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10 best books like 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (Isaac Asimov): Again, Dangerous Visions, The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time, The Best of John W. Campbell, The World Treasury of Science Fiction, The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

Again, Dangerous Visions
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0385079532
Again, Dangerous Visions, first published in 1972, is the sequel to the sf short story anthology Dangerous Visions. It was edited by Harlan Ellison, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller. Like its predecessor, Again, Dangerous Visions and the 46 stories within it received many awards. The Word for World Is...
The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time
AuthorBarry N. Malzberg
ISBN0743458141
A varied collection of short stories involving time travel. Individual stories vary in length from a few pages to several dozen. Tones of the stories range from comedic to light to serious to disturbing.

I am not typically a fan of time travel stories. I find usually that the author has a very...
The Best of John W. Campbell
AuthorJohn W. Campbell Jr.
ISBN0345249607
THE VISIONS OF JOHN W. CAMPBELL

Here are the finest stories by the man who almost single-handedly created modern science fiction--the writer who taught a generation to dream...and to write of all possible futures.

TWILIGHT
He was a mere hitchhiker now, but he had once seen the...
The World Treasury of Science Fiction
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
ISBN0316349410
Table of contents

Introduction 1988 essay by David G. Hartwell
Harrison Bergeron 1961 story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Forgetfulness 1937 story by John W. Campbell Jr
Special Flight 1939 story by John Berryman
Chronopolis 1960 story by J.G. Ballard
Triceratops 1974 story...
The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century
AuthorHarry Turtledove
ISBN0345439899
Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space--and on the frontiers of the human mind.

Science fiction's finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. These are scenarios...
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B
AuthorBen Bova
ISBN0380000547
This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.

Published in 1973 to honor stories that had come before the institution...
Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0060817127
*****"Old Music and the Slave Woman" - Ursula K. LeGuin.
Yes, I checked this book out from the library because I saw that it had a LeGuin story I hadn't read before! And yes, this alone was worth the price of admission. (Well, since it was from the library there wasn't a price, but, you know...)
Set...
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
AuthorTom Shippey
ISBN0192803816
This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre -- science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre's range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered...
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One
AuthorAnthony Boucher
Contents:
Re-Birth by John Wyndham (novel).
The Shape of Things That Came by Richard Deming.
Pillar of Fire by Ray Bradbury.
Waldo by Robert A. Heinlein.
The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick.
The Children's Hour by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.
Gomez by C. M. Kornbluth.
The...
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction
AuthorGardner Dozois
For years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor...
Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space
AuthorRaymond J. Healy
ISBN0394607317
Requiem (1940) by Robert A. Heinlein
Forgetfulness (1937) by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Nerves (1942) by Lester del Rey
The Sands of Time (1937) by P. Schuyler Miller
The Proud Robot (1943) by Henry Kuttner
Seeds of the Dusk (1938) by Raymond Z. Gallun
Black Destroyer (1939) by...
Norby Through Time and Space
AuthorJanet Asimov
ISBN0441586376
I hadn't read any of the Norby books before, so I was just jumping into the middle of things with the characters and the world and all. While having read the prior books might have been a little helpful, jumping in is certainly not a problem. I think I picked this up at a bag book sale based solely on Asimov as...
The Road to Science Fiction 3: From Heinlein to Here
AuthorJames E. Gunn
ISBN0810842459
Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Lucian's odyssey on the moon; from Jonathan Swift's hilarious satire on scientists in...
Star Bridge
AuthorJack Williamson
ISBN0425032949
It was the greatest empire of them all, spanning light-years, gathering in the stars with a golden net. World after world - start after star - all were snared together in a web of shimmering, golden tracery. Each gleaming strand was a tube, the communications that turned the harsh, metallic planet of...
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