Year's Best SF 6

7 best books like Year's Best SF 6 (David G. Hartwell): The Secret Agent, Hexarchate Stories, Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better, Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve, Dune Messiah, Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales, The Dark Hand of Magic

The Secret Agent

Author	Joseph Conrad
ISBN	0192801694

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple...

Hexarchate Stories

Author	Yoon Ha Lee
ISBN	1781085641

The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit.

An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon...

A general outnumbered eight-to-one must outsmart his opponent...

A renegade returns from seclusion to bury...

Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better

Author	William H. Patterson Jr.
ISBN	0765319616

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.

Disclaimer: I was recruited into my professional career by reading Heinlein in my formative years, especially the juveniles. I didn’t even pretend to be unbiased when writing this. So read on at your own peril.



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Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve

Author	William H. Patterson Jr.
ISBN	0765319608

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis.  A socialist politician in the 1930s, he...

Dune Messiah

Author	Frank Herbert
ISBN	0593098234

Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time

Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known--and feared--as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was...

Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales

Author	Stephen King
ISBN	1587676796

Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new anthology, perfect for airport or airplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, along with brand new stories from Stephen King...

The Dark Hand of Magic

Author	Barbara Hambly
ISBN	0345420616

In Book I of this trilogy, The Ladies of Mandrigyn, it starts out with the action "over"-the mercenary troup is celebrating a victory. In Book 2 of this trilogy, The Witches of Wenshar, it begins with an argument between Sun Wolf and a witch.

So Barbara Hambly starts the concluding book of this...