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Who Goes There? and Other Stories

10 best books like Who Goes There? and Other Stories (John W. Campbell Jr.): Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s, Mission of Gravity, Dwellers in the Mirage, Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord, The Voyage of the Space Beagle, The Shrinking Man, The Thing, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, The Best of L. Sprague de Camp, The Best of C.L. Moore

Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s
AuthorPamela Sargent
ISBN0156000334
Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years ... Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s — A companion volume to 'The Classic Years', dispelling the notion that women don't write "real" science fiction, showcasing recent science fiction by women. Here are Octavia E. Butler, Pat Cadigan,...
Mission of Gravity
AuthorHal Clement
ISBN0515034797
Cover Artist: Ed Emshwiller
Mission of Gravity is an sf novel by Hal Clement. The title is a play on words, one meaning "the force which pulls" & the other being "extremely serious or important". It was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, 4–7/53. Its 1st cloth publication was in '54....
Dwellers in the Mirage
AuthorA. Merritt
ISBN0020228724
Angry Warrior, Modern Man. . .

Leif Langdon was suddenly ripped from the 20th century and plunged into the ancient world of The Mirage. But his entrance into this awesome land awakened the slumbering Dwayanu, who in this strange incarnation was also Leif. Thus, two-men-in-one battle with...
Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord
AuthorOlaf Stapledon
ISBN0140019995
Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment - a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone's own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. His relationship with the Trelones, particularly...
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0532601467
I read quite a few van Vogt books as a teenager. I remember saving up my pocket money, getting a 2/6 postal order and sending for the next book I wanted from Panther books from their list of books in the back of the book I had just read. The excitement of waiting for the next van Vogt (or Doc Smith or Asimov) to...
The Shrinking Man
AuthorRichard Matheson
ISBN0575074639
While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the...
The Thing
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
ISBN0553204777
The Thing by Alan Dean Foster is a novelization of the 1982 classic by John Carpenter. Based on the novella 'Who Goes There'(1938) by John. W. Campbell, the story involves an American research station tucked away in the solitary landscape of the Antarctic. The isolated crew is exposed to an alien...
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
AuthorPhyllis Fraser
ISBN0679601287
When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in...
The Best of L. Sprague de Camp
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
ISBN0345254740
This volume provides a generous collection of the science-fiction and fantasy of L. Sprague de Camp. There is also a non-fiction essay on language, three poems, and a short auto-biographical "Afterword".
The tone of most of the stories is lightly satiric and humorous but "Judgement Day" is a powerful...
The Best of C.L. Moore
AuthorC.L. Moore
ISBN0345289528
Forty Years of C. L. Moore '75 essay by Lester del Rey
Shambleau [Northwest Smith] '33 novelette by C. L. Moore
Black Thirst [Northwest Smith] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore
The Bright Illusion '34 story by C. L. Moore
Black God's Kiss [Jirel of Joiry] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore
Tryst...
When Worlds Collide
AuthorPhilip Wylie
ISBN0803298145
A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to...
The Last Starship from Earth
AuthorJohn Boyd
ISBN0140048758
Haldane IV and Helix were a part of an ultra-rational society where mathematicians did not write poetry, where mathematicians did not fall in love with poets, and where most specifically, Haldane IV, young mathematician, couldn't possibly marry Helix, the attractive poet of his choice. It was in...
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...
Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space
AuthorRaymond J. Healy
ISBN0394607317
Requiem (1940) by Robert A. Heinlein
Forgetfulness (1937) by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Nerves (1942) by Lester del Rey
The Sands of Time (1937) by P. Schuyler Miller
The Proud Robot (1943) by Henry Kuttner
Seeds of the Dusk (1938) by Raymond Z. Gallun
Black Destroyer (1939) by...
The Collector's Book of Science Fiction by H.G. Wells
AuthorH.G. Wells
ISBN0890092087
You can now read H.G. Wells' most famous science fiction exactly as it appeared in illustrated popular magazines at the turn of the century.

Presented here in their entirety - with all the original illustrations by leading artists of the day - are novels such as The War of the Worlds, The First...
Worlds Apart
AuthorJoe Haldeman
ISBN0380716828
-Más desarrollos de la trama sobre una humanidad en decadencia.-

Género. Ciencia-Ficción.

Lo que nos cuenta. Marianne O´Hara sale de la Tierra en el último momento antes de que los misiles empiecen a caer y llega a Nueva Nueva York, en cuya estructura orbital se juntarán muchos...
Donovan's Brain
AuthorCurt Siodmak
ISBN1584450789
Dr Patrick Cory is a scientist who, unable to save W.H. Donovan's life after a plane crash, keeps his brain alive thru an illegal experiment. The story provides an examination of evil impossible to forget. Donovan is more than one of the world's richest men. He's a megalomaniac even before Cory keeps...
Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror
AuthorMichael Mallory
ISBN0789318962
From the 1920s through the 1950s, Universal Studios was Hollywood’s number one studio for horror pictures, haunting movie theaters worldwide with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, among others. Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror explores all of these...
The World Turned Upside Down
AuthorDavid Drake
ISBN1416520686
29 short stories from 1933-1967 that left permanent significant impact on the three editors as teens.
1 Rescue Party by Arthur C. Clarke (Astounding Science Fiction May'46)
2 Menace from Earth by Robert A. Heinlein (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Aug'57)
3 Code Three by Rick...
Star Trek 365: The Original Series
AuthorPaula M. Block
ISBN0810991721
Star Trek 365: The Original Series is the definitive, authorized guide to Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry's ground-breaking television program that first aired from 1966 through 1969 and went on to become a cultural phenomenon. A visual celebration of the original voyages of the Starship Enterprise,...
Brain Wave
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0345325214
Prolific Grand Master Poul Anderson earned his place of honor within the hallowed halls of science fiction’s best and brightest. His work may not be as engagingly readable as Asimov, or as accessibly impactful as Clarke. He was never as politically-minded as Heinlein and his prose is not as slick...
The 10th Victim
AuthorRobert Sheckley
ISBN0451149696
The 10th Victim (La decima vittima) is an Italian cult sf film directed by Elio Petri in 1965. It is based on Robert Sheckley's 1953 short story "Seventh Victim". He published a novelization of the film in 1966.
The film begins with a man chasing a woman thru the streets whilst shooting at her. He's...
The World Is Dead
AuthorKim Paffenroth
ISBN1934861251
The end of the world has come and gone. The dead have risen, and they've won. No more rallying of the troops. No miracle cure or weapon. Just lots of dead people walking around. If the living dead won, what would the world be like?

This collection of eighteen tales-including entries from David...
The Green Child
AuthorHerbert Read
ISBN0811201724
First published in 1935, The Green Child is Herbert Read's only novel. But if he had written nothing else, this one inspired book would insure his fame. It is a Utopian novel, a unique blend of reality and fantasy which moves from the English countryside to the South American pampas and then to a mysterious...
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