After Doomsday
10 best books like After Doomsday (Poul Anderson): Planet of the Apes, Time and Again, Earth Abides, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World, Double Star, The Purple Cloud (Frontiers of Imagination), Islands in the Sky, Drunkard's Walk, La prisión de la libertad
| Author | Pierre Boulle |
| ISBN | 0345447980 |
"I am confiding this manuscript to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race. Lord have pity on us!"
With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. In this simian world,...
| Author | Clifford D. Simak |
| ISBN | 0441810039 |
'One of those complex and enormously inventive stories... based on some real, honest, practical ethical thinking. It is an idea book.'
- Groff Conklin in Galaxy Science Fiction
Asher Sutton has been lost in deepest space for twenty years. Suddenly arrives a warning from the future, that...
| Author | George R. Stewart |
| ISBN | 0345487133 |
”The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way. Mankind had been trembling about destruction through war, and had been having bad dreams of cities blown to pieces along with their inhabitants, of animals killed, too, and of the very vegetation...
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? contains one of the bleakest lines in all of literature. It’s where Gloria, who dances in the marathon dance, asks without a trace of irony or black humor, ”Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying...
iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World
| Author | Chris Roberson |
| ISBN | 1401229654 |
Told from a female zombie’s perspective, this smart, witty detective series mixes urban fantasy and romantic dramedy.
Gwendolyn “Gwen” Dylan is a 20-something gravedigger in an eco-friendly cemetery. Once a month she must eat a human brain to keep from losing her memories, but in...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0345330137 |
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.
Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult...
| Author | M.P. Shiel |
| ISBN | 0803292791 |
"If now a swell from the Deep has swept over this planetary ship of earth, and I, who alone chanced to find myself in the furthest stern, as the sole survivor of her crew . . . What then, my God, shall I do?" The Purple Cloud is widely hailed as a masterpiece of science fiction and one of the best "last man" novels...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0451098234 |
The story of 'Islands in the Sky' centers around a young man, who, after brilliantly winning a space-related competition, requests a vacation on a space station as his prize. It is written with Arthur C. Clarke's obvious knowledge of science, but moves at a page turning rate througout the entire narrative....
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0586047638 |
Amusing send up of academe and a mystery story about Cornut, a suicidal mathematician. He's tried to kill himself in his sleep nine times and so have a group of other academics, none of them lasting past the next few attempts. Despite the silliness that they still use magnetic recording tape and film,...
La prisión de la libertad
La Fantasía interminable
Es corto el pasillo del imponente palazzo romano pero jamás alcanzaremos su final. Es ancho el zaguán de la villa magnífica, y ahí lo tenemos, invitándonos a entrar, engañándonos con una oferta de facilidad. Si te lanzas al mundo para aprender la admiración,...
