Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories

Author	Harlan Ellison
ISBN	1887424350

In a future where humanity has become obsessed with timekeeping and punctuality, a single mysterious figure tries to make a change, by wasting everybody's time.

Try reading that in a deep movie trailer voice.

“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman is a whimsical and satirical...

Author	Joanna Russ
ISBN	0807063134

I've seen people argue, both here and elsewhere, that this book is outdated and no longer topical.

I'm really confused what rose-colored glasses they're wearing, because as far as I can tell, the majority of this book is still far too true. I've been in these places far, far too often to write...

Author	Greg Bear
ISBN	1596871067

I HAVE BEEN TOLD THIS REVIEW IS SPOILERY!! BEWARE!!

(dude, you seriously want an audio version of this??)

so i read this because bird-brian told me to.

i don't know that i am the best person to review sci-fi books. i have zero background in the genre, but for whatever reason,...

Author	John Christopher
ISBN	0689856725

Long ago, the Tripods—huge, three-legged machines—descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives.

But for a brief time in each person's life—in childhood—he is not a slave. For...

Author	William Gibson
ISBN	0553281747

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations...

Author	William Gibson
ISBN	0060539828

Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of Burning Chrome.

Johnny Mnemonic (1981)
The Gernsback Continuum (1981)
Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1977)
The Belonging Kind (1981) with John Shirley
Hinterlands (1981)

Red...

Author	Jeffrey Ford
ISBN	1930846398

Mixing the mundane with the metaphysical, the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary in this collection of short fiction yield supernatural results—a young musician perceives another world while drinking coffee, a fairy chronicles his busy life in a sandcastle during the changing tide,...

Author	Fritz Leiber
ISBN	1565048946

Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar series established the sword-swinging, maiden-rescuing, chivalrous, high adventure that has been the mainstay of the fantasy genre ever since. White Wolf presents the entire seven-novelette Lankhmar series in four volumes.The two greatest heroes ever are back, proving...

Author	Ezekiel Boone
ISBN	1501125109

In the thrilling, nerve-wracking finale of Ezekiel Boone’s “hair-raising” (Parade) Hatching series, the United States goes to war against the queen spiders that threaten to overtake the human race forever.

The world is on the brink of apocalypse. Zero Day has come.

The only...

Author	Carol Emshwiller
ISBN	0142403024

Charley is an athlete. He wants to be painted crossing the finish line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck. But Charley isn't a runner. He is a human mount, the property of one of the alien invaders called Hoots. Charley hasn't seen his mother in years, and his father is hiding out in the mountains...

Author	Fritz Leiber
ISBN	0583133096

Fabulous Voyager...

Fritz Leiber, America's finest fantasist, is the winner of six Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. In this award-winning new collection you can be transported to a shadowy alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War; watch a man play dice with the devil;...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0743474465

Nightwings, Robert Silverberg’s 1969 work is a very Ursula K. LeGuin type novel.

It is actually, three novellas put together to make a novel sized work, anchored by the Hugo award-winning novella Nightwings.

This is set in the far future, thousands of years, and the earth has survived,...

Author	Pat Cadigan
ISBN	0553295128

In her first novel, Mindplayers, Pat Cadigan introduced a very cool setting and technology. Unfortunately, in my opinion, she didn't do much with it, storywise. Cadigan returns to the setting of Mindplayers in her third novel, Fools, and this time she delivers an engrossing story that takes full advantage...

Author	Louise Cooper
ISBN	0886775558

I read this book when I was a kid, and while I only remembered some of the details, I remember how it made me feel-- pensive, a little haunted, strangely nostalgic. It took me forever to hunt down a copy of it to re-read, and I'm really glad that I did because it absolutely held up (which it not the case with some...

Author	Luis Sepúlveda
ISBN	0156002728

Briefly: This compelling and efficient novella grabs readers and quickly embeds them within the life of an aging Ecuadoran whose first, and only love, has died after a brief and unproductive marriage, leaving the much younger Antonio José Bolívar Proaño procreatively unaccomplished, as well...

Author	Alfred Bester
ISBN	0679767835

Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than in these seventeen short stories—two of them previously unpublished—that...

Author	Luis Sepúlveda
ISBN	8877469889

L'avventura e la politica, l'amore e la guerra, il viaggio e l'utopia. Tutto Sepulveda con le sue passioni e i suoi temi più cari, rappresentati in questo libro che raccoglie 24 racconti dello scrittore cileno. L'appuntamento d'amore tra un sandinista che combatte in Nicaragua contro la dittatura...

Author	Jean Teulé
ISBN	2260030114

1/5
Mis à part le côté fait-divers historique, je n'ai pas reconnu la patte de Jean Teulé et l'ai trouvé vraiment mal écrit. Certaines phrases étaient plus que bancales et demandaient de les relire plusieurs fois pour comprendre ! Ce fait-divers est intriguant mais je suis déçue de ne...