The Menace from Earth

10 best books like The Menace from Earth (Robert A. Heinlein): Star Man's Son, 2250 A.D, Lady Slings the Booze, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A, Pilgrimage to Earth, Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Nine Tomorrows, The Dark Side of the Earth, Flatlander, Expedition To Earth, Holding Wonder

Star Man's Son, 2250 A.D

Author	Andre Norton
ISBN	0839826362

Fors was a mutant. He did not know what drove him to explore the empty lands to the north, where the great skeleton ruins of the old civilization rusted away in the wreckage of mankind's hopes.
But he could not resist the urging that led him through danger and adventure, to the place where he faced the...

Lady Slings the Booze

Author	Spider Robinson
ISBN	0743435788

Despite his employer's doubts that he is an authentic detective, Quigley is called in to investigate Lady Sally's establishment, a reputable place that caters to adults of all species and tastes. Lady Sally was the wife of the proprietor of Callahan's Place, the bar where human and other beings from...

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A

Author	Ben Bova
ISBN	0380000385

Eleven Classic Novellas by the most honored authors of science fiction:

This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary...

Pilgrimage to Earth

Author	Robert Sheckley
ISBN	0441663850

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...

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand

Author	Brian W. Aldiss
ISBN	0755100565

My second read by Aldiss and just as enjoyable. This is from the golden age of scifi or thereabout, 9 thematically connected stories about the future of the Earth. Of course that is much too vague, since most if not all science fiction deals with that very subject, but this is specifically the projected...

Nine Tomorrows

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0345346041

Isaac Asimov may very well be the most prolific author in modern history. With over 500 books to his credit (506, to be exact...go to asimovonline.com for the full list, if you don't believe me!), covering just about every subject in the Dewey Decimal System (except philosophy, I believe), the man was...

The Dark Side of the Earth

Author	Alfred Bester
ISBN	0451024745

Alfred Bester writes fiction that is offbeat and intensely imaginative. In THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH, a volume that includes his new novella and five short stories, Mr. Bester is at his most inventive.

Contents:

Time Is the Traitor (1953)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)
Out...

Flatlander

Author

Larry Niven

[A Beowulf Shaeffer story] Traveling on a spaceliner headed for Earth, spaceship pilot Beowulf Shaeffer strikes up a friendship with Gregory Pelton, the fabulously wealthy descendant of the inventor of the transfer booth--known to his friends as Elephant. Irritated at being labeled a flatlander,...

Expedition To Earth

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	1857239180

A collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke.

Contents:

Second Dawn
If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth
Breaking Strain
History Lesson (as "Expedition to Earth" in the British Edition, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954)
Superiority
Exile of the Eons...

Holding Wonder

Author	Zenna Henderson
ISBN	0380012510

In this many-dimensioned new collection of speculative fiction, Zena Henderson introduces us to a boy who "calls" his mother, despite the fact that the nearest phone is miles away.--and reads the distress call from an orbiting astronaut's mind; to the amazing cures of Aunt Sophronia--pills for the...

Under Pressure

Author	Frank Herbert
ISBN	0345298594

Description: Twenty subtugs had been lost in the attempt to bring back oil from the undersea fields on the enemy's borders. A brilliant psychologist-electronics expert is planted in the crew of the subtug Ram to find out what is happening. And theory becomes terrifying reality when, miles deep under...

Machineries of Joy

Author

Ray 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...

Visible Light

Author	C.J. Cherryh
ISBN	0886771293

Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J. Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. She is the author of more than forty novels. Her hobbies include travel, photography, reef culture, Mariners baseball,...