
Distraction
Novel · 1998
It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets.
Every science fiction novel and novella recognized by the 2000 Arthur C. Clarke Award, winners first, with page counts, reader ratings and a link to each book.
Chosen by a panel of judges, the Arthur C. Clarke Award honors the best science fiction novel first published in the UK each year. We include every winner and shortlisted book. Official award site ↗
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Novel · 1998
It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets.

by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 1999
A Deepness in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set 30,000 years previous) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992).
Novel · 1999
Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.

Novel · 1999
Anjuli O'Connell has a memory like a computer, a boyfriend who is slowly turning into a cyborg, a friend who wishes he was nothing more than a mind inside of a computer and a mystery to resolve that questions all the wisdom about artificial intelligence…

Novel · 1996
In Hawaii, a conflict erupts between the nationalist Homeland Movement and the Interspace corporation which rules the island like a colony, resorting to murder to maintain control.

Novel · 1999
Earth faces limits. One entrepreneur looks beyond its future.
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