Alan Dean Foster
2) Star trek
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Kirk and Spock, graduates from Star Fleet Academy with contrasting personalities, must work together with their crew to defeat an alien captain intent on destroying all intelligent life in the galaxy.
Author
Publisher
Aeonian Press
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
This book was described (in 1974) as "good news for Star Trek Fans: the series is back on the air!"The critically acclaimed animated series features all new stories of the starship Enterprise and its famous crew. This is one of the Star Trek Log series, lively adaptations of the best episodes -- in paperback for the first time. Stories complete in this volume are:- * Beyond the Farthese Star * Yesteryear * One of Our Planets is Missing Alan Dean Foster...
Author
Publisher
Turner
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
A world where humans and dinosaurs live together in harmony. Until now. For centuries Dinotopia's shores have remained safe from the unwelcome advances of outsiders, but when invaders on the pirate ship Condor manage to land, the peaceful world of dinosaurs and humans is thrown into turmoil.
6) Phylogenesis
Author
Series
Founding of the commonwealth volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In the years after first contact, humans and the intelligent insect like Thranx agree to a tentative sharing of ideas and cultures despite the ingrained repulsion they have yet to overcome. Thus, a slow, lengthy process of limited contact begins. Yet they never plan for a chance meeting between a misfit artist and a petty thief. Desvendapur is a talented Thranx poet who is bored with his life and needs new inspiration for his work. Venturing beyond...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
When a strange starship appears mysteriously on a distant alien world, bearing only a single human and his bee-like extraterrestrial companion, the powerful warlord of that world laughs at the stranger's preposterous demand: End an all-out war with an interstellar rival, or face devastating consequences. But James Lawson, emissary from an intergalactic federation of advanced race, means every word he says, and has the power to back them up--whatever...
8) Dirge
Author
Series
Founding of the commonwealth volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Human relations with the insect-like aliens, the Thranx, are undermined by the arrival of a new humanoid alien species that is more aesthetically pleasing.
Author
Series
Founding of the commonwealth volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Zealots on both sides try to thwart the efforts of diplomat Fanielle Anjou and others in bringing about closer relations between humans and the thranx.
10) Reunion
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"It all starts innocently enough. Well, almost innocently. So what if Flinx uses his enhanced empathic abilities to finesse his way into a top secret security installation on Earth? Once there, he bamboozles a sophisticated AI program into releasing classified information about the Meliorare Society, the sect of renegade eugenicists whose experiments with human beings had horrified the civilized universe more than twenty years ago. After all, as one...
11) Sliding scales
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The ninth novel in the New York Times bestselling Pip & Flinx series by one of science fiction's most popular and prodigious storytellers. The daring pair have braved countless dangers to emerge victorious. But now Flinx attempts something that may be impossible for the heretofore undefeated hero. His mission: to take a vacation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Darth Vader may have been redeemed and the Emperor vanquished, but peace can be fleeting, and evil does not easily relent. Yet the simple belief in good can still empower ordinary individuals to rise and meet the greatest challenges. So return to that galaxy far, far away, and prepare yourself for what happens when the Force awakens....
13) A call to arms
Author
Series
Damned volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
For eons, the Amplitur had searched space for intelligent species, each of which was joyously welcomed to take part in the fulfillment of the Amplitur Purpose. Whether it wanted to or not. When the Amplitur and their allies stumbled upon the races called the Weave, the Purpose seemed poised for a great leap forward. But the Weave's surprising unity also gave it the ability to fight the Amplitur and their cause. And fight it did, for thousands of years....
Author
Series
Damned volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The Weave was on the verge of winning a decisive victory after a milennia of war, thanks to their new allies from earth. But then the birdlike Wais scholar Lalelang found evidence that Humans might not adapt well to peace. Researching further, she uncovered a secret group of telepathic Humans called the Core, who were on the verge of starting another war, and then eliminating Lalelang. At the last moment, she was saved by a lone Core commander. He...
18) Robot uprisings
Publisher
Vintage, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"As real robots creep into our lives, so does a sense of fear--we have all wondered what horrifying scenarious might unfold if our technology were to go awry. This anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the machines we live with. With contributions by Alan Dean Foster, Charles Yu, Hugh Howey, Daniel H. Wilson, Corey Doctorow, Ian McDonald, Ernie Cline, Jeff Abbott, Robin Wasserman, and Anna North, Robot Uprisings...
19) The mad scientist's guide to world domination: original short fiction for the modern evil genius
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of original horror tales featuring "evil genius" archetype characters intent on ruling the world features contributions by Diana Gabaldon, Daniel Wilson, and Austin Grossman.