Mission To The Stars

9 best books like Mission To The Stars (A.E. van Vogt): The Last of the Mohicans, Complete Works, The Deerslayer, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, The Persistence of Vision, The Selected Poems, The Humanoid Touch, Starshine, Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction

The Last of the Mohicans
AuthorJames Fenimore Cooper
ISBN0553213296
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook...
Complete Works
AuthorArthur Rimbaud
ISBN0060955503
Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen.

This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year," "After the...
AuthorJames Fenimore Cooper
ISBN0451529391
A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that sets him apart from his peers. But he has yet to meet the test of human conflict. In a tale of violent action and superbly sustained suspense, the harsh realities of tribal warfare force him to kill his first...
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN1476776628
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.

In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences...
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN0441662218
Introduction · Algis Budrys · in
The Phantom of Kansas · nv Galaxy Feb ’76
Air Raid [as by Herb Boehm] · ss IASFM Spr ’77
Retrograde Summer · nv F&SF Feb ’75
The Black Hole Passes · nv F&SF Jun ’75
In the Hall of the Martian Kings · na F&SF Feb ’77
In...
AuthorA.R. Ammons
ISBN0393303969
I read this collection on the basis of a poem I read upon open the book to a random page...
I said
Mr. Schafer
did you get up to see the comet:

and
he said
Oh no
let it go by, I don't care:
- Dominion (pg. 43)

This poem contains the humour of a poet who once referred...
AuthorJack Williamson
ISBN0030560527
HUMANOIDS: Self-directed robots invented to serve & guard mankind
"With Folded Hands" is a 1947 sf novelette by Jack Williamson (1908–2006). His influence for this story was in the aftermath of WWII & the atomic bombings of Japan & his concern that "some of the technological creations...
AuthorTheodore Sturgeon
ISBN0515044598
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"...
Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0020197802
By law, one cannot copyright a title. If someone were stupid enough to do it, novels could be written and published with such titles as " Moby Dick," " Alice in Wonderland" or "Gone With the Wind." But also, by law, ownership of a title can be guaranteed if it can be proved that the original author has established...
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