The Crucible of Time
10 best books like The Crucible of Time (John Brunner): A World Out of Time, Beginning Operations, The Wind from Nowhere, Mindbridge, There Will Be Time, Time Scout, Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers, The Starry Rift, Black Star Rising, Conqueror
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0345336968 |
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.
But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where...
| Author | James White |
| ISBN | 0312875444 |
Hospital Station / Star Surgeon / Major Operation
"Sector General: A massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. Its 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of the any conceivable alien patient - though that...
- Give me the latest update on Dorian.
- Yes sir. It's not too bad sir. The Bahamas have been pretty much destroyed. The Carolinas are suffering heavy flooding. But it missed Florida. Mar-a-Lago is completely safe. And Alabama wasn't even touched.
- Please repeat that last part.
-...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0575071141 |
The discovery of a remarkable alien technology light years from Earth could have devastating consequences for humanity in this science fiction classic by the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel The Forever War
In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0451054016 |
Time travel is impossible! There is no machine that can take you into time, past or future. But what if you are born a time traveler?
Jack Havig did not know how he could cross the centuries merely by willing himself to. But the fact remained, he could. And, thought Jack, if I can travel through time,...
| Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
| ISBN | 0671876988 |
Recipe for Ruin:
Take one REALLY GREAT time travel framework.
Add one REALLY TERRIBLE main character.
Mix in one REALLY CREEPY romance.
Yes, Robert Asprin: you ruined it! Or more accurately, your character Margo Smith from the book ruined it!
So what's so great...
| Author | Kage Baker |
| ISBN | 1930846304 |
This collection brings together the early Company stories in one volume for the first time with three previously unpublished works, including 'The Queen in Yellow', written exclusively for this compilation. In these tales sci-fi fans follow the secret activities of the Company's field agents -...
| Author | James Tiptree Jr. |
| ISBN | 0312890214 |
These are the heroes of the Starry Rift, a dark river of night that flows between the arms of our galaxy: A headstrong teenaged runaway who makes first contact with a strange alien race. A young officer on a deep-space salvage mission who discovers an exact double of a woman he thought he'd lost. The crew...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345319036 |
"When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches the Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and its seriousness, you'd expect the President to talk. Problem is, in the late twenty-first century, there is no...
Raj Whitehall has led his men across the face of the planet Bellevue to one victory over the barbarian nations after another, until he is close to achieving his secret mission: resurrecting interstellar civilization with the help of the ancient battle computer Center, which whispers at the back of...
| Author | Jack Williamson |
| ISBN | 0030560527 |
HUMANOIDS: Self-directed robots invented to serve & guard mankind
"With Folded Hands" is a 1947 sf novelette by Jack Williamson (1908–2006). His influence for this story was in the aftermath of WWII & the atomic bombings of Japan & his concern that "some of the technological creations...
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0451024745 |
Alfred Bester writes fiction that is offbeat and intensely imaginative. In THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH, a volume that includes his new novella and five short stories, Mr. Bester is at his most inventive.
Contents:
Time Is the Traitor (1953)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)
Out...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0441206611 |
From the back cover:
Planets are for leaving.
That's an old saying in the Explorers. But for every Explorer there is somewhere a planet he will not leave. For some, the cause is love. For others, the desire to give up the strange roving life of the star wanderers who live outside of planet-time....
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0312204450 |
The past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including:
William Barton * Rob Chilson * Tony Daniel...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0446530581 |
Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Victor the most famous astronauts of all time. Now, decades later, they are ordered by the Consortium to Pluto, where they will rendezvous with another starship led by the brilliant, arrogant Captain Shanna Axelrod. Here, on the frozen ammonia shore of...
| Author | James P. Hogan |
| ISBN | 0743435974 |
In an America becoming repressive in the face of world tensions, Brad Clifford, a young mathematical physicist, had been virtually drafted from academia to work on defense projects. But Brad's true dedication was to bring about the unification of all fields and forces, and his theory was too wild for...
| Author | Glen Cook |
| ISBN | 1597800996 |
For four thousand years, the Guardships have ruled Canon Space - immortal ships with an immortal crew, dealing swiftly and harshly with any mercantile houses or alien races that threaten the status quo. But now the House Tregesser has an edge: a force from outside Canon Space offers them the resources...
The End of the Whole Mess, and Other Stories
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 0743598237 |
For the first time on CD! Vintage Stephen King at a great low price!
Stephen King's unparalleled imagination is in full force in this collection of four unabridged short stories originally found in the classic, Nightmares & Dreamscapes. An all-star cast of readers bring to life these...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0765304147 |
In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier Syracuse. With his wife and two children he plies the Asteroid Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the Syracuse stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the...
