Forward the Foundation
10 best books like Forward the Foundation (Isaac Asimov): The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die, The Machine Crusade, Foundation's Triumph, Utopia, Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury, Foundation's Fear, Foundation and Chaos, Cyborg, The Garden of Rama, Ringworld's Children
Author | Stephen R. Donaldson |
ISBN | 0553071807 |
If you can't stand violence, horrible people and or anything unpleasant do not even think of touching these books. They will utterly repulse you, and probably scar you for life.
But they are fantastic.
The Gap series, spanning five novels is a saga of abhorrent charters, deep space...
Alternate cover edition located here.
The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, a prequel to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, propelled it to the ranks of speculative fiction's classics in its own right. Now, with...
Author | David Brin |
ISBN | 0061056391 |
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction.Now,...
Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
ISBN | 0441002455 |
Intended Audience: Adult
Sexual content: Mild
Ace/Genderqueer characters: Yes (robots)
Rating: PG
Writing style: 2/5
Likable characters: 3/5
Plot/Concepts: 4/5
Despite terra-forming efforts by Spacers, Settlers, and robots of all kinds, the future of the...
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury
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Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury is the fourth novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company in March 1956. Since...
Author | Gregory Benford |
ISBN | 0061056383 |
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing...
Author | Greg Bear |
ISBN | 1857237366 |
ENGLISH
It is always complicated when an author adapts or continues another's work. In this case, it is a complete success.
Greg Bear has been zealous to be e worthy of AsimovĀ“s legacy. The effort that an author is likely to take to get into such a complex universe might be significant....
Author | William F. Wu |
ISBN | 0743479181 |
This third book of the Robot City series wasn't nearly as good as the first two. In fact, I was pretty disappointed with it. The writer just didn't seem to have it together. Maybe he's a new author. I don't know. The language was stilted and forced. Transitions were left out. It was just bad.
In this...
Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
ISBN | 1857230213 |
In the year 2130 a mysterious spaceship, Rama, arrived in the solar system. It was huge - big enough to contain a city and a sea - and empty, apparently abandoned. By the time Rama departed for its next, unknown, destination many wonders had been uncovered, but few mysteries solved. Only one thing was clear:...
Author | Larry Niven |
ISBN | 0765341026 |
Welcome to a world like no other.
The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique...