Ringworld's Children
10 best books like Ringworld's Children (Larry Niven): Friday, Forward the Foundation, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Glory Season, Bowl of Heaven, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Foundation's Triumph, The Worthing Saga, The Lost Swords: The First Triad, Foundation's Fear
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0345414004 |
Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss." Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0553565079 |
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Here, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring...
| Author | Michael Swanwick |
| ISBN | 0380972336 |
This is a very impressive and work of imagination, and while I've read better Swanwick, it's *still* Swanwick, and that means it's head-and-shoulders better than almost anything out there.
This novel gives the illusion that it might be a YA, with a lot of impressive and delightful adventure...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553567675 |
Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin is one of the most eloquent, imaginative voices in science fiction. Now he returns with a new novel rich in texture, universal in theme, monumental in scope--pushing the genre to new heights.
Young Maia is fast approaching a turning point...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0765328410 |
In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space:...
| 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 | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0061056391 |
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction.Now,...
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
| ISBN | 0812533313 |
Gathering every story about Jason Worthing, this volume includes "The Worthing Chronicle," as well as all of the other stories set on Capitol and later on Jason's colonized planet.
It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 1117236927 |
Saberhagen was a prolific author of both fantasy and science fiction. Most of his science fiction is related to or part of the Berserker series, which had widespread effects in the world of sci-fi movies especially. His fantasy books are largely sword-and-sorcery epics related to the stories of twelve...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0061056383 |
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 1857237366 |
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It is always complicated when an author adapts or continues another's work. In this case, it is a complete success.
Greg Bear has been zealous to be e worthy of Asimov´s legacy. The effort that an author is likely to take to get into such a complex universe might be significant....
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 1857230213 |
In the year 2130 a mysterious spaceship, Rama, arrived in the solar system. It was huge - big enough to contain a city and a sea - and empty, apparently abandoned. By the time Rama departed for its next, unknown, destination many wonders had been uncovered, but few mysteries solved. Only one thing was clear:...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575077115 |
This story takes place about 100 years in the future, when the earth's population is fed principally from the sea--on whale products or from plankton farms. Its hero is Walter Franklin, a grounded space engineer now assigned to a submarine patrol tending the whale herds.
DEEP RANGE vibrates with...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0671578650 |
Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic novellas and two short stories with speculation on what makes us human.
"Gulf": in which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0812579909 |
When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resources of the Asteroid Belt itself. As fighting escalates,...
