The Star Kings
9 best books like The Star Kings (Edmond Hamilton): The Road to Serfdom, Capitalism and Freedom, Bridge of Birds, The Scar, The Lady Astronaut of Mars, Swords and Deviltry, The Spinoza Problem, Guardians of Time, Methuselah's Children
| Author | Friedrich A. Hayek |
| ISBN | 0226320618 |
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the...
| Author | Milton Friedman |
| ISBN | 0226264211 |
Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war"
How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his...
| Author | Barry Hughart |
| ISBN | 0345321383 |
When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together, they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure.
The quest led them to a host of...
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345460014 |
Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city....
The Lady Astronaut of Mars
| Author | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| ISBN | 1466873825 |
Thirty years ago, Elma York led the expedition that paved the way to life on Mars. For years she's been longing to go back up there, to once more explore the stars. But there are few opportunities for an aging astronaut, even the famous Lady Astronaut of Mars. When her chance finally comes, it may be too late....
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1595820795 |
For the first time-the story of how the greatest heroes in fantastic literature first met.
'The two thieves had themselves been robbed by two youths, who eyed each other suspiciously over the sprawled, senseless bodies.
Fafhrd said: 'Our motives for being here seem identical.'...
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0465029639 |
When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced, as punishment, to memorize passages about Spinoza from the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is stunned to discover that Goethe,...
| 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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| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0671655973 |
After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All.
No...
