Glide Path

Author

Janet Asimov

Three cheers for Norby!

Norby's the bravest, most outrageous, most lovable robot ever to save the day. Along with his ever-faithful human companion Jeff, and a mischievious All-Purpose-Pet named Oola, the three blast off for interstellar adventure.

First the trio search for a...

Author

Kay Kenyon

Clio Finn is a Dive pilot on a troubled Earth in 2019. Public paranoia about the AIDS virus and its successors has led to the imprisonment of the "subversives" of the society (namely, drug users and gays) in forced labor quarantine camps known as quarries. Meanwhile, Earth itself is dying from a progressive...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345245075

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...

Author	Paul French
ISBN	1421049260

Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus (Lucky Starr #3), Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus is the third 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...

Author

Jerry Pournelle

High Justice begins Jerry Pournelle's own Future History, a universe which he shared with Larry Niven in their collaborative novel, The Mote in God's Eye. Here we see, with all the vivid detail for which Pournelle is known, the Fall of the West, and how in its death throes it gave birth to a society that...

Author	Wilson Tucker
ISBN	0340250879

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...

Author	Fritz Leiber
ISBN	0848821270

Fritz Leiber's work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the Paperback era of Philip K. Dick, and arguably, is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber in fact knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different...

Author	Jody Scott
ISBN	0879973307

When a dolphin-like alien comes to Earth disguised in a female human body, it sets the stage for a wild feminist romp that outstranges Stranger in a Strange Land. "The pace of the story never lets up, yet it finds room for serious contemplation of humanity's woes. The style is easy, with an edge of noir....

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0879975520

The award-winning and much honored Gordon R. Dickson, author of the best-selling DORSAI books and many other praiseworthy novels and scince fiction stories, has selected nine of his finest tales in this book.
Here are stories of interstellar exploration, of adventure at the dawn of star flight...

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0385174438

ASIMOV:
Grand Master of SF

No one knows science fiction as well as Isaac Asimov, the bestselling author of the FOUNDATION saga and many other classic works. He has taken part in all the significant developments and knows most of the important writers personally. His familiarity with the...

Author	David Gerrold
ISBN	0312944632

We're human beings, with the blood of a million savage years on our hands...but we can stop it.
- Kirk, 'A Taste of Armageddon'

I found this on my parents' bookshelf, looking as though it hadn't been touched since 1971. When I opened it, the cover fell off.

While I love the original...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0425058514

A rogue planet...frozen for a billion years by the cold of interstellar space, now boiling with titanic energies. Mysterious beings had kidnapped David Falkhayn, the celbrated explorer of new worlds. Why were they trying to prevent him, at all costs, from exploiting the devil planet's resources?...

Author	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0586043187

It's a man's world - but a robot's future...

One day the tough, dangerous, dirty jobs will be done by robots:
- superhumanly strong and invulnerable soldiers, with a built-in killer instinct
- miners and sandhogs who can work on distant planets too deadly for man
- incorruptible...

Author	Graham Masterton
ISBN	0523480695

ARMY OF EVIL...

At the bridge of Le Vey in July 1944, thirteen black tanks smashed through the German lines in an unstoppable, all-destroying fury ride. Leaving hundreds of Hitler’s soldiers horribly dead.

Thirty-five years later, Dan McCook visited that area of Normandy on an...

Author	Oliver Ho
ISBN	1402724993

“We said there was no home like a raft. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery…but you feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.” Sail down the Mississippi with Huck Finn and the runaway slave, Jim. Twain’s beloved tale, with its folksy language, creates an indelible image...

Author	Jerry Ahern
ISBN	0773783164

No human being could possibly escape death when the earth's atmosphere explodes into a blazing wave of global fire. But John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert would not be denied another chance at life. His family and friends are alive and about...

Author	Ben Bova
ISBN	0812579429

Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us:

SATURN

Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after...

Author	Eric Zencey
ISBN	0425178331

What I took away from this book, what I loved about it, was that it finally helped me understand the modern arts. Throughout the book he shows how society was speeding up, becoming interconnected, and becoming fragmented. Which is exactly what artists like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were responding...