The Avatar
10 best books like The Avatar (Poul Anderson): Nothing Sacred, By Any Other Name, The White Mountain, The Exile Waiting, Starworld, The Dark Light Years, The Winds of Change and Other Stories, War Games, Iceworld, Jack of Eagles
| Author | Elizabeth Ann Scarborough |
Another excellent book from this author. Prison camp war survival adventure in Tibet, I like books with slow evolving plots this one progressed nicely along didn't realize it was a disaster end of world type of book till well into it, found the story even more interesting as it progressed. Don't wish...
| Author | Spider Robinson |
| ISBN | 0671319744 |
FROM THE CRIME TO THE RIDICULOUS
From the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rock stars; blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; tomorrows formed by today's trends -- this Spider weaves...
| Author | David Wingrove |
| ISBN | 0440213568 |
A towering world-city covers almost every acre of every continent. Seven high-tech fiefdoms, ruled by seven lords united in unimaginable power. But now the wheel is broken. the Seven are divided at last. Armed rebellion has broken out in Chung Kuo's few remaining open spaces;...
| Author | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| ISBN | 0575021896 |
The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable for much of the year by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside.
Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation,...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0553207806 |
THE RETURN OF THE REBEL
The stars are afire with rebellion against the tyranny of Earth. Jan Kulozik, rebel in exile, returns home as a prisoner on a ship bearing a cargo of death. But Kulozik escapes his captors and ignites the flames of revolt across half a world. With the aid of Dvora, a lovely but lethal...
The human species has begun to racket about the galaxy. When they reach the planet Grudgrodd, they come across another space-faring species. It's a case of instant dislike. The gentle Utods do not feel pain, they change sex as the planet changes suns, they live long pleasurable lives, free of stress....
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0345311884 |
Asimov at his best! A 21-story salute
About Nothing • (1975)
A Perfect Fit • (1981)
Belief • (1953)
Death of a Foy • (1980)
Fair Exchange? • (1978)
For the Birds • (1980)
Found! • (1978)
Good Taste • (1976)
How It Happened • (1979)
Ideas...
| Author | David Bischoff |
| ISBN | 0440193877 |
O livro é bom mas não era aquilo de que eu estava à espera.
Mas, apesar disso, não posso dizer que WarGames tenha sido um mau livro. É fácil criarmos empatia com as personagens, a acção decorre a um bom ritmo e é inegável que ali para o final há uns momento de alguma tensão... ora, tudo...
| Author | Hal Clement |
| ISBN | 0345258053 |
Mottled with sinister colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have produced intelligent life. Yet the expedition had contacted natives of some sort when it sent in unmanned landers.
More important,...
| 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 | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345360265 |
Years ago, Nolly Stennis had been a promising baritone. On the threshold of a great career with Narabedla Ltd., illness had ruined his voice. Then a cellist friend received an offer from Narabedla, only to disappear shortly thereafter. When Nolly set out to investigate, he found intergalatic intrigue...
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0671038893 |
The hero is Rogue Winter, King of Maori Commandos. His lover is the beautiful Demi Jeroux, who has been kidnapped by the villainous, demonic Manchu Duke of Death. Rogue must search through the entire solar system to find the missing Demi, from the Paradise of Carnal Pleasures to the bloody torture chambers...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0879979380 |
Having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, Gersen now sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes. The name Kokor Hekkus, which means "killing machine" in the language of the planet Thamber, does not refer to Hekkus's own predilection for homicide, but to his fondness...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0312274785 |
The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:
Stephen Baxter, M.Shayne...
| Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
| ISBN | 0812530144 |
Roger M. Allen's "Ring of Charon" is great science-fiction. A hence-undiscovered alien race causes the Earth to disappear through a wormhole due to the unauthorized experiments of a gravity scientist, and the remaining off-Earth scientists try to find out what really happened. The story is told...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0812503198 |
When this book was published in 1989, it was clearly a science fiction. Now, in 2013, only 14 years later, it became a widespread reality, with deviation in only tiny details. Rarely a sci-fi novel can boast such a fate, especially when its focus is so far from science. Cyberbooks is a sci-fi satire on the...
| Author | Clifford D. Simak |
| ISBN | 0345291409 |
A little more than a year ago, I moved from a city where I'd lived a third of my life to a city I'd only visited twice, and where I only knew a handful of people. I had no money, no job, no car and no specific purpose. I was low on options and one friend, 3000 miles from me, offered me a couch to sleep on. I took the offer.
Sometime...
| Author | Lloyd Biggle Jr. |
| ISBN | 1587150514 |
Lost Eden
It was a world of dazzling but deadly beauty, where pleasure was man's most precious birthright. In this lost colony the inhabitants had forgotten the very existence of earth. Only one man remembered. He foresaw the awesome consequences if this paradise were ever rediscovered.
Monument
The...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0060129999 |
For the hedonistic immortals who dwell at the End of Time, the return of Jherek Carnelian with Mrs. Amelia Underwood - a reluctant time-traveler from Victorian England - is cause for jubilant celebration. Led by Jherek's mother, the Iron Orchid, the immortals set off on a mad spree of spectacular festivities....
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0671319590 |
HUMANS OR HEMNOIDS: AN UNBEARABLE CHOICE Planet Dilbia is in a crucial location for both humans and their adversaries, the Hemnoids. Therefore making friends with the Dilbians and establishing a human presence there is of the utmost importance, which may be a problem, since the bearlike Dilbians...
