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10 best books like The Lazarus Effect (Frank Herbert): The Legacy of Heorot, Winter in Eden, Probability Moon, The Dune Encyclopedia, The Battles of Dune, The Gap Into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises, Dayworld, Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert, Children Of Tomorrow, The Seedling Stars

The Legacy of Heorot
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0671695320
The colonists from Earth have spent a century in cold sleep to make the first journey, one way, to settle a planet in another solar system. Avalon seems perfect, a verdant, livable world still in its prehistoric age. The biologists and engineers who busy themselves planting and building scoff at the...
Winter in Eden
AuthorHarry Harrison
ISBN0743412915
Harry Harrison, an acknowledged master of imaginative fiction, broke new ground with "West of Eden." He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendants challenged humans for mastery of Earth, where a young hunter named Kerrick...
Probability Moon
AuthorNancy Kress
ISBN0312875835
Earth is an environmental disaster area when humanity gains new hope: a star gate is discovered in the solar system, built by a long-gone alien race. Earth establishes extrasolar colonies and discovers alien races--including the warlike Fallers, the only spacefaring race besides humans. Mysterious,...
The Dune Encyclopedia
AuthorWillis Everett McNelly
ISBN0425068137
Eight years in the making, the work of painstakung scholarship and research, containing thousands of entries and cross-references...

Futurist, journalist, bestselling author, world-maker Frank Herbert's magnificent future history, The Dune Chronicles, has proven itself the most...
The Battles of Dune
AuthorFelix Salten
ISBN1559948981
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The Gap Into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises
AuthorStephen R. Donaldson
ISBN0553562606
A master storyteller, Stephen R. Donaldson established a worldwide reputation with his unforgettable, critically acclaimed fantasy series The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant.  Then, with The Real Story and Forbidden Knowledge, he launched a thrilling new science fiction series.  Now the...
Dayworld
AuthorPhilip José Farmer
ISBN0441140017
Dayworld leads a sf trilogy by Philip José Farmer set in a dystopian future in which an overpopulated world allocates people only one day a week. The other six days they're in suspended animation. The focus is on Jeff Caird, a daybreaker living more than a day a week. He's not like most daybreakers. He...
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
AuthorBrian Herbert
ISBN0765306476
Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune.

This amazing and complex epic, combining politics, religion, human evolution, and ecology, has captured the imagination of generations of readers. One of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, it has become a worldwide phenomenon,...
Children Of Tomorrow
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0450045986
Welcome home, Space Commander Lane. We know you've had a difficult time this past year evading those enigmatic, hostile aliens you encountered out there in the unmapped spaces between the stars. But you've also been gone a total of 10 yrs.-- and things have changed back here on earth.

Take spaceport...
The Seedling Stars
AuthorJames Blish
ISBN0575072393
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,...
Infinite Dreams
AuthorJoe Haldeman
ISBN0380476053
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...
Saturn
AuthorBen Bova
ISBN0812579429
Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us:

SATURN

Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0312060084
I'm continuing my recaps of early Dozois anthols, since I was reminded of one of my highlights this afternoon. Anyway, there are some great and near-great stories here. My highlights, by memory:

• Dafydd ab Hugh, "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel, by Mr. Skunk."...
The Long Result
AuthorJohn Brunner
ISBN0345218876
When racial hatred turns to murderous menace . . . First a rocket ship loses its engines on take-off and is destroyed. On board - an important extra-terrestrial visitor. Next someone slams into the sealed vehicle used for transporting aliens around in the lethal atmosphere of Earth. Then the vital controlled...
Futures from Nature
AuthorHenry Gee
ISBN0765318059
Here are 100 very short stories on the subject of the future and what it might be like. The authors include scientists, journalists, and many of the most famous SF writers in the world. Futures from Nature includes everything from satires and vignettes to compressed stories and fictional book...
Immortality Option
AuthorJames P. Hogan
ISBN0345397878
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, was frozen and lifeless...but only by some definitions!
Organic life had never evolved on its barren surface, but somehow Titan had become home to the Taloids, a race of self-aware robots who lived in competing city-states, grew houses and tools, tended their robotic...
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