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Author
Series
Heechee saga volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1980.
Language
English
Description
Stellar expedition searches for an answer to world famine.
Author
Series
Heechee saga volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1984.
Language
English
Description
At last - the ultimate book in the renowned Heechee Saga! Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence ends when an all powerful alien race intent on the utter destruction of all intelligent life reappears after eons of silence, and threatens the...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Narabedla Ltd. is a corporation that is owned by aliens and run by their human agents. The main character is an accountant who specializes in doing the tax returns of singers, dancers, and other performers. He has been majoring in singing himself, with a minor in accounting, when he comes down with an adult case of mumps. When some of his clients start to disappear, he begins some detective work into why.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Henry Steegman is hardly "Mr. Personality" aboard the Mars-bound Algonquin 9. Yet it is he who bungles upon the spectacular Macy's-like city beneath the Red Planet's crust. For better or worse, the name Steegman will be immortalized by a discovery that will transform millions of lives. For a struggling screenwriter, the Martian beings could mean a big story, big bucks, headlines...and more women than any many his size has ever known. For an exhiled...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1985.
Language
English
Description
A violent ring slipped free of the alien spaceship. It spun on its axis twice, like a coin on a tabletop. Then it rushed toward them. Tsoong Delilah slapped quick fingers on the board, and their rocket bucked and tried to turn away. Thrust forward, she reached out despairingly toward the weaponry board, but there was no time to solve the riddles of the arming and aiming and launching of the missiles, either.
Author
Series
Heechee saga volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
The Annals of the Heechee is a science fiction novel by the American writer Frederik Pohl, published in 1987 by Ballantine Books. It is about a dead space explorer's machine-stored version who is trying to discover why the Assassins, a mysterious type of pure energy beings, are threatening the stability of the universe.
7) Venus, Inc
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1984?]
Language
English
Description
The Space Merchants is a satirical vision of Earth's foreseeable future when advertising had gone mad and society is divided into those who sell and the lowly consumers who buy. The Merchant's War takes up the story a generation later, when Venus is slowly but steadily becoming habitable ... a conservationist-controlled world on which advertising is outlawed and consumer protection is the norm.
8) The cool war
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Description
One day, the Reverend Hornswell Hake had nothing worse to contend with than the customary power shortages and his routine pastoral chores, such as counseling the vivacious Alys Brant--and her husbands and wife. At nearly forty, his life was placid, almost humdrum. The very next day, Horny Hake was first enlisted as an unwilling agent of the Team--secret successor to the long-discredited CIA--and then courted by an anti-Team underground group. In practically...
Author
Series
[Eschaton trilogy] volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Leaving a mechanized and overcrowded New York City for the vastness of space, a group of scientists arrives at a research station that has been receiving messages from aliens calling themselves the Beloved Leaders. Without warning, the scientists are kidnapped, confined to a sterile cell under close observation, and cloned. Their survival, and that of all intelligent life, now hangs on one question. Are these replicas capable of reason, or will they...
Author
Series
[Eschaton trilogy] volume 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The conclusion to the Eschaton Sequence follows the copy of Dan Dannerman as he attacks the Beloved Leaders and acquires control of some dangerous knowledge, and it is up to his clones to unravel the alien technology before Earth is destroyed.
11) O pioneer!
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The overcrowded Earth isn't room enough for Evesham Giyt, a solitary and brilliant computer hacker who yearns for the long-gone frontiers of the past. Chasing stories of unspoiled beauty and endless possibility, he takes a leap across the stars to the rugged colony world of Tupelo and soon finds himself a respected member of the community and mayor of the colony's human population. Humanity isn't the first race to colonize Tupelo: as mayor, Giyt is...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
The politics of interstellar imperialism, featuring Barry di Hoa, a technician on a small human colony. The colonists are plagued by a shortage of supplies from an overtaxed Earth and survive by exploiting the indigenous intelligent creatures.
Author
Series
[Eschaton trilogy] volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Two Earthmen are captured by aliens, then cloned and subjected to experiments. They escape and after capturing some aliens return to Earth, using their new knowledge to defend Earth from an alien invasion.
15) Gateway
Author
Series
Heechee saga volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1977.
Language
English
Description
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Rob Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he has become... in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the...
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