Jack of Eagles
10 best books like Jack of Eagles (James Blish): Ballroom of the Skies, Tower of Glass, Plague from Space, Search the Sky, Worlds of the Imperium, Los hijos de nuestros hijos, Virgin Planet, Yurth Burden, Two Hawks From Earth, A Wreath of Stars
| Author | John D. MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0231019939 |
Have you ever stopped to wonder why the world is eternally war-torn? Why men of good will, seeking only peace, are driven relentlessly to further disaster? MacDonlad's novel suggests a strange and sinister explaination.
Here we enter an intricate future society, in which India rules the...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0575070978 |
Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space. The colossal tower he's constructing for this purpose soars above the Arctic tundra, and the seemingly perfect androids building it...
Spacecraft: Pericles
Type: Manned exploration
Destination: Jupiter
Cargo: Extinction
Bertolli was there when the Pericles returned to Earth. He was the first to reach Commander Rand as he staggered, hideously disfigured & close to death, from the crew's cabin. From that...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345016602 |
Quite a decent piece of SF satire, set (roughly) in the same universe as
The Marching Morons
. I liked the planet with the gerontocracy. The hero gets to participate in an election: they wheel out the candidates, all of whom are over 100 and with tubes coming out of their noses. With great fanfare of trumpets,...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0812543793 |
When Brion Bayard was kidnapped and brought to the alternate world where Earth's history took a different turn, it was not a pleasant experience. It was, however, a startling experience. Here was a world that was just like the Earth he was taken from--with just a few subtle changes. On top of all this,...
Un día de verano como otro cualquiera, se abre una puerta en el vacío y empiezan a salir cientos, miles, millones de personas procedentes de ninguna parte. Dicen que vienen del futuro. Son los hijos de nuestros hijos. Un peligro incontrolable acecha en el futuro, y se hace preciso cortar el puente que...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0446754625 |
For 300 years the planet of women awaited the coming of man. Then one arrives...
He is Davis Bertram, a space-explorer. But how can he convince them he really is a man? Their legends have built Men into gods.
Trying to be worthy of the Coming, the women imitate masculine virtues. They...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0879977027 |
The world of Zacar was wracked with storms and life there was hard. Yet tow races shared it with no love between them. The Raski were the first people, the Yurth the late comers.
This is the story of Elossa, the Yurth girl who followed the Call that every Yurth sensitive must follow when the time...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0441833659 |
In this classic of alternate history by grand master Philip Jose Farmer, Native American bomber pilot Roger Two Hawks bails out over enemy territory in WWII, only to find himself on another Earth-one in which the American continents never rose from the waters, and the ancestors of the American Indians...
| Author | Bob Shaw |
| ISBN | 0440197104 |
Ironically, for Gilbert Snook, who considered himself the human equivalent of a neutrino, a particle able to travel through the Earth without disturbing any other particle, it all started with the panic that followed the sighting of the anti neutrino planet as it approached Earth. Earth was unaffected...
| Author | James White |
| ISBN | 0345293819 |
The five short stories in the book are related to a new world called Meatball. In the first story, Invader, a series of strange accidents at the hospital lead Conway to suspect an alien presence. In the second story, Monitor Corps discovers an alien spinning ship near Meatball and brings it to the hospital...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0441272320 |
Miro Hetzel is an effectuator: a private investigator and gentleman of the Gaean Reach. This book contains two stories of his adventures.
"The Dogtown Tourist Agency" - The Istagam Corporation has found an inexpensive means of manufacturing technical goods which greatly undercuts its...
| Author | John Sladek |
| ISBN | 0671448862 |
He isn't human; but he isn't all robot either. He started life in a lab, went to Parochial School, was kidnapped by gypsies, chased by roboticidal, and incompetent, hit-men, told fortunes on the Midway, and finally fostered by an elderly couple who gave up writing science fiction when their stories...
| Author | M.A. Foster |
| ISBN | 0879975733 |
The human race had divided into two species. One had created the other - normal humans had experimented in forced evolution and had produced the ler, a sort of supermen race, but pacifistic and contemplative. The ler fled from the turbulent worlds of homo sapiens and established their own quiet planetary...
| Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
| ISBN | 0515044598 |
Starshine -- the eerie, unmistakable fire of Ted Sturgeon's genius -- lights up unforgettably these stories of now and tomorrow...tales of aliens from far planets, men of the spaceways and creatures of darkness. From the daring of "The World Well Lost" to the tense adventure of "The Pod and the Barrier"...
| Author | Murray Leinster |
| ISBN | 0517554127 |
There is a wonderful old term used to describe a feature of Golden Age science fiction novels: BEM, an acronym for "bug-eyed monsters." Back in the 1930s and '40s, you see, the covers of many sci-fi pulp magazines featured illustrations of bulbous-orbed, invariably menacing aliens and other creatures;...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0881849804 |
This 1957 novel is based on a five-page short work titled, “The Great Judge” first published in 1948. It's a true novel rather than one of the many fix-ups van Vogt constructed from previously published short stories. It starts off very well, with a man being sentenced to death in court. From there,...
Par godu Fantastikas mēnesim Grāmatu klubā - mana pirmā tikai viedierīcēs lasītā grāmata. Tāds formāts ir foršs lasīšanai pa ceļam, taču gultā man patīk likties tomēr ar grāmatu.
Klasiski piedzīvojumu stāsti, kuros svarīgākais ir vide un notikumi, bet tēli ir tā...
