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10 best books like Inconstant Moon (Larry Niven): The Web Between the Worlds, The Best of L. Sprague de Camp, The Best of Frederik Pohl, Tales from the White Hart, The Last of the Winnebagos, The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories, The White Mountain, The Long Loud Silence, The Best of Michael Swanwick, The Best of Fritz Leiber

The Web Between the Worlds
AuthorCharles Sheffield
ISBN0671319736
WHAT SF SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT. -- KliattRob Merlin was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why The King of Space had to have him for the most spectacular construction project ever -- even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to his power...Thus begins a breakthrough novel by the former President...
The Best of L. Sprague de Camp
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
ISBN0345254740
This volume provides a generous collection of the science-fiction and fantasy of L. Sprague de Camp. There is also a non-fiction essay on language, three poems, and a short auto-biographical "Afterword".
The tone of most of the stories is lightly satiric and humorous but "Judgement Day" is a powerful...
The Best of Frederik Pohl
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0345245075
Introduction by Lester del Rey.

Contents:
The Tunnel under the World (1955)
Punch (1961)
Three Portraits and a Prayer (1962)
Day Million (1966)
Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus (1956)
We Never Mention Aunt Nora (1958)
Father of the Stars (1964)
The Day the Martians...
Tales from the White Hart
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
From outside it was simply an ordinary-looking London pub, a place you'd have to be guided to more than once before you memorized its location, somewhere between Fleet Street and the Embankment. But if, by chance, an insider led you to the White Hart on a Wednesday night, you would have found yourself...
The Last of the Winnebagos
AuthorConnie Willis
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...
The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0839824335
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...
The White Mountain
AuthorDavid Wingrove
ISBN0440213568
A towering world-city covers almost every acre of  every continent. Seven high-tech fiefdoms, ruled  by seven lords united in unimaginable power. But  now the wheel is broken. the Seven are divided at  last. Armed rebellion has broken out in Chung  Kuo's few remaining open spaces;...
The Long Loud Silence
AuthorWilson Tucker
ISBN0340250879
THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER
Corporal Russell Gary - operator-angle man-black marketeer, junior grade-liberator of anything loose - veteran of Salerno and Normandy - a man who knew how to live by his wits and a gun.

Celebrating ten years in khaki, Gary went on a monumental binge...

While...
The Best of Michael Swanwick
AuthorMichael Swanwick
ISBN1596061782
It's here at last the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published stories both of them Nebula finalists to his most recent, these works bear witness to one of the most vivid and far-ranging...
The Best of Fritz Leiber
AuthorFritz Leiber
ISBN0848821270
Fritz Leiber's work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the Paperback era of Philip K. Dick, and arguably, is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber in fact knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different...
The River of Time
AuthorDavid Brin
ISBN1857234138
The River of Time brings together eleven short stories, including "The Crystal Spheres" (WINNER: Hugo Award Best SF Short Story 1985), and four new stories published here for the first time.

Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound...
The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0586046224
Even in her early stories, Le Guin's writing is illustrative and graceful without excessive description. Reading her is always an exercise is learning how to better write. However, I found the plots and characterization in some of the stories somewhat wanting, compared to other Le Guin works. Many...
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon
AuthorMalcolm Hulke
ISBN0426103726
The evil MASTER has stolen the Time Lords' file on the horrifying DOOMSDAY WEAPON with which, when he finds it, he can blast whole planets out of existence and make himself ruler of the Galaxy!

The Time Lords direct DOCTOR WHO and Jo Grant in TARDIS to a bleak planet in the year 2471 where they find...
Ancient, My Enemy
AuthorGordon R. Dickson
ISBN0879975520
The award-winning and much honored Gordon R. Dickson, author of the best-selling DORSAI books and many other praiseworthy novels and scince fiction stories, has selected nine of his finest tales in this book.
Here are stories of interstellar exploration, of adventure at the dawn of star flight...
Tomorrow's Children: 18 Tales Of Fantasy And Science Fiction
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0860078213
Eighteen stories edited by the master of science-fiction, Isaac Asimov:
"No Life of Their Own" by Clifford D. Simak
"The Accountant" by Robert Sheckley
"Novice" by James M. Schmitz
"Child of Void" by Margaret St. Claire
"When the Bough Breaks" by Lewis Padgett
"A Pail of...
The Wind from a Burning Woman
AuthorGreg Bear
ISBN0445208465
I mostly enjoyed this collection of early-ish fiction by Greg Bear, although I have taken a star off because many of the stories had endings that jarred with me, or seemed abrupt or unfinished. The best example of this is probably Mandala. This is story with a great hook: the living cities of the planet...
Telempath
AuthorSpider Robinson
Spider's 1976 first novel, in its umpteenth reincarnation.

Isham Stone is the second-best assassin left in a shattered world. He's many miles from home, half-dead, his left arm is gangrenous, and he possesses--like everyone else--a sense of smell 1000 times better than a wolf's. Ahead of...
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
AuthorPaul French
ISBN0345315626
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (Lucky Starr, #2), Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids is the second novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French.
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Sector General
AuthorJames White
ISBN0345346270
The incredible floating intergalactic hospital, where exotic beings receive treatment from equally exotic doctors and nurses. Each new species brings new problems, but no case is too big, too small, too hopeless - or too weird - for Sector General.

Accident: A spaceship crashes and two war...
Robots Have No Tails
AuthorHenry Kuttner
Hounded by creditors and heckled by an uncooperative robot, binge-drinking inventor Galloway Gallegher must solve the mystery of his own machines before his dodgy financing and reckless lifestyle catch up with him! This complete collection of Kuttner's five classic "Gallegher" stories presents...
Flight of the Dragonfly
AuthorRobert L. Forward
ISBN0671559370
Powered by a revolutionary laser-driven stardrive, the first interstellar expedition would reach the double planet circling Barnard's Star in a mere twenty years. Some of the world's finest scientists were aboard that ship, and they would arrive prepared for adventure, danger and - to them, most...
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 1: Beyond Lies the Wub
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN1857988795
My Introduction to PKD

As I was so intrigued with these stories that I wrote individual reviews for each single one of them during the past few months, there is not a lot left for me to say about this collection of short stories here but maybe one or two words about how PKD defined the role of an sf author.

My...
For a Breath I Tarry
AuthorRoger Zelazny
ISBN0934438277
Taking place long after the self-extinction of Man, "For a Breath I Tarry" recounts the tale of Frost, a sentient machine ("...a silver-blue box, 40x40x40 feet,... featured in whatever manner he chose.") Though Man has disappeared, his robotic creations (and their creations in turn) continue to...
Flux
AuthorStephen Baxter
ISBN0006476201
Imagine a race of submicroscopic humans, genetically engineered to live in the universe's most hostile environment, the turbulent superfluid mantle of a neutron star

Imagine that the memory of the superbeings who created them has been kept alive from generation to generation.

Now...
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