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10 best books like The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1 (Ursula K. Le Guin): The Best of Frederik Pohl, The Best of Eric Frank Russell, The White Mountain, The Best of Fritz Leiber, The Avatar, Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon, Inconstant Moon, Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1), Ancient, My Enemy, The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson

The Best of Frederik Pohl
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0345245075
Introduction by Lester del Rey.

Contents:
The Tunnel under the World (1955)
Punch (1961)
Three Portraits and a Prayer (1962)
Day Million (1966)
Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus (1956)
We Never Mention Aunt Nora (1958)
Father of the Stars (1964)
The Day the Martians...
The Best of Eric Frank Russell
AuthorEric Frank Russell
ISBN0345277007
Eric Frank Russell was a B-lister of the Campbellian Golden Age. A decent enough prose stylist, Russell sent his square jawed astronauts against big cosmological themes like intelligence, conquest, and survival, with mixed results. His stories have a tendency to culminate in punchline based around...
The White Mountain
AuthorDavid Wingrove
ISBN0440213568
A towering world-city covers almost every acre of  every continent. Seven high-tech fiefdoms, ruled  by seven lords united in unimaginable power. But  now the wheel is broken. the Seven are divided at  last. Armed rebellion has broken out in Chung  Kuo's few remaining open spaces;...
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...
The Avatar
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0722111312
In the immeasurable past a mysterious alien race known as The Others left mankind a challenging legacy, a 'gate' to the unexplored reaches of the stars. Humanity has utilized the gate to painstakingly colonize the Phoebus star system but has left the rest of the galaxy unexplored. In the midst of turbulent...
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon
AuthorMalcolm Hulke
ISBN0426103726
The evil MASTER has stolen the Time Lords' file on the horrifying DOOMSDAY WEAPON with which, when he finds it, he can blast whole planets out of existence and make himself ruler of the Galaxy!

The Time Lords direct DOCTOR WHO and Jo Grant in TARDIS to a bleak planet in the year 2471 where they find...
Inconstant Moon
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0722163940
Seven brilliant short stories by the award-winning author of Ringworld.
INCONSTANT MOON: a moon so bright could mean only one thing. The sun had gone nova.

DEATH BY ECSTASY: Belters didn't get addicted to current stimulation, so why did the spacer die with electrodes in his brain?

BORDERED...
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
AuthorR.A. Robinson
ISBN0985399538
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
Ancient, My Enemy
AuthorGordon R. Dickson
ISBN0879975520
The award-winning and much honored Gordon R. Dickson, author of the best-selling DORSAI books and many other praiseworthy novels and scince fiction stories, has selected nine of his finest tales in this book.
Here are stories of interstellar exploration, of adventure at the dawn of star flight...
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson
AuthorKim Stanley Robinson
ISBN1597801844
Adventurers, scientists, artists, workers, and visionaries — these are the men and women you will encounter in the short fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson. In settings ranging from the sunken ruins of Venice to the upper reaches of the Himalayas to the terraformed surface of Mars itself, and through...
A Touch of Strange
AuthorTheodore Sturgeon
ISBN0879973730
'Winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, Theodore Sturgeon has established his reputation as one of the most original and provocative of SF writers.

Here are nine masterpieces of imagination from the period of his finest creativity. Included are "The Pod in the Barrier", "The Other Celia",...
Telempath
AuthorSpider Robinson
Spider's 1976 first novel, in its umpteenth reincarnation.

Isham Stone is the second-best assassin left in a shattered world. He's many miles from home, half-dead, his left arm is gangrenous, and he possesses--like everyone else--a sense of smell 1000 times better than a wolf's. Ahead of...
A Wreath of Stars
AuthorBob Shaw
ISBN0440197104
Ironically, for Gilbert Snook, who considered himself the human equivalent of a neutrino, a particle able to travel through the Earth without disturbing any other particle, it all started with the panic that followed the sighting of the anti neutrino planet as it approached Earth. Earth was unaffected...
The Chronicles of Castle Brass
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0586065954
Sequel to the earlier Hawkmoon series, which naturally has to begin by unpicking the ending of the previous books. In the first book this is done by questioning the nature of time and reality, if time is an illusion created by consciousness and if through a combination of science and sorcery it were possible...
The Past Through Tomorrow: Vol. 2
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0450040054
All of these stories can be found in other collections, notably "Revolt in 2100" which has the three main stories included here ('If this goes on -, Coventry and Misfit).
The shorter stories hold together quite well with some references between them to help with Heinlein's idea that his stories...
The Awakening
AuthorJerry Ahern
ISBN0773783164
No human being could possibly escape death when the earth's atmosphere explodes into a blazing wave of global fire. But John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert would not be denied another chance at life. His family and friends are alive and about...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0312363346
The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.  Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:
* Cory Doctorow * Robert...
Crown of Stars
AuthorJames Tiptree Jr.
ISBN0812503384
This collection brings together the last work Sheldon turned out before she died in 1987 with her husband Huntington. The challenges she was facing with her husband's degrading health and her own depression resulted in some of the darkest work I've read by any author. Even so, this is not pure anger on...
The Early Asimov: Volume 3
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0586039376
Contents

9 • Introduction (The Early Asimov Volume 3) • (1973) • essay by Isaac Asimov
16 • Author! Author! • (1964) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
45 • Death Sentence • (1943) • short story by Isaac Asimov
64 • Blind Alley • (1945) • short story by Isaac Asimov
...
The President's Brain is Missing
AuthorJohn Scalzi
ISBN1429926929
2.0 stars. First let me say that I am a big fan of John Scalzi’s work. I really enjoy the Old Man’s War series and I thought The God Engines was amazing. Unfortunately, this story, while not bad, is easily my least favorite of his stories to date. It is another story available for free at www.tor.com so...
Bad Blood
AuthorJames Goss
ISBN1846079004
One of Annie's oldest friends has come looking for her—and what's more amazing is that she's found her
 
Denise is the ultimate party girl, and she is determined to bring her old friend Annie out of her shell. Mitchell is delighted, but George really thinks the last thing they need to do is...
Selected Short Stories (Modern Classics)
AuthorH.G. Wells
ISBN0140082476
Although I'm not sure if this is the exact collection of short stories I have (my copy is extremely old, and I cannot find a matching cover), I can conclude that in general, H.G. Wells was extremely ahead of his time.

Throughout the stories, I had to keep reminding myself that they were written...
Sleepers Of Mars
AuthorJohn Wyndham
ISBN0340173262
Coronet Books recently published STOWAWAY TO MARS, one of John Wyndham’s most famous stories. The title story of this collection, though it can be read as a separate entity, pursues the ideas thrown up by the original novel, drawing them to some fascinating conclusions.

Of course, we are...
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