Ardneh's World

6 best books like Ardneh's World (Fred Saberhagen): The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Tau Zero, Riders of the Purple Sage, The Crucible of Time, Radix, The War Against the Rull

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN	0340837942

It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer...

Tau Zero

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...

Riders of the Purple Sage

Author	Zane Grey
ISBN	0812966120

Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger...

The Crucible of Time

Author	John Brunner
ISBN	0345312244

There are some incredibly smart things Brunner does in this novel. The story is told from the perspective of a world of intelligent aliens as they reach out to discover the universe in which they live. They have to do that in ways that are very different from our own history in details (for example, they...

Radix

Author	A.A. Attanasio
ISBN	0553254065

A young man's odyssey of self discovery in a world eerily alien, yet hauntingly familiar. Set thirteen centuries in the future, A. A. Attanasio meticulously creates a brilliantly realized Earth, rich in detail and filled with beings brought to life with intense energy. In this strange and beautiful...

The War Against the Rull

Author	A.E. van Vogt
ISBN	0312852398

When A.E. van Vogt wove several of his classic stories of The Rull into a novel, he created a work of enduring popularity in the science fiction field. Now back in print for the first time in the 1990s, this Tor edition includes "The First Rull," a story that postdates the novel and makes this book the first...