The Gripping Hand
10 best books like The Gripping Hand (Larry Niven): Outies, Bolo, Heaven's Reach, Ring, Eternity, The Stars are Also Fire, The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth, Heechee Rendezvous, Counting the Cost, Prince of Mercenaries
| Author | Jennifer R. Pournelle |
Outies is an authorized sequel to The Mote in God's Eye and The Gripping Hand by best-selling SF duo Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. With a fresh point of view, deep continuity, and page-turning plot twists, J.R. (Jennifer) Pournelle brings a mature generation of Moties to life for a mature generation...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0425075591 |
Bolo. Originally developed as far back as the 1980's by the Bolo Division of General Motors, these great artillery machines took on awareness in later designs and gradually began to replace man in that most human of endeavors: War.
But let Bolo speak for itself. In the action-packed Annals of the...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553574736 |
Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his most imaginative and powerful novel to date--the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation.
The brutal enemy that has relentlessly...
| Author | Stephen Baxter |
| ISBN | 0061056944 |
Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0446601888 |
I saw positive references to Eon, the first book in the series, in Brian Aldiss's Trillion Year Spree, and I bought it before a long flight. I think I had read most of it, or even all of it, before I arrived in California. It was pretty dull, but somehow I bought the second one too, and it was even duller. Chris...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0812530225 |
After being less than impressed by “a harvest of stars” I decided to give the sequel a go.
And let’s get it over with from the start, it is a far better story. 3.5 stars.
Where “harvest” focussed on the humans leaving earth, this one focuses on the ones who stayed behind.
In...
The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 1439133417 |
Two of the Grand Master's finest: The saga of the opening of the space frontier as courageous men and women risked their lives to build the first space station and colonize the Moon and Venus, while praying for one last landing on the globe that gave them birth, to return to The Green Hills of Earth.
From...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345300556 |
At last - the ultimate book in the renowned Heechee Saga!
Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0671653555 |
This is another in the Hammer’s Slammers series. (I know the series name sounds corny but the Science Fiction is solid.) Actually, I didn’t like it at first. I expected action, but got none. It is, instead, a consideration of religion as the basis for war. Are the religious peacemakers – or the Slammer...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 0671698117 |
For a century, the Americans and Soviets had maintained an uneasy alliance based on the CoDominium, a world order in which no other power or combination of powers could threaten their mutual hegemony. Thus did the Americans and Russians learn to live at peace with each other.
But nothing lasts...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0005530522 |
Jim was left in the custody of the League Navy, this story opens with him escaping from his prison cell on the League base on Steren-Gwandra, where he is awaiting deportation back to his home world. He has discovered that Bibs, a crew girl from Captain Garth's ship, is also a prisoner. Jim holds Garth responsible...
