Stories Volume 2

8 best books like Stories Volume 2 (Ray Bradbury): The Silver Chair, The Birds and Other Stories, The Last Battle, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume 1: The Ultimate Egoist, Conversations with Wilder, Nightfall

The Silver Chair

Author

C.S. Lewis

Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch.

NARNIA...where owls are wise, where some of the giants like to snack on humans, where a prince is put under an evil spell...and where the adventure begins.

Eustace and Jill escape from the bullies at school through a strange...

The Birds and Other Stories

Author

Daphne du Maurier

A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verità' promises immortality, but at...

The Last Battle

Author	C.S. Lewis
ISBN	0007202326

I think this is the first book I've ever hated. And that list is pretty short. As a child, it really distressed me - I didn't understand much of it, and it confused me why its tone was so very different from the other Narnia books. Then, when I reread it a few years ago, it just pissed me off. The message about...

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Author	Richard Bach
ISBN	0099427869

In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald...

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

Author

Harlan Ellison

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction.

It won a Hugo Award in 1968. The name was also used for a short story collection of Ellison's work, featuring this story....

The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume 1: The Ultimate Egoist

Author	Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN	1556432992

The Ultimate Egoist, the first volume of The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, contains the late author's earliest work, written from 1937 to 1940. Although Sturgeon's reach was limited to the lengths of the short story and novelette, his influence was strongly felt by even the most original...

Conversations with Wilder

Author	Cameron Crowe
ISBN	0375709673

In Conversations with Wilder, Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.

Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs,...

Nightfall

Author

Isaac Asimov

Of the six suns, only Beta is left in the sky. Do you see it?”

The question was rather unnecessary. Beta was almost at zenith, its
ruddy light flooding the landscape to an unusual orange as the brilliant
rays of setting Gamma died. Beta was at aphelion. It was small; smaller than
Theremon...