Children's Science Fiction of the 1960s
Top 10 Children's Science Fiction of the 1960s
: The White Mountains, The Forgotten Door, The City of Gold and Lead, The Ship Who Sang, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Pool of Fire, Dolphin Island, Needle, Tunnel Through Time, The City Under Ground
| Author | John Christopher |
| ISBN | 0689856725 |
Long ago, the Tripods—huge, three-legged machines—descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives.
But for a brief time in each person's life—in childhood—he is not a slave. For...
| Author | Alexander Key |
| ISBN | 0590431307 |
Who is the strange boy who can talk to animals and read people's minds? Where does he come from?
The boy, Jon, has lost his memory and does not know. he only knows that he has fallen through the forgotten door to the strange planet, Earth, and that he is in great danger
Soon the family who...
| Author | John Christopher |
| ISBN | 0689856660 |
Having by the skin of their teeth survived a cross-continental walk to freedom from the mind-control of the Tripods, Will and his friends now volunteer to risk their lives by joining those who enter the alien city as slaves of the Masters. First they must make another arduous journey and then triumph...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0345334310 |
It was Thanksgiving, I was out of town, had just gotten ready to head out for dinner when I heard that Anne McCaffrey had passed. It hit me like a punch in the gut. I couldn't quite shake it all evening. What was going on? Sure, I've read her books but she has never been on a list of favorite authors, why was I so...
Something Wicked This Way Comes
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0380729407 |
A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show...
| Author | John Christopher |
| ISBN | 0689856695 |
The Pool of Fire (The Tripods #3), John Christopher
The Tripods is a series of young adult novels written by John Christopher, beginning in 1967. The first two were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.
Series: The White Mountains (1967); The City...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0441152201 |
Set in the near future, a cargo hovership makes an emergency stop in the Midwest to make repairs. An adventurous teenager, Johnny Clinton, sneaks on board.
About a day later there is an explosion, the craft comes to a stop in the southern Pacific Ocean, and starts to sink. Its crew, not aware they...
| Author | Hal Clement |
| ISBN | 0380006359 |
The Hunter and his quarry raced through space—when suddenly both ships crashed head on into one of the oceans of earth!
Both the Hunter and his quarry were symbiotes—creatures who had to live within the body of another organism.
When the Hunter emerged from his wreck of a ship,...
| Author | Lester del Rey |
| ISBN | 0590025341 |
This is a science fiction story about what it would be like to go back 80 million years in time and see what the Earth was like then.
A scientist has created a device that tunnels through time. The protagonist is his son, 17 year old Bob Miller. Bob and his father's friend, Doc Tom, and Doc Tom's son...
| Author | Suzanne Martel |
| ISBN | 0888992009 |
A community, known as Surreal, has developed from a small band of survivors who retreated at the time of the Great Destruction, In the following centuries a civilization which is technologically, intellectually, and socially extremely advanced has been developed. Despite the widespread belief...
"We're returning to earth," Paul's father tells him. Paul is wildly excited, for all human beings on the planet Ganymede dream of going back to Earth some day. Then Paul finds out that he cannot take his robot Rex with him. Rex has been his constant companion for sixteen years. Leave him behind? Never!
So...
| 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 | James H. Schmitz |
| ISBN | 0441845770 |
Telzey Amberdon, at age 15, had enormously developed psionic powers. She could read, as well as change, human minds! In part I, she enjoys an extraordinary telepathic rapport with a feline non-human.
Then her dreams become nightmares dominated by a weird "psionic traffic cop," and she realizes...
Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth
| Author | Jerome Beatty Jr. |
| ISBN | 0201092794 |
Matthew Looney’s Voyage to the Earth tells the story of a boy living on the Moon who has always dreamed of space travel. Matthew is a typical Moon boy with a family, a pet, and a plan to fill a summer position at his father’s work. That is, until his world turns upside down when he learns of a once-in-a-lifetime...
