Pilgrimage to Earth

Author	Eric Frank Russell
ISBN	0575070951

The war has raged for nearly a year and Earth desperately needs an edge to overcome the Sirian Empire's huge advantage in personnel and equipment. That's where James Mowry comes in. Intensively trained, his appearance surgically altered, Mowry secretly lands on one of the Empire's planets. His mission:...

Author	Hal Clement
ISBN	0345273583

Dhrawn was a giant rockball, more than 3,000 times the mass of Earth. Perhaps a planet, perhaps a nearly dead star, these 17 billion square miles of mystery cried out for investigation. But its corrosive atmosphere and crushing gravity assured that no human would ever set foot on its surface.
Those...

Author	John Varley
ISBN	0441662218

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...

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0934438234

Kirth Gersen tracks Lens Larque across several worlds, most notably Aloysius, the desert world Dar Sai and the more temperate Methel. He eventually learns that Larque is a Darsh, born Husse Bugold. He had been deprived of an earlobe and made a rachepol or outcast from his clan for a crime considered "repulsive...

Author

R.A. Lafferty

Lafferty's Nine Hundred Grandmothers collects the following stories:
• Nine Hundred Grandmothers
• Land of the Great Horses
• Ginny Wrapped in the Sun
• The Six Fingers of Time
• Frog on the Mountain
• All the People
• Primary Education of the Camiroi
•...

Author	Brian W. Aldiss
ISBN	0755100565

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...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345016610

Every now and then I like to re-read an SF classic, and there are rarely safer hands to be in than those of Pohl and Kornbluth. I was surprised as I got into it that I couldn't remember a thing about this book - I suspect it's because despite featuring a number of 'adventure' scenes, it is so cerebral. And that...

Author	Vonda N. McIntyre
ISBN	0671836315

I'm pretty sure I read this collection of short stories by Vonda N McIntyre about thirty years ago - some of them were definitely very familiar, though as I couldn't remember anything at all about some of the others I may simply have read them in anthologies. I bought a copy a few months ago, and when I heard...

Author	Greg Bear
ISBN	0445208465

I mostly enjoyed this collection of early-ish fiction by Greg Bear, although I have taken a star off because many of the stories had endings that jarred with me, or seemed abrupt or unfinished. The best example of this is probably Mandala. This is story with a great hook: the living cities of the planet...

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	Andre Norton
ISBN	0345343646

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...

Author	Clifford D. Simak
ISBN	0879977728

The Planet beckoned them from space--& closed round them like a venus Fly Trap!
Captain Mike Ross finds himself leading an interplanetary expedition to an anonymous planet that welcomes them with a homing beam & then seals shut around them. Their ship is sealed against them & they...

Author	John Brunner
ISBN	0879977663

Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways, different from Earth and from each other. Any of those differences could mean death and disaster to a human settlement. When a ship filled with refugees...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	1584450452

It shouldn't come as too great a surprise that future Grand Master Robert Silverberg dedicated 1967's "To Open the Sky" to writer/editor Frederik Pohl. It was Pohl, after all, who induced Silverberg to begin writing sci-fi again on a full-time basis, after the author's "retirement" from the field...

Author	Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN	0515044598

Starshine -- the eerie, unmistakable fire of Ted Sturgeon's genius -- lights up unforgettably these stories of now and tomorrow...tales of aliens from far planets, men of the spaceways and creatures of darkness. From the daring of "The World Well Lost" to the tense adventure of "The Pod and the Barrier"...

Author	A.E. van Vogt
ISBN	0879975369

Centaurus was the destination of the space ship The Hope of Man. It had been traveling thru space for almost twenty years & still nine years of flight remained before Centaurus would be reached. For many on board the craft earth had become a vague memory, while for others it was a mere dot in the vast...

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Mac Walters

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Author	Henry Kuttner
ISBN	0345497554

THE LAST MIMZY IS THE IDEAL INTRODUCTION TO AN AUTHOR WHO WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME–AND WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME.

These seventeen classic stories create their own unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm and angry aliens. In “Mimsy Were the Borogoves”–the...