13 books like The Menace from Earth

What to read after The Menace from Earth — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Starman Jones Robert A. Heinlein · 1953 · ★ 3.9 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When his stepmother's remarriage drives him from home, Max and a hobo fake their way into the Space Stewards, Cooks, and Purser's Clerks brotherhood to get an opportunity for space travel in an age when only the wealthy are privileged. Shares: Interplanetary voyages, Time Travel

Space Opera Catherynne M. Valente · 2018 · ★ 3.4 · 299p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Something to cheer up everyone who was left. Something to celebrate having escaped total annihilation by the skin of one's… Shares: Space colonies, Interplanetary voyages

The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury · 1950 · ★ 4.2 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the… Shares: Space colonies, Interplanetary voyages

Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 466p · ≈ 15h · Moderate "Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board. But the journey has brought unexpected changes and their best laid plans may not be enough to survive. "-- Shares: Space colonies, Interplanetary voyages

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, Time Travel

The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury · 1951 · ★ 4.1 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952. Shares: Space colonies, English Short stories

Duty and desire Pamela Aidan · 2006 · ★ 3.4 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A retelling of the life of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" character, Fitzwilliam Darcy, that exposes Darcy's private struggle to overcome his attraction to Elizabeth while fulfilling his roles as landlord, master, brother, and friend. Shares: Space colonies, Interplanetary voyages

The stone gods Jeanette Winterson · 2007 · ★ 3.7 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This new world weighs a yatto-gram. But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-offocus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the white sand there are long-toed claw prints deep as nightmares, and there are rock pools in hand-hollows finned by invisible fish . . . Mankind has rendered it Shares: Space colonies, Interplanetary voyages

Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey · 1968 · ★ 4.1 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise--and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be… Shares: Space colonies, Time Travel

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, Time Travel

The Defiant Agents Andre Norton · 1962 · ★ 4.0 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Synopsis - Ancestral memory – Travis Fox, once the unwilling captive of the runaway spaceship Galactic Derelict, has volunteered – eagerly this time – for the mission to colonize Topaz. But when he and his fellow Apaches find themselves reverting to the ways of their ancient warrior race just as the expedition from Russia has been transformed into a Mongol Horde encamped across the mountains, it… Shares: Space colonies, Time Travel

Star Trek - Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin · 1986 · ★ 3.2 · 303p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Time in the galaxy has stopped running in its normal course. That can mean only one thing—the Guardian of Forever is malfunctioning. To save the universe, Starfleet Command reunites three of its most legendary figures—Admiral James T. Kirk, Spock of Vulcan, and Dr. Leonard McCoy—and sends them on a desperate mission to contact the Guardian, a journey that ultimately takes them 5,000 years into… Shares: Interplanetary voyages, Time Travel

Hi no tori Osamu Tezuka · 1986 · ★ 4.2 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Considered by many to be one of the finest works of Japanese comics art ever produced, Phoenix: Future is a rollicking space-age adventure, an apocalyptic cautionary tale, a fable of human frailty and triumph, and a fantastic voyage through time, space, and the macroverse. Above all it is a great love story, an epic account of Class II Space Patrolman Masato's tragic, undying love for the doomed… Shares: Interplanetary voyages, Time Travel

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