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10 best books like From a Changeling Star (Jeffrey A. Carver): The Broken Lands, The Best of Frederik Pohl, Golden Fleece, The Snake Oil Wars or Scheherazade Ginsberg Strikes Again, Where the Evil Dwells, The Void Captain's Tale, To the Stars, Rogue Star, The Wife of Bath and Other Canterbury Tales, Slipt

The Broken Lands
AuthorFred Saberhagen
ISBN0671653806
I have wanted to read Fred Saberhagen's Sword books for a long time and I had read somewhere that this trilogy was the precursor to them. Perhaps if I had read this when it was originally published I would have liked it more. It was boring and flat to me. In a post apocalyptic world the Empire of the East is enslaving...
The Best of Frederik Pohl
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0345245075
Introduction by Lester del Rey.

Contents:
The Tunnel under the World (1955)
Punch (1961)
Three Portraits and a Prayer (1962)
Day Million (1966)
Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus (1956)
We Never Mention Aunt Nora (1958)
Father of the Stars (1964)
The Day the Martians...
Golden Fleece
AuthorRobert J. Sawyer
ISBN0312868650
Aboard Argo, a colonization ship bound for Eta Cephei IV, people are very close--there's no other choice. So when Aaron Rossman's ex-wife dies in what seems to be a bizarre accident, everyone offers their sympathy, politely keeping their suspicions of suicide to themselves. But Aaron cannot simply...
The Snake Oil Wars or Scheherazade Ginsberg Strikes Again
AuthorParke Godwin
ISBN0385247729
The follow-up to Waiting for the Galactic Bus has Coyul taking over Topside after Barion is banished, and dealing with another bigoted American fundamentalist. Godwin tries to make Lance Candor his own character, and he's not the racist Roy Stride was, but it still feels like a bit of a rehash. A trial...
Where the Evil Dwells
AuthorClifford D. Simak
ISBN0345297512
Secretly and in stealth, four puny humans set out to invade the heartland of Evil - the so-called Empty Lands, filled with every evil creature from the darkest of mankind's myths.

Harcourt went reluctantly to rescue his long-lost and almost forgotten fiancee. The Knurly Man, who was somewhat...
The Void Captain's Tale
AuthorNorman Spinrad
ISBN0312868251
In the Second Starfaring Age, humans travel the universe via a technology they barely understand, propelled by a space drive consisting of mysteriously complex mechanisms and, symbiotically linked to it, a living woman, the Void Pilot. Pilots are rare, and the ability to be a Pilot also entails physical...
To the Stars
AuthorHarry Harrison
ISBN0553264532
The epic science fiction trilogy--Homeworld, Wheelworld, and Starworld--from the author of West of Eden and Winter in Eden is now available in one volume.

Homeworld introduces us to Jan Kulozik, an upper-class engineer who has taken his privileges for granted. While vacationing at a luxurious...
Rogue Star
AuthorMichael Flynn
ISBN0812542991
This is the sequel to the novel Firestar, which tells the story of a wealthy businesswoman's efforts to spearhead a private multinational space program. Expanding into outer space is not so much Mariesa Van Huyten's dream as a palliative for her nightmare: she is obsessed with the fear of a planet-killing...
The Wife of Bath and Other Canterbury Tales
AuthorGeoffrey Chaucer
ISBN0146001168
The "Wife of Bath" is a tale about a young knight who makes a bad decision early on in his knighthood. He fulfills his punishment from the Queen by setting out on a quest to find the answer to a question the Queen asks him. She gives him a year and a day to fulfill this quest for her answer. The question the Queen...
Slipt
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
ISBN0441771556
New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster presents a story of miracles amid the wreckage of modern science. Living next to a toxic chemical dump is Jake Pickett, the magic man. He can turn bullets to dust or collapse skyscrapers with his mind. But all he really wants to do with his "magic" is entertain...
Gorgon Child
AuthorSteven Barnes
ISBN0812531523
This book is easily in my top 20 books of all time. It was the first book I read in the Aubrey Knight Series (though I'm not sure I would recommend starting here) and it's still my favorite. Barnes holds an amazing pace with this book. It's full of hard-hitting action and believable Science Fiction. Gorgon...
Emprise
AuthorMichael P. Kube-McDowell
ISBN0743475364
The devastating Food and Fuel Wars have turned once-powerful nations into isolated farming communities. Barter has replaced currency, and scientists-considered responsible for the world's misery-are burned at the stake. Hidden in the Idaho hills, astronomer Allen Chandliss secretly monitors...
Life Probe
AuthorMichael McCollum
ISBN0345302958
i was pleasantly suprised by this one. Essentially it's a first contact novel, but very scientifically plausible. The author has great street creds and has written stories for Analog, Asimov's etc. so I kind of knew what to expect when I began. But what I didn't expect (and was happy to see) were fairly...
Endgame Enigma
AuthorJames P. Hogan
ISBN0553270370
Early in the 21st century, Russia has heroically gathered its dwindling resources to build "Valentina Tereshkova", a space station rumored to have actually been built by the last heirs of the Soviet dictators as a weapon. When scientists Paula Bryce and agent Lew McCain travel to the station to investigate,...
Agent of the Terran Empire
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN1596872071
I've been meaning to read something by the late Poul Anderson for some time, as I've preodered Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson’s Worlds. It's been maybe 15 years since reading anything by him. This one is a quick read, very light and fun science fiction/spy fodder. This book collects four adventures,...
Igniting the Reaches
AuthorDavid Drake
ISBN0441000266
Interesting reimagining of the career of Sir Francis Drake, set in a far future, and from the point of view of one of his associates (I don't know enough of Drake's history to know if the viewpoint character is based on a real character in Drake's life).

Where Drake fought to give England a place...
As on a Darkling Plain
AuthorBen Bova
ISBN0812515463
This is an obscure novel and it deserves to be. As hard science fiction it's not a complete disaster, although it also isn't particularly interesting or cohesive. As a novel which purports to have a plot, characters, drama, etc., it is a complete disaster. It's poorly structured - really more three short...
The Identity Matrix
AuthorJack L. Chalker
ISBN5553861977
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...
Smokey
AuthorBill Peet
ISBN0395349249
Yay for Bill Peet! While I didn’t like this one as much as Katy the Caboose, my son kept wanting me to read it. Smokey is an old engine who is a bit worn down. After overhearing some other engines talk about how will be retired to the junk yard, he decides to go on an adventure. He is chased by Native Americans...
Champions of the Sidhe
AuthorKenneth C. Flint
ISBN0553276549
Here’s the sequel to Riders of the Sidhe, that fantasy novel that I gave a surprisingly rave review for yesterday. Pretty much all the praise I gave for the earlier novel applies to this one, so I’ll only make a note of a few things.

Now that Lugh has accepted his destiny as a national liberator,...
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