false 23113 552357 0441805914 9780441805914 17 <![CDATA[Thieves' World (Thieves' World, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189642158m/552357.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189642158s/552357.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552357.Thieves_World 3.67 511
Thieves' World is what resulted when the world's top science-fiction and fantasy writers got together to create the amazing new world of Sanctuary, where you mix and mingle with Lythal the Star-browed: his magic is questionable, his sword-play is not. Jubal: ex-gladiator and slave, now a respected citizen (he made his money selling slaves). One Thumb: the crooked bartender at the Vulgar Unicorn ...and even more fantastic characters!

Lynn Abbey, Poul Anderson, Robert Asprin, John Brunner, Joe Haldeman and Andrew J Offutt have dreamed up a world of wonders - a fabulous reading adventure!

Contents:
* Introduction - Robert Asprin
* Sentences of Death - John Brunner
* The Face of Chaos - Lynn Abbey
* The Gate of Flying Knives - Poul Anderson
* Shadowspawn - Andrew Offutt
* The Price of Doing Business - Robert Asprin
* Blood Brothers - Joe Haldeman
* Myrtis - Christine DeWees
* The Secret of the Blue Star - Marion Zimmer Bradley
* The Making of Thieves' World - Robert Asprin ]]> 65471 3.74 18409 509 32252 3.61 3550 98 23113 3.78 2455 244 32278 3.61 5259 381 11065 3.65 2330 74 12476 3.72 6512 842 2115024 3.66 561 20 11359 3.85 47413 2662 1979 41069 1857988361 9781857988369 32 <![CDATA[Stand on Zanzibar]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169578945m/41069.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169578945s/41069.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41069.Stand_on_Zanzibar 4.05 298 23113 3.78 2455 244 1968 14186 0806512261 9780806512266 12 <![CDATA[The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3: Second Variety]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214428967m/14186.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214428967s/14186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14186.The_Collected_Stories_of_Philip_K_Dick_3_Second_Variety 4.27 316
This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955.

Contents:
* Fair Game
* The Hanging Stranger
* The Eyes Have It
* The Golden Man
* The Turning Wheel
* The Last of the Masters
* The Father-Thing
* Strange Eden
* Tony and the Beetles
* Null-O
* To Serve the Master
* Exhibit Piece
* The Crawlers
* Sales Pitch
* Shell Game
* Upon the Dull Earth
* Foster, You're Dead
* Pay for the Printer
* War Veteran
* The Chromium Fence
* Misadjustment
* A World of Talent
* Psi-Man Heal My Child!
* Second Variety]]> 4764 3.88 55278 4035 23113 3.78 2455 244 1964 41074 1932100016 9781932100013 40 <![CDATA[The Sheep Look Up]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169578954m/41074.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169578954s/41074.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41074.The_Sheep_Look_Up 4.12 216 </div>]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1972 41070 0345467175 9780345467171 18 <![CDATA[The Shockwave Rider]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169578946m/41070.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169578946s/41070.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41070.The_Shockwave_Rider 3.89 160 23113 3.78 2455 244 1975 552354 0441805973 9780441805976 2 <![CDATA[Aftermath (Thieves' World, #10)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230595515m/552354.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230595515s/552354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552354.Aftermath 3.60 104
Lynn Abbey
Robert Lynn Asprin
John Brunner
David Drake
Janet Morris
Andrew Offutt
Mark C. Perry

In this explosive tenth volume, Tempus and the Stepsons abandon the war-torn city of Sanctuary - as vicious rivalries emerge from the rubble. The fate of the city hangs in the balance. The struggle for power begins...

Contents:
* Dramatis Personae - Lynn Abbey
* Introduction - Robert Lynn Asprin
* Cade - Mark C. Perry
* Wake of the Riddler - Janet Morris
* Inheritor - David Drake
* Mercy Worse Than None - John Brunner
* Seeing is Believing (But Love is Blind) - Lynn Abbey
* Homecoming - Andrew Offutt ]]> 65471 3.74 18409 509 32252 3.61 3550 98 781309 3.70 116 4 121072 3.63 2212 60 19472 3.77 6105 286 23113 3.78 2455 244 11065 3.65 2330 74 1987 470186 0575070528 9780575070523 8 <![CDATA[The Jagged Orbit]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175028806m/470186.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175028806s/470186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/470186.The_Jagged_Orbit 3.53 38 John Brunner's brilliant and scathing vision of a society disintegrating under the impact of violence, drugs, high-level corruption and the casual institutionalization of the 'insane' was a powerful and important statement in 1969. It remains a compelling and chilling tour de force three decades on.

]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1969 872226 0020302754 9780020302759 2 <![CDATA[The Whole Man]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872226.The_Whole_Man 3.83 29
At first Howson thought his peculiar ability was odd, and then he thought he might be able to get a little extra money by snooping on people. But when his ability finally was discovered by others, he became so powerful that he could use his gift to heal the minds of those who suffered from terrible emotional or psychological trauma...or he could withdraw into a phatasmagoric wonderland of psychic imagining, never to emerge into the real world of human experience again. Whichever decision he made, his life and the lives of countless others would ever be the same again.

