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The Winds of Change and Other Stories

10 best books like The Winds of Change and Other Stories (Isaac Asimov): Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Exile Waiting, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, The Avatar, The Collected Stories of Greg Bear, The Wind From the Sun, The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth, Homegoing, Limits, The Dark Side of the Earth

Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction
AuthorJack Dann
ISBN1580230059
The first time in a science fiction and fantasy collection that the Jewish People—and the richness of their particular points of view—appear without a mask. A showpiece of Jewish wit, culture, and lore, blending humor and sadness, cynicism and faith.

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Stories:
On...
The Exile Waiting
AuthorVonda N. McIntyre
ISBN0575021896
The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable for much of the year by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside.

Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation,...
Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0060817127
*****"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...
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...
The Collected Stories of Greg Bear
AuthorGreg Bear
Greg Bear is one of the greatest science fiction writers of the late twentieth century. He has a powerful voice, combining the intense rationality of science with the intensely passionate characters that can only be created by a writer who loves humanity. Bear’s novel Moving Mars won the Nebula Award...
The Wind From the Sun
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN0575600527
A volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves.
Contents

vii • Preface (The Wind from the Sun) • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
3...
The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN1439133417
Two of the Grand Master's finest: The saga of the opening of the space frontier as courageous men and women risked their lives to build the first space station and colonize the Moon and Venus, while praying for one last landing on the globe that gave them birth, to return to The Green Hills of Earth.

From...
Homegoing
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0345339754
Sandy Washington was a pretty normal guy. The only unusual thing about him was that Sandy had been raised by aliens on their spaceship. The Hakh'hli had done everything they could to give Sandy an Earth-type boyhood. Now, finally, the Hakh'hli were bringing Sandy home to Earth. And while they were at...
Limits
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0345321421
• The Lion in His Attic - (1982)
• Spirals - (1979) - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• A Teardrop Falls - (1983)
• Talisman - (1981) - Larry Niven and Dian Girard
• Flare Time - (1978)
• The Locusts - (1979) - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
• Yet Another Modest Proposal:...
The Dark Side of the Earth
AuthorAlfred Bester
ISBN0451024745
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...
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
AuthorPaul French
ISBN0345315626
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (Lucky Starr, #2), Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids is the second novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French.
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The House That Stood Still
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0881848840
The good SF novels with a terrible name. This novel is not one of Van Voght's best, but it isn't his worst either. It's about a spacecraft that crash-landed over a thousand years ago and the radiation that it gave off turned a group of Toltecs willing to help the robotic craft repair itself, immortality....
Special Deliverance
AuthorClifford D. Simak
ISBN0345291409
A little more than a year ago, I moved from a city where I'd lived a third of my life to a city I'd only visited twice, and where I only knew a handful of people. I had no money, no job, no car and no specific purpose. I was low on options and one friend, 3000 miles from me, offered me a couch to sleep on. I took the offer.

Sometime...
The Brave Free Men
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0441072046
Durdane is in the grip of the devilish Roguskhoi. Raping and pillaging in their lethal thrust to their heartland, they annihilate all who cross their path. With spirits sapped by years of silent tyranny, the men of Durdane stand impotent, their faceless leader a prisoner in his own palace. One man alone...
Monument
AuthorLloyd Biggle Jr.
ISBN1587150514
Lost Eden

It was a world of dazzling but deadly beauty, where pleasure was man's most precious birthright. In this lost colony the inhabitants had forgotten the very existence of earth. Only one man remembered. He foresaw the awesome consequences if this paradise were ever rediscovered.

Monument

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