Retief: Diplomat at Arms

Author	John D. MacDonald
ISBN	0231019939

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...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0812522257

Raconteur, bon vivant, troubleshooter for the decaying Terran Empire, Dominic Falndry doesn't crave further danger in the service of galactic unity.

But duty calls, so it's back to the spaceways for the most elegant Special Agent is a hundred star systems--straight into the well-laid plans...

Author	Keith Laumer
ISBN	0671721844

Anthology: Bolos 1 (Bolo, Bk 4) Chronicles the history of the Bolo, a futuristic man-made machine that symbolizes brute force, defiance, and rigid will, and is responsible for defending humanity. The future of war, and the fate of man, lies with one machine: the Bolo. With plated armor, a laser cannon,...

Author

Keith Laumer

On the colony worlds of the Confederation, on the very edge of the galaxy, the colonists were sure that they had no enemies to worry about...until reptilian aliens discovered the metal-rich worlds of the Confederation and began slaughtering the colonists without mercy. Once more the survival of humanity...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0380548747

Manhattan 2012: Nat Hamlin's brilliant career as an artist came to an end the day he went insane and embarked on a murderous rampage his sentence: Total Personality Replacement. Lissa loved Nat for his passion, now she loves him again--but as Paul Macy--for his warmth and kindness. Now each personality...

Author	Keith Laumer
ISBN	0743435494

A planet is being mined for a mineral vital to the war effort.
As humans start settling and colonising, it turns out that in their rush for the mineral the planetary scientists didn't stop to look for native life.

When the miners start digging up the planet, the natives make themselves known...

Author	Jack L. Chalker
ISBN	0345335023

First came the tourists...
Ondine was a resort planet. Sixteen million tourists travelled there from just about every world you could think of to live and love in sixteen million different ways.
Then came the machists...
They had gobbled up world after world, spreading their culture...

Author

Janet E. Morris

The universe called.
She answered.

Everything you've seen or read till now took you only to the brink . . .

Neither pure fantasy, nor straight science fiction, nor earthbound dynastic saga, Dream Dancer is a stunning amalgam of all three. It is a family saga with the epic appeal...

Author

David Weber

Two new powerhouses of science fiction, David Weber and Linda Evans, continue the amplified history of the Bolo, the nearly indestructible tank/artificial intelligence that changed the shape of the galaxy.

Contains:

The Farmer's Wife
Little Red Hen
Little Dog Gone
Miles...

Author	Ann Maxwell
ISBN	0451122534

DAEMEN --

a forgotten place at the very edge of the galaxy, a dying planet where people lived by luck alone. This was the number-one stop for Rheba, the Senyas fire dancer, and Kirtn, her Bre'n mentor, as they sought to fulfill their promise to return a whole shipload of ex-slaves to the widely...

Author	F.M. Busby
ISBN	0759241007

Rissa breathes a sigh of relief as the ship lifts off. It seems she's escaped danger, and no one has recognized the scientifically altered being as the beautiful young heir to the Hilzein Establishment-or so it seems. Possessing the only force capable of challenging the tyranny that devastated the...

Author	Vonda N. McIntyre
ISBN	0553288504

[Call it 3.5 stars]

“Transition” asks an important question: what if you meet the utopian high-tech galactic society, and it turns out to be full of jerks? To be fair, we only meet two members of said society, but they are pretty big jerks, and since they are official representatives of the...

Author	Holly Lisle
ISBN	0671722026

Lisle is a writer I'd never read before; but, intrigued by the theme of a mother putting her life on the line to rescue her kidnapped kids, I bought this book at a flea market as a Mother's Day gift for my wife. When the type proved too small for her to read comfortably, I agreed to read it aloud to her. That proved...

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0425061191

This is an anthology of eight of Asimov's short stories about robots:

Robot AL-76 Goes Astray
Victory Unintentional
First Law
Let's Get Together
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Risk
Lenny
Galley Slave

From the book's back cover:

ROBOTS

Mechanical...

Author	Jack McKinney
ISBN	0345353021

Marooned On A Doomed World!

Four months passed without a word from the Sentinels, and the members of the Expeditionary Mission to Tirol were beginning to fear the worst. This, even as they entered into truce negotiations with the being who might have been responsible for the destruction of...