The Whole Man is one of the most brilliantly original and colorfully told adventures of inner space ever written. Hugo Award winner John Brunner makes utterly real a fantastic concept that most writers can't even write about.]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1964 872586 0345312244 9780345312242 3 <![CDATA[The Crucible of Time]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1261593479m/872586.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1261593479s/872586.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872586.The_Crucible_of_Time 3.48 31 23113 3.78 2455 244 1983 41082 0312940602 9780312940607 2 <![CDATA[The Compleat Traveller in Black]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41082.The_Compleat_Traveller_in_Black 3.70 27 23113 3.78 2455 244 1986 1407130 0345234367 9780345234360 3 <![CDATA[The Squares of the City]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183355878m/1407130.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183355878s/1407130.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1407130.The_Squares_of_the_City 3.46 28 23113 3.78 2455 244 1965 41086 0879977663 9780879977665 1 <![CDATA[Polymath]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41086.Polymath 3.50 26 23113 3.78 2455 244 1974 703378 1568820704 9781568820705 0 <![CDATA[The Necronomicon : Selected Stories & Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab (Cthulhu Mythos Fiction Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177434940m/703378.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177434940s/703378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703378.The_Necronomicon_Selected_Stories_Essays_Concerning_the_Blasphemous_Tome_of_the_Mad_Arab 4.00 3 Within this book you will find stories about the Necronomicon, different versions of the Necronomicon, and two essays on this blasphemous tome.

Now you too may learn the true lore of Abdul Alhazred.

This book is part of an expanding collection of Cthulhu Mythos horror fiction and related topics. Call of Cthulhu fiction focuses on single entities, concepts, or authors significant to readers and fans of H.P. Lovecraft.

]]> 9493 3.76 341 35 4338 3.77 10823 739 23113 3.78 2455 244 1996 41087 0879979119 9780879979119 1 <![CDATA[Total Eclipse]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230606407m/41087.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230606407s/41087.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41087.Total_Eclipse 3.53 17 23113 3.78 2455 244 1974 197189 0812549678 9780812549676 1 <![CDATA[After Armageddon (There Will Be War 9)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197189.After_Armageddon 3.71 21 It's a perilous new world out there, following the Final Trump. Mutants and mendicants prowl the ruins. Strange new powers arise to challenge the huddled survivors for dominion over the broken land. Underground amidst their hoarded goods, survivalists scheme to bring back the dead past, while above, in the bleeding aftermath, only one thing is certain:

There will be more war - as the evil conspire, the brave make their stand, and the strong survive.

The newest chapter in Jerry Pournelle's vision of humanity's splendid and terrible future - an unforgettable tour of a world reborn to fight another day.

Contents:

Kenyons to the Keep! by Jerry Pournelle
Holo-Caustic by Peter Dillingham
Collector's Piece by Edward P. Hughes
Half the Battle by Harry Turtledove
Only the Strong Survive by F.G. Wyllis
The Last Cruise of the Zeppelin Tempest by J.P. Boyd
The Future of the Great Powers by Alan Brown
The Voice of the Cockroach by Leslie Fish
Song of the Red War-Boat by Rudyard Kipling
Primum Non Nocere by Paul Edwards
Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Fear and Survival by Reginald Bretnor
The Berendt Conversion by John Brunner
The Contract by Don Hawthorne
The Bodyguard by Vernon W. Glasser
The Palace at Midnight by Robert Silverberg
Wintergate II: The War of the Worlds by Russell Seitz
Torch by Christopher Anvil
Bringing Home the Bacon by Eric Oppen
Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad
]]> 39099 3.77 10363 671 35864 3.87 1634 124 2763377 3.71 21 1 13646 3.46 200 29 32263 3.73 176 8 2763378 3.71 21 1 6989 3.88 15448 1179 125100 3.66 47 10 23113 3.78 2455 244 61626 3.77 81 13 1058607 3.71 21 1 2763379 3.71 21 1 4338 3.77 10823 739 2763380 3.71 21 1 2763381 3.71 21 1 1312818 3.61 23 1 58059 3.99 134 26 29479 3.71 11804 732 2763382 3.71 21 1 2763383 3.71 21 1 1990 147542 0345292359 9780345292353 4 <![CDATA[Players at the Game of People]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172187414m/147542.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172187414s/147542.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147542.Players_at_the_Game_of_People 3.10 20 War hero, jet-setter, gourmet—Godwin Harpinshield was all of these & more. His life was a game played among the Beautiful People whose fame, wealth & power set them above the law & beyond the laws of nature. Because of a simple bargain that all the Beautiful People made, Godwin's every desire was his for the asking. Seduced by luxury, Godwin never doubted his future, never wondered about his mysterious patrons. Then the game turned ugly. Suddenly, the ante was raised & the game was real. The stakes were his future, his sanity &, possibly, his very soul. All Godwin Harpinshield had to discover was: What were the rules of the game? And who, or what, were the other players?]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1980 872228 0385037163 9780385037167 1 <![CDATA[The Stone that Never Came Down]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240036793m/872228.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240036793s/872228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872228.The_Stone_that_Never_Came_Down 3.62 16 ]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1973 882857 034531378X 9780345313782 1 <![CDATA[Children of the Thunder]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238965631m/882857.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238965631s/882857.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882857.Children_of_the_Thunder 3.24 17 23113 3.78 2455 244 1988 332039 0515034576 9780515034578 0 <![CDATA[The Dreaming Earth]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237324594m/332039.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237324594s/332039.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332039.The_Dreaming_Earth 3.40 15 It tells,too, of a new breed of men and women-21st century lotus eaters caught up in a mysterious euphoria which will ultimately threaten all life on this planet; the drug-induced world of "happy dreams."
Do these "happy dreamers" herald the end of the human race - or the next extraordinary step in the evolution of Man?]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1963 872230 0345284976 9780345284976 3 <![CDATA[The Infinitive of Go]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1254110578m/872230.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1254110578s/872230.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872230.The_Infinitive_of_Go 3.31 16 The first practical matter transmitter was a success, or so everyone thought. In spite of paranoid security restrictions, Justin Williams and Cinnamon Wright, co-inventors of the device, counted on it to revolutionize civilization and gain them an honored place in history.

But the first long-distance field test with a human being—a diplomatic courier carrying a vital message—somehow misfired when the courier killed himself on arrival at his destination.

