Caviar

9 best books like Caviar (Theodore Sturgeon): Planet of the Apes, The Feast of the Goat, Pantaleón y las visitadoras, The Word for World is Forest, Forward the Foundation, Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military, 666, Troublemakers: Stories by Harlan Ellison, The Voices Of Time

Planet of the Apes
AuthorPierre Boulle
ISBN0345447980
"I am confiding this manuscript to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race. Lord have pity on us!"

With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. In this simian world,...
The Feast of the Goat
AuthorMario Vargas Llosa
ISBN0571207766
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million people. Rafael...
Pantaleón y las visitadoras
AuthorMario Vargas Llosa
ISBN8495501023
Pantaleón Pantoja, un capitán del Ejército recientemente ascendido, recibe la misión de establecer un servicio de prostitución para las Fuerzas Armadas del Perú en el más absoluto secreto militar. Estricto cumplidor del deber que le ha sido asignado, Pantaleón se traslada a Iquitos, en...
The Word for World is Forest
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning...
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0553565079
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Here, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring...
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
AuthorNeil deGrasse Tyson
ISBN0393357465
In this far-reaching foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-author Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. Spanning early celestial navigation...
AuthorJay Anson
ISBN0671831267
666 takes the reader into the world of evil that lies unsuspected behind the door of an ordinary-looking house: a house that reappears from time to time near any city, waiting invitingly, innocently, for someone to rent it, a house in which a dreadful, bloody, orgiastic crime recurs again and again,...
Troublemakers: Stories by Harlan Ellison
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0743423984
In a career spanning more than 50 years, Harlan Ellison has written or edited 75 books, more than 1700 stories, essays, articles and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays, and a dozen movies. Now, for the first time anywhere, Troublemakers presents a collection of Ellison's classic stories -- chosen...
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
Susan Sontag, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Burroughs, Robert Nye and Angela Carter are among the host of admirers of J. G. Ballard's fiction. His extraordinary inventiveness and the unfailing grace and energy of his writing are triumphantly displayed in this classic collection of stories,...
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