Beyond the Farthest Star
10 best books like Beyond the Farthest Star (Edgar Rice Burroughs): The Chrysalids, The Kraken Wakes, Star Born, Almuric, The City of the Beast or Warriors of Mars, Stowaway To Mars, The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Chocky, Consider Her Ways and Others, Web
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0140013083 |
Imagine a world where a little deviation from the norm in physical appearance means burning and banishment because you are far from what God created. Why there are imperfections when we know perfect exists? God creates perfect humans, plants, and animals, so no deviations have the right to live in the...
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0140010750 |
I will probably always nod to Wyndham's Day of the Triffids as a crowning piece of SF, but The Kraken Wakes takes on a very similar tone, albeit very different problems.
The two both have a heavy focus on science and rationality in the face of unfathomable problems. Triffids had mass blindness...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0843959142 |
When Raf Kurbi's Terran spaceship burst into unexplored skies of the far planet Astra and was immediately made welcome by the natives of a once-mighty metropolis, Kurbi was unaware of three vital things:
One was that Astra already harbored an Earth colony -- descended from refugees from the...
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 1601250436 |
The creator of Conan looks to the stars in one of fantasy's most enduring science fantasy classics! Robert E. Howard's Almuric is a savage planet of crumbling stone ruins and debased, near-human inhabitants. Into this world comes Esau Cairn, Earthman, swordsman, murderer. Only he can overthrow the...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0879974362 |
It was supposed to be a matter transmitter, but something went hideously wrong with its first experimental use. Instead of sending him to a room across the laboratory, it flung Michael Kane helplessly through time and space —to the red planet where savagery ruled!
Deadly menace faced the...
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0340158352 |
Aircraft designer Dale Currance undertakes a journey to Mars in an effort to capture the prize being offered to the first man to complete an interplanetary journey, but a female stowaway throws his plans into disarray.
An international prize of one billion has been offered to the first man...
The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl, Science Fiction, Fantasy
"The Tunnel under the World" was first published in 1954 in Galaxy magazine. On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming out of a dream. It was more real than any dream he had ever had in his life. He could still hear and feel the sharp, ripping-metal explosion, the violent heave that had...
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0140031219 |
Cover Artist: Harry Willock
Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense - it was like listening to one end of...
Consider Her Ways and Others
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0140022317 |
Consider Her Ways Jane Waterleigh has no memory of her past wakes up and discovers that she is a mother of some description, in a bloated body that is not her own.
Odd is a tale of how an ordinary man profited from an extraordinary time paradox when he stops to help a man seemingly lost and confused,...
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0140053387 |
A millionaire English lord dreams of founding a Utopian community on a remote Pacific island. Among the forty-odd men and women selected for the project are a pestologist named Camilla and the narrator. Within hours of the group's arrival on the sunny isle their radio has been destroyed. Within days...
Doctor Who: Vampire Science
In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco.
Some want to coexist with humans, using genetic engineering in a macabre experiment to find a new source of blood. But...
| Author | Tom Godwin |
| ISBN | 1434401553 |
Crushing gravity, thin air, freezing winter, searing summer under two suns. A deadly wasteland teems with monsters and fatal fever. A thousand untrained Earth men, women and children are brutally marooned on the planet Ragnarok by a sadistic enemy. That night, 200 die. In the morning, survivors decide...
| Author | Jonathan Carroll |
| ISBN | 0312063040 |
More like a novella, this work follows Ingram York who has a friend, Michael Billa. Michael is the sort of friend whose funny tales and charm can pull you out of the lowest depths and make life good once more. Along comes Clinton Deix, a friend of Michael's, who tells Ingram that most of those stories are...
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0140019863 |
For the past few years I have peppered my reading with rereads from my youth. It has been even more rewarding than I anticipated. So far, my rereads have all been books I enjoyed when I first read them. But this time I decided to reread a book I did not enjoy at all.
Why would I do such a silly thing with...
| Author | Walter B. Gibson |
| ISBN | 0515034789 |
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?
THE SHADOW KNOWS. But no one knows THE SHADOW. Cloaked in darkness and mystery, the man in black is a legend to those who have felt his remorseless hand: The Underworld. One step outside the law and many leagues ahead of the police in the battle against...
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0140013857 |
Varied short stories by John Wyndham, some from before WW2 and some decades later, and still fresh, 20 years since I last read them.
If Wyndham makes you think of spooky children (Midwich Cuckoos) and triffids, prepare for something different and, I think better. There is plenty of variety...
Il est d'une méchanceté inouïe et déteste la terre entière à commencer par sa propre famille ! Quel motif haineux peut donc bien pousser Lord Putrefact, l'un des plus riches industriels d'Angleterre et l'un des plus originaux, à inviter en sa demeure le jeune et virulent professeur Walden Yapp,...
