Warm Worlds and Otherwise
10 best books like Warm Worlds and Otherwise (James Tiptree Jr.): Women of Wonder: Science-Fiction Stories by Women about Women, Pilgrimage: The Book of the People, Empire Star, The Flight of the Horse, This Star Shall Abide, The Dream Master, Ensign Flandry, The Last Starship from Earth, The Fate of Mice, The Two of Them
| Author | Pamela Sargent |
| ISBN | 0140048677 |
'Women are writing many of the things male sf writers thought could never be written; they are making us examine tenets and shibboleths we thought were immutable. The mightily thewed warrior trip is one of these. People like Ursula Le Guin, Joanna Russ, Kate Wilhelm ... are making that seem hideously...
| Author | Zenna Henderson |
| ISBN | 0380015072 |
These are the People.
Marooned on this planet by the crash of their interstellar vehicle in the distant past, The People are never free of a sense of strangeness in this world and a yearning for the home they have half-forgotten.
These are the chronicles of their arrival on this world, their...
| Author | Samuel R. Delany |
| ISBN | 0553234250 |
On a habitable moon near Tau Ceti, a young man named Comet Jo encounters a devil-kitten and sees a spaceship crash land. One of the people in the spaceship tells Jo that he has to take an urgent message to Empire Star, and dies. Another collapses to form Jewel, a compact, multicolored, multiplexed crystalline...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 1857238419 |
'We don't know where on Earth you'll wind up,' Ra Chen had told him.
And the Director of the Institute for Temporal Research didn't know precisely when, either. ALl he knew was that Haville Svetz would be travelling back in time almost 2,000 years.
But when he returns, Hanville Svetz...
Children of the Star trilogy, Book One. Noren knew that his world was not as it should be—it was wrong that only the Scholars and Technicians could use metal and Machines. It was wrong that only they had access to the knowledge hidden in the mysterious City. He was a heretic. He defied the High Law and had...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0743413016 |
His name is Charles Render, and he is a psychoanalyst, and a mechanic of dreams. A Shaper. In a warm womb of metal, his patients dream their neuroses, while Render, intricately connected to their brains, dreams with them, makes delicate adjustments, and ultimately explains and heals. Her name is Eileen...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0743474430 |
Introducing...Dominic Flandry.
Before he's through he'll have saved worlds and become the confidante of emperors. But for now he's seventeen years old, as fresh and brash a sprig of the nobility as you would care to know. The only thing as damp as the place behind his ears is the ink on his brand-new...
| Author | John Boyd |
| ISBN | 0140048758 |
Haldane IV and Helix were a part of an ultra-rational society where mathematicians did not write poetry, where mathematicians did not fall in love with poets, and where most specifically, Haldane IV, young mathematician, couldn't possibly marry Helix, the attractive poet of his choice. It was in...
| Author | Susan Palwick |
| ISBN | 1892391422 |
Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick's twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Mice is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless...
| Author | Joanna Russ |
| ISBN | 0819567604 |
Irene, a rebellious product of an American 1950s upbringing, has fled from a repressive and sexist society into a life of apparent equality and adventure as part of the elite Trans-Temporal Authority's cadre of travelers. Under the tutelage of Ernst, a friend/lover and teacher/father, Irene has...
| Author | Michael G. Coney |
| ISBN | 0575019743 |
It was an alien planet - yet not too alien from Earth. It had its differences; its ice goblins, its curious furry lorrin, its thickening water, and its unearthly tides, but for a young man like Alika-Drove thinking of a vacation by the sea these oddities were the norm.
But this vacation was different....
| Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
| ISBN | 0879973730 |
'Winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, Theodore Sturgeon has established his reputation as one of the most original and provocative of SF writers.
Here are nine masterpieces of imagination from the period of his finest creativity. Included are "The Pod in the Barrier", "The Other Celia",...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0345306791 |
Traveling backward in time, Don Miguel had to undo the errors and interruptions of other time-interlopers. Even the most insignificant nudging of the past could entirely alter the present! And he suspected that a maniacal genius crazed with a desire for nationalist vindication had plotted to alter...
| Author | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| ISBN | 0671836315 |
I'm pretty sure I read this collection of short stories by Vonda N McIntyre about thirty years ago - some of them were definitely very familiar, though as I couldn't remember anything at all about some of the others I may simply have read them in anthologies. I bought a copy a few months ago, and when I heard...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0553241036 |
Collection of three novellas.
Title novella: This Robert Silverberg novella was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was released, and won the coveted Nebula and Locus awards. A man's wife is among the rekindled dead now. He's heard that she was on an airplane to Zanzibar with...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0330255436 |
Inventive, imaginative, visionary - an apt description for both men and women in the novel and author of the novel. Christopher Priest, one of my favorite novelists, set my mind gyrating and performing pirouettes once again with his A Dream of Wessex.
In 1985, in a special facility...
The Left Hand of the Electron
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0440947170 |
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was professor of biochemistry in the Boston University and a very prolific writer,mainly of hard SF,popular science books and popular histhory books.
He is a great teacher,that explains,in his popular science books,with a simple direct and clear prose full of...
| Author | Maureen F. McHugh |
| ISBN | 0812524101 |
This book didn't grab me until page 126, but I'm so enamored with China Mountain Zhang and McHugh's short fiction that I kept plodding along anyway.
McHugh does a great job creating an interesting near-future science fiction world and immersing readers in her characters' lives. David and...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 1250064422 |
In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction:...
