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Glass Mountain, The (White Wolf, 1997.)
On a primitive planet torn by warfare, a young women seeks to negotiate a peace between her own people and their enemies.
In the Heart of the Valley of Love (Viking, 1992, Penguin, 1993.)
Violence in a future Los Angeles. A nineteen year old finds herself alone and forced to fight for survival in an urban jungle.
KADREY, RICHARD
Kamikaze L’Amour (St Martins, 1995.)
A burnt out rock singer celebrates the end of the millennium by faking his own death and disappearing into a surrealistic jungle that is absorbing the cities of the world.
Metrophage (Ace, 1988.)
A decadent, future Los Angeles runs into even more trouble when a deadly plague breaks out.
KAGAN, DALE A.
Lanterns Over Demner (Xlibris, 2001.)
A murder mystery on another planet involving telepathy.
Spies by Night (Xlibris, 2003.)
Spy story set on an orbiting habitat.
KAGAN, DAVID
Sunstroke (Diamond, 1993, Ace, 1995.)
An automated satellite designed to provide solar power to the Earth gets a kink in its program and begins beaming deadly rays down to the surface.
KAGAN, JANET
Hellspark (Tor, 1988, Meisha Merlin, 2000.)
When a member of a contact team is killed on a newly discovered, inhabited planet, there’s a mystery. Did one of his team members kill him, or one of the natives, or was his death an accident? An unwilling agent is forced to travel to this alien world to solve the puzzle.
Mirabile (Tor, 1991.)
An ecologist on a new colony world has to deal not only with the integration of Earth born and local fauna and flora, but also with the occasional wild mutation that results from the deliberately adaptive genetic coding in their livestock.
Uhura's Song (Pocket, 1985, Firecrest, 1985.)
A Star Trek novel.
The Enterprise is sent to help a world of catlike aliens who are succumbing to a new plague, one which threatens to spread to other species as well. Uhura has an old friend on that planet, and must reveal an old secret to help save an entire species.
KAHN, JAMES
Echo Vector, The (St Martins, 1987, Grafton, 1989.)
Not seen.
Return of the Jedi (Del Rey, 1983, Macdonald, 1983, based on the screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas.)
A Star Wars novel.
Concluding volume of the original trilogy. The Emperor has built a new death star, Darth Vader has lured our heroes to their doom, and everything will be decided by one titanic battle on a remote world.
Timefall (St Martins, 1987, Grafton, 1988.)
The discovery of a jeweled skull that predates the rise of humanity causes a scientist to launch an investigation that leads him to the brink of disaster, for he has stumbled onto the key of a secret that could destroy the human race.
Time’s Dark Laughter (Del Rey, 1982, Panther, 1983.)
Josh Green #2.
The protagonist is off on another journey of adventure in a world populated by dozens of intelligent species.
World Enough and Time (Del Rey, 1980, Granada, 1982.)
Josh Green #1.
In a post apocalyptic America, an adventurer sets out to find the people who attacked his friends, in a world in which genetic engineering has left a heritage of living creatures fashioned after legends, ordinary animals made artificially intelligent, and other dangers.
KAHN, OBIE
Intergalactic Orgy (Beeline, 1983.)
Pornography.
KAINEN, RAY
Cosmic Gash, The (Traveller’s Companion, 1969.)
Pornography in outer space.
Earth Station Sex (Traveller’s Companion, 1969.)
Pornography in orbit..
Satyr Trek (Olympia, 1970.)
Pornography with aliens.
Sea of Thighs, A (Traveller’s Companion, 1968.)
Pornography set in the future.
Cold Plague (Forge, 2008.)
Marginal thriller about a new plague.
Pandemic (?)
?
Resistance (Tor, 2006.)
Marginal thriller about a new plague.
KALNEN, RAY
Day the Universe Came, The (Nightstand, 1968.)
Pornography in the future.
Love Box, The (Greenleaf, 1967.)
Pornography involving a megacorporation of the future that incorporates sex in its benefit package.
KAMARCK, LAWRENCE
Zinsser Implant, The (Dial, 1979, Dell, 1980.)
