Thirg, the notorious philosopher, knows there are alien beings on other worlds on the other side of the sky. When aliens do arrive, Thirg's heretical and dangerous beliefs are vindicated. But the strange creatures called human plan to exploit his planet's
"THAT PLANET HAS NO RIGHT TO BE THERE!" Among the Saturnian moons, farsighted individuals, working without help or permission from any government, have established a colony. They call themselves the Kronians, after the Greek name for Saturn. Operating wi
Inherit the Stars: When they found the corpse on the Moon, wearing a spacesuit, lying in a grave of moon rocks, his identity was a complete mystery. The spacesuit was of a completely unfamiliar design. Then analysis showed that the corpse was 50,000 years
The Minervan Experiment is an omnibus of the Giants series: Inherit the Stars, The Gentle Giants of Ganymede & Giants' Star.Giants is a series of five sf books by James P. Hogan beginning in '77. The story follows several scientists who discover how h
THE END OF EXILELong before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart, millennia ago, the strange race of giants had vanished. No one could discover their fate, nor where they had gone, nor why. There was only a wrecked ship abandoned on a frozen satellite of
A PROBLEM IN RELATIVITYONE:Eons ago, a gentle race of giant aliens fled the planet Minerva, leaving the ancestors of Man to fend for themselves.TWO:50 thousand years ago, Minerva exploded, hurling its moon into an orbit about the Earth.THREE:In the 21st c
THE MAN ON THE MOON WAS DEAD. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair and fairly long nostrils. His skeletal body was found clad in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. They didn't know who he was, how he got there, or wha
Something exciting has been happening in modern SF. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, "hard SF" - science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventur
THE UNIVERSE NEXT DOORWhat would have happened if history had been different -- if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way ... or had not occurred at all? In this stellar collection, twelve of science fiction's most imaginat
