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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 1: Beyond Lies the Wub
Philip K. Dick · 397 pages
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury · 222 pages
This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the co
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
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
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge · 464 pages
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
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?
The Past Through Tomorrow
Robert A. Heinlein · 726 pages
Axiomatic
Greg Egan · 368 pages
AXIOMATIC is a collection of eighteen short stories including; THE HUNDRED LIGHT YEAR DIARY - Scientists can bounce messages from the future back to the present, but there's no guarantee they'll tell the truth... LEARNING TO BE ME - Crystalline minds may take the place of human brains, but where does the self really lie? CLOSER - Lovers exchange bodies and minds, but their experiments go
The A.I. Chronicles
Samuel Peralta, David Simpson, Chrystalla Thoma, Peter Cawdron, Patrice Fitzgerald, Susan Kaye Quinn, Julie Czerneda, Alex Albrinck, Sam Best, Angela Cavanaugh, E.E. Giorgi, A.K. Meek, Logan Thomas Snyder, Pavarti K. Tyler · 428 pages
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Even today, machines that mimic human thinking surround us. As the intellectual feats of computing machines grow more and more astounding, will there be a day when their apparent intelligence approaches, or even surpasses, that of human beings? And what if these machines then become conscious, self-aware? In this latest title in the acclaimed Future Chronicles ser
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
Metatropolis: Original Science Fiction Stories in a Shared Future
John Scalzi, Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Tobias S. Buckell · 288 pages
" ... METAtropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers ... who combined their talents to build a new urban future and then wrote their own stories in this collectively-constructed world. The results are individual glimpses of a shared vision ..."--Dust cover flap.
Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
Ed Finn, Kathryn Cramer
Pump Six and Other Stories
Paolo Bacigalupi · 243 pages
Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo Bacigalupi's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best of Paolo Bacigalupi's work, including the Hugo nominee "Yellow Card Man," the Nebula-and Hugo-nominated story "The People of San
Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present
Cory Doctorow · 304 pages
The Complete Short Stories
J.G. Ballard · 1,200 pages
Brave New Worlds
Cory Doctorow, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, M. Rickert, Kate Wilhelm, Geoff Ryman, Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot, J.G. Ballard, Carrie Vaughn, James K. Morrow, Alex Irvine, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Genevieve Valentine, Sarah Langan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Matt Williamson, P · 489 pages
Collects short stories on civilization invading and dictating citizens lives, from authors including Shirley Jackson, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Geoff Rymann.
Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft
Elizabeth Bear, Greg Bear, David Brin, Nancy Kress
The Ship Who Sang
Anne McCaffrey · 248 pages
From back cover of Del Rey paperback 1979: HELVA HAD BEEN BORN HUMAN ... but only her brain had been saved -- saved to be schooled, programmed and implanted in the sleek, titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner -- male or female -- to share her exhilarating escapades in space! Her life was to be rich and rewarding -- resplendent with dari