Home is the Hangman
10 best books like Home is the Hangman (Roger Zelazny): Psychoshop, Enemy Mine, Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, Stardance, The Hemingway Hoax, Press Enter, Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2011, Fast Times at Fairmont High, Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge, The Last of the Winnebagos
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0679767827 |
The Black Place of the Soul-Changer was doing business in Rome six centuries before Christ. It will probably be there on the last day of the cosmos. This is the Psychoshop, where you can dump any unwanted aspect of your spirit as long as you exchange it for something else -- arcane knowledge, a change of...
| Author | Barry B. Longyear |
| ISBN | 0441206727 |
I read 0595309763, an "authors Guild backinprint.com edition." Iow, the original novelette, not Gerrold's novel created from the movie. I wanted to read it because I remember loving the movie. I had only a vague memory of it, mainly just the attempt, over a campfire, to move from trying to kill each other...
| Author | James Tiptree Jr. |
| ISBN | 1568652518 |
I'm even more convinced that the English canon has been highly unfair to Tiptree by putting her in a little box called "feminist science fiction". It is accurate, alright, but facts sometimes obscure the truth. Being a devoted student of the restrictive, conservative canon, I never took up anything...
| Author | Spider Robinson |
| ISBN | 0523485719 |
Any future book written in 1977 is not only going to get a few things wrong, but have a very different sensibility. Fortunately, this book is not handicapped by that, because of its focus on dance and music as a way to communicate-- with aliens. When you think about that, it makes sense.
Our narrator...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0380708000 |
Around 1991, Haldeman wrote: ""What is the book about? The subtitle A 'Short Comic Novel of Existential Terror' is accurate. In a way, it's a horror novel tinged with ghastly humor, as the apparently insane ghost of Ernest Hemingway murders a helpless scholar over and over; the scholar slipping from...
| Author | John Varley |
| ISBN | 1568652798 |
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...
CONTENTS
Novellas
"Stealth" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist" by Kij Johnson
Novelettes
"The Outside Event" by Kit Reed
"My Husband Steinn" by Eleanor Arnason
Short Stories
"The Cult of Whale Worship" by Dominica Phetteplace
"This...
The main protagonist is Juan who has to achieve an "offline" school project with Miriam given the restriction that they have to do it without connection to the Internet - a hard task for those always-connected teenagers. In addition, the project has to generate income for the school - Miriam found strange...
Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:
In this Hugo and Nebula award-winning novella by Mike Resnick, humanity once controlled much of the galaxy due to its ambition and ruthlessness, but then declined for unspecified reasons and is now an extinct race. About five thousand years...
Only Connie Willis could provide such a depth of detail to what should have been the death of dogs and not only made it work but make it work wonderfully.
She started with the weird concept of the Animal Humane Society becoming a black bag operation after all dogs have been wiped out, turning the...
Please Note: This is the original Hugo and Nebula Winning Novella
Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered ‘Sleepless.’
Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the ‘Sleepless’ a higher...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0839824335 |
4.5 stars. The title story is without a doubt one of grandmaster Poul Anderson's best shorter works, having won Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in 1971/2. This is a beautifully written story of a furtive, indigenous people on an alien planet recently colonized by humans. The humans are seemingly unaware...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0385265077 |
A race of turtle-like creatures conquers Earth, imposing a gentler set of values on humankind, outlawing destructive technology, and denying the validity of human scientific theories. When their home planet disappears into a black hole, however, the aliens' only hope for the future hinges on the...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection
Presents 23 of the finest science-fiction works of 1992, including stories by such diverse writers as Michael Bishop, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maureen F. McHugh, Mike Resnick, and others.
Contents
xi • Summation: 1992 • (1993) • essay by Gardner...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0441370667 |
Man searched a long time for alien life, until finally it found him. The aliens put their ship into orbit around the moon, peacably ignoring frantic human excitement, and asked to see someone who knew the stars. Earth sent Bradley Reynolds, 52, officially retired, a man who knew the stars as well as any...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0553241036 |
Collection of three novellas.
Title novella: This Robert Silverberg novella was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was released, and won the coveted Nebula and Locus awards. A man's wife is among the rekindled dead now. He's heard that she was on an airplane to Zanzibar with...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0425084787 |
WITH VANCE PEST CONTROL, PESTS DON'T STAND A CHANCE!
In addition to bugging you, the pests known as Humans pose serious risks to your health and property – all year long. Humans carry various diseases, so it’s important to keep them in their place. No matter what season it is, they will sneak...
The colonies of Fifty Suns, hidden for eons in an ocean of stars, are finally traced by the warship, Star Cluster, of Imperial Earth. Torn By rebellion, Fifty Suns must crush the titanic Eart forces or submit to the domination of the Great Galactic Union. It falls to one man, Peter Maltby, brilliant leader...
After Mankind has finally abolished war, the Earth finds itself besieged by the alien 'Outspacers'. Only a protective force field about the world prevents large scale invasion-- but one scientist finds himself the supposed target of a small scale invasion when paranoid authorities are convinced...
