The Legacy of Heorot
10 best books like The Legacy of Heorot (Larry Niven): The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel / The Naked Sun / The Robots of Dawn, Diamond Mask, Heart of the Comet, Tides of Light, Worlds Apart, Heechee Rendezvous, The Adolescence of P-1, Assignment in Eternity, Prince of Mercenaries, Flight of the Dragonfly
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0345331192 |
In The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov first introduced Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw, who would later become his favorite protagonists. The book's central crime is a murder, which takes place before the novel opens. Roj Nemmenuh Sarton, a Spacer Ambassador, lives in Spacetown, the Spacer outpost...
| Author | Julian May |
| ISBN | 0330322990 |
The 21st century was drawing to a close, and metapsychic humankind was poised at last to achieve Unity to be admitted into the group mind of the already unified alien races of the Galactic Milieu. But a growing corps of rebels was plotting to keep the people of Earth forever separate in the name of human...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553258397 |
I put off reading this book for a very long time, for mathematical reasons. David Brin is one of my absolute favorite writers; let's say my opinion of him is a 9 out of 10 (and nobody gets a 10). Gregory Benford was an unknown quantity, but probability told me that I wouldn't like his writing as much as Brin's....
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0446611549 |
Make no mistake. There are some mind-blowing concepts in this book. A band of humans are on the run from a race of mechanical beings. They've stolen a ship and eluded pursuit, heading for a star system that should support them. But when they arrive, they find a destroyed and abandoned mech civilization--it...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0380716828 |
-Más desarrollos de la trama sobre una humanidad en decadencia.-
Género. Ciencia-Ficción.
Lo que nos cuenta. Marianne O´Hara sale de la Tierra en el último momento antes de que los misiles empiecen a caer y llega a Nueva Nueva York, en cuya estructura orbital se juntarán muchos...
| 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 | Thomas J. Ryan |
| ISBN | 0671559702 |
This is the story of P-1, the most charming--and frightening--literary "child" since Robert Heinlein's Mycroft Holmes, and a tour de force in the literary exploration of artificial intelligence.
A young college student writes a self replicating computer “virus,” programed to survive,...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0671578650 |
Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic novellas and two short stories with speculation on what makes us human.
"Gulf": in which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't...
| 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 | Robert L. Forward |
| ISBN | 0671559370 |
Powered by a revolutionary laser-driven stardrive, the first interstellar expedition would reach the double planet circling Barnard's Star in a mere twenty years. Some of the world's finest scientists were aboard that ship, and they would arrive prepared for adventure, danger and - to them, most...
| Author | Christopher Hinz |
| ISBN | 0812530756 |
BE WARNED…THIS BOOK IS
5.0 stars. This is one of those hidden “gems” that makes Goodreads so worthwhile as I would probably never have otherwise come across this book. It is always great to rave about the books you really love and hopefully encourage your friends to check it out. Unless,...
