Empire of the Atom

Author	Lester del Rey
ISBN	0590025341

This is a science fiction story about what it would be like to go back 80 million years in time and see what the Earth was like then.

A scientist has created a device that tunnels through time. The protagonist is his son, 17 year old Bob Miller. Bob and his father's friend, Doc Tom, and Doc Tom's son...

Author	Hal Clement
ISBN	0345258053

Mottled with sinister colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have produced intelligent life. Yet the expedition had contacted natives of some sort when it sent in unmanned landers.

More important,...

Author	John Brunner
ISBN	0020302754

Gerald Howson didn't look powerful. His body was deformed at birth, leaving him with a face so ugly people didn't want to look at him, and crippled legs that would never let him be as other men. But his mind was one in a billion - gifted with the ability to send and receive thoughts more powerfully than any...

Author	David A. Kyle
ISBN	0552116696

Edward E. "Doc" Smith's visionary Lensmen series of stories began in 1934 in the pages of Amazing Stories, and when it finished in 1948 it was universally recognized as the greatest space opera yet written. In telling the tale of a cosmos-spanning battle between good and evil, the Lensmen saga encompassed...

Author	Brian Stableford
ISBN	0330246496

In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, starship pilots have become the great romantic heroes of the day. When Star-Pilot Grainger is rescued from a shipwreck, he finds himself pressed into reluctant service to fly...

Author	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0425040410

DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A TUNNEL UNDER HELL?

That this Universe is a toy? That the hideous Saviors rule, and have ruled, since Time began three Time-beginnings back? That they formed Man and Earth, body disc and soul print, and alien too?

And that they made mistakes? Oh, they made terrible...

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0586041222

I'll admit it, I haven't read much Asimov. After reading The Last Question, I was totally blown away. After reading Foundation #1 I was super disappointed by both style and characters. So I came to The Stars in their Courses with some ambivalence and no expectations.

Had I read it in a different...

Author	Jack Williamson
ISBN	0425032949

It was the greatest empire of them all, spanning light-years, gathering in the stars with a golden net. World after world - start after star - all were snared together in a web of shimmering, golden tracery. Each gleaming strand was a tube, the communications that turned the harsh, metallic planet of...

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0441072046

Durdane is in the grip of the devilish Roguskhoi. Raping and pillaging in their lethal thrust to their heartland, they annihilate all who cross their path. With spirits sapped by years of silent tyranny, the men of Durdane stand impotent, their faceless leader a prisoner in his own palace. One man alone...

Author	Jack L. Chalker
ISBN	0345254570

Paul Carlton Savage died on July 20, 1969, in Vietnam — but that was only the start of his troubles! Approached by a mysterious entity called The Hunter, Savage was offered immortality in exchange for his services in The Hunter's continuing war against The Bromgrev. Suddenly, Savage found himself...

Author	C.J. Cherryh
ISBN	0749303565

"Prologue (Sunfall)" essay by C.J. Cherryh
"The Only Death in the City" short story by C.J. Cherryh
"The Haunted Tower" novelette by C.J. Cherryh
"Ice" short fiction by C.J. Cherryh
"Nightgame" short fiction by C.J. Cherryh
"Highliner" short fiction by C.J. Cherryh
"The...

Author	E.E. "Doc" Smith
ISBN	0425074803

This a science fiction novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith. The book was first published in 1965 by Canaveral Press in an edition of 1,460 copies. The novel is an expansion of Smith's story "Subspace Survivors" which first appeared in the July 1960 issue of the magazine Astounding.

The book is essentially...

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0722129556

Trapped...The Outposters, a token band of specially trained experts, were given the task of guiding the exiled colonists in their harsh new environment and protecting them from the treachery of the enemy Meda V'Dans.
But the problems seemed insurmountable. For Earth was indifferent to her superfluous...