18 books like The Defiant Agents

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The Crossroads of Time Andre Norton · 1956 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate First published in 1958, Andre Norton's The Time Traders fuses Cold War espionage with archaeological romance and speculative adventure. Its protagonist, Ross Murdock, a delinquent recruited into a covert government project, is sent into prehistory to uncover how Soviet agents have gained access to alien technology. Norton's prose is brisk, economical, and suspenseful, shaped by pulp traditions… Shares: Space and time, Time Travel

Red Shift Alan Garner · 1973 · ★ 3.8 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The lives of three young men in three different periods of British history converge and each influences the destiny of the others. Shares: Space and time, Time Travel

Galactic Derelict Andre Norton · 1959 · ★ 3.6 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Galactic Derelict, is the second novel of The Time Trader series. It continues with the premise of an encounter between Western Heros and a mysterious alien race that has used time travel to alter earth. This novel shifts, between present day and the time of Folsom Man, some 10,000 years ago. Shares: Apache Indians, Time Travel, Science Fiction

Dragon's Time Anne McCaffrey · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Weyrwoman Fiona struggles to keep her surviving Weyr in fighting shape while Lorana plans a complicated time-travel journey to save their world. Shares: Space colonies, Space and time, Time Travel

A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle · 1962 · ★ 4.0 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A Wrinkle in Time is a science fiction fantasy novel by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. It is about Meg And Charles Walence. Their father, who was working on a interesting project called a tesseract, goes missing! Then they meet a boy and some strange women. This story won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award For this amazing story! It… Shares: Sci Fi, Space and time, Time Travel, Science Fiction

The Bug Wars · 1979 · 269p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The lizard-men of the Tzen Empire have erupted from the Black Swamps of their home world to fight the Wasps, Leapers and Ants of the galaxy-spanning Insect Coalition. Rahm is a member of the Empire's Warior caste, the fighting elite of his species. After his unit was abandoned on a hostile planet, they must survive until Tzen forces come again. Insubordinate subordinates are just as much trouble… Shares: Sci Fi, Science Fiction

The long earth Terry Pratchett · 2012 · ★ 3.8 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Terry Pratchett, other than lending his name to this book, wasn't a part of it. No humor and dark reading. Mr. Baxter should have published it under his own name, he can write, just not to my liking. gmb 3/15/20 Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Science Fiction

Stylistique comparée du français et de l'anglais J.-P Vinay · 1960 · 331p · ≈ 11h · Moderate It compares the aspect of "Style" in English writing and in French writing thus helping to resolve linguistic difficulties in English/French translation. Shares: Composition and exercises, English language

The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley · 1963 · ★ 3.7 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Synopsis - When Bart Steele goes to the Earth spaceport to meet his father for the first time in five years, he doesn’t realise that his life will never be the same again. Half- Mentorian by birth, he is able to understand and co-exist with the Lhari, the non-human species which has a strangle hold on space travel. Bart overhears the Lhari at the spaceport discussing the need to intercept an… Shares: Sci Fi, Science Fiction

Winnetou Karl May · 1893 · ★ 4.2 · 495p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Abridged translation of Karl May's novel "Winnetou" from 1893, with biographical and statistical material. Shares: Apache Indians, Indians of North America, Adventure

Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel · 1999 · ★ 4.0 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named… Shares: Space colonies, Space and time, Time Travel

Son of Man Robert Silverberg · 1971 · ★ 3.4 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate 1972 Locus Poll Award nominee, best SF novel IN THE BEGINNING... there was no Brooklyn, no St. Louis, no Shakespeare, no moon, no hunger, no death... IN THE BEGINNING... there were no real men, no real women, nothing but dispassionately passionate ambisexuals of the lowest and highest order... IN THE BEGINNING... the heavens, the seas and the Earth belonged to more intelligent species than a… Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

Doctor Who British Broadcasting Corporation · 1989 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Climb aboard the TARDIS for a journey through space, time, and comedy in the official Doctor Who joke book! -What do we want? -TIME TRAVEL! -When do we want it? -THAT'S IRRELEVANT! Packed with a dimensionally transcendent TARDIS-load amount of jokes, gags and riddles, this is the official Doctor Who joke book! Remember: it's funnier on the inside! Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

The Anubis Gates Tim Powers · 1983 · ★ 3.9 · 393p · ≈ 13h · Moderate An ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a young woman disguised as a boy, a brainwashed Lord Byron, and finally, the protagonist Professor Brendan Doyle, who wanted none of this nonsense. Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

Special deliverance Clifford D. Simak · 1982 · ★ 3.7 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate It all started when Professor Edward Lansing wanted to know who really wrote that great term paper on Shakespeare and learned that his student had bought it from a slot machine. Going to investigate, the good professor found the machine, which gave him two keys and sent him in search of other slot machines. The third machine he tried took his money and transported him to a strange new… Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

Exiles of the Stars Andre Norton · 1971 · ★ 3.5 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This is the second in the Moon Singer series featuring “Maelen”, the former moon singer of the primitive planet mythical “Thassa”. Also revolving around the cargo apprentice “Krip Vorland’, now in the body of the “Thassa” and the crew of the free-trader “Lydis” who’s sabotaged ship barely survives its landing on a barren and hostile planet. One by one, the crew of the Lydis and in addition to… Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

The Big Time Fritz Leiber · 1958 · ★ 3.2 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Moderate From back cover Ace paperback December 1982: This is war: The biggest, longest war that anyone could imagine. The soldiers are recruited at the moment of death to fight through all of time. The goal is to change the past, and insure victory in the future. The Change Winds are blowing. Welcome to the Big Time. "Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to be bringing… Shares: Voyages dans le temps, Time Travel, Science Fiction

The undergraduate essay Robin Sutton Harris · 1900 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares: Composition and exercises, English language

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