Time for the Stars (Heinlein's Juveniles, #10)
10 best books like Time for the Stars (Heinlein's Juveniles, #10) (Robert A. Heinlein): Dolphin Island, The Norby Chronicles, Little Fuzzy, Galactic Patrol, The Martian Way and Other Stories, Trader to the Stars, The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge, The Fabulous Riverboat, Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven, Iceworld
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0441152201 |
Set in the near future, a cargo hovership makes an emergency stop in the Midwest to make repairs. An adventurous teenager, Johnny Clinton, sneaks on board.
About a day later there is an explosion, the craft comes to a stop in the southern Pacific Ocean, and starts to sink. Its crew, not aware they...
| Author | Janet Asimov |
| ISBN | 0441586341 |
It was just a dusty, old tin-can of a robot-- with no guarantee. But Jeff only needed it to teach him Martian Colony Swahili before he got expelled from the Space Academy.
Jeff Wells didn't really know what he had purchased.
He didn't realize that the robot had been constructed by a genius...
| Author | H. Beam Piper |
| ISBN | 0843959118 |
The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government....
| Author | E.E. "Doc" Smith |
| ISBN | 1882968115 |
The Galactic Patrol's Lensmen are the most feared peacekeepers in the Galaxy. The "Lens," a telepathic jewel matched to the ego of its wearer, is the ultimate weapon in the war against the merciless pirate Boskone and his forces of lawlessness. The only problem is the Galactic Patrol isn't sure how to...
This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0425612848 |
Humankind has explored the galaxy: Nicholas van Rijn had bought it. A starwide empire was difficult to run, but the old man was wily and the resources of the Solar Spice & Liquors Company were vast. But sometimes even a conquered world can get just a little out of hand.
In his Magnificent Future...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 1857984994 |
DiGriz and Angelina are happily married and expecting the birth of their sons. The planet Cliaand is waging interstellar war, and against the odds, its Grey Men are invading and taking over planet after planet. The Rat is sent to Cliaand to start a one-man guerrilla campaign to put a stop to the plans of...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0345419685 |
In To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer introduces readers to the awesome Riverworld, a planet that had been carved into one large river on whose shores all of humanity throughout the ages has seemingly been resurrected. In The Fabulous Riverboat, Farmer tells the tale of one person whose...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0345334698 |
Ranging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy...
Becalmed in hell
Howie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic!
Wait it out
He was trapped on Pluto...and...
| 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 | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0425019128 |
van Vogt is a firehose of sci-fi creativity. A little weird, a little raw, and like real life the pieces don't always, or even usually, fit together nicely. But his raw imagination, wildly inventive ideas and talent for instilling a sense of wonder and mystery (and some confusion) were unequaled in his...
| Author | Frank Herbert |
| ISBN | 0765317729 |
America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects.
When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 0099086700 |
2018 AD. The time of the Cold Peace, worse even than the Cold War. The bureaucratic regimes that rule from Washington and Moscow are indistinguishable in their passion for total repression. But in the West, a few dedicated individuals still struggle to find a way out of the trap of human history. Behind...
| Author | Paul French |
| ISBN | 0345315626 |
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (Lucky Starr, #2), Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids is the second novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French.
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| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0345316258 |
In the vast jungles of Janus, the peopkle of Ift and Naill Renfro, former Earthman and now halfling, were in trouble: Earthmen were destroying their homeland and they had no idea why.
Until Renfro discovered that people who looked like Ifts, whose minds were controlled by an unknown, unnamable...
