Last updated 6/18/08
Love Warrior, The (New English Library, 1975.)
War between barbarian hordes in the far future.
LACH-SZYRMA, W. S.
Aleriel: A Voyage to Other Worlds. (See A Voice from Another World.)
Under Other Conditions (Black, 1892.)
Venus #2.
Not seen.
Voice from Another World, A (Oxford, 1874. Wyman, 1883, as Aleriel, or a Voyage to Other Worlds.)
Venus #1.
Not seen.
LACKEY, MERCEDES (See collaborations which follow, plus with Anne McCaffrey.)
LACKEY, MERCEDES & FLINT, ERIC & FREER, DAVE
Wizard of Karres, The (Baen, 2004.)
A sequel to The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz. A comic adventure in space.
LACKEY, MERCEDES & GUON, ELLEN
Freedom Flight (Baen, 1992.)
A Wing Commander novel.
An unlikely group of star pilots find their fates entwined as they attempt to free a world from an oppressive invader.
LAFARGUE, PHILIP
Forsaken Way, The (Hurst & Blackett, 1900.)
A future in which Britain has become a third world nation.
LAFFERTY, R.A.
Annals of Klepsis (Ace, 1983, Wildside, 2002.)
The world may be on the verge of destruction if not saved by a hero and what appears to be a genuine ghost. A madcap adventure that verges on fantasy.
Apocalypses (Pinnacle, 1977.)
Two metaphysical short novels about the future of humanity.
Arrive at Easterwine (Scribners, 1971, Ballantine, 1973, Dobson, 1977.)
A self aware computer writes its own autobiography, satirizing human foibles in the process.
Aurelia (Starblaze, 1982.)
A brilliant alien girl from the stars shows up on Earth where she is considered a god by some, a devil by others.
Back Door of History, The (United Mythologies, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Does Anyone Have Anything Further to Add? (Scribner, 1974, Dobson, 1980, Wildside, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Early Lafferty, The (United Mythologies, 1981.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Early Lafferty II, The (United Mythologies, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Elliptical Grave, The (United Mythologies, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Episodes of the Argo (United Mythologies, 1990.)
Collection of related stories.
Fourth Mansions (Ace, 1969, Dobson, 1972, Wildside, 2002.)
A totally indescribable story about seven unlikely people who are drawn together to save the world, or maybe not. Includes an invisible creature, men who live multiple lives, and a poor innocent trying to figure out what’s going on.
Golden Gate and Other Stories, The (Corroboree, 1985.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
How Many Miles to Babylon (United Mythologies, 1989.)
Short story in pamphlet form.
Iron Tears (Edgewood, 1992, Wildside, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Lafferty in Orbit (Broken Mirrors, 1991, Wildside, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Nine Hundred Grandmothers (Ace, 1970, Dobson, 1975, Wildside, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Not to Mention Camels (Bobbs-Merrill, 1976, Dobson, 1980, Wildside, 2002.)
An unusual man who exists in three different realities with three different personalities is involved in a series of phantasmagorical adventures across a set of universes.
Past Master (Ace, 1968, Rapp & Whiting, 1968, Wildside, 2002.)
A planet whose Utopian culture is beginning to fall apart decides to consult an expert to find out what they are doing wrong. So they reach back through time and grab Sir Thomas More and introduce him to the world they believe is fashioned after his philosophy.
Promontory Goats (United Mythologies, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Reefs of Earth, The (Berkley, 1968, Dobson, 1970, Wildside, 2002.)
The Puca family includes seven ugly children who have strange powers and who intend to wipe out everyone on Earth except themselves.
Ringing Changes (Ace, 1984.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Serpent's Egg (Wildside, 2003.)
A satirical look at the future.
Space Chantey (Ace, 1968, bound with Pity About Earth by Ernest Hill. Dobson, 1976.)
Comic novel of space explorers and their improbable adventures, patterned after the Odyssey.
