AND I AWOKE AND FOUND ME HERE ON THE COLD HILL’S SIDE Man seeks to get into bed with anything new and different, or die trying. But when the new and different was not human…would he die trying?
THE MAN WHO WALKED HOME – The first-time astronaut, stuck in the far future, slid ever so slowly toward a present whose past was his future and whose future was his past…
I’M TOO BIG BUT I LOVE TO PLAY – If genuine aliens are to communicate meaningfully, one must make himself into an analogue of the other. But how can you tell the difference between what is human – and what is merely identical?
Contents: And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side (1972) The Snows Are Melted, the Snows Are Gone (1969) The Peacefulness of Vivyan (1971) Mamma Come Home (1968) Help (1968) Painwise (1972) Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion (1969) The Man Doors Said Hello To (1970) The Man Who Walked Home (1972) Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket (1972) I’ll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool Is Empty (1971) I’m Too Big but I Love to Play (1970) Birth of a Salesman (1968) Mother in the Sky with Diamonds (1971) Beam Us Home (1969)
14 short stories set in a universe of scanners, planoforming ships and animal-derived Underpeople.
1 No, No, Not Rogov! (1959) 2 War No. 81-Q (1928) 3 Mark Elf (1957) 4 The Queen of the Afternoon (1978) 5 When the People Fell (1959) 6 Think Blue, Count Two (1963) 7 The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All (1979) 8 From Gustible's Planet (1962) 9 Drunkboat (1963) 10 Western Science Is So Wonderful (1958) 11 Nancy (1959) 12 The Fife of Bodidharma (1959) 13 Angerhelm (1959) 14 The Good Friends (1963)
"First Edition: May 1979" stated on the copyright page.
Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection.
Deathbird Stories is a collection of 19 of Harlan Ellison's best stories, including Edgar and Hugo winners, originally published between 1960 and 1974. The collection contains some of Ellison's best stories from earlier collections and is judged by some to be his most consistently high quality collection of short fiction. The theme of the collection can be loosely defined as God, or Gods. Sometimes they're dead or dying, some of them are as brand-new as today's technology. Unlike some of Ellison's collections, the introductory notes to each story can be as short as a phrase and rarely run more than a sentence or two. One story took a Locus Poll Award, the two final ones both garnered Hugo Awards and Locus Poll awards, and the final one also received a Jupiter Award from the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education (discontinued in 1979). When the collection was published in Britain, it won the 1979 British Science Fiction Award for Short Fiction.
"His stories will rivet you to the floor and change your heartbeat...as unforgettable a chamber of horror, fantasy and reality as you'll ever experience." -Gallery
"Brutally and flamboyantly shocking, frequently brilliant, and always irresistibly mesmerizing." -Richmond Times-Dispatch
Contents:
· Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars · The Whimper of Whipped Dogs · ss Bad Moon Rising, ed. Thomas M. Disch, Harper&Row, 1973 · Along the Scenic Route [“Dogfight on 101”] · ss Adam Aug’69; Amazing Sep’69 · On the Downhill Side · ss Universe 2, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1972 · O Ye of Little Faith · ss Knight Sep’68 · Neon · ss The Haunt of Horror Aug’73 · Basilisk · ss F&SF Aug’72 · Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes · nv Knight May’67 · Corpse · ss F&SF Jan’72 · Shattered Like a Glass Goblin · ss Orbit 4, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1968 · Delusion for a Dragon Slayer · ss Knight Sep’66 · The Face of Helene Bournouw · ss Collage Oct’60 · Bleeding Stones · ss Vertex Apr’73 · At the Mouse Circus · ss New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971 · The Place with No Name · ss F&SF Jul’69 · Paingod · ss Fantastic Jun’64 · Ernest and the Machine God · nv Knight Jan’68 · Rock God · ss Coven 13 Nov’69 · Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38°54’N, Longitude 77°00’13"W · nv F&SF Oct’74 · The Deathbird · nv F&SF Mar’73
Eleven Classic Novellas by the most honored authors of science fiction:
This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field. Published in 1973 to honor stories that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country. This volume contains novellas by: Ray Bradbury, James Blish, Algis Budrys, Theodore Cogswell, E. M. Forster, Frederik Pohl, James H. Schmitz, T. L. Sherred, Wilmar H. Shiras, Clifford D. Simak, and Jack Vance.
