Paratime

Author	Dan Simmons
ISBN	0316007021

Drood… is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his life.

On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express train hurtles over a gap in a trestle. All of the first-class carriages except the one carrying...

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN	0345413997

It is 1970, and electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and even greedier fiancée...

Author	Clifford D. Simak
ISBN	0441810039

'One of those complex and enormously inventive stories... based on some real, honest, practical ethical thinking. It is an idea book.'
- Groff Conklin in Galaxy Science Fiction

Asher Sutton has been lost in deepest space for twenty years. Suddenly arrives a warning from the future, that...

Author	John Scalzi
ISBN	0765328542

Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past,...

Author	David Brin
ISBN	0553573306

David Brin's Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written.  Now David Brin returns to this future universe for a new Uplift trilogy, packed with adventure,...

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David Brin

David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species...

Author	Keith Laumer
ISBN	0441302688

Originally published in the early '60s, this is a humorous fix-up novel that starts out quite well, wanders around in nebulous philosophizing for a section or three, and then returns to course for a coherent conclusion. (Kind of like many Laumer books, come to think of it.) The blurb on the front from...