Tales from the White Hart
10 best books like Tales from the White Hart (Arthur C. Clarke): The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith, The Web Between the Worlds, The Best of C. M. Kornbluth, Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven, The Last Starship from Earth, The Winds of Change and Other Stories, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, The Best of Fritz Leiber, Destination: Universe!
| Author | Cordwainer Smith |
| ISBN | 0915368560 |
The third story in this volume takes place 16,000 years in the future. When you realize that the 33 stories are ordered chronologically, you begin to grasp the scale of Cordwainer Smith's creation. Regimes, technologies, planets, moralities, religions, histories all rise and fall through his millennia.
These...
| Author | Charles Sheffield |
| ISBN | 0671319736 |
WHAT SF SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT. -- KliattRob Merlin was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why The King of Space had to have him for the most spectacular construction project ever -- even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to his power...Thus begins a breakthrough novel by the former President...
| Author | C.M. Kornbluth |
| ISBN | 0800807235 |
I had never heard of C.M. Kornbluth, but found this in one of the "Little Free Libraries" around town and noted the introduction by Frederik Pohl. The stories were all decidedly science fiction, but in that way that doesn't require aliens or interstellar travel. Stories set in bars and dirty apartments....
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0345334698 |
Ranging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy...
Becalmed in hell
Howie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic!
Wait it out
He was trapped on Pluto...and...
| Author | John Boyd |
| ISBN | 0140048758 |
Haldane IV and Helix were a part of an ultra-rational society where mathematicians did not write poetry, where mathematicians did not fall in love with poets, and where most specifically, Haldane IV, young mathematician, couldn't possibly marry Helix, the attractive poet of his choice. It was in...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0345311884 |
Asimov at his best! A 21-story salute
About Nothing • (1975)
A Perfect Fit • (1981)
Belief • (1953)
Death of a Foy • (1980)
Fair Exchange? • (1978)
For the Birds • (1980)
Found! • (1978)
Good Taste • (1976)
How It Happened • (1979)
Ideas...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0380000547 |
This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.
Published in 1973 to honor stories that had come before the institution...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0060817127 |
*****"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...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 0848821270 |
Fritz Leiber's work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the Paperback era of Philip K. Dick, and arguably, is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber in fact knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0425019128 |
van Vogt is a firehose of sci-fi creativity. A little weird, a little raw, and like real life the pieces don't always, or even usually, fit together nicely. But his raw imagination, wildly inventive ideas and talent for instilling a sense of wonder and mystery (and some confusion) were unequaled in his...
| Author | R.A. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0985399538 |
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0312336608 |
The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and to the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Daniel Abraham • Eleanor Arnason...
The Way the Future Was: A Memoir
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345277147 |
Award-winning writer, whiz-kid editor, wide-eyed fan, pioneering anthologist and demon literary agent—Frederik Pohl's been all over the science-fiction field, including a stretch as President of The Science Fiction Writers of America.
Here is his story of how he got to all those places...
Spider's 1976 first novel, in its umpteenth reincarnation.
Isham Stone is the second-best assassin left in a shattered world. He's many miles from home, half-dead, his left arm is gangrenous, and he possesses--like everyone else--a sense of smell 1000 times better than a wolf's. Ahead of...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 0575072393 |
The Seedling Stars is a collection of science fiction short stories by James Blish. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1957 in an edition of 5000 copies. The stories all concern adapting humans to alien environments. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction,...
| Author | Eric Frank Russell |
| ISBN | 0517551853 |
The people of the Solar System have broken the light-speed barrier, and exploration ships are going out in all directions, manned by - you guessed it! - Men, Martians, and Machines (Robots). This set of linked stories describes a part of the epic voyage of the Marathon, powered by the Flettner Drive,...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0380476053 |
I've read several of Joe Haldeman's novels, and enjoyed them, though he's not one of my favourite authors. His SF tends to be towards the hard end, though with plenty of human drama to it - much of it referencing his experiences in Vietnam. Hardish SF about war is a bit out of my central preference zone, so...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0671578650 |
Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic novellas and two short stories with speculation on what makes us human.
"Gulf": in which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't...
| Author | Stephen Baxter |
| ISBN | 0575073063 |
Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge (mathematics) and Southampton Universities (doctorate in aeroengineering research). Baxter is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, most recently...
