Mostly science fiction, and most Adrian Tchaikovsky science fiction at that:
* Elder Race - Tchaikovsky's Hugo-nominated novella does this really neat thing where it tells the same story from two different perspectives, which happen to perfectly meld fantasy with hard scifi in a super clever conceit.
* Children of Time - A hard scifi-meets-entomology-study take on how shifting perspectives work and the no-stone-left-unturned world building he does just really works. Its sequel Children of Ruin was great too, and the final in the trilogy comes out next month.
+1 for Children of Time. Read it last year and enjoyed it a lot. Learned a lot about spiders too. I didn't know though that there was a third book coming out. Thanks for the tip.
Tchaikovsky has a lot of good stuff out there already, and shows no signs of slowing. If you liked Elder Race, you’ll probably also like the novella The Expert System’s Brother and its sequel, The Expert System’s Champion.
"Shadows of the Apts" series is one of my favorite. The story is so nicely constructed that you sometimes forgot the world building, even though it impacts on the characters' personalities. I've also the Expert System books, and it was somewhat disturbing in their explorations. Most of his books I've read seems to be premised on how easily man experiments can go wrong.
* Elder Race - Tchaikovsky's Hugo-nominated novella does this really neat thing where it tells the same story from two different perspectives, which happen to perfectly meld fantasy with hard scifi in a super clever conceit.
* Children of Time - A hard scifi-meets-entomology-study take on how shifting perspectives work and the no-stone-left-unturned world building he does just really works. Its sequel Children of Ruin was great too, and the final in the trilogy comes out next month.