Nor Crystal Tears

Author	S.L. Viehl
ISBN	0451457935

Dr. Cherijo is living the perfect life--if you think that finding out you're a clone, then being declared "non-sentient" by your father/creator is your idea of perfect.Things could be worse. But when the Human League comes after her, with bounty hunters of every race trying to bring her in, Cherijo...

Author	C.J. Cherryh
ISBN	0886770882

I read lots of sci-fi in my Lost Youth, but fell away from it once I went to university. I discovered Cherryh in grad school--- took "Serpent's Reach" home one random Friday night...and was enthralled. Here was sci-fi that was austere, cold, well-crafted, with characters that had depth and intelligence...

Author	Randall Garrett
ISBN	0553255657

In the Valley of the Mists, Rikardon and Tarani have discovered an ancient truth that will alter the destiny of Gandalara forever. But, an evil lord has enslaved the land through the mystic force of the sacred stoned called the Ra'ira. Outlawed and hunted, Rikardon and Tarani stage a daring and desperate...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345350510

Browsing through the Niven backlist of Known Space books, and after the stellar Protector and Ringworld's Children, expectations were ramped up for A Gift from Earth. And this does start with a great setup: on a world where the only livable landmass is 40 miles up on a plateau, we find the colony of Mount...

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0345257030

General Benjamin Shore was heading for the stars under forged orders - and in defiance of the commands of the President. He was leaving Earth in an untested ship with a crew chosen by necessity and with nothing but faith to guide him. His only hope was to find habitable worlds in the unexplored reaches of...

Author	Hal Clement
ISBN	0345258509

This sequel novel to Needle, was written and published in 1978, some 29 years after its predecessor but takes place only a few years later. The main character, Bob Kinnaird has completed his college degree and returned to his Polynesian island home to confront and get help for what has become all too obvious:...

Author	Joan Slonczewski
ISBN	0812568621

Usually "hard SF" refers to physics and engineering — crunchy orbital mechanics and interplanetary travel with terms like "delta-v," weapons and other technology that at least has some plausible physics behind it. The most esteemed SF novels are those written by actual scientists and engineers...

Author	Melissa Scott
ISBN	0671698737

Gwynne Heikki is in the business of salvaging. Her company wins a contract to find and salvage a lighter-than-air craft that had disappeared in the wilds on the planet of Iadara. The craft had been transporting a valuable experimental crystal matrix would make great changes to the interstellar railway...

Author	H. Beam Piper
ISBN	0441261930

Little Fuzzy:
The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference...

Author	Jo Clayton
ISBN	0886771269

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Sold into slavery to an insectoid race, Aleytys had been chosen as proxy-mother to the old Queen's successor. In short, like an Earth wasp's prey, she would be birth bearer and food for that which was to come.

Had Aleytys been any other human,...

Author	David Drake
ISBN	0671653555

This is another in the Hammer’s Slammers series. (I know the series name sounds corny but the Science Fiction is solid.) Actually, I didn’t like it at first. I expected action, but got none. It is, instead, a consideration of religion as the basis for war. Are the religious peacemakers – or the Slammer...

Author	Jack L. Chalker
ISBN	0345325621

This third installment of The Lords of the Middle Dark series focused on the rebels attempts to acquire two of the required five control rings. The worlds Master System has hidden the rings on are very different and present unique problems to the rebels.

The shape changer Vulture is the key team...

Author	James Blish
ISBN	0099087006

Science has come to humanity's rescue with two crucial discoveries - antigravity devices that enable whole cities to be lifted from the Earth to become giant spaceships, and longevity drugs that allow their inhabitants to live for thousands of years - lead to the establishment of a unique Galactic...

Author	Chris Bunch
ISBN	1841490091

Sten had fought his way up from slave labor on a factory world to commander of the Eternal Emperor’s bodyguard, the Imperial Gurkhas. But during his first three months on Prime World, the most dangerous weapons Sten had encountered were the well-phrased lies of Court politicians. It seemed no place...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0812530594

A collection of Psychotechnic League stories.

In the beginning was World War III...

Out of the flames was born a new civilization, a new humanity dedicated to one world rather than to many nations, to one peace rather than many wars. Never again on Planet Earth would one group of humans...

Author	Anne McCaffrey
ISBN	0345368967

As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. And though she had her hands full dealing with the unreasonable demand for kinetics to work on the space platform that would be humankind's stepping-stone to the...