Flatlander
10 best books like Flatlander (Larry Niven): Time Enough for Love, The Caves of Steel, Have Space Suit—Will Travel (Heinlein's Juveniles, #12), Dorsai!, Double Star, Infantry Attacks, The Dune Encyclopedia, The Menace from Earth, Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles As Seen Through Japanese Eyes, Endgames
Was Robert A. Heinlein a dirty old man?
Yes.
But he was also a visionary who saw the trends of Western Civilization and expounded out into a foreseeable future, not just in terms of science fiction but also in regard to cultures, morals, sociology and ideology. Time Enough for Love demonstrates...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0586008357 |
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 1416505490 |
My first Robert A. Heinlein work read and still one of my favorites.
Heinlein produced his juvenile books for Charles Scribner's Sons mainly in the 1950s and these were what many consider to be some of his finest work. I’ve always thought that the period between 1957 and 1966 was his zenith,...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0812503988 |
aka The Genetic General
Throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the art of war has made them...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0345330137 |
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.
Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult...
| Author | Erwin Rommel |
| ISBN | 1853677078 |
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied....
| Author | Willis Everett McNelly |
| ISBN | 0425068137 |
Eight years in the making, the work of painstakung scholarship and research, containing thousands of entries and cross-references...
Futurist, journalist, bestselling author, world-maker Frank Herbert's magnificent future history, The Dune Chronicles, has proven itself the most...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0671578022 |
Another set of short stories by RAH & they're something he excelled at. They're kind of an odd collection, but good. Well narrated. Not as good as The Green Hills of Earth collection, although there are a few really good stories in this one.
"The Year of the Jackpot" is overshadowed now by...
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles As Seen Through Japanese Eyes
| Author | Tameichi Hara |
| ISBN | 1591143543 |
The Naval Institute Press is pleased to make available for the first time this cloth edition of a now-classic war memoir that was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s. Originally published as a paperback in 1961, it has long been treasured by World War II buffs and professional...
The twelfth novel in L. E. Modesitt, Jr's, New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series the Imager Portfolio, and the third book in the story arc that began with Treachery's Tools and Assassin's Price.
Solidar is in chaos.Charyn, the young and untested ruler of Solidar, has survived assassination,...
Far Orbit: Speculative Space Adventures
| Author | Bascomb James |
| ISBN | 0615959245 |
Modern space adventures crafted by a new generation of Grand Tradition science fiction writers. Smart, readable, and engaging stories that take us back to a time when science fiction was fun and informative, pithy and piquant—when speculative fiction transported us from the everyday grind and...
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
| ISBN | 0765375648 |
New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.
Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars--the alien invasions...