An investigator is hired to track down a scientist who has apparently discovered a method to transfer his personality to a new body in order to avoid dying.
KAMIDA, VICKI
Sabretooth Unleashed (Sprinter, 1995, from the comic scripts by Larry Hama and Fabian Nicieza.)
An X-Men novel.
Sabretooth goes through a series of adventures and psychological problems when he is apparently betrayed by his friends and tracked by the powerful Wolverine.
KAMIN, NICK (Pseudonym of Robert Antonick.)
Earthrim (Ace, 1969, bound with Phoenix Ship by Walt & Leigh Richmond.)
A man who was instrumental in ending a war is now called upon to find a way to overthrow a repressive government that has established firm control of the entire planet, and which views him as its most dangerous opponent.
Herod Men, The (Ace, 1971, bound with Dark Planet by John Rackham.)
In an overpopulated future, the Herod Men are investigators looking into illegal births. One of their operatives is on a routine mission when an attempt is made to kill him. Somehow he has attracted the attention of a militant band of fanatics who believe in unrestricted breeding.
KANALY, MICHAEL
Thoughts of God (Ace, 1997.)
The protagonist sets out to track down and eliminate a serial killer who preys on children in this thoughtful, philosphical novel set in the near future.
Virus Clans (Ace, 1998.)
A scientist discovers that viruses are beginning to change their nature, and that this is part of a periodic effect that wiped out the dinosaurs and could now wipe out the human race as well.
KANAR, STEPHEN
J Factor, The (Bantam, 2000.)
Near future medical thriller about a corporation that requires people to justify receiving organ transplants. They are prepared to kill to prevent anyone from revealing that they actually harvest their organs from genetically created humanoids.
KANDEL, MICHAEL
Captain Jack Zodiac (Broken Mirrors, 1991, Bantam, 1992.)
Satiric romp through a future where computerization and other technological advances have made life much more complex, hence providing many more ways in which things can go disastrously wrong. And for our hero, they must assuredly do.
Panda Ray (St Martins, 1996.)
A young boy who can travel through time at will annoys his parents with his wild storytelling, so he escapes punishment by setting out on an adventurous journey through time and space.
Strange Invasion (Bantam, 1989.)
A man subject to hallucinations because of a rare brain disorder sees what appears to be a flying saucer landing in his backyard. In the days that follow, the number of strange and often hilarious manifestations cause him to wonder, correctly, if it was a delusion after all.
KANER, H.
Ape-Man’s Offering (Kaner Publishing, 1946.)
Not seen.
People of the Twilight (Kaner Publishing, 1946.)
A visit to a parallel universe.
Sun Queen, The (Kaner Publishing, 1946.)
Intrigue and adventure in a primitive world located inside the sun.
KANTO, PETER (See also Zach Hughes.)
World Where Sex Was Born, The (Ophelia, 1968.)
Pornography on another planet.
KANTOR, MACKINLAY
If the South Had Won the Civil War (World, 1960, Bantam, 1961, Forge, 2001.)
Description of a critical turning point in history, showing that if things had been just slightly different, the result of the war might have been entirely different.
KAPP, COLIN
Chaos Weapon, The (Del Rey, 1977, Dobson, 1979.)
A team is sent to destroy a device that is altering the laws of probability throughout the entire known universe. Their quest is complicated by the fact that the machine is physically located outside of our universe.
Dark Mind, The. (See The Transfinite Man.)
Ion War, The (Ace, 1978, Dobson, 1979.)
A citizen from a colony world is drafted into the army of a repressive, Earth based empire, where he discovers that he is to be part of a plot to forever end the possibility of the colonies breaking free of the homeworld.
Lost Worlds of Cronus, The (New English Library, 1982, DAW, 1983.)
Cageworld #2.
The adventurers continue their quest, this time seeking a layer of artificial worlds that exists entirely in darkness, and which is home to a variety of mutated forms.
Manalone (Panther, 1977.)
A brilliant scientist discovers that there are some puzzling anomalies in what is generally accepted as the state of the world in a totalitarian future. But when he persists in asking questions, he attracts the attention of entrenched powers who are determined to prevent him from rocking the boat.
