Destination: Universe!

10 best books like Destination: Universe! (A.E. van Vogt): Changewar, The Paradox Men, The Best of C. M. Kornbluth, The Best of C.L. Moore, The Best of Frederik Pohl, The Best of Eric Frank Russell, Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home, Starburst, Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space, The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum

AuthorFritz Leiber
CHANGEWAR

It is happening right now: the war through Time. The battleground is the eternal present. The objective is to alter the past. And the goal is to seize control of the future. The warriors are ordinary people, like yourself...


Contents:
Try and Change the Past
The...
AuthorCharles L. Harness
ISBN0450029964
The Paradox Men is a science-fiction classic of its kind - a full-blooded adventure story of derring-do and distressed damsels, set after the Third Great War when North and South America are united into one country: Imperial America. A slave state run by a small noble elite who flaunt their wealth by...
AuthorC.M. Kornbluth
ISBN0800807235
I had never heard of C.M. Kornbluth, but found this in one of the "Little Free Libraries" around town and noted the introduction by Frederik Pohl. The stories were all decidedly science fiction, but in that way that doesn't require aliens or interstellar travel. Stories set in bars and dirty apartments....
AuthorC.L. Moore
ISBN0345289528
Forty Years of C. L. Moore '75 essay by Lester del Rey
Shambleau [Northwest Smith] '33 novelette by C. L. Moore
Black Thirst [Northwest Smith] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore
The Bright Illusion '34 story by C. L. Moore
Black God's Kiss [Jirel of Joiry] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore
Tryst...
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0345245075
Introduction by Lester del Rey.

Contents:
The Tunnel under the World (1955)
Punch (1961)
Three Portraits and a Prayer (1962)
Day Million (1966)
Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus (1956)
We Never Mention Aunt Nora (1958)
Father of the Stars (1964)
The Day the Martians...
AuthorEric Frank Russell
ISBN0345277007
Eric Frank Russell was a B-lister of the Campbellian Golden Age. A decent enough prose stylist, Russell sent his square jawed astronauts against big cosmological themes like intelligence, conquest, and survival, with mixed results. His stories have a tendency to culminate in punchline based around...
AuthorJames Tiptree Jr.
ISBN0441801811
From one of science fiction's newest, brightest talents - a collection of worlds of wit and wonder demanding only that you be ready for them, including:

AND I AWOKE AND FOUND ME HERE ON THE COLD HILL'S SIDE -
Man seeks to get into bed with anything new and different, or die trying. But when the...
AuthorAlfred Bester
ISBN0451091329
Time, Space and the Future. Here is your passport into the fascinating world of science fiction...eleven dazzling, jet-propelled, rocket-paced tales of tomorrow by one of today's leading writers.

Contents:

Disappearing Act
Adam and No Eve
Star Light, Star Bright
The...
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...
AuthorStanley G. Weinbaum
ISBN0345238907
Okay this was a book I picked up because of the cover. However I will this time admit it was more because I recognised the artist than I did the author. The piece is by Peter Ellson and goes by the same names as the book. Peter Elson was yet another artist featured in the books of Paper Tiger so I sort of use that...
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...
AuthorBrian Stableford
ISBN0330246496
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, starship pilots have become the great romantic heroes of the day. When Star-Pilot Grainger is rescued from a shipwreck, he finds himself pressed into reluctant service to fly...
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...
AuthorJames Blish
ISBN0575072393
The Seedling Stars is a collection of science fiction short stories by James Blish. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1957 in an edition of 5000 copies. The stories all concern adapting humans to alien environments. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction,...
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN0345430719
WARNING: THIS REVIEW IS SERIOUSLY GEEKY

When I was reading Lee Smolin’s interesting new book Time Reborn a few weeks ago, I happened to run into the following passage, which I imagine must have occupied the author’s attention for all of two minutes. He is talking about gravity:Newton,...
AuthorJoe Haldeman
ISBN0380476053
I've read several of Joe Haldeman's novels, and enjoyed them, though he's not one of my favourite authors. His SF tends to be towards the hard end, though with plenty of human drama to it - much of it referencing his experiences in Vietnam. Hardish SF about war is a bit out of my central preference zone, so...
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0671802828
Contents:
· Thinking about Silverberg · Barry N. Malzberg · in
· Road to Nightfall · nv Fantastic Universe Jul ’58
· Warm Man · ss F&SF May ’57
· To See the Invisible Man · ss Worlds of Tomorrow Apr ’63
· The Sixth Palace · ss Galaxy Feb ’65
· Flies · ss Dangerous...
AuthorTheodore Sturgeon
Eleven stories first published 1954-71.
Foreword (1971) • essay
To Here & the Easel (1954) • novella
Slow Sculpture (1970) • novelette
It's You! (1970) • story
Take Care of Joey (1971) • story
Crate (1970) • story
The Girl Who Knew What They Meant (1970)...
AuthorVernor Vinge
ISBN0312875843
Since his first published story, "Apartness," appeared in 1965, Vernor Vinge has forged a unique and awe-inspiring career in science fiction as his work has grown and matured. He is now one of the most celebrated science fiction writers in the field , having won the field's top award, the Hugo, for each...
AuthorBrian W. Aldiss
ISBN0451070836
Contents:
Who Can Replace a Man? (1958)
Not for an Age (1955)
Psyclops (1956)
Outside (1955)
Dumb Show (1956)
The New Father Christmas (1958)
Ahead (1956)
Poor Little Warrior! (1958)
Man on Bridge (1964)
The Impossible Star (1963)
Basis for Negotiation...
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