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The Nine Billion Names of God

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Neutron Star (Known Space)

Larry Niven · 285 pages

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Star Trek 1

James Blish · 136 pages

Short stories adaptations of Star Trek episodes. This book contains: "Charlie's Law" (a.k.a. "Charlie X") "Dagger of the Mind" "The Unreal McCoy" (a.k.a. "The Man Trap") "Balance of Terror" "The Naked Time" "Miri" "The Conscience of the King"

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The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury · 222 pages

The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952.

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Nightfall and Other Stories

Isaac Asimov · 343 pages

What Is This Thing Called Love? Strikebreaker Sally Nightfall Segregationist Eyes Do More Than See Green Patches Hostess Breeds There a Man ... ? Flies The Up-to-Date Sorcerer Unto the Fourth Generation The Machine That Won the War My Son, the Physicist! It's Such a Beautiful Day Insert Knob A in Hole B "In a Good Cause—" What If— The C-Chute Biographical Comments in "Nightfall

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To Hold Up the Sky

Liu Cixin · 336 pages

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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick · 476 pages

"Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next to Kafka and Vonnegut. Collected here are twenty-one of Dick's most dazzling and resonant stories, which span hi

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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Neil Gaiman · 400 pages

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The Instrumentality of Mankind

Cordwainer Smith · 238 pages

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The Green Hills of Earth

Robert A. Heinlein · 188 pages

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Vacuum Diagrams

Stephen Baxter · 430 pages

"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life..."This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind -- all the way to the end of the Universe itself.Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar syst

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Tales of Space and Time

H.G. Wells · 196 pages

Tales of Space and Time collects together two novellas and three short stories by the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells. First published in 1899, this absorbing and stimulating read contains:The Crystal Egg (short story)The Star (short story)A Story of the Stone Age (novella)A Story of the Days To Come" (novella)The Man Who Could Work Miracles (short story)

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Trader to the Stars

Poul Anderson

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The Gateway Trip

Frederik Pohl · 243 pages

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A

C.M. Kornbluth, Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, H.G. Wells, Jack Williamson, Cordwainer Smith, Poul Anderson, John W. Campbell Jr. · 550 pages

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Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home

James Tiptree Jr. · 312 pages

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Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang · 288 pages

Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF. Now, col

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Welcome 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?

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Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson

Zenna Henderson · 577 pages

**From Wikipedia:** Ingathering: The Complete People Stories, also known as Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson, is a 1995 collection of science fiction stories by American science fiction and fantasy author Zenna Henderson. It was edited by Mark L. Olson and Priscilla Olson and published in Massachusetts by the New England Science Fiction Association's NESFA Press as pa

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A Martian Odyssey

Stanley G. Weinbaum · 48 pages

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams · 215 pages

This beautifully illustrated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic celebrates the 42nd anniversary of the original publication—with all-new art by award-winning illustrator Chris Riddell. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly af

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Blue Champagne

John Varley · 290 pages

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The Voyage of the Space Beagle

A.E. van Vogt · 192 pages

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