Tomorrow and Tomorrow
10 best books like Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Charles Sheffield): Time Patrol, Camelot 30K, Titan, Rainbow Mars, An Alien Light, Slant, The Depths of Time, Furious Gulf, City of Darkness, The Technicolor Time Machine
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 1416509356 |
Contents
1 • Time Patrol • [Time Patrol • 1] • (1955) • novelette by Poul Anderson
55 • Brave to Be a King • [Time Patrol • 2] • (1959) • novelette by Poul Anderson
113 • Gibraltar Falls • [Time Patrol • 3] • (1975) • shortstory by Poul Anderson
129 •...
| Author | Robert L. Forward |
| ISBN | 0812516478 |
It's been a while since I read a "hard SF" book. I had almost forgotten how much I enjoy them. There's usually at least one clever idea buried somewhere inside which makes the reading worthwhile.
Camelot doesn't have great characters (though I've certainly read worse) and it doesn't have dazzling...
| Author | Stephen Baxter |
| ISBN | 2290309737 |
2004 : les analyses de la sonde Cassini-Huygens sur la composition de la surface de Titan, l'une des lunes satellites de Saturne, révèlent que toutes les conditions atmosphériques et chimiques permettant l'existence d'une vie organique y sont rassemblées.
Motivée par les spectaculaires...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 3404242904 |
Ein neuer Auftrag für Hanville Svetz: Er soll herausfinden, warum die Marskanäle ausgetrocknet sind und was dies für die Zukunft der Erde bedeutet. Denn der Mars war einmal bewohnt. Als Svetz erfährt, wie die intelligenten Marsianer ausgelöscht wurden, wird ihm klar, dass die Erde bald einem...
| Author | Nancy Kress |
| ISBN | 0380707063 |
The human species is at war with the Ged, a collective species that is baffled by humankind’s ability to turn violence upon itself & yet advance into space. In order to defeat the humans, the Ged must first understand them.
So they go to a world called Qom, where a lost Earth colony has forgotten...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0812524829 |
In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a revolution in both human psychotherapy and artificial...
| Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
| ISBN | 0553574973 |
Time is of the essence when you're stranded in the future....
Humanity is running out of time.
The settled universe is filled with terraformed worlds linked by timeshafts -- temporal wormholes in deep space. These timeshafts are the only way to travel the vast distances between the stars....
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0553096613 |
Containing the remnants of humanity from the planet Snowglade, the spaceship Argo hurtles toward its uncertain destiny, the bold and brilliant Captain Killeen at its helm. But he has grown increasingly isolated and anguished in command. The ship’s gardens are failing, its voyagers face starvation,...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0765343614 |
He's passed his college entrance exams with flying colors. He can do pretty much whatever he wants. But what teenager Ron Morgan wants most is for his father to quit telling him what to do. Quit running his life. What better way to unwind than having a last blowout on Labor Day in the domed playground of Fun...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0812516079 |
Why pay for costumes, scenery, props or actors when the most brilliant drama of all time is unfolding before your very eyes, in vivid color - in 1050 A.D.? Just the film crew of that stupendous motion picture saga Viking Columbus as they journey back in time to capture history in the making.
The...
| Author | Brian Stableford |
| ISBN | 0330246496 |
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, starship pilots have become the great romantic heroes of the day. When Star-Pilot Grainger is rescued from a shipwreck, he finds himself pressed into reluctant service to fly...
| Author | Ashley McConnell |
| ISBN | 0451458168 |
** Warning for spoilers **
After reading that back-of-the-book description, I really wanted to read this book! I'd found the second in the series The Price You Pay at a book store, and had special-ordered First Amendment from Border's. This title, however, was unavailable wherever I went....
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0312866623 |
Shane, a gifted linguist, has spent his life learning the language of the old and powerful alien race that has conquered Earth. He has learned it so well that the interstellar masters, old hands at enslaving planets, regard him as a valuable servant.
But Shane has a secret. One day, in a rebellious...
| Author | Timothy Zahn |
| ISBN | 0765346451 |
I just finished re-reading “The Green and the Gray” by Timothy Zahn. It is somewhat of a cliché to call a book a “page turner”, but that really was the case for me with this one. The story is well written, with enough suspense and plot twists to keep me up late at night reading it, yet still believable...
| Author | Peter Delacorte |
| ISBN | 0671023241 |
While in Paris, Gabriel Prince, a somewhat jaded but charming writer of high-end travel guides, is offered the chance of a lifetime -- a trip through time. There's only one hitch: the left-wing owner of the time machine, quantum physicist Jasper Hudnut, wants Gabriel to perform an errand. Gabriel must...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0553763393 |
A brilliant novel of alternate universes by an award-winning science fiction master
A breakthrough in quantum physics has shattered the boundaries between alternate worlds. History is in chaos as billions of possible futures collide. As a conquering army mounts an invasion of neighboring...
| Author | Kevin J. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0553576402 |
Suppose you could switch bodies with another person? What exciting new experiences would you choose to explore? What forbidden desires would you indulge? Suppose someone stole your life–how far would you go to get it back?
From New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson comes...
| Author | R.M. Meluch |
| ISBN | 0756404576 |
In the third novel of this acclaimed military science fiction series, all of humanity and its alien allies have joined together to battle the Hive-a force of pure destruction sweeping through the galaxy. But when the leader of the Roman world is assassinated, tensions escalate-and Captain John Farragut...
| Author | David Feintuch |
| ISBN | 0446600970 |
Decent space opera, but wow, Nicholas Seafort suffers from as bad a case of Protagonist Syndrome as I've ever seen. Everything bad happens to him. Every excruciatingly difficult decision rests solidly upon his just-turned-21 shoulders. Everything that goes wrong is somehow his fault (or he feels...
