Buying Time

Author	John Varley
ISBN	0441068685

A collection of science fiction stories from "the best writer in America" (Tom Clancy)—Hugo and Nebula award-winning author John Varley.

John Varley's unique blend of startling technology and genuinely human characters has won him every major science fiction award several times over for...

Author	Jack D. Zipes
ISBN	0451526481

This is by and large the best anthology of "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tales out there, in my opinion, and I mean the original story that was conceived in the luxurious salons of the French nobility, not the countryside folktales of animal bridegrooms told by the peasantry, and definitely not retellings...

Author	Spider Robinson
ISBN	0671858262

June Bellamy had gone for a walk in a park—and came back with memories missing. She didn't know, but her partner could, because she'd told her answering machine about strange people in the park. Now June and Paul are on the run from insidious superhumans who can edit their memories and track them down...

Author	Charles Sheffield
ISBN	0671721410

So this follows the life of a man from birth to his end. If you like Job, which I did, then this makes for a compelling read. The world building is perhaps the best dystopian can offer. The world feels chillingly real and possible to me. The situations are not generic but layered and nuanced and help you to...

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0671559052

Annihilating everything before it, a horde of monstrous space travelers were advancing through the stars. And Earth lay in their route.
To defend their home planets, the worlds that lay in the path of the monsters created a super defense force, asking each planet to contribute one especially talented...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0446362867

Letters from Atlantis by Robert Silverberg is a novella set up as a concise narrative in the form of letters written between two mental time travelers visiting the Atlantean Empire some 18,000 years ago, during the last ice age.

Time researchers are sent back in time as a discorporeal entity...

Author	John Jakes
ISBN	0095132414

Go ahead and yuck it up...but I'll have you know these books were my only friend that long lonely summer when I was thirteen and stuck on my grandparent's farm in the middle of South Dakota with nobody to talk to except a fat shetland pony who chewed her oats and stared all drowsy-eyed at me and a dog named Brownie...

Author	Michael Avallone
ISBN	0553080334

Since I am a huge science fiction fan I had to read Beneath the Planet of the Apes. It’s the last book of the series, which were movies before. I was sucked into this book very quickly and finished it in two days between reading other books. Packed with heroic action and cheesy romance, the story delivered...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345339282

The crew of the Constitution--scientists cum astronauts--had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system. There they would explore the planet Alpha-Aleph and then return. They were the...

Author	Michael Flynn
ISBN	0812542991

This is the sequel to the novel Firestar, which tells the story of a wealthy businesswoman's efforts to spearhead a private multinational space program. Expanding into outer space is not so much Mariesa Van Huyten's dream as a palliative for her nightmare: she is obsessed with the fear of a planet-killing...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0441653162

Only one person could have been on the lunar surface... Her name is Naomi Mitchison. She's the most beautiful woman on the moon; she was also the only person who was outside on the lunar surface at the right moment to send a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker for the Asteroids. But...

Author

Philip K. Dick

Earth has been taken over by a strange alien force - creatures whose instinct for survival overrides any human resistance. Then a vital weapon - with the power of electronically warping the mind - falls into the hands of a terrorist group still strong enough to oppose the aliens. A weapon so powerful that...

Author	Ben Bova
ISBN	0812503198

When this book was published in 1989, it was clearly a science fiction. Now, in 2013, only 14 years later, it became a widespread reality, with deviation in only tiny details. Rarely a sci-fi novel can boast such a fate, especially when its focus is so far from science. Cyberbooks is a sci-fi satire on the...

Author	Patricia Geary
ISBN	0553268724

Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, Strange Toys is a stunningly original and penetrating novel blending the real and unreal, the fantastic and the mundane, in a story of love, power, and the occult that carries one young woman on a difficult and dangerous journey.
Pet is her name. At nine, she is struggling...

Author	Robert L. Forward
ISBN	0595197590

This hard-science fiction novel by Robert L. Forward, renown scientist with a PhD in gravitational physics, makes one seriously consider the idea of time as physicists know it today, or knew it in the 1990's. The story is not bogged down with the details, providing an interesting read regardless of...

Author	A.E. van Vogt
ISBN	0879972750

Research Alpha sought the answer to the ultimate intelligence-and also to certain problems of other intelligent beings sharing our galaxy.
Research Alpha sought the reason for humanity's very existence in a vast and apparently hostile cosmos.
Research Alpha found answers they never expected....

Author	Walter M. Miller Jr.
ISBN	0553380796

Forty years after the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller returns to a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness, as one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure and discovery that promises to alter the destiny of humankind....

Isolated in Leibowitz Abbey,...

Author	Dan Simmons
ISBN	2070415880

Mêlant horreur, polar, thriller et espionnage, L'Échiquier du mal parle, selon l'auteur, du "besoin des victimes de... s'opposer à la violence qui leur est faite au nom de la religion, de la raison d'État, de la race, du sexe, de l'autorité ou de la perversité pure et simple". Les personnages...

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	0380705672

An 'ordinary' fourteen year-old, James Wiley has lost his scientist father to a parallel world in the darkbands. With the help of Becky, his sister with magic powers, Barry the exchange student and Uncle George, the werewolf, James goes in search of his parent. But he must take care: for if there just...

Author	Ann Maxwell
ISBN	0451124618

The third book in the Dancer saga, has our fire dancer, Rheba, and her Bre'n helping the illusionists home. Sounds easier than it really was. On a planet of only illusion, you can't trust anything to be real. But danger still lurks behind each image. When Ecstasy Stones transform the people, changing...