Araminta Station

10 best books like Araminta Station (Jack Vance): Neverness, The Best of Leigh Brackett, The January Dancer, Nifft the Lean, Helliconia Summer, On Blue's Waters, Aristoi, Rumors of Spring, The Book of Knights, The Prodigal Sun

AuthorDavid Zindell
ISBN0553279033
This is a really enjoyable 'big idea' science fiction novel that takes place millenia in our future on the planet Icefall, also called Neverness. It's kind of Dune meets Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol 1 with high level mathematics, posthumanism, and trippy metaphysics thrown in.

The story...
The Best of Leigh Brackett
AuthorLeigh Brackett
ISBN0345259548
There was once a young girl who created a host of strange and wonderful worlds. These were her very own planets, with such fascinating features as the Sea of Morning Opals, the Mountains of White Cloud, wicked Canal cities, and lost lands full of magic and mystery.

That girl's name is Leigh Brackett....
AuthorMichael Flynn
ISBN0765318172
A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled!
Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, "The...
AuthorMichael Shea
ISBN0879977833
Come then, Mortal. We Will Seek Her Soul:
At the behest of an apparition, Nifft and Haldar kidnap a disgraced warrior and take him to the land of the dead to be reunited with her in exchange for the Wizard's Key. Only things don't go as planned...

The first Nifft story was quite good, a trip to...
AuthorBrian W. Aldiss
ISBN0743445104
Having mostly enjoyed Helliconia Spring I thought I would continue on with the trilogy. (I purchased the omnibus edition.)

Events in this book take place several hundred years after the events in 'Spring'. The planet is now at it's closest approach the super giant star that it circles around...
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0312872577
On Blue's Waters is the start of a major new work by Gene Wolfe, the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, which takes place in the years after Wolfe's four-volume Book of the Long Sun. Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his own story. Though life is hard on the newly...
AuthorWalter Jon Williams
ISBN0812514092
Read this one recently on the strength of a friend's recommendation, and was rather glad I did; it's one of the more unusual SF novels I've had the pleasure of reading. Aristoi is set in the far future, when humanity has unlocked the ability to manipulate matter at the molecular level and has spread out...
AuthorRichard Grant
ISBN0553343696
An astonishing odyssey is about to begin.

Gone are the wild grasses and rolling meadows. Gone too are the towering trees--except in one last forest in a forgotten corner of the world. Until something totally unexpected, remarkable, and frightening happens: The forest begins to grow. And...
AuthorYves Meynard
ISBN0312868316
A highly underrated book - and it's easy to see why. I initially started this book, but quickly put it down as an overly simplistic story written in the stilted language of a Victorian novel. Several friends recommended it, however, so I picked it up and gave it a second try.
After making it through...
AuthorSean Williams
ISBN0441006728
Commander Morgan Roche of the Commonwealth of Empires is assigned to escort the artificial intelligence unit known as "The Box" to her superiors. With the help of Adoni Cane -- a genetically enhanced warrior who suffers from amnesia -- Roche must protect "The Box" at all costs. But what about Cane? Who...
AuthorEric Frank Russell
ISBN0575072407
Scout-Officer John Leeming knew from the very start that his reconnaissance mission deep into enemy territory would likely be a one-way trip. But, after he crash-lands on a far distant planet and becomes a prisoner of ruthless aliens, he knows he can't just give up. Armed with only a piece of wood, a coil...
AuthorMatthew Hughes
ISBN1597800899
When Hapthorn is hired by Lord Afre to investigate the motives of his daughter's new companion, a young man of indeterminate circumstances, he takes the job expecting it to allow him the opportunity to explore and understand his changing universe.

Little does Henghis Hapthorn realize, but...
AuthorEric Brown
ISBN1844166023
[He] sensed their minds, a tangle of thoughts and memories that impinged upon his consciousness in waves of words and images, too weak and impressionistic at this distance to cause him distress.

Right off the bat, in the first few pages of Necropath I came across some very nice descriptive passages...
AuthorMelissa Scott
ISBN0812513029
This is one of the most realistic, absorbing sci-fi universes I have ever dived into so I've got to dedicate a bit to it:

What got me hooked most of all was how it manages to stay clear of one of the most common pitfalls of catapulting modern Western society forward a few thousand years and instead...
Rogue Ship
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0879975369
Centaurus was the destination of the space ship The Hope of Man. It had been traveling thru space for almost twenty years & still nine years of flight remained before Centaurus would be reached. For many on board the craft earth had become a vague memory, while for others it was a mere dot in the vast...
AuthorPaula Volsky
ISBN0553572695
In a fragile alliance, the natives are stirring uneasily under their foreign rulers. Rebellion is brewing, and at the heart of the conflict lies the bloody and powerful cult of the god Aoun, whose followers will stop at nothing to rid their land of alien domination. So civil servant Renille vo Chaumelle,...
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...
AuthorMichael Swanwick
ISBN0712645780
Of the various Swanwick books I've read, this longish novella is the only one I haven't much liked. There's lots of skiffy goodness in it, but the tale telling -- the aspect of Swanwick's art that's usually impeccable -- and the story construction seem rickety; perhaps this was something that should...
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