High Justice
10 best books like High Justice (Jerry Pournelle): Starstrike, The World of Tiers, Volume 1, Einstein's Bridge, The Military Form, Glide Path, The Long Loud Silence, Slaves of the Volcano God, Ancient, My Enemy, Conrad's Time Machine: A Prequel to the Adventures of Conrad Stargard, The Timekeeper Conspiracy
| Author | W. Michael Gear |
| ISBN | 0886774276 |
Humanity's first contact with alien life is no less than a nightmare, as the Ahimsa take control of Earth and force humanity to do their bidding. Soon Earth's most skilled strike force, composed of Russian, American, and Israeli experts in the art of war and espionage, find themselves aboard the Ahimsa...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0312857616 |
The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster (a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contemporary world). Separately and together, the two...
| Author | John G. Cramer |
| ISBN | 0380788314 |
In a newborn twenty-first century, tunnels through space-time have connected our planet with hitherto unimagined alternate universes. The genius minds working at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) project - a fifty-three-mile-long underground particle accelerator - George Griffin...
| Author | Christopher Rowley |
| ISBN | 0345331761 |
Eons ago, a war was fought to the death between the parasitic and ferocious Vang and a gifted but doomed race. As a last resort, these gentle beings were forced to use the Starhammer to smash the Vang spacefleets and homeworld, leaving only a handful of survivors. For a billion years a silvery shape drifted...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0743475313 |
This is the sixth book I have read by Arthur C Clarke, as part of My Big Fat Reading Project and my study of the development of science fiction. The surprise was to find it was not science fiction but a scientific novel set in early WWII.
Flying officer Alan Bishop finds himself posted on a British...
| 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 | Craig Shaw Gardner |
| ISBN | 0441769772 |
Holy crap, I hated this book. It's been sitting on my bookshelf for probably nearly 20 years, and I think I may have forgotten that I hadn't read it, because it wasn't familiar to me at all. I certainly would have remembered hating it this much and doing what I want to do now, which is to get it back over to Recycled...
| 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...
Conrad's Time Machine: A Prequel to the Adventures of Conrad Stargard
| Author | Leo Frankowski |
| ISBN | 0743471911 |
I have been a big fan of the Cross Time Engineer series since the beginning. However, this novel was a bit of a let down. I guess the biggest thing that it did was fill in some of the blanks with regards to how things came to be. However, the writing was a bit wonky as I knew where they were going with the story line,...
| Author | Simon Hawke |
| ISBN | 1584450541 |
At first the discovery of minus time seemed like a blessing. Countries at war could fight their battles in the past rather than destroy the present. But now the situation was desperate. Humanity faced the danger of a temporal split, with incalculable consequences, as a result of attempts to change the...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0345321421 |
• The Lion in His Attic - (1982)
• Spirals - (1979) - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• A Teardrop Falls - (1983)
• Talisman - (1981) - Larry Niven and Dian Girard
• Flare Time - (1978)
• The Locusts - (1979) - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
• Yet Another Modest Proposal:...
| Author | Steven R. Boyett |
| ISBN | 0441029051 |
Jim Bentley's plans for the evening were simple: a movie and the graveyard shift at the 7-Eleven. That was before he stumbled into another world. Evolution has taken a very different direction on this parallel Earth, but some things are constant. Jim Bentley has fallen straight from his ordinary life...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0812502388 |
Premise is after a nuclear war in the Middle East an international peacekeeping force is established with one mission: stop any nation from invading any other nation. But what happens inside national boundaries is unhindered. The book deals with the ramifications of such a setup.
It is laid...
| Author | Piers Anthony |
| ISBN | 0812531019 |
My experience of reading this novel (many years ago):
Stage 1: Wow, what a very strange 1950s America. I'll bet something's up!
Stage 2: Cool, teenagers race against vast conspiracy of adults breeding them for nefarious purposes!
Stage 3: How strange. The pinnacle of "white"...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0446320277 |
For over 100 years, the machine called Colligatarch had ruled the Earth. Its predictions of the future have proved so accurate that humans accepted its recommendations as the best course of action--until a young engineer in Phoenix begins to travel without authorization, enter secret places, assume...
| Author | Terrance Dicks |
| ISBN | 0426202945 |
In the summer of 1966, thousands of young people are taking their holidays with Chameleon Tours. And not one of them is coming back.
When the TARDIS lands at Gatwick Airport the Doctor is drawn into a web of intrigue and deception. To add to his troubles, Polly mysteriously vanishes.
Or...
| 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...
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
| Author | David G. Hartwell |
| ISBN | 0312855095 |
Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology...
| Author | Andrew M. Greeley |
| ISBN | 0312877501 |
Andrew M. Greeley, the phenomenally popular novelist and priest, is best known -- and loved -- for his understated Catholic morality and compassionate understanding of human foibles. In The God Game, now available in a brand-new trade paperback edition, Father Greeley takes a new and fascinating...
