Child of Fortune

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0812510003

Contents:

1 • The Stranger That Is Within Thy Gates • (1990) • short story by Poul Anderson
9 • Women and Horses and Power and War • (1990) • novella by Poul Anderson
125 • Before the Gods That Made the Gods • (1990) • short story by Poul Anderson
137 • Beringia •...

Author	Cordwainer Smith
ISBN	0345323009

Rod McBan 151st farms 'stroon', the immortality drug, and is the last scion of one of the oldest and most honourable families on Norstrilia, only source of stroon. But he's also a telepathic cripple and faces the ever-present risk of being culled under the government's draconian population laws.

To...

Author	Michael Moorcock
ISBN	0380017490

An alien named Yusharisp comes to Earth to warn its remaining inhabitants that the universe is coming to an end; his own planet has already disappeared, and the Earth is sure to follow. Earth's inhabitants are unfazed as they believe him to be yet another doomsayer; the End of the Earth has been predicted...

Author	Sheri S. Tepper
ISBN	0061170658

The myriad alien civilizations populating far, distant worlds have many good reasons to detest the blight called "humankind" . . . The only human child living in a work colony on the Martian satellite Phobos, little Margaret Bain has invented six imaginary companions to keep boredom and loneliness...

Author	Eric Rogers
ISBN	0060739096

Follow Fry, Leela, Bender, and the crew of Planet Express as they fend off hostile takeovers, risk life and limb on a no–holds–barred game show, protect New New York City from the Santa Robot's annual slay ride, save the world from the fiendish machinations of Robot Devil, confound terminators...

Author

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Another excellent book from this author. Prison camp war survival adventure in Tibet, I like books with slow evolving plots this one progressed nicely along didn't realize it was a disaster end of world type of book till well into it, found the story even more interesting as it progressed. Don't wish...

Author	Alfred Bester
ISBN	0451091329

Time, Space and the Future. Here is your passport into the fascinating world of science fiction...eleven dazzling, jet-propelled, rocket-paced tales of tomorrow by one of today's leading writers.

Contents:

Disappearing Act
Adam and No Eve
Star Light, Star Bright
The...

Author	Vonda N. McIntyre
ISBN	0575021896

The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable for much of the year by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside.

Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation,...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0671655582

Writing: 4
Story: 3
Satisfaction: 2

The Starchild Trilogy is very well written and the worldbuilding is immersive. The story lines are also interesting and well built out but unfortunately each leaves with an unsatisfying conclusion. The way that the story is told, it builds up this...

Author

Brian W. Aldiss

Out of Africa comes a dead man walking upon the water - a portent of the political adventures into which j Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-travellerand captain of the 80,000-ton freighter Trieste Star, is about to tumble headlong.
Choked, disease-ridden towns, robots and prison gangs tending...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0450032604

THOSE WHO WATCH is the strange, seductive novel of three inadvertent colonists from outer space whose accidental encounter with Earth triggers interplanetary conflict. It also the most unusual love story ever written.
VORNEEN—the seducer, in the shell of an Apollo who came out of nowhere...

Author

David Brin

David Brin's Uplift Universe portrays humanity's desperate struggle for survival in a dangerous universe... and how we may cope by taking wise partners with us on this journey. Artificial intelligence is one way that we may add diversity to our civilization. But in this series we've done it by giving...

Author	Jack Williamson
ISBN	0722191715

Space Legionnaires
They were the greatest trio of swashbuckling adventurers ever to shop out to the stars! There was giant Hal Samdu, rocklike Jay Kalam and the incomparable shrewd and knavish Giles Habibula.

Here is there first thrilling adventure - the peril-packed attempt to rescue...

Author

Paul J. McAuley

For Dorthy Yoshida - abused earthborn Talent and prime player in the secret history of the galaxy - the seeds of destiny were sown a million years in the past...when a giant sun exploded and vast civilizations died in the subsequent blood feuding of ten thousand alien family nations. Or perhaps it all...

Author	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0553264532

The epic science fiction trilogy--Homeworld, Wheelworld, and Starworld--from the author of West of Eden and Winter in Eden is now available in one volume.

Homeworld introduces us to Jan Kulozik, an upper-class engineer who has taken his privileges for granted. While vacationing at a luxurious...

Author	Desmond Bagley
ISBN	0671434543

Jan Willem Hendryk's legacy amounts to a staggering £40 million - £34 million to go to an agricultural college in Kenya's Rift Valley, and the remaining £6 million to be divided equally between his only surviving descendants: Dirk, a South African, and Henry, a young drop-out living in California....

Author	Clifford D. Simak
ISBN	0380455005

A collection of sci-fi stories. Contents:
All the Traps of Earth (1960) novelette by Simak
Good Night, Mr James (1951) novelette by Simak
Drop Dead (1956) novelette by Simak
No Life of Their Own (1959) novella by Simak
The Sitters (1958) novelette by Simak
Crying...

Author	John Brunner
ISBN	0345292359

War hero, jet-setter, gourmet - Godwin Harpinshield was all of those and more; his life was a game played among the Beautiful People whose fame, wealth and power set them above the law, and beyond the laws of nature. Because of a simple bargain that all the Beautiful People made, Godwin's every desire...

Author	Melissa Scott
ISBN	0812513029

This is one of the most realistic, absorbing sci-fi universes I have ever dived into so I've got to dedicate a bit to it:

What got me hooked most of all was how it manages to stay clear of one of the most common pitfalls of catapulting modern Western society forward a few thousand years and instead...

Author

Gordon R. Dickson

A lone ship entering Earth space rouses Hal Mayne from his researches aboard the Final Encyclopedia. Piloting the craft is Dorsai Amanda Morgan, returning from her work with resistance fighters of the Younger Worlds, bearing terrible—though not unexpected—news:

Bleys Ahrens, commanding...

Author	Ian Boothby
ISBN	0061118079

The four-part trilogy returns in an all new trade paperback collection. Fry, Leela, Bender, and Professor Farnsworth's clone/ward Cubert take an intergalactic trip, and when they return to Earth, they find the planet uninhabited. First, our merry band of messengers must fight off alien invaders...

Author	Payne Harrison
ISBN	0804105537

"A stunning success...A literally out-of-this-world chess game of nuclear proportions."
THE BALTIMORE SUN
What begins as a routine voyage of a space shuttle carrying Star Wars technology, turns into a harrowing nightmare in outer space when a Russian agent siezes command of the vehicle....