Philip E. High

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1974
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Speaking of Dinosaurs

    Beyond Evolution.A certain gifted engineer accepted the Theory of Evolution until he wandered by chance into a museum. In that museum was the skeleton of a dinosaur, and the skeleton got him thinking and enquiring, with terrifying results.Attempts a...

  • Butterfly Planet

    Look down into the streets, the buildings, the parks.There is your battleground. Down there is the enemy - an enemy who wears no uniform.He walks behind you in the street, sits with you when you eat, and perhaps swims beside you in a public pool. H...

  • Invader on My Back

    In the far future, the world has fallen to chaos with the criminal elements controlling the cities and vast police forces ruling the unknown wilderness beyond.Only one man, unknowingly, holds the key to the state in which society finds itself - a man...

  • These Savage Futurians

    Don't think new thoughts, don't improve anything, don't wander over the next hill: these were the commandments for the men and women of the experimental village - one of those careful nurtured settlements established after the collapse of world civil...

  • Double Illusion

    This story tells of Earth - 400 years from now - where there is a rotten society in which mankind is doomed to die out. One seemingly average man with incredible IQ potential builds an ultra-intelligent computer and uses it to govern humanity. All co...

  • The Best of Philip E. High

    The Best of Philip E. HighWelcome to the Bizarre Imagination of Philip E. High.-A world without laws where the basest criminal activity flourishes unchecked in a dog-eat-dog society;-When the crew of a submarine find themselves flung millions of year...

  • Blindfold from the Stars

    The conquest of a galaxy is relatively easy providing the aggressor has the necessary technology and, more important, a safe method of overcoming possible opposition without bleeding to death in the process. The Asdrake employed mutated micro-organi...

  • Come, Hunt an Earthman

    If you're a human, the deadliest game.You may consider yourselves experienced hunters. You have hunted on many planets. But here things are different.For there are no mindless monsters or charging carnivores, but a devious, intelligent and dangerous ...

  • Fugitive from Time

    He thought he knew himself, his strength, weaknesses and limitations.A frightening encounter with two muggers, however, changed everything.He had knowledge which he had no conscious memory of learning.He had faculties which he had never known he poss...



  • The Mad Metropolis

    Given: Earth 400 years from now - a rotten society which mankind is doomed to die out.A solution to the problem - an ultra-intelligent computer to govern humanity.One man of seemingly average intelligence, but with incredible I.Q. potential.And you h...

  • No Truce With Terra

    From: The Shaldron RaceTo: The Human RaceGreetings:Your presence on this planet has been noted and the reason for your visit analyzed by our instruments. We have, therefore, taken the liberty of selecting one of your party for our first contact, one ...

  • The Prodigal Sun

    Power-Greedy.Men wished to rule the world, but one man stood in their way. Peter Duncan came from the planet Mattrain - but who was he? Was he human? If so, whence came his vastly superior intellect and technical knowledge? These were mysteries t...

  • Reality Forbidden

    If wishes would only come true; how often has every human being thought that? How wonderful life would be if only we could have everything we ever dreamed of?But the man who invented the dream-machine turned out to be the worst enemy humanity ever ...

  • Sold - For a Spaceship

    They had slept in safety while destruction raged above them. When they awoke and emerged from their places of refuge, the world had changed - totally.For man soon discovered that he was no longer the dominant species on Earth. Now there were other ...

  • Step to the Stars

    Waking Nightmare!He awoke, stretched and scratched the top of his head with his right hand. It hurt, must have a pimple there or something. Only a few seconds later his forehead tingled, and he brushed at it with his left hand.It came away smothere...

  • The Time Mercenaries

    Aggression is out of date.After one war scare too many the human has suppressed it aggressive instincts by genetic manipulation.Make love, not war.Now mankind is faced with an enemy so superior, so ruthless, that it is fight or be wiped out - and hum...

  • Twin Planets

    Earth and Firma were twin planets - mirror worlds in a single time-track. Now Firma was halted in its rotation around the sun by the Aliens. Unless Denning and Liston, twin humans, could destroy the Aliens and get Firma moving again, Earth would so...

  • Guilty as Charged

    In some parts of the world, self-confessed murderer Leonard Graham would have been executed, or even given life imprisonment for his monstrous crime. At his trial, he had confirmed to the court that he'd only met the man he'd shot a few hours...

  • Technical Wizard

    They captured the human and his puny ship. They had been ordered to interrogate him to find out humanity's strenths, weaknesses, and numbers...because their empire intended to expand into human space. But the human wanted to be captured and inter...



  • Buried Talent

    Hudson looked round the command room with its cramped balsa-plast desk, single chair and wall bunk. Command room! His mouth twisted, half with amusement, half contempt. All the years of struggling and devoted service, service which had broken up his ...

  • The Psi Squad

    A science fiction classic by British master Philip E. High! Harcourt smiled his professional smile. “Now, you came to me because you felt something was wrong, some probably frightening aberration which we will deal with later. Were you under pressu...

  • Bottomless Pit

    They were technically superior to mankind -- they made humans look like savages. So what could possibly go right when the two empires bumped up against each other?...

  • Survival Course

    Crichton was a brilliant chemist, but he had one great fear: being stranded on an alien world with no way to survive. It drove him to study woodcraft and survival techniques. But would it be enough if the impossible happened to their ship?...

  • Routine Exercise

    When an elite submarine crew surfaces in a world they can't recognize, they're thrust into a deadly struggle for survival. Faced with incomprehensible alien technology, Captain Harvey must make impossible decisions to save his crew. Will their action...

  • Life Sentence

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Philip E. High has published 25 books.

Philip E. High does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Routine Exercise, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Philip E. High, Speaking of Dinosaurs, was published in December 1974.

No. Philip E. High does not write books in series.
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