The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection
10 best books like The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection (Avram Davidson): A Canticle for Leibowitz, Ringworld, Nikolski, The Complete Poems, Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, The Cannibal, The Last Joy
| Author | Walter M. Miller Jr. |
| ISBN | 0060892994 |
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature—a chilling and still provocative...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0575077026 |
The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a...
| Author | Nicolas Dickner |
| ISBN | 1590307143 |
Spring 1989. Three young people leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own songs of migration. Each ends up in Montreal, each on a voyage of self-discovery, dealing with the mishaps of heartbreak and the twisted branches of their shared family tree.
Filled with humor, charm, and...
| Author | Walt Whitman |
| ISBN | 0140424512 |
In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America’s most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what it meant to be an American. From...
| Author | Carlton Mellick III |
| ISBN | 1933929928 |
Road Warrior Werewolves versus McDonaldland Mutants...post-apocalyptic fiction has never been quite like this. They call themselves the Warriors, their enemies call them the Bitches. They are a gang of man-eating, motorcycle-riding, war-hungry werewolf women, and they are the rulers of the...
| Author | Jeffrey Ford |
| ISBN | 1930846398 |
Mixing the mundane with the metaphysical, the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary in this collection of short fiction yield supernatural results—a young musician perceives another world while drinking coffee, a fairy chronicles his busy life in a sandcastle during the changing tide,...
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
| Author | John Langan |
| ISBN | 1614980543 |
John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a thorough knowledge of the rich heritage...
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0671203231 |
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom,...
| Author | John Hawkes |
| ISBN | 0811200639 |
"No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a highly original technique for objectifying the perennial degradation of...
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 1931243190 |
Published in Norway in 1912, The Last Joy (Den Siste Glaede) appears at an important transition point in Hamsun’s career, as he moved any from his intense observations of individual characters to focus on a broader canvas of small town and farm life social units of the Norwegian culture. If Hunger...
| Author | James Stephens |
| ISBN | 1406830275 |
Truly unique, it is a mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the battle of the sexes all with charm, humour and good grace. The Crock of Gold contains 6 books: Book 1 – The Coming of Pan, Book 2 – The Philosophers Journey, Book 3 – The Two Gods, Book 4 – The Philosophers Return, Book 5 – The Policemen,...
