Download or read book The Best Sci Fi Books of Tom Godwin written by Tom Godwin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited Tom Godwin collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. For The Cold Equations Space Prison The Nothing Equation The Helpful Hand of God Cry from a Far Planet The Last Victory —And Devious the Line of Duty Brain Teaser The Barbarians
Download or read book Space Prison SF Novel written by Tom Godwin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ship heading from Earth to Athena, a planet 500 light years away, is suddenly attacked by the Gerns, an alien empire in its expansion phase. People aboard are divided by the invaders into Acceptables and Rejects. The Acceptables would become slave labor for the Gerns on Athena, and the Rejects are forced ashore on the nearest 'Earth-like' planet, called Ragnarok. The Gerns say they will return for the Rejects, but the Rejects quickly realise that that isn't going to happen. Ragnarok has a gravity 1.5 times that of Earth, and is populated by deadly, aggressive creatures and it contains little in the way of usable metal ores. This, combined with a terrible deadly fever that kills in hours, more than decimates the population.
Download or read book The Cold Equations Other Stories written by Tom Godwin and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of stories by a master of science fiction adventure, with added dimensions of speculation and cold, hard realism.
Download or read book The Nothing Equation written by Tom Godwin and published by Aegypan. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cruiser vanished back into hyperspace and he was alone in the observation bubble, ten thousand lightyears beyond the galaxy's outermost sun. He looked out the windows at the gigantic sea of emptiness around him and wondered again what the danger had been that had so terrified the men before him. Of one thing he was already certain; he would find that nothing was waiting outside the bubble to kill him. The first bubble attendant had committed suicide and the second was a mindless maniac on the Earthbound cruiser but it must have been something inside the bubble that had caused it. Or else they had imagined it all. He wasn't afraid. Oh no, not him. He was the third man on the match, but that didn't scare him, not at all.
Download or read book 5 Sci Fi Stories by Tom Godwin written by Tom Godwin and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 sci-fi stories in one volume:Space Prison 3-And Devious the Line of Duty 135Cry from a Far Planet 173The Helpful Hand of God 187The Nothing Equation 211
Download or read book For The Cold Equations written by Tom Godwin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frontier is a strange place—and a frontier is not always easy to recognize. It may lie on the other side of a simple door marked "No Admittance"—but it is always deadly dangerous.
Download or read book Space Prison written by Tom Godwin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ship heading from Earth to Athena, a planet 500 light years away, is suddenly attacked by the Gerns, an alien empire in its expansion phase. People aboard are divided by the invaders into Acceptables and Rejects. The Acceptables would become slave labor for the Gerns on Athena, and the Rejects are forced ashore on the nearest 'Earth-like' planet, called Ragnarok. The Gerns say they will return for the Rejects, but the Rejects quickly realise that that isn't going to happen.
Download or read book Cry from a Far Planet written by Tom Godwin and published by Aegypan. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A smile of friendship is a baring of the teeth. So is a snarl of menace. It can be fatal to mistake the latter for the former." "Harm an alien being only under circumstances of self-defense." TRUST NO ALIEN BEING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. --From "Exploration Ship's Handbook" The problem of separating the friends from the enemies was a major one in the conquest of space, as many a dead spacer could have testified. A tough job when you could see an alien and judge appearances; far tougher when they were only whispers on the wind.
Download or read book The Cold Equations written by Tom Godwin and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE UNIVERSE DOESN'T CARE A pilot is on an emergency mission to a planet whose colony is doomed if he doesn't get there fast. He has just enough fuel to reach the planet¾then he finds that he has a stowaway, a young girl wanting to be with her brother on the colony. If the pilot spaces the girl, the ship will barely make it to the planet. If he does not, the ship will crash and both of them as well as the colony will die. What will he do This story rocked science fiction when it first appeared. Also in this volume is Godwin's long-unavailable novel The Survivors, which poses another problem in survival: If hostile aliens have marooned you and hundreds of other people on a nearly uninhabitable planet, how do you not only manage to endure, but to get revenge as well This is a massive volume by a master of science fiction adventure, with added dimensions of speculation and cold, hard realism. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "['The Cold Equations'] is one of the most popular and controversial hard sf stories of the last fifty years. ..." ¾David G. Hartwell, The Ascent of Wonder "The touchstone story for hard-core science fiction is Tom Godwin's 'The Cold Equations'." ¾James Gunn, The Road to Science Fiction, Vol. Ill "[Tom Godwin's SF] exhibited a fine clarity of conception, and considerable narrative verve. ..." ¾John Clute, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction "The impact [of 'The Cold Equations' on publication] was immediate .... The impact of the story . . . remains the same now as then." ¾Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, The Astounding-Analog Reader
Download or read book The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two A written by Robert Silverberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysteries and marvels of the science fiction world are brought to life in this compilation of stories representing the work of major authors in this field.
