Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers
10 best books like Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers (Kage Baker): The Hemingway Hoax, The House of the Kzinti, David Falkayn: Star Trader, Time Scout, The Trikon Deception, Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle, Fast Ships, Black Sails, Planets of Adventure, Sunborn, A Plague of Demons & Other Stories
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0380708000 |
Around 1991, Haldeman wrote: ""What is the book about? The subtitle A 'Short Comic Novel of Existential Terror' is accurate. In a way, it's a horror novel tinged with ghastly humor, as the apparently insane ghost of Ernest Hemingway murders a helpless scholar over and over; the scholar slipping from...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 0743488253 |
Dr Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American science fiction writer, engineer, essayist, and journalist, who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte, and from 1998 until his death maintained his own website and blog.
From the beginning, Pournelle's work centered around strong...
1. Poul Anderson remains one of science fiction's most popular writers, and this generous volume of his best work, with wide-ranging themes and settings, will attract his thousands of fans and win him many new ones.
2. Included is a complete novel, Satan's World, and a number of equally...
| Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
| ISBN | 0671876988 |
Recipe for Ruin:
Take one REALLY GREAT time travel framework.
Add one REALLY TERRIBLE main character.
Mix in one REALLY CREEPY romance.
Yes, Robert Asprin: you ruined it! Or more accurately, your character Margo Smith from the book ruined it!
So what's so great...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0765355361 |
In the near future: Earth is an ecological nightmare, and humanity may well go the way of the dinosaurs. But overhead orbits salvation. A vast metallic island in space, Trikon conducts research too risky to be held on earth--research which could save the planet.
Yet Commander Dan Tighe discovers...
| Author | Peter S. Beagle |
| ISBN | 1596062916 |
When New York Times Bestselling writer Tad Williams described Peter S. Beagle as a 'bandit prince out to steal reader's hearts' he touched on a truth that readers have known for fifty years. Beagle, whose work has touched generations of readers around the world, has spun rich, romantic and very funny...
| Author | Ann VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 1597800945 |
Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger — and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate — and so do readers everywhere!
Swashbuckling from...
| Author | Murray Leinster |
| ISBN | 0743471628 |
Planets of Adventure is an anthology of short stories. It contains one almost full-length story and several shorter stories, all of which are based on the theme implied by the title. The quality of the stories was pretty consistent – they weren’t terribly engaging, but they did hold my interest...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Carver |
| ISBN | 0312864531 |
Stars are dying: that's the news that greets John Bandicut and his companions. They must travel to a nebula called Starmaker—to discover what force threatens not just the newborn stars, but every world within a thousand light-years. They must journey not just into the perils of a star-forming nebula,...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0743499069 |
Invisible aliens ruled the Earth, and only one man could see them-and they were hunting him down.
A complete novel of science fiction adventure and a host of short novels in one large volume. A Plague of Demons: One man found out the secret behind the aliens who controlled the world, harvesting...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0671878883 |
ROUND EIGHT, MONKEY BOYS!
In a new story, Larry Niven tells of the earliest days of the first Man-Kzin War.
The Kzin had learned of the existance of human-occupied space, a find that promised new technolgies for the race, and new wealth for the fierce Kzin Warriors in the form of land,...
| Author | Jack Williamson |
| ISBN | 0030560527 |
HUMANOIDS: Self-directed robots invented to serve & guard mankind
"With Folded Hands" is a 1947 sf novelette by Jack Williamson (1908–2006). His influence for this story was in the aftermath of WWII & the atomic bombings of Japan & his concern that "some of the technological creations...
| Author | Eddie Wright |
| ISBN | 0578004259 |
Frank Fisher is nothing. He wants to be something. When a mysterious young woman named Bonnie offers assistance by injecting seeds of inspiration directly into his brain, Frank finds himself involved in a twisting mystery full of addiction, desperation and self-discovery. Broken Bulbs, a novella...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0743435877 |
Raj Whitehall was a young noble of the Civil Government, the last remnant of galactic civilization on the planet Bellevue, when he came across an ancient but still functioning Fleet Battle Computer named Center. With Center's vast fund of knowledge and strategic calculating abilities, Raj could...
| Author | Robert Zubrin |
| ISBN | 0441009638 |
A five-person crew become the first humans to walk upon the Red Planet in a landmark mission to Mars. But when their findings set off a wave of controversy and political upheaval back home, public opinion turns against the mission and they are left stranded. As their situation becomes more desperate,...
| Author | David J. Williams |
| ISBN | 0553385429 |
In his electrifying debut, The Mirrored Heavens, David J. Williams created a dark futuristic world grounded in the military rivalries, terror tactics, and political wrangling of our own time. Now he takes his masterful blend of military SF, espionage thriller, and dystopian cyberpunk one step further--to...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0671319523 |
This omnibus edition includes: "The Time Traders" and "Galactic Derelict."
DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIMEIntelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USAs greatest adversary on the world stage is sending its agents...
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 1596061103 |
"Variety is the soul of pleasure," And variety is what this comprehensive new collection of Connie Willis is all about. The stories cover the entire spectrum, from sad to sparkling to terrifying, from classics to hard-to-find treasures with everything in between -- orangutans, Egypt, earthworms,...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553295284 |
From multiple award-winning author David Brin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays of the near and distant future, as humans and aliens encounter the secrets of the cosmos--and of their own existence. In "Dr. Pak's Preschool" a woman discovers that her baby has been called...
| Author | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0803262167 |
Time travel, a millennium-spanning romance, and rousing action in modern African jungles and the untamed prehistoric wilderness ignite this classic adventure tale from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Nu, a warrior from the Stone Age, is buried alive in an earthquake while stalking a saber-toothed...
| Author | Lisa Goldstein |
| ISBN | 1597808407 |
A new time-traveling fantasy from National Book Award-winner Lisa Goldstein.
Ann Decker fixes computers for a living, and in the evenings she passes the time sharpening her hacking skills. It's not a very interesting life, but she gets by—until one day she's contacted with a job offer for...
