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What do readers say about The Forever War?
the ending was perfect flat-out, unsentimental, brutal imaginative and natural-feeling development violent and fatalisticThe monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand-despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconqu... More details on The Forever War
“Tonight we’re going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.” The guy who said that was a sergeant who didn’t look five years older than me. So if he’d ever killed a man in combat, silently or ot...
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What do readers say about The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress?
first person narrative very witty prose politics and revolution dated and blandFor fans of Artemis-the visionary tour de force from "one of the grand masters of science fiction" (The Wall Street Journal).
Widely acknowledged as one of Robert A. Heinlein's greatest works, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rose from the golden age of ... More details on The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
I SEE IN Lunaya Pravda that Luna City Council has passed on first reading a bill to examine, license, inspect—and tax—public food vendors operating inside municipal pressure. I see also is to be mass ...
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What do readers say about Stranger in a Strange Land?
sometimes interesting and clever pedestrian but not awful scifi cult classic one of those classicsThe complete, uncut version of Robert A. Heinlein's all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a science fiction classic.
Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never se... More details on Stranger in a Strange Land
The first human expedition to Mars was selected on the theory that the greatest danger to man was man himself. At that time, eight Terran years after the founding of the first human colony on Luna, an...
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What do readers say about Old Man's War?
engrossing and believable easy, conversational tone crisp and steady made political science interestingJohn Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and alien races... More details on Old Man's War
Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two. She's buried in Harris Creek Cemetery, not more than a mile down the road from where I live and where we raised our family. Getting her into th...
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What do readers say about Armor?
very, very compelling a very good first person perspective two stories in oneThe planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water is poisonous. It is home to the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered.
Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that... More details on Armor
The only other humans in the cell had already passed through the dispenser, which was good. I couldn’t afford to deal with their notions of justice and rights of life and the rest. Not that I disagree...
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What do readers say about Ender's Game?
military science fiction uplifting and depressing a society in peril science fiction battle novelThe worldwide bestseller, "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card comes to the screen at last in a major motion picture event in November 2013. Starring Hugo's Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, and Ben Kingsley, the movie is sure to inspire a new audience o... More details on Ender's Game
Ender did not see Peter as the beautiful ten-year-old boy that grown-ups saw, with dark, thick, tousled hair and a face that could have belonged to Alexander the Great. Ender looked at Peter only to d...
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What do readers say about Foundation?
dry and condescending densely and tersely fast-paced and always interesting plain nondescript proseThe first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
For twelve thousand years t... More details on Foundation
TERMINUS–... Its location (see map) was an odd one for the role it was called upon to play in Galactic history, and yet as many writers have never tired of pointing out, an inevitable one. Located on ...
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What do readers say about On Basilisk Station?
classic space opera the characters were great science fiction paperback bold space operaComprehensive Teacher's Guide available.... More details on On Basilisk Station
THE fluffy ball of fur in Honor Harrington’s lap stirred and put forth a round, prick-eared head as the steady pulse of the shuttle’s thrusters died. A delicate mouth of needle-sharp fangs yawned, and...
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What do readers say about Friday?
an enhance clone fun and absorbing heinlein at his worst sf adventure story"His best since The Moon is a Harsh Mistress." Jerry Pournelle
"A charming protagonist in a story as sleekly engineered as a starship. This one should fly."-Publishers Weekly
"One of Heinlein's best, which is to say one of the best in all of Science ... More details on Friday
I have never liked riding the Beanstalk. My distaste was full-blown even before the disaster to the Quito Skyhook. A cable that goes up into the sky with nothing to hold it up smells too much of magic...
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What do readers say about Dorsai!?
military science fiction science fiction classics hard-core space opera some of the bestDonal Graeme set out to re-shape the galaxy, but first he must tear it apart. Donal Graeme, Dorsai of the Dorsai, was the final link in a long genetic train, the ultimate soldier, whose breadth of vision made him a master of space war and strategy - ... More details on Dorsai!
“Welcome aboard,” said a pleasant-faced Junior Captain, as Donal strode through the gas barrier of the inner lock. The Junior Captain was in his early twenties, a black-haired, square-faced young man ...
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