Strange Doings (Scribners, 1972, DAW, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Through Elegant Eyes: Stories of Austro and the Men Who Knew Everything (?, 1983.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LAFLIN, JACK
Bees, The (Tempo, 1976.)
Swarms of killer bees from South America begin to invade the US, attacking and killing people and stirring the government to action against them.
Temple at Ilumquh, The (Award, 1970, Tandem, 1970.)
Marginal spy thriller about a band of fanatic assassins whose minds have been programmed and bodies augmented.
LAIDLAW, MARC
Dad’s Nuke (Donald Fine, 1985, Critics Choice, 1987.)
Satire in which a man builds a nuclear reactor as part of his home protection system, while his genetically programmed son, angry wife, and precocious daughter each rebel in their own way.
Kalifornia (St Martins, 1993.)
Satire in which a woman has her unborn child wired for direct sensory input prior to birth, but who runs into trouble in the form of religious fanatics.
Third Force, The (Scribner, 1996.)
A former member of the government of a repressive future totalitarian state joins the underground and discovers much that she didn’t know about her society. Based on the computer game Gadget.
Atmosphere (Leisure, 2002.)
Although packaged as horror, the serial killers in this are human agents of alien invaders who are harvesting lifeforce to power their spaceships.
LAIN, DOUGLAS
Last Week's Apocalypse (Night Shade, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LAING, ALEXANDER & PAINTER, THOMAS
Glass Centipede, The. (See The Motives of Nicholas Holtz.)
Motives of Nicholas Holtz, The (Farrar & Rinehart 1936. Butterworth, 1936, as The Glass Centipede.)
Not seen. An experiment in the creation of artificial life results in a deadly virus.
LAKE, DAVID J.
Fourth Hemisphere, The (Void, 1980.)
Even though Earth has been virtually destroyed in a nuclear war, the two warring factions continue their battle from bases on the moon, from which each hopes to launch colony ships to other planets.
Gods of Xuma, The (DAW, 1978.)
Xuma #1.
An explorer in a far star system discovers a planet whose climate and inhabitants bear an uncanny resemblance to the Barsoom of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and he subsequently has a series of adventures there.
Man Who Loved Morlocks, The (Hyland, 1981.)
A sequel to The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
Right Hand of Dextra, The (DAW, 1977.)
Dextra #1.
Humans try to colonize a world where DNA takes an entirely different form, and their efforts to replace the native flora and fauna run into serious problems until they finally decide to find a way to reach a biological compromise.
Ring of Truth, The (DAW, 1982, Cory & Collins, 1982.)
An aristocrat of a non human race in what may be another universe goes on a quest across the surface of his world, a place where the laws of nature are not the same as those of our Earth.
Walkers on the Sky (DAW, 1976. Fontana, 1978, revised.)
Adventure on a world divided into two, where the ground dwellers look up and see people passing above them in the sky. Things start to get interesting when one of the people from the upper world falls through the barrier into the lower one.
Warlords of Xuma (DAW, 1983.)
Xuma #3.
What appears to be a primitive world of swords and pirates and the like turns out to be the mask covering a much more sophisticated and established alien culture that has consciously chosen the face it turns to the stars.
Wildings of Westron, The (DAW, 1977.)
Dextra #2.
The battle between two different ecosystems on one planet is renewed, while the human colonists are themselves divided into two rival camps. And the local ecology seems to be evolving into a more dangerous form.
American Sorrows (Wheatland, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Greetings from Lake Wu (Wheatland, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Rocket Science (Fairwood, 2005.)
A returning veteran has the secret of a radical new form of space propulsion system, and many enemies who want it.
LALLEY, PAUL
Colony, The (Carlyle, 1979.)
An infestation of South American Fire Ants shows up in the US and endangers the citizens of a small town. In an effort to bring the colony under control, the authorities plan to make use of a proscribed insecticide, despite protests from some within the community.