Patterns of Chaos (Gollancz, 1972, Award, 1973, Ace, 1978.)
A man struggles to survive on a planet besieged by missiles that were launched millions of years previously, and is startled to discover that he personally is their main target.
Search for the Sun (DAW, 1982, New English Library, 1982.)
Cageworld #1.
Earth’s sun is surrounded by literally thousands of planets, all arranged in concentric shells. Some adventurers from Mars leave that planet to try to outsmart the controlling computer and find a way through the innermost layer.
Star Search (New English Library, 1983, DAW, 1984.)
Cageworld #4.
The final quest as the adventurers penetrate the final shell surrounding the sun, and prepare humankind to once again consider its destiny among the stars.
Survival Game, The (Del Rey, 1976, Dobson, 1977.)
A man is stranded on a primitive world with another who is determined to kill him as part of a cruel game played between two powerful man. And the protagonist isn’t even aware of the rules.
Timewinders, The (Dobson, 1980.)
Not seen.
Transfinite Man (Berkley, 1964. Corgi, 1965, as The Dark Mind.)
The company that controls travel to the stars via matter transmitter is concealing a deadly secret, and when an investigator is hired to find out what it is, his efforts take him far from Earth.
Tyrant of Hades, The (New English Library, 1982, DAW, 1984.)
Cageworld #3.
The outermost shell of artificial planets is no longer controlled by the master computer that regulates the solar system, but is now in the power of a rival artificial intelligence.
Unorthodox Engineers, The (Dobson, 1979.)
Collection of related stories.
Wizard of Anharitte, The (Award, 1973, Panther, 1975.)
On a distant colony world where technology approaches the level of magic, an aristocrat breaks the rules of his society by educating a woman, undermining the basic structure of his world, and attracting the attention of powerful enemies who intend to restore the status quo.
KARIG, WALTER
War in the Atomic Age (Wise, 1946.)
Short story in pamphlet form about a future war.
Zotz! (Rinehart, 1947.)
A mild mannered man discovers that he can exert extraordinary and even fatal mental powers with a simple gesture of his hand, and that gets him into trouble with the government and everyone else in sight.
KARINTHY, FRIGYES
Voyage to Faremido and Capillaria (Corvina, 1965, Living Books, 1966, translated from the Hungarian by Paul Tabori.)
Two related Utopian short novels.
KARL, JEAN E.
But We Are Not of Earth4. (Dutton, 1981, Dell, 1984.)
A group of people set out to discover a new planet for themselves, and find one, but shortly after arriving they begin to suspect that luck was not involved, that some hidden force has been manipulating them for its own purposes.
Strange Tomorrow (Dutton, 1985.)
Not seen.
Turning Place, The (Dutton, 1976, Dell, 1978. Blackie, 1978, as Worlds End and After.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Worlds End and After. (See The Turning Place.)
KARLINS, MARVIN (See also collaboration which follows.)
Last Man Is Out, The (Prentice Hall, 1969.)
Plagiarized by Robert Browne as The New Atoms Bombshell. A scientist buys a baseball team and uses a computer to analyze all the other teams. This gives him a system which makes his players nearly invincible.
KARLINS, MARVIN & ANDREWS, LEWIS M.
Gomorrah (Doubleday, 1974.)
In a future where police officers are trained to kill as a matter of course, a detective is given the assignment of solving the abduction of an important government official.
KARMAN, MEL
Foxbat Spiral, The (Dell, 1980.)
Marginal near future thriller about the kidnapping of the US President, with resulting confusion and unrest in the country, and a sinister plot uncovered in the jungles of southern Mexico.
KARP, DAVID
Brotherhood of Velvet, The (?, 1952, Banner, 1967.)
Marginal thriller about a secret society acting outside the law.
Escape to Nowhere. (See One.)
One (Vanguard, 1953, Gollancz, 1954, Penguin, 1960, Grosset & Dunlap, 1962. Lion, 1955, as Escape to Nowhere.)
One man attempts to buck the system in a totalitarian future dictatorship that uses mind control.
KARPYSHYN, DREW
Path of Destruction (Del Rey, 2006.)
