Sold - For a Spaceship is a novel by Philip E. High published in 1973.
Sold - For a Spaceship is a novel in which the despairing remains of the human race swiftly improve until mankind has mastered the universe. [1]
Dave Langford reviewed Sold - For a Spaceship for White Dwarf #72, and stated that "High has qualities of excitement and compassion which make his work stand out in this series (if nowhere else)." [1]
Blood Music is a science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear. It was originally published as a short story in 1983 in the American science fiction magazine Analog Science Fact & Fiction, winning the 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1984 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Gilgamesh the King is a 1984 historical novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, presenting the Epic of Gilgamesh as a novel. In the afterword the author wrote "at all times I have attempted to interpret the fanciful and fantastic events of these poems in a realistic way, that is, to tell the story of Gilgamesh as though he were writing his own memoirs, and to that end I have introduced many interpretations of my own devising which for better or for worse are in no way to be ascribed to the scholars".
Valentine Pontifex is a novel by Robert Silverberg published in 1983.
Mindkiller is a 1982 science fiction novel by American writer Spider Robinson. The novel, set in the late 1980s, explores the social implications of technologies to manipulate the brain, beginning with wireheading, the use of electric current to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain in order to achieve a narcotic high.
Golem in the Gears is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the ninth book of the Xanth series.
Tales of Pirx the Pilot is a science fiction stories collection by Polish author Stanisław Lem, about a spaceship pilot named Pirx.
The Unteleported Man is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published as a novella in 1964. It is about a future in which a one-way teleportation technology enables 40 million people to emigrate to a colony named Whale's Mouth on an Earth-like planet, which advertisements show as a lush green utopia. When the owner of a failing spaceship travel firm tries to take the 18-year flight to the colony to bring back any unhappy colonists, powerful forces try to stop him from finding out the truth.
Software is a 1982 cyberpunk science fiction novel written by Rudy Rucker. It won the first Philip K. Dick Award in 1983. The novel is the first book in Rucker's Ware Tetralogy, and was followed by a sequel, Wetware, in 1988.
The Merchants' War is a 1984 satirical science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. Set in a near future commercial dystopian interplanetary society, the novel was a sequel to The Space Merchants, and was originally co-published with it as Venus, Inc. Pohl's collaborator in the first novel, C.M. Kornbluth, died in 1958, and so did not contribute to this sequel.
Free Live Free is a novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, first published in 1984.
Black Star Rising, published in 1986, is a dystopian science fiction novel by American author Frederik Pohl. It is about a post-nuclear war future in which a conquered United States becomes a Chinese farming colony. The main character is an American who the Chinese send to meet a race of warlike aliens who come to Earth.
The Tides of Time (ISBN 0-345-31838-2) is a science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was first published in the United States by Ballantine Del Rey Books in 1984. The novel tells the story of two people on an isolated island, each time they awoke from sleep, they lived a different life in a different time.
Converts is a novel by Ian Watson published in 1984.
The Glamour is a novel by Christopher Priest published in 1984.
The Years of the City is a novel by Frederik Pohl published in 1984.
Spellbinder is a novel by Stephen Bowkett published in 1985.
The Sceptre Mortal is a novel by Derek Sawde published in 1985.
Slow Birds and Other Stories is a collection by Ian Watson published in 1985.
Welcome, Chaos is a novel by Kate Wilhelm published in 1983.
The Forever Man is a novel by Gordon R. Dickson published in 1986.