Virgin Planet
10 best books like Virgin Planet (Poul Anderson): Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s, Ballroom of the Skies, The Palace Of Eternity, Thorns, Plague from Space, Search the Sky, Dune I, Worlds of the Imperium, Jack of Eagles, Los hijos de nuestros hijos
| Author | Pamela Sargent |
| ISBN | 0156000334 |
Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years ... Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s — A companion volume to 'The Classic Years', dispelling the notion that women don't write "real" science fiction, showcasing recent science fiction by women. Here are Octavia E. Butler, Pat Cadigan,...
| Author | John D. MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0231019939 |
Have you ever stopped to wonder why the world is eternally war-torn? Why men of good will, seeking only peace, are driven relentlessly to further disaster? MacDonlad's novel suggests a strange and sinister explaination.
Here we enter an intricate future society, in which India rules the...
| Author | Bob Shaw |
| ISBN | 0330029622 |
'The planet Mnemosyne, surrounded by a lambent shell of tiny moon-fragments, was known throughout the Federation as the Poets’ World. It was a beautiful planet far inside the frontiers of Man’s long war with the alien Pythsyccans, and it was to this quiet world that Mack Tavernor retired when he...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0853911320 |
Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people's pain. He feeds off it, and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveller whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together...
Spacecraft: Pericles
Type: Manned exploration
Destination: Jupiter
Cargo: Extinction
Bertolli was there when the Pericles returned to Earth. He was the first to reach Commander Rand as he staggered, hideously disfigured & close to death, from the crew's cabin. From that...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345016602 |
Quite a decent piece of SF satire, set (roughly) in the same universe as
The Marching Morons
. I liked the planet with the gerontocracy. The hero gets to participate in an election: they wheel out the candidates, all of whom are over 100 and with tubes coming out of their noses. With great fanfare of trumpets,...
| Author | Frank Herbert |
| ISBN | 2266155482 |
Tome 2 : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Il n'y a pas, dans tout l'Empire, de planète plus inhospitalière que Dune.
Partout des sables à perte de vue. Une seule richesse : l'épice de longue vie, née du désert, et que tout l'univers achète à n'importe quel prix....
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0812543793 |
When Brion Bayard was kidnapped and brought to the alternate world where Earth's history took a different turn, it was not a pleasant experience. It was, however, a startling experience. Here was a world that was just like the Earth he was taken from--with just a few subtle changes. On top of all this,...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 0099097109 |
Danny Caiden is on the run - from the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department and the Mob. Only recently, Danny was an average New York copywriter, until he suddenly found he had ESP. His knowledge of the future is astonishing, and the rest of Danny's powers are just beginning. But someone has plans for Danny:...
Un día de verano como otro cualquiera, se abre una puerta en el vacío y empiezan a salir cientos, miles, millones de personas procedentes de ninguna parte. Dicen que vienen del futuro. Son los hijos de nuestros hijos. Un peligro incontrolable acecha en el futuro, y se hace preciso cortar el puente que...
| Author | C.M. Kornbluth |
| ISBN | 0523485433 |
Syndic versus Mob! The Syndic operated as a sort of gigantic protective league in what had once been the states east of the Mississippi. Here was a totally hedonistic society, moral inhibitions had gone the way of the horse. (Polo was played in jeeps with 50-calibre machine guns.) The hopelessly corrupt...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0812536428 |
On the planet Sirgol the death machines have a unique and sublte mode of attack. Now, the time and place of the next attack has been pinpointed--the berserkers will try to eliminate Vincent Vincento, an early genius whose loss will cost mankind a hundred years of progress in the physical sciences. Derron...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0441272320 |
Miro Hetzel is an effectuator: a private investigator and gentleman of the Gaean Reach. This book contains two stories of his adventures.
"The Dogtown Tourist Agency" - The Istagam Corporation has found an inexpensive means of manufacturing technical goods which greatly undercuts its...
| Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
| ISBN | 0515044598 |
Starshine -- the eerie, unmistakable fire of Ted Sturgeon's genius -- lights up unforgettably these stories of now and tomorrow...tales of aliens from far planets, men of the spaceways and creatures of darkness. From the daring of "The World Well Lost" to the tense adventure of "The Pod and the Barrier"...
| Author | Murray Leinster |
| ISBN | 0517554127 |
There is a wonderful old term used to describe a feature of Golden Age science fiction novels: BEM, an acronym for "bug-eyed monsters." Back in the 1930s and '40s, you see, the covers of many sci-fi pulp magazines featured illustrations of bulbous-orbed, invariably menacing aliens and other creatures;...
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0312204450 |
The past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including:
William Barton * Rob Chilson * Tony Daniel...
SIN EATERS
Investigating an epidemic of deaths among the world's leading scientists. Bill Graham learned their terrible discovery: Earth was—and had been for centuries—controlled by aliens!
The alien energy beings fed on human emotions. To cultivate their "food:' they...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0441791034 |
Sometime in the future, the human race realizes how much the population is outgrowing the planet and decides to train people to go explore the galaxy to look for other inhabitable planets. The trainees are chosen for their intelligence at a very young age, then spend their entire childhood learning...
