Expanded Universe

10 best books like Expanded Universe (Robert A. Heinlein): 2001: A Space Odyssey, Callahan's Lady, The Martian Way and Other Stories, Nightfall, Lady Slings the Booze, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, Earth Is Room Enough, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, Nine Tomorrows

2001: A Space Odyssey

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0451457994

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.

So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.

But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...

One of the greatest-selling...

Callahan's Lady

Author	Spider Robinson
ISBN	0671318314

A HOUSE OF "HEALTHY" REPUTE...Welcome to Lady Sally's, the House that "is" a home -- the internationally (hell, interplanetarily) notorious bordello. At Lady Sally's House, the customer doesn't necessarily come first: even the staff are genuinely enjoying themselves.

Wife of time traveling...

The Martian Way and Other Stories

Author

Isaac Asimov

This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or...

Nightfall

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0553290991

Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one your suns start to set, gradually leading you into Darkness for the first time ever. Image the terror of such a Nightfall.

Scientists on the planet Kalgash discover...

Lady Slings the Booze

Author	Spider Robinson
ISBN	0743435788

Despite his employer's doubts that he is an authentic detective, Quigley is called in to investigate Lady Sally's establishment, a reputable place that caters to adults of all species and tastes. Lady Sally was the wife of the proprietor of Callahan's Place, the bar where human and other beings from...

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A

Author	Ben Bova
ISBN	0380000385

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...

Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0060817127

*****"Old Music and the Slave Woman" - Ursula K. LeGuin.
Yes, I checked this book out from the library because I saw that it had a LeGuin story I hadn't read before! And yes, this alone was worth the price of admission. (Well, since it was from the library there wasn't a price, but, you know...)
Set...

Earth Is Room Enough

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0449014010

Contents:

· The Dead Past · nv Astounding Apr ’56
· The Foundation of Science Fiction Success · pm F&SF Oct ’54
· Franchise · ss If Aug ’55
· Gimmicks Three [“The Brazen Locked Room”] · ss F&SF Nov ’56
· Kid Stuff · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep...

Buy Jupiter and Other Stories

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0586043985

Buy Jupiter is a collection of short stories that vary both in style and quality. The book contains quite a few stories (24 in total), covering around 20 years of Asimov's short story writing (1950-1972). Moreover, this edition contains some autobiographical writing. Every short story is followed...

Nine Tomorrows

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0345346041

Isaac Asimov may very well be the most prolific author in modern history. With over 500 books to his credit (506, to be exact...go to asimovonline.com for the full list, if you don't believe me!), covering just about every subject in the Dewey Decimal System (except philosophy, I believe), the man was...

Tales of Ten Worlds

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0575074965

Fifteen stories by "our ablest practitioner of science fiction," ranging from the sinister rescue of a Sputnik and the Pacific to startling and amusing adventures on the moon, in a comet's tail, on Mars and Venus, and the rings of Saturn, and on the asteroid Icarus only seventeen million miles from the...

S is for Space

Author	Ray Bradbury
ISBN	0553232487

S is for science fiction, spine-tingling, supernatural and sublime! S is for stories from a "Star Wilderness that stretched as far as eye and mind could see and imagine".

Chrysalis
Pillar of Fire
Zero Hour
The Man
Time in Thy Flight
The Pedestrian
Hall and Farewell
Invisible...