david grinnell

Looking for a Sci-Fi novel I found in a library and read around 1963. It involves the creation of a single, physically scaled down galaxy inside some kind of force field. Observers are somehow able to couple with individuals on various worlds to learn about the subject's civilization. Supposedly...

I read this book as a young boy in the 1960s and would like to read it again. For some reason it has stuck with me and can't remember the name. Here's the plot: A dying alien lands on Earth in the countryside. A man comes upon the crash and attempts to help the alien. The alien then...

Read these in a public library as a child. First story is about a meteor infecting the earth with a red fungus with very strange properties and not compatible with earth life. The red growth is growing and research to stop it ends up using some of the growths properties to temporarily bring...

Here's a challenge for you, I saw this on twitter "Twitter scifi mind, once again my google-fu fails me. Help! Trying to identify a scifi novel At one point the protagonist is on a solar sail spaceship. The ship is a space-going monastery. They make money by constructing light-bulbs...

Good day everyone. I am trying to remember the author and/or title of a book I started to read back in mid-80s. My father was a big Sci-fi buff and he let me read it for a book report. I would ask him but he passed away back in early 90s so I ask for your help in helping try to identify it in...