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10 best books like The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth (Roger Zelazny): "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, City, Again, Dangerous Visions, The Sheep Look Up, The Space Merchants, The Uplift War, 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, Dangerous Visions, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964, Crystal Express

"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN1887424350
In a future where humanity has become obsessed with timekeeping and punctuality, a single mysterious figure tries to make a change, by wasting everybody's time.

Try reading that in a deep movie trailer voice.

“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman is a whimsical and satirical...
City
AuthorClifford D. Simak
Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories told by Dogs about the end of human civilization, centering on the Webster family, who, among their other accomplishments, designed the ships that took Men to the stars and gave Dogs the gift of speech and...
Again, Dangerous Visions
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0385079532
Again, Dangerous Visions, first published in 1972, is the sequel to the sf short story anthology Dangerous Visions. It was edited by Harlan Ellison, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller. Like its predecessor, Again, Dangerous Visions and the 46 stories within it received many awards. The Word for World Is...
The Sheep Look Up
AuthorJohn Brunner
ISBN1932100016
I think I might DNF this one.

Honestly, I feel like I'm reading the newspaper and the Sierra Club's journal on a particularly bad day. Knowing that this was written forty years ago makes it even worse; you mean we knew these problems were coming and still didn't fix them? We start with gas masks...
The Space Merchants
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0575075287
An alternate cover edition can be found here.

It is the 22nd Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers...
The Uplift War
AuthorDavid Brin
ISBN0553279718
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species...
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0380507730
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...
Dangerous Visions
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0743452615
The most honored anthology of fantastic fiction ever published, featuring the works of such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Bloch, Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Damon Knight, J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Frederik Pohl, Roger...
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0765305372
If you own only one anthology of classic science fiction, it should be The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964. Selected by a vote of the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), these 26 reprints represent the best, most important, and most influential stories and...
Crystal Express
AuthorBruce Sterling
ISBN0441124232
Short stories which depict worlds full of scientific advancement, genetic and surgical modifications of people, colonization of the solar system and alien contact. But they also show concern for the future of real people.

CONTENTS:

Swarm (1982)
Spider Rose (1982)
Cicada...
Big Planet
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0575071176
The objective of the mission from Earth: to stop the ruthless Barjarnum of Beaujolais from expanding his empire on the Big Planet...and prevent the world from falling under this tyrant's domination. Then sabotage forces the craft to crash land, and the survivors face an epic 40,000-mile trek across...
The Blue World
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0575073489
This is classic Vance: a carefully thought-out world, a stratified society, and a man in conflict with its rules. During the space of twelve generations, the descendents of a crash on a water-covered planet have managed to adapt to the marine culture. But they are always at the mercy of the kragen, giant,...
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