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10 best books like Islands in the Sky (Arthur C. Clarke): A Different Light, David Starr, Space Ranger, Twice 22: The Golden Apples of the Sun / A Medicine for Melancholy, The Menace from Earth, The Winds of Change and Other Stories, Iceworld, The Star Fox, The Legion of Space, Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, The War Against the Rull

A Different Light
AuthorElizabeth A. Lynn
ISBN0441007902
If I told you the plot of this book it would sound like a space opera, or possibly a romance, but it doesn't entirely have the feeling of either. It's sort of noir, and it's sort of...langorous. The protagonist is a visual artist, and Lynn pulls it off so I got a pretty clear picture in my mind of what he was seeing...
David Starr, Space Ranger
AuthorPaul French
ISBN0345315413
David Starr, Space Ranger (Lucky Starr, #1), Isaac Asimov
David Starr, Space Ranger is the first novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French.
David Starr, Space Ranger (1952)
Lucky Starr...
Twice 22: The Golden Apples of the Sun / A Medicine for Melancholy
AuthorRay Bradbury
CONTENTS
THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN
The Fog Horn
The Pedestrian
The April Witch
The Wilderness
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
Invisible Boy
The Flying Machine
The Murderer
The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind
I See You Never
Embroidery
The...
The Menace from Earth
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0671578022
Another set of short stories by RAH & they're something he excelled at. They're kind of an odd collection, but good. Well narrated. Not as good as The Green Hills of Earth collection, although there are a few really good stories in this one.

"The Year of the Jackpot" is overshadowed now by...
The Winds of Change and Other Stories
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0345311884
Asimov at his best! A 21-story salute

About Nothing • (1975)
A Perfect Fit • (1981)
Belief • (1953)
Death of a Foy • (1980)
Fair Exchange? • (1978)
For the Birds • (1980)
Found! • (1978)
Good Taste • (1976)
How It Happened • (1979)
Ideas...
Iceworld
AuthorHal Clement
ISBN0345258053
Mottled with sinister colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have produced intelligent life. Yet the expedition had contacted natives of some sort when it sent in unmanned landers.

More important,...
The Star Fox
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0586026312
No one will believe the truth about the ingenious plot of the Aleriona people to claim title to the almost untouched planet - New Europe. Only Gunnar Heim dares risk his life and interplantary peace to set New Europe free from control of these strange and alien beings. A space-age patriot carves a civilization...
The Legion of Space
AuthorJack Williamson
ISBN0722191715
Space Legionnaires
They were the greatest trio of swashbuckling adventurers ever to shop out to the stars! There was giant Hal Samdu, rocklike Jay Kalam and the incomparable shrewd and knavish Giles Habibula.

Here is there first thrilling adventure - the peril-packed attempt to rescue...
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand
AuthorBrian W. Aldiss
ISBN0755100565
My second read by Aldiss and just as enjoyable. This is from the golden age of scifi or thereabout, 9 thematically connected stories about the future of the Earth. Of course that is much too vague, since most if not all science fiction deals with that very subject, but this is specifically the projected...
The War Against the Rull
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0312852398
When A.E. van Vogt wove several of his classic stories of The Rull into a novel, he created a work of enduring popularity in the science fiction field. Now back in print for the first time in the 1990s, this Tor edition includes "The First Rull," a story that postdates the novel and makes this book the first...
The Dark Side of the Earth
AuthorAlfred Bester
ISBN0451024745
Alfred Bester writes fiction that is offbeat and intensely imaginative. In THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH, a volume that includes his new novella and five short stories, Mr. Bester is at his most inventive.

Contents:

Time Is the Traitor (1953)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)
Out...
Earthman, Come Home
AuthorJames Blish
ISBN0099086905
When the cities left Earth, they exchanged a simple environment for one of constant, sometimes shattering change. The Universe was littered with cultures in every conceivable stage of development. Only the iron hand of the germanium-backed economy and occasional interventions by the Earth police...
Skylark of Valeron
AuthorE.E. "Doc" Smith
ISBN0515030228
Another great but dated space-opera classic from the man who invented the genre.

In this episode of the Seaton and Crane and the good guys versus the baddies of the universe, we learn something really shocking that has ramifications all through this book.

Seaton and Crane plus their...
Inside Outside
AuthorPhilip José Farmer
ISBN0425040410
DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A TUNNEL UNDER HELL?

That this Universe is a toy? That the hideous Saviors rule, and have ruled, since Time began three Time-beginnings back? That they formed Man and Earth, body disc and soul print, and alien too?

And that they made mistakes? Oh, they made terrible...
Sea Siege
AuthorAndre Norton
ISBN0345343646
This was a nice little adventure from Norton that mixed several genres. Diving/Caribbean stories were very popular in the mid-twentieth century. Hence, the popularity of Flipper, the Bond books and movies that always had some bit of the Caribbean in them, and even those LLoyd Bridges movies with spear-guns...
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