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Author
Series
Publisher
Gregg
Pub. Date
c1981.
Language
English
Description
Earth had become a place free of poverty, pain, and disease - near-perfect, except for Hamilton Felix, the end-product of a 300-year program of controlled genetics, who is intent on changing the world - either through science or revolution.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1984.
Language
English
Description
After he firewalked in Polynesia, the world wasn't the same for Alexander Hergensheimer, now called Alec Graham. As natural accidents occurred without cease, Alex knew Armageddon and the Day of Judgement were near. Somehow he had to bring his beloved heathen, Margrethe, to a state of grace, and, while he was at it, save the rest of the world.
6) Sixth column
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
One by one, the Free Nations had fallen, until finally America too was under the heel of the invader. Now the only hope resides in a mountain redoubt where six men work in secret on a plan to rock the planet
7) Friday
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss." Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on shuttlecock assignment at Boss' seemingly whimsical behest. From New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of America's disunion,...
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1985.
Language
English
Description
When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his table, Dr. Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions, where a plot to rescue a sentient computer could alter human history...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
It is 1970, and electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and even greedier fiancée steal his work and leave him penniless, and trick him into taking the long sleepsuspended animation for thirty years.
12) Destination Moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Gregg
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Contains: Destination moon, from in Short stories magazine, Sept. 1950; Shooting Destination Moon, from Astounding science fiction, July 1950; and reviews of, and stills from, the movie.
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
The Wit and Wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein, author of multiple New York Times best sellers, on subjects ranging from Crime and Punishment to the Love Life of the American Teenager; from Nuclear Power to the Pragmatics of Patriotism; from Prophecy to Destiny; from Geopolitics to Post-Holocaust America; from the Nature of Courage to the Nature of Reality; it's all here and it's all great - straight from the mind of the finest science fiction writer of...
14) Between planets
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
When war threatens to break out between Venus and Earth, a boy with citizenship on both planets, attending school on Earth but whose home is on Mars, finds himself in an awkward situation.
15) Double star
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe was - as usual - in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake - failure to pull off the act could...
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1978.
Language
English
Description
Too young to fight in the First World War, but destined to lead the first successful expedition to another star system, the (literally) immortal Lazarus Long is the most popular and enduring character created by Robert A. Heinlein, author of numerous New York Times best sellers. He starred in Heinlein's most popular novels, including Methuselah's Children, Time Enough For Love, The Number Of The Beast, To Sail Beyond The Sunset and others. The oldest...
17) Glory road
Author
Series
Publisher
Gregg
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
E.C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English, with some French, proficient in all weapons, some knowledge...
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