S is for Space
10 best books like S is for Space (Ray Bradbury): Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories, Have Space Suit—Will Travel (Heinlein's Juveniles, #12), Tailchaser's Song, Descent into Hell, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, The Martian Way and Other Stories, The Wind From the Sun, Expanded Universe, The Sentinel
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
| Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
| ISBN | 0415924847 |
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In
Black Feminist Thought,
Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American...
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 1857989325 |
Andrew was one of Earth's first house robot domestic servants—smoothly designed and functional. But when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 1416505490 |
My first Robert A. Heinlein work read and still one of my favorites.
Heinlein produced his juvenile books for Charles Scribner's Sons mainly in the 1950s and these were what many consider to be some of his finest work. I’ve always thought that the period between 1957 and 1966 was his zenith,...
| Author | Tad Williams |
| ISBN | 0886779537 |
Meet Fritti Tailchaser, a ginger tom cat of rare courage and curiosity, a born survivor in a world of heroes and villains, of powerful feline gods and whiskery legends about those strange furless, erect creatures called M’an.
“The hour of Unfolding Dark had begun, and the rooftop where...
| Author | Charles Williams |
| ISBN | 0802812201 |
Wow! I am so glad I returned to this story! It took me less time to read it this second time but I got so much more out of it. Rereading Williams’s tale in relation to C. S. Lewis's book The Great Divorce made all the difference. Having read Many Dimensions, another Williams thriller, during the intervening...
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
| Author | Saidiya V. Hartman |
| ISBN | 0393285677 |
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer...
This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575600527 |
A volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves.
Contents
vii • Preface (The Wind from the Sun) • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
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| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0743499158 |
The Wit and Wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein, author of multiple New York Times best sellers, on subjects ranging from Crime and Punishment to the Love Life of the American Teenager; from Nuclear Power to the Pragmatics of Patriotism; from Prophecy to Destiny; from Geopolitics to Post-Holocaust America;...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0743479750 |
Few masters of science fiction have brought us glimpses of the near future as vividly as Arthur C. Clarke. It is the startling realism of his vision that has made classics of his novels, such as CHILDHOOD'S END and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. It has also made Clarke himself one of the genre's most successful...
