Wyst: Alastor 1716

Author	David Wingrove
ISBN	0440213568

A towering world-city covers almost every acre of  every continent. Seven high-tech fiefdoms, ruled  by seven lords united in unimaginable power. But  now the wheel is broken. the Seven are divided at  last. Armed rebellion has broken out in Chung  Kuo's few remaining open spaces;...

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	0812558774

The Year is 1995 in high-tech, computer-rich America..

While on vacation with his beautiful girlfriend Cora, Donald BelPatri begins to realize that something is seriously wrong wit his memory.

Clickaderick...click

Donald's mind can coil into any computer consciousness,...

Author	A.E. van Vogt
ISBN	0450012859

Another gem from the golden age.
I first read the short story that started this novel going. The short
story, about a man on a trip to Alpha Centauri who wakes up centuries later
to find it already colonized, captivated me. Van Vogt added a lot more
material and turned it into a novel about...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0552088048

Technical writer and volunteer fireman Charles Forrester died at age 37. But his insurance covered freezing in liquid nitrogen against the possibility of someday being thawed, repaired, and returned to life. Which is how he woke up in 2527, with a quarter of a million dollars coming to him from the same...

Author	Joanna Russ
ISBN	0425040402

The other day, while complaining about the clumsy prose in Night Film, I allowed tha tit wasn't necessarily worse than a lot of actual genre fiction. But I take it all back, there's no excuse. Just read someone like Delany or, here, Joanna Russ, who, even in an admittedly more frivolous early "time barbarian"...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0425050483

(from the back of the book)
A power struggle for time itself.
The corridors of time connect the ages to each other. Through them, one can travel backwards and forwards over the history of man. But rival factions have waged war for centuries.... Malcolm is an ordinary man of today, caught up in...

Author	Clifford D. Simak
ISBN	0345291409

A little more than a year ago, I moved from a city where I'd lived a third of my life to a city I'd only visited twice, and where I only knew a handful of people. I had no money, no job, no car and no specific purpose. I was low on options and one friend, 3000 miles from me, offered me a couch to sleep on. I took the offer.

Sometime...

Author	Matthew Hughes
ISBN	0446609234

In the Penultimate Age of the Archonate, callow young fop Filidor Vesh is perfectly content to spend his days in the pursuit of shallow amusements, until he is summoned by a wizened old dwarf in need of a voluntary good deed -- deliver a parcel to his uncle, the all-powerful and original 98th Archon, sole...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	1596871571

In this alternate history novel, the Bubonic Plague sets the stage for a world where the West is powerless. After the Black Death has wiped out most of the European population, there is little defense against Turkish invasion and expansion, and by the 1980s, the major world powers are the Russians, the...

Author	Gene Wolfe
ISBN	0312890494

Hailed as "one of the literary giants of science fiction" by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe is universally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant writers the field has ever produced. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best fiction collection, Storeys from the Old Hotel contains thirty-one remarkable...

Author	Frank Herbert
ISBN	0345344588

The Chem, immortal aliens, were the prisoners of eternity, gripped by the despair that immortality brought...strange dwellers in a timeless world that brought terror and suffering to the creatures they manipulated. Enter their world of infinite possibility and discover the fascinating secrets...