A Star Wars novel.
The Sith and the Jedi battle many generations before the films begin.
Revelation (Del Rey, 2007.)
A Mass Effect novel.
A distant outpost in space is destroyed by an unknown force.
Rule of Two (Del Rey, 2008.)
A Star Wars novel.
Darth Bane decrees that there should only be two Sith at any one time.
KARTA, NAT (Pseudonym of John Russell Fearn for this title only.)
Vision Sinister (Dragon, 1954.)
Not seen.
KASNER, MICHAEL (Note that the first Warkeep novel was unnumbered, so numbering below does not correspond to that on the books. See also Rick Mackin.)
Finger of God (Gold Eagle, 1993.)
Warkeep #4.
A peacekeeping force is sent to prevent the invasion of Brazil by a coalition of South American nations outraged by its environmental policies.
Jungle Breakout (Gold Eagle, 1993.)
Warkeep #3.
Not seen.
Killing Fields (Gold Eagle, 1993.)
Warkeep #2.
An elite peacekeeping force of the future is caught between black extremists and white revolutionaries armed with neutron bombs in a future South Africa.
Warkeep 2030 (Gold Eagle, 1992.)
Warkeep #1.
The Western nations are involved in a shooting war with a consortium of Arab nations for control of the mideast oilfields, and just to make things more interesting, Israel has decided to take advantage of the situation to grab more land.
KASTLE, HERBERT D.
Edward Berner Is Alive Again! (See The Reassembled Man.)
Reassembled Man, The (Gold Medal, 1964. Prentice Hall, 1975, as Edward Berner Is Alive Again!. Allen, 1976, as The Three Lives of Edward Berner.)
After his body is disassembled and rebuilt by an alien race, a man enjoys extraordinary physical powers. Unfortunately, he doesn’t make use of them wisely.
Three Lives of Edward Berner, The. (See The Reassembled Man.)
KATO, KEN
Way of the Warrior Part I, The (Questar, 1992.)
First half of a novel. Three human empires struggle for power on a remote planet, but the activities of a supernational corporation force two of them to forget their past rivalries and become at least temporary allies.
Way of the Warrior Part II, The (Questar, 1992.)
Second half of the novel. More intrigue within the upper echelons of a Japanese based human empire which is playing a dangerous game with two other human power centers.
Yamato: A Rage in Heaven (Warner, 1990.)
The human race is divided into two power structures, a repressive one based in Japan and a weak and corrupted on in North America. This conflict spreads into space as the former power plots the final subjection of their last rivals.
KATZ, ROBERT
Cassandra Crossing (Ballantine, 1977, based on a screenplay by Tom Mankiewicz, Robert Katz, and George Pan Cosmatos.)
Implausible story about a train load of people who have contracted a new, experimental virus which could if released wipe out much of the human race, and unless a cure can be found, they may never be allowed to leave the train.
Ziggurat (Houghton Mifflin, 1977.)
Thriller about terrorists who have built a suitcase sized nuclear weapon and are threatening to explode it over the Arctic ice cap in an attempt to coerce the nations of the world to accepting their demands.
KATZ, ROBERT L.
Edward Maret (Willowgate, 2001.)
The heir to a fortune is betrayed by his enemies, robbed of his memories, and converted into a cyborg warrior fighting against aliens in outer space. Then he recovers his past and returns seeking vengeance against his enemies.
KATZ, WILLIAM
North Star Crusade (Putnam, 1976, Jove, 1977.)
A handful of conspirators in high places manage to hijack a US submarine armed with nuclear weapons as part of their plan to pre-empt the government and initiate a surprise nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
KATZ, WELWYN WILTON
Time Ghost (?, 1995.)
Not seen.
KAUFMAN, DOUGLAS
Dark Realm, The (West End, 1990.)
Possibility Wars #2.
Earth has been invaded from another possibility world.
KAUFMANN, JOE
Spaceman from Another Planet (Stockwell, 1978.)
Not seen.
KAUFMAN, LLOYD & JAHNKE, ADAM
Toxic Avenger, The (Thunder's Mouth, 2006, based on the screenplay by ?)
