Polar City Blues
by Katharine Kerr | 
Rendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke | 
Contact
by Carl Sagan | 
A Fire Upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge | 
A Deepness in the Sky
by Vernor Vinge | 
Shift
by Hugh Howey | 
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie | 
Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem | 
Breakthrough
by Michael C. Grumley | 
Judas Unchained
by Peter F. Hamilton | 
Forward the Foundation
by Isaac Asimov | 
We Are Legion
by Dennis E. Taylor | 
Revelation Space
by Alastair Reynolds | 
Dark Space
by Jasper T. Scott | 
The Lost Starship
by Vaughn Heppner | 
Caliban's War
by James S. A. Corey | 
Catalyst
by Michael C. Grumley | 
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson | 
Green Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson | 
All These Worlds
by Dennis E. Taylor |
A science fiction mystery with a political twist. The investigation of blackmail and murder on two planets uncovers an interstellar plot that jeopardizes the political balance between the human dominated Republic and the two major alien dominated governments. Set both in Polar City on Hagar and on the capital planet of Sarah POLAR CITY NIGHTMARE explores the universe of katharine Kerr's previous bestseller, POLAR CITY BLUES, digs into its history, and takes a closer look at the interstellar confederation, one of its major cultures. It develops themes first sounded in the original book: machine intelligence, prejudice, and human relationships, along with a look at what is truly `alien'. It is a major work of SF imagination.