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9 best books like The Dark Side of the Earth (Alfred Bester): Darkness at Noon, The Illustrated Man, The Flight of the Horse, The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories, Pilgrimage to Earth, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, Tales of Ten Worlds, Novelties and Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction, Machineries of Joy

Darkness at Noon
AuthorArthur Koestler
ISBN0553265954
Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government...
The Illustrated Man
AuthorRay Bradbury
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction,...
The Flight of the Horse
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN1857238419
'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...
The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0312863543
A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcends all genre definitions. The stories within are mined with depth charges, explosions of meaning and illumination that will keep you thinking and feeling...
Pilgrimage to Earth
AuthorRobert Sheckley
ISBN0441663850
Pilgrimage to Earth is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in October 1957 by Bantam Books (catalogue number A1672) and already reprinted a month later.

It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared...
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0586043985
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...
Tales of Ten Worlds
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN0575074965
Fifteen stories by "our ablest practitioner of science fiction," ranging from the sinister rescue of a Sputnik and the Pacific to startling and amusing adventures on the moon, in a comet's tail, on Mars and Venus, and the rings of Saturn, and on the asteroid Icarus only seventeen million miles from the...
Novelties and Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction
AuthorJohn Crowley
ISBN0380731061
A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York Times Notable Book, The Translator. Now, for the first time, all of his short fiction has been collected...
Machineries of Joy
AuthorRay 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...
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