To prove his faith in his invention—and to escape charges of sabotage—Justin had himself "posted" thousands of miles. He came through unchanged. It was the world that was somehow different...]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1980 872222 9997405137 9789997405135 1 <![CDATA[The Wrong End of Time]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179083973m/872222.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179083973s/872222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872222.The_Wrong_End_of_Time 2.93 14 23113 3.78 2455 244 1971 882868 0345306775 9780345306777 0 <![CDATA[The Dramaturges of Yan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882868.The_Dramaturges_of_Yan 3.33 15 23113 3.78 2455 244 1974 882855 0345306783 9780345306784 1 <![CDATA[Bedlam Planet]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882855.Bedlam_Planet 3.46 13 23113 3.78 2455 244 1968 872224 0345306791 9780345306791 0 <![CDATA[Times Without Number]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872224.Times_Without_Number 3.40 10 23113 3.78 2455 244 1969 872229 0345375548 9780345375544 3 <![CDATA[A Maze of Stars]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872229.A_Maze_of_Stars 3.67 12 23113 3.78 2455 244 1991 882876 0099388707 9780099388708 1 <![CDATA[Interstellar Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179171041m/882876.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179171041s/882876.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882876.Interstellar_Empire 3.33 9 23113 3.78 2455 244 1976 877352 0345279646 9780345279644 1 <![CDATA[Double, Double]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/877352.Double_Double 3.29 7 It staggered ashore in the lifeless body of an unlucky pilot and put a real damper on a psychedelic rock show...
It unceremoniously introduced itself to nice, reclusive old Miss Beeding and turned her into something much too bizarre for words...
It slowly but surely was eating its way into the hearts and minds and bodies of a quiet seacoast town - and before long there would be no one left to stop it...]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1969 2362278 0441071627 9780441071623 4 <![CDATA[Born Under Mars]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236254850m/2362278.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236254850s/2362278.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2362278.Born_Under_Mars 3.08 12
When mankind colonized the stars, they traveled out from Earth in two directions - to Centaurus and its Southern Hemisphere neighbors and to Ursa Major and the constellations around Polaris. And strange to say the humans who settled on those various worlds began to develop into two differing and antagonistic types.

For Ray Mallin, born under the surface of Mars in the sparse colony of Earth's inhospitable old neighbor, neither the anarchic "Bears" nor the autocratic "Centaurs" commanded his loyalty. So when secret agents of both galactic groupings suddenly focused their unwelcome attention on his most recent star-piloting mission, he knew only that something of vast significance was up - and that he unknowingly was the key to it.

John Brunner's new interstellar novel is a dramatic picture of future humanity and Martian adventure.]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1967 2881664 0345218876 9780345218872 2 <![CDATA[The Long Result]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2881664.The_Long_Result 3.18 11 23113 3.78 2455 244 1965 869130 0345318382 9780345318381 1 <![CDATA[The Tides of Time]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/869130.The_Tides_of_Time 3.17 12 23113 3.78 2455 244 1984 470251 0879972459 9780879972455 3 <![CDATA[Quicksand]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248069961m/470251.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248069961s/470251.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/470251.Quicksand 2.80 10 23113 3.78 2455 244 1967 41083 0727803085 9780727803085 1 <![CDATA[The Traveller in Black]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1229303278m/41083.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1229303278s/41083.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41083.The_Traveller_in_Black 3.50 10 23113 3.78 2455 244 1970 321742 0345306813 9780345306814 0 <![CDATA[Catch a Falling Star]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1258759426m/321742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1258759426s/321742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321742.Catch_a_Falling_Star 3.20 10 23113 3.78 2455 244 1968 882853 0886770246 9780886770242 1 <![CDATA[Age of Miracles]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1249196583m/882853.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1249196583s/882853.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882853.Age_of_Miracles 3.22 9 While Age of Miracles certainly does not present the reader with a unique situation — given the hundreds of works which are based on the confrontation of human beings and superior aliens — there are, nevertheless, two passages toward the end of the novel which show some highly significant developments in science fiction writing which can be considered characteristic of more recent interests within the genre. Such passages, as a matter of fact, provide a strong clue as to Brunner's use of the image of the dystopia. For what has happened in his later work is simply a matter of one image in science fiction, the superior alien, being replaced by a new image, the dystopia.
