Homeworld
10 best books like Homeworld (Harry Harrison): 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, Wolfling, The Exile Waiting, A Gift from Earth, Summertide, The Stars are Also Fire, Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold, Narabedla Ltd., A Step Farther Out, Worlds Apart
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0380507730 |
Contents include: The Science Fiction Blowgun by Isaac Asimov / A Loint of Paw by Isaac Asimov / The Advent on Channel Twelve by C. M. Kornbluth / Plaything by Larry Niven / The Misfortune Cookie by Charles E. Fritch / I Wish I May, I Wish I Might by Bill Pronzini / FTA by George R. R. Martin / Trace by Jerome Bixby...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0671559621 |
DEAR GOODREADS REVIEWERS NAMED RANDAL AND ALL OTHER GOODREADS REVIEWERS AS WELL: Please do not label a book that features racist characters as a racist book. There is a fucking difference between the characters in a book and the book itself! The "High Born" of Throne World are expressly referred to as...
| Author | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| ISBN | 0575021896 |
The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable for much of the year by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside.
Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation,...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0345350510 |
Browsing through the Niven backlist of Known Space books, and after the stellar Protector and Ringworld's Children, expectations were ramped up for A Gift from Earth. And this does start with a great setup: on a world where the only livable landmass is 40 miles up on a plateau, we find the colony of Mount...
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0345369378 |
It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both—but Quake in particular— to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, due to the Grand Conjunction of the system's stars and planets, something...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0812530225 |
After being less than impressed by “a harvest of stars” I decided to give the sequel a go.
And let’s get it over with from the start, it is a far better story. 3.5 stars.
Where “harvest” focussed on the humans leaving earth, this one focuses on the ones who stayed behind.
In...
| Author | Jack L. Chalker |
| ISBN | 0345311221 |
Grand Scam
Robots were infiltrating the Federation. Someone was kidnapping people and substituting indetectable, synthetic imitations. Somewhere, aliens were studying the Federation, using techniques beyond human developments. The trail led back to Cerberus and the Lord who ruled...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345360265 |
Years ago, Nolly Stennis had been a promising baritone. On the threshold of a great career with Narabedla Ltd., illness had ruined his voice. Then a cellist friend received an offer from Narabedla, only to disappear shortly thereafter. When Nolly set out to investigate, he found intergalatic intrigue...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 0441785859 |
Essays on Technology, Civilization, and saving the world by Galaxy Science Fiction Science Editor Jerry Pournelle, PhD. Preface by Larry Niven, and Foreword by A. E. Van Vogt. From the Niven Preface: "Jerry Pournelle is our to make the whole world rich... He's been building the future since I was in...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0380716828 |
-Más desarrollos de la trama sobre una humanidad en decadencia.-
Género. Ciencia-Ficción.
Lo que nos cuenta. Marianne O´Hara sale de la Tierra en el último momento antes de que los misiles empiecen a caer y llega a Nueva Nueva York, en cuya estructura orbital se juntarán muchos...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0879977663 |
Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways, different from Earth and from each other. Any of those differences could mean death and disaster to a human settlement. When a ship filled with refugees...
| Author | David G. Hartwell |
| ISBN | 0060575611 |
A banner year for speculative fiction has yielded a crop of superb short form SF. Now the very best to appear over the past twelve months has been amassed into one extraordinary volume by acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, offering bold visions of days to come that...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0722134231 |
Urthona's private world was a place of sudden land shifts...of mountains that sank into valleys, and plans that rose into peaks. Kickaha was trapped there with Anana and they were all in desperate straits. Because there was only one gate out of that world, located within Urthona's palace. And finding...
| Author | Allen M. Steele |
| ISBN | 0441009069 |
Time Loves A Hero, is a re-publication of Allen Steele’s novel Chronospace. As explained in the new introduction, this is the title which he originally intended – but in case you have already read Chronospace, be aware that there is no new story here. In turn then, Chronospace is the full narrative...
| Author | Clifford D. Simak |
| ISBN | 0345291409 |
A little more than a year ago, I moved from a city where I'd lived a third of my life to a city I'd only visited twice, and where I only knew a handful of people. I had no money, no job, no car and no specific purpose. I was low on options and one friend, 3000 miles from me, offered me a couch to sleep on. I took the offer.
Sometime...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0812532368 |
Keith Stoner lay frozen in an alien spacecraft for fifteen long years; during that time he came to be something more than just an astronaut, just a man. Stoner became partly alien hismelf--merged with an alien intelligence embodied in the nanotechnology that lived inside Stoner's body.
The...
