A Separate War and Other Stories
9 best books like A Separate War and Other Stories (Joe Haldeman): The Chronoliths, The Demolished Man, The Fountains of Paradise, Imperial Earth, Flatlander, Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro, Against the Fall of Night, The Hive, The Swarm
Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
ISBN | 0812545249 |
Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future.
In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior....
Author | Alfred Bester |
ISBN | 1857988221 |
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder?
Ben Reichs heads a huge 24th century business empire, spanning the solar system. He is also an obsessed, driven man determined to murder a rival. To avoid capture, in a society where murderers can be detected...
Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
ISBN | 0446677949 |
First published in 1979, Fountains of Paradise is one of Grandmaster Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s later books, but in its themes and style is reminiscent of some of his best work.
Telling the story of an elevator into space, this also describes a flashback related story thousands of years earlier...
Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
ISBN | 1416504540 |
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...
[A Beowulf Shaeffer story] Traveling on a spaceliner headed for Earth, spaceship pilot Beowulf Shaeffer strikes up a friendship with Gregory Pelton, the fabulously wealthy descendant of the inventor of the transfer booth--known to his friends as Elephant. Irritated at being labeled a flatlander,...
Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro
Plump, grumpy, slumped on the couch, and going nowhere fast at age 16, Phil Gaimon began riding a bicycle with the grand ambition of shedding a few pounds before going off to college. He soon fell into racing and discovered he was a natural, riding his way into a pro contract after just one season despite...
Against the Fall of Night
Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
ISBN | 1596871229 |
ONE BILLION YEARS FROM NOW . . .
Mankind has reached the heights of civilization. Men live thousands of years in perfect freedom and leisure - their wants are attended to by ingenoius machines - peace and culture flourish in ways undreramed of in our time. And yet . . . mankind is dying. The price of peace...
Author | Orson Scott Card |
ISBN | 0765375648 |
New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.
Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars--the alien invasions...
Author | Orson Scott Card |
ISBN | 0765375621 |
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm.
The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army....