The Gentle Giants of Ganymede

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0446608904

When the rocket launching the Mars Transit Vehicle into orbit explodes on the launch pad, killing four crewmen, the President announces the U.S. will redirect its energies to near-Earth projects. The manned mission to Mars is officially dead. That is until billionaire John Axelrod steps in to fund...

Author	David Gerrold
ISBN	0553277820

CONCEPT: Earth has been invaded by the Chtorr culture; a mix of especially nasty and powerful beings that make up this alien ecological chain. First, 75% or more of the humans were wiped out by the plagues and now gigantic worm like creatures are further slaying people while they infest the American lands.

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Author	Hal Clement
ISBN	0345273583

Dhrawn was a giant rockball, more than 3,000 times the mass of Earth. Perhaps a planet, perhaps a nearly dead star, these 17 billion square miles of mystery cried out for investigation. But its corrosive atmosphere and crushing gravity assured that no human would ever set foot on its surface.
Those...

Author	Brian Daley
ISBN	0345329198

Giving it more of a 3.5/3.75. The end of the trilogy is bittersweet as author Brian Daley died before writing more exploits of Hobart and Alacrity (one wonders why he abandoned the characters in favor of Robotech novels, but oh well). A few things become blazingly apparent with this entry, most specifically...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0722111312

In the immeasurable past a mysterious alien race known as The Others left mankind a challenging legacy, a 'gate' to the unexplored reaches of the stars. Humanity has utilized the gate to painstakingly colonize the Phoebus star system but has left the rest of the galaxy unexplored. In the midst of turbulent...

Author

Frank Herbert

Add to the names of
HEINLEIN
CLARKE
BRUNNER
ALDISS
and other titans of science fiction the name of
FRANK HERBERT
whose epic novel DUNE made SF best-seller history--along with his DUNE MESSIAH, THE SANTAROGA BARRIER, and others.

DAW BOOKS proudly presents...

Author	Aubrey Hansen
ISBN	1470161217

17-year-old Philadelphia has been imprisoned most of her life because of her Christian beliefs. When her father is sent to Mars against his will to work on a mysterious science project and a benevolent official allows her to accompany him, Philadelphia knows she must keep her head down or be sent back...

Author	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0441091423

"For the first fifty pages you'll swear that Harrison has been rummaging in an old trunk. Here's that tired old theme...the lost community of Aztecs who have been cut off in a hidden valley by a landslide centuries ago. Presently they will discover the outside world--our world. The stalwart Aztec maverick...

Author

Gordon R. Dickson

An ancient starship is found adrift in space, damaged by alien Laagi warships. The voice of its pilot still survives - a mind merged with the ship itself.

Now, Earth's scientists attempt to duplicate the feat. Pilot Jim Wander has been chosen for the dangerous mission. His spirit transferred...

Author	Simon Hawke
ISBN	1584450541

At first the discovery of minus time seemed like a blessing. Countries at war could fight their battles in the past rather than destroy the present. But now the situation was desperate. Humanity faced the danger of a temporal split, with incalculable consequences, as a result of attempts to change the...

Author

Christine Dougherty

Faith was three the first time her twin sister died.
The second time, she was ten.

Faith and her twin sister depended only on each other, bonding deeply through telepathy in the midst of their tumultuous childhood.
When her twin dies, Faith becomes a shut-in, deciding to ignore the...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0345280660

So here I am, finally: I've finished the entire Humanx Commonwealth series... all TWENTY EIGHT books of it! Looking back at my 'read' list, it has taken me just nine days short of a year (although I've read a lot of other stuff in that year too).

What a wild ride! For those of you who don't know, this...

Author	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0523401841

As billions of people around the globe sit glued to their television sets in the year 2015, Richard Orme, captain of the first expedition to land on Mars, takes another giant step for mankind. His first words, as he steps out of the landing craft onto the red planet, are transmitted to Earth minutes later:...

Author	Samuel R. Delany
ISBN	0743486617

Delany has a grasp of the evolutionary nature of mythology, a subtle comic touch, and a lyric sense of the outsider making his unorthodox way in the world--or worlds--that give his work a dimension unusual...

Contents:
Of doubts and dreams : an introduction / by Samuel R. Delany --
Prismatica...

Author	Greg Bear
ISBN	0812519965

My wife recommended I read Heads, written by Greg Bear. A short book, with only 151 pages, I could hardly refuse. Bear paints a future where colonies on the Earth, Moon and Mars all have family ran corporations. Heads focuses on a Moon based corporation, the BM Sandoval company.

The story switches...

Author	Julian May
ISBN	0345355237

I first discovered Julian May about three or four years ago, when I picked up "Jack the Bodiless," Book 1 in the "Galactic Milieu Trilogy." I thought, "Fantastic! Book one! I can start at the beginning!" But after I was already well into Jack the Bodiless, I learned that it was the beginning of a trilogy...

Author	Edgar Rice Burroughs
ISBN	0426177347

Yet another title that I have long sought.

Found this gem in the bottom of a box at my local used book store.

Expectations exceeded content.

Initially everything felt rushed. All of the frame work that Burroughs normally sets up was hastily erected. The curtains are raised...

Author	Ben Bova
ISBN	0345302486

Comes the millennium

In a thriving colony far beneath the ancient crater-marked crust of the Moon, the Russians and the Americans joined together to launch the most daring offensive ever against Earth in a desperate attempt to save Man from himself...

Chet Kinsman

The American...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345339282

The crew of the Constitution--scientists cum astronauts--had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system. There they would explore the planet Alpha-Aleph and then return. They were the...