The Earth Book of Stormgate
10 best books like The Earth Book of Stormgate (Poul Anderson): The Last of the Mohicans, 2010: Odyssey Two, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos, The Deerslayer, The Humanoid Touch, The Malacia Tapestry, Starshine, The Fire Court, Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction
| Author | James Fenimore Cooper |
| ISBN | 0553213296 |
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345413970 |
Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft--to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong...and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.
Without...
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 1473680336 |
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
| Author | Michio Kaku |
| ISBN | 1400033721 |
In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own. Kaku skillfully...
| Author | James Fenimore Cooper |
| ISBN | 0451529391 |
A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that sets him apart from his peers. But he has yet to meet the test of human conflict. In a tale of violent action and superbly sustained suspense, the harsh realities of tribal warfare force him to kill his first...
| 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 | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0061000639 |
Charmed Malacia! In the wilderness beyond its fortress walls, in dreary chasm, tangled forest, or endless mountainside, the forces of many kinds of evil struggled for supremacy. Within our winding streets serenity seemed to prevail.
"seemed" is the key word in this brief introduction...
| Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
| ISBN | 0515044598 |
Starshine -- the eerie, unmistakable fire of Ted Sturgeon's genius -- lights up unforgettably these stories of now and tomorrow...tales of aliens from far planets, men of the spaceways and creatures of darkness. From the daring of "The World Well Lost" to the tense adventure of "The Pod and the Barrier"...
From No.1 bestselling author Andrew Taylor comes the sequel to the phenomenally successful The Ashes of London
Somewhere in the soot-stained ruins of Restoration London, a killer has gone to ground ...
The Great Fire has ravaged London, wreaking destruction and devastation wherever...
Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction
| Author | Harlan Ellison |
| ISBN | 0020197802 |
By law, one cannot copyright a title. If someone were stupid enough to do it, novels could be written and published with such titles as " Moby Dick," " Alice in Wonderland" or "Gone With the Wind." But also, by law, ownership of a title can be guaranteed if it can be proved that the original author has established...
