Relic of Empire
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1. Poul Anderson remains one of science fiction's most popular writers, and this generous volume of his best work, with wide-ranging themes and settings, will attract his thousands of fans and win him many new ones.
2. Included is a complete novel, Satan's World, and a number of equally...
| Author | Dave Freer |
| ISBN | 0671578316 |
Greetings one and all! After reading "Rats, Bats and Vats" (RBV) and "The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly" (RBU), I thought I would try Dave Freer's first novel. I'm very happy I did. It starts off on three different paths that eventually meet up and that's when things really take off.
I loved the characterization...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0812524608 |
When a strange starship appears mysteriously on a distant alien world, bearing only a single human and his bee-like extraterrestrial companion, the powerful warlord of that world laughs at the stranger's preposterous demand: End an all-out war with an interstellar rival, or face devastating consequences....
Raj Whitehall has led his men across the face of the planet Bellevue to one victory over the barbarian nations after another, until he is close to achieving his secret mission: resurrecting interstellar civilization with the help of the ancient battle computer Center, which whispers at the back of...
| Author | James H. Schmitz |
| ISBN | 0671319841 |
The Federation of the Hub: thousands of rough, ornery and tough-minded human worlds with only the subtlest of governments holding them together. It's prime real estate for criminals, unscrupulous corporations, and invaders from beyond Federation space. But in Hub space, a citizen is expected to...
| Author | James Doohan |
| ISBN | 0671319493 |
THESE SPACE PIRATES ARE THE GOOD GUYS! Peter Raeder was an ace pilot until a battle cost him his hand -- and his right to fly the fighter ships he loved. So he became Flight Engineer on the fast carrier "Invincible," a crack new ship with a picked crew, ready to fight the fanatical Mollies and their spiderlike...
| Author | Timothy Zahn |
| ISBN | 0743488474 |
The colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground-with forces the Trofts did not even suspect. Thus were created the Cobras, a guerilla...
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0812521757 |
It's not one of her strongest works, but I really like the world-building and the aliens, and the interaction between the aliens and the humans. There are lots of lovely touches like the description of food, too. It's also notable for showing same-gender relationships, written during a time when that...
| Author | Lisanne Norman |
| ISBN | 0886776759 |
They had been brought together by mutual need when both their peoples were faced with the threat of the warlike Valtegans, an enemy bent on conquering any other race it encountered.
She was Carrie, the daughter of the human governor of the Terran colony planet Keiss. He was Kusac, the son and...
| Author | L.E. Modesitt Jr. |
| ISBN | 0312868383 |
L. E. Modesitt, Jr's first major work was a trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero.
Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The...
| Author | Jack McKinney |
| ISBN | 0345341414 |
An alien fortress had crashlanded on Earth. But the most recent arrival from the galaxy's more sinister side had been brought down deliberately. Now it sat silently overlooking Monument City, as though daring someone to penetrate its dark mysteries.
And who better to test the mettle of that...
| Author | Tom Kratman |
| ISBN | 1416573836 |
Revenge: it won’t bring your wife and kids back, but it might help with the nightmares.
Patricio Carrera has been waging what amounts to a private world war to bring to justice the murderers of his family. He’s raised an army and air force and used them. He’s raised a fleet and he’s about to...
