Colony
10 best books like Colony (Ben Bova): Titan, A Million Open Doors, Psychohistorical Crisis, Genesis, Norby Through Time and Space, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection, Godspeed, Tangents, Skyfall, There Is No Darkness
| Author | Stephen Baxter |
| ISBN | 2290309737 |
2004 : les analyses de la sonde Cassini-Huygens sur la composition de la surface de Titan, l'une des lunes satellites de Saturne, révèlent que toutes les conditions atmosphériques et chimiques permettant l'existence d'une vie organique y sont rassemblées.
Motivée par les spectaculaires...
| Author | John Barnes |
| ISBN | 0812516338 |
Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut--swordsman, troubador, lover--is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity's Thousand Cultures.
But the winds of change have come to Nou Occitan. As...
| Author | Donald Kingsbury |
| ISBN | 0765341956 |
A loving homage to Asimov, and dialogue with him--a triumph of galactic-scaled SF that is destined to be recognized as a classic in its own right
Eron Osa had faced the ultimate penalty. Not death, but the removal of his fam. Without the augmentation of his brain by his electronic familiar, he...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 3404242874 |
Der Astronaut Christian Brannock hat miterlebt, wie der Mensch die künstliche Intelligenz immer weiter entwickelte - bis es schließlich möglich war, die menschliche Persönlichkeit in einen Computer zu speisen und ihm auf diese Weise eine Art Unsterblichkeit zu verleihen. Als er beauftragt...
Norby Through Time and Space
| Author | Janet Asimov |
| ISBN | 0441586376 |
I hadn't read any of the Norby books before, so I was just jumping into the middle of things with the characters and the world and all. While having read the prior books might have been a little helpful, jumping in is certainly not a problem. I think I picked this up at a bag book sale based solely on Asimov as...
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0312336608 |
The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and to the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Daniel Abraham • Eleanor Arnason...
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0812519922 |
Isolato dal commercio interstellare, il mondo di Erin si ritrova confinato nello spazio angusto del suo sistema stellare. La popolazione umana sopravvive a stento con le risorse dell'ecosistema del pianeta e con i resti di una grandiosa tecnologia di tempi leggendari in cui le immense astronavi...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 1857989791 |
Multi-award winning author Greg Bear established himself as the most ambitious & imaginative of the potential successors to Arthur C. Clarke with his bestselling space operas Eon & Eternity. Tangents is his 1st collection of short stories & includes two tales that won both Hugo &...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0441769411 |
Prometheus - A stunning triumph of Soviet-Americal technological cooperation.
Prometheus - Ultimate answer to the prayers of an energy-starved world.
Prometheus - Potentially the source of the greatest single disaster in human history.
Skyfall - A thrilling novel...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0441805647 |
Carl Bok is a citizen of Springworld, the heavy-gravity planet with monstrous and dangerous flora and fauna. Carl is well over two metres tall and weighs-in at 180 kilograms. Now Carl has won a scholarship to Starschool. He'll spend a year on this touring school, visiting sixteen of the colonized planets....
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0345404483 |
Let three complete books in one take you on a dazzling journey into science fiction's most famous future history: Known Space!
WORLD OF PTAVVS
Kzanol was a thrint from a distant galaxy. He had been trapped on Earth in a time-stasis field for two billion years. Now he was on the loose, and telepath...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575077115 |
This story takes place about 100 years in the future, when the earth's population is fed principally from the sea--on whale products or from plankton farms. Its hero is Walter Franklin, a grounded space engineer now assigned to a submarine patrol tending the whale herds.
DEEP RANGE vibrates with...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 1841490628 |
Artifact
A small cube of black rock has been unearthed in a 3500-year-old Mycenaean tomb.An incomprehensible object in an impossible place; its age, its purpose, and its origins are unknown.Its discovery has unleashed a global storm of intrigue, theft and espionage, and is pushing nations...
| Author | Patrick Tilley |
| ISBN | 1857238281 |
“The dangers, if any exist, lie beyond those delineated in the dime novel.” John Wyndham meets the 1975 version of “The West Wing”. Half way through this 450 page yarn we’ve got a mechanical spider doing reconnaissance missions outside a half-buried space ship and lots of talk of NORAD and...
| Author | David R. Palmer |
| ISBN | 0553248782 |
Man, I loved this book. It was cheesy as hell when I picked it up (in Norwich, mostly for the man riding a pterodactyl) and reading the first few pages -- naked girl and her cat proclaims to be space aliens to the multi-millionaire protagonist (who they reveal is precisely the ridiculously perfect human...
