The Best of Eric Frank Russell

10 best books like The Best of Eric Frank Russell (Eric Frank Russell): More Than Human, 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, The Star, The Best of Frederik Pohl, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Destination: Universe!, The Star Fox, The Wind From the Sun, Reach for Tomorrow, Where Do We Go from Here?

More Than Human

Author	Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN	0375703713

There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine...

100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0380507730

Contents include: The Science Fiction Blowgun by Isaac Asimov / A Loint of Paw by Isaac Asimov / The Advent on Channel Twelve by C. M. Kornbluth / Plaything by Larry Niven / The Misfortune Cookie by Charles E. Fritch / I Wish I May, I Wish I Might by Bill Pronzini / FTA by George R. R. Martin / Trace by Jerome Bixby...

The Star

Author

Arthur C. Clarke

Dear Arthur,

I appreciated your short story "The Star", but I think you will be interested to hear My side of the case. I have done My very best to create a beautiful universe where intelligent beings may evolve, flourish, and learn to become closer to Me. You would simply not believe how many aeons...

The Best of Frederik Pohl

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345245075

Introduction by Lester del Rey.

Contents:
The Tunnel under the World (1955)
Punch (1961)
Three Portraits and a Prayer (1962)
Day Million (1966)
Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus (1956)
We Never Mention Aunt Nora (1958)
Father of the Stars (1964)
The Day the Martians...

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345446674

In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough...

Destination: Universe!

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...

The Star Fox

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0586026312

No one will believe the truth about the ingenious plot of the Aleriona people to claim title to the almost untouched planet - New Europe. Only Gunnar Heim dares risk his life and interplantary peace to set New Europe free from control of these strange and alien beings. A space-age patriot carves a civilization...

The Wind From the Sun

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0575600527

A volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves.
Contents

vii • Preface (The Wind from the Sun) • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
3...

Reach for Tomorrow

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0345430719

WARNING: THIS REVIEW IS SERIOUSLY GEEKY

When I was reading Lee Smolin’s interesting new book Time Reborn a few weeks ago, I happened to run into the following passage, which I imagine must have occupied the author’s attention for all of two minutes. He is talking about gravity:Newton,...

Where Do We Go from Here?

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0449228495

17 great science fiction classics.
Contents:
A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum
Night by Don A. Stuart (John Wood Campbell Jr.)
The Day is Done by Lester del Rey
Heavy Planet by Milton A. Rothman
And He Built a Crooked House by Robert A. Heinlein
Proof by Hal Clement
A...

With Friends Like These...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0345323904

Golden Age Science Fiction.

The title story is in the style of Eric Frank Russell, which features galactic empires and unreasoning aliens. My favorite.

Here are several other short stories that engaged me.

"Some notes concerning a green box"
H P Lovecraft...

A Hole in Space

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345337778

The Perfect Crime: The invention of displacement booths produced one hell of a crime wave. If a man in, say, Hawaii could commit murder in, say, Chicago and be back in the time it would take him to visit the men's room, he would have a perfect alibi. And the police would have a problem.
But that's only...