Machineries of Joy
10 best books like Machineries of Joy (Ray Bradbury): Have Space Suit—Will Travel (Heinlein's Juveniles, #12), The Martian Way and Other Stories, Tales from the White Hart, The Beat Book, Pilgrimage to Earth, Software, The Wind From the Sun, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, The Dark Side of the Earth, Tales of Ten Worlds
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 1416505490 |
My first Robert A. Heinlein work read and still one of my favorites.
Heinlein produced his juvenile books for Charles Scribner's Sons mainly in the 1950s and these were what many consider to be some of his finest work. I’ve always thought that the period between 1957 and 1966 was his zenith,...
This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or...
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...
| Author | Anne Waldman |
| ISBN | 1570624275 |
The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living...
| Author | Robert Sheckley |
| ISBN | 0441663850 |
Pilgrimage to Earth is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in October 1957 by Bantam Books (catalogue number A1672) and already reprinted a month later.
It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared...
| Author | Rudy Rucker |
| ISBN | 0380701774 |
Cobb Anderson created the "boppers," sentient robots that overthrew their human overlords. But now Cobb is just an aging alcoholic waiting to die, and the big boppers are threatening to absorb all of the little boppers--and eventually every human--into a giant, melded consciousness. Some of the...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575600527 |
A volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves.
Contents
vii • Preface (The Wind from the Sun) • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
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| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0586043985 |
Buy Jupiter is a collection of short stories that vary both in style and quality. The book contains quite a few stories (24 in total), covering around 20 years of Asimov's short story writing (1950-1972). Moreover, this edition contains some autobiographical writing. Every short story is followed...
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0451024745 |
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...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575074965 |
Fifteen stories by "our ablest practitioner of science fiction," ranging from the sinister rescue of a Sputnik and the Pacific to startling and amusing adventures on the moon, in a comet's tail, on Mars and Venus, and the rings of Saturn, and on the asteroid Icarus only seventeen million miles from the...
