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L'autre Monde

L'autre Monde

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 Amazon
Lest Darkness Fall

Lest 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 Amazon
The Elysium Commission

The 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 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
A Wrinkle In Time

A 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 Amazon
A Swiftly Tilting Planet

A 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 Amazon
Many Waters

Many 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 Amazon
An Acceptable Time

An 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 Amazon
Dragon's Egg

Dragon'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 Amazon
World-building

World-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 Amazon
The Paradox Men

The 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 Amazon
Lunar Justice

Lunar 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 Amazon
The Best Of

The 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 Amazon
Shambleau

Shambleau

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 Amazon
Les Tribulations D'un Chinois En Chine

Les 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 Amazon
The Risen Empire

The 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 Amazon
When Harlie Was One (cover not available)

When 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 Amazon
Metropolis

Metropolis

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

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