LAMARK, DREW
Medusa Horror, The (Futura, 1983.)
A horde of maneating jellyfish begin picking off vacationers along the Cornish coast until survivors alert the world to the danger.
LAMASTER, SLATER
Cupid Napoleon (Humphries, 1934. Magazine version, 1928, as Luckett of the Moon.)
Not seen.
LAMB, HAROLD
Marching Sands (Appleton, 1920, Jacobsen, 1930, Hyperion, 1974.)
A lost world novel set in Asia with a group of explorers escaping religious cultists and stumbling across a civilization isolated from the outside world for many generations.
LAMB, WILLIAM (Pseudonym of Storm Jameson, whom see.)
World Ends, The (Dent, 1937.)
Not seen. An end of the world novel.
LAMBARD, CREEDE (See collaboration with Steve Jackson.)
LAMBARD, SHARLEEN (See collaboration with Steve Jackson.)
LAMBE, DEAN R. (See collaboration with Michael Banks.)
LAMBERT III, W. (See also Adriana DeBolt and Christopher Dane.)
Assignment: Grey Area (Carousel, 1981.)
Awkward thriller about a spy trying to disrupt a Soviet bacteriological weapons program that could wipe out all human life.
Encores in Fade (Carousel, 1981.)
A human is transported to a primitive world where he is forced to participate in gladiatorial games, all of which he believes to be a dream.
Michael: The Master (Carousel, 1981.)
Sequel to The Alien Within, published as by Adriana DeBolt.
The protagonist sets out to capture his father, who became a traitor and took his starship into an alternate universe.
LAMBOURNE, JOHN
Kingdom That Was, The (Murray, 1931.)
Professor Ellis #1.
A lost world novel.
Second Leopard, The (Murray, 1932.)
Professor Ellis #2.
A lost world novel.
L’AMOUR, LOUIS
Californios, The (Bantam, 1974, Saturday Review Press, 1974.)
Marginal western novel involving an Indian with psychic power.
Haunted Mesa, The (Bantam, 1987.)
An investigator is trying to determine what happened to the Anasazi Indian tribe and stumbles across a lost civilization.
LAMPMAN, EVELYN SIBLEY
Rusty’s Space Ship (Doubleday, 1957.)
Kids story about efforts to return a wandering UFO to its owner.
Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek, The (Doubleday, 1955, Scholastic, 1962.)
Stegosaurus #1.
Amusing tale of the complications that arise when teenagers find and befriend a fully grown, slightly clumsy dinosaur.
Shy Stegosaurus of Indian Springs, The (Doubleday, 1962.)
Stegosaurus #2.
Not seen.
LAMPP, JAMES
Sandra Effect, The (Manor, 1978.)
An inventor creates a working matter transmitter, but it has some unusual quirks. For one thing, although it moves people around, it always leaves their clothing behind.
LAMPTON, CHRISTOPHER (See also collaboration with David Bischoff.)
Cross of Empire (Laser, 1976.)
A hapless tourist gets caught between the security forces of Earth and an alien race, both of which think he is an agent working for the other side.
Gateway to Limbo (Doubleday, 1979.)
Not seen.
LAMSZUS, WILHELM
Human Slaughterhouse, The (Hutchinson, 1913.)
Future war novel.
Falling Towards Jupiter (Terminus, 2003.)
A coming of age novel about a young girl who solves a murder on a station orbiting Jupiter.
LANCE, KATHRYN (See also Lynn Beach.)
Caution: Aliens at Work (Gold Key, 1998.)
A young boy finds an alien toolkit that gives him great powers, but the owner is on the warpath trying to reclaim his property.
Pandora’s Children (Questar, 1986.)
Pandora #2.
The anti-science bias of a fanatical religious group brings them into conflict with the last surviving scientific establishment on Earth, in a battle which will determine the fate of the human race.
Pandora’s Genes (Questar, 1985.)
Pandora #1.
