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10 best books like Again, Dangerous Visions (Harlan Ellison): Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964, The Persistence of Vision, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume III: The Nebula Winners, A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space, Crystal Express

Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction
AuthorAl Sarrantonio
ISBN0451459040
This landmark anthology presents thirty groundbreaking stories from the masters of speculative fiction heralding the future of the genre with original and revolutionary works.

All-new, original stories by
� Ursula K. Le Guin
� Gregory Benford
� Joe Haldeman
�...
The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0312863543
A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcends all genre definitions. The stories within are mined with depth charges, explosions of meaning and illumination that will keep you thinking and feeling...
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0765305372
If you own only one anthology of classic science fiction, it should be The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964. Selected by a vote of the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), these 26 reprints represent the best, most important, and most influential stories and...
The Persistence of Vision
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN0441662218
Introduction · Algis Budrys · in
The Phantom of Kansas · nv Galaxy Feb ’76
Air Raid [as by Herb Boehm] · ss IASFM Spr ’77
Retrograde Summer · nv F&SF Feb ’75
The Black Hole Passes · nv F&SF Jun ’75
In the Hall of the Martian Kings · na F&SF Feb ’77
In...
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A
AuthorBen Bova
ISBN0380000385
Eleven Classic Novellas by the most honored authors of science fiction:

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...
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume III: The Nebula Winners
AuthorGeorge W. Proctor
ISBN0380793350
ix • Introduction (Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume III) • (1981) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
2 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison
15 • The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth • (1965) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
49...
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...
Crystal Express
AuthorBruce Sterling
ISBN0441124232
Short stories which depict worlds full of scientific advancement, genetic and surgical modifications of people, colonization of the solar system and alien contact. But they also show concern for the future of real people.

CONTENTS:

Swarm (1982)
Spider Rose (1982)
Cicada...
Selected Stories
AuthorFritz Leiber
ISBN1597801801
Fritz Leiber's work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the paperback era of P. K. Dick, and arguably is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber, in fact, knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different flavors...
Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
AuthorJonathan Strahan
ISBN1597801623
To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true...

In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies...
A Science Fiction Omnibus
AuthorBrian W. Aldiss
ISBN0141188928
This new edition of Brian Aldiss' classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years, from Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall", first published in 1941, to the 2006 story "Friends in Need" by Eliza Blair. Including authors such as Clifford Simak, Harry Harrison,...
Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0765301458
Platinum Pohl is the first collection to collect all of the essential works of Frederik Pohl. First and foremost, Pohl is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling...
The Hard SF Renaissance
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
Something exciting has been happening in modern SF. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, "hard SF" - science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. Now, World Fantasy Award-winning...
The Hugo Winners 1955-1961
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0449239179
Nine award-winning stories for the years 1955 to 1961, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. —

Contents:

— 1955: 13th Convention, Cleveland — 1- The Darfsteller by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (novelette) — 2- Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russel (short story)

— 1956:...
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
AuthorRoger Zelazny
Here are strange, beautiful stories covering the full spectrum of the late Roger Zelazny's remarkable talents. In Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, Zelazny's rare ability to mix the dream-like, disturbing imagery of fantasy with the real-life hardware of science fiction is on full display....
Nebula Award Stories
AuthorDamon Knight
ISBN0671752758
FOUR AWARD-WINNING STORIES

THE SALIVA TREE, by Brian W. Aldiss
An invasion of invisible monsters strikes terror on an English farm.

HE WHO SHAPES, by Roger Zelazny
The science of tomorrow makes possible a new kind of psychiatrist--one who can enter another human mind and...
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