The Dreaming Jewels
10 best books like The Dreaming Jewels (Theodore Sturgeon): Lud-in-the-Mist, The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories, The Humanoids, City, Hothouse, Babel-17, Perihelion Summer, Supernatural Horror in Literature, Dorsai!, A Maze of Death
| Author | Hope Mirrlees |
| ISBN | 1593600410 |
Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. The Dapple has its origin beyond the Debatable Hills to the west of Lud-in-the-Mist, in Fairyland. In the days of Duke Aubrey, some centuries earlier, fairy things had...
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 1857989325 |
Andrew was one of Earth's first house robot domestic servants—smoothly designed and functional. But when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time...
| Author | Jack Williamson |
| ISBN | 0312852533 |
On the far planet Wing IV, a brilliant scientist creates the humanoids--sleek black androids programmed to serve humanity.
But are they perfect servants--or perfect masters?
Slowly the humanoids spread throughout the galaxy, threatening to stifle all human endeavor. Only a...
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...
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0671559303 |
In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a colossal banyan tree that covers one face of the globe. The last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorised by the carnivorous plants and the grotesque insect life.
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| Author | Samuel R. Delany |
| ISBN | 0839823282 |
Babel-17 is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted...
| Author | Greg Egan |
| ISBN | 1250313783 |
Greg Egan's Perihelion Summer is a story of people struggling to adapt to a suddenly alien environment, and the friendships and alliances they forge as they try to find their way in a world where the old maps have lost their meaning.
Taraxippus is coming: a black hole one tenth the mass of the sun...
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0486201058 |
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), the most important American supernaturalist since Poe, has had an incalculable influence on all the horror-story writing of recent decades. Altho his supernatural fiction has been enjoying an unprecedented fame, it's not widely known that he wrote a critical history...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0812503988 |
aka The Genetic General
Throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the art of war has made them...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0679752986 |
Fourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O,...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 0312890788 |
Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War.
It's been going on for a billion years and...
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
| Author | Alec Nevala-Lee |
| ISBN | 0062571966 |
“[Astounding] is a major work of popular culture scholarship that science fiction fans will devour.” — Publishers Weekly
"Alec Nevala-Lee has brilliantly recreated the era. . . . A remarkable work of literary history." — Robert Silverberg
"Science fiction has...
| Author | Thomas M. Disch |
| ISBN | 0375705465 |
This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells
In this harrowing novel, the world's cities have been reduced to cinder and...
| Author | David B. Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0802139027 |
In 1980, B. J. Rosenthal's only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.'s world has changed dramatically -- his friends and lovers are getting sick, everyone is at risk, and B.J. is panicking. Parrying high-wire...
| 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...
Thor broke the sword Tyrfing to save the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds earth, heaven and hell. Now the elves need the weapon for their war against the trolls. Only Scafloc, a human kidnapped and raised by elves, can hope to persuade Bolverk the ice-giant to make Tyrfing whole again. But Scafloc...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0671578022 |
Another set of short stories by RAH & they're something he excelled at. They're kind of an odd collection, but good. Well narrated. Not as good as The Green Hills of Earth collection, although there are a few really good stories in this one.
"The Year of the Jackpot" is overshadowed now by...
| Author | Robert Sheckley |
| ISBN | 0812519310 |
First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinematic limits as the feature film adaptation FREEJACK in 1992, Robert Sheckley's unsettling vision of Tomorrow now arrives in ebook format for the 21st century.
Thomas Blaine awoke in a white...
| Author | Robert Sheckley |
| ISBN | 1345004370 |
The 1950s saw publication of Sheckley's 1st four books: short story collections Untouched by Human Hands (Ballantine '54), Citizen in Space ('55), Pilgrimage to Earth (Bantam '57) & a novel, Immortality, Inc. (1st serialized in Galaxy, '58).
"The Monsters" (F&SF 1953/3)
"Cost...
| Author | Sergio Atzeni |
| ISBN | 8887825572 |
Come un antico aedo, Atzeni regala al lettore una miriade di microstorie che immagina tramandate oralmente dai Custodi del tempo: la storia si mescola al racconto epico, al mito, alla leggenda, per narrare di un popolo antico, i S'ard, "danzatori delle stelle" provenienti dall'Oriente, e approdati...
| Author | Pier Vittorio Tondelli |
| ISBN | 8845249158 |
A METAPHISYCAL BUG
Il romanzo d’addio di Pier Vittorio, la sua uscita di scena, racconta una morte di AIDS due anni prima della sua stessa.
Arnold Böcklin: Medusa, 1878 circa.
Racconta una storia d’amore vissuta come un rapporto di contiguità e appartenenza ma mai...
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at the remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. He’s there to ski, drink brandy, and loaf around in blissful solitude.
But he hadn’t counted on the other vacationers, an eccentric bunch including...