Two young people attempt to find love in a post collapse world where machines no longer work and a fanatical religious cult fights any attempt to regain the lost of the their ancestors. Unless something is done, however, the human race faces extinction.
LANCOUR, GENE (Pseudonym of Gene Lancour Fisher.)
Globes of Llarum, The (?, 1980.)
A mercenary helps colonists revolt against an interstellar corporation.
Immortal Coil (Pocket, 2002.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel.
Data leads the search for a revolutionary new type of android which disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
LAND, JON
Alpha Deception, The (Gold Medal, 1988.)
McCracken #2.
?
Blue Widows, The (Forge, 2003.)
Marginal thriller about a future terrorist plot on an immense scale.
Council of Ten, The (Gold Medal, 1987.)
?
Dead Simple (Forge, 1998.)
A tanker full of experimental explosives is hijacked by terrorists who use the material to destroy every bridge and tunnel into Manhattan as part of their plan.
Eighth Trumpet, The (Gold Medal, 1989.)
McCracken #3.
A group armed with superweapons sets out to conquer the world.
Last Prophecy, The (Forge, 2004, Tor, 2005.)
Marginal thriller about a plot against the US linked to Nostradamus.
Lucifer Directive, The (Zebra, 1984.)
Stolen nuclear weapons precipitate a crisis.
Ninth Dominion, The (Gold Medal, 1991.)
?
Omega Command, The (Gold Medal, 1986.)
McCracken #1.
?
Omicron Legion, The (Gold Medal, 1991.)
McCracken #4.
High tech assassination and other thrills as several different international conspiracies upset international order.
Valhalla Testament, The (Gold Medal, 1990.)
?
Vortex (Zebra, 1984.)
The entire world is doomed when a launch of Soviet missiles heads for the US, powerful enough to rip a hole in the structure of space time itself.
Walk in the Darkness, A (Forge, 2000.)
Marginal thriller about a series of murders that leads a group to believe that a secret society is trying to prevent revelation of the fact that the basis for Christianity is false.
LANDIS, ARTHUR H.
Home - To Avalon (DAW, 1982.)
Inhabitants of various human colonies on inhospitable worlds begin to distrust the very nature of the only Earthlike planet ever discovered and clamor for its destruction. The hero travels to that world to solve its various mysteries.
LANDIS, GEOFFREY A.
Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities (Golden Gryphon, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Mars Crossing (Tor, 2000.)
The third expedition to Mars seems doomed to follow the first two into disastrous failure. The only chance the astronauts have to survive is in a dangerous trek across the planet’s surface.
Myths, Legends, and True History (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LANDIS, MARIE (See collaboration with Brian Herbert.)
LANDON, KRISTIN
Cold Minds, The (Ace, 2008.)
Hidden Worlds #2.
Humans battle artificial intelligences.
Hidden Worlds, The (Ace, 2007.)
Hidden Worlds #1.
Sentient machines destroy the Earth but some humans survived to colonize other worlds. Years later, their presence is discovered.
LANDSMAN, SANDY
Gadget Factor, The (Atheneum, 1984, Signet Vista, 1985.)
A brilliant kid is trying to invent a new twist when he inadvertently discovers genuine time travel, and gets the entire human race into big trouble.
LANE, ANDY (See also collaborations which follow.)
All Consuming Fire (Doctor Who Books, 1994.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure.
The Doctor teams up with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to track down the thief who stole a book that describes the doorways to another dimensions, and the dangers and powers beyond.
Empire of Glass, The (Doctor Who Books, 1995.)
A Doctor Who Missing Adventure
In 17th Century Venice, the Doctor encounters William Shakespeare and Galileo, and together they help to foil an alien invasion force.
Original Sin (Doctor Who Books, 1995.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure.
The Doctor is sent to a future Earth where he is immediately arrested and sent to a prison planet. But a series of murders shakes human society, and the authorities ultimately turn to the Doctor to solve the mystery.
