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We said earlier that Godwin's The Man in the Moone was one of the most influential works in the history of science fiction, and this is one of the earliest...
Cyrano De Bergerac Buy on AmazonLest Darkness Fall
Throw away your hallucinogens (or don't, but I'm not going to suggest you do anything illegal here), because Lest Darkness Fall is one of those science fiction novels that begins...
L. Sprague De Camp Buy on AmazonThe Elysium Commission
As this galaxy becomes more crowded, scientists begin to look for other ways to allow population to continue to grow. They create a universe next to our own; however, in...
L. E. Modesitt Buy on AmazonA 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 AmazonA Wrinkle In Time
You've probably heard of this book. Maybe it was read to you when you were a child. It is enormously popular as a chapter book for children. You might think...
Madeleine L'engle Buy on AmazonA Swiftly Tilting Planet
The Murry and OKeefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war. In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery...
Madeleine L'engle Buy on AmazonMany Waters
Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has...
Madeleine L'engle Buy on AmazonAn Acceptable Time
Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial...
Madeleine L'engle Buy on AmazonDragon's Egg
Dragon's Egg by Robert L Forward is the story of a civilisation that grows fast enough for humans to observe - with each day of the new civilisation being equivalent...
Robert L. Forward Buy on AmazonWorld-building
Strictly speaking, this isn't a book, not any more. It started out as a book, the first edition was published in 1979 (edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute), a...
Stephen L. Gillett Buy on AmazonThe Paradox Men
Space opera is all about big concepts, what Brian Aldiss has called "wide screen baroque", and they don't come much wider or more baroque than The Paradox Men. Like much...
Charles L. Harness Buy on AmazonLunar Justice
If you want to see how much sf from the last quarter of the 20th century ignored the technical realities of the Moon, look no further than this sometimes absurd...
Charles L. Harness Buy on AmazonThe Best Of
We often tend to slip into the notion that before the advent of writers like Ursula Le Guin and Joanna Russ, science fiction was an exclusively masculine domain. But that...
C. L. Moore Buy on AmazonShambleau
Desolation Road is one way of writing about Mars as a frontier; C.L. Moore's startling novella is another. In this instance, Mars most closely resembles a dusty township from the...
C. L. Moore Buy on AmazonLes Tribulations D'un Chinois En Chine
OU LA PERSONNALITE ET LA NATIONALITE DES PERSONNAGES SE DEGAGENT PEU A PEU « Il faut pourtant convenir que la vie a du bon ! s'ecria l'un des convives, accoude...
Jules Verne Buy on AmazonThe Risen Empire
If you think space opera is just a subset or spin-off of military science fiction, and that every novel or series or saga is yet another John Carter, prepare for...
Scott Westerfeld Buy on AmazonWhen Harlie Was One
Ever felt like your computer was your best friend and the only person who really understood you? The only person who really listened? C'mon, I can't be the only nerd...
David Gerrold Buy on AmazonMetropolis
This is the novelisation of the film that Thea von Harbou wrote with her husband, Fritz Lang. It was the first feature-length science fiction film, the most expensive film made...
Thea Von Harbou Buy on Amazon