The World of Ptavvs
10 best books like The World of Ptavvs (Larry Niven): Pilgrimage: The Book of the People, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, Starquake, Waldo and Magic, Inc, The Early Asimov: Book One, The Last Starship from Earth, Quest for the Well of Souls, Summertide, The River of Time, Homeworld
| Author | Zenna Henderson |
| ISBN | 0380015072 |
These are the People.
Marooned on this planet by the crash of their interstellar vehicle in the distant past, The People are never free of a sense of strangeness in this world and a yearning for the home they have half-forgotten.
These are the chronicles of their arrival on this world, their...
The Paratime Police patrolled the vast number of alternate time dimensions. Their aim was to keep the existence of the alternative Earths a secret and prevent these Earths from mixing and destroying each other.
But the Time Police made mistakes, and they made a big one when a seemingly ordinary...
| Author | Robert L. Forward |
| ISBN | 0595167489 |
This sequel to Dragon's Egg picks up right after the first... which is already rather extraordinary for regular time-constraint purposes.
Just imagine first-contact with little super-dense and fast-living aliens living on a neutron star passing through our Solar System. Now imagine...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0450397300 |
North Power-Air was in trouble. Their aircraft had begun to crash at an alarming rate, and no one could figure out what was going wrong. Desperate for an answer, they turned to Waldo, the crippled genius who lived in a zero-g home in orbit around Earth.
But Waldo had little reason to want to help...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0345325907 |
Stories Included:
The Callistan Menace.9
Ring Around the Sun.23
The Magnificent Possession.34
Trends.47
The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use.62
Black Friar of the Flame.76
Half-Breed.109
The Secret Sense.126
Homo Sol.136
Half-Breeds on Venus.151
The...
| Author | John Boyd |
| ISBN | 0140048758 |
Haldane IV and Helix were a part of an ultra-rational society where mathematicians did not write poetry, where mathematicians did not fall in love with poets, and where most specifically, Haldane IV, young mathematician, couldn't possibly marry Helix, the attractive poet of his choice. It was in...
| Author | Jack L. Chalker |
| ISBN | 0743471539 |
Welcome to the Well World: a construct of an ancient defunct race known as the Markovians. The Well World acts both as the controller of and the gateway to 1560 worlds created by the Markovians at the end of their time.
Exiles at the Well of Souls left Mavra Chang captured by the Olborn and partially...
| 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 | David Brin |
| ISBN | 1857234138 |
The River of Time brings together eleven short stories, including "The Crystal Spheres" (WINNER: Hugo Award Best SF Short Story 1985), and four new stories published here for the first time.
Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0553226479 |
Jan Kulozik was one of Earth's privileged elite. A brilliant young electronics engineer, he enjoyed all the blessings of a 23rd-century civilization that survived the global collapse and conquered the stars, unaware of the millions who slaved or starved to maintain his way of life.
Then Jan met...
| Author | Paul Chafe |
| ISBN | 1416520716 |
The length was intimidating, just under a thousand pages but worth it. Chafe has the military training and enough science smarts to pull it all together (I'm sure Larry was involved in a few pre-reads). There are elements of the Greek tragedies such as Jason and the Argonauts, Orpheus and Eurydice in...
| Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
| ISBN | 0879973730 |
'Winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, Theodore Sturgeon has established his reputation as one of the most original and provocative of SF writers.
Here are nine masterpieces of imagination from the period of his finest creativity. Included are "The Pod in the Barrier", "The Other Celia",...
| Author | Hal Clement |
| ISBN | 0345291727 |
After his ship crashed on the inhospitable planet Abyorman, Nils Kruger had spent weeks wandering across the face of the planet.suffering from blistering heat, the searing cold of an alien climate. Now he had found a fellow wanderer, Dar, an alien castaway. They may both die. The human opts to do something...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0812531817 |
Capt. Ling Sanjen suffers thru a mutiny that dishonors him, an illness that nearly destroys him & a war that redeems him. A Caucasian in a post-apocalyptic world where Orientals rule, Sanjen's a social misfit. His career as a fleet captain ends when he makes the mistake of being right while everyone...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0340163380 |
The barbarians in their long ships waiting at the edge of the Galaxy...
...waited for the ancient Terran Empire to fall, while two struggled to save it: ex-Admiral McCormac, forced to rebel against a corrupt Emperor, and Starship Commander Flandry, the brilliant young officer who served...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345300556 |
At last - the ultimate book in the renowned Heechee Saga!
Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent...
| 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 | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0345306791 |
Traveling backward in time, Don Miguel had to undo the errors and interruptions of other time-interlopers. Even the most insignificant nudging of the past could entirely alter the present! And he suspected that a maniacal genius crazed with a desire for nationalist vindication had plotted to alter...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0312852398 |
When A.E. van Vogt wove several of his classic stories of The Rull into a novel, he created a work of enduring popularity in the science fiction field. Now back in print for the first time in the 1990s, this Tor edition includes "The First Rull," a story that postdates the novel and makes this book the first...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 5550929929 |
Sooner or later, all civilizations age and decline, grow senile and die—either by conquest from without, or from internal rot. The final days of Western Civilization are signaled by the joining of the USA and the USSR into a ruthless and imperial state that spans first the Earth and then the Solar System....
