The Face of the Waters
10 best books like The Face of the Waters (Robert Silverberg): 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, The Ragged Astronauts, The Silver Stallion, War Games, Summertide, Saturn Rukh, Narabedla Ltd., Yurth Burden, The Brass Dragon, Wheelers
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0380507730 |
Contents include: The Science Fiction Blowgun by Isaac Asimov / A Loint of Paw by Isaac Asimov / The Advent on Channel Twelve by C. M. Kornbluth / Plaything by Larry Niven / The Misfortune Cookie by Charles E. Fritch / I Wish I May, I Wish I Might by Bill Pronzini / FTA by George R. R. Martin / Trace by Jerome Bixby...
| Author | Bob Shaw |
| ISBN | 0708882277 |
Land and Overland - twin worlds a few thousand miles apart. On Land, humanity faces a threat to its very survival - an airborne species, the ptertha, has declared war on humankind, and is actively hunting for victims. The only hope lies in migration. Through space to Overland. By balloon. The Ragged Astronauts...
| Author | James Branch Cabell |
| ISBN | 0345280725 |
as my compulsive consumption of cabell continues (this has been in my purse a month now and this is my third re-read), i have been alerted to the fact that i am reading these books "out of order" though it hardly seems to matter. i will say that it seems the more you read cabell, the more intertextualities...
| Author | David Bischoff |
| ISBN | 0440193877 |
O livro é bom mas não era aquilo de que eu estava à espera.
Mas, apesar disso, não posso dizer que WarGames tenha sido um mau livro. É fácil criarmos empatia com as personagens, a acção decorre a um bom ritmo e é inegável que ali para o final há uns momento de alguma tensão... ora, tudo...
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0345369378 |
It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both—but Quake in particular— to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, due to the Grand Conjunction of the system's stars and planets, something...
| Author | Robert L. Forward |
| ISBN | 0812534581 |
If there were a science-fiction university, Robert L. Forward would be the dean of the Xenobiology Department. As he deals with alien beings in a heavy gravity environment for Dragon’s Egg, he now deals in Saturn Rukh with creatures that float through gaseous clouds in the same way that whales and...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345360265 |
Years ago, Nolly Stennis had been a promising baritone. On the threshold of a great career with Narabedla Ltd., illness had ruined his voice. Then a cellist friend received an offer from Narabedla, only to disappear shortly thereafter. When Nolly set out to investigate, he found intergalatic intrigue...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0879977027 |
The world of Zacar was wracked with storms and life there was hard. Yet tow races shared it with no love between them. The Raski were the first people, the Yurth the late comers.
This is the story of Elossa, the Yurth girl who followed the Call that every Yurth sensitive must follow when the time...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0441071805 |
~• Il drago di Bronzo è un libro di fantascienza scritto ai suoi esordi da Marion Zimmer Bradley. Come saprete è un'autrice che ho molto amato nel ciclo di Avalon, ma questo libricino non è riuscito a rapirmi. Un po' il problema forse sta nel genere letterario che io non amo particolarmente (a meno...
In the year 2270, with travel to the nearby planets well established, a bizarre discovery is made on Callisto, the eighth moon of Jupiter. Dozens upon dozens of strange wheeled artifacts ("wheelers"), hundreds of thousands of years old, are found buried beneath the icy surface. What were they used...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0879977663 |
Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways, different from Earth and from each other. Any of those differences could mean death and disaster to a human settlement. When a ship filled with refugees...
Immortality - The ultimate reward: To come back to life - and never die again - that's what Forever Center promises the human race. And that's why, in the year 2148, people spend their whole lives in poverty, giving all their money to Forever Center to ensure their happiness and comfort in the next eternal...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0440004411 |
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...
| Author | Stephen R. Lawhead |
| ISBN | 0310205093 |
I read this for the first time shortly after it first came out at the suggestion of one of my parents' friends back in the late 80s. I remember being unsure of certain aspects of the book as it seemed to delve into what was called "New Age" beliefs and technologies based on those beliefs. I do remember enjoying...
| Author | Sheri S. Tepper |
| ISBN | 0553762842 |
The fragrant, sun-checkered canyon lands of the planet Dinadh seem to be a peaceful backwater of the universe...except for one thing. A century ago, a mysterious force wiped out human life on all surrounding worlds, leaving Dinadh untouched. Every team sent to investigate vanished. Every attempt...
| Author | M.A. Foster |
| ISBN | 0879972874 |
This a significant work of science fiction. Like all important science fiction this book can involve and enmesh the reader. There is an alternate world on the earth of the future. Two races of human exist. There are forerunners, who are old humans like us. There are the ler, who are a new species of human....
Ishmael, lone survivor of the doomed whaling ship Pequod, falls through a rift in time and space to a future Earth—an Earth of blood-sucking vegetation and a blood-red sun, of barren canyons where once the Pacific Ocean roared.
Here too there are whales to hunt—but whales that soar through...
