Argonaut

Stanley Schmidt's first novel in sixteen years! Three decades in the future, in a public garden north of New York City, a man enjoying the seasonal blossoms, butterflies, and buzzing bees notices a strange flying insect unlike any he's ever seen before. When it stings him between the eyes, he is overwhelmed by a tidal wave of memories crashing through his mind in a flood of simultaneous sensations and emotions. As he collapses, he manages to catch and hold onto the bug. At the hospital, medical technologist Pilar Ramirez watches as the creature is pried from Lester Ordway's hand. It releases a swarm of even smaller insects that sting her and several other people in the emergency room causing similar, if milder, cognitive effects. Frightened but fascinated, and frustrated by the hospital's attempt to dismiss what happened after the bugs disappear, Pilar befriends Lester and joins his quest for an explanation. Pilar and Lester enlist the help of entomologist Maybelle Terwilliger, and the three soon begin to suspect that they have discovered a secret alien invasion of Earth. An incursion on a tiny scale but of global scope, it is pervasive reconnaissance that puts the legendary hundred eyes of Argus to shame. Somebody is literally bugging the planet. Can Pilar and her friends convince the government before it's too late?

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Schmidt, Stanley

Science Fiction

Tor Books

Stanley Schmidt's first novel in sixteen years! Three decades in the future, in a public garden north of New York City, a man enjoying the seasonal blossoms, butterflies, and buzzing bees notices a strange flying insect unlike any he's ever seen before. When it stings him between the eyes, he is overwhelmed by a tidal wave of memories crashing through his mind in a flood of simultaneous sensations and emotions. As he collapses, he manages to catch and hold onto the bug. At the hospital, medical technologist Pilar Ramirez watches as the creature is pried from Lester Ordway's hand. It releases a swarm of even smaller insects that sting her and several other people in the emergency room causing similar, if milder, cognitive effects. Frightened but fascinated, and frustrated by the hospital's attempt to dismiss what happened after the bugs disappear, Pilar befriends Lester and joins his quest for an explanation. Pilar and Lester enlist the help of entomologist Maybelle Terwilliger, and the three soon begin to suspect that they have discovered a secret alien invasion of Earth. An incursion on a tiny scale but of global scope, it is pervasive reconnaissance that puts the legendary hundred eyes of Argus to shame. Somebody is literally bugging the planet. Can Pilar and her friends convince the government before it's too late?

Tweedlioop

Tweedlioop, a small, furry, telepathic alien shipwrecked on Earth, is dependent on an eight-year-old girl and her lawyer mother for protection against greedy, ruthless government agents and other perils that threaten his freedom and survival

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

Trade Paperback. Fine First Edition. Cover art by Doug Beekman.

T. Doherty Associates

What if Newton was wrong—or just seemed to be wrong? What if visitors from an advanced civilization accidentally made it seem as if the Three Laws of Motion didn’t work as advertised—and thus got Newton in very serious trouble with the authorities?And what if that was just the start of the trouble?

Newton and the Quasi-Apple

DOUBLEDAY

Volume Two of Stanley Schmidt's Classic Tale of the Planet in Peril -- back in print at last! Earth herself has escaped the doomed Milky Way -- but who will survive a journey that could be as deadly as the radiation blast that will wipe out all life in the Galaxy? Includes a new afterword by the author.

Lifeboat Earth

BERKLEY

"Let the meek inherit the earth―the rest of us are going to the stars! Here's how it's going to be done." ― Robert Zubrin 
"These articles are not 'just science fiction.' They are things we can do―and with any luck at all, and vision and determination, we will." ― Stanley Schmidt Take off on a thrilling journey of space exploration and speculation―to the realm where science fiction becomes science fact―as leading writers, researchers, and astronautic engineers describe a not-too-distant future of interstellar travel and colonization. From cable cars that ride "skyhooks" into space to rockets that can refuel out of Martian air, from "terraforming" planets (a process that makes them habitable for human life) to faster-than-light propulsion systems, Islands in the Sky offers an astonishing collection of challenging―and plausible―ideas and proposals from the pages of Analog magazine. Brilliant and provocative, here is fun-filled reading for everyone interested in science, technology, and the future.

Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for ColonizingSpace: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

wiley

"It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better," says Stanley Schmidt, and he should know. As the editor of Analog (and a science-fiction writer himself), he's thought about the future more than most. Since the golden age of John W. Campbell (editor from 1938-72), Analog magazine has been renowned for editorials that provoke, prod, inspire, anger, and ignite the magazine's readers into thinking, questioning their own assumptions, and looking at the world with fresh insights. From 1978 to the present, the man challenged to light a fire under the readers month after month has been editor Stanley Schmidt. He has succeeded in exemplary fashion, which helps to explain why he's a twenty-two-time nominee for the best editor Hugo Award. Now, for the first time, thirty-five of his stimulating essays have been gathered in book form. In "King of the Hill (No Matter What)" he considers the questions of animal and machine intelligence. "The Fermi Plague" offers a frightening answer to Enrico Fermi's famous paradox about the apparent absence of alien civilizations. "Invisible Enemies, Intelligent Choices" examines the proper role of science in public policy. Running the gamut from how to challenge scientific orthodoxy to the flaws of our educational system, from the serious value of humor to the difficult choices between jobs and conservation, all the pieces are, in different ways, answers to the question asked by the title: Which way to the future? Schmidt's answers will engage anyone with an eye on tomorrow.

Which Way to the Future?: Selected Essays From Analog (R)

History & Criticism

"It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better," says Stanley Schmidt, and he should know. As the editor of Analog (and a science-fiction writer himself), he's thought about the future more than most. Since the golden age of John W. Campbell (editor from 1938-72), Analog magazine has been renowned for editorials that provoke, prod, inspire, anger, and ignite the magazine's readers into thinking, questioning their own assumptions, and looking at the world with fresh insights. From 1978 to the present, the man challenged to light a fire under the readers month after month has been editor Stanley Schmidt. He has succeeded in exemplary fashion, which helps to explain why he's a twenty-two-time nominee for the best editor Hugo Award. Now, for the first time, thirty-five of his stimulating essays have been gathered in book form. In "King of the Hill (No Matter What)" he considers the questions of animal and machine intelligence. "The Fermi Plague" offers a frightening answer to Enrico Fermi's famous paradox about the apparent absence of alien civilizations. "Invisible Enemies, Intelligent Choices" examines the proper role of science in public policy. Running the gamut from how to challenge scientific orthodoxy to the flaws of our educational system, from the serious value of humor to the difficult choices between jobs and conservation, all the pieces are, in different ways, answers to the question asked by the title: Which way to the future? Schmidt's answers will engage anyone with an eye on tomorrow.

Science & Math

Technology

Volume One of Stanley Schmidt's Classic Tale of the Planet in Peril -- back in print at last! A scientific expedition returns from deep space, and brings back shocking news: the galactic core has exploded -- and the Earth is doomed! Includes a new introduction by Ben Bova, editor of the original magazine serial, and the essay "How to Move the Earth" by the author.

The Sins of the Fathers

BOVA, BEN

Foxacre Pr

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Argonaut

Argonaut

Tweedlioop

Tweedlioop

Newton and the Quasi-Apple

Lifeboat Earth

Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for ColonizingSpace: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space

Which Way to the Future?: Selected Essays From Analog (R)

Which Way to the Future?: Selected Essays From Analog (R)

The Sins of the Fathers