Voyager in Night
10 best books like Voyager in Night (C.J. Cherryh): Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1), Beginning Operations, The House of the Kzinti, Cross The Stars, Ragamuffin, Contact with Chaos, Planets of Adventure, Sunborn, Janus, The Hub: Dangerous Territory
Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1)
| Author | Alan Burt Akers |
| ISBN | 0860078027 |
On the planet Kregen that circles Antares, the brightest star of the Constellation of the Scorpion, two forces contend for the world's destiny. One of them, the Savanti, called in a human pawn from far-away Earth.
His name is Dray Prescot, and only the Savanti know his role.
Dray Prescot...
| Author | James White |
| ISBN | 0312875444 |
Hospital Station / Star Surgeon / Major Operation
"Sector General: A massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. Its 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of the any conceivable alien patient - though that...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 0743488253 |
Dr Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American science fiction writer, engineer, essayist, and journalist, who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte, and from 1998 until his death maintained his own website and blog.
From the beginning, Pournelle's work centered around strong...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0671578219 |
“Tell them that I don’t know if we can release [him] alive by force. But I’ll promise to burn their planet for his funeral pyre if we can’t.”
This retelling of The Odyssey is another selection of the Venture Science Fiction series (an imprint of Arrow Books, not to be mistaken for the...
| Author | Tobias S. Buckell |
| ISBN | 0765315076 |
The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically "free," mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. The secretive alien Satraps tightly restrict the technological...
| Author | Michael Z. Williamson |
| ISBN | 1416591540 |
When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligent lifeforms-the first which humans had ever encountered-it should have been the most important event in history. And it might be-for all the wrong reasons. Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys to the...
| Author | Murray Leinster |
| ISBN | 0743471628 |
Planets of Adventure is an anthology of short stories. It contains one almost full-length story and several shorter stories, all of which are based on the theme implied by the title. The quality of the stories was pretty consistent – they weren’t terribly engaging, but they did hold my interest...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Carver |
| ISBN | 0312864531 |
Stars are dying: that's the news that greets John Bandicut and his companions. They must travel to a nebula called Starmaker—to discover what force threatens not just the newborn stars, but every world within a thousand light-years. They must journey not just into the perils of a star-forming nebula,...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0743471806 |
This is a compilation of two earlier books, Judgement on Janus and Victory on Janus. A dedication on the back cover (?by the editors? David Weber and Eric Flint, anyway) reads:
"To Andre Norton--Andre, you proved long ago that being a giant has nothing to do with physical stature. You've been...
| Author | James H. Schmitz |
| ISBN | 0671319841 |
The Federation of the Hub: thousands of rough, ornery and tough-minded human worlds with only the subtlest of governments holding them together. It's prime real estate for criminals, unscrupulous corporations, and invaders from beyond Federation space. But in Hub space, a citizen is expected to...
| Author | Jo Clayton |
| ISBN | 0879979712 |
The diadem that crowned the head of Aleytys was in contact with her central nervous system - and invisible to outsiders. But even that star-born fugitive herself did not know what the diadem's powers were or what it could do to or for her.
What she did know was that it made her the target of the diadem's...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0345257030 |
General Benjamin Shore was heading for the stars under forged orders - and in defiance of the commands of the President. He was leaving Earth in an untested ship with a crew chosen by necessity and with nothing but faith to guide him. His only hope was to find habitable worlds in the unexplored reaches of...
The company had a big problem, it was illegally exploiting a fabulously rich planet maned Prism, a world where even the tiniest creatures were living jewels. But somehow, all contact had been lost with the scientist of the survey team. The Company didn't want to draw attention to itself by sending in...
In a city halfway across the galaxy an alien intelligence was addressing the strangest delegation since time began: "We have called you here to help us. Our universe has been invaded by the Lord of the Flames. He has been gathering information on many worlds for a full-scale attack. He is now preparing...
David Brin's Uplift Universe portrays humanity's desperate struggle for survival in a dangerous universe... and how we may cope by taking wise partners with us on this journey. Artificial intelligence is one way that we may add diversity to our civilization. But in this series we've done it by giving...
