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10 best books like Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories (Terry Bisson): Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories, The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories, The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time, The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories, The Best of Fredric Brown, Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories, The Best of Michael Swanwick, Untouched By Human Hands, The Fate of Mice, Black Glass

Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories
AuthorConnie Willis
ISBN0964853906
Included are these stories:

"Even the Queen": Virtually every new technology spawns Luddites who insist it's a bad thing. In this case, an entire cult is involved.
Winner, 1992 Nebula Award and 1993 Hugo Award, Best Short Story.

"At the Rialto": A look at a scientific conference...
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories
AuthorJeffrey Ford
At times literary, at other times surreal, this collection offers an eclectic group of stories that deal with real-life conflicts, human values, and coming-of-age experiences all placed within fantastical settings. One tale recounts the author's search for a Kafka story that can only be found in...
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 Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories
AuthorPamela Zoline
ISBN0914232886
It was one of the science fiction-themed Great Courses I listened to last year that turned me on to Pamela Zoline. The professor described her as one of the greats, a writer ahead of her time, who had only published a single book (a brief collection of five short stories) in 1988, and radio silence ever since....
The Best of Fredric Brown
AuthorFredric Brown
ISBN0345257006
The Wit and Whimsy of Fredric Brown

Twenty-nine of the best-loved stories by the man some critics call the O. Henry of science fiction… stories that range from the wryly humorous to the deadly serious, but are always unforgettable.

Contents:
ix · Introduction · Robert Bloch...
Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories
AuthorJames Patrick Kelly
ISBN1930846207
This is a handsome, limited edition collection of the best work by one of the finest short fiction writers in science fiction. There are 14 stories in all, ranging from straight SF to tales that stray into the fantasy and horror genres. Of special note is the title story, which earned the 1996 Hugo Award...
The Best of Michael Swanwick
AuthorMichael Swanwick
ISBN1596061782
It's here at last the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published stories both of them Nebula finalists to his most recent, these works bear witness to one of the most vivid and far-ranging...
Untouched By Human Hands
AuthorRobert Sheckley
ISBN1345004370
The 1950s saw publication of Sheckley's 1st four books: short story collections Untouched by Human Hands (Ballantine '54), Citizen in Space ('55), Pilgrimage to Earth (Bantam '57) & a novel, Immortality, Inc. (1st serialized in Galaxy, '58).
"The Monsters" (F&SF 1953/3)
"Cost...
The Fate of Mice
AuthorSusan Palwick
ISBN1892391422
Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick's twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Mice is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless...
Black Glass
AuthorKaren Joy Fowler
ISBN0345426533
Gifted novelist Fowler ( Sarah Canary and The Sweetheart Season ) delights in the arcane, and as a result, these 15 clever tales are occasionally puzzling but never dull.

In the long title story, "Black Glass", temperance activist Carry Nation is resurrected in the 1990s ("We're talking...
Tangents
AuthorGreg Bear
ISBN1857989791
Multi-award winning author Greg Bear established himself as the most ambitious & imaginative of the potential successors to Arthur C. Clarke with his bestselling space operas Eon & Eternity. Tangents is his 1st collection of short stories & includes two tales that won both Hugo &...
The Last Defender of Camelot
AuthorRoger Zelazny
ISBN0671417738
This paperback original is a new collection of short stories by Roger Zelazny (1937-1995), a science fiction writer every young reader should know. Even old fans will find surprises in this collection. For instance, how many devotees have read Passion Play, Zelazny s first published work, and how...
When the People Fell
AuthorCordwainer Smith
ISBN1416521461
A sweeping saga of the centuries to come, from the new dark age that followed a global war, to the new civilization that arose from the ashes to colonize the stars. At first, the colonists use ships with gigantic sails, cruising on the waves of starlight, their captains having to become something part...
The John Varley Reader
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN0441011950
From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection...
Star Songs of An Old Primate
AuthorJames Tiptree Jr.
ISBN0345254171
James Tiptree Jr, or Alice Sheldon as she was known when publishing psychology papers instead of science fiction stories, is one of the best of an innovative era for the form, beginning to publish right at the cusp of the 60s and 70s. Whether originally intended or incidental, her choice of a male pseudonym...
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
ISBN0312855095
Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology...
Third from the Sun
AuthorRichard Matheson
Contents:
· Born of Man and Woman · vi F&SF Sum ’50
· Third from the Sun · ss Galaxy Oct ’50
· Lover, When You’re Near Me · nv Galaxy May ’52
· SRL Ad · ss F&SF Apr ’52
· Mad House · nv Fantastic Jan/Feb ’53
· F--- [“The Foodlegger”] · ss Thrilling...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0312060084
I'm continuing my recaps of early Dozois anthols, since I was reminded of one of my highlights this afternoon. Anyway, there are some great and near-great stories here. My highlights, by memory:

• Dafydd ab Hugh, "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel, by Mr. Skunk."...
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