Protector

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0743475283

In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix,...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0727845640

Before Man and insectlike Thranx had become allies, when the reptilian AAnn were just occasional raiders of Thranx colony worlds, one young Thranx agricultural expert lived a life of quiet desperation.

A dreamer in a world of sensible, stable beings, Ryo buried himself in his work -- reclaiming...

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0812503988

aka The Genetic General
Throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the art of war has made them...

Author

H. Beam Piper

The Paratime Police patrolled the vast number of alternate time dimensions. Their aim was to keep the existence of the alternative Earths a secret and prevent these Earths from mixing and destroying each other.

But the Time Police made mistakes, and they made a big one when a seemingly ordinary...

Author	Vernor Vinge
ISBN	1857981472

"The intricately plotted progress of characters from near to farfuture... on an Earth which, like an abandon playground, has long ago been left behind by an evolving humanity... human-scale action within a vast canvas."
-- The Excyclopedia of Science Fiction.

Encompassing time-travel,...

Author	Fred Saberhagen
ISBN	0441054951

Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met--and fought a war of mutual extinction. The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it: the death machines, the BERSERKERS. Guided by self-aware computers more intelligent than any human, these world-sized battlecraft carved a...

Author	E.E. "Doc" Smith
ISBN	1882968131

Kim Kinnison, Number One man of his time, had faced challenges before—but rarely one as daunting as this. To him fell the perilous task of infiltrating the inner circle of Boskone, stronghold of galactic civilization’s most deadly foe. Kinnison had to become a local Boskonian in every gesture,...

Author	Hal Clement
ISBN	0345273583

Dhrawn was a giant rockball, more than 3,000 times the mass of Earth. Perhaps a planet, perhaps a nearly dead star, these 17 billion square miles of mystery cried out for investigation. But its corrosive atmosphere and crushing gravity assured that no human would ever set foot on its surface.
Those...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345446674

In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough...

Author	John Varley
ISBN	0441900674

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.


Sex and Buzz Bombs: "Wizard" by John Varley


(Original Review, 1980-12-16)


It introduces more complications into the plot of the TITAN series, and clears up some nagging items as well; ever wonder...

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN	0671578022

Another set of short stories by RAH & they're something he excelled at. They're kind of an odd collection, but good. Well narrated. Not as good as The Green Hills of Earth collection, although there are a few really good stories in this one.

"The Year of the Jackpot" is overshadowed now by...

Author	Jerry Pournelle
ISBN	0671877097

Some days it just didn't pay to be a soldier. Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission—only to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their...

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0879979437

Howard Alan Treesong gave a banquet to ten friends. All died in agony, save himself.

Howard Alan Treesong went to his old school reunion to teach his former classmates the meaning of terror.

Howard Alan Treesong was the most elusive of the five Demon Princes upon whom Kirth Gersen had...

Author	Clifford D. Simak
ISBN	0413424200

Without setting foot on another planet, people like Shep Blaine were reaching out to the stars with their minds, telepathically contacting strange beings on other worlds. But even Blaine was unprepared for what happened when he communed with the soul of an utterly alien being light years from Earth....

Author

Brian W. Aldiss

The human species has begun to racket about the galaxy. When they reach the planet Grudgrodd, they come across another space-faring species. It's a case of instant dislike. The gentle Utods do not feel pain, they change sex as the planet changes suns, they live long pleasurable lives, free of stress....