Toxic waste creates a superhero.
KAUL, FEDOR
Contagion to This World (Bles, 1933, translated from the German by Winifred Ray.)
An enraged scientist unleashes a plague that steals memories.
KAVAN, ANNA (Pseudonym of Helen Woods Edmonds.)
Ice (Doubleday, 1967, Owen, 1967, Popular Library, 1970.)
The use of nuclear weapons has finally altered the Earth’s climate so dramatically that a new ice age has descended upon the planet.
KAY, KENNETH (See collaborations with Marshall Goldberg.)
KAYE, H.R. (Pseudonym of Hugh Knox.)
Eros 2000 A.D. (Brandon, 1970.)
Pornography set in the future.
KAYE, MARILYN replica 9,18,19?
All About Andy (Bantam, Skylark, 2002.)
Replica #22.
A clone tries to discover the truth about his past.
Amy, Number Seven (Bantam Skylark, 1998.)
Replica #1.
A young girl with extraordinary physical and mental powers notices that she is being watched, and eventually learns that she is the result of an experiment in human cloning.
Amy, on Her Own (Bantam Skylar, 2002.)
Replica #24.
Amy begins to experience physical changes in her body. Has the cloning process failed?
And the Two Shall Meet (Bantam Skylark, 1999.)
Replica #6
?
Another Amy (Bantam Skylark, 1999.)
Replica #3.
Not seen.
Beginning, The (Bantam Skylark, 2000.)
Replica #14.
A cloned teenager returns to the city where she was created, hoping to come to grips with her origin while avoiding her enemies, old and new.
Best of the Best (Bantam Skylark, 1999.)
Replica #7.
Not seen.
Convergence, The (Avon, 1998.)
Last on Earth #2.
Twenty five high school students discover that everyone else on Earth has disappeared, but that some alien intelligence is watching them, leaving cryptic messages on computers and otherwise unsettling their emotions.
Fast Forward (Bantam Skylark, 2002.)
A Replica Plague novel.
A cloned teenager gets involved with a plot to "improve" the human race.
Happy Birthday, Dear Amy (Bantam Skylark, 2001.)
Replica #16.
A clone has to deal with puberty on top of her other problems.
Ice Cold (Bantam Skylark, 2000.)
Replica #10.
Amy's worst enemy discovers that she is a clone, but before she can say anything she's in a serious accident, and all the evidence indicates that Amy may have been responsible.
In Search of Andy (Bantam Skylark, 2000.)
Replica #12.
A cloned girl is on a trip to Paris when she sees an old boyfriend. But is he the same boy, or another clone like herself?
Like Father, Like Son (Bantam Skylark, 2001.)
Replica #20.
A clone discovers that there’s a sinister plot to harvest organs from her kind.
Lucky Thirteen (Bantam Skylark, 2000.)
Replica #11.
Amy runs into one of the other clones of herself, one who was dropped from the program and is leading a comparatively normal life. The teenager believes that she wants the same thing for herself, but soon discovers that there is a dark secret hiding beneath the bright exterior.
Max All Over (Penguin, 1989.)
Max #6.
Not seen.
Max Flips Out (Archway, 1986.)
Max #4.
The visiting alien decides she wants to be a rock star and sets out to learn the ropes, including falling for a handsome rock singer.
Max Goes Bad (Penguin, 1989.)
Max #5.
Not seen.
Max in Love (Archway, 1986.)
Max #2.
An alien visitor to Earth falls in love with the leader of a rock band in this series for young adults. Really young adults.
Max on Earth (Archway, 1986.)
Max #1.
A teenaged alien girl comes to Earth to learn how to become human with confusing, and sometimes funny, consequences.
Max on Fire (Archway, 1986.)
Max #3.
An alien teen reacts with extraterrestrial powers when a human girl cuts into her budding romance with a human boy.
Missing Pieces (Bantam Skylark, 2001.)
Replica #17.
Somehow various physical abilities of outstanding people are being taken away from them. A teenaged clone must solve the mystery.
Mystery Mother (Bantam Skylark, 1999.)
Replica #8.
