The Trikon Deception
10 best books like The Trikon Deception (Ben Bova): Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1), The House of the Kzinti, David Falkayn: Star Trader, Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation of Humanity, Contact with Chaos, Planets of Adventure, Sunborn, Choosing Names, The Doublecross Program, Star Corps
Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1)
| Author | Alan Burt Akers |
| ISBN | 0860078027 |
On the planet Kregen that circles Antares, the brightest star of the Constellation of the Scorpion, two forces contend for the world's destiny. One of them, the Savanti, called in a human pawn from far-away Earth.
His name is Dray Prescot, and only the Savanti know his role.
Dray Prescot...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 0743488253 |
Dr Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American science fiction writer, engineer, essayist, and journalist, who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte, and from 1998 until his death maintained his own website and blog.
From the beginning, Pournelle's work centered around strong...
1. Poul Anderson remains one of science fiction's most popular writers, and this generous volume of his best work, with wide-ranging themes and settings, will attract his thousands of fans and win him many new ones.
2. Included is a complete novel, Satan's World, and a number of equally...
| Author | Christopher Anvil |
| ISBN | 1416520996 |
"Vaughan Roberts and his two companions had been trapped on a crime-ridden, chaotic planet until they bamboozled the population with a gigantic hoax - which brought them to the attention of the Interstellar Patrol, who were looking for a few good con men, capable of ingenious improvisation and adept...
| Author | Michael Z. Williamson |
| ISBN | 1416591540 |
When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligent lifeforms-the first which humans had ever encountered-it should have been the most important event in history. And it might be-for all the wrong reasons. Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys to the...
| Author | Murray Leinster |
| ISBN | 0743471628 |
Planets of Adventure is an anthology of short stories. It contains one almost full-length story and several shorter stories, all of which are based on the theme implied by the title. The quality of the stories was pretty consistent – they weren’t terribly engaging, but they did hold my interest...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Carver |
| ISBN | 0312864531 |
Stars are dying: that's the news that greets John Bandicut and his companions. They must travel to a nebula called Starmaker—to discover what force threatens not just the newborn stars, but every world within a thousand light-years. They must journey not just into the perils of a star-forming nebula,...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0671878883 |
ROUND EIGHT, MONKEY BOYS!
In a new story, Larry Niven tells of the earliest days of the first Man-Kzin War.
The Kzin had learned of the existance of human-occupied space, a find that promised new technolgies for the race, and new wealth for the fierce Kzin Warriors in the form of land,...
| Author | Chris Bunch |
| ISBN | 0451459865 |
M'chel Riss and the Star Risk, Ltd. team find themselves in the middle of a strange assignment: a staged bank robbery that involves putting money back. But the job soon takes an even stranger turn when they get caught up in a full-fledged war over an addictive new consumer product. The roguish mercenaries...
| Author | Ian Douglas |
| ISBN | 0380818248 |
In the future,
earth's warriors have
conquered the heavens.
But on a distant world,
Humanity is in chains ...
Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and...
| Author | Clifford D. Simak |
| ISBN | 0441824439 |
Prospecting on the Moon was grim, dangerous and usually unrewarding. Only most of the green-horns who came to try didn't find out until after they got there.
Chris Jackson was no exception. He put everything he owned and could borrow into this, and he'd be ruined if he failed. His only chance...
| Author | David J. Williams |
| ISBN | 0553385429 |
In his electrifying debut, The Mirrored Heavens, David J. Williams created a dark futuristic world grounded in the military rivalries, terror tactics, and political wrangling of our own time. Now he takes his masterful blend of military SF, espionage thriller, and dystopian cyberpunk one step further--to...
| Author | William C. Dietz |
| ISBN | 0441873464 |
“Now the stars no longer seemed mysterious. Just beautiful points of light, none of which were home.”
A product of its times (first published in 1986) can be seen in both the portrayal of women, though Dietz did better than many contemporaries, and the cigars. Today such a work would be boycotted,...
| Author | L.E. Modesitt Jr. |
| ISBN | 0812516168 |
Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who is captured, taken in, and...
| Author | Mark L. Van Name |
| ISBN | 1439132674 |
1. Rave reviews for Mark L. Van Name:
· “Van Name has created a hero worth at least a dozen more novels . . . I want this to be a series. I want to read a new one every year.” —Orson Scott Card
· “One Jump Ahead is like well-aged white...
| Author | David Hagberg |
| ISBN | 0765320223 |
David Hagberg's New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series continues with a deadly mission to find a long-lost treasure map in Blood Pact.
A large portion of the fabulous treasure originally stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century was buried in the desert of southern New Mexico...
| Author | William H. Keith Jr. |
| ISBN | 0743435664 |
I was... satisfied... with this book. It's a full length Bolo novel written by William H. Keith Jr. (Who goes by numerous pen names as well), but it wasn't up to the standards of the short stories or the full length novels written by other writers (like Ringo and Weber). The tanks aren't as likeable, the...
| Author | David Sherman |
| ISBN | 0345460596 |
A BOLD NEW CONTINGENT–FORCE RECON–JOINS THE EXPLOSIVE STARFIST SPACE EPIC OF MARINES AT WAR.
A Confederation army is besieged on the planet Ravenette, cut off by and facing destruction at the hands of a dozen Secessionist Coalition worlds arrayed against it. The outnumbered and outgunned...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0812513401 |
This is another book in the “Hammer's Slammers” series. Military science fiction is an acquired taste and this one is pretty good.
As merchant families control planets, they often find it more efficient to hire mercenaries than maintaining standing forces. (As I have usually found in...
