To Marry Medusa
8 best books like To Marry Medusa (Theodore Sturgeon): A Maze of Death, An Alien Heat, The War Hound and the World's Pain, The Eternal Champion, We Can Build You, Coyote Horizon, The Hollow Lands, The City in the Autumn Stars: Being a Continuation of the Story of the Von Bek Family and Its Association with Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, and the Cure for the World's Pain
Author | Philip K. Dick |
ISBN | 0679752986 |
Fourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O,...
Author | Michael Moorcock |
ISBN | 0380017490 |
An alien named Yusharisp comes to Earth to warn its remaining inhabitants that the universe is coming to an end; his own planet has already disappeared, and the Earth is sure to follow. Earth's inhabitants are unfazed as they believe him to be yet another doomsayer; the End of the Earth has been predicted...
Author | Michael Moorcock |
ISBN | 0671834126 |
Behold the Man…
Who else but Michael Moorcock, in all his devious craftiness, could employ Satan, Heaven & Hell, souls, damnation, and a quest for the Holy Grail, as tools for a story whose central premise is a call for humanity to eschew religious belief and embrace scientific...
Author | Michael Moorcock |
ISBN | 0425095622 |
You are John Daker. You are a resident of 20th century Earth. You are a sophisticated, intelligent fellow - urbane, socially conscious, left-leaning. You do not believe in binary thinking; you do not believe in Good vs. Evil. You do not support war; you don't even know how to use a weapon.
You...
Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's...
Author | Allen M. Steele |
ISBN | 0441016820 |
"The master of science-fiction intrigue" (Washington Post) returns to the Coyote universe.
The planet of Coyote has become the last, best hope of humankind, but it has also become the principal point of contact with the hjadd, the alien race encountered by a European starship many years earlier....
Author | Michael Moorcock |
ISBN | 0060130024 |
In which we find Jherek Carnelian, one of the small population of hedonistic immortals remaining on earth at the end of time, still obsessively in love with Mrs. Amelia Underwood, a reluctant time-traveler from Victorian England. After narrowly escaping death in nineteenth-century London, Jherek...
Author | Michael Moorcock |
ISBN | 0246128437 |
More of the Von Bek family adventures in THE CITY IN THE AUTUMN STARS, which isn't as rollicking an adventure as THE WARHOUND AND THE WORLD'S PAIN (although there is a glorious set piece battle in an otherworldly tavern as warring factions attempt to seize the Grail ), but more an examination of one man's...