Iceworld
10 best books like Iceworld (Hal Clement): A Mirror for Observers, Serpent's Reach, Fury, A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Greyhaven, Empire of the Atom, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, The Repairman, Earthman, Come Home
In their attitude towards the Planet Earth, the Martians had long been divided into two camps: the Observers, benevolent meddlers in human affairs; & the rebellious Abdicators, who sought the Earth's collapse. But it wasn't until the extraordinary matter of the Earth-Boy, Angelo Pontevecchio,...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0886770882 |
I read lots of sci-fi in my Lost Youth, but fell away from it once I went to university. I discovered Cherryh in grad school--- took "Serpent's Reach" home one random Friday night...and was enthralled. Here was sci-fi that was austere, cold, well-crafted, with characters that had depth and intelligence...
| Author | Henry Kuttner |
| ISBN | 0575071419 |
Classic SF from '47. It isn't bad and it has a solid plot thread and a very streamlined theme, from breaking off the yoke of immortals only to realize you are one, to founding a rebellion allowing all the people to earn their own immortality and a place in the sun. (On Venus, nonetheless.)
I don't...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0812522257 |
Raconteur, bon vivant, troubleshooter for the decaying Terran Empire, Dominic Falndry doesn't crave further danger in the service of galactic unity.
But duty calls, so it's back to the spaceways for the most elegant Special Agent is a hundred star systems--straight into the well-laid plans...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0879978155 |
Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0450023265 |
Empire of the Atom is a science fiction novel by A.E. van Vogt. First published in 1957 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 2000 copies, the novel is a fix-up of the first five of van Vogt's Gods stories which originally appeared in Astounding magazine. The remaining Gods stories are collected in The...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0060817127 |
*****"Old Music and the Slave Woman" - Ursula K. LeGuin.
Yes, I checked this book out from the library because I saw that it had a LeGuin story I hadn't read before! And yes, this alone was worth the price of admission. (Well, since it was from the library there wasn't a price, but, you know...)
Set...
| Author | Audun Eckhoff |
| ISBN | 3775721010 |
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
-------------- Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn-t be so
-------------- bad - if I could shoot the trouble!
from the introductory:
The Old Man had that look of intense glee on his face that meant someone was in for a very rough time. Since we were alone, it took no great...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 0099086905 |
When the cities left Earth, they exchanged a simple environment for one of constant, sometimes shattering change. The Universe was littered with cultures in every conceivable stage of development. Only the iron hand of the germanium-backed economy and occasional interventions by the Earth police...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0425040410 |
DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A TUNNEL UNDER HELL?
That this Universe is a toy? That the hideous Saviors rule, and have ruled, since Time began three Time-beginnings back? That they formed Man and Earth, body disc and soul print, and alien too?
And that they made mistakes? Oh, they made terrible...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0345343646 |
This was a nice little adventure from Norton that mixed several genres. Diving/Caribbean stories were very popular in the mid-twentieth century. Hence, the popularity of Flipper, the Bond books and movies that always had some bit of the Caribbean in them, and even those LLoyd Bridges movies with spear-guns...
| Author | Mark Phillips |
| ISBN | 1434401561 |
"Mark Phillips" was the pseudonym of two well-known science fiction writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle names (Philip and Mark), was coined soon after their original meeting, at a science-fiction convention. Both men were drunk at the...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0440004411 |
DURDANE THE IMPRISONED
A world of strange ways and stranger people. A land where men and women are marked for life. Where they are bound to irrevocable destinies by the proclamations of the Faceless Man-an unseen power which terrorises and controls the world.
Durdane is a place where...
The Stars In Their Courses
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0586041222 |
I'll admit it, I haven't read much Asimov. After reading The Last Question, I was totally blown away. After reading Foundation #1 I was super disappointed by both style and characters. So I came to The Stars in their Courses with some ambivalence and no expectations.
Had I read it in a different...
I have to warn you, this is not perfect. Some serious suspension of disbelief, on several aspects, is required. And some patience with slightly dated attitudes, and with long-windedness, is also required. However, the core ideas and world-building are absolutely superb and I highly recommend the...
SIN EATERS
Investigating an epidemic of deaths among the world's leading scientists. Bill Graham learned their terrible discovery: Earth was—and had been for centuries—controlled by aliens!
The alien energy beings fed on human emotions. To cultivate their "food:' they...
| Author | Jack L. Chalker |
| ISBN | 0345254570 |
Paul Carlton Savage died on July 20, 1969, in Vietnam but that was only the start of his troubles! Approached by a mysterious entity called The Hunter, Savage was offered immortality in exchange for his services in The Hunter's continuing war against The Bromgrev. Suddenly, Savage found himself...
