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10 best books like The Alien Way (Gordon R. Dickson): The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Tau Zero, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Logan's Run, Singularity Sky, Three Hearts and Three Lions, Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve, Orion Shall Rise

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
AuthorBarry Schwartz
ISBN0060005696
About the Book: The Paradox of Choice. In the spirit of Alvin Tofflers Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying...
Tau Zero
AuthorPoul Anderson
Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two qualities that are often at odds in this genre: an interest in the emotional lives of its characters and a fascination with all things technological and scientific. In Tau Zero these components are not...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0143036556
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
AuthorRoméo Dallaire
ISBN0786715103
On the 10th anniversary of when UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada proudly publishes the unforgettable 1st-hand account of the genocide by the leader of the mission. Digging deep into shattering memories, Dallaire has written a powerful story of betrayal, naïveté, racism &...
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
AuthorSpider Robinson
ISBN0812572270
Callahan's Place is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but. Pull up a chair, grab a glass of your favorite, and listen to the stories spun by time travelers, cybernetic aliens, telepaths...and a bunch of regular folks on a mission to save the world, one customer...
Logan's Run
AuthorWilliam F. Nolan
ISBN0553025171
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...
Singularity Sky
AuthorCharles Stross
ISBN1841493341
In the twenty-first century man created the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence. It pushed Earth through the greatest technological evolution ever known, while warning that time travel is forbidden, and transgressors will be eliminated.

Distant descendants of this ultra high-tech...
Three Hearts and Three Lions
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0575074981
The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threatened the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons and the Wild Hunt itself, were poised to overthrow the realms of light.
And alone against the armies of Chaos stood one man, the knight of Three Hearts and Three Lions. Carlsen, a twentieth-century...
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve
AuthorWilliam H. Patterson Jr.
ISBN0765319608
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis.  A socialist politician in the 1930s, he...
Orion Shall Rise
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0671720902
Maybe Poul Anderson’s greatest attribute is to make the epic personal, to bring within arm’s reach the limitless expanses of time and space.

Reminiscent of Anderson’s Vault of the Ages and The Winter of the World the author returns to his Maurai world creation to a far future post-apocalyptic...
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
AuthorSteve Dublanica
According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. WAITER RANT offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior,...
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