The trade paper re-launch of a classic sci-fi bestseller from the authors of the acclaimed alien invasion epic "Footfall". For millionaire Tim Hamner, the comet he helped discover is a ticket to immortality. For filmmaker Harvey Randall, it's a chance to redeem a flagging career. And for astronauts John Baker and Rick Delanty, it's a second chance ...
Two of the best known names in science fiction bring us the long-awaited sequel The Mote in God's Eye. In the universe of Kevin Renner, Horace Bury, Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler, 25 years have passed since the aliens known as the Moties were quarantined within the confines of their own solar system. Now, the Moties must breed--or die.
Light years from Earth, 200 men and women come to Tau Ceti Four and establish an agricultural colony on an island of gentle breezes and crystal rivers. But their new home holds a lethal secret--and soon the colonists are waging a bloody war against a terrifying enemy.
"NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN NIVEN AND POURNELLE.I LOVED IT!"--Tom ClancyThey first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star.The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go ...
Whandall Placehold was two years old when a lordkin - possessed by the firegod - burnt his city to the ground. Five years later the god entered another of the lordkin - and once again the city burned. But when the firegod attempted to master Whandall it discovered he was unlike the other lordkin, for Whandall resisted the urge to burn his city and ...
There was fire on Earth before the fire god came. There has always been fire.What the fire god, gave to mankind was madness ...They burned the city when Whandall Placehold was two. And then again when he was seven. The fire god possessed one of the lordkin, the lust for fire took hold and the burning began. Whandall was himself one of the lordkin, ...
Aliens - Moties - were first contacted in AD3017 in the region of space known as the Coalsack. The eponymous mote in his eye, which has winked out, much to the distress of pious Himmists, just might have been Motie laser light. It might even indicate the position of their home planet.
After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. As he struggles to escape, he's taken through new, puzzling, and outlandish versions of sin--recast for the present day.
Bestselling science-fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of rising young author Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind's first outpost in the farthest reaches of space. 5 maps.
2073. Earth falls victim to a new ice age and parodoxically, the Green politicians have rejected the technology that could save the planet. Two astronauts have crash-landed in the frozen American midwest - their only hope of survival is a group of science enthusiasts who can return them to freedom.
In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, racked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state-of-the-art technology to create a completely human-friendly environment, offering its dwellers ...
Humankind has spent years agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens they have ever encountered, the Moties. A race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function. Now the Moties are isolated - until the empire is threatened. By the authors of "Footfall".
This book contains three long stories set in Niven's complex Known Space universe, one by Niven, one by Anderson, and one collaboration between Pournelle and Stirling.
Science-fiction writer Allen Carpentier has died and landed at the gates of hell. Seeing a great opportunity for a book, he follows Dantes roadmap through the nine circles of Hell, determined to meet Satan himself.
Allan Carpentier escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. Partnering with the once-famous poet Sylvia Plath, he is on a mission to return and liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. But once there, it's not clear whether he will ever be able to leave again.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1985
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1985
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. Book of the Month Club Edition. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
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