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Globalhead

Bruce Sterling · 301 pages

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Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

Cory Doctorow · 304 pages

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The Philip K. Dick Reader

Philip K. Dick · 432 pages

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Pilgrimage to Earth

Robert Sheckley · 178 pages

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Futureland

Walter Mosley · 356 pages

Offers nine stories of speculative fiction, creating worlds inhabited by leaders, commoners, technocrats, criminals, and revolutionaries, covering issues including social stratification, technological advances, and civil rights.

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Pixel Juice

Jeff Noon · 350 pages

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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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Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Filippo, Elizabeth Bear, David Marusek, Mary Rosenblum, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Walter Jon Williams, Christopher Rowe · 424 pages

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Burning Chrome

William Gibson · 220 pages

Burning Chrome collects Gibson's early short fiction from the late 70's and early 80's. Contents: Preface / by Bruce Sterling -- Johnny Mnemonic -- The Gernsback continuum -- Fragments of a hologram rose -- The belonging kind / by John Shirley and William Gibson -- Hinterlands -- Red star, winter orbit / by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson -- New Rose Hotel -- The winter market -- Do

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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

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Changing Planes

Ursula K. Le Guin · 246 pages

The misery of waiting for a connecting flight at an airport leads to the accidental discovery of alighting on other planes--not airplanes but planes of existence. Ursula Le Guin's premise frames a series of travel accounts by the tourist-narrator who describes bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our own, and sometimes open puzzling doors into the alien.

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Buy Jupiter and Other Stories

Isaac Asimov · 206 pages

Darwinian Pool Room Day of the Hunters Shah Guido G. Button, Button The Monkey's Finger Everest The Pause Let's Not Each an Explorer Blank! Does a Bee Care? Silly Asses Buy Jupiter! A Statue for Father Rain, Rain, Go Away Founding Father Exile to Hell Key Item The Proper Study 2430 A.D. The Greatest Asset Take a Match Thiotimoline to the Stars Light Verse

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Tales from the White Hart

Arthur C. Clarke · 164 pages

A compendium of science fiction stories that combine elements of comedy and horror, including "Silence Please," "Critical Mass," and "What Goes Up."

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Trader to the Stars

Poul Anderson

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Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina

Doug Beason, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Jennifer Roberson, Kathy Tyers, Tom Veitch, Martha Veitch, Dave Wolverton, Timothy Zahn, M. Shayne Bell, David Bischoff, A.C. Crispin, Kenneth C. Flint, Barbara Hambly, Rebecca Moesta, Daniel Keys Moran, Jerry Oltion · 387 pages

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Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories

Terry Bisson · 254 pages

From the gentle fantasies that include the wry title story—winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards—to ecological allegories; a horrific novelette about experimental excursions into the realm of death; and a first-contact mini-epic, this anthology showcases the wide range of Bisson's powerful talent. In every piece, Bisson's characters are just as absurd as their fantastic landscape, yet thorough

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Nine Hundred Grandmothers

R.A. Lafferty · 318 pages

"Here at last are the finest of Lafferty's shorter works, stories about: a man who found one day that he knew absolutely everyone in the world; a race who kept their most ancient ancestors on shelves in the basements; a speeded-up world where a man could earn and lose a dozen fortunes a night; a friendly bearlike creature named Snuffles who said he was God ... In all, twenty-one immensely enjoyabl

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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

Harlan Ellison · 48 pages

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Tuf Voyaging

George R.R. Martin · 376 pages

"Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader who likes cats. So how is it that, in competition with the worst villains the universe has to offer, he's become the proud owner of the last seedship of Earth's legendary Ecological Engineering Corps? Never mind, just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in human space is in good hands--hands which now control cellular material for thousands of outlandi

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With Friends Like These...

Alan Dean Foster · 232 pages

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