The Fabulous Riverboat
10 best books like The Fabulous Riverboat (Philip José Farmer): Time for the Stars (Heinlein's Juveniles, #10), Changewar, The Voyage of the Space Beagle, The Crucible of Time, Second Stage Lensmen, Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump, The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!, The Flying Sorcerers, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0765314932 |
This is one of the classic titles originally know as the "Heinlein Juveniles," written in the 1950 and published for the young adult market. It has since been in print for 50 years in paperback, and now returns to hardcover for a new generation.
Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation...
CHANGEWAR
It is happening right now: the war through Time. The battleground is the eternal present. The objective is to alter the past. And the goal is to seize control of the future. The warriors are ordinary people, like yourself...
Contents:
Try and Change the Past
The...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0532601467 |
I read quite a few van Vogt books as a teenager. I remember saving up my pocket money, getting a 2/6 postal order and sending for the next book I wanted from Panther books from their list of books in the back of the book I had just read. The excitement of waiting for the next van Vogt (or Doc Smith or Asimov) to...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0345312244 |
There are some incredibly smart things Brunner does in this novel. The story is told from the perspective of a world of intelligent aliens as they reach out to discover the universe in which they live. They have to do that in ways that are very different from our own history in details (for example, they...
| Author | E.E. "Doc" Smith |
| ISBN | 1882968131 |
Kim Kinnison, Number One man of his time, had faced challenges before—but rarely one as daunting as this. To him fell the perilous task of infiltrating the inner circle of Boskone, stronghold of galactic civilization’s most deadly foe. Kinnison had to become a local Boskonian in every gesture,...
| Author | Allen Frances |
| ISBN | 0062394509 |
A landmark book, from “one of the world’s most prominent psychiatrists” (The Atlantic, June 2017): Eminent psychiatrist Allen Frances analyzes the national psyche, viewing the rise of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic of a deeper societal distress. Equally challenging and profound,...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0553276115 |
After saving the world, diGriz is called on to save the universe. Liberating his two, now teenage, twin' sons from a military boarding school and penitentiary, diGriz sets out to free his wife, who has been arrested by the tax men. But the family is soon fighting an enemy of a different sort, when the humans-only...
| Author | David Gerrold |
| ISBN | 1932100237 |
This funny and insightful science fiction classic introduces Shoogar, the greatest wizard ever known in his village. His spells can strike terror in the hearts of even his most powerful enemies. But the enemy he faces now is like none he has ever seen before. The stranger has come from nowhere and is ignorant...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345446674 |
In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0345334698 |
Ranging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy...
Becalmed in hell
Howie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic!
Wait it out
He was trapped on Pluto...and...
| Author | John Varley |
| ISBN | 0441900674 |
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.
Sex and Buzz Bombs: "Wizard" by John Varley
(Original Review, 1980-12-16)
It introduces more complications into the plot of the TITAN series, and clears up some nagging items as well; ever wonder...
| Author | Colin Greenland |
| ISBN | 0380763958 |
A fast-moving space adventure featuring mysterious aliens, a journey to a de-populated planet, a mad run from space cops, a ship captain in trouble, and her AI (Artificially Intelligent) companion/ship's computer. Winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year...
The human species has begun to racket about the galaxy. When they reach the planet Grudgrodd, they come across another space-faring species. It's a case of instant dislike. The gentle Utods do not feel pain, they change sex as the planet changes suns, they live long pleasurable lives, free of stress....
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0812522257 |
Raconteur, bon vivant, troubleshooter for the decaying Terran Empire, Dominic Falndry doesn't crave further danger in the service of galactic unity.
But duty calls, so it's back to the spaceways for the most elegant Special Agent is a hundred star systems--straight into the well-laid plans...
| Author | Julian May |
| ISBN | 0345324196 |
By A.D. 2110 nearly 100,000 humans had fled the civilized strictures of the Galactic Milieu for the freedom they thought existed at the end of the one-way time tunnel to Earth, six million B.C.
But all of them had fallen into the hands of the Tanu, a humanoid race who'd fled their own galaxy to avoid...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0553402021 |
In reading these books again as a more mature adult (I was only 19-20 the last time I read them), I found that the biggest problem I have with them is not so much the magical bits. Sure, okay, the stars in the sky rearranged themselves and began spiraling hypnotically. Fine. Whatever. It is a fantasy book,...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0425036790 |
Hawksbill Station was Robert Silverberg’s most Kilgore Troutian concept.
Kilgore Trout was, of course, the recurring fictitious science fiction writer from Kurt Vonnegut’s canon, based loosely upon fellow writer Theodore Sturgeon. According to Vonnegut, Trout would come up with...
This is an early novel from Daniel Woodrell, the second in his Louisiana Bayou trilogy featuring St. Bruno detective, Rene Shade.
In the parish of St. Bruno the local citizenry exists in an uneasy alliance with a gaggle of small-time mobsters who are headed by a local boss named Auguste Beaurain....
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0446611565 |
In 2021, radio astronomy on the Moon reveals the presence of life by a nearby red dwarf, on a tide-locked planet.[1] To investigate, Earth's governments convert a space colony into Lancer, a Bussard ramjet powered interstellar ship based on the design of a crashed alien ship discovered in the Mare Marginis....
