Time Is the Simplest Thing
10 best books like Time Is the Simplest Thing (Clifford D. Simak): Venus Plus X, Time Storm, Dark Universe, Mindbridge, The Stochastic Man, The People of the Wind, The Pirates of Ersatz, Who?, Davy, Courtship Rite
| Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
| ISBN | 0375703748 |
Time Storm
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0671721488 |
I completely forgot to mention the dedication which I reproduce in full here
To the Librarians
During the 1930's and 1940's anyone writing science fiction did so almost exclusively for magazines. Then in the early 1950's the magazine market began to die and paperback books...
| Author | Daniel F. Galouye |
| ISBN | 0575071370 |
The above rating graphic provides a pretty good assessment of my opinion of the story...which stands to reason in a "DUH, thank you Col. Obvious" sorta way since I created it. Well, at the risk of raining down obvious all over you, let me add that this is certainly a book on which I would recommend...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0575071141 |
In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0451079000 |
True, the two grandmasters share an affinity for the physical and the libertarian, and both have a natural talent for world building – but Anderson steers this ship clearly along the Missourians path. This is similar to The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress...
| Author | Murray Leinster |
| Author | Algis Budrys |
The more sublimely penetrating stories I read by this quiet magician, the greater my bowel irritation that he isn't given his propers as a maestro of thoughtful, intelligent SF like this:
This...
| Author | Edgar Pangborn |
| Author | Donald Kingsbury |
| ISBN | 0671460897 |
Courtship Rite is a sf novel by American writer Donald Kingsbury,...
| Author | Michael Bishop |
| ISBN | 0553569430 |
| Author | Robert Sheckley |
| ISBN | 0812519310 |
Thomas Blaine awoke in a white...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0020302754 |
| Author | Cordwainer Smith |
| ISBN | 0515039691 |
Characters: 2/5
Writing Style: 2/5
World: 3/5
Every now and then a little golden age science fiction found its way back into a genre that was on its way to abandoning it. Not that science fiction ever completely outgrew its pulp adolescence, but by 1964 it was becoming...
| Author | Thomas Burnett Swann |
| ISBN | 0583123945 |
Thea watched their torch-bearing captors recede into the distance and leave them to the cave's darkness. Her brother Icarus whispered "forgive me - I wanted to come to the Country of the Beasts, not to the Cave of the Minotaur".
Then they heard the soft padding of feet...
The Butterfly Kid
| Author | Chester Anderson |
Chester Anderson’s The Butterfly Kid is listed as the number one weirdest science fiction novel ever written. With the likes of such bizarre sf whoppers as Dr. Bloodmoney, Ubic, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer, A Voyage to Arcturus, Panda...
Brain Twister
| Author | Mark Phillips |
| ISBN | 1434401561 |
| Author | Hal Clement |
| ISBN | 0345291689 |
Shrouded in eternal gloom by its own thick atmosphere Tenebra was a hostile planet...a place of crushing gravity, 370-degree temperatures, a constantly shifting crust and giant drifting raindrops.
Unpromising - yet there was life, intelligent life on Tenebra. For...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0517098733 |