The Martian Way and Other Stories
10 best books like The Martian Way and Other Stories (Isaac Asimov): Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World, Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, Destination: Universe!, Hapa Girl: A Memoir, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, Tangents, The Planet on the Table, Fireflood and Other Stories, Tales of Ten Worlds, Expanded Universe
| Author | Vicki León |
| ISBN | 0802715567 |
Vicki Le?n, the popular author of the Uppity Women series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient Greece and Rome.
From Architect to Vicarius...
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus
| Author | Paul French |
| ISBN | 1421049260 |
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus (Lucky Starr #3), Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus is the third novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0425019128 |
van Vogt is a firehose of sci-fi creativity. A little weird, a little raw, and like real life the pieces don't always, or even usually, fit together nicely. But his raw imagination, wildly inventive ideas and talent for instilling a sense of wonder and mystery (and some confusion) were unequaled in his...
In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In "Hapa Girl" (hapa is Hawaiian for mixed) their daughter tells the story of this loving family as they moved from Southern California to New York to a South Dakota farm by the 1980s....
| Author | Marilyn Chin |
| ISBN | 0393331458 |
An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women.
Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a “crappy donkey-van” and deliver Americanized...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 1857989791 |
Multi-award winning author Greg Bear established himself as the most ambitious & imaginative of the potential successors to Arthur C. Clarke with his bestselling space operas Eon & Eternity. Tangents is his 1st collection of short stories & includes two tales that won both Hugo &...
| Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| ISBN | 0312935951 |
They sailed out of Lisbon harbor with the flags snapping and the brass culverins gleaming under a high white sun, priests proclaiming in sonorous Latin the blessing of the Pope, soldiers in armor jammed on the castles fore and aft, and sailors spiderlike in the rigging, waving at the citizens of the town...
| Author | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| ISBN | 0671836315 |
I'm pretty sure I read this collection of short stories by Vonda N McIntyre about thirty years ago - some of them were definitely very familiar, though as I couldn't remember anything at all about some of the others I may simply have read them in anthologies. I bought a copy a few months ago, and when I heard...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575074965 |
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...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0743499158 |
The Wit and Wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein, author of multiple New York Times best sellers, on subjects ranging from Crime and Punishment to the Love Life of the American Teenager; from Nuclear Power to the Pragmatics of Patriotism; from Prophecy to Destiny; from Geopolitics to Post-Holocaust America;...
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0553232487 |
S is for science fiction, spine-tingling, supernatural and sublime! S is for stories from a "Star Wilderness that stretched as far as eye and mind could see and imagine".
Chrysalis
Pillar of Fire
Zero Hour
The Man
Time in Thy Flight
The Pedestrian
Hall and Farewell
Invisible...
| Author | Clifford D. Simak |
| ISBN | 0722178360 |
A collection of ten stories by Simak that date from 1939 to 1971. It also includes a six-page introduction by Simak, and a three-page bibliography of his science fiction books. The book is edited by Angus Wells.
Contents:
1. A Death in the House
2. Day of Truce
3. Final Gentleman
4....
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0586069380 |
THE WEIRD & WONDERFUL WORLDS OF PHILIP K. DICK
Robot psychiatrists activated by $20 coins
A war veteran who keeps changing into a blob of organic jelly
Business advice from the souls of the departed
A machine that turns musical scores into small, furry animals
A dog story that...
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0893661473 |
Brian Aldiss marked the centenary year of H G Wells' birth with this ingenious novella combining comedy, terror and, intriguingly, late nineteenth-century period charm. In a sleepy East Anglian town we meet Bruce Fox and Gregory Rolles - two young men who have sworn to Think Large in order to distinguish...