The first passage is a full accounting of what the discovery of the transportation network means for the human race. Waldron states: "We've been desperately trying to make the world seem familiar again. We've been using comparisons and analogues: Den with his rats and mice, Orlando with his bushman in a modern city, and so on. Finally we have begun to admit that this isn't the same as anything we've run across before. It isn't even like anything else. How could it be? We've been tossed without any warning clear over the horizon of our own past. We calculated the odds were against our being alone in the galaxy. Now we know we're not. We deduced that other stars must have planets. Now we can go and walk on them. It's a clean break. It's killed our past. We can't live in it or by its standards any more. All that counts from now on and forever is the future."
Superficially, this passage can be seen as typical of any number of science fiction works in which man boldly leaves behind the past and faces the brave new tomorrow. There is, however, a twist in the Age of Miracles which is rather rare. Man is forced to leave his past not because of his own actions, but because the future is imposed upon him. It is not man the seeker of new frontiers who here changes his destiny, but man the non-seeker who has his destiny change him. And, what makes this twist even rarer, destiny was not even looking for him. Mankind's whole orientation is changed by alien intelligences who have no, or almost no, awareness of the existence of the human race. Mankind may have great new worlds now open to it, but they are worlds that have been opened as a side-effect and man can only enjoy these new worlds at a cost of self-esteem.
The implications, therefore, of this passage are very unlike much of the science fiction of the 1930's, 40's, and even 50's. Justifiably or not, when one considers the nature of most science fiction works, one tends to see these works as optimistic about man and his future. The future implies progress, and progress implies a healthy, growing, human race. There are numerous short stories and novels that see mankind as a vital race able to triumph over far more sophisticated and knowledgeable aliens because of this vitality. Frequently, the human race is portrayed as an upstart race that sweeps all other races aside because of its energy and impatience to keep on the move. Such a view, however, is not to be found in Age of Miracles.
But denying that Age of Miracles lacks the optimism of other science fiction works does not necessarily lead to characterizing the novel as pessimistic. There is a second passage, also a speech by Waldron, that merits consideration when discussing the first. Waldron is about to join a colony on another planet, a colony made possible by the use of the alien transportation system. Realizing that all the new colonies owe their existence to an artifact which is a painfully solid symbol of man's inferior position, Waldron "leaned back in his chair. And thought: so rats get on ships ... True. And what I'm going to do is much the same. But I'm not going to do it as a rat. I'm going to do it as a man" (Ch28). Such a statement is optimistic, but its optimism is of a different sort than that which has just been characterized. Brunner's optimism stems from an individual, not from the human race as a whole. When Waldron states that he will act as a man, he is actually stating he will act according to what he conceives of as best in mankind; that is, being a man is not innately noble. It is behaving as a good man would behave that creates the nobility. One feels that a story about a rat that somehow had won through to a sense of "rathood" and then acted upon that sense would equally impart a tone of optimism for the rest. It is the experience of self-affirmation that is important here, a self-affirmation which enables the character to tell all that he is what he is.
There are, therefore, two points to be gained from a reading of Age of Miracles that have implications for all of Brunner's work. The first point is concerned with the future. Brunner does not assume a future of promise and glory for mankind. The optimism of a manifest destiny is not part of the world that Brunner creates. Instead, Brunner is far more likely to question the future and man's place in it. The second point is, in many ways, a consequence of the first. Since mankind has no manifest destiny, how is man to determine his place in the future if he has any voice in it at all? In Age of Miracles the answer is given: man's place in the future will be determined by individuals who call themselves men. In other words, the future of the human race is an open question, and the solution to that question depends on the people who are part of the race.
Three of Brunner's novels are particularly concerned with exactly this issue. Each of these novels, Stand on Zanzibar, The Sheep Look Up, and The Shockwave Rider, substitutes the image of a dystopia for the alien in Age of Miracles, but the problem remains the same: man must take responsibility for himself and his race.--Stephen H. Goldman




