The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
10 best books like The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (Rudyard Kipling): Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories, The Persistence of Vision, Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story, Sailing to Byzantium, The Variable Man and Other Stories, Christmas in the Trenches, With Morning Comes Mistfall, The U.S. Constitution: And Fascinating Facts about It, The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized Into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders, The Unveiling
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0964853906 |
Included are these stories:
"Even the Queen": Virtually every new technology spawns Luddites who insist it's a bad thing. In this case, an entire cult is involved.
Winner, 1992 Nebula Award and 1993 Hugo Award, Best Short Story.
"At the Rialto": A look at a scientific conference...
| Author | John Varley |
| ISBN | 0441662218 |
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The Phantom of Kansas · nv Galaxy Feb ’76
Air Raid [as by Herb Boehm] · ss IASFM Spr ’77
Retrograde Summer · nv F&SF Feb ’75
The Black Hole Passes · nv F&SF Jun ’75
In the Hall of the Martian Kings · na F&SF Feb ’77
In...
"I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though,...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0743487117 |
The world's most distinguished author of the literature of the fantastic presents his most extraordinary stories of worlds lost and dreams fulfilled... In his illustrious forty-five year career as a novelist and author of short fiction, Robert Silverberg has belonged in the company of the best writers...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0722129629 |
Billed as a complete novel along with a selection of shorts, The Variable Man itself is more of a novella these days. A man is pulled accidentally from his own time into the 22nd century where his very existence is a variable factor that the computers planning the war against Centarus can't plan for.
This...
| Author | John McCutcheon |
| ISBN | 1561453749 |
Decided this would be a good read for Christmas Eve and I was right! This is one of my favorite Christmas stories and it’s really touching and emotional (I mean the real Christmas truce story that this book is about, not the Robot Chicken version, though if you haven’t seen that, look it up, it’s great!).
What’s...
This was a wonderful story about a journalist who travels with a team of researchers who try and find the "Bigfoot" of Wraithworld. Wraithworld is a planet covered in thick mist and beautifully weird forests. The thing that the researchers are trying to find are called wraiths, hence the name of the planet....
| Author | Terry L. Jordan |
| ISBN | 1891743007 |
Mr. Jordan pads out the pages of this otherwise-short book with the most basic facts about the great (and not-so-great) men who helped craft the greatest and most influential system of governing the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, he writes with a "gee-whiz" sensibility that begins to grate almost...
| Author | Barbara Ann Kipfer |
| ISBN | 1567315607 |
This amazing, one-of-a-kind reference book has been revised and completely updated. Called "a definite reference must" by King Features Syndicate, The Order of Things is an illustrated collection of orders and classifications in science, religion, history, business, the arts, sports, technology,...
| Author | Stefan Alford |
| ISBN | 9781105575 |
Convincingly blending historical fact with fiction, this centuries spanning adventure will have you questioning the truth about reincarnation. In 533 an ecumenical council ordered by the Roman emperor made it a crime of heresy to continue to teach or believe in reincarnation. Some theologians...
J. Krishnamurti: A Biography
By any standard, Krishnamurti was one of the most important and fascinating spiritual figures of the 20th century; by many standards, he was one of the most important in history. This is an intimate biography written by a close friend, and explores his life and teachings simultaneously. Krishnamurti...
| Author | Rabindranath Tagore |
| ISBN | 1406548669 |
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A cultural icon of Bengal and India,...
Three Plays: Naga-Mandala; Hayavadana; Tughlaq
| Author | Girish Karnad |
| ISBN | 0195637658 |
These plays represent three phases in the career of the dramatist Girish Karnad, all three are classics of the Indian stage. The first play, Tughlaq, is a historical play in the manner of nineteenth-century Parsee theater. The second, Hayavadana was one of the first modern Indian plays to employ traditional...
