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Human Is?: A Philip K. Dick Reader (Gollancz S.F.)

10 best books like Human Is?: A Philip K. Dick Reader (Gollancz S.F.) (Philip K. Dick): The Separation, Eva, The Cold Moons, Teranesia, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, Midnight Tribunal, The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy, No Present Like Time, Dear Mili

The Separation
AuthorChristopher Priest
ISBN1882968336
Christopher Priest excels at rethinking SF themes, lifting them above genre expectations into his own tricky, chilling, metaphysically dangerous territory. The Separation suggests an alternate history lying along a road not taken in World War II. But there are complications. In 1999, history...
Eva
AuthorPeter Dickinson
ISBN0440207665
THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . .

But there is something, Eva senses, that she’s not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive...
The Cold Moons
AuthorAeron Clement
ISBN0140116265
For a hundred generations the badgers of Cilgwyn had lived in harmony with nature, digging their setts and reciting their ancient lays to the young amongst the nodding bluebells and flowering blackthorn of their ancestral valley home - until a dying stranger limped into their midst.

Bamber...
Teranesia
AuthorGreg Egan
ISBN0061059803
Prabir Suresh and his younger sister, Madhursee, live in a remote paradise called Teranesia, where their biologist parents are studying an unexplained genetic mutation among the island's butterflies. Then civil war erupts across Indonesia, shattering their idyllic world and their lives.Twenty...
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0553212427
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone
AuthorWalter B. Gibson
ISBN0517413183
The Twilight Zone was a television series produced in the 1960s that presented unforgettable tales of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Rod Serling, an award-winning writer of television dramas, was the creator and host--and wrote more than 90 of the 156 episodes.

The series has since...
Midnight Tribunal
AuthorBudjette Tan
ISBN9710545183
In a city where the aswang control everything that is illegal
and where ancient gods seek to control everything else,
enforcing the law can be a very difficult task.

When crime takes a turn for the weird, the police normally call Alexandra Trese. Lately, it seems like others have been...
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
AuthorCharles N. Brown
ISBN0060594268
The Barnes & Noble Review
The introduction to The Locus Awards says it all: "This book contains some of the finest science fiction and fantasy short fiction ever written." Included within are some of the best Locus Award winning stories covering the last three decades. From Ursula K. Le Guin...
No Present Like Time
AuthorSteph Swainston
ISBN0060753889
After #1 "The Year of Our War", God is still on vacation, the Emperor still leads the war against the insects, and his cadre of immortals is still quarreling among themselves. But a new land has been discovered, one that holds the secrets of centuries, and one of their own, now exiled, foments rebellion...
Dear Mili
AuthorWilhelm Grimm
ISBN0060543124
These illustrations are beautiful, a scary version of William Morris telling a dark fairytale of a girl and her mother that live by the woods. Soldiers come to their village so the mother takes the little girl to the woods and tells her to hide and return to her in three days. The little girl waits for three...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
ISBN0007242298
First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of ‘Empire of the Sun’, ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell.


With eighteen novels over four decades – from ‘The Drowned World’ in 1962 to his final novel...
Last Summer at Mars Hill
AuthorElizabeth Hand
ISBN0061053481
This is Elizabeth Hand's long-awaited collection of short stories, centered around her Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning novella The Last Summer at Mars Hill. There are 12 pieces in all here, ranging from those first published in places like Interzone and Pulphouse to a two-page poem taken from...
Stories Volume 1
AuthorRay Bradbury
ISBN0007280475
One hundred classic stories from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451. In this, the first volume of Ray Bradbury's short stories, some of the author's finest works are published together, among them 'Homecoming', 'Veldt', 'A Sound of Thunder' and 'The Long Rain'. Join an ill-fated crew of astronauts...
Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0765301458
Platinum Pohl is the first collection to collect all of the essential works of Frederik Pohl. First and foremost, Pohl is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling...
The BFG / Matilda / George's Marvellous Medicine
AuthorRoald Dahl
ISBN0752903799
This is a story about a big friendly giant, who snatches a little girl called Sophie from her bed and whisks her off to giant land. We find out that he isn’t as big or scary as Sophie first thinks; when we arrive in giant land and all the other giants are much larger and much more terrifying, gobbling up little...
Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas
AuthorMichael Bishop
ISBN0312890028

It is 1982. The United States has a permanent Moonbase. Richard M. Nixon is in the fourth term of the "imperial presidency." And an eccentric novelist named Philip K. Dick has just died in California.

Or has he? Psychiatrist Lia Pickford, M.D., is nonplussed when Dick walks into her office...
Zapach szkła
AuthorAndrzej Ziemiański
ISBN8389011484
Andrzej Ziemiański już wiele razy obdarował nas wspaniałymi opowiadaniami. Wystarczy wspomnieć „Waniliowe plantacje Wrocławia” czy „Autobahn nach Poznań” (za „Autobahn…” otrzymał nagrodę im. Janusza A. Zajdla). Fantazja autora jest niewyczerpana, a my możemy...
Living Next Door to the God of Love
AuthorJustina Robson
ISBN0553587420
Where do you run when a world is out to get you?

AIs, Forged beings, superheroes, angels, and worlds that change in the blink of an eye–here is a richly imagined tale of ordinary redemption in an extraordinary world from one of the most provocative writers working today.…

Francine...
The Reincarnated Giant: Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction
AuthorMingwei Song
ISBN0231542542
A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond political utopianism and technological optimism, contemporary Chinese writers conjure glittering visions and subversive experiments--ranging...
A Day with Wilbur Robinson
AuthorWilliam Joyce
ISBN0064433390
No need to knock, just step right in. You're just in time to two-step with Grandfather Robinson and his dancing frog band. Cousin Laszlo is demonstrating his new antigravity device. And Uncle Art's flying saucer is parked out back.

It seems like all the Robinson relatives are here, so be prepared....
This Long Vigil
AuthorRhett C. Bruno
From the author of "The Circuit Series" and "Titanborn" comes a science fiction short story taking place in the "Titanborn" universe.

Synopsis: After twenty five years serving as the lone human Monitor of the Interstellar Ark, Hermes, Orion is scheduled to be placed back in his hibernation...
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