]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1965 2037341 0380179474 9780380179473 1 <![CDATA[Other Worlds, Other Gods]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2037341.Other_Worlds_Other_Gods 3.62 8
Contents:

Science Fiction and the World of Religion • (1971) • essay by Mayo Mohs
The Cunning of the Beast • (1942) • shortstory by Nelson S. Bond
A Cross of Centuries • (1958) • shortstory by Henry Kuttner
Soul Mate • (1959) • shortstory by Lee Sutton
The Word to Space • (1960) • novelette by Poul Anderson [as by Winston P. Sanders ]
Prometheus • [Father Carmody] • (1961) • novelette by Philip José Farmer
The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
The Vitanuls • (1967) • shortstory by John Brunner
Judas • (1967) • shortstory by John Brunner
The Quest for Saint Aquin • (1951) • novelette by Anthony Boucher
Balaam • (1954) • shortstory by Anthony Boucher
Evensong • (1967) • shortstory by Lester del Rey
Shall the Dust Praise Thee? • (1967) • shortstory by Damon Knight
Christus Apollo • (1969) • poem by Ray Bradbury ]]> 926272 3.62 8 1 10089 3.67 6803 412 7779 3.71 45912 2513 23113 3.78 2455 244 23000 3.92 1868 131 2454 4.09 396 57 1630 3.92 149806 7574 19739 3.83 818 87 280197 3.83 12 2 70167 3.84 739 79 2885762 3.62 8 1 32278 3.61 5259 381 1971 1406040 0345306805 9780345306807 1 <![CDATA[The Webs of Everywhere]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183347755m/1406040.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183347755s/1406040.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1406040.The_Webs_of_Everywhere 3.00 7 23113 3.78 2455 244 1974 3389932 1 <![CDATA[The 1976 Annual World's Best SF]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225818250m/3389932.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225818250s/3389932.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3389932.The_1976_Annual_World_s_Best_SF 3.40 5 Introduction • essay by Donald A. Wollheim
Catch That Zeppelin! • story by Fritz Leiber
The Peddler's Apprentice • novelette by Joan D. & Vernor Vinge
The Bees of Knowledge • novelette by Barrington J. Bayley
The Storms of Windhaven • novella by George R.R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle
The Engineer & the Executioner • novelette by Brian Stableford
Allegiances • novella by Michael Bishop
Child of All Ages • story by P. J. Plauger
Helbent 4 • novelette by Stephen Robinett
The Protocols of the Elders of Britain • story by John Brunner
The Custodians • novelette by Richard Cowper
]]> 450056 3.66 204 32 346732 4.29 51708 3995 38313 3.52 698 66 84604 3.67 532 66 23113 3.78 2455 244 286452 3.85 13 2 381257 3.44 63 8 68251 4.00 14 2 987714 4.26 81 8 32279 3.86 2366 153 44037 4.01 5386 587 257824 3.37 131 42 1976 341346 0385053282 9780385053280 4 <![CDATA[The Overlords of War]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230015044m/341346.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230015044s/341346.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341346.The_Overlords_of_War 3.71 7 143603 3.39 38 6 23113 3.78 2455 244 1971 2398747 0441910513 2 <![CDATA[The World Swappers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2398747.The_World_Swappers 3.12 8 The contestants: Counce, man of strange powers, authority in the spheres of intellect. Bassett, man of money-powers, financial & business wizard.
As the association of human worlds drew near the teetering edge of revolution, one of those men would be in a position to triumph. The only thing that neither side could foresee was that there were OTHERS hovering among the stars, looking for new worlds to conquer!]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1973 5712190 1 <![CDATA[The Year's Best SF 10]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230833158m/5712190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230833158s/5712190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5712190.The_Year_s_Best_SF_10 4.00 6 Her latest collection, the tenth in this consistently excellent series, surpasses all that have gone before. Never have Miss Merril's forays into the realms of available science-fiction yielded as stunning a literary harvest: Romain Gary, Arthur C. Clarke, James T. Farrell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Fritz Lieber, J.G. Ballard, John D. MacDonald, Alan E. Nourse, Thomas M. Disch and Stephen Becker are just a few of the glittering array that has been selected.
This edition of The Year's Best S-F contains more than thirty of the finest examples of science-fiction inventiveness. It is an extraordinary anthology that will stimulate and challenge even the most seasoned science-fiction traveler.
Judith Merril, a writer herself, selects the greatest science-fiction and fantasy each year for inclusion in her famous Annual. S-F, more and more, is merging with the mainstream of literature, and her anthologies brilliantly illustrate this trend.
Automatic Tiger by Kit Reed
The Carson Effect by Richard Wilson
The Shining Ones by Arthur C. Clarke
Pacifist by Mack Reynolds
The New Encyclopaedist by Stephen Becker
The Legend of Joe Lee by John D. MacDonald
Gas Mask by James D. Houston
A Sinister Metamorphosis by Russell Baker
Sonny by Rick Raphael
The Last Secret Weapon of the Third Reich by Josef Nesvadba
Descending by Thomas M. Disch
Decadence by Romain Gary
Be of Good Cheer by Fritz Lieber
It Could Be You by Frank Roberts
A Benefactor of Humanity by James T. Farrell
Synchromocracy by Hap Cawood
The Search by Bruce Simonds
The Pirokin Effect by Larry Eisenberg
The Twerlik by Jack Sharkey
A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny
The Terminal Beach by J.G. Ballard
Problem Child by Arthur Porges
The Wonderful Dog Suit by Donald Hall
The Mathenauts by Norman Kagan
Family Portrait by Morgan Kent
The Red Egg by Jose Maria Gironella
The Power of Positive Thinking by M.E. White
A Living Doll by Robert Wallace
Training Talk by David R. Bunch
A Miracle Too Many by Philip H. Smith and Alan E. Nourse
The Last Lonely Man by John Brunner
The Man Who Found Proteus by Robert Rohrer
