alan e nourse

Alan Edward Nourse born Des Moines, Iowa: 11 August 1928 died Thorp, Washington: 19 July 1992 Alan Nourse was an American science fiction writer and physician, known for both juvenile and adult fiction, as well as nonfiction on medicine and science. His SF often explored medicine and psionics...

I read this book several times in the 70s through the 90s. It is about a shape shifter who can disguise himself. He is on a space ship voyage in disguise. The timtle may be something similar to "The Illustrated Man" because I once got the tities confused.

i’m trying to find this book i read forever ago, and this is literally all i can seem to remember. at the end of the third book they were falling into a huge pit that might have been the grand canyon ?

Don't remember title or author, hardback book, novel, probably from public library (I spent a lot of time in public libraries as a child). Government research project sending subjects to another dimension but when they return they have lost their mind. One person comes back is able to retain...

Radiation affects human colonists of the solar system and makes men incapable of fathering daughters. The Spacers (?) Are forced to raid earth for resources unavailable in space including for young women to become forced brides (mawkis?). Protagonist is a young man on his first raid who is...

For many years I've saw reference to Little Fuzzy and always thought I'd read it, it turns out I had it confused with another book. This is what I recall of this other book I want to identify.... A person joins a starship crew and gets looked down upon by the others. "Huh! It's a Garvian and...

Hi readers, I'm a children's librarian with very little knowledge of science fiction. An adult patron came in today looking for a book he recalls reading in the late 60s to early 70s. He thinks it may have been by Isaac Asimov but thinks it was a novel, not a short story. (Though if you know of...

As a child in elementary school, I was a reader. In fact, I almost skipped kindergarten because I could already read. I blame Captain Kangaroo. He would read stories on the air like "The Five Chinese Brothers" (I think there are some who classify this as a racist book nowadays, but the reading...

Hi everyone! First-time poster here. About 15 years ago, I read a short story where the protagonist gets set up with his "soulmate" via a matchmaking service. He and his match are so compatible that one day, when they're sitting on the couch together, they spontaneously merge into one being...

I am trying to find a young adult novel I remember fondly; the character is a teenage girl who is in trouble, rebellious or disobedient, and she is chosen to test a portal that has appeared. Adults going through the portal all go crazy. There is something about her mental state that allows her...

I've been trying to remember the title of a sf book I read as a teenager, but all I remember is plot fragments. In the book mars had been colonized but the radiation of space travel caused anyone who went to space to only be able to produce male children. So the people of mars raided earth for...

In a bid to try and recapture some of my youth, I’m trying to track down four stories I read sometime during the 70s, none of which I can remember title or author though I do remember odd parts of them and various story elements, which I’ve listed below. Hopefully someone will recognise...

I remember reading a book from the YA SciFi/Fantasy section of the local library in the mid 80s, around the time I was discovering Asimov, Heinlein, McCaffrey, McKillip, Norton. Our young teenaged male hero "just graduated" or otherwise is joining a rocket ship, either as a medical officer or...

I understand it's kind of a long shot but I'm looking for any information from a children's science fiction book that would have been from the time frame between the 50 - 70's. Most likely late 50's early 60's. All I know is it had characters in it that resemble the McDonald's "fry guys"...

Basic plot is that men that live in space are made sterile by radiation in space. They raid earth for women. The women they capture are called maki's or mauki's. They live on mars and the meteorite belt. Earth gets tired of the raids and sends out an invasion force to wipe out the space living...

It has become apparent that we are not alone, multi dimensioned earths with different histories and physical realities exist along side our own. The best and the brightest when sent travelling to these strange worlds come back quivering wrecks. What's needed are the loose and dysfunctional who...

I read this book sometime in the early 80s and am trying to remember the name. The earth is at war with colonies established in the asteroid belt. The story follows a raid on earth in which a girl is kidnapped by one of the raiders who is solo in a ship. If I remember correctly, another male...

I CANNOT find this book for the life of me. It's for my dad who read it sometime in the early '70s. From what I can remember it sounds like an awesome and interesting book. It's about a group of scientist who are studying absolute zero. There's something where they can't look directly at...

problem is, i can't remember what it was called or who it's by! it was a collection (all by the same author) which contained a story about a man who could "jump" from one reality to another: it started off with a California ruled by Mongols, went on to a weird interlude where it was set in San...

Many years ago, mid to late 1960s I came across a science fiction book in the local library. It is one of the first science fiction books I ever read, possibly even the very first. I have no idea who wrote it, what the name was or anything else, but I do remember parts of the story line. If...