The Military Form
10 best books like The Military Form (Christopher Rowley): Starstrike, Alien: River of Pain, The World of Tiers, Volume 1, The Dark Light Years, Starwolf, High Justice, Summertide, Saturn Rukh, Convergent Space, Hello Summer, Goodbye
| Author | W. Michael Gear |
| ISBN | 0886774276 |
Humanity's first contact with alien life is no less than a nightmare, as the Ahimsa take control of Earth and force humanity to do their bidding. Soon Earth's most skilled strike force, composed of Russian, American, and Israeli experts in the art of war and espionage, find themselves aboard the Ahimsa...
| Author | Christopher Golden |
| ISBN | 1781162727 |
When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426—now called Acheron—has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph—the killing machine known as the Alien.
Protected by the Colonial Marines,...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0312857616 |
The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster (a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contemporary world). Separately and together, the two...
The human species has begun to racket about the galaxy. When they reach the planet Grudgrodd, they come across another space-faring species. It's a case of instant dislike. The gentle Utods do not feel pain, they change sex as the planet changes suns, they live long pleasurable lives, free of stress....
| Author | Edmond Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0441784224 |
Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) was one of the true giants of golden age science fiction. He managed to create the space opera sub-genre and crank out a series of pulp novels under the Captain Future imprint. There are stories of him typing so fast the typewriter would move across his desk. Later he would...
High Justice begins Jerry Pournelle's own Future History, a universe which he shared with Larry Niven in their collaborative novel, The Mote in God's Eye. Here we see, with all the vivid detail for which Pournelle is known, the Fall of the West, and how in its death throes it gave birth to a society that...
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0345369378 |
It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both—but Quake in particular— to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, due to the Grand Conjunction of the system's stars and planets, something...
| Author | Robert L. Forward |
| ISBN | 0812534581 |
If there were a science-fiction university, Robert L. Forward would be the dean of the Xenobiology Department. As he deals with alien beings in a heavy gravity environment for Dragon’s Egg, he now deals in Saturn Rukh with creatures that float through gaseous clouds in the same way that whales and...
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‘You won't be able to put this book down, I know I couldn't and spent nights reading until I passed out with my kindle in hand. This is by far the best book I have read in a very long time.’
John (Wexford, USA)
'This book really was unputdownable. Perhaps one of the best new sci-fi...
| 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 | Craig Shaw Gardner |
| ISBN | 0446354872 |
I first saw the Batman 1989 version when I was 8 years old, and I thought it was the coolest movie ever since Star Wars! I've been a die-hard Batman film ever since. Michael Keaton was a great Batman and Jack Nicholson was phenomenal as The Joker.
The book follow the movie fairly well. Batman wages...
| Author | Rudy Rucker |
| ISBN | 0380701782 |
In 2030, bopper robots in their lunar refuge have founds a way to infuse DNA wetware with their own software code. The result is a new lifeform: the meatbop. Fair is fair, after all. Humans built the boppers, now bops are building humans. . .sort of. Its all part of an insidious plot thats about to ensnare...
| Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
| ISBN | 0812530144 |
Roger M. Allen's "Ring of Charon" is great science-fiction. A hence-undiscovered alien race causes the Earth to disappear through a wormhole due to the unauthorized experiments of a gravity scientist, and the remaining off-Earth scientists try to find out what really happened. The story is told...
| Author | Jack L. Chalker |
| ISBN | 0345402944 |
Wasn’t a bad book. I would not want to live like Littlefeet and Spotty. The time different with the space travel is crazy, it makes sense just crazy when you think about it. I was a little confused with the last chapter. It was basically an epilogue which is fine just wish it was titled that. When I started...
| Author | Philip Palmer |
| ISBN | 1841499447 |
The Hell Ship hurtles through space. Inside the ship are thousands of slaves, each the last of their race.
The Hell Ship and its infernal crew destroyed their homes, slaughtered their families and imprisoned them forever.
One champion refuses to succumb. Sharrock, reduced from...
| Author | Chris Claremont |
| ISBN | 0441235840 |
Oh my God this book was so fucking boring, you guys. it was so boring I can't even bring myself to do a proper review, I don't really know what to say besides "it's boring".
I mean, it seemed cool on paper: female lead, multicultural cast, space exploration. I've been hankering for a good space lady...
| Author | Brian Daley |
| ISBN | 0345314875 |
The Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh books are the best of Brian Daley's work, although all of his stories are great. Daley was a master of good storytelling, where there was never a wasted page, and the adventure and humor never stopped. In this series, our heros travel from a shantytown on the Moon...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0425058514 |
A rogue planet...frozen for a billion years by the cold of interstellar space, now boiling with titanic energies. Mysterious beings had kidnapped David Falkhayn, the celbrated explorer of new worlds. Why were they trying to prevent him, at all costs, from exploiting the devil planet's resources?...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0812554523 |
Across a Billion Years, by Robert Silverberg
Year first published: 1969
Review by Ed McKeown
Scattered throughout the globe of human-occupied space is evidence of a civilization that bestrode the galaxy before humanity was born. Now, a strange device has been discovered that shows...
| Author | Péter Zsoldos |
| ISBN | 9632111354 |
Itt ez a tenyérnyi könyv, szinte elveszik a polcomon a többkötetes, színes űroperák között, mégis óriássá nőtt a szememben. Nagyon tetszett!
Még fintorogtam egy kicsit az elején, hogy micsoda egy fura ötlet ez az "ősemberek bolygója", és az alaphelyzet (view spoiler)[egy...
| Author | Piers Anthony |
| ISBN | 0812531167 |
What's keeping you from your grand tour of the universe? Are you afraid of being caught out in the vastness of space with a painful cavity and no one capable of fixing it? Well fear not--the galaxy is simply teeming with dentists!
For Dr. Dillingham, dentist of Earth, it was the shock of his life--captured...
| Author | Stephen Ames Berry |
| ISBN | 0441062261 |
Earth’s been invaded, but nobody knows it. Invaded by biofabs—the Scotar—a diabolically crafted life form dedicated to turning mankind into either supper or shuffling brainwipes.
Cold and miserable on old Cape Cod, ex-CIA officer John Harrison and his lovely, handle-with-care...
