Coyote Horizon
10 best books like Coyote Horizon (Allen M. Steele): Up Jim River, Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons, Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy, The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century, Cycle of Fire, Assemblers of Infinity, Radiant, Cause of Death: A Writer's Guide to Death, Murder, and Forensic Medicine, Armed and Dangerous: A Writer's Guide to Weapons, Aliens and Alien Societies
| Author | Michael Flynn |
| ISBN | 0765322846 |
Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn returns to space opera with Up Jim River. There is a river on Dangchao Waypoint, a small world out beyond Die Bold. It is a longish river as such things go, with a multitude of bayous and rapids and waterfalls, and it runs through...
| Author | Serita Stevens |
| ISBN | 0898793718 |
I've carted this reference book to each of the dozen or so places I've lived since college, and I've only used it a few times, but it's one of those books that is so well done that I can't let it go. You can look up poisons by reaction time, symptoms, foods that disguise them, and many other characteristics...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0312089260 |
Do you dream of -
Crossing the galaxies?
Living in the far future?
Entertaining millions with your imagination?
This book can help make those dreams come true!
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy brings you expert advice on how to craft and market tales...
| Author | Harry Turtledove |
| ISBN | 0345439899 |
Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space--and on the frontiers of the human mind.
Science fiction's finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. These are scenarios...
| Author | Hal Clement |
| ISBN | 0345291727 |
After his ship crashed on the inhospitable planet Abyorman, Nils Kruger had spent weeks wandering across the face of the planet.suffering from blistering heat, the searing cold of an alien climate. Now he had found a fellow wanderer, Dar, an alien castaway. They may both die. The human opts to do something...
| Author | Kevin J. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0553299212 |
Nebula Award Nominee. The crew of Moonbase Columbus make an amazing discovery on the far side of the Moon a massive alien structure is erecting itself, built up atom by atom by living machines, microscopically small, intelligent, and unstoppable, consuming everything they touch. The mysterious...
| Author | James Alan Gardner |
| ISBN | 0380813327 |
Radiant closes out the League of Peoples series in classic style. Youn Suu is an explorer disfigured by a weeping sore on her cheek and a narcissistic mother. When a diplomatic mission goes awry, she is infested with the hyper-intelligent Balrog spores, teamed up with Admiral Festina Ramos, and sent...
| Author | Keith D. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0898795249 |
Another useful guide to the drama of death and injury, with focus on the contemporary process of handling a body. Hospital procedures, autopsy, the physical behavior of the body after death ... all this is in these pages. Like other guides in this line I've read, Cause of Death suffers from being a mile...
Armed and Dangerous: A Writer's Guide to Weapons
Talk about murder! Inaccurate information about weapons can kill your story before a potential publisher has even finished reading your manuscript. Today’s readers of mysteries, thrillers, Westerns, true crime, police procedurals, and romantic suspense are better informed about weapons...
| Author | Stanley Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0898797063 |
This is the first volume in a four-volume set put out by Writers Digest Books under the umbrella Science Fiction Writing Series. This entire series is highly recommendable, and you'll probably see the other volumes reviewed here by me in the future. Aliens and Alien Societies features 11 chapters,...
The power of creation is at your fingertips!Orcs prepare for battle against high Elves, Dwarves retreat to the mountains and men march to the sea to reclaim crumbling fortresses. Fortunes are decided. Kingdoms are lost. Entire worlds are created. This book will teach you to bring your fictional realm...
| Author | Jack McDevitt |
| ISBN | 0441015255 |
Looking back on the other five books in the Academy series, I have to say I like Cauldron the best. It not only engages us back on Earth with something other than a religious diatribe, it gives us a look at the failing drive to get out into the stars.
Oh, and because there is hope for a brand new stardrive...
| Author | Jaym Gates |
| ISBN | 1937009262 |
War is everywhere. Not only among the firefights, in the sweat dripping from heavy armor and the clenching grip on your weapon, but also wedging itself deep into families, infiltrating our love letters, hovering in the air above our heads. It’s in our dreams and our text messages. At times it roars...
Transported light years in a heartbeat
Ripped from Earth in a horrifying teleportation accident, archaeologist Eliana Fisk finds herself stranded on a strange planet whose denizens want her as a human sacrifice.
Can she stay out from under the knife long enough to find her way home?...
| Author | John S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0201328194 |
While we worry over the depletion of the earth's natural resources, the pollution of our planet, and the challenges presented by the earth's growing population, billions of dollars worth of metals, fuels, and life-sustaining substances await us in nearby space. In this visionary book, noted planetary...
| Author | Piers Anthony |
| ISBN | 0812564871 |
Herb Moss is a nice young man. He's a Vegan. It's a good life, really; he's engaged to his childhood sweetheart Lily, has a job with his father's firm, and can look forward to a solid if unexciting future. And if he's bored and wistful every time he thinks about it--well, that's normal, isn't it? Surely,...
