Marune: Alastor 933

Author	Spider Robinson
ISBN	0523485719

Any future book written in 1977 is not only going to get a few things wrong, but have a very different sensibility. Fortunately, this book is not handicapped by that, because of its focus on dance and music as a way to communicate-- with aliens. When you think about that, it makes sense.

Our narrator...

Author

Harry Harrison

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	David Bischoff
ISBN	0440193877

O livro é bom mas não era aquilo de que eu estava à espera.

Mas, apesar disso, não posso dizer que WarGames tenha sido um mau livro. É fácil criarmos empatia com as personagens, a acção decorre a um bom ritmo e é inegável que ali para o final há uns momento de alguma tensão... ora, tudo...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0722111312

In the immeasurable past a mysterious alien race known as The Others left mankind a challenging legacy, a 'gate' to the unexplored reaches of the stars. Humanity has utilized the gate to painstakingly colonize the Phoebus star system but has left the rest of the galaxy unexplored. In the midst of turbulent...

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	Alfred Bester
ISBN	0671038893

The hero is Rogue Winter, King of Maori Commandos. His lover is the beautiful Demi Jeroux, who has been kidnapped by the villainous, demonic Manchu Duke of Death. Rogue must search through the entire solar system to find the missing Demi, from the Paradise of Carnal Pleasures to the bloody torture chambers...

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	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	Clifford D. Simak
ISBN	0345291409

A little more than a year ago, I moved from a city where I'd lived a third of my life to a city I'd only visited twice, and where I only knew a handful of people. I had no money, no job, no car and no specific purpose. I was low on options and one friend, 3000 miles from me, offered me a couch to sleep on. I took the offer.

Sometime...

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	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0812523970

oh, sci-fi nerds, i am trying to live amongst you.

lord knows i do not want to offend the great unwashed masses of science fiction fans with their squeezing of themselves into bookstore aisles too narrow for their girth to talk loudly and nasally about every single plot point in every single...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0380022621

It is the future, technology is advanced, lives are long, and the galaxy has been partially colonised by humans. Linking the disparate human worlds together are diplomats and agents who travel the starways. One of these men is Richard Muller, and now he has the greatest opportunity of his career.

Humans...

Author	M.A. Foster
ISBN	0879972874

This a significant work of science fiction. Like all important science fiction this book can involve and enmesh the reader. There is an alternate world on the earth of the future. Two races of human exist. There are forerunners, who are old humans like us. There are the ler, who are a new species of human....