Jinx on a Terran Inheritance
10 best books like Jinx on a Terran Inheritance (Brian Daley): Legend, Hope Never Dies, Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength, Children of the Lens, Swords Against Wizardry, Chanur's Homecoming, On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure, The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune
He is DRUSS the Legend. His skill in battle has earned him a fearsome reputation throughout the world and the stories of his life are told everywhere. But the grizzled veteran has spurned a life of fame and fortune and has retreated to the solitude of his mountain lair to await his old enemy, Death.
Meanwhile,...
This mystery thriller reunites Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama for a political mashup full of suspense, intrigue, and laugh out loud bromance.
Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in...
Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength
The Cosmic Trilogy relates the interplanetary travels of Ransom, C.S. Lewis's ill-informed and terrified victim who leaves Earth much against his will and who, in the first book of the trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, published by the Bodley Head in 1938, encounters the imaginary and delightful...
It was beginning to look as if no one could prevent the destruction of the Universe. For a strange intelligence was directing the destruction of all civilization from the icy depths of space.
Kim Kinnison of the Patrol was one of the few men who knew how near the end was. And in the last desperate...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 0441791948 |
More of Leiber's finely-crafted tales of adventure featuring barbarian Fafhrd (whose bluff exterior hides one frequently given to flights of fancy or romance) and thief Mouser (who would describe himself, not altogether with cause, as the more practical of the pair).
In this case, we have...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0886771773 |
The epic conclusion to the Hugo Award-nominated saga begins as alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0380756641 |
He's the perfect Spaceship Trooper: big, strong and completely brainwashed. He's the perfect hero: willing to do almost anything to save his own neck (perhaps one of the only body parts that's still his own).Bill is in the hospital, vainly hoping for a real foot to replace the satyr's foot he's been lumbered...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0005530522 |
Jim was left in the custody of the League Navy, this story opens with him escaping from his prison cell on the League base on Steren-Gwandra, where he is awaiting deportation back to his home world. He has discovered that Bibs, a crew girl from Captain Garth's ship, is also a prisoner. Jim holds Garth responsible...
| Author | Frank Herbert |
| ISBN | 0593098242 |
Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.
The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis...
| Author | Frank Herbert |
| ISBN | 0593098250 |
Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.
Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's savior, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib,...
Mighty Conan in a fight to the death against the most dangerous fiends of the Hyborian age!
Hunting the swift stag and the tusked boar in the gloomy forests of the Gunderland Marches, Conan loses his son Conn to Thoth-Amon and the supremely evil wizards of the Black Ring--and is drawn into a deadly...
