Across a Billion Years

Author

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two qualities that are often at odds in this genre: an interest in the emotional lives of its characters and a fascination with all things technological and scientific. In Tau Zero these components are not...

Author	David Pedreira
ISBN	0062676083

A realistic and chilling vision of life on the Moon, where dust kills as easily as the vacuum of space…but murder is even quicker—a fast-paced, cinematic science fiction thriller, this debut novel combines the inventiveness of The Martian, the intrigue of The Expanse, and the thrills of Red Rising.

The...

Author

Clifford D. Simak

Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories told by Dogs about the end of human civilization, centering on the Webster family, who, among their other accomplishments, designed the ships that took Men to the stars and gave Dogs the gift of speech and...

Author	Greg Bear
ISBN	0765301075

On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw, a geologist working in Death valley, finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area As more unexplained phenomena spring up...

Author	James Blish
ISBN	0345438353

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance...

Author	Robert Lynn Asprin
ISBN	0441006582

Robert Asprin books must be read for their fun factor and not for well-reasoned story-telling. For example, in the prior book in this series Captain Phule and company were ordered to guard a casino, resulting in Capt. Phule being taken hostage. In spite of this lesson in personal security this book begins...

Author	Joe Haldeman
ISBN	0575072814

Otto McGavin is peacefully idealistic by nature, an Anglo-Buddhist, who seeks employment with the Confederacion because he believes in its mission to protect human & nonhuman rights. The only problem is that the Confederacion needs him as one of its twelve Prime Operators for its secret service,...

Author	Buzz Aldrin
ISBN	0446604046

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Tiberian Baldies: "Encounter with Tiber" by Buzz Aldrin, John Barnes



“’First of all, the burst of base eight numbers are coming in groups of 16,769,021, with a longer break between each group. Ad what...

Author	Timothy Zahn
ISBN	0879978430

The Blackcollar marks the beginning of Timothy Zahn's career that would culminate in the creation of the best Star Wars trilogy on the market. As he is my favorite author, I couldn't miss out on this one.

ETA 06/09/14: After reading more books and thinking back on my feelings for this book, I have...

Author	Piers Anthony
ISBN	0738811513

Chthon was Piers Anthony’s first published novel in 1967, written over the course of seven years. He started it when he was in the US Army, so it has a long prison sequence that is reminiscent of that experience, being dark and grim. It features Aton Five, a space man who commits the crime of falling in...

Author

Peter Cawdron

“Respect is all that separates us from the savages.”
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.”
To say I was totally overwhelmed with this story, is to put it mildly. It’s one of the best stories that I’ve read till now, and...