Tales of Ten Worlds

10 best books like Tales of Ten Worlds (Arthur C. Clarke): From Here to Eternity, The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat, Have Space Suit—Will Travel (Heinlein's Juveniles, #12), The Flight of the Horse, A Maze of Death, The Martian Way and Other Stories, Nightfall, Nightfall and Other Stories, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, The Dark Side of the Earth

From Here to Eternity

Author	James Jones
ISBN	0517223007

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him.

First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone,...

The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat

Author	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0441004229

Contains the 1st 3 Stainless Steel Rat books:
The Stainless Steel Rat (1961): DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes & recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised...

Have Space Suit—Will Travel (Heinlein's Juveniles, #12)

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN	1416505490

My first Robert A. Heinlein work read and still one of my favorites.

Heinlein produced his juvenile books for Charles Scribner's Sons mainly in the 1950s and these were what many consider to be some of his finest work. I’ve always thought that the period between 1957 and 1966 was his zenith,...

The Flight of the Horse

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	1857238419

'We don't know where on Earth you'll wind up,' Ra Chen had told him.

And the Director of the Institute for Temporal Research didn't know precisely when, either. ALl he knew was that Haville Svetz would be travelling back in time almost 2,000 years.

But when he returns, Hanville Svetz...

A Maze of Death

Author	Philip K. Dick
ISBN	0679752986

Fourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O,...

The Martian Way and Other Stories

Author

Isaac Asimov

This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or...

Nightfall

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0553290991

Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one your suns start to set, gradually leading you into Darkness for the first time ever. Image the terror of such a Nightfall.

Scientists on the planet Kalgash discover...

Nightfall and Other Stories

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0345310918

A collection of early Asimov short stories, showcasing the development of the author's oeuvre. The title comes from Asimov's breakthrough short story.

CONTENTS:
Nightfall - Astounding, Sept 1941
Green Patches - Galaxy, Nov 1950
Hostess - Galaxy, May 1951
Breeds There...

Buy Jupiter and Other Stories

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0586043985

Buy Jupiter is a collection of short stories that vary both in style and quality. The book contains quite a few stories (24 in total), covering around 20 years of Asimov's short story writing (1950-1972). Moreover, this edition contains some autobiographical writing. Every short story is followed...

The Dark Side of the Earth

Author	Alfred Bester
ISBN	0451024745

Alfred Bester writes fiction that is offbeat and intensely imaginative. In THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH, a volume that includes his new novella and five short stories, Mr. Bester is at his most inventive.

Contents:

Time Is the Traitor (1953)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)
Out...

Expanded Universe

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN	0743499158

The Wit and Wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein, author of multiple New York Times best sellers, on subjects ranging from Crime and Punishment to the Love Life of the American Teenager; from Nuclear Power to the Pragmatics of Patriotism; from Prophecy to Destiny; from Geopolitics to Post-Holocaust America;...

Machineries of Joy

Author

Ray Bradbury

The Machineries of Joy • (1962)
The One Who Waits • (1949)
Tyrannosaurus Rex • (1962)
The Vacation • (1963)
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh • (1960)
Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! • (1962)
Almost the End of the World • (1957)
Perhaps We Are Going Away...