James P. Hogan

Kevin Heber had it good. He had his own lab, a colleague he could trust, and an idea that could make him millions. Using his father's breakthrough technology in direct neural interfacing, he and his friend Taki have created a new entertainment media - live action adventure in micro mechanical scale. Bug Park: The ultimate out of body experience. And Taki's uncle wants to take it public. Two problems: 1) Kevin and Taki are teenagers. 2) Somebody wants to squash Bug Park dead, and Kevin's father along with it.

Sequel to Code of the Lifemaker

From back cover Bantam paperback January 1996: When Joe Corrigan awakens in a Pittsburgh hospital, he discovers that his life no longer exists. As director of the supersecret Oz Project, he volunteered himself as one of the first human inhabitants of a computerized virtual world indistinguishable from reality. But the Oz Project failed, and Joe has lost everything: his wife, his friends, his colleagues, hist past. Now he finds himself in an unfamiliar world where nothing is quite as it should be. Only Lilly, a fellow Oz volunteer, is different from the others-- somehow more real. Together, they learn the terrifying truth about the world they inhabit. But can they discover a way to get out alive?

Giants #4

A science fiction novel about personality transfer. An obscure Minneapolis schoolteacher wakes up in an Atlanta, Georgia hotel room in a body not his own. After making his way home he discovers that it is seven months later than his last memory and that he has been dead for six months.

From back cover Bantam paperback November 1988: IT MIGHT BE A STEP BEYOND STAR WARS... AND ONE STEP CLOSER TO WORLD WAR III. It is the near future. With its power and influence waning, the Soviet Union has launched Valentina Tereshkova, a giant space station capable of housing 12,000 citizens, into orbit around the earth. But is the colossal off-world colony the peaceful Utopian experiment it's alleged to be? Or is it the last desperate weapon of a crumbling superpower bent on global domination? U.S. computer scientist Paula Bryce and agent Lew McCain are sent to learn the truth -- only to find themselves trapped in the station's awesome prison facility. With a brilliant and eccentric group of dissident inmates, Bryce and McCain seek to unlock from within the secret of the mysterious station. But how will they ever report their findings? In an international powder keg, even unconfirmed suspicions could force a terrifying first strike... while the only hope for mankind rests with two Americans trapped in a prison they can't possibly escape...

OH NO! HUMANS FROM EARTH! Late in the 21st century nuclear war once again loomed on the horizon. And this time there would be no escape. But an American probe has discovered a second life-bearing planet waiting with open biosphere for refugees from Earth; so that freedom, and the human race itself, shall not perish from the universe, the Americans launch a crash project to colonize Chiron. There's only one problem: the science and engineering of the time are not up to the task of transporting living humans between star systems. The answer: send a "colony" of frozen sperm and ova, and use robots to quicken them at the other end. Then use humanlike robots to raise the resulting children. Amazingly, it works. The children and their children's children are happy, healthy, and steeped in the ideals of America's Founders. They are everything their home-planet sponsors could have hoped for except that they really mean it about all that liberty stuff. But now the Earthmen have had their war, survived, rebuilt and come to Chiron in new fast ships. They're the government. They've come to help. But the damned Colonials have such an attitude.

When Murdoch was summoned to his grandfather's isolated Scottish castle, he had no idea of the old man's latest discovery -- nor where it would lead him. Sir Charles, a genius in far-out physics, had found a flew in the law of conservation of energy; in any process, an incredibly tiny increment of energy escaped -- back through time! Using this "tau" radiation, he could send messages into the past. But Murdoch discovered records of messages he knew he had never sent. Were many futures possible? Could a message from Future X alter the past -- and thus wipe out Future X? But who would be foolish enough to send a message that could eliminate his own existence? Then disaster struck. An advanced fusion reactor threatened to destroy all Earth. Grimly, Murdoch sat down to send back the words that would destroy everything he had learned to love. (description from Goodreads)

From the back cover: SURVIVAL TEST Civilization had grown so complex that only a world-wide computer network could control everything. But the computer was only logical -- it lacked common sense. And its all-too-logical decisions were beginning to cause too many near fatal accidents. The solution was on the drawing boards -- a universal self-aware and self-programming computer, equipped with judgment. But... could it be controlled? Or would it attempt to take over, disregarding its creators? If so, could it be turned off? Raymond Dyer and his team of computer specialists knew they had to find answers to these questions, but the project was to dangerous to test on Earth. So they installed the super computer on an orbiting satellite and programmed it to survive at all costs. Then they sent a group of men to attack the computer... to goad it into trying to kill them. They they would turn it off. Obviously if things went wrong, they might lose a few men -- but the satellite and the computer could always be destroyed. Obviously... But the computer didn't quite see it that way!

In the 21st century, on Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter, a huge alien spacecraft is discovered. The aliens originated on Minerva, a planet which used to obit between Mars and Jupiter but was destroyed 25 million years ago and has become the asteroid belt. Is there anything left of this ancient race?

Asa lives every day of her life in honor of both, herself and her people. But as her kingdom's food and energy crisis peak, Asa must find more to fuel Fane's survival.

A classic play about a group of passengers on a ship in a fog-bound sea. Movies were made of it.