"Priests" with staffs & Space Trilogy

[megacal]

It's been about 35 yrs since I read these 3 books. Sorry my descriptions are
a bit vague, but would appreciate it if anyone knows the titles and/or authors.

1) The USA has been invaded by a ruthless horde, and the resistance is a group of pseudo-priests that live in a large cube, and carry staffs with cubes on top that have the power to disintegrate(?) or create a force field(?)

2) An intergalactic traveler in a trilogy who eventually discovers an underground army of robots on Earth.

3) A shipload of prisoners is dropped of on a hostile planet without any
food or supplies....they are initially hunted by cat-like predators, but after
several generations, develop a mental bond with them, and when their captors return, they get revenge on them with the help of the "cats".


Thanks!

 

[J-Sun]

The first one could be Leiber's Gather Darkness.

#3 rings some kind of bell but I don't know. Doubt I've read #2. Sorry.

 

[Ian Whates]

#3 could well be Anne McCaffrey's Catteni Sequence, which kicked of with Freedom's Landing (1995).

 

[yodachan]

#1 sounds like "Sixth Column" by Robert A. Heinlein.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342062.Sixth_Column

 

[megacal]

Thanks! I'm getting some ringing now, too, besides my tinnitus.
I'll keep searching.

All of them would have been 1950~1980. But will still check out Freeom's Landing.

I hope I will find the old ones as good as I remember, and new ones to give me
inspiration for 3D.

 

[monkeypooper]

no cats in freedoms landing plus it's not spread out over Generations

 

[PaulMmn]

Yodachan's right: #1 is "Sixth Column" by Robert A Heinlein.
Also known as "The Day After Tomorrow"

--Paul E Musselman

 

[J-Sun]

Yeah, I think Gather, Darkness and Sixth Column were both from Campbell more or less via his story "All" but GD doesn't really fit and 6C does. Dunno why GD is what sprang to mind.

 

[megacal]

Heinlein, Murray Leinster, A.E. Van Vogt, Kornbluth, Poul Anderson, Frederik Pohl,
Fredric Brown, Robert Sheckley, Michael Moorcock, Theodore Sturgeon, Eric Frank Russell, Lester Del Rey, L. Sprague de Camp, Chad Oliver...

Familiar names are coming back to me.

So many stories.....so little time!

 

[megacal]

The story I'll read first is Rogue in Space by Fredric Brown.
Remembering it was the catalyst for wanting to re-discover the others.

Forgot to add A.C. Clarke to the list....though I liked the movies better than the
writing.

Many thanks for the help.

 

[mellotronman]

I agree with Yodachan, re.your first query - has to be Heinlein's 'Sixth Column' (a.k.a. 'The Day After Tomorrow') - all plot points fit.

 

[megacal]

Thanks much.....starting to grok again. :O

 

[beenorthern]

The description is off, but I think No. 3 is Tom Godwin's *The Survivors* (aka *Space Prison*).

 

[megacal]

"It's an epic story of capture and abandonment, several generations of survival against all odds, then final revenge. Bare in mind, when this book was written, the good guys wore white hats, and always played fair. What was thrilling about this novel was the ending where revenge was going to be complete. No "can't we all just get along". The changing relationship between the fierce inhabitants of the deadly prison planet and the earthlings over several generations was gratifying also." -Gary, Amazon review

Sounds like it......thanks!