Involution Ocean
10 best books like Involution Ocean (Bruce Sterling): Agostino, Forever Peace, The Horror in the Museum, Melville: His World and Work, Mindbridge, All My Sins Remembered, The Status Civilization, There Is No Darkness, Starter Set, Mendel el de los libros
| Author | Alberto Moravia |
| ISBN | 2080684426 |
Agostino, un adolescent de treize ans, passe de merveilleuses vacances sur une plage avec sa mère à qui il voue une passion aussi intense qu'innocente. La rencontre de celle-ci et d'un jeune homme auquel elle est loin d'être insensible met un terme brutal à ce parfait bonheur: Agostino découvre...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0441005667 |
Welcome to the future...where the final war is being waged
....against war itself.
There is such a bounty of wonderful, insightful and important ideas stuffed into this novel that I find myself seriously bummed that weak storytelling and plodding central plot flow marred my enjoyment...
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0345485726 |
Some tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-authored – but all bear the mark of the master of primordial terror.
The Horror in the Museum –Locked up for the night, a man will discover the difference between waxen grotesqueries and the real thing.
The...
| Author | Andrew Delbanco |
| ISBN | 0375702970 |
If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0575071141 |
The discovery of a remarkable alien technology light years from Earth could have devastating consequences for humanity in this science fiction classic by the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel The Forever War
In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0575072814 |
Otto McGavin is peacefully idealistic by nature, an Anglo-Buddhist, who seeks employment with the Confederacion because he believes in its mission to protect human & nonhuman rights. The only problem is that the Confederacion needs him as one of its twelve Prime Operators for its secret service,...
| Author | Robert Sheckley |
| ISBN | 1434499995 |
This is not a book that will rock your world. You won't be harassing your friends to read it, or spamming recommendations for it here on Goodreads. You aren't going to wistfully stare at its cover a year from now, remembering the great times you had together.
But that's OK.
The Status...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0441805647 |
Carl Bok is a citizen of Springworld, the heavy-gravity planet with monstrous and dangerous flora and fauna. Carl is well over two metres tall and weighs-in at 180 kilograms. Now Carl has won a scholarship to Starschool. He'll spend a year on this touring school, visiting sixteen of the colonized planets....
| Author | James Wyatt |
| ISBN | 0786965592 |
Explore subterranean labyrinths! Plunder hoards of treasure! Battle legendary monsters!
The Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set is your gateway to action-packed stories of the imagination. This box contains the essential rules of the game plus everything you need to play heroic characters...
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| ISBN | 8496834905 |
Escrito en 1929, Mendel el de los libros narra la trágica historia de un excéntrico librero de viejo que pasa sus días sentado siempre a la misma mesa en uno de los muchos cafés de la ciudad de Viena. Con su memoria enciclopédica, el inmigrante judío ruso no sólo es tolerado, sino querido y admirado...
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 1596069198 |
For more than two decades, Neal Stephenson has been the reigning master of the epic fictional narrative. His vast, intellectually rigorous books have ranged in setting from the distant past (The Baroque Cycle) to the modern era (Reamde) to the remote future (Anathem, Seveneves). But when Stephenson...
