Fall of the White Ship Avatar
10 best books like Fall of the White Ship Avatar (Brian Daley): Flinx in Flux, The Two Faces of Tomorrow, Cataract, Cross The Stars, The Miocene Arrow, Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars, Afterburn, Dragon Companion, There Will Be War, The Khyber Connection
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345343638 |
High-energy action and adventure in the form of a boy and his dragon meets his biggest nemesis yet. A young girl.
I mean, it's not all as bad as that, of course, and Flinx has had plenty of girls after him but he's never been in quite the right frame of mind since he was being chased by assassins, trying...
| Author | James P. Hogan |
| ISBN | 0345275179 |
I didn’t read the synopsis for this book until after I had read the book. I’m glad I didn’t, because the synopsis pretty much sums up the first third of the book. Where’s the fun in that?
After I had read a few pages, my initial thought was that this was going to be a “computers take over...
| Author | Tara K. Harper |
| ISBN | 0345380525 |
On Risthmus, the Landing Pact was law: felines were off limits. And for ten years Tsia, the rogue guide, had tried to honor that Pact and ignore the irresistible pull of her forbidden link to the cats.
For ten years, she had hidden among the mercenaries. But now her latest mission was going awry....
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0671578219 |
“Tell them that I don’t know if we can release [him] alive by force. But I’ll promise to burn their planet for his funeral pyre if we can’t.”
This retelling of The Odyssey is another selection of the Venture Science Fiction series (an imprint of Arrow Books, not to be mistaken for the...
| Author | Sean McMullen |
| ISBN | 0765344556 |
In a fortieth-century America of ancient kingdoms with opulent courts, hereditary engineering guilds, and rigid class distinction in warfare, a centuries-old balance of power is shattered by a few dozen Australian infiltrators. Against a rich backdrop of war, chivalry, conspiracy, and a diesel-powered...
| Author | Daniel Pinkwater |
| ISBN | 0553240706 |
This is one of those frustrating books that has interesting bits sprinkled through a not so interesting bulk. Just enough that each time I thought I would quit some clever detail or promising plot development would keep me reading. After the halfway point, I started skipping all the long infomonologues...
| Author | S.L. Viehl |
| ISBN | 0451460294 |
After driving their mutual enemy out of the Pmoc quadrant, the Allied League of Worlds gather for a peace summit on K-2, the homeworld of the underwater-dwelling 'Zangians. With the Bio Rescue team assigned to protect the delegates, Sub-Lieutenant Burn mu Znora's attention is placed on the daughter...
| Author | Don Callander |
| ISBN | 0441001157 |
This is personally my most beloved book. in fact, it is easy for me to say that it is the best I have ever read. This novel is the one and only book from my collection that I would ensure to save in the event of emergency (fire, flood, evacuation) and I have read this novel (and the rest of the Dragon series) over...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 0523485557 |
In the beginning spears were "high-tech", and the most that one weapon could accomplish at one time was one death. But millennia passed and techniques improved. By the time of the Romans a lucky bolt might impale a file of infantry. By the dreadful 20th century the very existence of the race - we still were...
| Author | Simon Hawke |
| ISBN | 0441437257 |
The year was 1897. The Khyber Pass echoed with the sounds of war. Soldiers from Britain, India, and Afghanistan were immersed in a bloody conflict.
Enter the Time Commandos. Their mission: To foil a plot that has set timelines on a collision course. Only they can save the timestream from disruption...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345339282 |
The crew of the Constitution--scientists cum astronauts--had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system. There they would explore the planet Alpha-Aleph and then return. They were the...
| Author | William Sleator |
| ISBN | 0141308141 |
This has always been a long time favorite of mine from when I was younger. I even still have my original copy. It is is dog-eared and worn from frequent reading. I'm not sure what it is about this one that has always stuck with me. After reading it as an adult, I still love it!
The author throws you right...
| Author | Jack McKinney |
| ISBN | 0345341449 |
The journey to Reflex Point continues!
TEAM'S STRUGGLING DYNAMICS
Lt. Cmdr. Scott Bernard continues to lead his ragtag team in a perilous journey looking to reach Reflex Point, main headquarters of the Invid Regis on Earth.
However, to keep together the team,...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0312863268 |
A master of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, Saberhagen is one of the most gifted novelists of our time. Now, in Shiva in Steel, he returns to the riveting saga of the Berserkers, a race of intelligent machines devoted to exterminating all organic life.
In a sector of the galaxy occupied...
| Author | Glen Cook |
| ISBN | 0425065413 |
A group read with my fellow mercenaries and friends Elena and Sarah. We lost lots of people, but the survivors are hardcore!
After the turbulent events of the previous book the Kingdom of Kavelin enjoyed several years of peace. Unfortunately in their world everybody is out to get everybody...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 5553861845 |
Border warfare on the Pleiades:
The Pleiades Planets, the last outpost of the human frontier, has become an interstellar hotbed. The unhuman Moldaug Ambassador to the Tri Worlds Council warned that the Pleiades belonged to the Aliens, and that the Moldaug are ready to attack the whole human race...
| Author | Harry Turtledove |
| ISBN | 0345330706 |
In Videssos the city, tribune Marcus Scaurus was bored. The legion that had been magically transported to this strange world was far away. But the Emperor’s niece Alypia was near—and willing.
When their secret trysts were betrayed, Emperor Thorisin Gavras was forced to condemn Marcus...
| Author | Timothy Zahn |
| ISBN | 0671697846 |
Timothy Zahn is one of my favorite writers and has been very influential in my own writing. Like me, Zahn writes a lot of space opera, and he's most famous for his Thrawn series of Star Wars novels. But he's been writing a long time and has some great other stuff as well. His Quadrail series (Night Train to...
Carter Horton and three other crew members are sent on a mission to find a planet which would be suitable for human life. They are put in a deep sleep until they arrive. However, due to a systems malfunction, Carter is the last one left alive. When he makes it to the planet he finds that he has been in deep sleep...
