The Candle of Distant Earth
10 best books like The Candle of Distant Earth (Alan Dean Foster): Agatha Heterodyne and the Golden Trilobite, Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes, Vol. 1, Blue Beetle, Vol. 5: Boundaries, Legion of Super-Heroes, Vol. 2: Death of a Dream, Incredible Change-Bots: More Than Just Machines!, The Magnificent Wilf, Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about the End of the World, Godspeed, The Run to Chaos Keep, Overthrowing Heaven
| Author | Phil Foglio |
| ISBN | 1890856428 |
Agatha Heterodyne has her work caught out for her. She faces her greatest foe from within, wrestling for control with the Other within her own body. All the while, she tries to decide if Prince Tarvek is friend or foe. Baron Wulfenbach is increasingly convinced that she’s a foe and musters his forces...
| Author | Jerry Siegel |
| ISBN | 1401213820 |
Over 500 pages of classic adventures are included in this value-priced collection of an incredible team of teen heroes from the 30th century, in the stories that inspired the hit animated TV series on the Kid's WB on the CW network. The Legaion comes together from many worlds to fight evil -- with the help...
| Author | Matthew Sturges |
| ISBN | 1401221629 |
Growing up a teenager in the west Texas heat can be tough, especially for Jaime Reyes--the stellar, armor-wielding superhero known as Blue Beetle!
As if balancing homework with having a power-granting, extraterrestrial scarab welded to his spine weren't enough, now Jaime faces the arrival...
| Author | Mark Waid |
| ISBN | 1401209718 |
A bright, defiant, energized team of super-powered teenagers from different worlds form a legion of passionate activists that crusade to leave their mark on a complacent society that has forgotten how to fight for change. This volume features an all-out brawi between the Legion and the evil agents...
| Author | Jeffrey Brown |
| ISBN | 1891830910 |
Far away in space, there is a planet full of robots able to change from robot form to vehicle form -- the Incredible Change-Bots! Leaving their war torn planet, the Change-Bots arrive on Earth, where their battle continues -- but at what cost?! Part parody, part nostalgic tribute, part moral fable, Jeffrey...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0671877194 |
Magnificent is a clever, laugh-out-loud funny lark of a science fiction novel that builds on its episodic, character- and action-thrilling events. While the stakes are life-or-death high for Tom, Lucy, Rex (their dog) and this galaxy's alien races, Dickson maintains a frolicking feel throughout...
Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about the End of the World
| Author | James Frenkel |
| ISBN | 0737302712 |
For as long as anyone can remember, we have speculatedwith curiosity and dreadabout the prospect of the world coming to an end. In this lively, reflective, and entertaining anthology, renowned science fiction writers Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Robert Sheckley,...
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0812519922 |
Isolato dal commercio interstellare, il mondo di Erin si ritrova confinato nello spazio angusto del suo sistema stellare. La popolazione umana sopravvive a stento con le risorse dell'ecosistema del pianeta e con i resti di una grandiosa tecnologia di tempi leggendari in cui le immense astronavi...
| Author | Jack L. Chalker |
| ISBN | 0671577999 |
Many different beings in the galaxy shared one legend: demons. When an expedition to an unexplored planet discovered two gigantic horned creatures in suspended animation, they realized, just before dying horribly, the truth behind the legend. Rescuers answering a bizarre distress call found what...
| Author | Mark L. Van Name |
| ISBN | 1439132674 |
1. Rave reviews for Mark L. Van Name:
· “Van Name has created a hero worth at least a dozen more novels . . . I want this to be a series. I want to read a new one every year.” —Orson Scott Card
· “One Jump Ahead is like well-aged white...
| Author | Janine Cross |
| ISBN | 0451461029 |
The Dragon Temple Saga continues as Zarq Darquel embarks on a trial by fire, defying Dragon Temple scripture by undergoing the rigorous training of an apprentice dragonmaster, while desperately searching for the doctrine that allows women permission to participate in the battles at Arena.
Yet...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Carver |
| ISBN | 0812535162 |
The first of this series did a cool thing by having alien contact take place in a nearly familiar setting of Triton. In this one, the setting is out of the Milky Way and aliens abound. Not only is the intergalactic hard to conceive, the interconnected synthetic system invented for the current episode (or...
| Author | Gayle Roper |
| ISBN | 1576736385 |
In this first book of the Seaside Seasons series, Leigh Spenser, a young teacher and the single mother of ten-year-old Billy, is thrown into conflict. Clay Wharton, the boy's estranged father, comes home to Seaside, New Jersey, to await his twin brother's death from AIDS. Threats against Billy's life...
When Matt Raimey had his accident, he thought his life was over. He never dreamed, in his wildest fantasies, that he'd end up in a spot like this. In the toxic atmosphere of Jupiter, born into the body of an enormous creature that looked like a cross between a manta ray and a dolphin, he is living a new life,...
A fallen kingdom, a captured queen, and an assassin who could save them both… His queen is the enemy king’s prisoner, but the Queen’s Blade refuses to serve his foe. Unless he slays those who plot against her, however, she will die. Cotti Princes will taste the assassin's blade to ensure her safety...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0812579887 |
The second book in the Asteroid Wars subset continues the story of the human race moving out to exploit the resources of the asteroid belt. The two main corporations, Astro and Humphreys are still fighting for control with the prospectors and miners (the rock rats) caught in the middle. Things eventually...
