Pilgrimage: The Book of the People
10 best books like Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (Zenna Henderson): The Ship Who Sang, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, The Charioteer, The Catch Trap, Dancer from the Dance, More Than Human, Wingmen, Sundiver, The Witches of Karres, The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Author | Anne McCaffrey |
ISBN | 0345334310 |
It was Thanksgiving, I was out of town, had just gotten ready to head out for dinner when I heard that Anne McCaffrey had passed. It hit me like a punch in the gut. I couldn't quite shake it all evening. What was going on? Sure, I've read her books but she has never been on a list of favorite authors, why was I so...
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Author | Spider Robinson |
ISBN | 0812572270 |
Callahan's Place is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but. Pull up a chair, grab a glass of your favorite, and listen to the stories spun by time travelers, cybernetic aliens, telepaths...and a bunch of regular folks on a mission to save the world, one customer...
Author | Mary Renault |
ISBN | 0375714189 |
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans’ hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings...
Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
ISBN | 0345315642 |
Tommy Zane hates lions, a major obstacle in a family of lion tamers. But Tommy's dreams, and talent, fly higher, up in the rigging with the trapeze. When rising star Mario Santelli offers him flying lessons, it looks like the start of wonderful new life, and to Tommy's surprise, his relationship with...
Author | Andrew Holleran |
ISBN | 0060937068 |
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard...
Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
ISBN | 0375703713 |
There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine...
Author | Ensan Case |
ISBN | 0380476479 |
Jack Hardigan's Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau. As another wingman watches - and waits for the beautiful woman who loves Jack - Hardigan and Trusteau cut a fiery...
Author | David Brin |
ISBN | 0553269828 |
Aus Band 1: Wer gab der Menschheit "Starthilfe"?
Schon längst ist die Menschheit nicht mehr die einzige intelligente Spezies auf dem Planeten. Als die Menschen ins Weltall vorstoßen und auf andere hoch entwickelte Zivilisationen treffen, ergeben sich allerdings Fragen: Hat sich die...
Author | James H. Schmitz |
ISBN | 1416509151 |
Blazing interstellar adventure by the creator of Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee.
Captain Pausert thought his luck had finally turned-but he did not yet realize it was a turn for the worse. On second thought, make that a turn for the disastrous! Pausert thought he had made good with his battered...
Author | Gene Wolfe |
ISBN | 0312890206 |
Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus is a universally acknowledged masterpiece of science fiction by one of the field's most brilliant writers.
Far out from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an...
Author | David Koepp |
ISBN | 0062916432 |
For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism
When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent...
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1
Author | Brynne Stephens |
ISBN | 1560601760 |
This classic has been hanging over my head for years. I put off reading it guessing that like many other oldies, but goodies, I would read it and be unimpressed, thus becoming hated by all original die hard fans. I finally decided to give it a go. The beginning suffered from a slow start and over abundance...
Author | Richard Stevenson |
ISBN | 1560234709 |
A young man has been brutally murdered. The gay son of a wealthy family has disappeared. Now it's up to private dick Don Strachey to get to the bottom of this mess--even if he has to cruise every gay bar in the city to do it Don Strachey isn't exactly the most sought-after private eye in Albany, New York. In...
Author | Patricia Nell Warren |
ISBN | 0964109972 |
I found this book an exceptional read, although that may be because it includes many things that I can relate to. I'm a gay man. I was Catholic in my youth. I'm Cheyenne Indian. And I understand the strange workings of "the small town." All of these points conspire to create characters, situations, and...
Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
ISBN | 0671655973 |
After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All.
No...