Robert L. Forward

A Rocheworld Novel

Return to Rocheworld (Feb-1993)
Rocheworld (Sep-1993)
Ocean Under the Ice (Jun-1994)
Rescued from Paradise (Apr-1995)

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  Dragon's Egg
  

  • Apr-1980
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  ONCE IN A WHILE, A NOVEL APPEARS THAT HAS EVERYTHING UNIQUE TO SCIENCE FICTION -- A BRILLIANT NEW IDEA HONEST EXTRAPOLATION OF REAL SCIENCE, A GRIPPING STORY WITH FASCINATING ALIEN CHARACTERS, AND THE INDEFINABLE BUT ESSENTIAL SENSE OF WONDER. SUCH ...

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  Flight of the Dragonfly
  

  • May-1984
  • / Science Fiction
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  MISSION TO A DOUBLE PLANET. Powered by a revolutionary, laser-driven lightsail, the first manned interstellar probe would reach the bizarre double planet that circled Barnard's Star in a mere twenty years. The world's finest scientists had fought des...

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  The Owl
  

  • Aug-1984
  • / Suspense
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  With darkness as his ally and the streets as his home, private investigator Alexander L'Hiboux, the sleepless victim of insomnolence, hunts the individuals responsible for the brutal mutilation of a shipping magnate's daughter...

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  Starquake
  

  • Oct-1985
  • / Science Fiction
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  Starquake, the sequel to Dragon's Egg, takes place on the surface of a neutron star. The gravity is 67 billion Earth gravities. The native cheela, the size of sesame seeds, live a million times faster than their human friends in orbit. After a starqu...

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  Future Magic
  

  • Jun-1988
  • / Science Fiction
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  Martian Rainbow
  

  • May-1992
  • / Fantasy
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  Welcomed as a hero after he successfully defeats Mars's Russian invaders, General Alexander Armstrong lets the adoration turn him into a power-hungry demagogue, and it is up to his twin brother, Gus, now Governor of Mars, to stop him. Reprint....

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  Timemaster
  

  • Jun-1992
  • / Science Fiction
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  Billionaire industrialist Randy Hunter communicates with aliens, achieves interstellar flight, and explores the universe in a novel that explores the technological possibilities of the future. Reprint....

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  Camelot 30K
  

  • 1993
  • / Fantasy
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  Return to Rocheworld
  

  • Feb-1993
  • / Fantasy
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  A Rocheworld Novel
  

  Teamed up against a second aquatic race, the flouwen--the water-dwelling creatures found on a bizarre double planet--and an expedition of humans find that these new creatures are as unfriendly as they are intelligent...

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  Marooned on Eden
  

  • Aug-1993
  • / Fantasy
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  Just what is it that makes us human? Just what quality impels us out to the stars, to search for meaning in our cold universe, to struggle against entropy and discover the nature of things? The scientists on the first mission to Barbard's Star and...

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  Rocheworld
  

  • Sep-1993
  • / Science Fiction
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  A Rocheworld Novel
  

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  Ocean Under the Ice
  

  • Jun-1994
  • / Fantasy
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  A Rocheworld Novel
  

  INVASION When the first interstellar expedition reached Barnard's Star they found Rocheworld, and discovered therein the flouwen, giant amoeboids with a flair for math. Almost immediately, the medium-brained but high-tech humans from Earth forged ...

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  Rescued from Paradise
  

  • Apr-1995
  • / Science Fiction
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  A Rocheworld Novel
  

  TERRANS GO HOME! The first interstellar expedition successfully reached Barnard's Star and its amazing double-planet -- Rocheworld --and made contact with the flouwen, intelligent aquatic beings with a talent for higher mathematics and a love of s...

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  Indistinguishable from Magic
  

  • Sep-1995
  • / Science Fiction
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  Antigravity Machines! (six kinds) Space Warps! Black Holes! Strange Matter! Time Machines! Reactionless Drives! Faster than Light Drives! All the known ways to build real starships! Finally, someone who, puts the science back in science fiction! Robe...

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  Saturn Rukh
  

  • Mar-1997
  • / Science Fiction
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  In the near future five intrepid men and women have been paid a billion dollars each to risk the first voyage into the upper atmosphere of Saturn. The goal: to convert atmospheric chemicals into fuel to power interplanetary spaceships. But no one ...

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Award-Winning Books by Robert L. Forward

Dragon's Egg
1981 Locus Award -- First Novel