Howard V Hendrix Books In Order

The Outer Limits: Volume One

Currently shown on Showtime and in syndication on 200 stations in the U.S., The Outer Limits a popular television series from the early 1960s is a weekly anthology featuring tales of the strange and unexpected. Now the most popular episodes from both the original and the new series have been compiled into this collection of stories based on the dramas.

Better Angels

The universally acclaimed author of Lightpaths and Standing Wave presents a novel of scientific and spiritual chaos that is ‘extraordinarily rich in ideas’ Kirkus Reviews. When an ancient alien artifact is unearthed, five people are sent reeling towards a single, blinding moment of transcendental light…
‘A splendid adventure novel…
Hendrix can be claimed as one of our very best.’ Locus

Empty Cities of the Full Moon

Venturing into a universe different from where his previous novels Lightpaths, Standing Wave, and Better Angels were set, Howard V. Hendrix tackles one of life’s most enduring questions: What does it mean to be human? In a dramatically altered near future, the world’s newest technology resurrects a plague of apparent global madness that not only destroys ten thousand years of urban civilization, but also creates a world under the sway of the full moon and a human race transformed in astonishing ways. ‘Abounds with fascinating ideas…
presents some memorable glimpses of a radically altered world.’ Locus ‘ An excellent novel of science and mysticism.’ Booklist

The Labyrinth Key

In a secret war waged in worlds both virtual and real, the fates of nations depend on the definitive weapon. And that weapon is knowledge-knowledge to die for…
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The race is heating up between the U.S. and China to develop a quantum computer with infinite capabilities to crack any enemy’s codes, yet keep secure its own secrets. The government that achieves this goal will win a crucial prize. No other computer system will be safe from the reach of this master machine.

Dr. Jaron Kwok was working for the U.S. government to build such a computer. But in a posh hotel in Hong Kong, a Chinese policewoman sifts through the bizarre, ashlike remains of what’s left of the doctor. With the clock ticking, alliances will be forged-and there are those who will stop at nothing to discover what the doctor knew. As the search for answers intensifies, it becomes chillingly clear that the quantum computer both sides so desperately want will be more powerful, more dangerous than anyone could have ever imagined.

For in the twenty-first century, machines become gods, gods become machines, and the once-impossible now lies within reach. The key to unlimited knowledge will create the ultimate weapon of mass destruction-or humanity’s last chance to save itself…
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From the Trade Paperback edition.

Human in the Circuit

In the tradition of the old ‘Ace Doubles’ two-in-one books flip one over to read the second title–here is the fifteenth Wildside Double: Human in the Circuit: Collected Stories, by Howard V. Hendrix. An astronaut with suicidal tendences from having spent too much time in suspended animation. Machine descendants of human technology, trying to understand what their creators were thinking. Virtual and atomic spins on apocalypse. Mystics one Martian, one mathematician who succeed by failing and fail by succeeding. Cutting-edge science fiction by a modern master. PERCEPTION OF DEPTH: Collected Stories, by Howard V. Hendrix. A plausibly mad ‘mushroom messiah’ and a lost tribe–soon to be more lost than ever as humanity’s first ambassadors to the stars. Three fighter pilots on a secret mission involving the Roswell cover story’s surprising truth. An early astronomer discovers the macrocosm of which our universe is just a part. A trip backwards from 1999 to the 1939 World’s Fair, and a meeting with Einstein. More strange yet compelling characters encountering the challenges of a technological world.

Visions of Mars

Seventeen wide-ranging essays explore the evolving scientific understanding of Mars, and the relationship between that understanding and the role of Mars in literature, the arts and popular culture. Essays in the first section examine different approaches to Mars by scientists and writers Jules Verne and J.H. Rosny. Section Two covers the uses of Mars in early Bolshevik literature, Wells, Brackett, Burroughs, Bradbury, Heinlein, Dick and Robinson, among others. The third section looks at Mars as a cultural mirror in science fiction. Essayists include prominent writers e.g., Kim Stanley Robinson, scientists and literary critics from many nations.