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10 best books like The Golden Helix (Theodore Sturgeon): The Best of Leigh Brackett, Out of the Everywhere, and Other Extraordinary Visions, The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories, Jupiter Project, The Best of L. Sprague de Camp, Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald, Medea: Harlan's World, Thuvia, Maid of Mars / The Chessmen of Mars, The Best of Fritz Leiber, A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One

The Best of Leigh Brackett
AuthorLeigh Brackett
ISBN0345259548
There was once a young girl who created a host of strange and wonderful worlds. These were her very own planets, with such fascinating features as the Sea of Morning Opals, the Mountains of White Cloud, wicked Canal cities, and lost lands full of magic and mystery.

That girl's name is Leigh Brackett....
Out of the Everywhere, and Other Extraordinary Visions
AuthorJames Tiptree Jr.
ISBN0345284852
Ballantine Del Rey, paperback original, first printing 1981. Collection of science fiction stories, two of which are original. STORIES: Angel Fix (1974); Beaver Tears (1976); Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light! (1976); The Screwfly Solution (1977); Time-Sharing Angel (1977);...
The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories
AuthorPamela Zoline
ISBN0914232886
It was one of the science fiction-themed Great Courses I listened to last year that turned me on to Pamela Zoline. The professor described her as one of the greats, a writer ahead of her time, who had only published a single book (a brief collection of five short stories) in 1988, and radio silence ever since....
Jupiter Project
AuthorGregory Benford
ISBN0380790572
Serialized in Amazing Science Fiction Magazine in 1972, published as a novel in 1975.

The Jovian Astronautical-Biological Orbital Laboratory, a.k.a. "the Can", is the only home 17-year-old Matt Bohles has ever known. Concerned about the aging space station's failure to find evidence...
The Best of L. Sprague de Camp
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
ISBN0345254740
This volume provides a generous collection of the science-fiction and fantasy of L. Sprague de Camp. There is also a non-fiction essay on language, three poems, and a short auto-biographical "Afterword".
The tone of most of the stories is lightly satiric and humorous but "Judgement Day" is a powerful...
Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald
AuthorRoald Dahl
ISBN0965076474
For short stories that manage to be funny, sexy, and macabre all at one, here are Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch, two collections by "the absolute master of the twist-in-the-tale," says the Observers. My Uncle Oswald is a hilarious novel that follows the erotic exploits of the "the greatest fornicator of...
Medea: Harlan's World
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0553341707
Proceedings of one session of a seminar on science fiction writing held Apr. 15, 1975, in conjunction with the Dept. of Humanities and Communications, the Dept. of the Arts, UCLA Extension, and the stories written as a follow-up.

Cosmic hod-carriers, by Harlan Ellison. --
The specs....
Thuvia, Maid of Mars / The Chessmen of Mars
AuthorEdgar Rice Burroughs
This volume contains novels 4 and 5 of the series:
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
The Chessmen of Mars

It also contains the Glossary of Names and Terms in the Martian Books

Mars (Barsoom) stories is a saga of 11 novels, picturing a dying Mars (a vision first expressed by writers like Camille...
The Best of Fritz Leiber
AuthorFritz Leiber
ISBN0848821270
Fritz Leiber's work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the Paperback era of Philip K. Dick, and arguably, is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber in fact knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different...
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One
AuthorAnthony Boucher
Contents:
Re-Birth by John Wyndham (novel).
The Shape of Things That Came by Richard Deming.
Pillar of Fire by Ray Bradbury.
Waldo by Robert A. Heinlein.
The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick.
The Children's Hour by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.
Gomez by C. M. Kornbluth.
The...
Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe
AuthorJ.E. Mooney
ISBN0765334585
Perhaps no living author of imaginative fiction has earned the awards, accolades, respect, and literary reputation of Gene Wolfe. His prose has been called subtle and brilliant, inspiring not just lovers of fantasy and science fiction, but readers of every stripe, transcending genre and defying...
The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Ten Classic Stories from the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Writing
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0786719052
The Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing, including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. Their writing helped science fiction gain wide public attention, and left a lasting impression upon...
Fun with Your New Head
AuthorThomas M. Disch
Contents:
The Roaches (1965)
Come to Venus Melancholy (1965)
Linda and Daniel and Spike (1967)
Flight Useless, Inexorable the Pursuit (1968)
Descending (1964)
Nada (1964)
Now Is Forever (1964)
The Contest (1967)
The Empty Room (1967)
The Squirrel Cage...
The Way the Future Was: A Memoir
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0345277147
Award-winning writer, whiz-kid editor, wide-eyed fan, pioneering anthologist and demon literary agent—Frederik Pohl's been all over the science-fiction field, including a stretch as President of The Science Fiction Writers of America.

Here is his story of how he got to all those places...
To the Stars
AuthorHarry Harrison
ISBN0553264532
The epic science fiction trilogy--Homeworld, Wheelworld, and Starworld--from the author of West of Eden and Winter in Eden is now available in one volume.

Homeworld introduces us to Jan Kulozik, an upper-class engineer who has taken his privileges for granted. While vacationing at a luxurious...
Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
AuthorAlfred Bester
ISBN1568492499
Contents:

· 5,271,009 · nv F&SF Mar ’54
· Ms. Found in a Champagne Bottle · ss Status, 1968
· Fondly Fahrenheit · nv F&SF Aug ’54
· Comment on “Fondly Fahrenheit” · ar
· The Four-Hour Fugue · ss Analog Jun ’74
· The Men Who Murdered Mohammed...
The Wrong End of Time
AuthorJohn Brunner
ISBN9997405137
The time is the future. The place, an America so isolated by fear that it is cut off from the rest of the world by a massive defense system. Into this armed, barricaded state comes a young Russian scientist bearing a strange & almost unbelievable story:
Superior, intelligent life of a far higher...
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
AuthorRobert Sheckley
ISBN0385034954
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (1969) story
Cordle to Onion to Carrot (1969) story
The Petrified World (1968) story
Game: First Schematic (1971) story
Doctor Zombie & His Little Furry Friends (1971) story
The Cruel Equations (1971) story
The Same to You Doubled...
The Book of Philip K. Dick
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN0879970448
The nine short stories in this anthology are all from the 1950's, when Dick was just beginning as a science fiction writer, and before he hit his stride as a writer of reality-bending novels. Thus, the stories remind me of Kurt Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House, a collection of stories written before...
The Book of Philip José Farmer
AuthorPhilip José Farmer
ISBN0425052982
Contents:

· Preface · pr
· My Sister’s Brother [“Open to Me, My Sister”] · na F&SF May ’60
· Skinburn · ss F&SF Oct ’72
· The Alley Man · na F&SF Jun ’59
· Father’s in the Basement · ss Orbit 11, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1972
·...
The Earth Book of Stormgate
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0425059332
One of the great modern works of the imagination, this book tells of the trader van Rijn and the adventurer Falkayn; it rounds and completes the future history of the Polesotechnic League that spans four thousand years of Earth's interstellar empire; and it chronicles Mankind's encounters with the...
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