Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
10 best books like Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (Isaac Asimov): Time Enough for Love, 3001: The Final Odyssey, The Flight of the Horse, Imperial Earth, The Menace from Earth, The Wind From the Sun, The Dark Side of the Earth, Tales of Ten Worlds, Expanded Universe, Expedition To Earth
Was Robert A. Heinlein a dirty old man?
Yes.
But he was also a visionary who saw the trends of Western Civilization and expounded out into a foreseeable future, not just in terms of science fiction but also in regard to cultures, morals, sociology and ideology. Time Enough for Love demonstrates...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345438205 |
One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 1857238419 |
'We don't know where on Earth you'll wind up,' Ra Chen had told him.
And the Director of the Institute for Temporal Research didn't know precisely when, either. ALl he knew was that Haville Svetz would be travelling back in time almost 2,000 years.
But when he returns, Hanville Svetz...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 1416504540 |
Imperial Earth is the fascinating odyssey of Duncan Makenzie, traveling from Titan, a moon of Saturn, to Earth, as a diplomatic guest of the United States for the celebration of its Quincentennial in the year 2276. Titan, an independent republic, was originally colonized from Earth three generations...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0671578022 |
Another set of short stories by RAH & they're something he excelled at. They're kind of an odd collection, but good. Well narrated. Not as good as The Green Hills of Earth collection, although there are a few really good stories in this one.
"The Year of the Jackpot" is overshadowed now by...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575600527 |
A volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves.
Contents
vii • Preface (The Wind from the Sun) • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
3...
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0451024745 |
Alfred Bester writes fiction that is offbeat and intensely imaginative. In THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH, a volume that includes his new novella and five short stories, Mr. Bester is at his most inventive.
Contents:
Time Is the Traitor (1953)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)
Out...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575074965 |
Fifteen stories by "our ablest practitioner of science fiction," ranging from the sinister rescue of a Sputnik and the Pacific to startling and amusing adventures on the moon, in a comet's tail, on Mars and Venus, and the rings of Saturn, and on the asteroid Icarus only seventeen million miles from the...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0743499158 |
The Wit and Wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein, author of multiple New York Times best sellers, on subjects ranging from Crime and Punishment to the Love Life of the American Teenager; from Nuclear Power to the Pragmatics of Patriotism; from Prophecy to Destiny; from Geopolitics to Post-Holocaust America;...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 1857239180 |
A collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke.
Contents:
Second Dawn
If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth
Breaking Strain
History Lesson (as "Expedition to Earth" in the British Edition, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954)
Superiority
Exile of the Eons...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0451089669 |
Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the history tapes. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century.They should all have been very happy....But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he...
