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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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The Rediscovery of Man

Cordwainer Smith · 400 pages

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The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

Ursula K. Le Guin · 373 pages

"For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, this renowned writer has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters remi

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Cosmicomics

Italo Calvino · 153 pages

Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?"--Publisher description.

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Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories

Samuel R. Delany · 383 pages

"A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice, an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A while southern airport loader tries to do a favor for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of ordinary fiction - but with a difference! These tales take place twenty-five, fifty, a hundred and fifty years from now. Men and women have been given gills to labor under t

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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Neil Gaiman · 400 pages

This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.

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Trader to the Stars

Poul Anderson

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Sandkings

George R.R. Martin · 234 pages

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Neutron Star (Known Space)

Larry Niven · 285 pages

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The Inheritance

Robin Hobb, Megan Lindholm · 408 pages

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Memory Wall

Anthony Doerr · 256 pages

Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them, push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and

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Pixel Juice

Jeff Noon · 350 pages

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The Menace From Earth

Robert A. Heinlein · 255 pages

Earth seems a sinister planet hanging in the sky. But to the Pluto colony, Earth Satellite Base holds the only possible reprieve from a terrifying death sentence. And on Earth itself, alien intelligence prowls the skies, kidnapping people for its own inhuman amusement - book cover.

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The Martian Way

Isaac Asimov · 198 pages

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Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits

Robin McKinley · 269 pages

What magical beings inhabit earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar’s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world.  These six tales fr

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The Melancholy of Mechagirl

Catherynne M. Valente · 261 pages

"This is Catherynne M. Valente's collection of ... stories and poems with a connection to Japan"--Introduction p. 7.

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Pavane

Keith Roberts · 277 pages

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Out of the Silent Planet

C.S. Lewis · 174 pages

The first book in Lewis's Space Trilogy, *Out of the Silent Planet* tells the story of Dr. Elwin Ransom, a philologist who likes to explore the English countryside on foot. Seeking out a place to stay the night, he ends up at the estate of a colleague who is away in London. However, the house is not empty. Ransom stumbles upon the plot of a megalomaniacal scientist and his collaborator, who jus

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Winter's Tales

Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen · 265 pages

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Diving Belles

Lucy Wood · 223 pages

Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Hous

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Old Venus

George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois · 586 pages

"This original anthology of all-new stories harkens back to the Golden Age of SF, when science fiction was filled with tales from our own solar system, at a time when no one knew what lay on the surface of our nearest galactic neighbors and speculation ran rampant. And though that old solar system was "disproved" in the 1960s, when space probes showed that the real worlds were very different from

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The Terminal Beach

J.G. Ballard · 224 pages

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The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death

H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price · 387 pages

This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror.

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