LANE, ANDY & MORTIMORE, JIM
Lucifer Rising (Doctor Who Books, 1993.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure.
The Doctor travels to a planet where an expedition searching for alien artifacts broke off its exploration without explanation some time in the past. His investigation uncovers the fact that the alien technology isn't entirely inactive.
Banquo Legacy, The (BBC, 2000.)
A Doctor Who novel.
A hostile time lord has deprived the Doctor of transportation and the power to regenerate and left him in the middle of the late 19th Century.
LANE, JANE (Pseudonym of Elaine Dakers.)
State of Mind, A (Muller, 1964.)
A repressive new society emerges from the ashes of a nuclear war.
LANE, JOHN (Pseudonym of Dennis Talbot Hughes, whom see.)
Maid of Thuro (Curtis Warren, 1952.)
Not seen.
Mammalia (Curtis Warren, 1953.)
Not seen.
Mizora: A World of Women (?, Bison, 2002.)
?
LANG, ALLEN KIM
Wild and Outside (Chilton, 1966, Ambassador, 1966.)
A secret agent has adventures on a wild world.
LANG, H.
Air Battle, The (William Perry, 1859, Cornmarket, 1972.)
The advent of aerial warfare completely changes the geopolitical structure of the world with an African nation becoming the pre-eminent power.
LANG, JEFFREY (See also collaborations with Dean Weddle and J.G. Hertzler.)
Cohesion (Pocket, 2005.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
The ship stumbles into an alternate dimension.
Immortal Coil (Pocket, 2002.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel
Data goes through an identity crisis while investigating the mysterious destruction of a new android.
LANG, KING (House pseudonym.)
Astro Race (Curtis Warren, 1951. ) (David Griffiths.)
A new space drive is developed at the Jupiter mining colony.
Gyrator Control (Curtis Warren, 1951. ) (David Griffiths.)
Martians, conquered by Earth, plot to steal a secret weapon.
Projectile War (Curtis Warren, 1951.) (David Griffiths.)
Earth battles invaders who have captured the outer solar system.
Radar Invasion (Curtis Warren, 1951.) (David Griffiths.)
Humans use a tailored plague to thwart alien invaders.
Saturn Patrol (Curtis Warren, 1951.) (E.C. Tubb.)
One man organizes various planets into an alliance against interstellar outlaws.
Space Line (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (John Jennison.)
The moon is kidnapped by aliens seeking a way to preserve their race.
Task Flight (Curtis Warren, 1951.) (David Griffiths.)
Space adventure involving telepathic aliens and mysterious incidents.
Terra! (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (George Hay.)
Humorous tale of one man’s crusade to turn back an alien invasion.
Trans Mercurian (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (Brian Holloway.)
The first expedition to Mercury discovers another planet.
LANG, SIMON (Pseudonym of Darlene Hartman.)
All the Gods of Eisernon (Avon, 1973.)
Skipjack #1.
An aggressive race launches an invasion of a peaceful, idyllic planet as part of their planet to dominate the galaxy. Earth decides to call their bluff and attempts to reverse the invasion, leaving the formerly paradisical planet caught in the middle.
Elluvon Gift, The (Avon, 1975.)
Skipjack #2.
A mutinous crew is further tempted by the gift of a mysterious alien race, and then endangered by the actions of an alien enemy who seeks to steal the technology for their own, warlike use.
Hopeship (Ace, 1994.)
Skipjack #5.
A spaceman is being treated aboard a hospital ship when someone commits a murder and frames him for the crime. Despite his injuries, he must find a way to unmask the real killer before his own fate is sealed.
Timeslide (Ace, 1993.)
Skipjack #4.
A starship crew takes a dangerous journey into the past to observe Earth during the second world war, and also to look into a war on a planet of feline aliens.
Trumpets of Tagan, The (Ace, 1992.)
Skipjack #3.
