The Past Through Tomorrow

10 best books like The Past Through Tomorrow (Robert A. Heinlein): The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat, Dorsai!, Trader to the Stars, Dangerous Visions, The Callahan Chronicals, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A, Nightfall and Other Stories

The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat

Author	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0441004229

Contains the 1st 3 Stainless Steel Rat books:
The Stainless Steel Rat (1961): DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes & recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised...

Dorsai!

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...

Trader to the Stars

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0425612848

Humankind has explored the galaxy: Nicholas van Rijn had bought it. A starwide empire was difficult to run, but the old man was wily and the resources of the Solar Spice & Liquors Company were vast. But sometimes even a conquered world can get just a little out of hand.

In his Magnificent Future...

Dangerous Visions

Author	Harlan Ellison
ISBN	0743452615

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 Callahan Chronicals

Author	Spider Robinson
ISBN	0812539370

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but: time travelers, talking dogs, alcoholic vampires, cybernetic aliens--and a group of people who really, truly care about each other. It's the rare kind of place where bad pun are as...

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0765305372

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...

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

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...

Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345334698

Ranging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy...

Becalmed in hell
Howie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic!

Wait it out
He was trapped on Pluto...and...

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...

Nightfall and Other Stories

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0345310918

A collection of early Asimov short stories, showcasing the development of the author's oeuvre. The title comes from Asimov's breakthrough short story.

CONTENTS:
Nightfall - Astounding, Sept 1941
Green Patches - Galaxy, Nov 1950
Hostess - Galaxy, May 1951
Breeds There...

The Weapon Shops of Isher

Author	A.E. van Vogt
ISBN	0671431293

With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops. This volume, The Weapon Shops of Isher, includes the first three parts of the saga and...