Starworld

10 best books like Starworld (Harry Harrison): Rainbow Mars, MAD's Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, My Favorite Fantasy Story, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold, The Leaky Establishment, The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy, The Far Side Observer, The Boys' Book: How to be the Best at Everything

AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN3404242904
Ein neuer Auftrag für Hanville Svetz: Er soll herausfinden, warum die Marskanäle ausgetrocknet sind und was dies für die Zukunft der Erde bedeutet. Denn der Mars war einmal bewohnt. Als Svetz erfährt, wie die intelligenten Marsianer ausgelöscht wurden, wird ihm klar, dass die Erde bald einem...
MAD's Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin
AuthorDon Martin
ISBN0762430508
Just about everyone who came of age during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s was influenced by MAD MAGAZINE, and no one at MAD was more influential than "MAD's MADdest Artist," Don Martin. His immediately recognizable style--featuring bulbous noses, wild sound effects, and the legendary "hinged feet"--was...
AuthorTom Shippey
ISBN0192803824
An anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together thirty-one tales brimming over with imagination. This rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories features classic figures--the Devil,...
AuthorMartin H. Greenberg
ISBN0886779057
Who do today's top fantasy writers read--and why? This was the question posed to some of the most influential authors in the field today. This book is their answer. Here are seventeen of the most memorable stories in the genre, each one personally selected by a well-known writer, and each prefaced by...
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0060817127
*****"Old Music and the Slave Woman" - Ursula K. LeGuin.
Yes, I checked this book out from the library because I saw that it had a LeGuin story I hadn't read before! And yes, this alone was worth the price of admission. (Well, since it was from the library there wasn't a price, but, you know...)
Set...
AuthorJack L. Chalker
ISBN0345311221
Grand Scam

Robots were infiltrating the Federation. Someone was kidnapping people and substituting indetectable, synthetic imitations. Somewhere, aliens were studying the Federation, using techniques beyond human developments. The trail led back to Cerberus and the Lord who ruled...
AuthorDavid Langford
ISBN1592241255
_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside. Black comedy overtakes the unfortunate defence-scientist hero Roy Tappen...
AuthorMike Ashley
Mike Ashley is back with an all-new edition of one of the bestselling Mammoth Books ever, from the funniest writers in the field, including Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, and Terry Jones. The thirty- five off-the-wall comic fantasies featured in Ashley's new collection are a mix of specially written stories...
AuthorGary Larson
ISBN0836220986
Another excellent Far Side collection with a couple of classics, some outright groaners, a few uncomfortably cruel gags, and a lot of laugh-out-loud ideas. As usual, about half show animals or bugs engaged in anthropomorphic activities to comment wryly on the absurdity of human habits. Some favorites...
AuthorDominique Enright
ISBN1905158645
At last a book that no boy, young or old, should be without; a book that guarantees hours of fun; a book that shows readers exactly how to be the best at everything. Who could resist?
Find out how to slam dunk a basketball, how to build a basic raft, how to write in secret code, how to find water in the desert,...
AuthorCharles M. Schulz
A gift set of the third and fourth Complete Peanuts volumes.

A boxed set of the third and fourth volumes, just in time for the holidays, designed by the award-winning graphic novelist, Seth! The collection of books identical to the individual volumes ships shrinkwrapped, with Vols. 1955-1956...
Tintin in the New World
AuthorFrederic Tuten
ISBN1580730337
In this imaginative novel by Frederick Tuten, the author has dared to reimagine Tintin; the central character from Belgian artist Herge's comic book series, The Adventures of Tintin. In this story, Tintin, world traveler and reporter is once again joined by his fellow adventurers , Captain Haddock...
Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations
AuthorTomoko Fuse
ISBN0870408526
TOMOKO FUSE is recognized at home and abroad as one of the most original and exciting of all up-and-coming origami talents. In this book, she explains her method for combining folded-paper units in an insertion fashion that results in an endless sequence of multidimensional variations giving new...
Footrot Flats One
AuthorMurray Ball
ISBN0958819033
Norman Tebbit's "cricket test" for New Zealanders has two requirements: 1) Acknowledge the All Blacks as the greatest sports team EVER and for all time and 2) love Footrot Flats.

A question in the NZ Trivial Pursuit is "Who runs the dog?", the answer - as any Kiwi knows - is Wal.

Footrot...
Here Comes Garfield
AuthorJim Davis
ISBN0345320123
After sweeping the country in over 1,000 newspapers and five incredible best sellers -- Garfield on TV!!

Now, the funniest, grouchiest, laziest cat of all time in his first full-length, full-color musical special!

Here Comes Garfield
Starring America's favorite cat, his...
The Unseen University Cut-Out Book
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0385609442
A must-have accessory for the most dedicated Pratchett fans — a Discworld cut-out book for adults.

The phenomenal Discworld series has a new addition to its growing hoard of artifacts — a cut-out book for adults. An extraordinary feat of paper engineering, the cut-out book contains the...
Break Into Fiction: 11 Steps to Building a Story That Sells
AuthorMary Buckham
ISBN1605500151
Getting a book published is hard enough�getting a novel published is doubly so! But a writer seeing his story on bookshelves everywhere is just a rewrite away with this book! Written by two award-winning novelists, this workshop-in-a-book is all aspiring authors need to master the art of fiction�and...
AuthorTom DeFalco
This compendium includes heroes, villains, and civilians from the Spider-Man comics. It covers Spidey’s comics from 1963 (his first appearance) to 2000, and features many illustrations and panels from the comics. The text details the bios and origins of the characters, as well as memorable events...
The Morpheus Factor
AuthorAshley McConnell
ISBN0451458168
** Warning for spoilers **

After reading that back-of-the-book description, I really wanted to read this book! I'd found the second in the series The Price You Pay at a book store, and had special-ordered First Amendment from Border's. This title, however, was unavailable wherever I went....
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