The Empire Novels
10 best books like The Empire Novels (Isaac Asimov): The Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr, Dark Integers and Other Stories, Time Storm, Utopia, Die Neuromancer-Trilogie, Earthclan, Sanctuary, Counterfeit Unrealities, Homegoing, Criptonomicón III: El código Aretusa
| Author | Paul French |
| ISBN | 0739419412 |
These books are so cute! They all feature David "Lucky" Starr in a sci-fi take on the Lone Ranger. All six books are quite similar in a few ways. For example, Asimov tries to keep you on your toes if you try to figure out who the mastermind villain is, but the villian in each book is a similar character. So once...
| Author | Greg Egan |
| ISBN | 1596061553 |
First Story. "Luminous."
I found this story to be OK, but not great. The idea involves the basics of mathematics being invalidated due to certain remote regions of formulation having been corrupted in the quantum craziness of the early universe...or something. Mainly the characters sit in front...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0671721488 |
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I completely forgot to mention the dedication which I reproduce in full here
To the Librarians
During the 1930's and 1940's anyone writing science fiction did so almost exclusively for magazines. Then in the early 1950's the magazine market began to die and paperback books...
| Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
| ISBN | 0441002455 |
Intended Audience: Adult
Sexual content: Mild
Ace/Genderqueer characters: Yes (robots)
Rating: PG
Writing style: 2/5
Likable characters: 3/5
Plot/Concepts: 4/5
Despite terra-forming efforts by Spacers, Settlers, and robots of all kinds, the future of the...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 3453164105 |
"Der Himmel über dem Hafen hatte die Farbe eines Fernsehers, der auf einen toten Kanal geschaltet war." Mit diesem denkwürdigen Satz beginnt das 1984 erschienene Erstlingswerk von William Gibson. Damals ahnte noch niemand, dass dieses unscheinbare Taschenbuch einmal zu den besten und einflussreichsten...
David Brin's Uplift Universe portrays humanity's desperate struggle for survival in a dangerous universe... and how we may cope by taking wise partners with us on this journey. Artificial intelligence is one way that we may add diversity to our civilization. But in this series we've done it by giving...
The "Thieves' World" fantasy anthologies were some of my favorites when I was growing up, both the actual anthologies and the spin-off publications set in the same world. They are very hard to find now - I'm guessing that part of the problem is that the rights to the work are complicated, especially now...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0739426141 |
Mood organs. Scramble suits. Poison tongue darts. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) may have invented more wildly imaginative creations per novel than any of his peers. An eccentric whose mind danced on the blurry edge between illusion and reality, madness and metaphysics, he produced a body of work that...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345339754 |
Sandy Washington was a pretty normal guy. The only unusual thing about him was that Sandy had been raised by aliens on their spaceship. The Hakh'hli had done everything they could to give Sandy an Earth-type boyhood. Now, finally, the Hakh'hli were bringing Sandy home to Earth. And while they were at...
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 8466617167 |
En 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, genio matemático y capitán de la marina estadounidense, colabora con Allan Turing y los especialistas británicos de Bletchley Park en el trabajo de descifrar los códigos secretos de las potencias del Eje. Sesenta años más tarde, la empresa de su nieto...
"Have Spacesuit Will Travel":
Kip wants to go to the Moon badly. Everything about him is average; his only claim to fame is that he won a contest and now owns an obsolete but fully equipped space suit. One day, he's walking around his back yard testing it out, when a voice comes over the talkie & the...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0345423348 |
Blending fierce, fast plots with vivid characters and mind-bending ideas, Greg Bear has mastered a powerful alchemy of suspense, science, and action in his gripping thrillers. Darwin’s Radio was hailed across the country as one of the best books of the year. His newest novel, Vitals, begins with...
| Author | Eric S. Nylund |
| ISBN | 0380785412 |
I'm a sucker for a good "game novel". That is to say that any book that is about a character taking part in a big competition is a big interest to me. True, off hand the only books with this plot device are this and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but still, both use the device very well.
Basically this...
Dune Messiah & Children Of Dune
| Author | Frank Herbert |
| ISBN | 0739423991 |
1-23-09 DUNE MESSIAH: Paul is now the Emperor of the universe, and he is worshipped as a God, by all on Dune. This is further complicated by him battling other planets to bow to him and his sister's attributes to his godliness. Alia is also troubled because she can not see the future that Paul so easily sees...
| Author | Charles Stross |
| ISBN | 0739445642 |
An exclusive two-in-one novel from the Science Fiction Book Club, set in Charles Stross Eschaton Universe: Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise.
Singularity Sky: Spaceship engineer Martin Springfield and U.N. diplomat Rachel Mansour hail from an Earth that has gone through the Singularity,...
| Author | E.E. "Doc" Smith |
| ISBN | 1568658044 |
George Lucas and the creators of the Silver Age Green Lantern both owe Doc Smith's estate some fat cash. Here's why:
The Lensmen are, to put it simply, a galactic police force armed with starships and most of all, the Lens. The Lens is a large gemlike object set into a wristband that allows the wielder...
