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10 best books like Five Gold Bands (Mayflower Science Fantasy) (Jack Vance): Lost Dorsai, The Best of Eric Frank Russell, The Pirates of Ersatz, Enchanted Pilgrimage, The Long Loud Silence, Longtusk, Orion Arm, The Legion of Space, The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories, Uller Uprising

Lost Dorsai
AuthorGordon R. Dickson
ISBN0812504046
There are many legends on the planet of the Dorsai, the breeding ground for heroes. Here are two of them.

Lost Dorsai: The New Dorsai Companion contains the Hugo Award winning novella, Lost Dorsai, and Dickson's classic short story "Warrior."

Plus, the New Dorsai Companion contains,...
The Best of Eric Frank Russell
AuthorEric Frank Russell
ISBN0345277007
Eric Frank Russell was a B-lister of the Campbellian Golden Age. A decent enough prose stylist, Russell sent his square jawed astronauts against big cosmological themes like intelligence, conquest, and survival, with mixed results. His stories have a tendency to culminate in punchline based around...
The Pirates of Ersatz
AuthorMurray Leinster
Bron is the offspring of infamous space pirates but instead of following in the family footsteps he decides to become an electronic engineer. Unfortunately, every time he tries to get out, something pulls him back in. This is a tongue-in-cheek space adventure along the lines of the Stainless Steel...
Enchanted Pilgrimage
AuthorClifford D. Simak
ISBN0749300787
A manuscript is stolen from a library & from a young man's obstinate questions emerges an answer of stupendous import as the quest for an elder civilization becomes a terrifying ordeal.
The Wastelands were a realm of magic where no one ventured. Along the borders, the Little People pursued...
The Long Loud Silence
AuthorWilson Tucker
ISBN0340250879
THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER
Corporal Russell Gary - operator-angle man-black marketeer, junior grade-liberator of anything loose - veteran of Salerno and Normandy - a man who knew how to live by his wits and a gun.

Celebrating ten years in khaki, Gary went on a monumental binge...

While...
Longtusk
AuthorStephen Baxter
ISBN0061051357
Even as a young calf, Longtusk understood the hardships the few remaining of his ancient kind had encountered when the glaciers retreated and grassy forests stole over the vast tundra the herds called home. Worst of all was when the Fireheads came -- cruel, two-legged beasts who kill for pleasure. At...
Orion Arm
AuthorJulian May
ISBN0006482147
Second in the major new science fiction series from bestselling author Julian May. Two hundred years into the future, the great corporations of Earth dominate all life in our Galaxy. But their endless pursuit of wealth and power is about to open the door to a malevolent alien race, intent on engulfing...
The Legion of Space
AuthorJack Williamson
ISBN0722191715
Space Legionnaires
They were the greatest trio of swashbuckling adventurers ever to shop out to the stars! There was giant Hal Samdu, rocklike Jay Kalam and the incomparable shrewd and knavish Giles Habibula.

Here is there first thrilling adventure - the peril-packed attempt to rescue...
The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories
AuthorIan Watson
ISBN1845297792
As usual, I've reviewed each story as I've come to it.

The Raft of the Titanic by James Murrow
The problem with taking the obvious route when applying alternative history to HMS Titanic is that if you create a story where the Titanic doesn’t ship it becomes a case of “so what?” The interesting...
Uller Uprising
AuthorH. Beam Piper
ISBN0441842925
"ZNIDD SUDDABIT!" So the Ulleran challenge begins, with the rantings of a prophet and a seemingly incidental street riot. Only when a dose of poison lands in the governor-general's whiskey does it become clear that the "geeks" have had it up to their double-lidded eyeballs with the imperialist Terran...
Privateers
AuthorBen Bova
ISBN0380793164
America has ceded the heavens to the tyrants -- and the renegades. The U.S. has abandoned its quest for the stars, and old enemy, Soviets, moved in to fill the void. The potential wealth of the universe is now in malevolent army hands.

Rebel billionaire Dan Randolph, possessor of the largest...
Lord Prestimion
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0061058106
Colorful, beautifully-written but thin planetary romance

This is Silverberg's sixth Majipoor book, and it's a bit thin. I've read and liked the previous five -- this is Jack Vance "Big Planet" country: big, colorful landscapes, strange flora & fauna, teeming cities, richly-caparisoned...
Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless
AuthorScott Adams
ISBN0836217373
The world is getting more complicated. In the good old days you could set a peasant on fire with a flaming arrow, stomp him out with your horse, and still get away with a simple "excuse me." But these days, what with five billion people - many of whom do not consider themselves peasants - you are expected to...
The House That Stood Still
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0881848840
The good SF novels with a terrible name. This novel is not one of Van Voght's best, but it isn't his worst either. It's about a spacecraft that crash-landed over a thousand years ago and the radiation that it gave off turned a group of Toltecs willing to help the robotic craft repair itself, immortality....
Sector General
AuthorJames White
ISBN0345346270
The incredible floating intergalactic hospital, where exotic beings receive treatment from equally exotic doctors and nurses. Each new species brings new problems, but no case is too big, too small, too hopeless - or too weird - for Sector General.

Accident: A spaceship crashes and two war...
Robots Have No Tails
AuthorHenry Kuttner
Hounded by creditors and heckled by an uncooperative robot, binge-drinking inventor Galloway Gallegher must solve the mystery of his own machines before his dodgy financing and reckless lifestyle catch up with him! This complete collection of Kuttner's five classic "Gallegher" stories presents...
Unicorn Variations
AuthorRoger Zelazny
Unicorn Variations is a collection of stories and essays by author Roger Zelazny, published in 1983. The title story, "Unicorn Variation", was written as a result of Zelazny having been asked to contribute to two different upcoming anthologies — one collecting stories set in bars, and one collecting...
Stowaway To Mars
AuthorJohn Wyndham
ISBN0340158352
Aircraft designer Dale Currance undertakes a journey to Mars in an effort to capture the prize being offered to the first man to complete an interplanetary journey, but a female stowaway throws his plans into disarray.

An international prize of one billion has been offered to the first man...
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