David Falkayn: Star Trader

Author	David Sherman
ISBN	0345435923

Six agents have died hideously trying to penetrate the crime families behind a vast empire of pleasure and debauchery--
Now it's up to the Marines to break the circle.

Most people will visit Havanagas only in their dreams, for few can afford the exclusive resort planet that recreates ancient...

Author	James White
ISBN	0312875444

Hospital Station / Star Surgeon / Major Operation
"Sector General: A massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. Its 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of the any conceivable alien patient - though that...

Author	Jerry Pournelle
ISBN	0743488253

Dr Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American science fiction writer, engineer, essayist, and journalist, who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte, and from 1998 until his death maintained his own website and blog.

From the beginning, Pournelle's work centered around strong...

Author	Dave Freer
ISBN	0671578316

Greetings one and all! After reading "Rats, Bats and Vats" (RBV) and "The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly" (RBU), I thought I would try Dave Freer's first novel. I'm very happy I did. It starts off on three different paths that eventually meet up and that's when things really take off.
I loved the characterization...

Author	Ben Bova
ISBN	0765355361

In the near future: Earth is an ecological nightmare, and humanity may well go the way of the dinosaurs. But overhead orbits salvation. A vast metallic island in space, Trikon conducts research too risky to be held on earth--research which could save the planet.
 
Yet Commander Dan Tighe discovers...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0345418611

In the years after first contact, humans and the intelligent insect like Thranx agree to a tentative sharing of ideas and cultures despite the ingrained repulsion they have yet to overcome. Thus, a slow, lengthy process of limited contact begins.

Yet they never plan for a chance meeting between...

Author

David Drake

Raj Whitehall has led his men across the face of the planet Bellevue to one victory over the barbarian nations after another, until he is close to achieving his secret mission: resurrecting interstellar civilization with the help of the ancient battle computer Center, which whispers at the back of...

Author	Michael Z. Williamson
ISBN	1416591540

When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligent lifeforms-the first which humans had ever encountered-it should have been the most important event in history. And it might be-for all the wrong reasons. Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys to the...

Author	Murray Leinster
ISBN	0743471628

Planets of Adventure is an anthology of short stories. It contains one almost full-length story and several shorter stories, all of which are based on the theme implied by the title. The quality of the stories was pretty consistent – they weren’t terribly engaging, but they did hold my interest...

Author	Jeffrey A. Carver
ISBN	0312864531

Stars are dying: that's the news that greets John Bandicut and his companions. They must travel to a nebula called Starmaker—to discover what force threatens not just the newborn stars, but every world within a thousand light-years. They must journey not just into the perils of a star-forming nebula,...

Author	Andre Norton
ISBN	0743471806

This is a compilation of two earlier books, Judgement on Janus and Victory on Janus. A dedication on the back cover (?by the editors? David Weber and Eric Flint, anyway) reads:

"To Andre Norton--Andre, you proved long ago that being a giant has nothing to do with physical stature. You've been...

Author	James H. Schmitz
ISBN	0671319841

The Federation of the Hub: thousands of rough, ornery and tough-minded human worlds with only the subtlest of governments holding them together. It's prime real estate for criminals, unscrupulous corporations, and invaders from beyond Federation space. But in Hub space, a citizen is expected to...

Author	Keith Laumer
ISBN	0743499069

Invisible aliens ruled the Earth, and only one man could see them-and they were hunting him down.

A complete novel of science fiction adventure and a host of short novels in one large volume. A Plague of Demons: One man found out the secret behind the aliens who controlled the world, harvesting...

Author	Christopher Anvil
ISBN	0671318616

The aliens of Centra have won the war against Earth only to find that they are not clever enough to keep the peace.
The humans infiltrate all the military and political levels of Centran society. They end up fighting FOR the Centrans on far away planets.

Who is who?
"We took this stitching-gun...

Author

Lisanne Norman

I thought this was the last book of a 7 book series, but I came to the end and it didn't feel over. Looked at the author's website again and there is another book "under construction". "Shades of Gray".

Ok, I know I'm impatient when it comes to series books, but this book, number 7, came out in 2003....

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0671878883

ROUND EIGHT, MONKEY BOYS!

In a new story, Larry Niven tells of the earliest days of the first Man-Kzin War.

The Kzin had learned of the existance of human-occupied space, a find that promised new technolgies for the race, and new wealth for the fierce Kzin Warriors in the form of land,...

Author	James Doohan
ISBN	0671319493

THESE SPACE PIRATES ARE THE GOOD GUYS! Peter Raeder was an ace pilot until a battle cost him his hand -- and his right to fly the fighter ships he loved. So he became Flight Engineer on the fast carrier "Invincible," a crack new ship with a picked crew, ready to fight the fanatical Mollies and their spiderlike...

Author	Catherine Asaro
ISBN	0765345579

The Birth of an Empire
Skyfall goes back to the very roots of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. But when he meets Roca, a beautiful and mysterious woman from...

Author	Margaret Wander Bonanno
ISBN	0743496930

A touching novel that explores the life of Christopher Pike with a depth not achieved by any other work featuring this character. While some parts seem a bit on the melodramatic side of things, for the most part, Burning Dreams is a wonderfully written biography of what has become one of my favorite characters...