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10 best books like Time Travellers Strictly Cash (Spider Robinson): John the Balladeer, Phule's Paradise, The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge, The Stars are Also Fire, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, Dealing in Futures, Ingathering: The Complete People Stories, Stars Over Stars, Year's Best SF 2, Slow Train to Arcturus

John the Balladeer
AuthorManly Wade Wellman
ISBN0671654187
Collection of 17 short stories (written in two chronological periods, 1951-58 and 1979-86) plus a few ultra-short vignettes written in 1962-63, presented in the order they were written, and all set in Appalachia and featuring Wellman series character Silver John. John wanders the mountains on foot...
Phule's Paradise
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0441662536
I learned a lot about casinos and how they are run from this one. Not entirely sure that's what Asprin was trying to impart to the reader, but there you go.

I liked that the story was able to delve more into some of the peripheral characters from the first book. I laughed out loud at the depictions...
The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
AuthorHarry Harrison
ISBN1857984994
DiGriz and Angelina are happily married and expecting the birth of their sons. The planet Cliaand is waging interstellar war, and against the odds, its Grey Men are invading and taking over planet after planet. The Rat is sent to Cliaand to start a one-man guerrilla campaign to put a stop to the plans of...
The Stars are Also Fire
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0812530225
After being less than impressed by “a harvest of stars” I decided to give the sequel a go.

And let’s get it over with from the start, it is a far better story. 3.5 stars.

Where “harvest” focussed on the humans leaving earth, this one focuses on the ones who stayed behind.

In...
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...
Dealing in Futures
AuthorJoe Haldeman
ISBN0451452585
As my first foray into Haldeman's writing, I was swept away with his twists and turns and original plots. Some stories were not overtly science fiction and I appreciated them equally. I was quite impressed with how much he could convey with so little and can't wait to pick up a novel to see where he takes...
Ingathering: The Complete People Stories
AuthorZenna Henderson
ISBN0915368587
Zenna Henderson is best remembered for her stories of the People which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from the early '50s to the mid-'70s. The People escaped the destruction of their home planet and crashed on Earth in the Southwest just before the turn of the century. Fully human...
Stars Over Stars
AuthorK.D. Wentworth
ISBN0671319795
This book is a sequel to Black on Black, one of the few books I’ve rated with five stars. I think I liked this sequel even more than its predecessor. This book, Stars over Stars, built logically from the events and character growth of the previous book. However, it told an entirely new story on a new planet....
Year's Best SF 2
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
ISBN0061057460
Editor David G. Hartwell started this annual anthology series because he felt that the "other" best science fiction anthology (The Year's Best Science Fiction) included stories that weren't quite science fiction. Now in its second year, this anthology is proving that there is plenty of great "traditional"...
Slow Train to Arcturus
AuthorEric Flint
ISBN1416555854
The planet Miran had sent a spaceship to rendezvous with the enormous vessel that was approaching their star system. The vessel’s design was odd—a multitude of separate globular habitats in a framework—and most of the alien team that entered one of the habitats were slaughtered by savage creatures...
Tomorrow's Children: 18 Tales Of Fantasy And Science Fiction
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0860078213
Eighteen stories edited by the master of science-fiction, Isaac Asimov:
"No Life of Their Own" by Clifford D. Simak
"The Accountant" by Robert Sheckley
"Novice" by James M. Schmitz
"Child of Void" by Margaret St. Claire
"When the Bough Breaks" by Lewis Padgett
"A Pail of...
Variable Star
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction's greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century.

When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt like the luckiest man in the universe.

There...
Castaways in Time
AuthorRobert Adams
ISBN0451126645
Every minute spent reading this book was a tedious chore. The period language combined with dialogue in horrific phonetic accents makes it a painful struggle to get through. It took me two and a half months to finish when I usually read a book in a few days.
The whole book is really just following the...
Thrice Upon a Time
AuthorJames P. Hogan
ISBN0671319485
SOS FROM A FUTURE THAT WILL NEVER BEIt's amazing enough when Murdoch Ross's brilliant grandfather invents a machine that can send messages to itself in the past or the future. But when signals begin to arrive without being sent, Murdoch realizes that every action he takes changes the future that would...
Fangs for the Mammaries
AuthorEsther M. Friesner
ISBN1439133921
The Follow-Up to Witch Way to the Mall and Strip Mauled from the Creator of the Chicks in Chainmail Series.  Here Come the Vampires to Put the Bite on Suburbia.

 Having inflicted the smug homes of suburbia with witches and werewolves. Esther Friesner now unleashes the undead to tap a vein of...
E Pluribus Unicorn
AuthorTheodore Sturgeon
ISBN0671831496
Contents:

· The Silken-Swift · nv F&SF Nov ’53
· The Professor’s Teddy-Bear · ss Weird Tales Mar ’48
· Bianca’s Hands · ss Argosy (UK) May ’47
· Saucer of Loneliness · ss Galaxy Feb ’53
· The World Well Lost · ss Universe Jun ’53
· It Wasn’t...
All the Myriad Ways
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0345271335
An early collection of short works. Includes: All the Myriad Ways (1968); Passerby (1969); For a Foggy Night (1968); Wait It Out [Known Space] (1968); The Jigsaw Man [Known Space] (1967); Not Long Before the End (1969); Unfinished Story No. 1 (1970); Unfinished Story No. 2 (1971); Man of Steel, Woman...
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