james p hogan

I do not remember whether this was a short story or a book (more likely a story in an anthology). I do not remember when I read this (likely between 2008 and 2015, but I am not confident of that). People in a space habitat train an AI that comes to fear humans are going to erase it. It takes...

Read in the mid to late 70s, but is likely older. Part of a collection of stories in a paperback. Story details the difficulties when a client requests the creation of a new universe. Various departments of the organization have the the same acronyms as major US government agencies HUD is one I...

Hiya. I'm helping my friend look for a book. Here's the plot info he's given me. TIA! "All I remember was it was a sci-fi book and humans had just started exploring the solar system, we were using lasers to communicate and we encountered a race of aliens that were going to trap us in our own...

Folk - sorry, I am sure you get a lot of this. I love my science fiction, books, movies and TV but am haunted by the memories of a book I read years ago when employed by Honeywell Information Systems. The reason that is significant is that I am certain the book was written by someone employed...

James P Hogan is a name that I vaguely recognised, and a quick check of his Wiki entry reveals a substantial output of more than two dozen novels (published between 1977 and his death in 2010) plus a lot of short stories, although no titles that I can recall reading. The Proteus Operation is the...

Echoes of an Alien Sky James P. Hogan Baen, Feb 2007, $24.00 ISBN 1416521089 Almost two decades ago Venus landed a manned spacecraft on Earth to find the ruins of an intelligent society. Scientists, archeologists, and other professionals arrive to study what became of the earthlings. Not long...

the story goes like this: an interstellar factory ship malfunctions and crashes on a frozen planet/moon in Sol system. the resulting robots evolve intelligence and learn to "reproduce" through sharing "DNA" (AKA programming) meanwhile, on earth a "psychic" scientist/businessman learns of this...

seeking Book by Plot Book maybe 30+ years old. Plot is environmental disaster. Lead scientist sends message thru time to himself as young man. Message is aimed at location of earth on the target date.

I started reading this book a long time ago, was interrupted, and cannot find it now. A rocket ship arrives on a planet a long time ago, populated only by robots that are designed to settle on a planet, explore its resources, and report back to the intelligent beings on the mother planet far...

PLEASE HELP! This was a book written somewhere between the mid-70s and mid-80s. It begins with an expedition to the moon where they discover a body in a spacesuit that is 10,000 years old. The final premis of the story is that this race of beings lived on a planet that was thrown out of its...

read a book in the early 80's about a planet colonized by people raised by a robot. the technology at the time would not allow people to travel to this planet so frozen embrios were sent. upon arrival a robot revived, grew to term, and raised people to populate this planet. during this time...

Hi, I am new to this site so forgive me if this is not the right mode fro asking but: I have been trying to identify two books that I read and enjoyed back in the late 70’s maybe very early 80’s. Book 1: At the time the front cover was the thing I loved the most - a giant wasp attacking a...

Hi, I read a book some years ago about a race of very advanced aliens who landed on Jupiter's moon Europa and developed a civilization of robots a million years ago. 18 mastermind aliens controlled the population of robots. The protagonist is a robot (investigator I think ?) who is trying...

I'm trying to remember the title or name of the author of a book i read a long time ago....Its about modern day astronauts finding the body of a man on the moon...he's in some kind of pressure suit, like an astronaut. Indications are that he's been on the moon for a long time (million years?)...

I'm driving myself crazy trying to remember the title of a book that I enjoyed many years ago and I just can't recall the title. I keep thinking that the author was Zelazny but I always come up blank while searching his titles. The story is about self-replicating mining machines placed on...