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10 best books like A Hole in Space (Larry Niven): 2010: Odyssey Two, The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone, Trader to the Stars, Imperial Earth, The Persistence of Vision, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Ensign Flandry, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, Nine Tomorrows, Reach for Tomorrow

2010: Odyssey Two
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN0345413970
Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft--to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong...and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.

Without...
The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374530076
Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that...
Trader to the Stars
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0425612848
Humankind has explored the galaxy: Nicholas van Rijn had bought it. A starwide empire was difficult to run, but the old man was wily and the resources of the Solar Spice & Liquors Company were vast. But sometimes even a conquered world can get just a little out of hand.

In his Magnificent Future...
Imperial Earth
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN1416504540
Imperial Earth is the fascinating odyssey of Duncan Makenzie, traveling from Titan, a moon of Saturn, to Earth, as a diplomatic guest of the United States for the celebration of its Quincentennial in the year 2276. Titan, an independent republic, was originally colonized from Earth three generations...
The Persistence of Vision
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN0441662218
Introduction · Algis Budrys · in
The Phantom of Kansas · nv Galaxy Feb ’76
Air Raid [as by Herb Boehm] · ss IASFM Spr ’77
Retrograde Summer · nv F&SF Feb ’75
The Black Hole Passes · nv F&SF Jun ’75
In the Hall of the Martian Kings · na F&SF Feb ’77
In...
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0345446674
In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough...
Ensign Flandry
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0743474430
Introducing...Dominic Flandry.

Before he's through he'll have saved worlds and become the confidante of emperors. But for now he's seventeen years old, as fresh and brash a sprig of the nobility as you would care to know. The only thing as damp as the place behind his ears is the ink on his brand-new...
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0586043985
Buy Jupiter is a collection of short stories that vary both in style and quality. The book contains quite a few stories (24 in total), covering around 20 years of Asimov's short story writing (1950-1972). Moreover, this edition contains some autobiographical writing. Every short story is followed...
Nine Tomorrows
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0345346041
Isaac Asimov may very well be the most prolific author in modern history. With over 500 books to his credit (506, to be exact...go to asimovonline.com for the full list, if you don't believe me!), covering just about every subject in the Dewey Decimal System (except philosophy, I believe), the man was...
Reach for Tomorrow
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN0345430719
WARNING: THIS REVIEW IS SERIOUSLY GEEKY

When I was reading Lee Smolin’s interesting new book Time Reborn a few weeks ago, I happened to run into the following passage, which I imagine must have occupied the author’s attention for all of two minutes. He is talking about gravity:Newton,...
With Friends Like These...
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
ISBN0345323904


Golden Age Science Fiction.

The title story is in the style of Eric Frank Russell, which features galactic empires and unreasoning aliens. My favorite.

Here are several other short stories that engaged me.

"Some notes concerning a green box"
H P Lovecraft...
The Trouble Twisters
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0425058220
David Falkayn -- Few indeed had won their Master Merchant's certificate as young as he, let alone become confidential associates of an uncrowned prince like Nicholas van Rijn, or ruled entire planets. But with an alien posse riding hot on his heels, even Falkayn can't feel completely at ease...

In...
B.P.R.D., Vol. 14: King of Fear
AuthorMike Mignola
ISBN1595825649
A story that began in the first issue of Hellboy concludes with the B.P.R.D. team set to permanently wipe out the subterranean colony of frog monsters that have been a story-driving plague. With Memnan Saa dead, agents Liz and Abe take on the powerful King of Fear - who ultimately reveals that it is, in...
The Batman Who Laughs
AuthorScott Snyder
ISBN1401294030
Left rattled by the events of Dark Knights: Metal, Bruce Wayne must come face to face with the ultimate evil spawned from the Dark Multiverse. One part Batman one part Joker. The Batman Who Laughs.

"A Batman who laughs is a Batman who always wins."

The mastermind behind Dark Nights:...
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