Science fiction: space opera

How would you survive on a planet that doesn't spin?

Sheri Tepper, one of the foremost science fiction writers in the world, gives us an exciting, evocative and thought-provoking tale where science and magic meet head-on.

What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass?

Racing from the certain vengeance of Earth's tyrant ruler, space captain Vance Garamond flees the Solar System.

Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus.

Jacque LeFavre is a tamer - a member of one of the tough and honed exploration teams that, since the dramatic discovery of the Levant-Meyer Translation, humankind has been able to send to the stars.

The Panarch of Pao is dead and Beran Panasper, his young son and heir, must flee the planet to live and avenge his father's death.

Big Planet is Jack Vance's first major sf novel, and in the words of the Encyclopedia of SF, "e;provided an sf model for the planetary romance which has been of significant use for forty years"e;.

This collection by Lucius Shepard, one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in the 1980s, includes the eponymous story Barnacle Bill the Spacer , about an attempted mutiny on a space station, which won the Hugo Award, as well as Sports in America , about a man who finds out just how far he is willing to go when he is hired by a local crime boss to kill a man.

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction.

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction.

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction.

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction.

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction.

For more than a thousand years, Homeworld has been unchanged: the Great Houses rule and peace between them is enforced by unbreakable webs of kinship.

Fortieth-Century Space Probe!

This collection contains 7 astounding journeys into tomorrow by John W.

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Three Mind-Jarring Space OperasMarooned:Four giant ships made of the wonder element synthium crash the asteroid belt and brave the cold of Jupiter's moons in mans last reckless dash to adventure.

Here are five adventures in planetary exploration capable of orbit the most Earthbound reader.

The Incredible Planet is John W.

A million light-years from Earth, one solitary spaceship floats through a vast swarm of enemies.

The alien spaceship was unthinkably huge, enormously powerful, apparently irresistible.

THREE AGAINST THE STARS!

ANNOUNCING THE TOURIST EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE TALK OF THE GALAXY!

Among the six hundred thousand stars in the vast Arm of Stars, over six hundred planets had been seeded with human stock by the greatest feat of technology ever achieved, the Ship.

Life had become too interesting on one world crawling across the rubble-strewn arm of a spiral galaxy.

The interstellar Bridge System was the greatest invention in the long history of cosmic humanity.

Nineteen light years from Earth, on Sigma Draconis, an international space team stumbles upon the first evidence of another highly advanced civilization in the universe.

A revised version of THE ASTRONAUTS MUST NOT LAND (1963).

The far-flung fingers of Earth's civilisation touched many corners of the galaxy, and among them was the beautiful planet Yan.

Once the city of Carrig stood supreme on this planet that had been settled by space refugees in the distant, forgotten past.

It was carnival time on Earth.

Kynance Foy was young, beautiful, intelligent an highly trained in both qua-space physics and business law when she left Earth to seek her fortune in the interstellar outworlds.

The Corps Galactica, the Galaxy's police force, had pledged itself to a policy of non-interference with the backward Zarathustra Refugee Planets.

By the twenty-first century the world was drowning in its own population.

Whether or not he had wanted to turn back at the last minute, he couldn't have - the wave of dirty, hungry people carried him helplessly along in their fervour reach the temple.

The barrenland lay on the face of the world like a sore, nearly round, more than three hundred miles in circumference.

In the long twilight if a galactic empire, the old king is dying.

'How short a time a century really is .

MUST THE UNIVERSE DIE WITH THEM?

Allyn Vage was once a beautiful woman, but due to an accident - which may have been a murder attempt - she was now a hopeless cripple, burned and disfigured and without the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.

'One citizen of your planet shall go to the capital of the Federation of Worlds.

A cold war among the stars was growing hotter by the minute.

Shrewd, devious, cunning and a born liar - but as a Court Jester, Jad's a disaster.

"e;[A] novel that combines exotic descriptions, slam-bang action and a mind-blowing secret history of the universe"e; - David Langford"e;Amazing story written with skill and literary excellence"e; - Goodreads ReviewerIn the aftermath of an interstellar war an enigmatic star is discovered, travelling towards the Solar System from the galactic core.

Eversion is a superb, original Gothic SF novel.

The legendary space opera that kicked off the ground-breaking, universe-spanning series.

Bounty hunters race to find a powerful psychic in this classic science fiction adventure by the award-winning author of Soothsayer.