Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven

10 best books like Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven (Larry Niven): Cities in Flight, Waldo and Magic, Inc, Berserker, Bolo, Trader to the Stars, Tales from the White Hart, High Justice, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B, Nightfall and Other Stories

AuthorJames Blish
ISBN1585676020
Originally published in four volumes nearly fifty years ago, Cities in Flight brings together the famed "Okie novels" of science fiction master James Blish. Named after the migrant workers of America's Dust Bowl, these novels convey Blish's "history of the future," a brilliant and bleak look at a...
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0450397300
North Power-Air was in trouble. Their aircraft had begun to crash at an alarming rate, and no one could figure out what was going wrong. Desperate for an answer, they turned to Waldo, the crippled genius who lived in a zero-g home in orbit around Earth.

But Waldo had little reason to want to help...
AuthorFred Saberhagen
ISBN0441054951
Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met--and fought a war of mutual extinction. The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it: the death machines, the BERSERKERS. Guided by self-aware computers more intelligent than any human, these world-sized battlecraft carved a...
AuthorKeith Laumer
ISBN0425075591
Bolo. Originally developed as far back as the 1980's by the Bolo Division of General Motors, these great artillery machines took on awareness in later designs and gradually began to replace man in that most human of endeavors: War.
But let Bolo speak for itself. In the action-packed Annals of the...
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0425612848
Humankind has explored the galaxy: Nicholas van Rijn had bought it. A starwide empire was difficult to run, but the old man was wily and the resources of the Solar Spice & Liquors Company were vast. But sometimes even a conquered world can get just a little out of hand.

In his Magnificent Future...
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
From outside it was simply an ordinary-looking London pub, a place you'd have to be guided to more than once before you memorized its location, somewhere between Fleet Street and the Embankment. But if, by chance, an insider led you to the White Hart on a Wednesday night, you would have found yourself...
AuthorJerry Pournelle
High Justice begins Jerry Pournelle's own Future History, a universe which he shared with Larry Niven in their collaborative novel, The Mote in God's Eye. Here we see, with all the vivid detail for which Pournelle is known, the Fall of the West, and how in its death throes it gave birth to a society that...
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0312288794
The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results:

Collected...
AuthorBen Bova
ISBN0380000547
This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.

Published in 1973 to honor stories that had come before the institution...
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0345310918
A collection of early Asimov short stories, showcasing the development of the author's oeuvre. The title comes from Asimov's breakthrough short story.

CONTENTS:
Nightfall - Astounding, Sept 1941
Green Patches - Galaxy, Nov 1950
Hostess - Galaxy, May 1951
Breeds There...
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0060817127
*****"Old Music and the Slave Woman" - Ursula K. LeGuin.
Yes, I checked this book out from the library because I saw that it had a LeGuin story I hadn't read before! And yes, this alone was worth the price of admission. (Well, since it was from the library there wasn't a price, but, you know...)
Set...
AuthorFritz Leiber
ISBN0848821270
Fritz Leiber's work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the Paperback era of Philip K. Dick, and arguably, is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber in fact knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different...
AuthorDavid Brin
ISBN1857234138
The River of Time brings together eleven short stories, including "The Crystal Spheres" (WINNER: Hugo Award Best SF Short Story 1985), and four new stories published here for the first time.

Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound...
AuthorPhilip José Farmer
ISBN0425064875
Contents:

· Riverworld [revised from Worlds of Tomorrow Jan ’66; Riverworld] · na *
· J.C. on the Dude Ranch · ss *
· The Volcano [as by Paul Chapin] · ss F&SF Feb ’76
· The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol · ss Playboy Dec ’77
· The Problem of the Sore Bridge—Among...
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0425019128
van Vogt is a firehose of sci-fi creativity. A little weird, a little raw, and like real life the pieces don't always, or even usually, fit together nicely. But his raw imagination, wildly inventive ideas and talent for instilling a sense of wonder and mystery (and some confusion) were unequaled in his...
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