A human starship crew returns to the planet they helped to liberate when one of its most revered citizens is kidnapped into space by unknown forces.
LANGART, DARRELL T. (See Randall Garrett.)
Anything You Can Do (Doubleday, 1963, Mayflower, 1963, Lancer, 1969. Leisure, ?, as Earth Invader as by Randall Garrett.)
An alien from the stars invades Earth, single handedly (if that’s the right term) killing many people, stealing military secrets, destroying installations. Scientists finally develop a superman who is designed to be able to defeat the invader, but he’s a reluctant hero with serious doubts about the entire enterprise.
Earth Invader. (See Anything You Can Do.)
LANGE, JOHN (Pseudonym of Michael Crichton, whom see.)
Binary. (Knopf, 1972, Literary Guild, 1972, Bantam, 1973.)
Near future thriller in which an insane millionaire decides to wipe out the entire city hosting the Republican National Convention using a newly developed nerve gas.
LANGE, OLIVER
Defiance: An American Novel. (See Vandenberg.)
Vandenberg (Stein & Day, 1971, Bantam, 1972. Day, 1984, as Defiance: An American Novel.)
The Soviet Union conquers America after wiping out Washington and having the rest of the country virtually collapse. But under the occupation, a stubborn patriot rallies the resistance and eventually helps overthrow the invaders.
LANGELAAN, GEORGE
Out of Time (Four Square, 1964.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LANGFORD, DAVID (See also William Robert Loosley. See also collaboration which follows.)
Dragonhiker’s Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune’s Edge: Odyssey Two, The (Drunken Dragon, 1988.)
Collection of spoofs.
Irrational Numbers (Necronomicon, 1994.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Leaky Establishment, The (Muller, 1984, Sphere, 1985, Big Engine, 2001.)
Marginal satire about a man who inadvertently steals a nuclear device and can't figure out how to put it back.
Space Eater, The (Arrow, 1982, Pocket, 1983, Baen, ?)
Two agents are sent via matter transmitter to a distant planet to bring to a halt a series of proscribed experiments which pose a deadly threat to the stability of the human empire.
LANGFORD, DAVID & GRANT, JOHN
Earthdoom! (Grafton, 1987.)
Not seen. A spoof of disaster novels in which all of them happen at once.
LANGFORD, GEORGE
Kutnar, Son of Pic (Boni & Liveright, 1921.)
Pic #2.
A story of prehistory.
Pic, the Weapon Maker (Boni & Liveright, 1920.)
Pic #1.
A story of prehistory.
Senrac, the Lion Man (Liveright, 1954.)
A story of prehistory.
LANGLEY, BOB
War Lords (Morrow, 1981.)
Concerned about the weakness of British resolve in the face of a new Soviet build up, the US resorts to covert and increasingly overt actions to subvert the British government and turn the country into a puppet state run by the CIA.
LANG-TUNG
Decline and Fall of the British Empire, The (White, 1881.)
Pamphlet about the Chinese conquest of England.
LANIER, STERLING E.
Hiero Desteen (Doubleday, 1984.)
Omnibus of Hiero’s Journey and The Unforsaken Hero.
Hiero’s Journey (Chilton, 1973, Bantam, 1974, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1975.)
Hiero #1.
In a post holocaust world where mutations are everywhere and science is a forgotten mystery, a man sets out on a quest to locate a storehouse of knowledge from the ancient past in an effort to help humanity regain mastery of the world.
Hiero’s Journey and The War for the Lot (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Menace Under Marswood (Del Rey, 1983.)
Someone is stirring up trouble among the less civilized clans of human settlers on Mars, so the United Nations decides to send a mission to root out the rebels. To do so, they try to mend their fences with another set of enemies.
Unforsaken Hiero, The (Del Rey, 1983.)
Hiero #2.
Deprived of his psychic powers, the protagonist must survive treachery at the hands of his former friends, escape across a post holocaust world, and outwit a host of new enemies.
