Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge
10 best books like Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge (Mike Resnick): Enemy Mine, Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, Hell is the Absence of God, City of Truth, The Paradox Men, The Hemingway Hoax, Press Enter, Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2011, Home is the Hangman, The Last of the Winnebagos
| Author | Barry B. Longyear |
| ISBN | 0441206727 |
I read 0595309763, an "authors Guild backinprint.com edition." Iow, the original novelette, not Gerrold's novel created from the movie. I wanted to read it because I remember loving the movie. I had only a vague memory of it, mainly just the attempt, over a campfire, to move from trying to kill each other...
| Author | James Tiptree Jr. |
| ISBN | 1568652518 |
I'm even more convinced that the English canon has been highly unfair to Tiptree by putting her in a little box called "feminist science fiction". It is accurate, alright, but facts sometimes obscure the truth. Being a devoted student of the restrictive, conservative canon, I never took up anything...
Which would you prefer: a judgemental God who causes suffering to sinners, or a reality where there is no justice at all?
Calvin: “Do you believe in the Devil... dedicated to the temptation corruption, and destruction of man?”
Hobbes: “I'm not sure man needs the help.”
This...
| Author | James K. Morrow |
| ISBN | 0156180421 |
Truth reigns supreme in the city-state of Veritas. Not even politicians lie, and weirdly frank notices abound—such as warning: this elevator maintained by people who hate their jobs: ride at your own risk. In this dystopia of mandatory candor, every preadolescent citizen is ruthlessly conditioned,...
| Author | Charles L. Harness |
| ISBN | 0450029964 |
The Paradox Men is a science-fiction classic of its kind - a full-blooded adventure story of derring-do and distressed damsels, set after the Third Great War when North and South America are united into one country: Imperial America. A slave state run by a small noble elite who flaunt their wealth by...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0380708000 |
Around 1991, Haldeman wrote: ""What is the book about? The subtitle A 'Short Comic Novel of Existential Terror' is accurate. In a way, it's a horror novel tinged with ghastly humor, as the apparently insane ghost of Ernest Hemingway murders a helpless scholar over and over; the scholar slipping from...
| Author | John Varley |
| ISBN | 1568652798 |
This award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.
Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through...
CONTENTS
Novellas
"Stealth" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist" by Kij Johnson
Novelettes
"The Outside Event" by Kit Reed
"My Husband Steinn" by Eleanor Arnason
Short Stories
"The Cult of Whale Worship" by Dominica Phetteplace
"This...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 1568652275 |
Home Is the Hangman' shows Zelazny at his very best grappling with questions of what is good and evil, what makes something truly alive. 'Home is The Hangman' is part of a series of novellas where the premise is that when the world databases are unified, a programmer takes the opportunity to completely...
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...
Please Note: This is the original Hugo and Nebula Winning Novella
Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered ‘Sleepless.’
Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the ‘Sleepless’ a higher...
| Author | Terry Bisson |
| ISBN | 0312890354 |
Bears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. It brings together nineteen of Bisson's finest works for the first time in one volume, among them the darkly...
| Author | James Patrick Kelly |
| ISBN | 1930846207 |
This is a handsome, limited edition collection of the best work by one of the finest short fiction writers in science fiction. There are 14 stories in all, ranging from straight SF to tales that stray into the fantasy and horror genres. Of special note is the title story, which earned the 1996 Hugo Award...
| Author | Michael Swanwick |
| ISBN | 1596061782 |
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...
| Author | A.A. Attanasio |
| ISBN | 0553254065 |
A young man's odyssey of self discovery in a world eerily alien, yet hauntingly familiar. Set thirteen centuries in the future, A. A. Attanasio meticulously creates a brilliantly realized Earth, rich in detail and filled with beings brought to life with intense energy. In this strange and beautiful...
| Author | Harry Turtledove |
| ISBN | 0345477987 |
From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author and critically acclaimed master of the short story, comes a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios. In narratives ranging from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient, this compelling volume illustrates Turtledove’s...
| Author | Charles Stross |
| ISBN | 2290035726 |
Drame écologique, guerre nucléaire, catastrophe naturelle... À plus ou moins long terme, toute civilisation est vouée à disparaître. Cela s'est d'ailleurs produit des millions de fois depuis la formation de notre planète.
Pour préserver l'humanité de ces inévitables apocalypses,...
| Author | Carolyn Ives Gilman |
| ISBN | 1604504544 |
Humans live deep within an apparently lifeless planet covered by massive ice sheets. Having to survive in confined spaces has bred a unique culture where deference and non-confrontation make co-existence possible. **** Osaji's opportunities are limited by the need to care for her aging grandmother....
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0312875231 |
As author, poet, and editor, Jane Yolen has published more than 150 books and has won two Nebula Awards, the Caldecott Medal, the World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, the Daedalus Award, the Kerlan Award, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. She has written one of the 20th century's greatest...
| Author | Sharon Lee |
| ISBN | 1439133816 |
The Latest Novel in the Exciting Liaden Universe® Space Adventure Series. The Sequel to Scout's Progress.
Aelliana Caylon has endured much, and finally, she appears to have won all: a spaceship, comrades, friends -- and the love of a pilot she adores.
Even better that her lover—the...
