Bill, the Galactic Hero (Bill, the Galactic Hero, #5)
by Harry Harrison
The army made Bill the galactic hero what he is today - the perfect Starship Trouper, and proud possessor of two right arms and a lockerful of feet suitable for every occasion. Now he's been volunteered to join a suicide-squad run by Captain Cadaver to the well-known hell-hole planet of Eyerack.
Tom Jones is naive, impressionable and very, very willing. His chief talent is conversing with dolphins in the Aquatic Mammals Division of HMS Profundis, a gargantuan submarine destined to roam the ocean depths for a century following the nuclear holocaust.Years pass and mad captain succeeds mad captain. Eventually the ship falls under the command of one Admiral Prood, a kind, understanding man who finally comes to a startling conclusion. He is God the Father. The Almighty Himself. And all he ne...
New Rules for Idiots (Dead Evil Mercenary Corps Series , #4)
by Michael Anderle
Blast you, Retief! Your violent ways are the disgrace of Earth’s diplomatic corps—but your salty jokes are worse! Before becoming a science fiction writer Laumer was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the Foreign Service, adding a note of realism to many of his stories. One of science fiction’s true luminaries
Too Good To Be True (K'Barthan Shorts, Hamgeean Misfit, #4)
by M. T. McGuire
The Sea is ugly and monotonous, with only four or five faces, and all of them coarse, but mankind has just decided to deny this ugliness for subconscious reasons. Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and market, but he still managed to influence a wide array of today’s best writers. Simply on of the best writers the science fiction and fantasy field has ever produced.
Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense - it was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another person you couldn't hear. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chock...
When Sir Edward Leithen leaves London to spe nd Whitsuntide as a guest at Flambard, he has no idea of the extraordinary sequence of events about to unfold. '
You don’t have to be crazy to be an earth diplomat—but on Groac it sure helps!
Who's a Good Boy? (Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, #4)
by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor