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10 best books like The Dark Light Years (Brian W. Aldiss): Needle, After Doomsday, A Mirror for Observers, Thorns, A Touch of Strange, Inside Outside, The Seedling Stars, A Wreath of Stars, The Ring of Charon, The Daleth Effect

Needle
AuthorHal Clement
ISBN0380006359
The Hunter and his quarry raced through space—when suddenly both ships crashed head on into one of the oceans of earth!

Both the Hunter and his quarry were symbiotes—creatures who had to live within the body of another organism.

When the Hunter emerged from his wreck of a ship,...
After Doomsday
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0671655914
Earth has been destroyed.

Which alien race had committed genocide, killing a planet in the process?

The Kandemir were interested in salvage rights.

The Xo had provided two Earth nations with weapons that could do the job.

The Vorlak, an essentially peaceful race,...
A Mirror for Observers
AuthorEdgar Pangborn
In their attitude towards the Planet Earth, the Martians had long been divided into two camps: the Observers, benevolent meddlers in human affairs; & the rebellious Abdicators, who sought the Earth's collapse. But it wasn't until the extraordinary matter of the Earth-Boy, Angelo Pontevecchio,...
Thorns
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0853911320
Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people's pain. He feeds off it, and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveller whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together...
A Touch of Strange
AuthorTheodore Sturgeon
ISBN0879973730
'Winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, Theodore Sturgeon has established his reputation as one of the most original and provocative of SF writers.

Here are nine masterpieces of imagination from the period of his finest creativity. Included are "The Pod in the Barrier", "The Other Celia",...
Inside Outside
AuthorPhilip José Farmer
ISBN0425040410
DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A TUNNEL UNDER HELL?

That this Universe is a toy? That the hideous Saviors rule, and have ruled, since Time began three Time-beginnings back? That they formed Man and Earth, body disc and soul print, and alien too?

And that they made mistakes? Oh, they made terrible...
The Seedling Stars
AuthorJames Blish
ISBN0575072393
The Seedling Stars is a collection of science fiction short stories by James Blish. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1957 in an edition of 5000 copies. The stories all concern adapting humans to alien environments. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction,...
A Wreath of Stars
AuthorBob Shaw
ISBN0440197104
Ironically, for Gilbert Snook, who considered himself the human equivalent of a neutrino, a particle able to travel through the Earth without disturbing any other particle, it all started with the panic that followed the sighting of the anti neutrino planet as it approached Earth. Earth was unaffected...
The Ring of Charon
AuthorRoger MacBride Allen
ISBN0812530144
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...
The Daleth Effect
AuthorHarry Harrison
- Has the latest sample come back from the lab?

- Yes sir.

- And what do they have to tell us?

- Let me see sir. "Denmark acquires interstellar drive and becomes world power. Some espionage. Traces of sex and violence."

- Ah... are you sure?

- Yes sir. You can read...
The Anome
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0440004411
DURDANE THE IMPRISONED

A world of strange ways and stranger people. A land where men and women are marked for life. Where they are bound to irrevocable destinies by the proclamations of the Faceless Man-an unseen power which terrorises and controls the world.

Durdane is a place where...
Total Eclipse
AuthorJohn Brunner
ISBN0879979119
In 2020, an international space team, exploring Sigma Draconis, 19 light years from earth, discovers the remains of a highly advanced society that has left behind its most spectacular artifact; the largest telescope imaginable, carved & polished from a natural moon crater. Successive space...
The Alien Way
AuthorGordon R. Dickson
I have to warn you, this is not perfect. Some serious suspension of disbelief, on several aspects, is required. And some patience with slightly dated attitudes, and with long-windedness, is also required. However, the core ideas and world-building are absolutely superb and I highly recommend the...
Major Operation
AuthorJames White
ISBN0345293819
The five short stories in the book are related to a new world called Meatball. In the first story, Invader, a series of strange accidents at the hospital lead Conway to suspect an alien presence. In the second story, Monitor Corps discovers an alien spinning ship near Meatball and brings it to the hospital...
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
AuthorPaul French
ISBN0345315626
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (Lucky Starr, #2), Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids is the second novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French.
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The Solarians
AuthorNorman Spinrad
ISBN0722180853
For three hundred years the Solarians had isolated themselves from the galaxy with the promise to reappear one day to bring human victory. Now, with the very existence of the human race at stake in a war with the machine-like beings of the computer worlds, they re-emerged with a completely new social...
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