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Top 25 Best Science Fiction Books About the Moon (cover not available)

Top 25 Best Science Fiction Books About the Moon

The Moon hangs clear above us. It is the only celestial body (other than the sun) that we can see as more than a dot. For that reason, it has...

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Thrice Upon A Time

Thrice Upon A Time

Sending objects back in time—that is, from the 'now' to somewhere before the 'now'—is pretty much the same things as sending 'information' in general. Same goes for the future. The...

James P. Hogan Buy on Amazon
The Proteus Operation

The Proteus Operation

Unlike Hogan's 'Thrice Upon A Time' (#6), here we have people going back in time physically. The story is set in a universe in which the Axis countries (Germany, Italy,...

James P. Hogan Buy on Amazon
Code Of The Life Maker (cover not available)

Code Of The Life Maker

Hogan's 1983 science fiction novel used NASA's Advanced Automation for Space Missions as its inspiration for Earth astronauts meeting the Taloids, robots who have colonized Saturn's moon Titan. Around 1,000,000...

James P. Hogan Buy on Amazon
The Two Faces Of Tomorrow (cover not available)

The Two Faces Of Tomorrow

The Two Faces of Tomorrow is described as a world where civilization has grown so complicated that only a world-wide computer network can control its complexity. Now, I must admit...

James P. Hogan Buy on Amazon
The Children Of Men

The Children Of Men

The ultimate nightmare of the world's males came true in 1994. (In the novel anyway, though there are some suggestions that things are trending that way.) The sperm count of...

P.d. James Buy on Amazon
Barnum!: In Secret Service To The Usa

Barnum!: In Secret Service To The Usa

Howard Chaykin is one of the finest comic creators in history. His work on titles like Amerikan Flagg, not to mention dozens of science fiction paperback covers, has made him...

David Tischman Buy on Amazon
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life Of Alice B. Sheldon

James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life Of Alice B. Sheldon

In the mid-60s, sf editors started to receive stories from a new writer none of them had heard of before, James Tiptree, Jr. Right from the start they were good...

Julie Phillips Buy on Amazon
A Darkling Sea -

A Darkling Sea -

When a bunch of Hugo and Nebula award winners queue up to praise a first novel from a brand new writer, and when they compare it to Hal Clement and...

James L. Cambias Buy on Amazon
Warm Worlds And Otherwise

Warm Worlds And Otherwise

James Tiptree appeared as if from nowhere in the late 1960s with a series of beautifully realised stories that yet revealed a dark imagination, particularly when it comes to matters...

James Tiptree Jr. Buy on Amazon
Doctor Mirabilis

Doctor Mirabilis

Roger Bacon: heretic, occultist -- genius. In a Europe dominated by the narrow doctrines of Catholicism, Bacon was a man whose vision reached far beyond even our own day, a...

James Blish Buy on Amazon
Black Easter

Black Easter

Baines is a filthy rich arms dealer and connoisseur of destruction. Ware is the greatest living black magician. They will work together to throw the world into chaos. And not...

James Blish Buy on Amazon
A Case Of Conscience

A Case Of Conscience

From Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star" to Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, there was something of a trend in the 1950s for bringing Catholicism into a science fiction...

James Blish Buy on Amazon
The Magicians

The Magicians

An old lady who isn't what she seems to be. (Are they ever?) A detective accepting a case he knows he maybe shouldn't. A bunch of magicians—stage and 'real'—trying to...

James Gunn Buy on Amazon
Footprints Of Thunder

Footprints Of Thunder

This book was made into a movie, and a pretty good one at that, though by necessity not as complex and in-depth as the book. Crichton does have a habit...

James F. David Buy on Amazon
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

In the late 1960s stories suddenly started to appear from a writer no-one had heard of before, and no-one had met. But the stories were just too good, too quirky,...

James Tiptree Jr. Buy on Amazon
Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment

Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment

Maximum Ride:The Angel Experiment is a mad scientist story from the experiment's point of view. Max is a fourteen year-old girl, oldest of her small group of friends that are...

James Patterson Buy on Amazon
School's Out—forever

School's Out—forever

It's 24 hours since Max Ride and her fellow bird-kids escaped the New York Institute, and they're still on the run. But the six companions - 98% human, 2% bird...

James Patterson Buy on Amazon

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