Flandry of Terra

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	1857238419

'We don't know where on Earth you'll wind up,' Ra Chen had told him.

And the Director of the Institute for Temporal Research didn't know precisely when, either. ALl he knew was that Haville Svetz would be travelling back in time almost 2,000 years.

But when he returns, Hanville Svetz...

Author	Norman Spinrad
ISBN	0586203621

An over-the-hill rock star, a Puerto Rican street kid, and two children of the electronic age discover strength in numbers when they take on the power of Musik, Inc., in a war of nerves, passion, and rock 'n' roll. Spinrad uses the violent, sexually explicit language of new wave sf to communicate an ultimately...

Author	L. Sprague de Camp
ISBN	0345254740

This volume provides a generous collection of the science-fiction and fantasy of L. Sprague de Camp. There is also a non-fiction essay on language, three poems, and a short auto-biographical "Afterword".
The tone of most of the stories is lightly satiric and humorous but "Judgement Day" is a powerful...

Author	Alexander Besher
ISBN	1857235460

A little more than a year ago I acquired this book from a neighbor who was getting rid of boxes and boxes of books and was kind enough to let me root through them beforehand. The front cover design and back cover synopsis spoke to me (much like a bag of Combos does at a rest stop during a long trip). I stuck it in...

Author	Charles Platt
ISBN	0553289500

The Silicon Man has been endorsed by William Gibson as "A plausible, well-crafted narrative exploring cyberspace in a wholly new and very refreshing way".

What is the price of immortality? On the track of high-tech black-market weapons, FBI Agent James Bayley has stumbled on a top-secret...

Author	Bruce Sterling
ISBN	0553576429

From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty - the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers.

They live as strangers in strange lands....

Author	Tom Maddox
ISBN	1419122711

The curse of the missing half star strikes again. Calling this book a three would be a disservice, but it's not quite entertaining enough to be a full four.

A Creative Commons novel freely available at Manybooks.net as well as the authour's own site and traditional formats, it's a trippy examination...

Author	Robert Charles Wilson
ISBN	0553268538

What did you have for breakfast three Mondays ago? Was it raining that day? Can you remember?

What about a trauma you experienced or witnessed? Is it fuzzy edged, made indistinct by adrenaline and fear? Is it perhaps better that you don’t remember all the details?

Imagine everything...

Author	Michael Swanwick
ISBN	0712623795

What began as an interesting premise was then diluted into a very dull fix-up of interrelated stories all taking place in a world where the crisis at Three Mile Island was not averted and the plant melted down taking out a good chunk of Pennsylvania with it. The uninhabitable zone is the aforementioned...

Author	Paul Preuss
ISBN	0743498267

Another Audiobook (short story) to while away the time whilst gardening. Enjoyable as ever from Arthur C. but only just scraped 4 stars.
Maybe I’ll add further thoughts this evening. .

Author	H. Beam Piper
ISBN	0441205577

Edge of the Knife: His Future History details skillfully woven into the story, I wonder if readers realized they had a place in a tapestry.
A Slave Is a Slave: Pretty standard imperial politics analyzed by know-it-all military character. Didn't do much for me. Somewhat reminiscent of the author's...

Author	Fred Saberhagen
ISBN	0441843174

BERSERKERS
The death machines are capable of any treachery, able to assume any disguise, motivated only by their prime directive: to seek out and destroy life wherever it may hide.

MAN
The fragile life-form that hides within its puny frame a curiously unquenchable something ......

Author	Stewart Cowley
ISBN	0890092117

In middle school, I used to stare at this book for hours on end, imagining that distant future. Let's put this in context: Star Wars was one movie, Cylons were chrome-plated clods, and Space Invaders vied with Astroids for the title of 'Best Video Game.' Can't remember a thing about the text, but the pictures...

Author

Gordon R. Dickson

A lone ship entering Earth space rouses Hal Mayne from his researches aboard the Final Encyclopedia. Piloting the craft is Dorsai Amanda Morgan, returning from her work with resistance fighters of the Younger Worlds, bearing terrible—though not unexpected—news:

Bleys Ahrens, commanding...

Author	Jack L. Chalker
ISBN	5553861977

For me this book took a left turn at the lights and kept on going in a new direction I haven't read in any other book before. I really enjoyed it!

A boring "grey man" in his mid 40's gets his mind trapped in the body of a 13 year old female native American Indian and has to cope with this sudden upheaval...

Author	Philip Francis Nowlan
ISBN	0441029396

Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this, the 25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century. Now it occurs to me that my memoirs of the 25th Century may have an equal interest 500 years from now—particularly in view of that unique perspective from which I have...

Author

Arthur C. Clarke

"Rendezvous with Rama": listened to the audio version of this book. I'm not a big fan of the science fiction genre, but my husband is; he chose this audiobook for our road trip in Michigan (he had read the book years earlier). He agrees with the 3 star rating of this review. The storyline was interesting,...

Author	Keith Laumer
ISBN	0671655450

Okay, first off this book is really two separate stories, and you can start by just totally throwing the second one away. It reads like one of Ray Bradbury's weird "good old boys on Mars" stories from The Martian Chronicles, full of yokelisms like "gubment" and "a quiet, respecful feller" and "the sheriff's...

Author	Steven Barnes
ISBN	0441790682

OK, this is a romp.

Aubry Knight is a null-fighter in, oh, 2020 or so, in a devastated America. He goes through various travails due to betrayals and fights and just because of who he is.

I won't give a summary to spoil the book, but it really is a fun story to follow. There are the usual "space...