Refuge
10 best books like Refuge (Rob Chilson): Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot, Juggling for the Complete Klutz, Inferno, Foundation's Friends, Odyssey, Suspicion, Mirage, Perihelion, Prodigy, Skyfall
| Author | Janet Asimov |
| ISBN | 0802764959 |
I've noticed a trend that I find somewhat alarming. Sometimes, when people write books for young audiences, they ignore the usual rules of good fiction writing - including quality characterization, continuity, solid narrative through-lines, raising the stakes, etc. Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot...
| Author | John Cassidy |
| ISBN | 0932592007 |
I think that I would give this book two and a half stars.
One of the things about The Klutz Book of Juggling that stands out most saliently in my mind is the surprisingly spare technical Juggling advice in its pages. All of the other beginning Juggling manuals that I've read put a definite emphasis...
| Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
| ISBN | 0441005144 |
When a key politician is murdered, suspicion falls on Caliban...the only robot without guilt or conscience, with no need to obey or respect humanity... a robot without the Three Laws.But the stakes go deeper than one man's life. Caliban is challenging long-held ideas of a robot's place in society....
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0812567706 |
Robots request that Dr. Asimov remove the Three Laws of Robotics
A delegation of robots
WE WANT TO SEE DR. ASIMOV, “ THE BLUISH-SILVER ROBOT said.
“Dr. Asimov is in conference,” Susan said. “You’ll have to make an appointment.” She turned to the computer and called...
| Author | Michael P. Kube-McDowell |
| ISBN | 0743479246 |
3.5 estrellas
Me es complicado reseñar este libro, ya que ADORO la ficción, pero tengo un pequeño problema con algunos de sus géneros: Denme un libro con 10 razas de dragones y seré capaz de describir con gran detalle cada tipo, denme 2 tipos de robot y seré incapaz de distinguirlos.
Odisea...
| Author | Mike McQuay |
| ISBN | 0743479114 |
A man without memory, stranded in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a woman who claims to know who he is, but who refuses to tell him. On a planet whose other inhabitants are entirely robotic, these unwilling allies are the only logical suspects in a case of murder. The young man calls himself Derec;...
| Author | Mark W. Tiedemann |
| ISBN | 0671039105 |
From a new and exciting talent, Mark W. Tiedemann, comes a fantastic new robot mystery set in the world of the late SF Grand Master and beloved author, Isaac Asimov. The First Law of Robotics states that a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human to come to harm.
At a...
| Author | William F. Wu |
| ISBN | 0441373887 |
A man without memory, in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman whose own identity he has reconstructed, and whose memories of him may be true or false. The young man calls himself Derec. In the shattering climax to his quest he discovers the shocking secret of his true identity. Tormented...
| Author | Arthur Byron Cover |
| ISBN | 0743479254 |
I blazed through this in about an hour and a half and I have to say I was a little underwhelmed. And confused. I was confused about who had actually written the story and it took a bit to figure out that it's actually the fourth book in a series. It would have helped if I had read the previous books, but with just...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0441769411 |
Prometheus - A stunning triumph of Soviet-Americal technological cooperation.
Prometheus - Ultimate answer to the prayers of an energy-starved world.
Prometheus - Potentially the source of the greatest single disaster in human history.
Skyfall - A thrilling novel...
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
| Author | W.S. Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0393316882 |
From Trial by Jury to The Pirates of Penzance: the complete librettos of all fourteen Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
Gilbert's verses for Sullivan's music are the most fastidiously turned and inventively rhymed in all lyric comedy. As the Savoy Operas enter their second century on a swell of renewed...
| Author | Stephen Leigh |
| ISBN | 0441731279 |
A man without memory, tied by blood to a city of robots. At his side, a mysterious woman whose life and memory he saved, whose love he has won for a second time. His name is Derec; hers is Ariel. And their story has only begun to be told...In Robot City, the late science fiction genius Isaac Asimov challenged...
| Author | Paul Preuss |
| ISBN | 0671038990 |
The second volume of the spectacular science-fiction thriller evolving from the works of Arthur C. Clarke, grandmaster of science fiction and author of 2001: a space odyssey.. Her code name is Sparta. Her beauty veils a mysterious past and abilities of superhuman dimension-the product of advanced...
| Author | Mickey Zucker Reichert |
| ISBN | 0451464826 |
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
2036: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. But even as humanity contends with the consequences of its most brilliant creation,...
| Author | John D. MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0449138763 |
Rating: 3 surprised stars of five
The Publisher Says: Wine of the Dreamers, a classic science fiction novel from John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.
They are the Watchers: pale laboratory creatures living in...
| Author | Eric Frank Russell |
| ISBN | 0575072407 |
Scout-Officer John Leeming knew from the very start that his reconnaissance mission deep into enemy territory would likely be a one-way trip. But, after he crash-lands on a far distant planet and becomes a prisoner of ruthless aliens, he knows he can't just give up. Armed with only a piece of wood, a coil...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0441843174 |
BERSERKERS
The death machines are capable of any treachery, able to assume any disguise, motivated only by their prime directive: to seek out and destroy life wherever it may hide.
MAN
The fragile life-form that hides within its puny frame a curiously unquenchable something ......
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0671720902 |
Maybe Poul Anderson’s greatest attribute is to make the epic personal, to bring within arm’s reach the limitless expanses of time and space.
Reminiscent of Anderson’s Vault of the Ages and The Winter of the World the author returns to his Maurai world creation to a far future post-apocalyptic...
| Author | Stewart Cowley |
| ISBN | 0890092117 |
In middle school, I used to stare at this book for hours on end, imagining that distant future. Let's put this in context: Star Wars was one movie, Cylons were chrome-plated clods, and Space Invaders vied with Astroids for the title of 'Best Video Game.' Can't remember a thing about the text, but the pictures...
