Los hijos de nuestros hijos

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0671655914

Earth has been destroyed.

Which alien race had committed genocide, killing a planet in the process?

The Kandemir were interested in salvage rights.

The Xo had provided two Earth nations with weapons that could do the job.

The Vorlak, an essentially peaceful race,...

Author

Brian W. Aldiss

The human species has begun to racket about the galaxy. When they reach the planet Grudgrodd, they come across another space-faring species. It's a case of instant dislike. The gentle Utods do not feel pain, they change sex as the planet changes suns, they live long pleasurable lives, free of stress....

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,...

Author	Robert Sheckley
ISBN	0812519310

First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinematic limits as the feature film adaptation FREEJACK in 1992, Robert Sheckley's unsettling vision of Tomorrow now arrives in ebook format for the 21st century.

Thomas Blaine awoke in a white...

Author	James Blish
ISBN	0099097109

Danny Caiden is on the run - from the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department and the Mob. Only recently, Danny was an average New York copywriter, until he suddenly found he had ESP. His knowledge of the future is astonishing, and the rest of Danny's powers are just beginning. But someone has plans for Danny:...

Author	Kim Stanley Robinson
ISBN	0312935951

They sailed out of Lisbon harbor with the flags snapping and the brass culverins gleaming under a high white sun, priests proclaiming in sonorous Latin the blessing of the Pope, soldiers in armor jammed on the castles fore and aft, and sailors spiderlike in the rigging, waving at the citizens of the town...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0552088048

Technical writer and volunteer fireman Charles Forrester died at age 37. But his insurance covered freezing in liquid nitrogen against the possibility of someday being thawed, repaired, and returned to life. Which is how he woke up in 2527, with a quarter of a million dollars coming to him from the same...

Author

Harry Harrison

- Has the latest sample come back from the lab?

- Yes sir.

- And what do they have to tell us?

- Let me see sir. "Denmark acquires interstellar drive and becomes world power. Some espionage. Traces of sex and violence."

- Ah... are you sure?

- Yes sir. You can read...

Author	John Brunner
ISBN	0879979119

In 2020, an international space team, exploring Sigma Draconis, 19 light years from earth, discovers the remains of a highly advanced society that has left behind its most spectacular artifact; the largest telescope imaginable, carved & polished from a natural moon crater. Successive space...

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	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	0886770564

2.5 stars - disappointing.

I liked the first one, loved the second, but I'm just glad this one was shorter.

The author still has some good ideas, but he seems not much knowing where to go. The book gives more insight and info about General Semantics, and that's good, but the story is quite...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0553280015

What a great concept! Twins swinging back and forth through time like equal and opposite pendulums is probably not very scientifically sound, but Silverberg uses the idea to give quick yet rich glances at the possible future and past. Also, he makes several references to paradoxes throughout the book...