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Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home

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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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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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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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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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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.

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To Hold Up the Sky

Liu Cixin · 336 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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Bloodchild

Octavia E. Butler

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Alien 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

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Ray Bradbury's the Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury · 151 pages

The Earthmen came by the handful, then the hundreds, then the millions. They swept aside the majestic, dying Martian civilization to build their homes, shopping malls, and cities. Mars began as a place of boundless hopes and dreams, a planet to replace an Earth sinking into waste and war. It became a canvas for mankind's follies and darkest desires. Ultimately, the Earthmen who came to conquer the

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The X-Files: Trust No One

Tim Lebbon, Peter Clines · 360 pages

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The Gateway Trip

Frederik Pohl · 243 pages

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Fire Watch

Connie Willis · 272 pages

Winner of six Nebula and five Hugo awards, Connie Willis is one of the most acclaimed and imaginative authors of our time. Her startling and powerful works have redefined the boundaries of contemporary science fiction. Here in one volume are twelve of her greatest stories, including double award-winner "Fire Watch," set in the universe of Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, in which a t

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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Ken Liu · 464 pages

Presents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece. This mesmerizing collection features all of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select S

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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 Past Through Tomorrow

Robert A. Heinlein · 726 pages

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We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

Philip K. Dick · 400 pages

A collection of Philip K. Dick's earliest works features "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," in which Doug Quail, unable to afford a trip to Mars, pays a visit to Rekal to have memories implanted.

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume 1

Robert Silverberg · 558 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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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

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