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Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly

10 best books like Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick): Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories, Tales, The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, Lifeblood, Press Enter, Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story, Sailing to Byzantium, Christmas in the Trenches, With Morning Comes Mistfall, Novels & Stories 1950–1962: Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories

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...
Tales
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN1931082723
A twentieth-century successor to Edgar Allan Poe as the master of “weird fiction,” Howard Philips Lovecraft once wrote, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” In the novellas and stories he published in such pulp...
The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
AuthorRudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling...
Lifeblood
AuthorWerner A. Lind
ISBN1931095698
All Ana Vasilifata ever wanted was a simple life, with a good husband, children, and a happy home. What she found was a vampire who made her his bride. And when she fled to England in the winter of 1665, she found a stake in the hands of a fearful and angry mob.

Over three hundred years later, an accident...
Press Enter
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN1568652798
This award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.

Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through...
Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story
AuthorWilliam Gibson
"I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though,...
Sailing to Byzantium
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0743487117
The world's most distinguished author of the literature of the fantastic presents his most extraordinary stories of worlds lost and dreams fulfilled... In his illustrious forty-five year career as a novelist and author of short fiction, Robert Silverberg has belonged in the company of the best writers...
Christmas in the Trenches
AuthorJohn McCutcheon
ISBN1561453749
Decided this would be a good read for Christmas Eve and I was right! This is one of my favorite Christmas stories and it’s really touching and emotional (I mean the real Christmas truce story that this book is about, not the Robot Chicken version, though if you haven’t seen that, look it up, it’s great!).

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With Morning Comes Mistfall
AuthorGeorge R.R. Martin
This was a wonderful story about a journalist who travels with a team of researchers who try and find the "Bigfoot" of Wraithworld. Wraithworld is a planet covered in thick mist and beautifully weird forests. The thing that the researchers are trying to find are called wraiths, hence the name of the planet....
Novels & Stories 1950–1962: Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
ISBN1598531506
Kurt Vonnegut’s signature qualities as a writer—what John Updike called “his free flow of invention, the surreal beauty of his imagery, and a colloquial American style justly ranked with Mark Twain’s”—are everywhere on display in this authoritative collection of his early fiction....
The U.S. Constitution: And Fascinating Facts about It
AuthorTerry L. Jordan
ISBN1891743007
Mr. Jordan pads out the pages of this otherwise-short book with the most basic facts about the great (and not-so-great) men who helped craft the greatest and most influential system of governing the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, he writes with a "gee-whiz" sensibility that begins to grate almost...
Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper / A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court / Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0940450828
In the three novels collected in this Library of America volume, Mark Twain turned his comic genius to a period that fascinated and repelled him in equal measure: medieval and Renaissance Europe. This lost world of stately pomp and unspeakable cruelty, artistic splendor and abysmal ignorance—the...
The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized Into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders
AuthorBarbara Ann Kipfer
ISBN1567315607
This amazing, one-of-a-kind reference book has been revised and completely updated. Called "a definite reference must" by King Features Syndicate, The Order of Things is an illustrated collection of orders and classifications in science, religion, history, business, the arts, sports, technology,...
Novels 1955–1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire / Lolita: A Screenplay
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN1883011191
This Library of America volume is the second of three volumes that contain the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov.

Lolita (1955), Nabokov’s single most famous work, is one of the most controversial and widely read books...
The Traveler
AuthorDaren Simkin
ISBN0374116393
Once there was a boy named Charlie, who had a nice life—but it wasn’t quite perfect. He had to spend too much of his time doing things he didn’t want to do. So one day he packed up all his time in a suitcase, locked it up, and set off to find a better way to spend it. Charlie traveled the world looking for...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro/The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
AuthorErnest Hemingway
ISBN0736650695
In The Snows of Kilimanjaro the protagonist perishes of gangrene alone out in the bush, recognizing his failure as a writer: a writer who never had the nerve to write. He dies with stoic acceptance and a view of the famous summit unseen by any alive. In The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Francis is...
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories / Letting Go
AuthorPhilip Roth
ISBN1931082790
"The title novella, Goodbye, Columbus, the story of a summer romance between a poor young man from Newark and a rich Radcliffe co-ed, is both a tightly wrought tale of youthful desire and a satiric gem that takes aim at the comfortable affluence of the postwar boom. Here and in the stories that accompany...
The Unveiling
AuthorStefan Alford
ISBN9781105575
Convincingly blending historical fact with fiction, this centuries spanning adventure will have you questioning the truth about reincarnation. In 533 an ecumenical council ordered by the Roman emperor made it a crime of heresy to continue to teach or believe in reincarnation. Some theologians...
The Kolob Theorem: A Mormon's View of God's Starry Universe
AuthorLynn M. Hilton
ISBN1566846412
God's Throne and the Celestial, Terrestrial and Telestial Kingdoms. The Kolob Theorem allows us to see more clearly the home we lived in before we were born and the home we will live in after we die. These places appear more real; they are made of matter, some of very fine and pure matter, and exist in time...
The Children's Story: A Collection of Stories
AuthorJames Clavell
ISBN0440204682
It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell—a talk with his young daughter just home from school—that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, "The Children's Story came into being that day. It was then that I really realized...
Novels 1942–1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN1931082073
The third volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck’s writings shows him continuing to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling. These four novels display the versatility and emotional directness that have made Steinbeck one of America’s...
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