The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!
10 best books like The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (Harry Harrison): 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, Rainbow Mars, MAD's Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin, The Callahan Chronicals, Tactics of Mistake, My Favorite Fantasy Story, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, The Leaky Establishment, The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy, The Complete Peanuts, 1955-1958
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0380507730 |
Contents include: The Science Fiction Blowgun by Isaac Asimov / A Loint of Paw by Isaac Asimov / The Advent on Channel Twelve by C. M. Kornbluth / Plaything by Larry Niven / The Misfortune Cookie by Charles E. Fritch / I Wish I May, I Wish I Might by Bill Pronzini / FTA by George R. R. Martin / Trace by Jerome Bixby...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 3404242904 |
Ein neuer Auftrag für Hanville Svetz: Er soll herausfinden, warum die Marskanäle ausgetrocknet sind und was dies für die Zukunft der Erde bedeutet. Denn der Mars war einmal bewohnt. Als Svetz erfährt, wie die intelligenten Marsianer ausgelöscht wurden, wird ihm klar, dass die Erde bald einem...
MAD's Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin
| Author | Don Martin |
| ISBN | 0762430508 |
Just about everyone who came of age during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s was influenced by MAD MAGAZINE, and no one at MAD was more influential than "MAD's MADdest Artist," Don Martin. His immediately recognizable style--featuring bulbous noses, wild sound effects, and the legendary "hinged feet"--was...
| 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...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0812545311 |
It's obvious that Cletus Graeme--limping, mild-mannered scholarly--doesn't belong on a battling field, but instead at a desk working on his fourth book on battle strategy and tactics. But Bakhalla has more battlefields than libraries, and Graeme sees his small force of Dorsai--soldiers of fortune--as...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0886779057 |
Who do today's top fantasy writers read--and why? This was the question posed to some of the most influential authors in the field today. This book is their answer. Here are seventeen of the most memorable stories in the genre, each one personally selected by a well-known writer, and each prefaced by...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0060817127 |
*****"Old Music and the Slave Woman" - Ursula K. LeGuin.
Yes, I checked this book out from the library because I saw that it had a LeGuin story I hadn't read before! And yes, this alone was worth the price of admission. (Well, since it was from the library there wasn't a price, but, you know...)
Set...
| Author | David Langford |
| ISBN | 1592241255 |
_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside. Black comedy overtakes the unfortunate defence-scientist hero Roy Tappen...
Mike Ashley is back with an all-new edition of one of the bestselling Mammoth Books ever, from the funniest writers in the field, including Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, and Terry Jones. The thirty- five off-the-wall comic fantasies featured in Ashley's new collection are a mix of specially written stories...
A gift set of the third and fourth Complete Peanuts volumes.
A boxed set of the third and fourth volumes, just in time for the holidays, designed by the award-winning graphic novelist, Seth! The collection of books identical to the individual volumes ships shrinkwrapped, with Vols. 1955-1956...
Koskinen had returned to earth with a strange new "Shield" - a device which enclosed the wearer in a force shield which absorbed all energies below a certain level. Light could come through the Shield, but no weapon known to man could penetrate it Koskinen had developed the Shield in collaboration with...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345323904 |
Golden Age Science Fiction.
The title story is in the style of Eric Frank Russell, which features galactic empires and unreasoning aliens. My favorite.
Here are several other short stories that engaged me.
"Some notes concerning a green box"
H P Lovecraft...
Between the lines of the official histories of the frontier worlds of the 29th Century lie myriad confidential accounts of the boners, near-catastrophes, and interstellar crises that were bound to occur when human meets non-human. The adventures of CDC (Corps Diplomatique Terra) diplomat Jame...
