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10 best books like Changewar (Fritz Leiber): The Adventures of Alyx, Night Walk, The Last Starship from Earth, Hawksbill Station, Starchild Trilogy, Destination: Universe!, The Book of Frank Herbert, The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Ten Classic Stories from the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Writing, Exiles To Glory, Worlds Apart

The Adventures of Alyx
AuthorJoanna Russ
ISBN0671459007
Alyx, assassin and thief — meet her in palaces and back alleys, on the frozen wastes of a distant planet

Since the time of the ancient Phoenicians, Alyx has courted danger like a lover, sweeping through centuries of intrigue, passion and plunder.

Venture with her to the wicked city...
Night Walk
AuthorBob Shaw
ISBN0575039876
For 'refusing to co-operate' the Emm Luther Special Police took out Earth agent Sam Tallon's eyes and imprisoned him on a dark and eerie swamp from which nobody ever escaped.

But then Tallon invented a way of seeing - ludicrous, agonizing, yet still a way to make escape possible. He 'saw' through...
The Last Starship from Earth
AuthorJohn Boyd
ISBN0140048758
Haldane IV and Helix were a part of an ultra-rational society where mathematicians did not write poetry, where mathematicians did not fall in love with poets, and where most specifically, Haldane IV, young mathematician, couldn't possibly marry Helix, the attractive poet of his choice. It was in...
Hawksbill Station
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0425036790
Hawksbill Station was Robert Silverberg’s most Kilgore Troutian concept.

Kilgore Trout was, of course, the recurring fictitious science fiction writer from Kurt Vonnegut’s canon, based loosely upon fellow writer Theodore Sturgeon. According to Vonnegut, Trout would come up with...
Starchild Trilogy
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0671655582
Writing: 4
Story: 3
Satisfaction: 2

The Starchild Trilogy is very well written and the worldbuilding is immersive. The story lines are also interesting and well built out but unfortunately each leaves with an unsatisfying conclusion. The way that the story is told, it builds up this...
Destination: Universe!
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0425019128
van Vogt is a firehose of sci-fi creativity. A little weird, a little raw, and like real life the pieces don't always, or even usually, fit together nicely. But his raw imagination, wildly inventive ideas and talent for instilling a sense of wonder and mystery (and some confusion) were unequaled in his...
The Book of Frank Herbert
AuthorFrank Herbert
Add to the names of
HEINLEIN
CLARKE
BRUNNER
ALDISS
and other titans of science fiction the name of
FRANK HERBERT
whose epic novel DUNE made SF best-seller history--along with his DUNE MESSIAH, THE SANTAROGA BARRIER, and others.

DAW BOOKS proudly presents...
The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Ten Classic Stories from the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Writing
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0786719052
The Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing, including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. Their writing helped science fiction gain wide public attention, and left a lasting impression upon...
Exiles To Glory
AuthorJerry Pournelle
ISBN0441222188
Kevin Senecal was nobody's hero. All he wanted from life was a professional career, a strong union to protect him, and a comfortable company-owned housing well away from his Welfare Slum origins. As a senior engineering student at Cal Tech, Kevin seemed on the verge of realizing his ambitions, when...
Worlds Apart
AuthorJoe Haldeman
ISBN0380716828
-Más desarrollos de la trama sobre una humanidad en decadencia.-

Género. Ciencia-Ficción.

Lo que nos cuenta. Marianne O´Hara sale de la Tierra en el último momento antes de que los misiles empiecen a caer y llega a Nueva Nueva York, en cuya estructura orbital se juntarán muchos...
Dangerous Visions 1
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0722132972
DANGEROUS VISIONS is the most dazzling science fiction anthology ever published. Between them, the stories it showcases have won two Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, two Hugo Award runner-up places and one Nebula Award runner-up position.
This first volume of the three-volume paperback edition...
The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0450042413
The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1966.

It includes an introduction entitled "Pandora's Box" that describes some of the difficulties in making predictions about the near future. Heinlein outlines some of...
The Preserving Machine
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN0586069380
THE WEIRD & WONDERFUL WORLDS OF PHILIP K. DICK
Robot psychiatrists activated by $20 coins
A war veteran who keeps changing into a blob of organic jelly
Business advice from the souls of the departed
A machine that turns musical scores into small, furry animals
A dog story that...
Players at the Game of People
AuthorJohn Brunner
ISBN0345292359
War hero, jet-setter, gourmet - Godwin Harpinshield was all of those and more; his life was a game played among the Beautiful People whose fame, wealth and power set them above the law, and beyond the laws of nature. Because of a simple bargain that all the Beautiful People made, Godwin's every desire...
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 Barbie Murders
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN0425045803
A collection of John Varley's shorter works: a short story, a novella and seven novelettes. Amazing and creative pieces of imagination and wonder from an articulate and very human science fiction writer. On the Moon, they're altering bodies so everyone can look exactly alike; they're turning Pluto...
Elephantasm
AuthorTanith Lee
ISBN0747241066
oh the beguiling wonders of the Exotic East, the Ancient Orient, of heat and spice and jungle, of India!

oh the enchanting lures of Gold and Status!

oh the captivating charm of Power Over Women, to bend them to your will, to make of them your puppets!

oh the bewitching promise...
Breakfast in the Ruins
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0380491486
Breakfast in the Ruins: A Novel of Inhumanity mixes historical & speculative fiction. It was 1st published in the UK by the New English Library. The novel centres on Karl Glogauer, the protagonist of Moorcock's Nebula Award winning novella, Behold the Man, his homosexual exploits with an unnamed...
Murder and Magic
AuthorRandall Garrett
ISBN0441545408
This is the first Ace printing.
Cover Artist: Robert Adragna

Contents:
1 • The Eyes Have It • [Lord Darcy] • (1964) • novelette by Randall Garrett
63 • A Case of Identity • [Lord Darcy] • (1964) • novella by Randall Garrett
158 • The Muddle of the Woad • [Lord...
The Dirdir
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0879974788
Getting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved only stealing a spaceship or having one built to order — for Tschai was the abode of several intelligent star-born races and, as such, had spaceyards. But Adam Reith's problem was not so simple.

He'd already been lucky to escape the Chasch...
The Final Battle
AuthorRichard A. Lupoff
ISBN0553285424
Minni synopsis: Left turn, space battle, Chang Gaff turns into a car, Frankenstein's monster does rope tricks, Clive is a god, the end.



Yea it makes that much sense and it's even less satisfying then you'd think.



Ok so after 5 books of travel, trial and hardship through...
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