of his life in work camps or joining a mysterious recruitment...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author, Ben Hogan, Author Baen Books $22 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-87773-6
A man lies sleeping in a hotel. Something the size of a cockroach moves silently toward him across the sheets. Leaping forward, it stings him behind the ear, and he dies in seconds. Set in near-future Washington State, the latest hard SF novel from...
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James Patrick Hogan, Author, Ben Hogan, Author Baen Books $24 (432p) ISBN 978-0-671-57813-8
The author of Bug Park now offers an action-cum-romance-cum-disaster novel-cum-movie, with no tackiness. Some time in the future, when the world is not overrun with machines but machines keep everything running, science has stagnated at the pinnacle
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James Patrick Hogan, Author, James P. Baen, Editor . Baen $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3581-9
This clumsy sequel to Hogan's Cradle of Saturn
will produce more anguished readers than satisfied ones. Maverick engineer Landen Keene has led his band of survivors from an Earth where civilization has been wrecked by the passage of a...
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