Quicker Than the Eye

10 best books like Quicker Than the Eye (Ray Bradbury): Report from Planet Midnight, Human Is?: A Philip K. Dick Reader (Gollancz S.F.), The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Last Man on Earth, Starswarm, The Brass Dragon, They Fly at Çiron, We're Flying, Limits, Year's Best SF 8

Report from Planet Midnight

Author	Nalo Hopkinson
ISBN	1604864974

Infused with feminist, Afro-Caribbean views of the science fiction and fantasy genres, this collection of offbeat and highly original works takes aim at race and racism in literature. In “Report from Planet Midnight,” at the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, an alien addresses...

Human Is?: A Philip K. Dick Reader (Gollancz S.F.)

Author	Philip K. Dick
ISBN	0575080345

1 • Beyond Lies the Wub • (1952) • shortstory by Philip K. Dick
9 • The Defenders • (1953) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
31 • Roog • (1953) • shortstory by Philip K. Dick
36 • Second Variety • (1953) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
80 • Impostor • (1953) • shortstory...

The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Author	Charles N. Brown
ISBN	0060594268

The Barnes & Noble Review
The introduction to The Locus Awards says it all: "This book contains some of the finest science fiction and fantasy short fiction ever written." Included within are some of the best Locus Award winning stories covering the last three decades. From Ursula K. Le Guin...

The Last Man on Earth

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0449209903

This is a quite varied selection of short stories based around the theme of being the last man alive. As with most collections, some are good, some less so.

"The Underdweller" by William F Nolan - A man living in the Los Angeles sewer system avoids the city's new inhabitants.
"Flight to Forever"...

Starswarm

Author	Brian W. Aldiss
ISBN	0671559990

Een aantal min of meer korte verhalen, in los verband, met als gemeenschappelijke achtergond een sterrenstelsel (de Sterrenhoop). In deze verhalen probeert Aldiss meerdere schrijfstijlen uit, niet altijd ter bevordering van de leesbaarheid.
Nogal psychedelisch of, in de enkele gevallen...

The Brass Dragon

Author	Marion Zimmer Bradley
ISBN	0441071805

~• Il drago di Bronzo è un libro di fantascienza scritto ai suoi esordi da Marion Zimmer Bradley. Come saprete è un'autrice che ho molto amato nel ciclo di Avalon, ma questo libricino non è riuscito a rapirmi. Un po' il problema forse sta nel genere letterario che io non amo particolarmente (a meno...

They Fly at Çiron

Author	Samuel R. Delany
ISBN	0812543173

As this novel begins, the peaceful village of Çiron faces conquest and domination by the army of Myetra, as led by a cruel prince. The Myetrans subdue Çiron, killing many and enslaving the rest.

But Rahm escapes—and then befriends one of the fearsome Winged Ones, humanoids with batlike...

We're Flying

Author

Peter Stamm

Following the publication of the widely acclaimed novel Seven Years comes a trove of stories from the Swiss master Peter Stamm. They all possess the traits that have built Stamm’s reputation: the directness of the prose, the deceptive surface simplicity of the narratives, and deep psychological...

Limits

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345321421

• The Lion in His Attic - (1982)
• Spirals - (1979) - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• A Teardrop Falls - (1983)
• Talisman - (1981) - Larry Niven and Dian Girard
• Flare Time - (1978)
• The Locusts - (1979) - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
• Yet Another Modest Proposal:...

Year's Best SF 8

Author

David G. Hartwell

Brave New Worlds To Explore and ConquerThe astonishingly possible is once again showcased in a breathtaking volume of the best short form SF the past year had to offer. Contributed by some of the most revered and exciting voices in the genre -- and compiled by acclaimed editor and anthologist David G....

The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury

Author	Sam Weller
ISBN	0060545844

Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the author Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and longtime friends. With unprecedented access to private archives, he uncovered never–before–published...

Objects of Worship

Author

Claude Lalumière

Finished Objects of Worship (2009) by Claude Lalumière the other day on the way to work. Objects of Worship is a collection of 12 short stories. Describing them as strange would be an understatement. This collection abounds with zombies, superheroes and gods.

About the only other contemporary...

Reach for Tomorrow

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0345430719

WARNING: THIS REVIEW IS SERIOUSLY GEEKY

When I was reading Lee Smolin’s interesting new book Time Reborn a few weeks ago, I happened to run into the following passage, which I imagine must have occupied the author’s attention for all of two minutes. He is talking about gravity:Newton,...

Birmingham Rose

Author	Annie Murray
ISBN	0330336584

Life is bleak for Rose Lucas, a spirited, intelligent girl, born into a large family in the slums of pre-war Birmingham. But her friendship with Diana, daughter of a vicar from middle-class Moseley, gives her hope. She learns to aspire to a different kind of existence, vowing never to become a child-bearing...

The Iron Man

Author	Robert E. Howard
ISBN	0937986127

The Iron Man has fought since time immemorial -- with but one thought in mind -- to get to his foe and crush him. The centuries, the costumes, the weapons are different. The object is the same. The gore and savagery of Howard's tales of the ring is little removed from those exploits of Conan and Kull and Bran...

Just Like a Man

Author	Elizabeth Bevarly
ISBN	0060509473

Hannah Frost is used to being surrounded by cute, sweet, troublemakers. After all, she's the principle of Indiana's upper class private elementary school, a popular repository for kids who "don't fit in" at public school. But even though she's been single since dinosaurs roamed the earth, what is...

Shatterday

Author

Harlan Ellison

A five-year-old boy never ages, living as an immortal in a past that no longer exists while the world encroaches upon his innocence, in the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning “Jeffty Is Five.”

An alien attack leaves Earth on the brink of Armageddon, as humans find themselves unable to resist...