Ted Chiang 
Tower of Babylon [EPUB ebook] 

An arc of light across the sky and shots fired from a U.S. Navy Blue Angel F/A-18 supersonic hornet fail to collide; the light vanishes from the sky, and the light energy of the android Lawrence …

In the country of Miribeaux, intelligence agents find themselves confounded by the most unusual prisoner any of them have ever met. Lia is a woman who doesn’t exist, at least officially. She claims t …

Following the end of the Ciestoy war the Triangulum Galaxy’s solar systems are redistributed between the surviving groups, some with relief, some with uncertainty as the new independent systems start …

New York City, 1953. The golden age of television, when most programs were broadcast live. Young Kurt Jastrow, a full-time TV writer and occasional actor, is about to have a close encounter of the ap …

Finally, the Barrier-free Brigade and the expedition team have just initiated the caravan along the barrier-free spiral slope, toward the trade tier.Hector_1304, a bibliophile, utilizes the libraries …

After many years lost in space, very far from Earth, human explorers arrive in an unknown galaxy and settle in an uninhabited corner of it. We find the human colonists divided and living on different …

Falling through the stars, the second volume in the decade spanning epic Stars Trilogy builds upon the themes expounded in The Sky full of Stars, where the Gaian threat is now neutralised, and North …