A strange woman shows up claiming to be Amy's mother, even though the teen knows herself to be a clone. Could this be a plot to gain control of her and her special powers?
Perfect Girls (Bantam Skylark, 1999.)
Replica #4
?
Play (Bantam Skylark, 2002.)
Replica #19.
Having traveled through time, the clone hero must now make a journey through a human body to find a cure for the plague.
Pursuing Amy (Bantam Skylark, 1998.)
Replica #2.
Amy knows the truth, but she is having difficulty trying to decide how much to tell her friends. And it appears that she still has enemies who object to the existence of a cloned human being, or who want to make use of her abilities for their own purposes.
Return, The (Avon, 1999.)
Last Man on Earth #3.
A handful of teens left behind when aliens abduct the entire human race find a way to contact that mysterious force and begin negotiating for the return of everyone else.
Rewind (Bantam Skylark, 2002.)
Replica #18.
An ancient disease begins to sweep the world, and the clone's immunity may hold the key.
Secret Clique (Bantam Skylark, 1999.)
Replica #5
?
Substitute, The (Bantam Skylark, 2000.)
Replica #13.
The new substitute teacher seems to have developed a particular animosity toward the protagonist, who is actually a clone.
Transformation (Bantam Skylark, 2000.)
Replica #15.
A teenaged clone notices that her friends are acting strangely lately, as though they are no longer in control of their own will.
Vanishing, The (Avon, 1998.)
Last on Earth #1.
?
Virtual Amy (Bantam Skylark, 2001.)
Replica #21.
Implanted with a chip to monitor her movements, a clone turns to virtual reality to strike back at her enemies.
War of the Clones (Bantam Skylark, 2002.)
Replica #23.
A newspaper prints a story about a group of superclones who are planning to conquer the world.
KAYE, MARVIN & GODWIN, PARKE
Masters of Solitude, The (Doubleday, 1978, Avon, 1979, Magnum, 1979, Bantam, 1985.)
Coven #1.
In a distant, post collapse future the Earth is divided between a high tech city guarded by superscientific defenses, and primitive tribes living in the wilderness. When the double threat of war and a terrible plague begins to sweep across the outside world, a group of people turn to the city for salvation.
Wintermind (Doubleday, 1982, Bantam, 1984, Futura, 1987.)
Coven #2.
A primitive tribe with telepathic powers allies itself with the inhabitants of the last city on Earth, which possesses the technology of a bygone age.
Penetrators of Time (Hustler, 1980, bound with The Savage Princess by Raymond E. Banks.)
Pornography about an alien who seduces a human in order to trick him into traveling back in time.
KAYE, TERRY
Mad Max (Circus Books, 1979, QB, 1985, from the screenplay by ?.)
In a post collapse society, a police officer gives up his badge to seek revenge on the barbarians who killed his wife.
Glass School, The (Hale, 1980.)
Not seen.
Rats of Megaera, The (Hale, 1980.)
Not seen.
Scorpion (Hale, 1981.)
Not seen.
World of Artemis, The (Hale, 1980.)
Not seen.
KEARNEY, C.B.
Great Calamity, The (Kearney, 1948.)
Not seen. Worldwide disaster.
KEARNEY, SUSAN (See also collaboration which follows.)
Challenge, The (Tor, 2005.)
Dora #1.
A female secret service agent is transported to the future where she is given a dangerous mission and where she falls in love.
Dare, The (Tor, 2005.)
Dora #2.
An artificial intelligence builds itself a humanlike body and tries to fall in love.
Island Heat (Tor, 2007.)
Romance involving a refugee from another planet.
Quest, The (Tor, 2006.)
A salvage operation in space mixes psi powers and romance.
Solar Heat (Tor, 2007.)
Futuristic romance about spies in an interstellar war.
Ultimatum, The (Tor, 2006.)
A woman with psi powers must make love to prevent her body from failing. She falls in with a star pilot who is determined to solve the mystery of an interplanetary plague.
Battle of Betazed, The (Pocket, 2002.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel.
Deanna Troi is featured as the Dominion forces occupy her homeworld.
KEATING, H.R.F.
