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10 best books like Blue Champagne (John Varley): Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith, Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories, Crystal Express, Portable Childhoods, Fireflood and Other Stories, Extra (Ordinary) People, The Wind from a Burning Woman, Counting Up, Counting Down, Born with the Dead, The Third Level

Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith
AuthorC.L. Moore
ISBN1601250819
75th Anniversary Edition! Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler Northwest Smith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure...
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...
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...
Portable Childhoods
AuthorEllen Klages
ISBN1892391457
Emerging from a unique and powerful voice, this innovative collection offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary, skirting the border between childhood and adulthood. Mysticism, heroism, cruelty, and compassion thread through these multifaceted tales — which...
Fireflood and Other Stories
AuthorVonda N. McIntyre
ISBN0671836315
I'm pretty sure I read this collection of short stories by Vonda N McIntyre about thirty years ago - some of them were definitely very familiar, though as I couldn't remember anything at all about some of the others I may simply have read them in anthologies. I bought a copy a few months ago, and when I heard...
Extra (Ordinary) People
AuthorJoanna Russ
ISBN0312278063
Five elegant stories from Hugo & Nebula award-winning author Joanna Russ, in the form of a history lesson to a child of the future. A medieval abbess defends her community against Viking invasion; a young girl sails on a 19th-century clipper bound for America with a guardian who is not what 'he' seems;...
The Wind from a Burning Woman
AuthorGreg Bear
ISBN0445208465
I mostly enjoyed this collection of early-ish fiction by Greg Bear, although I have taken a star off because many of the stories had endings that jarred with me, or seemed abrupt or unfinished. The best example of this is probably Mandala. This is story with a great hook: the living cities of the planet...
Counting Up, Counting Down
AuthorHarry Turtledove
ISBN0345477987
From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author and critically acclaimed master of the short story, comes a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios. In narratives ranging from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient, this compelling volume illustrates Turtledove’s...
Born with the Dead
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0553241036
Collection of three novellas.
Title novella: This Robert Silverberg novella was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was released, and won the coveted Nebula and Locus awards. A man's wife is among the rekindled dead now. He's heard that she was on an airplane to Zanzibar with...
The Third Level
AuthorJack Finney
Worth the price of admission just for the stories "I'm Scared," and "Of Missing Persons." The latter was once a staple of high school literature textbooks (mid-1960s), and still holds up today. This collection was cited by Stephen King as having defined the boundaries of what later became Rod Serling's...
Limits
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0345321421
• The Lion in His Attic - (1982)
• Spirals - (1979) - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• A Teardrop Falls - (1983)
• Talisman - (1981) - Larry Niven and Dian Girard
• Flare Time - (1978)
• The Locusts - (1979) - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
• Yet Another Modest Proposal:...
Quest For The Future
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0450012859
Another gem from the golden age.
I first read the short story that started this novel going. The short
story, about a man on a trip to Alpha Centauri who wakes up centuries later
to find it already colonized, captivated me. Van Vogt added a lot more
material and turned it into a novel about...
Caviar
AuthorTheodore Sturgeon
ISBN0345257839
Theodore Sturgeon fue uno de los grandes de la Edad de Oro de la ciencia ficción, aunque actualmente es un gran desconocido. Es más, está considerado como uno de los mejores escritores de relatos norteamericano. Estilísticamente no se le puede poner ningún pero, si bien es cierto que el contenido...
Starrigger
AuthorJohn DeChancie
At one time, outer space was seen as the last frontier, the final challenge to human ingenuity. But those days are gone as the galaxy becomes the stomping ground for humans encountering strange new machinery and green-faced Martians. Depicted with stark realism and meticulous detail, this novel tells...
Mighty Good Road
AuthorMelissa Scott
ISBN0671698737
Gwynne Heikki is in the business of salvaging. Her company wins a contract to find and salvage a lighter-than-air craft that had disappeared in the wilds on the planet of Iadara. The craft had been transporting a valuable experimental crystal matrix would make great changes to the interstellar railway...
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...
None So Blind
AuthorJoe Haldeman
ISBN0380708027
"In action, a writer looks pretty much like a clerk." So Joe Haldeman writes in the introduction to this collection. But Haldeman, like Einstein, proves that clerks can have enough vision to rock the cosmos. This book includes 11 stories and four story poems, ranging in length from two pages to just over...
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