The Battle Of Forever
10 best books like The Battle Of Forever (A.E. van Vogt): The Last Planet, Wolfling, Pilgrimage to Earth, The Byworlder, How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Under the Green Star, The Secret of Life, Midsummer Century, Before the Golden Age 1, To Open The Sky
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0441471625 |
Typical Norton. And make no mistake, that's a good thing.
One of the last Patrol vessels of the crumbling Galactic Empire, Starfire, crashes on an uncharted planet and the surviving crew (regular Patrolmen and the Rangers who explore new worlds) must cope with surviving on an unfamiliar world...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0671559621 |
DEAR GOODREADS REVIEWERS NAMED RANDAL AND ALL OTHER GOODREADS REVIEWERS AS WELL: Please do not label a book that features racist characters as a racist book. There is a fucking difference between the characters in a book and the book itself! The "High Born" of Throne World are expressly referred to as...
| Author | Robert Sheckley |
| ISBN | 0441663850 |
Pilgrimage to Earth is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in October 1957 by Bantam Books (catalogue number A1672) and already reprinted a month later.
It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0451152999 |
THE SECRET OF THE SIGMAN
Skip Wayburn, artist drifter, sigaroon, gulped down his food with nothing on his mind but a long evening of lovemaking.
Far above him, the first emissary from interstellar space continued to orbit the globe. For three years it had been there, and still there...
| Author | J.N. Williamson |
| ISBN | 0898794838 |
How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction isn’t just a “How to” book, but a series of talks from some of the best names in the field. Indeed, think of it as a creative writing course with different lecturers every week and you’ll get more out of this 242 page book than you would from...
| Author | Lin Carter |
| ISBN | 1587156474 |
On Earth, life held for him only the fate of a recluse--confined to daydreams and the lore of ancient wonders but apparently destined never to share them--until he found the formula that let him cross space to the world of the Green Star. There, appearing in the body of a fabled hero, he is to experience...
Rating: "A-". A stirring saga of science, Mars, and life, marred by a weak ending, but well-worth your attention.
Paul McAuley's usual topics and tropisms are well-employed in this biotech SF-thriller. In 2026 a Martian microbe, secretly brought back to Earth by a Chinese expedition, is...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 0385016271 |
An accident propels the mind of the young astrophysicist John Martels 23,000 years into the future, the midsummer century. Note that according to this novel the mind is a complex self aware electromagnetic field. His mind emerges in the brain-case of a future being with a powerful mind, the so called...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0860078035 |
-Mirando hacia atrás con añoranza, respeto y un poquito de autobombo.-
Género. Relatos.
Lo que nos cuenta. Mezcla de biografía personal y profesional de Asimov con antología de relatos de género, comentados por él mismo con actitudes menos asimovianas de lo habitual pero...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 1584450452 |
It shouldn't come as too great a surprise that future Grand Master Robert Silverberg dedicated 1967's "To Open the Sky" to writer/editor Frederik Pohl. It was Pohl, after all, who induced Silverberg to begin writing sci-fi again on a full-time basis, after the author's "retirement" from the field...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0879974397 |
The Walker in the Valley of the Shadow
H was the name he was known by. H was unique in the galaxy, for he had the healing touch. Where there was plague, sickness, pain, H was the universal cure.
But H also had the slaying touch. Where he went death and disaster often followed. Where there...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0425607801 |
Nightmare at Stonehenge
When Legion meets a strange old millionaire called "Foster,"" he doesn't know that his whole life will never be the same again. For "Foster" has a strange story to tell. Part of his story is contained in his diary, which not only describes things in the very recent past,...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 1596872403 |
When Schaine Madduc returned to Koryphon after five years in space, her home planet was not as she left it. The several intelligent species that had lived so long in a sort of symbiotic harmony were at each other's throats. The humanoid Uldra were united in rebellion against the human land-holding community...
| Author | Brian Daley |
| ISBN | 0345339541 |
Gil MacDonald, soldier and exile in an alternate reality, must find Yardiff Bey, master wizard and archvillain. Bey has abducted Gil's friend and threatens to destroy this world of mystery and magic that the American has made his home. Coramonde's Prince Springbuck sends him south to the accursed...
| Author | Clifford D. Simak |
| ISBN | 9997408616 |
Out of their minds and the force of their imagination, men have created countless beings, from demons and monsters of legend to comic-strip characters. What if their world were real--if dragons, devils and Don Quixote hobnobbed with Dagwood Bumstead and Charlie Brown? Such a world would have its facinations..and...
| Author | Eric Frank Russell |
| ISBN | 0517551853 |
The people of the Solar System have broken the light-speed barrier, and exploration ships are going out in all directions, manned by - you guessed it! - Men, Martians, and Machines (Robots). This set of linked stories describes a part of the epic voyage of the Marathon, powered by the Flettner Drive,...
This short story (actually more of a novella in length) is set after the Greg Mandel books. Mandel is not the protagonist, but nevertheless has a starring role.
A C-list celebrity is found dead in mysterious circumstances. Psi-cop Greg Mandel is brought in to consult. At the same time, a real...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0583119174 |
Psychotropic mid-60s sci-fi, heavy on altered consciousness, sociopathic monologue, and hallucinatory description and action. Essentially unfolds in three parts:
1. Two connected stories set towards the end of Earth's long decline into inhospitability to humans, with civilization...