LANNING, SERETA
Escape from Tomorrow (Fearon-Pitman, 1977.)
A misguided scientific experiment creates a goo that begins to spread, threatening to engulf the world.
Captured by the Engines (Warner, 1991.)
A Batman novel.
Gotham City is menaced by mechanical assassins, self aware motor vehicles, too powerful for the local authorities until Batman lends a hand.
Something Lumber This Way Comes (Subterranean, 2000.)
Young adult chiller about a house that is actually a creature from another world.
Terror on the High Skies (Little, Brown, 1992, Fantail, 1993.)
A Batman story.
Adventure for younger readers.
Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back (Pulphouse, 1992.)
Short story in pamphlet form set following a nuclear war.
Neighbors from Outer Space (Rainbow Bridge, 1996.)
Kids' book about a boy's encounter with aliens.
LARGE, ERNEST C.
Asleep in the Afternoon (Jonathan Cape, 1938, Holt, 1939.)
Charles Pry #2.
Marginal story about an invention that can force people to sleep.
Dawn in Andromeda (Jonathan Cape, 1956.)
Ten people are marooned on an uninhabited world and must build a new society.
Sugar in the Air (Jonathan Cape, 1937, Nelson, 1937, Scribner, 1937.)
Charles Pry #1.
Near future story about a company’s development of a new product involving artificial photosynthesis.
LARGENT, R. KARL
Black Death (Leisure, 1988.)
The excavation of an ancient grave lets loose an old plague to which no one in the modern world has any resistance.
Jakarta Plot, The (Leisure, 1999.)
Marginal thriller about the kidnapping of the Vice President and an international coalition against China.
Red Ice (Leisure, 1995.)
A resurgent Russian nation has designed a new doomsday weapon, but it has been stolen by a Chinese spy who died, but whose files lay at the bottom of the ocean.
LARSEN, EGON
You’ll See (Rider, 1957.)
The world is united under a single benevolent though sometimes inept government.
LARSON, CHARLES
Chinese Game, The (Lippincott, 1969, Pocket, 1970.)
Marginal thriller about mind control and a sinster Chinese plot.
Measure of the Universe, The (Saga, 2002.)
A human and an alien scientist investigating the history of the development of written language have a series of interesting encounters.
LARSON, GLEN A. (See collaborations with Ron Goulart, Robert Thurston, Nicholas Yermakov, Reginald Hill, and Mike Resnick)
LARSON, MAJLISS
Pawns and Symbols (Pocket, 1985.)
A Star Trek novel.
Famine has devastated the Klingon worlds, and they are threatening an all out interplanetary war to save themselves. Kirk struggles to avert the war, and rescue a human scientist with amnesia who has fallen into Klingon hands.
LA SALLE, VICTOR (House Pseudonym.)
After the Atom (Spencer, 1953.) (Leonard Fish.)
Aliens conquer Earth following a nuclear war.
Assault from Infinity (Spencer, 1953. ) (T.M. Wade.)
Aliens from another solar system begin a conquest of humanity.
Black Sphere, The (Spencer, 1952.) (Gerald Evans.)
Humans are kidnapped to Saturn by a race planning to invade the Earth, but instead they undermine their captors’ power.
Dawn of the Half Gods (Spencer, 1953.) (John Glasby.)
The children of the human race become a separate species and destroy all the adults.
Menace from Mercury (Spencer, 1954.) (John Russell Fearn.)
An invading force from Mercury, previously believed to be uninhabitable, threatens the entire solar system.
Seventh Dimension, The (Spencer, 1953.) (T.M. Wade.)
A handful of people discover a doorway to another, and very dangerous, dimension.
Suns in Duo (Spencer, 1953.) (T.M. Wade.)
Visitors to another star arrive just in time to get caught up in a planetary disaster.
Twilight Zone (John Spencer, 1954, Badger, 1959.) (John Glasby.)
A new ice age has covered the Earth and hum