An Unusual Angle
by Greg Egan | 
Incandescence
by Greg Egan | 
Zeitgeber
by Greg Egan | 
Alien Shores
by Greg Egan | 
Contact
by Carl Sagan | 
Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem | 
Dark Space
by Jasper T. Scott | 
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson | 
Dark World
by B. V. Larson | 
The Speed of Dark
by Elizabeth Moon | 
The Circle
by Dave Eggers | 
Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky | 
Soft Apocalypse
by Will McIntosh | 
The End of Mr. Y
by Scarlett Thomas | 
Night Lords
by Aaron Dembski-Bowden | 
Diaspora
by Greg Egan | 
The Sculpted Ship
by K. M. O'Brien | 
An Ocean Is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away
by John Barnes | 
Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland | 
The Dragon Factory: A Joe Ledger Novel
by Jonathan Maberry |
As a young boy, Prabir Suresh lives with his parents and sister on an otherwise uninhabited island in a remote part of the Indonesian peninsula. Prabir names it Teranesia, populating it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies that his parents are studying. Civil war strikes, orphaning Prabir and his sister. Eighteen years later, rumours of bizarre new species of plants and animals being discovered in the peninsula that was their childhood home draw Prabir's sister back to the island - Prabir cannot bear for her to have gone out alone and he follows, persuading a pharmaceutical researcher to take him along as a guide.