Long Walk to Wimbledon, A (Macmillan, 1978.)
London is largely destroyed in a cataclysmic disaster.
Strong Man, The (Heinemann, 1971.)
A repressive dictator is overthrown, with unpredictable results.
KEE, ROBERT
Sign of the Times, A (Eyre Spottiswoode, 1955.)
Not seen. A dystopian future.
KEEFE, MATT
Outlander (Black Flame, 2006.)
A Necromunda novel.
A forger gets caught in the middle of a futuristic gang war.
KEEFER, LOWELL
Visitors from Outer Space (Carlton, 1969.)
Not seen.
KEEGAN, MEL
Death’s Head (Gay Men’s Press, 1991.)
Jarratt & Stone #1.
Interplanetary narcotics agents run into trouble when one of them is forcibly addicted to a new drug and the other violates policy to rescue him.
Equinox (Gay Men’s Press, 1993.)
Jarratt & Stone #2.
Two sexually and mentally bonded investigators are trying to find out whether a large interplanetary trading company with a tawdry reputations is actually the source of a dangerous new drug.
KEEL, JOHN A. (Pseudonym of John Kiehle.)
Fickle Finger of Fate, The (Gold Medal, 1966.)
Sexy farce about a not quite topnotch superhero.
Mothman Prophecies, The (New English Library, 2002.)
An alien invasion, supposedly based on true events.
KEENE, DAY & PRUYN, LEONARD
World Without Women (Gold Medal, 1960, Muller, 1961, Sharon, ?)
A plague kills off virtually every woman on Earth, and the few fertile ones who survive are virtually imprisoned, ostensibly to protect them from capture by sex starved men determined to be fathers.
KEENE, TOM & HAYNES, BRIAN
Sky Shroud (Lane, 1981, Penguin, 1982.)
The Soviet Union is on the brink of developing an impenetrable nuclear shield, and the western powers are forced to decide what to do about it. Marginal spy thriller superimposed on the near future background.
KEITH, ANDREW (See also collaborations with William R. Forstchen and with William Keith, and those which follow. See also Keith William Andrews.)
Blood of Heroes (Roc, 1993.)
A Battletech novel.
The assassination of a prominent leader results in a civil war among the mercenary clans. A rebel force attempts to seize control of a key world, but the mercenaries already there have their own idea of the shape of the future.
Legion at War, The (Ace, 1988.)
A Combat Command book.
Multi-path gamebook set in Jack Williamson's Legion of Space series. You command a space fleet in an interstellar war.
KEITH, ANDREW & MUSSER, JIM
Technical Readout 3050 (FASA, 1990.)
A Battletech novel.
Not seen.
KEITH, DONALD (Pseudonym of Donald Monroe & Donald Keith.)
Mutiny in the Time Machine (Random House, 1963.)
Time Machine #1.
Kids get involved with a perilous trip into the past.
Time Machine to the Rescue (Random House, 1967.)
Time Machine #2.
Not seen.
KEITH, WILLIAM H. JR (See also collaborations with Andrew Keith as Keith Andrews, and with Peter Jurasik and William Forstchen. See also Keith Douglass, Ian Douglas, & Robert Cain.)
Battlemind (Avon, 1996.)
Warstrider #6.
The warring factions of humanity are forced into an uneasy alliance when confronted by an alien menace determined to eradicate both of them.
Bolo Brigade (Baen, 1997.)
A Bolo novel.
Based on Keith Laumer’s Bolo series. Two powerful war robots with organic minds are stationed on a planet that is supposedly at peace, so they are programmed against certain forms of aggression. This puts them at a distinct disadvantage when an alien force invades, and they are the only defense available.
Bolo Rising (Baen, 1999.)
A Bolo novel.
A colony world is overwhelmed by an invading force and its cyborg battletank defender is reprogrammed to assist the conquerers. One man refuses to surrender meekly and finds a way to reverse the programming, the first step in repelling the invasion.
Decision at Thunder Rift (FASA, 1986, Roc, 1992.)
A Battletech novel.
A young trainee stranded on a hostile world must steal a giant robot, teach himself to pilot it, and then organize a