The Gandalara Cycle II

Author	W. Michael Gear
ISBN	0886774276

Humanity's first contact with alien life is no less than a nightmare, as the Ahimsa take control of Earth and force humanity to do their bidding. Soon Earth's most skilled strike force, composed of Russian, American, and Israeli experts in the art of war and espionage, find themselves aboard the Ahimsa...

Author

H. Beam Piper

The Paratime Police patrolled the vast number of alternate time dimensions. Their aim was to keep the existence of the alternative Earths a secret and prevent these Earths from mixing and destroying each other.

But the Time Police made mistakes, and they made a big one when a seemingly ordinary...

Author	Nancy Kress
ISBN	0380707063

The human species is at war with the Ged, a collective species that is baffled by humankind’s ability to turn violence upon itself & yet advance into space. In order to defeat the humans, the Ged must first understand them.
So they go to a world called Qom, where a lost Earth colony has forgotten...

Author	Spider Robinson
ISBN	0671319744

FROM THE CRIME TO THE RIDICULOUS
From the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rock stars; blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; tomorrows formed by today's trends -- this Spider weaves...

Author	Mickey Zucker Reichert
ISBN	0886775205

Original review posted here

After reading the first book in the Renshai series, The Last of the Renshai, I knew I’d be diving into the second book in short order. I was no longer cowed by the enormous size of the books (600+ paperbacks? Sure.. I didn’t need those hand muscles), and anxious...

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	Marion Zimmer Bradley
ISBN	0879978155

Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0812524608

When a strange starship appears mysteriously on a distant alien world, bearing only a single human and his bee-like extraterrestrial companion, the powerful warlord of that world laughs at the stranger's preposterous demand: End an all-out war with an interstellar rival, or face devastating consequences....

Author	Hal Clement
ISBN	0345258509

This sequel novel to Needle, was written and published in 1978, some 29 years after its predecessor but takes place only a few years later. The main character, Bob Kinnaird has completed his college degree and returned to his Polynesian island home to confront and get help for what has become all too obvious:...

Author

Harry Harrison

-------------- Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn-t be so
-------------- bad - if I could shoot the trouble! from the introductory:

The Old Man had that look of intense glee on his face that meant someone was in for a very rough time. Since we were alone, it took no great...

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0385174438

ASIMOV:
Grand Master of SF

No one knows science fiction as well as Isaac Asimov, the bestselling author of the FOUNDATION saga and many other classic works. He has taken part in all the significant developments and knows most of the important writers personally. His familiarity with the...

Author	Rosemary Kirstein
ISBN	0345368851

Two shining lights hung above, motionless in the night sky as the constellations slowly passed behind them. The common folk knew them well, and used them to count the hours, mark the seasons.

But when the steerswoman Rowan discovered a number of broken blue jewels of clearly magical origin,...

Author	Gardner Dozois
ISBN	0312274785

The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:

Stephen Baxter, M.Shayne...

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0671319590

HUMANS OR HEMNOIDS: AN UNBEARABLE CHOICE Planet Dilbia is in a crucial location for both humans and their adversaries, the Hemnoids. Therefore making friends with the Dilbians and establishing a human presence there is of the utmost importance, which may be a problem, since the bearlike Dilbians...

Author	Jack Dann
ISBN	0553378570

TOMO I
Este sim é um verdadeiro Romance Histórico!!!
Já tive oportunidade de ler outros livros onde me cruzava com os ilustres personagen de Florença na altura de Leonardo Da Vinci, mas nunca em tão grande número.
É-nos apresentado um vasto desfile de personagens Históricas,...

Author	Parke Godwin
ISBN	0385246358

Imagine if "Job" by Heinlein was written from the immortals' perspectives.

Good, yes? Now keep that image in mind. Hold it firm and tight, and you won't have to read this book, as likely what's in your head is better than what's on the page.

It's not bad, exactly. It's an interesting look...