Outies

10 best books like Outies (Jennifer R. Pournelle): Ringworld, HMS Ulysses, Neutron Star, Double Star, The Ringworld Engineers, Oath of Fealty, The Moon Maze Game, West Of Honor, Shout of Honor, The Serrano Connection

Ringworld
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0575077026
The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a...
AuthorAlistair MacLean
ISBN0006135129
The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Now reissued in a new cover style.The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes...
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0345336941
Come to Larry Niven's Universe and meet all the natives: Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers -- and a host of other wonderfully created characters.
Visit Lookitthat, Down, and Jinx -- indeed, an entire galaxy of planets found only in these stories that trace man's expansion and colonization...
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0345330137
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.

Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult...
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0345418417
1. Some Non-Trivial Calculus

As the MIT students sang back in 1971:Oh, the Ringworld is unstable
the Ringworld is unstable
did the best that they were able
and it's good enough for me!People who want the details should check out Non-Linear Dynamics of Ringworld Systems, by...
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0671532278
In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, racked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state-of-the-art technology to create a completely...
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0765326663
The Year: 2085. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system. A stable lunar colony is agitating for independence. Lunar tourism is on the rise....

Against this background, professional “Close Protection” specialist Scotty Griffin, fresh off a disastrous assignment, is offered...
AuthorJerry Pournelle
ISBN5550929929
Sooner or later, all civilizations age and decline, grow senile and die—either by conquest from without, or from internal rot. The final days of Western Civilization are signaled by the joining of the USA and the USSR into a ruthless and imperial state that spans first the Earth and then the Solar System....
Shout of Honor
AuthorSharon Lee
Commander Vepal is a Hero. He is also the Yxtrang ambassador to the greater universe.
These two facts do not make Vepal's life easy. But they do make it interesting.
It was Commander Vepal who discovered the continuing orders from Headquarters, far back in old and moldy archives, which directed...
The Serrano Connection
AuthorElizabeth Moon
ISBN1416555951
1.  Elizabeth Moon is a New York Times best-selling author.

2.  This voulme combines the third and fourth in her popular Serrano/Suiza space adventure series.

3.  Advertising in Locus, Romantic Times, more

4.  Simultaneous hardcover and trade paperback editions

5. ...
The Serrano Succession
AuthorElizabeth Moon
This omnibus wraps up the 7-book series. Everything is pretty nicely tied up. There are just a couple of loose ends (view spoiler)[ the heretic priest doesn't seem to have a real function except to introduce the captain to the actress, and I kept waiting for the professor to clear up the Altiplano history...
The Science Fiction Collection
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
The Science Fiction Collection features some of the most amazing sci fi tales ever told!

Featuring:

The Sentimentalists, by Murray Leinster
The Girls from Earth, by Frank Robinson
The Death Traps of FX-31, by Sewell Wright
Song in a minor key, by C.L. Moore
Sentry...
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