Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester

8 best books like Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (Alfred Bester): Pedro Páramo, Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution, Jude the Obscure, La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Horror in the Museum & Other Revisions, Children of Dune, Il fascismo eterno

Pedro Páramo

Author	Juan Rulfo
ISBN	0802133908

A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.

As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure...

Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution

Author	Lynn Margulis
ISBN	0465072720

Although Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the origins of species. Darwin and his modern successors have shown very convincingly how inherited...

Jude the Obscure

Author	Thomas Hardy
ISBN	0486452433

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La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	8489163413

Lázaro es un muchacho desarrapado a quien la miseria obliga a emplearse como sirviente. Las inocentes y a veces justificadas burlas con las que Lázaro se defiende de sus amos son castigadas con una crueldad brutal.

Así, garrotazo a garrotazo, la simpleza y credulidad del Lázaro de las...

The Claw of the Conciliator

Author	Gene Wolfe
ISBN	0671416162

Severian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic of the Master of Power, a legendary figure of mythic proportions. Armed with his sword, Terminus Est, and the Claw, Severian continues his journey to Thrax, the city of his exile. Bizarre apes, strange...

The Horror in the Museum & Other Revisions

Author	H.P. Lovecraft
ISBN	0870540408

H. P. Lovecraft, the creator of Cthulhu Mythos, is the acknowledged modern master of the macabre, but he also worked with many younger pulp writers. Collected here are a dozen of their experiments in arcane terror, unearthly horror, and inhuman evil. Adding his inimitable touch, Lovecraft revised...

Children of Dune

Author	Frank Herbert
ISBN	0593098242

Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.

The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis...

Il fascismo eterno

Author

Umberto Eco

“Ritengo sia possibile indicare una lista di caratteristiche tipiche di quello che vorrei chiamare l’‘Ur-Fascismo’, o il ‘fascismo eterno’. L’Ur-Fascismo è ancora intorno a noi, talvolta in abiti civili. Sarebbe così confortevole, per noi, se qualcuno si affacciasse sulla...