Worlds of the Imperium

Author	H. Beam Piper
ISBN	0441651712

Piper's work is surely dated--everybody smokes without any twinge of guilt, women are very rare in meaningful roles, and colonialism is rampant in many (if not all) alternative time lines. That said, Piper has created some very vivid and well thought out alternative histories. I enjoyed the fact that...

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	Vonda N. McIntyre
ISBN	0575021896

The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable for much of the year by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside.

Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation,...

Author

Brian W. Aldiss

The human species has begun to racket about the galaxy. When they reach the planet Grudgrodd, they come across another space-faring species. It's a case of instant dislike. The gentle Utods do not feel pain, they change sex as the planet changes suns, they live long pleasurable lives, free of stress....

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	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0446754625

For 300 years the planet of women awaited the coming of man. Then one arrives...

He is Davis Bertram, a space-explorer. But how can he convince them he really is a man? Their legends have built Men into gods.

Trying to be worthy of the Coming, the women imitate masculine virtues. They...

Author	Keith Laumer
ISBN	0671721844

Anthology: Bolos 1 (Bolo, Bk 4) Chronicles the history of the Bolo, a futuristic man-made machine that symbolizes brute force, defiance, and rigid will, and is responsible for defending humanity. The future of war, and the fate of man, lies with one machine: the Bolo. With plated armor, a laser cannon,...

Author

Janet E. Morris

The universe called.
She answered.

Everything you've seen or read till now took you only to the brink . . .

Neither pure fantasy, nor straight science fiction, nor earthbound dynastic saga, Dream Dancer is a stunning amalgam of all three. It is a family saga with the epic appeal...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0450032604

THOSE WHO WATCH is the strange, seductive novel of three inadvertent colonists from outer space whose accidental encounter with Earth triggers interplanetary conflict. It also the most unusual love story ever written.
VORNEEN—the seducer, in the shell of an Apollo who came out of nowhere...

Author	Andre Norton
ISBN	0879977027

The world of Zacar was wracked with storms and life there was hard. Yet tow races shared it with no love between them. The Raski were the first people, the Yurth the late comers.

This is the story of Elossa, the Yurth girl who followed the Call that every Yurth sensitive must follow when the time...

Author	James Blish
ISBN	0385016271

An accident propels the mind of the young astrophysicist John Martels 23,000 years into the future, the midsummer century. Note that according to this novel the mind is a complex self aware electromagnetic field. His mind emerges in the brain-case of a future being with a powerful mind, the so called...

Author

Clifford D. Simak

Immortality - The ultimate reward: To come back to life - and never die again - that's what Forever Center promises the human race. And that's why, in the year 2148, people spend their whole lives in poverty, giving all their money to Forever Center to ensure their happiness and comfort in the next eternal...

Author

Harry Harrison

- Has the latest sample come back from the lab?

- Yes sir.

- And what do they have to tell us?

- Let me see sir. "Denmark acquires interstellar drive and becomes world power. Some espionage. Traces of sex and violence."

- Ah... are you sure?

- Yes sir. You can read...

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	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...