Yachid and Yechida by Isaac Bashevis Singer]]> 171627 3.94 479 45 3619 3.94 24879 1358 24690 3.87 8149 401 96373 3.52 1325 198 2889561 3.75 8316 838 29998 3.75 1366 189 99542 4.12 51 8 1392861 3.83 4831 431 73432 4.15 1937 312 190529 4.09 11 1 32807 3.89 3144 218 175969 3.39 23 4 987714 4.26 81 8 319350 4.00 6 1 2767967 4.00 6 1 162930 3.31 283 58 2767968 4.00 6 1 6165 3.57 147 27 2767969 4.00 6 1 32119 3.75 53 8 7779 3.71 45912 2513 2767970 4.00 6 1 263422 3.77 137 40 127541 3.65 179 25 629061 4.23 62 3 84521 4.14 7 1 478113 4.00 12 2 283392 3.70 148 28 23113 3.78 2455 244 14444 4.09 2719 248 828601 4.00 6 1 1965 41081 0879971541 9780879971540 0 <![CDATA[Entry to Elsewhen]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1252972743m/41081.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1252972743s/41081.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41081.Entry_to_Elsewhen 3.33 6 Host Age • (1956) • novelette by John Brunner
Lungfish • (1957) • novelette by John Brunner
No Other Gods But Me • (1956) • novelette by John Brunner ]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1972 1442341 0441033016 9780441033010 3 <![CDATA[The Atlantic Abomination]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1442341.The_Atlantic_Abomination 2.88 8 When the first expedition descended to the bottom of the Atlantic in a perfected high-pressure diving bell, their speculation ran wild as to the wonders they would encounter in that unknown sea-bottom world. But their wildest dreams did not prepare them for uncovering first, the stones of an ancient civilization, and second, the monstrous body of an inhuman creature that had been sealed beneath the waters for countless eons. Then, at the height of their excitement, elation turned to horror. For they had brought back an abomination so old that memory of it had been lost to man's remostest ancestors. Ships were disappearing, men and women were becoming enslaved by invisible whips of mental mastery, and it began to look as if it might be beyond the powers even of modern science to stop something that had so successfully defied time.
]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1960 882854 0879975091 9780879975098 0 <![CDATA[The Avengers of Carrig]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882854.The_Avengers_of_Carrig 3.00 4 23113 3.78 2455 244 1969 1486040 0 <![CDATA[Secret Agent of Terra/The Rim of Space]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184102793m/1486040.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184102793s/1486040.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1486040.Secret_Agent_of_Terra_The_Rim_of_Space 3.17 6 Secret Agent of Terra by John Brunner
The Rim of Space by A. Bertram Chandler]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 86216 3.52 119 11 1962 692365 0316907324 9780316907323 0 <![CDATA[Touch Wood (Narrow Houses, Volume II)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/692365.Touch_Wood 3.75 4
Contents
Foreword · Peter Crowther
Introduction · Ramsey Campbell
Touch Wood · t. Winter-Damon
Holding Hands · Charles L. Grant
Lodgings · Colin Greenland
Breath · Adam Corbin Fusco
Heart Flesh · Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Ten O'Clock Horses · Paul Lewis
Funny Weather · Steve Lockley
For Love of Mother · Yvonne Navarro
Eight Limbs · John Brunner
Little Lessons in Gardening · Karl Edward Wagner
His Own Petard · Spider Robinson
SPOIL · Stan Nicholls
Dead Man's Shoes [Newford] · Charles de Lint
The Coffin Trimmer · Bill Pronzini
Steps · Stella Hargreaves
The Owner · Michael Marshall Smith
The Woods Be Dark · Bentley Little
Traffic · Simon Ings
The Mouse · Neil Gaiman
The Ghost and the Soldier · William Relling Jr.
Oracle Bones · Garry Kilworth
Borderlands · Christopher Evans
The Wager · Thomas F. Monteleone
Mysteries of the Word: A Dark Fable· Stanley Wiater
Splints · D.F. Lewis]]> 38592 3.57 488 66 18253 3.59 1780 202 167806 3.59 22 4 717781 3.47 957 82 122629 4.03 957 36 2954054 3.75 4 0 43989 3.56 2714 288 1266178 3.57 21 1 35010 3.59 829 50 23113 3.78 2455 244 88014 4.01 613 69 19317 3.91 5966 304 58325 3.19 409 86 8456 3.95 21678 1561 22880 3.57 1031 188 2954057 3.80 5 0 12339 3.84 2022 277 2998 3.48 3811 329 167202 3.61 134 29 1221698 4.13 285216 26436 269064 3.68 19 1 69469 3.82 289 30 376322 3.87 23 5 207766 3.64 445 51 6935 3.81 124 12 731891 4.17 23 5 1993 2218030 1 <![CDATA[New Worlds of Fantasy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248328291m/2218030.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248328291s/2218030.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2218030.New_Worlds_of_Fantasy 3.80 5 Divine Madness by Roger Zelazny
Break the Door of Hell by John Brunner
The Immortal by Jorge Luis Borges
Narrow Valley by R.A. Lafferty
Comet Wine by Ray Russell
The Other by Katherine MacLean
A Red Heart & Blue Roses by Mildred Clingerman
Stanley Toothbrush by Terry Carr
The Squirel Cage by Thomas M. Disch
Come Lady Death by Peter S. Beagle
Nackles by Curt Clark
The Lost Leonardo by J.G. Ballard
Timothy by Keith Roberts
Basilisk by Avram Davidson
The Evil Eye by Alfred Gillespie]]> 12532 4.06 246 31 3619 3.94 24879 1358 23113 3.78 2455 244 1967 872980 0440988276 9780440988274 0 <![CDATA[Three Trips into Time and Space]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872980.Three_Trips_into_Time_and_Space 3.17 6 23113 3.78 2455 244 5376 3.96 4439 324 12534 3.69 27853 1491 1974 3734240 1 <![CDATA[The Productions of Time]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3734240.The_Productions_of_Time 4.50 2 23113 3.78 2455 244 1966 2200398 1 <![CDATA[Best Science Fiction for 1972]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242789132m/2200398.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242789132s/2200398.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2200398.Best_Science_Fiction_for_1972 4.25 4
Introduction (Best Science Fiction for 1972) • (1972) • essay by Frederik Pohl
Inconstant Moon • (1971) • novelette by Larry Niven
The Sunset, 2217 A.D. • (1972) • novelette by Ryu Mitsuse
Mother in the Sky With Diamonds • (1971) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
Conversational Mode • (1972) • shortstory by Grahame Leman
Sheltering Dream • (1972) • shortstory by Doris Piserchia
At the Mouse Circus • (1971) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison
Silent in Gehenna • (1971) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison
Too Many People • (1971) • novelette by H.H. Hollis
The Easy Way Out • (1971) • novelette by John Brunner (aka Easy Way Out)
