The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instead the perfect situation into which to export their rivalries. Subtitled, with savage irony, 'The ...
Two of science fiction's most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. "The Last Theorem" is a gripping intellectual thriller in which humanity, facing extermination from all-but-omnipotent aliens, must overcome differences of politics and religion and come together--or perish.
In the second book in the Heechee series, Robin Broadhead has figured out how to use a new Heechee artifact, but is haunted by the death of his wife at the mouth of a mysterious black hole that has appeared in the wake of the Heechee discoveries.
Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster -- a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a ...
After a 14-year-hiatus, SFWA Grand Master Frederik Pohl returns to his multiple- award-winning Heechee series. Using the technology left behind by the alien Heechee, humans have settled all over the galaxy. The Heechee themselves have moved to the galactic core in an attempt to avoid the Kugel, a race bent on genocide. Many humans have joined the ...
A pillar in the SF community, Frederik Pohl has edited a three-volume collection of significant selections of writing from the oeuvres of the first 15 Grand Masters of Science Fiction. Included in this volume: Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Damon Knight, A.E. Van Vogt, and Jack Vance.
Barry di Hoa had the good life on the Moon: steady work and the love of a good woman. But a rival slipped him a mickey, and he next awoke aboard Gerald Tscharka's ship as it neared the colony planet, Pava, eighteen light-years away. Pava was the frontier, complete with earthquakes, primitive conditions and hard physical work. The local "doctor" ...
A pillar in the SF community, Frederik Pohl has edited a three-volume collection of significant selections of writing from the oeuvres of the first 15 Grand Masters of Science Fiction. Included in this volume: Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Damon Knight, A.E. Van Vogt, and Jack Vance.
Once Evesham Giyt and his girlfriend settle into life on the colony world of Tupelo, things seem to go well. But that all changes when Evesham becomes mayor of the colony. Stumbling onto a plot, he realizes that the price for saving his adopted planet may be much more than he can afford.
The Earth has been torn away from the Sun, kidnapped by a runaway planet , whose inhabitants - enigmatic, utterly alien Pyramids - have their own plans for Earth's resources. And humankind, depending for warmth on a constantly renewed but woefully inadequate Moon, wracked by hunger and ruled by a slavish conformity to tradition, is dying out. But ...
The newest collaboration from the writing team of Pohl and Williamson is based on the theories of Stephen Hawking and is set in a not so distant future in which Earth has been "conquered" by an alien race. The aliens turn to the humans for help, though, when news comes that somehow their home planet has disappeared.
As submarine captain Ron Tregrath rediscovers his lost love, Graciela Navarro, and the earth recovers from the loss of its ozone layer, an alien, the Eternal, threatens to absorb the minds of every living thing and enslave the planet. Reissue. AB.
In this, the third book of the Eschaton Sequence, Dan Dannerman and his two clones desperately attempt to learn an alien technology--the only thing that will save the Earth from a deadly invasion by the Horch.
The aliens are not coming--they're already here. Thwarted in their initial incursion by secret agent Dan Dannerma, they are armed with high-tech devices and a secret network on Earth and in space. It's up to Dannerman and a host of other Earthmen to stave off all-out war.
Wan-To was the oldest and must powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles. Matter occupied so tiny a part of his vast awareness that humans were utterly beneath his notice. The colonists of Newmanhome first suffered the effects of Wan-To's games when their planet's stars began to shift ...
When scientist Pat Adcock suspects that aliens have invaded her space lab, she puts together a team of professionals and sets off into space to investigate. As soon as she discovers that her lab is indeed rife with alien gadgetry, Pat and her team are whisked away by the culprits who clone them for experimentation and send their original forms ...
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