Skylark DuQuesne
10 best books like Skylark DuQuesne (E.E. "Doc" Smith): Planet of the Apes, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, Logan's Run, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, The People: No Different Flesh, Soldier, Ask Not, The Uplift War, The White Mountains, Ordeal In Otherwhere, Startide Rising
| Author | Pierre Boulle |
| ISBN | 0345447980 |
"I am confiding this manuscript to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race. Lord have pity on us!"
With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. In this simian world,...
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
| Author | Harlan Ellison |
| ISBN | 1887424350 |
In a future where humanity has become obsessed with timekeeping and punctuality, a single mysterious figure tries to make a change, by wasting everybody's time.
Try reading that in a deep movie trailer voice.
“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman is a whimsical and satirical...
| Author | William F. Nolan |
| ISBN | 0553025171 |
It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he's got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. But...
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
| Author | Harlan Ellison |
| ISBN | 0441363954 |
First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment...
A novel expanded from a short story (different from book 1 Pilgrimage which was a push of short stories connected by new material) of the alien PEOPLE and earthlings with gifts similar to those of the People -- who might be lost PEOPLE!
The "People" stories inclulded in this book:
No Different...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0722129521 |
Ohhhh, potential-squandering frustration...thy name is The Childe Cycle!!!
Gordon Dickson’s superbly premised, yet underachieving Childe Cycle has been a source of teeth-gnashing, knuckle-whitening frustration for me. This disappointing, expectation larceny began while...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553279718 |
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species...
| Author | John Christopher |
| ISBN | 0689856725 |
Long ago, the Tripods—huge, three-legged machines—descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives.
But for a brief time in each person's life—in childhood—he is not a slave. For...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0441638198 |
When an outlaw seized control of the colonial planet Demeter, Charis Nordholm decided that it could no longer be her home. So she contracted herself into the service of an off-world trader, who assigned her to buy cloth from the mysterious Wyverns.
At first she was attracted to these shimmering...
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0765312220 |
E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him:
"ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 5550929929 |
Sooner or later, all civilizations age and decline, grow senile and die—either by conquest from without, or from internal rot. The final days of Western Civilization are signaled by the joining of the USA and the USSR into a ruthless and imperial state that spans first the Earth and then the Solar System....
