Millennium
8 best books like Millennium (John Varley): Time Patrol, The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes, Full Throttle, Viriconium, The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Finch, Who Goes There? and Other Stories
Author | Poul Anderson |
ISBN | 1416509356 |
Contents
1 • Time Patrol • [Time Patrol • 1] • (1955) • novelette by Poul Anderson
55 • Brave to Be a King • [Time Patrol • 2] • (1959) • novelette by Poul Anderson
113 • Gibraltar Falls • [Time Patrol • 3] • (1975) • shortstory by Poul Anderson
129 •...
Author | Lawrence Block |
ISBN | 1783297506 |
Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who’s looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep...
Author | Joe Hill |
ISBN | 0062200674 |
In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In The Tall Grass,” one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.
A little...
Author | M. John Harrison |
ISBN | 0553383159 |
This landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light.
Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre and enthralled a generation of readers: The Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, In Viriconium,...
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
ISBN | 0142180033 |
A definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction
Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Author | Thomas Ligotti |
ISBN | 0143107763 |
Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced...
Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
ISBN | 0980226015 |
In Finch, mysterious underground inhabitants known as the gray caps have reconquered the failed fantasy state Ambergris and put it under martial law. They have disbanded House Hoegbotton and are controlling the human inhabitants with strange addictive drugs, internment in camps, and random acts...
Author | John W. Campbell Jr. |
ISBN | 0899667341 |
Contents:
"Who Goes There?"
"Blindness"
"Frictional Losses"
"Dead Knowledge"
"Elimination"
"Twilight"
"Night"
Note: This is the 1948 collection. There is a separate entry if you have just the 1938 novella. Also published as 'The Thing and Other Stories'....