Robert L. Forward's Science Fiction
Last Updated: 1/Sept/97


CAMELOT 30K
By: Robert L. Forward
Comments: Written to present both a civilization existing in near Absolute Zero temperatures and an unusual reproduction/propagation mechanism.

DRAGON'S EGG
By: Robert L. Forward
Comments: Forward's First Book. This seems to be the one most reader's prefer. Describes how life might evolve on a neuron star and how humans might travel to meet such an alien species.

FUTURE MAGIC
By: Robert L. Forward
Comments: Not Exactly Science Fiction. A discussion of future possibilities in science and technology, based on current theories. Out of print (replaced by Indistinguishable from Magic).

INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAGIC
By: Robert L. Forward
Comments: Reprint of Future Magic. Includes several short stories, some of which have appeared in other locations. The chapters have been rearranged and new ones have been added.

MAROONED ON EDEN
By: Robert L. Forward & Margaret Dodson Forward
Comments: Third in the Rocheworld series (although chronologically it is Fourth). Describes how plants might evolve to sentience.

MARTIAN RAINBOW
By: Robert L. Forward
Comments: Not his most exciting book. Written to explore the possibility of Terraforming Mars.

MIRROR MATTER: Pioneering Antimatter Physics
By: Robert L. Forward & Joel Davis
Comments: Available only in Hardcover. Not exactly science fiction although the chapters are interspersed with a chapters from a short story. Presents antimatter physics and its possibilities in language accessible to most readers.

OCEAN UNDER THE ICE
By: Robert L. Forward & Martha Dodson Forward
Comments: Fourth in the Rocheworld series (although chronologically it is Third). Describes a civilization evolved from a plant/animal symbiosis. An unusual biosystem is presented but still fits in with scientific theory.

RESCUED FROM PARADISE
By: Robert L. Forward & Julie Forward Fuller
Comments: Fifth in the Rocheworld series (essentially a sequel to Marooned On Eden). Further explores how to survive/create a civilization on an alien planet and the ocean life forms of Zuni/Eden.

RETURN TO ROCHEWORLD
By: Robert L. Forward & Julie Forward Fuller
Comments: Sequel to Rocheworld. Describes a offshoot of the Flouwen that are evolving on the Roche (Solid Earth) half of Rocheworld.

ROCHEWORLD
By: Robert L. Forward
Comments: Reprint of The Flight of the Dragonfly. Several additional pages and changed plot elements. Start of a the popular Rocheworld series.

SATURN RUKH
By: Robert L. Forward
Comments: Currently only available in Hardcover. A book taken from a idea from Carl Sagan. Explores lifeforms that could live in the atmosphere of Saturn.

STARQUAKE
By: Robert L. Forward
Comments: Sequel to Dragon's Egg. Has descriptions of many technologies developed from ultra-dense materials.

THE FLIGHT OF THE DRAGONFLY
By: Robert L. Forward
Comments: Forward's Second Book. The original version of Rocheworld. Out of print (replaced by Rocheworld). Interesting to compare between to the versions. There were several noticeable changes including a few character changes, but the alien worlds are still classic Forward. Written to present a relatively advanced alien race that evolved without fire and a viable non-spherical planet.

TIMEMASTER
By: Robert L. Forward
Comments: Presented as an explanation of possible Time/Space travel devices and an example of the impossibility of continuity problems involved in time travel. Also explores the possibilities involved in the creation/discovery of negative matter (not anti-matter).


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