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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWelcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 308 pages
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. Includes the following stories: “Where I Live” “Harrison Bergeron” “Who Am I This Time?
War Fever
J.G. Ballard · 176 pages
A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an end to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritari
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
Isaac Asimov · 211 pages
The Prime of Life [poem] Feminine Intuition Waterclap That Thou Art Mindful of Him Stranger in Paradise The Life and Times of Multivac The Winnowing The Bicentennial Man Marching In Old-Fashioned The Tercentenary Incident Birth of a Notion
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
James Tiptree Jr. · 508 pages
Is there any hope for us? For how many of us, me in my way, you in yours, are not our pens the weapons with which we can do something-a tiny something-about wrongs? Even if only to name them? And "name them" she did: from behind the facade of a Virginia post office box and under a pseudonym swiped from a jar of marmalade, Alice B. Sheldon wrote a group of stories that remain among the finest
The Country of the Blind
H.G. Wells · 442 pages
"Although best known for his novels, it was in H. G. Wells's early short stories that he first explored the relationship between science and humankind. This collection brings together twenty-three of his short works. In 'The Star, ' a vast comet hurtles towards Earth while humankind looks awestruck to the skies. 'The Cone' is a story of adultery and revenge amid the blast furnaces of industrial En
Children of the New World
Alexander Weinstein · 234 pages
Introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which the
There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury · 30 pages
Also known as August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains, is a short story narrating the daily routine of an automated house, whose menial tasks continue, unimpeded for now, in the solitary aftermath of a worldwide nuclear holocaust. This story was written in 1950 during a period known as the Cold War, a conflict mostly devoid of overt military action that took place between the United States and
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno: Stories
Yasutaka Tsutsui · 290 pages
The Cyberiad
Stanislaw Lem · 295 pages
OMG I can't believe there's no description for this - but then I can because this book defies description. Stanislaw Lem is a genius and your minds will be expanded to bursting when you begin this journey into a world where machines are the dominant species. It is hugely entertaining, inventive, witty, and above all, laugh out loud funny. The book concerns two "constructors" - Trurl and Klaupaciou
Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side
Keith Laumer, Eric Flint · 512 pages
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Octavia E. Butler · 198 pages
Six remarkable stories from a master of modern science fiction. Octavia E. Butler's classic "Bloodchild," winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, anchors this collection of incomparable stories and essays. "Bloodchild" is set on a distant planet where human children spend their lives preparing to become hosts for the offspring of the alien Tlic. Sometimes the procedure is harmless, but often it
Tales of the Bounty Hunters
Kevin J. Anderson · 368 pages
In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters—amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe…for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful—and feared—hun
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
Roger Zelazny · 287 pages
Foundation's Friends
Martin H. Greenberg · 464 pages
* Strip-Runner – novelette by Pamela Sargent * The Asenion Solution – short story by Robert Silverberg * Murder in the Urth Degree – short story by Edward Wellen * Trantor Falls – short story by Harry Turtledove * Dilemma – short story by Connie Willis * Maureen Birnbaum After Dark – short story by George Alec Effinger * Balance – short story by Mike Resnick * The Prese
Tales of Heresy
Dan Abnett, Mike Lee, Anthony Reynolds, James Swallow, Gav Thorpe, Graham McNeill, Matthew Farrer · 412 pages
A collection of short stories sheds new light on characters and events from the pivotal time when Horus the Warmaster rebelled against the Emperor and civil war raged across the galaxy, nearly destroying the Imperium.
Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present
Cory Doctorow · 304 pages
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
Ursula K. Le Guin · 200 pages
The award-winning stories in this book range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths of the human heart. Astonishing in their diversity and power, they exhibit both the artistry of a major writer at the height of her powers and the humanity of a mature artist confronting the world with her gift of wond
Consider Her Ways and Others
John Wyndham · 192 pages
*Consider Her Ways* Jane Waterleigh has no memory of her past wakes up and discovers that she is a mother of some description, in a bloated body that is not her own. *Odd* is a tale of how an ordinary man profited from an extraordinary time paradox when he stops to help a man seemingly lost and confused, and then learns the reasons why. *Stitch in Time* concerns an elderly lady reflecting on