Trader to the Stars
10 best books like Trader to the Stars (Poul Anderson): Time and Again, Behind the Walls of Terra, Retief!, Wasp, Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven, High Justice, Pilgrimage to Earth, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, The Weapon Shops of Isher, The Dark Side of the Earth
| Author | Clifford D. Simak |
| ISBN | 0441810039 |
'One of those complex and enormously inventive stories... based on some real, honest, practical ethical thinking. It is an idea book.'
- Groff Conklin in Galaxy Science Fiction
Asher Sutton has been lost in deepest space for twenty years. Suddenly arrives a warning from the future, that...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0441053572 |
Paul Janus Finnegan was called Kickaha on the artificial universes created by that always fueding super-race known as the Lords. Though he was a mortal Earthman, he had managed to survive every intrigue, war, test and opponent they could devise.
But it was when he found his way back to his own...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0671318578 |
Publisher's Note: The stories and novel herein have previously appeared in parts in Envoy To New Worlds, Galactic Diplomat, and Retief's War. This is the first unitary edition.
Contents:
p. 1 • Extraordinary Diplomats (Retief!) • (2002) • essay by David Drake
p....
| Author | Eric Frank Russell |
| ISBN | 0575070951 |
The war has raged for nearly a year and Earth desperately needs an edge to overcome the Sirian Empire's huge advantage in personnel and equipment. That's where James Mowry comes in. Intensively trained, his appearance surgically altered, Mowry secretly lands on one of the Empire's planets. His mission:...
| 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...
High Justice begins Jerry Pournelle's own Future History, a universe which he shared with Larry Niven in their collaborative novel, The Mote in God's Eye. Here we see, with all the vivid detail for which Pournelle is known, the Fall of the West, and how in its death throes it gave birth to a society that...
| Author | Robert Sheckley |
| ISBN | 0441663850 |
Pilgrimage to Earth is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in October 1957 by Bantam Books (catalogue number A1672) and already reprinted a month later.
It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0586043985 |
Buy Jupiter is a collection of short stories that vary both in style and quality. The book contains quite a few stories (24 in total), covering around 20 years of Asimov's short story writing (1950-1972). Moreover, this edition contains some autobiographical writing. Every short story is followed...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0671431293 |
With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops. This volume, The Weapon Shops of Isher, includes the first three parts of the saga and...
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0451024745 |
Alfred Bester writes fiction that is offbeat and intensely imaginative. In THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH, a volume that includes his new novella and five short stories, Mr. Bester is at his most inventive.
Contents:
Time Is the Traitor (1953)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)
Out...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575074965 |
Fifteen stories by "our ablest practitioner of science fiction," ranging from the sinister rescue of a Sputnik and the Pacific to startling and amusing adventures on the moon, in a comet's tail, on Mars and Venus, and the rings of Saturn, and on the asteroid Icarus only seventeen million miles from the...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0879977663 |
Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways, different from Earth and from each other. Any of those differences could mean death and disaster to a human settlement. When a ship filled with refugees...
| 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 | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0451089669 |
Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the history tapes. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century.They should all have been very happy....But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0441123112 |
When Blake Walker foiled a murder attempt on one of his neighbors he somehow found himself drafted into a frantic chase for a dangerous criminal - through the almost infinite levels of alternate Earths.
It was a chase that would take him through level upon level of unknown dangers in search of...