Contents:
Introduction · Ben Bova · in · Call Me Joe · Poul Anderson · nv Astounding Apr ’57 · Who Goes There? [as by Don A. Stuart] · John W. Campbell, Jr. · na Astounding Aug ’38 · Nerves · Lester del Rey · na Astounding Sep ’42 · Universe [Hugh Hoyland] · Robert A. Heinlein · na Astounding May ’41 · The Marching Morons · C. M. Kornbluth · nv Galaxy Apr ’51 · Vintage Season [as by Lawrence O’Donnell] · Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore · na Astounding Sep ’46 · ...And Then There Were None · Eric Frank Russell · na Astounding Jun ’51 · The Ballad of Lost C’Mell · Cordwainer Smith · nv Galaxy Oct ’62 · Baby Is Three · Theodore Sturgeon · na Galaxy Oct ’52 · The Time Machine [Time Machine] · H. G. Wells · na The New Review Jan, 1895 (+4) · With Folded Hands... [Humanoids] · Jack Williamson · nv Astounding Jul ’47
Here are strange, beautiful stories covering the full spectrum of the late Roger Zelazny's remarkable talents. In Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, Zelazny's rare ability to mix the dream-like, disturbing imagery of fantasy with the real-life hardware of science fiction is on full display. His vivid imagination and fine prose made him one of the most highly acclaimed writers in his field. Contents: · The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth · nv F&SF Mar ’65 · The Keys to December · nv New Worlds Aug ’66 · Devil Car [Sam Nurdock] · ss Galaxy Jun ’65 · A Rose for Ecclesiastes · nv F&SF Nov ’63 · The Monster and the Maiden · vi Galaxy Dec ’64 · Collector’s Fever · vi Galaxy Jun ’64 · This Mortal Mountain · nv If Mar ’67 · This Moment of the Storm · nv F&SF Jun ’66 · The Great Slow Kings · ss Worlds of Tomorrow Dec ’63 · A Museum Piece · ss Fantastic Jun ’63 · Divine Madness · ss Magazine of Horror Sum ’66 · Corrida · ss Anubis v1 #3 ’68 · Love Is an Imaginary Number · ss New Worlds Jan ’66 · The Man Who Loved the Faioli · ss Galaxy Jun ’67 · Lucifer · ss Worlds of Tomorrow Jun ’64
The Other Side of the Sky presents a glimpse of our future: a future where reality is no longer contained in earthly dimensions, where man has learned to exist with the knowledge that he is not alone in the universe. These stories of other planets and galactic adventures show Arthur C Clarke at the peak of his powers: sometimes disturbing, always intriguing.
Come to Larry Niven's Universe and meet all the Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers -- and a host of other wonderfully created characters. Visit Lookitthat, Down, and Jinx -- indeed, an entire galaxy of planets found only in these stories that trace man's expansion and colonization throughout Known Space. A spectacular cycle of the future . . . a 10,000-year history of man on Earth and in space!
Two-volume Anthology. Volume two includes: Brain Wave: Poul Anderson (novel) Bullard Reflects: Malcolm Jameson The Lost Years: Oscar Lewis Dead Center: Judith Merril Lost Art: George O. Smith The Other Side of the Sky: Arthur C. Clarke The Man Who Sold the Moon: Robert A. Heinlein Magic City: Nelson S. Bond The Morning of the Day They Did It: E. B. White Letters from Laura: Mildred Clingerman The Stars My Destination: Alfred Bester (novel)
A collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke.
Contents:
Second Dawn If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth Breaking Strain History Lesson (as "Expedition to Earth" in the British Edition, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954) Superiority Exile of the Eons Hide-and-Seek Expedition to Earth (as "Encounter in the Dawn" in the British Edition, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954) Loophole Inheritance The Sentinel (basis for 2001)
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