The Last Starship from Earth
10 best books like The Last Starship from Earth (John Boyd): Pilgrimage: The Book of the People, Empire Star, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, This Star Shall Abide, The Great Explosion, Warm Worlds and Otherwise, Hello Summer, Goodbye, Zoyka's Apartment: A Tragic Farce in Three Acts, A Touch of Strange, The 10th Victim
| Author | Zenna Henderson |
| ISBN | 0380015072 |
These are the People.
Marooned on this planet by the crash of their interstellar vehicle in the distant past, The People are never free of a sense of strangeness in this world and a yearning for the home they have half-forgotten.
These are the chronicles of their arrival on this world, their...
| Author | Samuel R. Delany |
| ISBN | 0553234250 |
On a habitable moon near Tau Ceti, a young man named Comet Jo encounters a devil-kitten and sees a spaceship crash land. One of the people in the spaceship tells Jo that he has to take an urgent message to Empire Star, and dies. Another collapses to form Jewel, a compact, multicolored, multiplexed crystalline...
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...
Children of the Star trilogy, Book One. Noren knew that his world was not as it should be—it was wrong that only the Scholars and Technicians could use metal and Machines. It was wrong that only they had access to the knowledge hidden in the mysterious City. He was a heretic. He defied the High Law and had...
In his 1955 collection entitled "Men, Martians and Machines," English sci-fi author Eric Frank Russell told, via one short story and three novellas, some of the adventures of a starship crew that strongly suggested nothing less than a proto-"Star Trek" ensemble. The collection featured visits to...
| Author | James Tiptree Jr. |
| ISBN | 0345280229 |
Stories:
All the Kinds of Yes
The Milk of Paradise [1973 Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Place: 18)]
And I Have Come upon This Place by Lost Ways
The Last Flight of Dr. Ain [nominated, 1969 Nebula Award]
Amberjack
Through a Lass Darkly
The Girl Who Was Plugged In [winner,...
| Author | Michael G. Coney |
| ISBN | 0575019743 |
It was an alien planet - yet not too alien from Earth. It had its differences; its ice goblins, its curious furry lorrin, its thickening water, and its unearthly tides, but for a young man like Alika-Drove thinking of a vacation by the sea these oddities were the norm.
But this vacation was different....
| Author | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| ISBN | 1880399938 |
Muy buena obra de teatro. Se trata de una sátira sobre la vida urbana durante la década de 1920 en Moscú. La revolución reciente, el absurdo, la corrupción, el oportunismo, todo tiene lugar en esta brillante pieza de Bulgakov. La aparición de este tipo de obras durante una dictadura creo que puede...
| Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
| ISBN | 0879973730 |
'Winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, Theodore Sturgeon has established his reputation as one of the most original and provocative of SF writers.
Here are nine masterpieces of imagination from the period of his finest creativity. Included are "The Pod in the Barrier", "The Other Celia",...
| Author | Robert Sheckley |
| ISBN | 0451149696 |
The 10th Victim (La decima vittima) is an Italian cult sf film directed by Elio Petri in 1965. It is based on Robert Sheckley's 1953 short story "Seventh Victim". He published a novelization of the film in 1966.
The film begins with a man chasing a woman thru the streets whilst shooting at her. He's...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0345306791 |
Traveling backward in time, Don Miguel had to undo the errors and interruptions of other time-interlopers. Even the most insignificant nudging of the past could entirely alter the present! And he suspected that a maniacal genius crazed with a desire for nationalist vindication had plotted to alter...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0553241036 |
Collection of three novellas.
Title novella: This Robert Silverberg novella was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was released, and won the coveted Nebula and Locus awards. A man's wife is among the rekindled dead now. He's heard that she was on an airplane to Zanzibar with...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0586069380 |
THE WEIRD & WONDERFUL WORLDS OF PHILIP K. DICK
Robot psychiatrists activated by $20 coins
A war veteran who keeps changing into a blob of organic jelly
Business advice from the souls of the departed
A machine that turns musical scores into small, furry animals
A dog story that...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0330255436 |
Inventive, imaginative, visionary - an apt description for both men and women in the novel and author of the novel. Christopher Priest, one of my favorite novelists, set my mind gyrating and performing pirouettes once again with his A Dream of Wessex.
In 1985, in a special facility...
The Left Hand of the Electron
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0440947170 |
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was professor of biochemistry in the Boston University and a very prolific writer,mainly of hard SF,popular science books and popular histhory books.
He is a great teacher,that explains,in his popular science books,with a simple direct and clear prose full of...
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0755100662 |
When an undeclared Acid Head War breaks out, Britain is the first to be devastated by Psycho-Chemical Aerosols--tasteless, odourless, colourless psychedelic drugs, which distort the minds of thousands of civilians into extreme terror or extreme joy. When the warped citizens of Europe proclaim...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 0575072393 |
The Seedling Stars is a collection of science fiction short stories by James Blish. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1957 in an edition of 5000 copies. The stories all concern adapting humans to alien environments. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction,...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0380476053 |
I've read several of Joe Haldeman's novels, and enjoyed them, though he's not one of my favourite authors. His SF tends to be towards the hard end, though with plenty of human drama to it - much of it referencing his experiences in Vietnam. Hardish SF about war is a bit out of my central preference zone, so...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0330016601 |
HARD TIMES That's what leads Manson Everard to answer an ad offering "high pay and foreign travel for men and women with military experience." But compared to where - and when - he's going, "hard times" in the 20th-century U.S.A. are easy!
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1 • Time Patrol • [Time Patrol...
| Author | Michael P. Kube-McDowell |
| ISBN | 0743475364 |
The devastating Food and Fuel Wars have turned once-powerful nations into isolated farming communities. Barter has replaced currency, and scientists-considered responsible for the world's misery-are burned at the stake. Hidden in the Idaho hills, astronomer Allen Chandliss secretly monitors...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0441374697 |
Francis Sandow is the last surviving human born in the 20th century. An early space colonist, he spent long centuries of space travel in suspended animation, and then suddenly woke in a far future world where everything had changed. Desperate for something to hold to, he sought out a mentor, who happened...