The Gold at the Starbow's End • (1972) • novella by Frederik Pohl ]]> 22996 3.67 4765 384 621338 3.71 70 20 7415 4.05 10087 673 2935866 4.00 5 1 23113 3.78 2455 244 12534 3.69 27853 1491 2935867 4.25 4 1 1065820 4.11 787 94 2804576 4.25 4 1 1972 872950 0783801696 9780783801698 0 <![CDATA[Kipling's Science Fiction (G.K. Hall Large Print Sciences Fiction Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179087979m/872950.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179087979s/872950.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872950.Kipling_s_Science_Fiction 0.0 0 6989 3.88 15448 1179 23113 3.78 2455 244 1992 3234640 0879975962 9780879975968 0 <![CDATA[To Conquer Chaos]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3234640.To_Conquer_Chaos 3.25 4 Conrad, living on the dge, had visions of a time when the barrenland was a rich region full of powerful, magical people- people who travelled to other worlds. He was ruled by a burning need to know what none could tell him: the explanation of the mysterious visions that had plagued him all his life.
Then he met Jervis Yanderman, a soldier who knew of these visions. Yanderman was convinced there was an island in the barrenland where people still clung to life...]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1964 3055927 0886771870 9780886771874 0 <![CDATA[More Things in Heaven]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3055927.More_Things_in_Heaven 3.20 5 23113 3.78 2455 244 1973 1486253 1 <![CDATA[A Planet of Your Own/The Beasts of Kohl]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184107578m/1486253.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184107578s/1486253.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1486253.A_Planet_of_Your_Own_The_Beasts_of_Kohl 3.75 4 23113 3.78 2455 244 476730 3.70 10 2 1966 2051499 2 <![CDATA[The Stardroppers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2051499.The_Stardroppers 2.80 5
]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1972 1603736 1 <![CDATA[Now, Then!]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1603736.Now_Then_ 2.60 5 23113 3.78 2455 244 2007 874546 0 <![CDATA[The Book of John Brunner]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/874546.The_Book_of_John_Brunner 3.00 4 23113 3.78 2455 244 1976 1417032 0345378512 9780345378514 0 <![CDATA[Muddle Earth]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1417032.Muddle_Earth 3.67 3 23113 3.78 2455 244 1993 2398746 0440189160 9780440189169 0 <![CDATA[Timescoop]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2398746.Timescoop 2.75 4 23113 3.78 2455 244 1969 41088 0879977647 9780879977641 1 <![CDATA[Manshape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237326547m/41088.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237326547s/41088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41088.Manshape 3.33 3 But the far away world of Azreal was the exception, the one dissident world that refused the Bridge. It became the task of two agents, a man & a woman, to bring Azreal back into Manshape unity, to ferret out the hidden reasons for the stubborn refusal.
The problem, with its perils & high risks, was to involve more than just secrets, for MANSHAPE is a John Brunner novel that deals with the very fabric of civilization.
Printing history: This novel is based on a novella entitled BRIDGE TO AZRAEL which appeared in Amazing Stories 2/64. Under the title ENDLESS SHADOW the same text was published as half of Ace Double F299. The present text has been wholly revised & expanded to about 150% of the length of the former novella.]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 1982 2002144 1415668043 0 <![CDATA[The Product of the Masses: IF Worlds of Science Fiction (4/68, 18.4)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2002144.The_Product_of_the_Masses_IF_Worlds_of_Science_Fiction 4.50 2 The Man in the Maze (Part 1 of 2) [Robert Silverberg];
Slowboat Cargo (Conclusion) [Larry Niven];
NOVELETTES:
The Product of the Masses [John Brunner];
The Rim Gods [A. Bertram Chandler];
SHORT STORY:
The Edward Salant Letters [Jerry Juhl];
ARTICLE:
Meanwhile Back at the Nycon [Lin Carter]]]> 23113 3.78 2455 244 12534 3.69 27853 1491 86216 3.52 119 11 1968 2566462 0385071051 0 <![CDATA[From This Day Forward]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2566462.From_This_Day_Forward 3.00 3 23113 3.78 2455 244 1972 2153148 3453311477 9783453311473 0 <![CDATA[Chroniken der Zukunft 1: Die Sterne rücken näher/Die Pioniere von Sigma Draconia/Brüder der Erde]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224303305m/2153148.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224303305s/2153148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2153148.Chroniken_der_Zukunft_1_Die_Sterne_r_cken_n_her_Die_Pioniere_von_Sigma_Draconia_Br_der_der_Erde 4.50 2 23113 3.78 2455 244 4338 3.77 10823 739 989968 3.85 15466 648 1984 2398743 055212012X 9780552120128 0 <![CDATA[Into the Slave Nebula]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2398743.Into_the_Slave_Nebula 3.00 3 23113 3.78 2455 244 1960 6445509 0330024493 9780330024495 0 <![CDATA[The Ninth Galaxy Reader]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251429544m/6445509.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251429544s/6445509.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6445509-the-ninth-galaxy-reader 4.50 2 Introduction (The Ninth Galaxy Reader) • (1965) • essay by Frederik Pohl
Wrong-Way Street • [Time Travel - Parallel Universe] • (1965) • short story by Larry Niven
A Flask of Fine Arcturan • (1965) • short story by C.C. MacApp
Wasted on the Young • (1965) • short story by John Brunner
Slow Tuesday Night • (1965) • short story by R.A. Lafferty
An Ancient Madness • (1964) • novelette by Damon Knight (aka Mary)
The Children of Night • (1964) • novelette by Frederik Pohl
The Monster and the Maiden • (1964) • short story by Roger Zelazny
How the Old World Died • (1964) • short story by Harry Harrison
Jungle Substitute • (1964) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
The Watchers in the Glade • (1964) • novelette by Richard Wilson
The King of the Beasts • (1964) • short story by Philip José Farmer
To Avenge Man • (1964) • novelette by Lester del Rey

