When the People Fell

10 best books like When the People Fell (Cordwainer Smith): The Jewels of Aptor, Redemption Ark, The Misplaced Battleship, Fallen, The Repairman, Limbus, Inc.: Book II, Breaking Point, Enigmele Miturilor Astrale, Luntrea sublima, Miturile esențiale

AuthorSamuel R. Delany
ISBN0575071001
One of the most universally acclaimed first novels in science fiction--by the man who become one of the most stellar writers in the genre's history. On the orders of Argo, the White Goddess, an itinerant poet and his three companions journey to the island of Aptor. Their mission: to seize a jewel from...
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors - alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons -and a renegade named Clavain...
AuthorHarry Harrison
Slippery Jim diGriz--a.k.a. The Stainless Steel Rat--is back in this classic adventure, originally published in the April, 1960 issue of Astounding Science Fiction! It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ... but interstellar space is on a different scale...
AuthorBenedict Jacka
ISBN0440000580
For Mage Alex Verus, everything is on the line in the tenth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Marked.

Once Alex Verus was a diviner trying to live quietly under the radar. Now he's a member of the Light Council who's found success, friends...and love. But it's come with...
The Repairman
AuthorHarry Harrison

-------------- Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn-t be so
-------------- bad - if I could shoot the trouble! from the introductory:

The Old Man had that look of intense glee on his face that meant someone was in for a very rough time. Since we were alone, it took no great...
AuthorJonathan Maberry
ISBN1940161339
“The world is a stage, life is a play, and we are the puppets. It’s better not to ask who pulls the strings.”

How lucky do you feel?

That question echoed through the world’s underground, scrawled on bathroom walls, spray-painted across subway tunnel exits, written on paper...
Breaking Point
AuthorJames E. Gunn
ISBN0802755526
Yesterday I read a Gunn short story titled The Gravity Business, which was published in 1956. I was not too impressed by it, but I wanted to give the author another try. I found one other of his titles at Project Gutenberg: Breaking Point, which was first published in the March 1953 issue of Space Science...
Enigmele Miturilor Astrale
AuthorVictor Kernbach
ISBN9739211194
Victor Kernbach a fost un scriitor român de science fiction și specialist în mitologie, autor al unor lucrări din acest domeniu, între care se remarcă Dicționarul de mitologie generală.
Se naște în familia avocatului Eugen Kernbach și a Tamarei (născută Onilă). A fost nepot al...
Luntrea sublima
AuthorVictor Kernbach
Lasandu-l pe carmaci in luntre, intr-un loc bun ales de Auta si ferit de orice ochi nepoftiti, ceilalti trei, Nefert, Auta si barbatul gingasei femei straine pornira spre oras. hainele lor argintii si croite cu totul altminteri de cum se obisnuia pe Pamant atrageau luarea aminte a trecatorilor, desi...
Miturile esențiale
AuthorVictor Kernbach
Victor Kernbach a fost un scriitor român de science fiction și specialist în mitologie, autor al unor lucrări din acest domeniu, între care se remarcă Dicționarul de mitologie generală.
Se naște în familia avocatului Eugen Kernbach și a Tamarei (născută Onilă). A fost nepot al...
Fuga în spatiu-timp
AuthorIon Hobana
Contine povestirile:

1. Stingaciul - Horia Arama
2. Stinca de brocart - Vladimir Colin
3. Ritmul ascuns al inimii - Constantin Cublesan
4. Columbiana - Mihu Dragomir
5. Pestera ulpilor - Cecilia Dudu
6. Ploaia de seara - Ion Hobana
7. Mi-am cumparat un robot - Eduard...
Ultima poveste
AuthorRadu Tudoran
He was born in Blejoi, Prahova County, Romania, at 8 March 1910, his real name Nicolae Bogza, being the brother of Geo Bogza. His manifested strong nostalgia for traveling on the seas, he probably inherited from his father, Alexandru Bogza, clerk of the commercial marine.
After he finishes the...
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