The Early Asimov: Book One
10 best books like The Early Asimov: Book One (Isaac Asimov): Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, Inferno, Empire of the Atom, The Chains That You Refuse, The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, The Rebel Worlds, Tales of Ten Worlds, Star Trek 6, The Kinsman Saga, The Voices Of Time
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus
| Author | Paul French |
| ISBN | 1421049260 |
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus (Lucky Starr #3), Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus is the third novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday...
| Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
| ISBN | 0441005144 |
When a key politician is murdered, suspicion falls on Caliban...the only robot without guilt or conscience, with no need to obey or respect humanity... a robot without the Three Laws.But the stakes go deeper than one man's life. Caliban is challenging long-held ideas of a robot's place in society....
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0450023265 |
Empire of the Atom is a science fiction novel by A.E. van Vogt. First published in 1957 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 2000 copies, the novel is a fix-up of the first five of van Vogt's Gods stories which originally appeared in Astounding magazine. The remaining Gods stories are collected in The...
| Author | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 1597800481 |
A new collection by one of the most popular and prolific authors of the last few years covers a wide range of material, from time travel to cyberpunk to contemporary fantasy. Twenty stories and two poems, originally published in high profile places like SciFi.com and Asimov's.
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The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0450042413 |
The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1966.
It includes an introduction entitled "Pandora's Box" that describes some of the difficulties in making predictions about the near future. Heinlein outlines some of...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0340163380 |
The barbarians in their long ships waiting at the edge of the Galaxy...
...waited for the ancient Terran Empire to fall, while two struggled to save it: ex-Admiral McCormac, forced to rebel against a corrupt Emperor, and Starship Commander Flandry, the brilliant young officer who served...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575074965 |
Fifteen stories by "our ablest practitioner of science fiction," ranging from the sinister rescue of a Sputnik and the Pacific to startling and amusing adventures on the moon, in a comet's tail, on Mars and Venus, and the rings of Saturn, and on the asteroid Icarus only seventeen million miles from the...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 0552094471 |
The sixth volume in a series of Star Trek: The Original Series novelizations written by James Blish and published by Bantam Books. Includes seven stories: The Savage Curtain, The Lights Of Zetar, The Apple, By Any Other Name, The Cloud Minders, The Mark Of Gideon.
From the back cover:
Kirk,...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0380793172 |
Hero or Killer?In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything in space--including committing the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not even on the Moon, where he's head of the first U.S. lunar colony.
But suddenly,...
Susan Sontag, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Burroughs, Robert Nye and Angela Carter are among the host of admirers of J. G. Ballard's fiction. His extraordinary inventiveness and the unfailing grace and energy of his writing are triumphantly displayed in this classic collection of stories,...
