edmund cooper

Edmund Cooper pen names: George Kinley, Broderick Quain, Martin Lester and Richard Avery. born Cheshire, England: 30 April 1926 died Sussex, England: 11 March 1982 Edmund Cooper was an English poet and author of speculative fiction, romances, technical essays, several detective stories, a...

Okay, 10 or 15 years ago i ended up in county and found a paperback book sci fi defunct galactic empire type the premise was genetic slavery, in that the slave race was inhibited/controlled in some situations by a particular type of writing or script on a genetic level. The descendents of the...

Going nuts trying to remember a Sci-fi title. Probably 1970s One word sounding like Squonk, Quink or Splonk but none of those. I was sure it was Squonk but that is a different thing so not it. One of those "tip of the tongue" things :unsure:

Looking for the name of an old book I read way back but for some reason the plot pops back into my concious every now and then. I need to put this to rest. The plot ran along the lines that Earth had been destroyed by war a couple of thousand years in the past. From what I remember the cause of...

I read this sci-fi novel in 1970 at the Donnell branch on the N.Y. Public Library. Do not remember the author or the title of this hardcover book. The gist of it was that a female mad scientist had infected the world with some kind of mutant gene or virus, the effect of which was to make women...

Hello Everyone, I'm looking for a paperback series that I got back in the late 70's or early 80's. It was about a small team (maybe four?) of humans who would travel to distant worlds and recon the suitability to colonize. I think there were three books that I read. They included dealing with...

In this series, the team was led by a former military commander who had a bionic arm (replacing one lost in battle) and an artificial eye that could see in the dark. The doctor on the team had two bionic legs. Another team member, the science expert, was a former criminal. These three team...

Hello everyone...another new member...I'm trying to find a story involving an underground scaled-down London and a youngster trying to work out why he lives in such an odd city...turns out he's in an underground London being care for by the robots in my title. Was this a Heinlein story or...

I cannot remind the title nor author of a book about group of youth living in a fake London. Time of action is First or Second World War, but London is somehow shield. They discover that everything is fake, including peope/friends/parents (robots/cyborgs are present only where they are), Thames...

Hi I am trying to find the title of a book I read when I was much younger. Any help is appreciated! It took place on earth on the distant future, and the main character named Berry was a member of a primitive tribe living on earth. There were some mysterious beings that terrified the tribe and...

Read this book 40+ years ago, seeking title or author. The Thames runs in a circle, Queen Victoria and Churchill walk the streets, about a dozen "children" attend school. Everything is very pleasant, but something isn't quite right. "Children" are approximately 20 years old. The upshot is that...

When I was a child, I read a science fiction book about a distant future where the earth is populated by individuals who live in native american style of life (tribes, etc.)...Meanwhile, an educated elitist group of humans live off the planet and frequently visit earth for resources and mating...

I am looking for a generation ships story (full novel) published some time in the 1960s. The plot goes like this: a selection of people decide to construct a generation ship. I don't think there was any conflict/disaster involved). They take the names of famous scientists. After the journey...

I would very much appreciate help in finding the title of a boy's science fiction book written in the 1960's. All of the characters had names of famous persons, and by the end of the book the reader learned that all the characters were being raised by machines to save mankind. Does this book...

Having rediscovered Transit - seem to remember a follow/ re-visit same planet? If not what books recommended?

I am looking for a book I read many many years ago. It was about several people from various backgrounds that were abducted from central park and deposited on an alien planet to see how they cope. The book was written from the perspective of a character named "avery". Once the experiment was...

story - cant remember a man is walking through a park and picks up a piece of coloured glass / crystal which proves to have special powers and transports him to another planet. An ideal world on the surface but everyone has come there by same route. Someone returns in a later 2nd book/ story and...

I have been trying to remember the name and author of a book I read 20 or more years ago. I remember it starts with a number of humans abducted from contemporary earth in a large alien starship. They are taken to another world and deposited in a large enclosure surrounded by a forcefield, with a...

When i was younger the first writer i could say that i really got into in a big way was Edmund Cooper. No one seems to have heard of him. (There's a small group of about 8 people on Facebook.) Anyone on the Chrons like his work? Cloud Walker, the Overmann Culture and A Far Sunset were my...