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10 best books like Kirinyaga (Mike Resnick): Women of Wonder: Science-Fiction Stories by Women about Women, The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was, Brightness Falls from the Air, The Dragon Masters [and The Last Castle], The Persistence of Vision, The World Treasury of Science Fiction, Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories, Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories, The Best of Michael Swanwick

Women of Wonder: Science-Fiction Stories by Women about Women
AuthorPamela Sargent
ISBN0140048677
'Women are writing many of the things male sf writers thought could never be written; they are making us examine tenets and shibboleths we thought were immutable. The mightily thewed warrior trip is one of these. People like Ursula Le Guin, Joanna Russ, Kate Wilhelm ... are making that seem hideously...
The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
AuthorCordwainer Smith
ISBN0915368560
The third story in this volume takes place 16,000 years in the future. When you realize that the 33 stories are ordered chronologically, you begin to grasp the scale of Cordwainer Smith's creation. Regimes, technologies, planets, moralities, religions, histories all rise and fall through his millennia.

These...
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
AuthorAngélica Gorodischer
ISBN1931520054
This is the first of Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral...
Brightness Falls from the Air
AuthorJames Tiptree Jr.
ISBN0312854072
They have gathered now on Damiem and are about to witness the last rising of a manmade nova. They are 16 humans in a distant world about to be enveloped by an eruption of violence--horror and murder oddly complemented by a bizarre unforgiving love. But justice is not all that's about to be found. Judgment...
The Dragon Masters [and The Last Castle]
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0743474678
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it here again: Science Fiction / Fantasy is best when it is allegory.

Dragon Masters, Jack Vance’s 1962 novella, is on the surface a cool SF story about a far future world where people breed and fight with dragons … and it is also so much more.

Vance...
The Persistence of Vision
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN0441662218
Introduction · Algis Budrys · in
The Phantom of Kansas · nv Galaxy Feb ’76
Air Raid [as by Herb Boehm] · ss IASFM Spr ’77
Retrograde Summer · nv F&SF Feb ’75
The Black Hole Passes · nv F&SF Jun ’75
In the Hall of the Martian Kings · na F&SF Feb ’77
In...
The World Treasury of Science Fiction
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
ISBN0316349410
Table of contents

Introduction 1988 essay by David G. Hartwell
Harrison Bergeron 1961 story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Forgetfulness 1937 story by John W. Campbell Jr
Special Flight 1939 story by John Berryman
Chronopolis 1960 story by J.G. Ballard
Triceratops 1974 story...
Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories
AuthorTerry Bisson
ISBN0312890354
Bears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. It brings together nineteen of Bisson's finest works for the first time in one volume, among them the darkly...
Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories
AuthorJames Patrick Kelly
ISBN1930846207
This is a handsome, limited edition collection of the best work by one of the finest short fiction writers in science fiction. There are 14 stories in all, ranging from straight SF to tales that stray into the fantasy and horror genres. Of special note is the title story, which earned the 1996 Hugo Award...
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 Road to Science Fiction 3: From Heinlein to Here
AuthorJames E. Gunn
ISBN0810842459
Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Lucian's odyssey on the moon; from Jonathan Swift's hilarious satire on scientists in...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection
AuthorGardner Dozois
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...
Getting to Know You
AuthorDavid Marusek
ISBN1596060883
David Marusek made quite a splash with his debut novel - the clever, dizzyingly dense sci-fi tale of a horribly breezy future, Counting Heads. this collection of short stories illustrates the many talents (and slight limitations) of a writer who may be agape at the potential wonder of our future, but...
Counting Up, Counting Down
AuthorHarry Turtledove
ISBN0345477987
From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author and critically acclaimed master of the short story, comes a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios. In narratives ranging from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient, this compelling volume illustrates Turtledove’s...
The Seedling Stars
AuthorJames Blish
ISBN0575072393
The Seedling Stars is a collection of science fiction short stories by James Blish. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1957 in an edition of 5000 copies. The stories all concern adapting humans to alien environments. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction,...
The Hugo Winners Vol 1 and 2 1955-1970
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN9997403711
The Hugo Award is to science fiction what the Oscar is to Hollywood, and every year the coveted statuette (modeled after a spaceship) is presented at the World Science Fiction Convention. Here are twenty-three award-winning stories for the years 1955 to 1970, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.
All...
Kéthani
AuthorEric Brown
It takes an alien race to show us what humanity truly is. This is the irony faced by a group of friends whose lives are changed forever when the mysterious alien race known as the Kethani come to Earth bearing an amazing gift: immortality. These superbly crafted episodes deal with human emotions in the...
Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One
AuthorNeil Gaiman
A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night. . . .

In a Hugo Award winning story, a great detective must solve a most unsettling royal murder in a strangely altered Victorian England. . . .

Two teenage boys crash a...
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