Mirage
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| Author | Janet Asimov |
| ISBN | 0441586341 |
It was just a dusty, old tin-can of a robot-- with no guarantee. But Jeff only needed it to teach him Martian Colony Swahili before he got expelled from the Space Academy.
Jeff Wells didn't really know what he had purchased.
He didn't realize that the robot had been constructed by a genius...
| Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
| ISBN | 0441002455 |
Intended Audience: Adult
Sexual content: Mild
Ace/Genderqueer characters: Yes (robots)
Rating: PG
Writing style: 2/5
Likable characters: 3/5
Plot/Concepts: 4/5
Despite terra-forming efforts by Spacers, Settlers, and robots of all kinds, the future of the...
| Author | Michael P. Kube-McDowell |
| ISBN | 0743479246 |
3.5 estrellas
Me es complicado reseñar este libro, ya que ADORO la ficción, pero tengo un pequeño problema con algunos de sus géneros: Denme un libro con 10 razas de dragones y seré capaz de describir con gran detalle cada tipo, denme 2 tipos de robot y seré incapaz de distinguirlos.
Odisea...
| Author | Mike McQuay |
| ISBN | 0743479114 |
A man without memory, stranded in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a woman who claims to know who he is, but who refuses to tell him. On a planet whose other inhabitants are entirely robotic, these unwilling allies are the only logical suspects in a case of murder. The young man calls himself Derec;...
| Author | Rob Chilson |
| ISBN | 0743487168 |
A man without memory, in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman whose own identity he has reconstructed, and whose memories of him may be true or false. The young man calls himself Derec. In the shattering climax to his quest he discovers the shocking secret of his true identity. Tormented...
| Author | William F. Wu |
| ISBN | 0441373887 |
A man without memory, in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman whose own identity he has reconstructed, and whose memories of him may be true or false. The young man calls himself Derec. In the shattering climax to his quest he discovers the shocking secret of his true identity. Tormented...
| Author | Arthur Byron Cover |
| ISBN | 0743479254 |
I blazed through this in about an hour and a half and I have to say I was a little underwhelmed. And confused. I was confused about who had actually written the story and it took a bit to figure out that it's actually the fourth book in a series. It would have helped if I had read the previous books, but with just...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0385265077 |
A race of turtle-like creatures conquers Earth, imposing a gentler set of values on humankind, outlawing destructive technology, and denying the validity of human scientific theories. When their home planet disappears into a black hole, however, the aliens' only hope for the future hinges on the...
| Author | Stephen Leigh |
| ISBN | 0441731279 |
A man without memory, tied by blood to a city of robots. At his side, a mysterious woman whose life and memory he saved, whose love he has won for a second time. His name is Derec; hers is Ariel. And their story has only begun to be told...In Robot City, the late science fiction genius Isaac Asimov challenged...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0860078035 |
-Mirando hacia atrás con añoranza, respeto y un poquito de autobombo.-
Género. Relatos.
Lo que nos cuenta. Mezcla de biografía personal y profesional de Asimov con antología de relatos de género, comentados por él mismo con actitudes menos asimovianas de lo habitual pero...
| Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| ISBN | 0312874995 |
Living in the city of Kathmandu in the Kingdom of Nepal are dozens of American and British expatriates who are in love with the Himalayas. George Fergusson is one of them--he works as a trek guide for "Take You Higher, Ltd.", leading groups of tourists into the back country and occasionally assisting...
The Ransom of Black Stealth One
| Author | Dean Ing |
| ISBN | 0812508572 |
The Ransom of Black Stealth One is about a breakthrough in stealth technology—an ultralight, ultrasleek plane that is not only invisible to radar, but can vanish without a trace through the use of computer-controlled technology. When a renegade engineer steals a plane, and takes the niece of a CIA...
| Author | Paul French |
| ISBN | 0345316231 |
Sabotage!!!
Agrav. It was the century's most important advance in space travel...and an experiment so revolutionary that only the men who huddled beneath the surface of Jupiter Nine were permitted to know its full meaning.
Yet someone else did know--knew everything, saw everything,...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0765309254 |
In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had...
The Best of All Possible Wars
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0671878794 |
The Man-Kzin Wars is probably the best -- and most successful -- of the shared-world series. Now up to number 8, it has spawned a "best-of", and it's pretty good: two Larry Niven shorts, a Greg Bear / S.M. Stirling novelette, and a Jerry Pournelle / S.M. Stirling short novel.
The Larry Niven opener,...
| Author | Robert Zubrin |
| ISBN | 0441009638 |
A five-person crew become the first humans to walk upon the Red Planet in a landmark mission to Mars. But when their findings set off a wave of controversy and political upheaval back home, public opinion turns against the mission and they are left stranded. As their situation becomes more desperate,...
