The Time Machine/The Island of Doctor Moreau (World's Classics)
10 best books like The Time Machine/The Island of Doctor Moreau (World's Classics) (H.G. Wells): City, Airport, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, Dune I, Untouched By Human Hands, Red Star, Алые паруса, Kai aš buvau malalietka, Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis/Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums
Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories told by Dogs about the end of human civilization, centering on the Webster family, who, among their other accomplishments, designed the ships that took Men to the stars and gave Dogs the gift of speech and...
Author | Arthur Hailey |
ISBN | 0425176088 |
As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination. Over the course of seven pulse-pounding...
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Author | Erich Maria Remarque |
ISBN | 0151904707 |
After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks’ leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes.
Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents...
The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
Author | Stanisław Lem |
ISBN | 0156849054 |
Although Solaris is Stanislaw Lem’s most esteemed work, I believe The Star Diaries—the contemporaneous memoirs of star-pilot Ijon Tichy—to be a better representative of his genius, for it is ambitious in scope, inventive, and often profound.
The Star Diaries, a series of interplanetary...
Author | Frank Herbert |
ISBN | 2266155482 |
Tome 2 : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Il n'y a pas, dans tout l'Empire, de planète plus inhospitalière que Dune.
Partout des sables à perte de vue. Une seule richesse : l'épice de longue vie, née du désert, et que tout l'univers achète à n'importe quel prix....
Author | Robert Sheckley |
ISBN | 1345004370 |
The 1950s saw publication of Sheckley's 1st four books: short story collections Untouched by Human Hands (Ballantine '54), Citizen in Space ('55), Pilgrimage to Earth (Bantam '57) & a novel, Immortality, Inc. (1st serialized in Galaxy, '58).
"The Monsters" (F&SF 1953/3)
"Cost...
Author | Alexandr Bogdanov |
ISBN | 0253203171 |
[A] surprisingly moving story." --The New Yorker
Bogdanov's novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it." --Slavic Review
Bogdanov's imaginative predictions for...
Author | Alexander Grin |
ISBN | 5170261691 |
Scarlet Sails, a beloved Russian fairy-tale for adults and children alike, is a story about dreams coming true, no matter how silly or futile or far-reached they may seem.
(Because of this book, I even had a sailor suit when I was little :D)
Who hasn't had wild childhood dreams that we...
Author | Virginija Kulvinskaitė |
Pirmoji išpažintinė knyga apie laukinį dešimtąjį dešimtmetį Vilniuje, papasakota iš moters perspektyvos. Kioskeliai, reivai, pirmieji Vilniaus naktiniai klubai, tūsai, vėliau – doktorantūros studijos ir tarptautinės konferencijos. Filologė, netikinti literatūra...
Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis/Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums
Author | Douglas Adams |
ISBN | 3453406931 |
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Tome 1 : Dune 1
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Le Messie de Dune
Paul Atréides vient d'avoir quinze ans. Les Révérendes Mères le surveillent il est issu d'une lignée sélectionnée et a montré dès l'enfance des dons extraordinaires. Serait-il le surhomme prévu par leur programme génétique...
Author | Clifford D. Simak |
ISBN | 0881849855 |
I can't remember where I first heard of this. I thought it was from a goodreads friend but no one seems to have reviewed it that I'm friends with. But this was just AMAZING! I can't believe I've spent so many decades reading science fiction and never come across this author before.
I LOVED this....