Narabedla Ltd.
10 best books like Narabedla Ltd. (Frederik Pohl): Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain, An Alien Light, The Exile Waiting, Marune: Alastor 933, Summertide, The Avatar, The Face of the Waters, East Coast Crisis, Children of the Thunder, And All the Stars a Stage
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0553273272 |
Deep within Russia, would-renowned scientist Pyotor Shapirov lies in a coma. Locked within his brain rests the key to the greatest scientific advance in the world's history. Only one scientist can hope to locate this secret—Dr. Albert Jonas Morrison, an American. Morrison's mission: to be miniaturized...
| Author | Nancy Kress |
| ISBN | 0380707063 |
The human species is at war with the Ged, a collective species that is baffled by humankind’s ability to turn violence upon itself & yet advance into space. In order to defeat the humans, the Ged must first understand them.
So they go to a world called Qom, where a lost Earth colony has forgotten...
| Author | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| ISBN | 0575021896 |
The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable for much of the year by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside.
Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation,...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0879975911 |
A mysterious amnesiac is found at a distant spaceport. The science of the Alastor Cluster is unable to do anything but determine his home planet and culture: he is a Rhune from the planet Marune - Alastor 933.
When he returns home, he learns that he is a powerful landowner whose household is faced with...
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0345369378 |
It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both—but Quake in particular— to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, due to the Grand Conjunction of the system's stars and planets, something...
| 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 | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0553299077 |
the world is an ocean; humanity has come and cannot go. humanity lives on a chain of artificial islands and is perhaps now doomed, due to typical human stupidity & cupidity. where to flee? to an uncharted place on this uncharted planet, to The Face of the Waters. to find death or transcendence, or both?
our...
| Author | Howard Weinstein |
| ISBN | 0523422598 |
Concurrent with the first novel, but set in New York and Washington D.C., the book begins in space while the fleet approaches the Earth (the ending of the novel briefly goes into the aftermath of The Final Battle). The commander, Roger, and his subordinates, Angela and Jennifer, arrive and after the...
Science writer Peter Levin sensed a major story behind Claudia Moriss's research into juvenile deliquency. For the American sociologist had uncovered a disturbing pattern of crimes that were unusual even in the rapidly deteriorating society of 1990s Britain.
David had made a fortune creating...
And All the Stars a Stage
A SF story of futuristic earth that has become overpopulated with males and the sun is about to explode, so mankind has to take to the stars in a hurry to find a new planet to colonize. The premise sounds interesting, with added in gender issues a SF creatures called familiars you would think this book would...
| 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 | 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...
In the year 2270, with travel to the nearby planets well established, a bizarre discovery is made on Callisto, the eighth moon of Jupiter. Dozens upon dozens of strange wheeled artifacts ("wheelers"), hundreds of thousands of years old, are found buried beneath the icy surface. What were they used...
| Author | Piers Anthony |
| ISBN | 1401033474 |
Mute is science fantasy of mutation and psi: special mental powers. The protagonist, Knot, is a double mutant: he has a physical deformity, and the psi power to make others forget him. He's satisfied with his life--until the lovely Finesse walks into his life to recruit him for a dangerous galactic mission....
| Author | M.A. Foster |
| ISBN | 0879975733 |
The human race had divided into two species. One had created the other - normal humans had experimented in forced evolution and had produced the ler, a sort of supermen race, but pacifistic and contemplative. The ler fled from the turbulent worlds of homo sapiens and established their own quiet planetary...
| 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 | Allen M. Steele |
| ISBN | 0441009069 |
Time Loves A Hero, is a re-publication of Allen Steele’s novel Chronospace. As explained in the new introduction, this is the title which he originally intended – but in case you have already read Chronospace, be aware that there is no new story here. In turn then, Chronospace is the full narrative...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0881848840 |
The good SF novels with a terrible name. This novel is not one of Van Voght's best, but it isn't his worst either. It's about a spacecraft that crash-landed over a thousand years ago and the radiation that it gave off turned a group of Toltecs willing to help the robotic craft repair itself, immortality....
| 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 | Lloyd Biggle Jr. |
| ISBN | 1587150514 |
Lost Eden
It was a world of dazzling but deadly beauty, where pleasure was man's most precious birthright. In this lost colony the inhabitants had forgotten the very existence of earth. Only one man remembered. He foresaw the awesome consequences if this paradise were ever rediscovered.
Monument
The...
| Author | Bob Shaw |
| ISBN | 0671698303 |
Another good Bob Shaw read. Like most of his books, the structure is a bit off-balance and the female characters underdeveloped (although they are at least distinctive and original). But it's a clever blend of speculative sci-fi, politics, action, and psychology. It's a page-turner epic, with visceral...
| 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 | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0553143395 |
TOO DANGEROUS TO LIVE. TOO VALUABLE TO KILL.
Jan Kulozik is in exile: sentenced to service the machines of Halvork, the farmworld that grows crops to fill the holds of Earth's grain-ships. This Wheelworld, baked by eternal summer, is a world of peasants enslaved by a handful of powerful families.Then...
