Martians, Go Home
10 best books like Martians, Go Home (Fredric Brown): Darwin's Radio, More Than Human, A Case of Conscience, Imperial Earth, Ensign Flandry, The Star Fox, Earth Is Room Enough, The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior, With Friends Like These..., Joseph Anton: A Memoir
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0345459814 |
So I keep on reading Bear novels, feeling disappointed, waiting a while, then rinse and repeat.
This time I've clarified why I am so ambivalent about this guy: he has fascinating ideas then writes dull books about them. The premise here is an extreme example. Our "junk" DNA turns out to be a collection...
| Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
| ISBN | 0375703713 |
There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 0345438353 |
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 1416504540 |
Imperial Earth is the fascinating odyssey of Duncan Makenzie, traveling from Titan, a moon of Saturn, to Earth, as a diplomatic guest of the United States for the celebration of its Quincentennial in the year 2276. Titan, an independent republic, was originally colonized from Earth three generations...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0743474430 |
Introducing...Dominic Flandry.
Before he's through he'll have saved worlds and become the confidante of emperors. But for now he's seventeen years old, as fresh and brash a sprig of the nobility as you would care to know. The only thing as damp as the place behind his ears is the ink on his brand-new...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0586026312 |
No one will believe the truth about the ingenious plot of the Aleriona people to claim title to the almost untouched planet - New Europe. Only Gunnar Heim dares risk his life and interplantary peace to set New Europe free from control of these strange and alien beings. A space-age patriot carves a civilization...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0449014010 |
Contents:
· The Dead Past · nv Astounding Apr ’56
· The Foundation of Science Fiction Success · pm F&SF Oct ’54
· Franchise · ss If Aug ’55
· Gimmicks Three [“The Brazen Locked Room”] · ss F&SF Nov ’56
· Kid Stuff · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep...
| Author | Stefano Mancuso |
| ISBN | 1501187856 |
Do plants have intelligence? Do they have memory? Are they better problem solvers than people? Plant Revolution—a fascinating, paradigm-shifting work that upends everything you thought you knew about plants—makes a compelling scientific case that these and other astonishing ideas are all...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345323904 |
Golden Age Science Fiction.
The title story is in the style of Eric Frank Russell, which features galactic empires and unreasoning aliens. My favorite.
Here are several other short stories that engaged me.
"Some notes concerning a green box"
H P Lovecraft...
| Author | Salman Rushdie |
| ISBN | 0812992784 |
On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist who told the author that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses,...
