Plague from Space

10 best books like Plague from Space (Harry Harrison): Ballroom of the Skies, Michaelmas, Dune I, Worlds of the Imperium, Virgin Planet, Galactic Empires 1, Stories Volume 2, The Best of Clifford D. Simak, Plague of Pythons, Birds of Prey: Old Friends, New Enemies

AuthorJohn D. MacDonald
ISBN0231019939
Have you ever stopped to wonder why the world is eternally war-torn? Why men of good will, seeking only peace, are driven relentlessly to further disaster? MacDonlad's novel suggests a strange and sinister explaination.

Here we enter an intricate future society, in which India rules the...
AuthorAlgis Budrys
ISBN0425038122
Cover Artist: Don Brautigam

The eponymous protagonist, Laurent Michaelmas, is an ex-hacker who had, early in the computer era, left back doors in many key pieces of software which run vital government & commercial computers. As a result, by the turn of the millennium, he's become one...
AuthorFrank Herbert
ISBN2266155482
Tome 2 : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Il n'y a pas, dans tout l'Empire, de planète plus inhospitalière que Dune.

Partout des sables à perte de vue. Une seule richesse : l'épice de longue vie, née du désert, et que tout l'univers achète à n'importe quel prix....
AuthorKeith Laumer
ISBN0812543793
When Brion Bayard was kidnapped and brought to the alternate world where Earth's history took a different turn, it was not a pleasant experience. It was, however, a startling experience. Here was a world that was just like the Earth he was taken from--with just a few subtle changes. On top of all this,...
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0446754625
For 300 years the planet of women awaited the coming of man. Then one arrives...

He is Davis Bertram, a space-explorer. But how can he convince them he really is a man? Their legends have built Men into gods.

Trying to be worthy of the Coming, the women imitate masculine virtues. They...
AuthorBrian W. Aldiss
Been a Long Time (Lafferty), The Possessed (Clarke), Protected Psecies (Fyfe), All the Way Back (Shaara), The Star Plunderer (Anderson), Foundation (Asimov), We're Civilized! (Clifton and Apostolides), The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal (Smith), The Rebel of Valkyr (Coppel), Brightness...
AuthorRay Bradbury
A scintillating collection of stories from the master of science fiction.

Since the beginning of his career in the 1940s, Ray Bradbury has become synonymous with great science fiction from the pulp comic books of his early work to his adaptations for television, stage and screen and most notably...
AuthorClifford D. Simak
ISBN0722178360
A collection of ten stories by Simak that date from 1939 to 1971. It also includes a six-page introduction by Simak, and a three-page bibliography of his science fiction books. The book is edited by Angus Wells.

Contents:
1. A Death in the House
2. Day of Truce
3. Final Gentleman
4....
AuthorFrederik Pohl
The pythons had entered into Mankind. No man knew at what moment he might be Possessed!

On Christmas the world's freedom died. Every man, woman and child lay in the grip of fear, for no one knew at what moment his nearest friend or a casual stranger might suddenly be possessed by some brutal mind...
AuthorChuck Dixon
ISBN1563899396
This breathtaking book features the female dynamic trio of Oracle, the Black Canary and Batgirl. After being paralyzed by the Joker, former Batgirl Barbara Gordon became Oracle, an information and cyberspace specialist, and began a crime-fighting union with Black Canary. Two women with different...
AuthorBob Shaw
ISBN0440197104
Ironically, for Gilbert Snook, who considered himself the human equivalent of a neutrino, a particle able to travel through the Earth without disturbing any other particle, it all started with the panic that followed the sighting of the anti neutrino planet as it approached Earth. Earth was unaffected...
AuthorJames Blish
ISBN0385016271
An accident propels the mind of the young astrophysicist John Martels 23,000 years into the future, the midsummer century. Note that according to this novel the mind is a complex self aware electromagnetic field. His mind emerges in the brain-case of a future being with a powerful mind, the so called...
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0441653162
Only one person could have been on the lunar surface... Her name is Naomi Mitchison. She's the most beautiful woman on the moon; she was also the only person who was outside on the lunar surface at the right moment to send a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker for the Asteroids. But...
The Third Millenium
AuthorPaul D. Meier
ISBN0840775717
Extract of DR. Paul Meier's biography on the website of the Meier Clinics:

Paul Meier is an MD/Psychiatrist/Ordained Minister who is the founder of the national chain of non-profit Christian psychiatry clinics, the Meier Clinics. He has authored or co-authored over 80 books, mostly Christian...
AuthorStephen R. Lawhead
ISBN0310205093
I read this for the first time shortly after it first came out at the suggestion of one of my parents' friends back in the late 80s. I remember being unsure of certain aspects of the book as it seemed to delve into what was called "New Age" beliefs and technologies based on those beliefs. I do remember enjoying...
Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth
AuthorPat Mills
ISBN1840237740
The first, fantastic Dredd saga is now available in an awesome paperback When plague devastates Mega-City Two, Judge Dredd volunteers to deliver the vaccine that will save its last remaining inhabitants. But first, he and his crew have to travel 1,000 miles across the Cursed Earth, the savage radioactive...
Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters - from Mickey Mouse to Aladdin
AuthorWalt Disney Company
ISBN1562829041
Pros: an exhaustive and comprehensive guide to every Disney character in each feature film, short subjects, and television. This is valuable for finding out names of characters whose names aren't mentioned in the films the appear in.

Cons: the information could have been better organized,...
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0441272320
Miro Hetzel is an effectuator: a private investigator and gentleman of the Gaean Reach. This book contains two stories of his adventures.

"The Dogtown Tourist Agency" - The Istagam Corporation has found an inexpensive means of manufacturing technical goods which greatly undercuts its...
Roderick
AuthorJohn Sladek
ISBN0671448862
He isn't human; but he isn't all robot either. He started life in a lab, went to Parochial School, was kidnapped by gypsies, chased by roboticidal, and incompetent, hit-men, told fortunes on the Midway, and finally fostered by an elderly couple who gave up writing science fiction when their stories...
AuthorLarry Burkett
ISBN1881273075
As a Christian and a fan of science fiction, I had great hopes for Solar Flare as I opened the book and began to read. Christian art in all its forms is used to glorify God and/or as a vehicle to present ideas about the faith. Solar Flare is Mr. Burkett's means to discuss ideas about society from a Christian...
The Warriors of Dawn
AuthorM.A. Foster
ISBN0879975733
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...
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