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10 best books like Riders of the Purple Wage (Philip José Farmer): Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith, Dark Benediction, Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home, Fast Times at Fairmont High, The Last of the Winnebagos, Strange Evil, Beyond Apollo, The Best of Michael Swanwick, We the Underpeople, The Apex Book of World SF

Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith
AuthorC.L. Moore
ISBN1601250819
75th Anniversary Edition! Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler Northwest Smith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure...
Dark Benediction
AuthorWalter M. Miller Jr.
ISBN0575079770
Distinguished short story collection produced by one of the best writers in the science fiction world, previously published as The Best of Walter M. Miller Jr in 1980. This essential collection contains fourteen short stories from the 1950's: 'You Triflin' Skunk!', 'The Will', 'Anybody Else Like...
Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home
AuthorJames Tiptree Jr.
ISBN0441801811
From one of science fiction's newest, brightest talents - a collection of worlds of wit and wonder demanding only that you be ready for them, including:

AND I AWOKE AND FOUND ME HERE ON THE COLD HILL'S SIDE -
Man seeks to get into bed with anything new and different, or die trying. But when the...
Fast Times at Fairmont High
AuthorVernor Vinge
The main protagonist is Juan who has to achieve an "offline" school project with Miriam given the restriction that they have to do it without connection to the Internet - a hard task for those always-connected teenagers. In addition, the project has to generate income for the school - Miriam found strange...
The Last of the Winnebagos
AuthorConnie Willis
Only Connie Willis could provide such a depth of detail to what should have been the death of dogs and not only made it work but make it work wonderfully.

She started with the weird concept of the Animal Humane Society becoming a black bag operation after all dogs have been wiped out, turning the...
Strange Evil
AuthorJane Gaskell
ISBN0671821644
This is a strange and imaginative book about an Earth woman from London who is sort-of abducted by cousins from another world. She is taken to a fairyland full of satyrs and giants and faerie-like humans, and finds herself caught in the middle of a war between those who live inside the magical mountain...
Beyond Apollo
AuthorBarry N. Malzberg
ISBN0881845515
MYSTERY IN SPACE!



a mystery in space of How Did the Captain of the Venusian Expedition Die? is not the mystery in space the mystery in space is the mystery of the inner space the mystery of the confined madman and hopeful author and failed husband and tragic victim and master...
The Best of Michael Swanwick
AuthorMichael Swanwick
ISBN1596061782
It's here at last the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published stories both of them Nebula finalists to his most recent, these works bear witness to one of the most vivid and far-ranging...
We the Underpeople
AuthorCordwainer Smith
ISBN1416520953
Novel and short stories:
1 Norstrilia [Novel]
2 Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
3 Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
4 The Ballad of Lost C'Mell
5 The Dead Lady of Clown Town
6 Under Old Earth
Humans are kept stagnantly happy by the 'Instrumentality' totalitarian government. Underpeople...
The Apex Book of World SF
AuthorLavie Tidhar
ISBN0982159633
The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells...
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson
AuthorKim Stanley Robinson
ISBN1597801844
Adventurers, scientists, artists, workers, and visionaries — these are the men and women you will encounter in the short fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson. In settings ranging from the sunken ruins of Venice to the upper reaches of the Himalayas to the terraformed surface of Mars itself, and through...
Fun with Your New Head
AuthorThomas M. Disch
Contents:
The Roaches (1965)
Come to Venus Melancholy (1965)
Linda and Daniel and Spike (1967)
Flight Useless, Inexorable the Pursuit (1968)
Descending (1964)
Nada (1964)
Now Is Forever (1964)
The Contest (1967)
The Empty Room (1967)
The Squirrel Cage...
A Touch of Strange
AuthorTheodore Sturgeon
ISBN0879973730
'Winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, Theodore Sturgeon has established his reputation as one of the most original and provocative of SF writers.

Here are nine masterpieces of imagination from the period of his finest creativity. Included are "The Pod in the Barrier", "The Other Celia",...
Nightmares And Geezenstacks
AuthorFredric Brown
ISBN0553124560
47 short and short-short stories by a master of the humorously macabre.

Contents:

1 · Nasty
2 · Abominable
5 · Rebound [“The Power”]
7 · Nightmare in Gray
8 · Nightmare in Green
9 · Nightmare in White
10 · Nightmare in Blue
12 · Nightmare in...
And Chaos Died
AuthorJoanna Russ
ISBN0425041352
His name was Jai Vedh; he was an Earthman. But his ship had blown up on a star voyage and now he was a castaway on an uncharted Earth-like planet.

There were people here: humans, apparently an Earth colony that had lost contact with the home world centuries before. They had developed telepathy,...
Distant Stars
AuthorSamuel R. Delany
ISBN0743486617
Delany has a grasp of the evolutionary nature of mythology, a subtle comic touch, and a lyric sense of the outsider making his unorthodox way in the world--or worlds--that give his work a dimension unusual...

Contents:
Of doubts and dreams : an introduction / by Samuel R. Delany --
Prismatica...
Berserker Base
AuthorFred Saberhagen
ISBN0812553276
Fred Saberhagen had his first berserker story published in 1963. Since then there have been 17 novels or collections of short stories published in this series. The premise is that millions of years ago when two planets were at war with each other, one of them, "The Builders", developed a computerized,...
Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
AuthorAlfred Bester
ISBN1568492499
Contents:

· 5,271,009 · nv F&SF Mar ’54
· Ms. Found in a Champagne Bottle · ss Status, 1968
· Fondly Fahrenheit · nv F&SF Aug ’54
· Comment on “Fondly Fahrenheit” · ar
· The Four-Hour Fugue · ss Analog Jun ’74
· The Men Who Murdered Mohammed...
The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths
AuthorBrian W. Aldiss
ISBN0893661473
Brian Aldiss marked the centenary year of H G Wells' birth with this ingenious novella combining comedy, terror and, intriguingly, late nineteenth-century period charm. In a sleepy East Anglian town we meet Bruce Fox and Gregory Rolles - two young men who have sworn to Think Large in order to distinguish...
The Jaguar Hunter
AuthorLucius Shepard
ISBN0948893362
The Jaguar Hunter: Powerful, hallucinatory stories in exotic locales
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature
I try to avoid excessive praise unless it is truly deserved, but I can say this without hesitation - Lucius Shepard was one of the best SF short story writers of the 1980s. His prose,...
Journals of the Plague Years
AuthorNorman Spinrad
ISBN0553373994
The Plague's origins were mysterious, but its consequences were all too obvious: quarantined cities, safe-sex machines, Sex Police, the outlawing of old-fashioned love. Four people hold the fate of humanity in their hands... A sexual mercenary condemned to death as a foot soldier in the Army of the...
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