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10 best books like A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (Poul Anderson): By Any Other Name, Retief: Diplomat at Arms, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, Greyhaven, The Gandalara Cycle II, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, Galactic Empires 1, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Design for Great-Day, TNT: Telzey Amberdon & Trigger Argee Together

By Any Other Name
AuthorSpider Robinson
ISBN0671319744
FROM THE CRIME TO THE RIDICULOUS
From the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rock stars; blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; tomorrows formed by today's trends -- this Spider weaves...
Retief: Diplomat at Arms
AuthorKeith Laumer
ISBN0671440292
Retief is possibly Science Fiction's most humorous, and also invariably triumphant, recurring character; embodying the intelligence and machismo of James Bond (Retief's portrayal on the cover art of some of the books is rather remininiscent of James Coburn as Derek Flint from the Our Man Flint movies)...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0312288794
The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results:

Collected...
Greyhaven
AuthorMarion Zimmer Bradley
ISBN0879978155
Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...
The Gandalara Cycle II
AuthorRandall Garrett
ISBN0553259431
Before we get completely started here I should point out the most important fact anyone approaching this volume should know . . . namely, that the books inside are out of order. I mean, they're printed on the cover correctly but for some reason the folks at the publisher who put it together didn't bother...
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...
Galactic Empires 1
AuthorBrian W. Aldiss
Been a Long Time (Lafferty), The Possessed (Clarke), Protected Psecies (Fyfe), All the Way Back (Shaara), The Star Plunderer (Anderson), Foundation (Asimov), We're Civilized! (Clifton and Apostolides), The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal (Smith), The Rebel of Valkyr (Coppel), Brightness...
In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden
AuthorAudun Eckhoff
ISBN3775721010
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
Design for Great-Day
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
ISBN0812524608
When a strange starship appears mysteriously on a distant alien world, bearing only a single human and his bee-like extraterrestrial companion, the powerful warlord of that world laughs at the stranger's preposterous demand: End an all-out war with an interstellar rival, or face devastating consequences....
TNT: Telzey Amberdon & Trigger Argee Together
AuthorJames H. Schmitz
ISBN0671578790
Telzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy.

Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, they have been making life miserable for human criminals,...
Through the Eye of a Needle
AuthorHal Clement
ISBN0345258509
This sequel novel to Needle, was written and published in 1978, some 29 years after its predecessor but takes place only a few years later. The main character, Bob Kinnaird has completed his college degree and returned to his Polynesian island home to confront and get help for what has become all too obvious:...
The Repairman
AuthorHarry Harrison

-------------- Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn-t be so
-------------- bad - if I could shoot the trouble! from the introductory:

The Old Man had that look of intense glee on his face that meant someone was in for a very rough time. Since we were alone, it took no great...
Asimov on Science Fiction
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0385174438
ASIMOV:
Grand Master of SF

No one knows science fiction as well as Isaac Asimov, the bestselling author of the FOUNDATION saga and many other classic works. He has taken part in all the significant developments and knows most of the important writers personally. His familiarity with the...
Convergent Series
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0708880622
This book, like many short story collections, has its good parts and not so good parts. There are some great stories in here that grabbed me from page one like Bordered in Black and The Schumann Computer and then there are a few that I just didn't enjoy. Although you could always argue if its the story or if...
The Lavalite World
AuthorPhilip José Farmer
ISBN0722134231
Urthona's private world was a place of sudden land shifts...of mountains that sank into valleys, and plans that rose into peaks. Kickaha was trapped there with Anana and they were all in desperate straits. Because there was only one gate out of that world, located within Urthona's palace. And finding...
Young Bleys
AuthorGordon R. Dickson
ISBN0312931301
I've been slowly downsizing, part of which involves dumping books on the local library. Some of the books I've decided to re-read before parting with. Among that category are the books in Gordon Dickson's Childe Cycle.

When I first read it I thought it lacked the originality and wonder of the...
The Past Through Tomorrow: Vol. 2
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0450040054
All of these stories can be found in other collections, notably "Revolt in 2100" which has the three main stories included here ('If this goes on -, Coventry and Misfit).
The shorter stories hold together quite well with some references between them to help with Heinlein's idea that his stories...
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