Is Anyone There?
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| Author | Elizabeth A. Lynn |
| ISBN | 0441008143 |
Captured trying to recover his stolen property, Starcaptain Dana Ikoro is arrested and sentenced to ten years of slavery on the slave world of Chabad. There could be crueler masters than Rhani Yago, the beautiful and powerful aristocrat. Dana forges a dangerous bond with his master--and discovers...
| Author | Lester del Rey |
| ISBN | 0590025341 |
This is a science fiction story about what it would be like to go back 80 million years in time and see what the Earth was like then.
A scientist has created a device that tunnels through time. The protagonist is his son, 17 year old Bob Miller. Bob and his father's friend, Doc Tom, and Doc Tom's son...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0451452585 |
As my first foray into Haldeman's writing, I was swept away with his twists and turns and original plots. Some stories were not overtly science fiction and I appreciated them equally. I was quite impressed with how much he could convey with so little and can't wait to pick up a novel to see where he takes...
| Author | Jo Clayton |
| ISBN | 0879979712 |
The diadem that crowned the head of Aleytys was in contact with her central nervous system - and invisible to outsiders. But even that star-born fugitive herself did not know what the diadem's powers were or what it could do to or for her.
What she did know was that it made her the target of the diadem's...
In a city halfway across the galaxy an alien intelligence was addressing the strangest delegation since time began: "We have called you here to help us. Our universe has been invaded by the Lord of the Flames. He has been gathering information on many worlds for a full-scale attack. He is now preparing...
| Author | E.C. Tubb |
| ISBN | 0441142613 |
Still driven by his search for Man's fabled birthplace, Earl Dumrest accepts a commission to guard the Lady Derai, heiress to the proud House of Caldor, on the feudal world of Hive. On Derai's home planet, Dumarest had hoped to meet a living witness to Earth. But instead he finds himself in the lists of...
| 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 | 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 | James P. Hogan |
| ISBN | 0671319485 |
SOS FROM A FUTURE THAT WILL NEVER BEIt's amazing enough when Murdoch Ross's brilliant grandfather invents a machine that can send messages to itself in the past or the future. But when signals begin to arrive without being sent, Murdoch realizes that every action he takes changes the future that would...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0786257369 |
This book started out promising. Hal was part of an occupying force on a planet because that's what we do. Just ask the American Indians. The aliens were trying to fight humans off and this time having success. Things looked bleak for our occupying forces. To maintain planetary dominance we were going...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0879972750 |
Research Alpha sought the answer to the ultimate intelligence-and also to certain problems of other intelligent beings sharing our galaxy.
Research Alpha sought the reason for humanity's very existence in a vast and apparently hostile cosmos.
Research Alpha found answers they never expected....
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0886772087 |
DAW paperback original, one of several later printings (see individual listings). An early (1979) Cherryh novel about colonists on an alien world and their interactions with the catlike natives, centering on a young engineer sent to solve the colonists' problems, and his relationship with one of...
The Man Who Used the Universe
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 1587150492 |
No one knows the true motives of Kees vaan Loo-Macklin. He's a mastermind criminal who gave up his place at the head of the dark underworld to become a legitimate member of Evenwaith's cities. But soon he was reaching out to powerful enemies--the slimy aliens called the Nuel. Loo-Macklin negotiates...
