The Best of Fredric Brown

Author	Tamsyn Muir
ISBN	1250313198

Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton.

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils...

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...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345336941

Come to Larry Niven's Universe and meet all the natives: Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers -- and a host of other wonderfully created characters.
Visit Lookitthat, Down, and Jinx -- indeed, an entire galaxy of planets found only in these stories that trace man's expansion and colonization...

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	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...

Author	John Varley
ISBN	0441662218

Introduction · Algis Budrys · in
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...

Author	Bernard Malamud
ISBN	0374504849

Bernard Malamud’s second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who “wants better” for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0743474430

Introducing...Dominic Flandry.

Before he's through he'll have saved worlds and become the confidante of emperors. But for now he's seventeen years old, as fresh and brash a sprig of the nobility as you would care to know. The only thing as damp as the place behind his ears is the ink on his brand-new...

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...

Author	Georges Simenon
ISBN	8845916847

«Lo so benissimo che questi libri sono pieni zeppi di imprecisioni tecniche. Inutile star lì a elencarle. Sappia che sono volute e gliene spiegherò la ragione ... Provi a raccontare a qualcuno una storia qualsiasi. Se non la ritocca un po', apparirà inverosimile, inventata. Con qualche aggiustatina,...

Author	Gretchen Rubin
ISBN	0812971442

A WALL STREET JOURNAL SUMMER PICK
A WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER

Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank, Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0812530594

A collection of Psychotechnic League stories.

In the beginning was World War III...

Out of the flames was born a new civilization, a new humanity dedicated to one world rather than to many nations, to one peace rather than many wars. Never again on Planet Earth would one group of humans...

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...

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0903895285

26 science fiction stories, complete in one volume, originally published before 1939 (when the Golden Age of SF began), with autobiographical remarks by Asimov before each story. Includes a previously unpublished story by Asimov, Big Game.
Complete text in one volume;
Contents:
Introduction
Part...