Dayworld
10 best books like Dayworld (Philip José Farmer): Psychoshop, Gather, Darkness!, Limbo, The Best of C.L. Moore, Wolfling, The Great Explosion, City Come a-Walkin', Worlds of the Imperium, Jack of Eagles, Narabedla Ltd.
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0679767827 |
The Black Place of the Soul-Changer was doing business in Rome six centuries before Christ. It will probably be there on the last day of the cosmos. This is the Psychoshop, where you can dump any unwanted aspect of your spirit as long as you exchange it for something else -- arcane knowledge, a change of...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1585861065 |
GATHER, DARKNESS! is a science-fiction classic. It tells the story of Armon Jarles, a man on the edge, living amidst the disputes of two rival powers at large in the world. 360 years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, throwing society back into the dark ages, the world is fraught with chaos and...
| Author | Bernard Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0441100031 |
Although Bernard Wolfe has written several plays, most for television, it is principally for his 1952 science fiction novel Limbo that he's best remembered. Penguin Books republished this work in a slightly abridged form in 1961, claiming it was "the first book of science fiction to project the present-day...
| Author | C.L. Moore |
| ISBN | 0345289528 |
Forty Years of C. L. Moore '75 essay by Lester del Rey
Shambleau [Northwest Smith] '33 novelette by C. L. Moore
Black Thirst [Northwest Smith] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore
The Bright Illusion '34 story by C. L. Moore
Black God's Kiss [Jirel of Joiry] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore
Tryst...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0671559621 |
DEAR GOODREADS REVIEWERS NAMED RANDAL AND ALL OTHER GOODREADS REVIEWERS AS WELL: Please do not label a book that features racist characters as a racist book. There is a fucking difference between the characters in a book and the book itself! The "High Born" of Throne World are expressly referred to as...
In his 1955 collection entitled "Men, Martians and Machines," English sci-fi author Eric Frank Russell told, via one short story and three novellas, some of the adventures of a starship crew that strongly suggested nothing less than a proto-"Star Trek" ensemble. The collection featured visits to...
| Author | John Shirley |
| ISBN | 1568581912 |
HOLY SHIT.
Really, just...holy shit. This book takes "amazing" to a whole new level. Aside from one typographical error (a capital A following a comma), not one piece of this novel was out of place.
Forewarning, I may just write "holy shit" a lot to convey my love of this book.
First...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0812543793 |
When Brion Bayard was kidnapped and brought to the alternate world where Earth's history took a different turn, it was not a pleasant experience. It was, however, a startling experience. Here was a world that was just like the Earth he was taken from--with just a few subtle changes. On top of all this,...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 0099097109 |
Danny Caiden is on the run - from the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department and the Mob. Only recently, Danny was an average New York copywriter, until he suddenly found he had ESP. His knowledge of the future is astonishing, and the rest of Danny's powers are just beginning. But someone has plans for Danny:...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345360265 |
Years ago, Nolly Stennis had been a promising baritone. On the threshold of a great career with Narabedla Ltd., illness had ruined his voice. Then a cellist friend received an offer from Narabedla, only to disappear shortly thereafter. When Nolly set out to investigate, he found intergalatic intrigue...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0553299077 |
the world is an ocean; humanity has come and cannot go. humanity lives on a chain of artificial islands and is perhaps now doomed, due to typical human stupidity & cupidity. where to flee? to an uncharted place on this uncharted planet, to The Face of the Waters. to find death or transcendence, or both?
our...
| Author | Howard Weinstein |
| ISBN | 0523422598 |
Concurrent with the first novel, but set in New York and Washington D.C., the book begins in space while the fleet approaches the Earth (the ending of the novel briefly goes into the aftermath of The Final Battle). The commander, Roger, and his subordinates, Angela and Jennifer, arrive and after the...
Un día de verano como otro cualquiera, se abre una puerta en el vacío y empiezan a salir cientos, miles, millones de personas procedentes de ninguna parte. Dicen que vienen del futuro. Son los hijos de nuestros hijos. Un peligro incontrolable acecha en el futuro, y se hace preciso cortar el puente que...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0934438234 |
Kirth Gersen tracks Lens Larque across several worlds, most notably Aloysius, the desert world Dar Sai and the more temperate Methel. He eventually learns that Larque is a Darsh, born Husse Bugold. He had been deprived of an earlobe and made a rachepol or outcast from his clan for a crime considered "repulsive...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0553226479 |
Jan Kulozik was one of Earth's privileged elite. A brilliant young electronics engineer, he enjoyed all the blessings of a 23rd-century civilization that survived the global collapse and conquered the stars, unaware of the millions who slaved or starved to maintain his way of life.
Then Jan met...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345461312 |
Interrupted by a variety of cultures and customs, our reluctant hero heads ever homeward. Escaped from alien slavers, three-tailed Niyyuu escort human Marcus Walker, speech-augmented mutt George, cephalopod Sque, and gigantic Tuuqalian poet Braouk. When their three ships appear over Hyff, Ussakk...
| Author | Christopher Hinz |
| ISBN | 0812530934 |
4.5 stars. Satisfying ending to one of the best (and certainly one of the most under-rated and least known) science fiction trilogies I have read. Beginning with Liege-Killer (on my list of All Time Favorites), continuing with the second book, Ash Ock (a superb middle volume that both continues and...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0446754625 |
For 300 years the planet of women awaited the coming of man. Then one arrives...
He is Davis Bertram, a space-explorer. But how can he convince them he really is a man? Their legends have built Men into gods.
Trying to be worthy of the Coming, the women imitate masculine virtues. They...
