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I am trying to find the title and author of a book I read many years ago. I have only a few details. There are two alien races at war. One of the alien races is referred to as “Scarecrows” because of the way they look. The aliens have teleportation devices, but they only send a copy of the...

Hi Years ago I read a book about humans finding some sort of alien station with preprogrammed ships to other destinations. Would love to read it again, its old possibly 50's onwards I think the author was famous Thanks

Hey everyone, how is everyone doing? Good, I hope. 1) So, I have the original copy of the book The Space Merchants , but now the exact same authors of that book put out a new “revised 21st century edition” . I assume revised means the same as updated? I wouldn’t know, I have yet to buy I book...

Short story. 60s or 70s (?) Aliens arrive on Earth. Teleport to visit people. Give us fantastic technology...ray guns, total conversion gigaton bombs, antigravity, etc. etc. After we have spread the technology around an alien teleports to an Earthling in a duck blind hunting ducks and asks what...

I think the story is from the '70s or '80s, and I cannot remember whether it was a short story, a novella or a full novel. The premise was a technology similar to a Star Trek transporter. It scanned an organism and was able to transmit a COPY of the organism elsewhere in the galaxy, while the...

This has been driving me nuts... When I was a boy in the 1970s or early 1980s I read a book where the main character underwent a bunch of surgeries, changing his skin, his eyes and even removing his privates in order to be the first astronaut on Mars. I recall him being able to see his wife's...

This would be from before 2010, when I was reading oldish sci-fi novels and anthologies in school. It might be Scheffield's "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", though I have no way to check atm. Anyway, as I remember.. the story occasionally refers back to a subplot about a well-known space...

Book about man shanghied to a colony planet with alien worms. The woman there was not liked by the worms and she caused a dam to collapse that killed. Main character was involved with a woman in earth and another guy who wanted her, drugged and put MC on ship for colony planet. Read in the...

Hi I am looking for a sci-fi book about being living in stars, killing each others and one of them "pushing" a solar system to near light speed thanks

Another book from my teen years. I want again. Late 1980-mid 90s. I wanted to say the book was called "The Raft" but the search results reveal something else from what I recall. A family on a long, slow haul generation ship. Something goes wrong, or.. weird. They are stuck. Have nothing but...

Are any of these really good stories? The Ninth Galaxy Reader ed. Frederik Pohl(Doubleday, Feb ’66, $3.95, 203pp, hc) Introduction · Frederik Pohl · in An Ancient Madness · Damon Knight · nv Galaxy Jun 1964 The King of the Beasts · Philip José Farmer · vi Galaxy Jun 1964 The Watchers in...

Hello, I remember reading 2 books in the late 1960's.... Early 1970's. The first book seemed like it was written around that time. It dealt with a boy....maybe a teenager that becomes aware that his mind, along with most if not all humanities minds are being harnessed by aliens. Their minds are...

I'm looking for a short story I read for a college econ class in the early 70's. It was part of a collection (something like the best short stories of 1971 or another year). The plot pertained to production and consumption. Nobody worked,as robots did all the manufacturing.Consumer goods were...

Perhaps written by Frederick Pohl, around 40 pages long novel, where one night the protagonist goes down to the cellar for some repairs and his mind is not reset that night. (Whereas everybody else seems to relive the previous day). He realizes that spending the night in the cellar is somehow...

I read this paperback in the late 70's or early 80's. I believe the spaceport was found on Mars (?). The spaceship seats were very uncomfortable to humans and they did not know exactly how to operate the ships. People knew enough to fire them up and send them off to pre-programmed destinations...

I read this book in 1997. It was a paperback from the library. The lead character is an adult woman who is travelling on a spaceship. They visit a planet with a human colony on it. The planet has a brutally long winter season during which the population must live underground. It is not winter...

In the early 1970's I read a book in which everyone carried a "joystick" that was connected to a central computer. With this device you could look anything up, people, places, events. You could make phone calls and exchange messages, pay your bills and manage your bank accounts. In other words...

I'm trying to find out the name of a novel that probably came out in the Nineties. I remember two things very well: a society where people are under control due to a metal collar that would explode and decapitate them if they do wrong, and a concentration camp were the inmates live splendidly...

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Question from a friend. No idea, but sounds a bit Harlan Ellison: Years ago, I read a short sci fi story set in an over-populated world where things were bought by gambling with your life. You could, for example, buy a car at 1000 to 1 against instant immolation, or a loaf of bread at...