Download or read book The Black Star Passes written by John W Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest names in science-fiction is that of John W. Campbell. Famed as the editor of Astounding Science Fiction/Analog for many years, John W. Campbell was earlier known for his exciting, imaginative novels of super-science, which placed his name alongside such greats as Edward E. Smith and Edmond Hamilton. THE BLACK STAR PASSES is such a book, narrating the adventures of the Earth scientists Arcot, Wade, and Morey as they fight at first for the freedom of their planet and then for the safety of the entire solar system. For cosmic scope, daring concepts, and sweeping adventure, it has never been surpassed.
Download or read book The Barbarians from a Far Planet Tom Godwin Boxed Set Illustrated Edition written by Tom Godwin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Press presents to you this meticulously edited Tom Godwin collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. For The Cold Equations Space Prison The Nothing Equation The Helpful Hand of God Cry from a Far Planet The Last Victory —And Devious the Line of Duty Brain Teaser The Barbarians
Download or read book The Quantum Magician written by Derek Künsken and published by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science Fiction A to Z written by Isaac Asimov and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fifty great works of science fiction"--Cover.
Download or read book The Sparrow written by Mary Doria Russell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end. Praise for The Sparrow “A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them.”—Entertainment Weekly “Powerful . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Provocative, challenging . . . recalls both Arthur C. Clarke and H. G. Wells, with a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure.”—The Dallas Morning News “[Mary Doria] Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense.”—USA Today
Download or read book The Day of the Boomer Dukes written by Frederik Pohl and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful time travel romp. What happens when a bored criminal from the future returns to a more exciting time in the past? Foraminifera 9-Hart Bailey's Beam is about to find out. He's gathered a cache of high-tech weapons to take back in time with him, with the intention of teaming up with the legendary New York Mafia. Upon arriving in our time he meets a street gang named The Boomer Dukes and he asks them to "take me to your Mafia." From there nothing goes as planned.
Download or read book Kurt Vonnegut written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Huffington Post • Kansas City Star • Time Out New York • Kirkus Reviews This extraordinary collection of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction. Written over a sixty-year period, these letters, the vast majority of them never before published, are funny, moving, and full of the same uncanny wisdom that has endeared his work to readers worldwide. Included in this comprehensive volume: the letter a twenty-two-year-old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from a German POW camp, recounting the ghastly firebombing of Dresden that would be the subject of his masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five; wry dispatches from Vonnegut’s years as a struggling writer slowly finding an audience and then dealing with sudden international fame in middle age; righteously angry letters of protest to local school boards that tried to ban his work; intimate remembrances penned to high school classmates, fellow veterans, friends, and family; and letters of commiseration and encouragement to such contemporaries as Gail Godwin, Günter Grass, and Bernard Malamud. Vonnegut’s unmediated observations on science, art, and commerce prove to be just as inventive as any found in his novels—from a crackpot scheme for manufacturing “atomic” bow ties to a tongue-in-cheek proposal that publishers be allowed to trade authors like baseball players. (“Knopf, for example, might give John Updike’s contract to Simon and Schuster, and receive Joan Didion’s contract in return.”) Taken together, these letters add considerable depth to our understanding of this one-of-a-kind literary icon, in both his public and private lives. Each letter brims with the mordant humor and openhearted humanism upon which he built his legend. And virtually every page contains a quotable nugget that will make its way into the permanent Vonnegut lexicon. • On a job he had as a young man: “Hell is running an elevator throughout eternity in a building with only six floors.” • To a relative who calls him a “great literary figure”: “I am an American fad—of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop.” • To his daughter Nanny: “Most letters from a parent contain a parent’s own lost dreams disguised as good advice.” • To Norman Mailer: “I am cuter than you are.” Sometimes biting and ironical, sometimes achingly sweet, and always alive with the unique point of view that made him the true cultural heir to Mark Twain, these letters comprise the autobiography Kurt Vonnegut never wrote. Praise for Kurt Vonnegut: Letters “Splendidly assembled . . . familiar, funny, cranky . . . chronicling [Vonnegut’s] life in real time.”—Kurt Andersen, The New York Times Book Review “[This collection is] by turns hilarious, heartbreaking and mundane. . . . Vonnegut himself is a near-perfect example of the same flawed, wonderful humanity that he loved and despaired over his entire life.”—NPR “Congenial, whimsical and often insightful missives . . . one of [Vonnegut’s] very best.”—Newsday “These letters display all the hallmarks of Vonnegut’s fiction—smart, hilarious and heartbreaking.”—The New York Times Book Review
