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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAlien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy
Ellen Datlow · 287 pages
From Bernie Goutley's review: 1.) Her Furry Face by Leigh Kennedy A primate handler who is in a waning marriage falls for one of his super-intelligent orangutan students. 2.) War Bride by Rick Wilbur The world is going to end tomorrow unless you’ve been taken as a pet by one of the aliens. 3.) How’s the Night Life on Cissalda by Harlan Ellison A man sent to investigate an alien race be
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"
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
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
The State of the Art
Iain M. Banks · 188 pages
The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.
Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
James Tiptree Jr. · 312 pages
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
Tales Of Known Space: The Universe Of Larry Niven
Larry Niven · 240 pages
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
The X-Files: Trust No One
Tim Lebbon, Peter Clines · 360 pages
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
Roger Zelazny · 287 pages
The Instrumentality of Mankind
Cordwainer Smith · 238 pages
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
The Van Rijn Method (Technic Civilization 1)
Poul Anderson · 608 pages
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury · 352 pages
I Am Legend and Other Stories
Richard Matheson · 312 pages
Neville is essentially the last man on earth, and the loneliness of his situation is the central part of the story. Matheson is able to communicate Neville's emotional feelings vividly, making him very real. We gradually acquire the story of the deaths of Neville's wife and daughter, essentially experiencing the pain he goes through when these memories overcome him. We watch him drink himself into
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?
A Second Chance at Eden
Peter F. Hamilton · 450 pages
For new readers of Peter Hamilton, A Second Chance at Eden is a great introduction into the universe of The Reality Dysfunction. For previous readers of The Reality Dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist, these stories will keep them happy and eager as they await the final volume of the trilogy, The Naked God.A Second Chance at Eden contains seven stories chronicling the history of the Confedera