Gather, Darkness!

Author	Jack Williamson
ISBN	0312852533

On the far planet Wing IV, a brilliant scientist creates the humanoids--sleek black androids programmed to serve humanity.

But are they perfect servants--or perfect masters?

Slowly the humanoids spread throughout the galaxy, threatening to stifle all human endeavor. Only a...

Author	Leigh Brackett
ISBN	0441061354

Two generations after destruction rained down upon America's cities, the population is scattered into small towns. Cities are forbidden by law, as is scientific research.

Rumors abound of a secret place known as "Bartorstown", where science is untrammelled by interference or hatred....

Author	Kim Stanley Robinson
ISBN	0312890362

2047: for 60 years America has been quarantined after a devastating nuclear attack. For the small community of San Onofre on the West Coast, life is a matter of survival: living simply on what the sea and land can provide, preserving what knowledge and skills they can in a society without mass communications....

Author	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0451050975

After 800 years of exploring the stars, Space Commander Stagg had returned to Earth. But Earth had become a new world. Where science and technology had reigned, now there were agriculture and tribal warfare. And mankind worshiped the Goddess and was content.

Into this New Earth came Peter...

Author	Michael Moorcock
ISBN	0060130067

Ice odyssey. The world lay frozen under a thousand feet of ice - and only in the Eight Cities of the Matto Grosso did men still live, hunting the wary ice whales for meat and oil, following the creed of the Ice Mother which foretold the end of all life in ultimate cold.
But legend told of a city far to the...

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	0743486625

Hell Tanner isn't the sort of guy you'd mistake for a hero: he's a fast-driving car thief, a smuggler, and a stone-cold killer. He's also expendable - at least in the eyes of the Secretary of Traffic for the Nation of California. Tanner doesn't care much for those eyes. You'd also never mistake Hell Tanner...

Author	Walter Mosley
ISBN	0446610739

Projecting a near-future United States in which justice is blind in at least one eye and the ranks of the disenchanted have swollen to dangerous levels, Mosely offers nine interconnected stories whose characters appear and reappear in each others' lives. For all its denizens, from technocrats to...

Author	Suzy McKee Charnas
ISBN	0345256611

The men of the Holdfast had long treated with contempt the degenerated creatures known as "fems." To give themselves the drive to survive and reconquer the world, the men needed a common enemy. Superstitious belief had ascribed to the fems the guilt for the terrible Wasting that had destroyed the world....

Author	John Crowley
ISBN	0553131990

Born into the community of Truthful Speakers one thousand years after the Storm, he was raised on stories of the old days -- a world filled with saints, a world in which all things were possible, a world which finally destroyed itself. In love with a beautiful woman, Rush journeys far and learns much. Taken...

Author	Daniel F. Galouye
ISBN	0575071370

The above rating graphic provides a pretty good assessment of my opinion of the story...which stands to reason in a "DUH, thank you Col. Obvious" sorta way since I created it. Well, at the risk of raining down obvious all over you, let me add that this is certainly a book on which I would recommend...

Author	C.L. Moore
ISBN	0345289528

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...

Author

Edgar Pangborn

Davy is set in the far future of our world, in the fourth century after the collapse of what we describe as the twentieth-century civilisation. In a land turned upside-down and backwards by the results of scientific unwisdom, Davy and his fellow Ramblers are carefree outcasts, whose bawdy, joyous adventures...

Author	Clark Ashton Smith
ISBN	0586039643

Explore the most eerie lands in adult fantasy - The Lost Worlds of Clark Ashton Smith

The Contents:

ZOTHIQUE
The Empire of the Necromancers
The Isle of the Torturers
Necromancy in Naat
Xeethra

AVEROIGNE
The Holiness of Azedarac
The Beast of Averoigne

OTHERS
The...

Author	Brian W. Aldiss
ISBN	0671559990

Een aantal min of meer korte verhalen, in los verband, met als gemeenschappelijke achtergond een sterrenstelsel (de Sterrenhoop). In deze verhalen probeert Aldiss meerdere schrijfstijlen uit, niet altijd ter bevordering van de leesbaarheid.
Nogal psychedelisch of, in de enkele gevallen...

Author	M.K. Wren
ISBN	0595143415

In the Pacific Northwest of the near future, the golden age has ended in apocalypse. Nuclear war has unleased firestorms and the killing cold of nuclear winter. Earthquakes and tidal waves have ravaged the West Coast of America. Desperate violent looters comb the devastated land. And a horrifying...

Author	Algis Budrys
ISBN	1587760290

If you don't normally like post-apocalyptic fiction, read this book: it will surprise you. If you love post-apocalyptic fiction, read this book: it will be a refreshing change to most other similar novels.

The premise is simple and has been used many times since: a mysterious plague wipes...

Author	James K. Morrow
ISBN	0156002086

I think that for all of us who read regularly to the point where we can't imagine a life without doing it, there are one or two books that feel like they're Ours. Things we found without prompting, discoveries we made ourselves with no help or guidance from anyone or anything, but which change us in a way and...

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0575071176

The objective of the mission from Earth: to stop the ruthless Barjarnum of Beaujolais from expanding his empire on the Big Planet...and prevent the world from falling under this tyrant's domination. Then sabotage forces the craft to crash land, and the survivors face an epic 40,000-mile trek across...

Author	Ward Moore
ISBN	0517558661

This was a book that took me a while to read. It's not because is not interesting but because from the second half of the novel it drags a little and it's the same thing over and over again.

Basiclly the plot is a apocalpytic fiction but not the usual types out there. It was not a war, a plague, alien...

Author	Harlan Ellison
ISBN	1596066342

New, fresh, and different is tricky in the storytelling business, as rare as diamonds, but, as a born storyteller, Harlan made story brave, daring, surprising again, brought an edge of the gritty and the strange, the erudite and the street-smart, found ways to make words truly come alive again in an...

Author	Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN	0375703721

Up until one minute ago, Gurlick was merely a specimen of homo sapiens, and a substandard specimen at that. But now this craven, seething, barely literate drunk has ingested a spore that travelled light years before touching down on our planet. A spore that has in turn ingested Gurlick - turned him into...

Author

Eric Frank Russell

SIN EATERS

Investigating an epidemic of deaths among the world's leading scientists. Bill Graham learned their terrible discovery: Earth was—and had been for centuries—controlled by aliens!

The alien energy beings fed on human emotions. To cultivate their "food:' they...

Author	Paula Guran
ISBN	1607013908

From the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh to Norse prophecies of Ragnarok to the Revelations of Saint John to Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and any number of fictional zombie Armageddons and the dystopic world of The Hunger Games, we have always wondered what will happen after the world as we know it ends. No...

Author

John Joseph Adams

Lightspeed, April 2014 #47

Novella (eBook exclusive)
"The Autopsy" by Michael Shea (reprint 1980 from Magazine of fantasy & Science Fiction)

Short Stories - Science Fiction
"Codename: Delphi" by Linda Nagata
"Francisca Montoya’s Almanac of Things That Can...

Author	Antony Johnston
ISBN	1932664599

A hundred years after the Big Wet, Earth has been left a broken, infertile world of rock and sand. The town of Providens is like many others on the post-Big Wet planet—small, mostly illiterate and struggling for survival. But while most communities are like Providens, not all the cities that survived...