The Stars are Also Fire
10 best books like The Stars are Also Fire (Poul Anderson): Firestar, Nothing Sacred, By Any Other Name, Digital Knight, The Exile Waiting, Iceworld, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Design for Great-Day, Slow Train to Arcturus
| Author | Michael Flynn |
| ISBN | 0812530063 |
Michael Flynn continues to work with economic/mathematical predictive models of the future that are dead on target. In this book, he (correctly) predicts a recession leading to a small war in the year 2001-2 from the time of his authorship in the mid-1990s.
Perhaps more importantly, Flynn...
| Author | Elizabeth Ann Scarborough |
Another excellent book from this author. Prison camp war survival adventure in Tibet, I like books with slow evolving plots this one progressed nicely along didn't realize it was a disaster end of world type of book till well into it, found the story even more interesting as it progressed. Don't wish...
| Author | Spider Robinson |
| ISBN | 0671319744 |
FROM THE CRIME TO THE RIDICULOUS
From the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rock stars; blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; tomorrows formed by today's trends -- this Spider weaves...
Jason Wood was just an information specialist - finding data for research, enhancing photos for the police, a nice, usually quiet profession whose only dangers came from and occasional crook trying to eliminate the evidence. The a body with two holes in its neck and no blood left turned up at his back...
| Author | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| ISBN | 0575021896 |
The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable for much of the year by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside.
Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation,...
| Author | Hal Clement |
| ISBN | 0345258053 |
Mottled with sinister colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have produced intelligent life. Yet the expedition had contacted natives of some sort when it sent in unmanned landers.
More important,...
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0312288794 |
The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results:
Collected...
| Author | Audun Eckhoff |
| ISBN | 3775721010 |
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0812524608 |
When a strange starship appears mysteriously on a distant alien world, bearing only a single human and his bee-like extraterrestrial companion, the powerful warlord of that world laughs at the stranger's preposterous demand: End an all-out war with an interstellar rival, or face devastating consequences....
| Author | Eric Flint |
| ISBN | 1416555854 |
The planet Miran had sent a spaceship to rendezvous with the enormous vessel that was approaching their star system. The vessel’s design was odd—a multitude of separate globular habitats in a framework—and most of the alien team that entered one of the habitats were slaughtered by savage creatures...
| Author | Norman Spinrad |
| ISBN | 0312868251 |
In the Second Starfaring Age, humans travel the universe via a technology they barely understand, propelled by a space drive consisting of mysteriously complex mechanisms and, symbiotically linked to it, a living woman, the Void Pilot. Pilots are rare, and the ability to be a Pilot also entails physical...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0553264532 |
The epic science fiction trilogy--Homeworld, Wheelworld, and Starworld--from the author of West of Eden and Winter in Eden is now available in one volume.
Homeworld introduces us to Jan Kulozik, an upper-class engineer who has taken his privileges for granted. While vacationing at a luxurious...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0812558774 |
The Year is 1995 in high-tech, computer-rich America..
While on vacation with his beautiful girlfriend Cora, Donald BelPatri begins to realize that something is seriously wrong wit his memory.
Clickaderick...click
Donald's mind can coil into any computer consciousness,...
| Author | Mercedes Lackey |
| ISBN | 0671721453 |
Though I have yet to play a game from the Wing Commander series, this book has gotten me interested in the universe and has started me looking for a sale on Origin to buy a copy. I enjoyed how the book takes some time in delving into the characteristics of the cultures and differences between the Humans, Kilrathi,...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0312931301 |
I've been slowly downsizing, part of which involves dumping books on the local library. Some of the books I've decided to re-read before parting with. Among that category are the books in Gordon Dickson's Childe Cycle.
When I first read it I thought it lacked the originality and wonder of the...
| Author | Lloyd Biggle Jr. |
| ISBN | 1587150514 |
Lost Eden
It was a world of dazzling but deadly beauty, where pleasure was man's most precious birthright. In this lost colony the inhabitants had forgotten the very existence of earth. Only one man remembered. He foresaw the awesome consequences if this paradise were ever rediscovered.
Monument
The...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 1041465300 |
The Black Corridor is a science fiction novel by Michael Moorcock, published in 1969, first by Ace Books in the USA, as part of their Ace Science Fiction Specials series, and later by Mayflower Books in the UK.
It is essentially a novel about the decay of society and the deep personal and social isolation...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0312856431 |
Science Fiction. Humans have colonized the inhospitable world of Pava, but they still have to worry about budget cuts back on Earth and their own lack of resources. I've said it before, I will say it again. Pohl: excellent at science fiction; bad at people. His human characters spout cliched, boring...
