Search the Sky

Author	Fredric Brown
ISBN	0345298535

THEY WERE GREEN
THEY WERE LITTLE
THEY WERE
BALD AS BILLIARD BALLS
AND THEY WERE
EVERYWHERE

Luke Devereaux was a science-fiction writer, holed up in a desert shack waiting for inspiration. He was the first man to see a Martian...but he wasn't the last!

It was estimated...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0671655914

Earth has been destroyed.

Which alien race had committed genocide, killing a planet in the process?

The Kandemir were interested in salvage rights.

The Xo had provided two Earth nations with weapons that could do the job.

The Vorlak, an essentially peaceful race,...

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	Bob Shaw
ISBN	0575039876

For 'refusing to co-operate' the Emm Luther Special Police took out Earth agent Sam Tallon's eyes and imprisoned him on a dark and eerie swamp from which nobody ever escaped.

But then Tallon invented a way of seeing - ludicrous, agonizing, yet still a way to make escape possible. He 'saw' through...

Author	Henry Kuttner
ISBN	0575071419

Classic SF from '47. It isn't bad and it has a solid plot thread and a very streamlined theme, from breaking off the yoke of immortals only to realize you are one, to founding a rebellion allowing all the people to earn their own immortality and a place in the sun. (On Venus, nonetheless.)

I don't...

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	1884214371

A spaceship crew from an advanced alien civilization notices that Earth faces imminent destruction as its sun begins to explode. With time rapidly ticking down, the crew desperately searches a now-desolate planet for any possible human survivors.

This is a dramatisation of the very first...

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0879975911

A mysterious amnesiac is found at a distant spaceport. The science of the Alastor Cluster is unable to do anything but determine his home planet and culture: he is a Rhune from the planet Marune - Alastor 933.
When he returns home, he learns that he is a powerful landowner whose household is faced with...

Author	John Sladek
ISBN	0575071168

Wompler's Walking Babies once put Millford, Utah, on the map. But they aren't selling like they used to. In fact, they aren't selling at all and the only alternative to winding the company up is to tap the government for a research grant. And so Wompler Research Laboratories and Project 32 come into being....

Author

Eric Frank Russell

In his 1955 collection entitled "Men, Martians and Machines," English sci-fi author Eric Frank Russell told, via one short story and three novellas, some of the adventures of a starship crew that strongly suggested nothing less than a proto-"Star Trek" ensemble. The collection featured visits to...

Author	Keith Laumer
ISBN	0812543793

When Brion Bayard was kidnapped and brought to the alternate world where Earth's history took a different turn, it was not a pleasant experience. It was, however, a startling experience. Here was a world that was just like the Earth he was taken from--with just a few subtle changes. On top of all this,...

Author	James Blish
ISBN	0099097109

Danny Caiden is on the run - from the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department and the Mob. Only recently, Danny was an average New York copywriter, until he suddenly found he had ESP. His knowledge of the future is astonishing, and the rest of Danny's powers are just beginning. But someone has plans for Danny:...

Author

Clifford D. Simak

Un día de verano como otro cualquiera, se abre una puerta en el vacío y empiezan a salir cientos, miles, millones de personas procedentes de ninguna parte. Dicen que vienen del futuro. Son los hijos de nuestros hijos. Un peligro incontrolable acecha en el futuro, y se hace preciso cortar el puente que...

Author	Fritz Leiber
ISBN	0575003898

A Spectre is Haunting Texas is a Fritz Leiber novel, 1st appearing as a book in 1969, originally published as a 3-part serial in Galaxy Science Fiction in July, August, and September 1968 .
Scully Christopher Crockett La Cruz is an actor, fortune seeker & adventurer from the isolated orbital...

Author	C.M. Kornbluth
ISBN	0523485433

Syndic versus Mob! The Syndic operated as a sort of gigantic protective league in what had once been the states east of the Mississippi. Here was a totally hedonistic society, moral inhibitions had gone the way of the horse. (Polo was played in jeeps with 50-calibre machine guns.) The hopelessly corrupt...

Author	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0441091423

"For the first fifty pages you'll swear that Harrison has been rummaging in an old trunk. Here's that tired old theme...the lost community of Aztecs who have been cut off in a hidden valley by a landslide centuries ago. Presently they will discover the outside world--our world. The stalwart Aztec maverick...

Author	Jack Williamson
ISBN	0425032949

It was the greatest empire of them all, spanning light-years, gathering in the stars with a golden net. World after world - start after star - all were snared together in a web of shimmering, golden tracery. Each gleaming strand was a tube, the communications that turned the harsh, metallic planet of...

Author	Murray Leinster
ISBN	0517554127

There is a wonderful old term used to describe a feature of Golden Age science fiction novels: BEM, an acronym for "bug-eyed monsters." Back in the 1930s and '40s, you see, the covers of many sci-fi pulp magazines featured illustrations of bulbous-orbed, invariably menacing aliens and other creatures;...

Author	A.E. van Vogt
ISBN	0886770564

2.5 stars - disappointing.

I liked the first one, loved the second, but I'm just glad this one was shorter.

The author still has some good ideas, but he seems not much knowing where to go. The book gives more insight and info about General Semantics, and that's good, but the story is quite...