]]> 22996 3.67 4765 384 126801 3.90 560 51 23000 3.92 1868 131 3619 3.94 24879 1358 32119 3.75 53 8 16147 3.70 7636 373 10089 3.67 6803 412 19739 3.83 818 87 33297 3.58 1796 233 987980 4.50 2 0 12534 3.69 27853 1491 53601 3.86 14 6 23113 3.78 2455 244 1970 6297341 0202862038 0 <![CDATA[Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1962 March (Volume LXIX, No. 1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235788437m/6297341.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235788437s/6297341.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6297341.Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact_1962_March 4.50 2 "Maybe It'll Go Away..." • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.
His Master's Voice • novelette by Randall Garrett
Uncalculated Risk • shortstory by Christopher Anvil
Rough Beast • shortstory by Roger Dee
The Iron Jackass • shortstory by John Brunner
Power Supplies for Space Vehicles (Part 2 of 2) • essay by J. B. Friedenberg
Epilogue • novella by Poul Anderson
]]> 2970385 4.28 291 39 2814907 4.50 4 0 32278 3.61 5259 381 95187 4.02 595 40 58059 3.99 134 26 449733 4.50 6 1 23113 3.78 2455 244 1962 6566435 0 <![CDATA[Out of This World 5: An Anthology of Science Fiction]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6566435-out-of-this-world-5 4.00 2 Bottomless pit / Philip E. High --
The hour of letdown / E.B. White --
Colonial / John Christopher --
Badman / John Brunner --
Pushover planet / Con Pedersen --
The fiction machines / Vadim Okhotnikov --
Winthrop was stubborn / William Tenn.]]> 314871 3.50 4 0 2968694 4.00 2 0 23000 3.92 1868 131 731665 3.92 24 3 988142 4.09 72762 4211 2001324 3.91 4888 375 23113 3.78 2455 244 2968704 4.00 2 0 2968705 4.00 2 0 44808 3.83 452 40 1965 163918 0610536672 9780610536670 0 <![CDATA[Alien Worlds]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172329151m/163918.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172329151s/163918.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163918.Alien_Worlds 3.50 2
Stories include:
Afternoon of a Fahn
Cosmic Poachers
Dawn Invader
Last Monster
Fear Planet
Singleminded
Stars My Brothers
Brain Stealers of Mars
Man From Beyond
Madness From Mars]]> 29523 3.56 199 26 36332 3.83 5171 469 12540 3.85 1838 183 23012 3.81 2307 243 23113 3.78 2455 244 8489 3.65 1609 134 4764 3.88 55278 4035 1964 6755261 6211458126 9786211458120 0 <![CDATA[Fantastic Universe Science Fact & Fiction 12/1959 12.2]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6755261-fantastic-universe-science-fact-fiction-12-1959-12-2 5.00 1 ~ ~~ ~
NOVELLA:
Curative Telepath [John Brunner];
SHORT STORIES:
The Answer [H. Beam Piper];
The Girl in the Bottle [Algis Budrys];
The Season of the Babies [Miriam Allen deFord];
Our Saucer Vacation [Fritz Leiber];
Life and Death of a Robot [Robert Andrea];
Brace Yourself For Mother [Kate Wilhelm];
ARTICLES:
More About the Abominable Snowman [Ivan T. Sanderson];
Some Have Entertained Angels [Leland & Rita Puttcamp];
The Red Silk Scarf [Ranjee Shahani];
Lethe [Robert Bierman];
The Russian Moon Rocket [Van Rowe]]]> 271354 3.88 8 3 23113 3.78 2455 244 126802 4.03 115 13 23001 3.91 4737 351 128647 3.89 1300 95 1959 7013628 0879973196 9780879973193 0 <![CDATA[The End of the Dream]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7013628-the-end-of-the-dream 5.00 1 124055 3.76 293 55 23113 3.78 2455 244 1973 6483916 0 <![CDATA[The If Reader of Science Fiction]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242904174m/6483916.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242904174s/6483916.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6483916-the-if-reader-of-science-fiction 5.00 1 The If Reader of Science Fiction • (1966) • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
Introduction (The If Reader of Science Fiction) • (1966) • essay by Frederik Pohl
When Time Was New • (1964) • novelette by Robert F. Young
Father of the Stars • (1964) • novelette by Frederik Pohl
The Life Hater • [Berserker] • (1964) • short story by Fred Saberhagen
Old Testament • (1964) • short story by Jerome Bixby
The Silkie • (1964) • novelette by A.E. van Vogt
A Better Mousetrap • (1963) • short story by John Brunner
Long Day in Court • (1963) • short story by Jonathan Brand
Trick or Treaty • [Retief] • (1965) • novelette by Keith Laumer
The 64-Square Madhouse • (1962) • novelette by Fritz Leiber ]]> 22996 3.67 4765 384 502042 4.06 346 36 1293688 3.75 2149 214 23113 3.78 2455 244 23001 3.91 4737 351 2936888 5.00 1 0 32303 3.81 1639 125 1170942 5.00 1 0 576992 3.88 16 1 53600 3.64 28 4 10082 3.68 5281 163 6308358 0202865053 0 <![CDATA[Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1965 May (Volume LXXV, No. 3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236036828m/6308358.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236036828s/6308358.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6308358.Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact_1965_May 5.00 1 Trouble Tide • novelette by James H. Schmitz
Planetfall • shortstory by John Brunner
Magnetohydrodynamics • essay by Ben Bova
The Captive Djinn • shortstory by Christopher Anvil
The Prophet of Dune (Part 5 of 5) • serial by Frank Herbert
]]> 2970385 4.28 291 39 58 3.86 93790 3674 723256 4.06 627 50 23113 3.78 2455 244 12407 3.62 3951 343 58059 3.99 134 26 1965 6256027 0202862070 9780202862071 0 <![CDATA[Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1962 July (Volume LXIX, No. 5)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235831799m/6256027.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235831799s/6256027.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256027.Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact_1962_July 5.00 1 What's Wrong With Science • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Listen! The Stars! • novella by John Brunner
Science Fiction Heat-Ray? • essay by uncredited
Junior Achievement • shortstory by William M. Lee
The Other Likeness • shortstory by James H. Schmitz
Brain Waves and Thought Patterns • essay by John Eric Holmes
Border, Breed Nor Birth (Part 1 of 2) • serial by Mack Reynolds
The Rescuer • shortstory by Arthur Porges
]]> 2970385 4.28 291 39 127541 3.65 179 25 723256 4.06 627 50 99542 4.12 51 8 23113 3.78 2455 244 2861594 4.00 2 0 411625 3.22 9 2 1962 6256035 0202865118 0 <![CDATA[Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1965 November (Volume LXXVI, No. 3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236119276m/6256035.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236119276s/6256035.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6256035.Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact_1965_November 5.00 1 Down Styphon! • [Kalvan] • novelette by H. Beam Piper
Even Chance • shortstory by John Brunner
Problem in Thermodynamics • essay by uncredited
A Long Way to Go • shortstory by Robert Conquest
Some Preliminary Notes on FASEG • shortstory by Laurence M. Janifer and Frederick W. Kantor
Onward and Upward with Space Power • essay by J. Frank Coneybear
Space Pioneer (Part 3 of 3) • serial by Mack Reynolds
]]> 2970385 4.28 291 39 127541 3.65 179 25 23113 3.78 2455 244 29436 3.85 221 27 128647 3.89 1300 95 76279 3.44 39 7 2866250 5.00 1 0 2866251 5.00 1 0 1965 4443483 1894815084 9781894815086 0 <![CDATA[Strange Pleasures 2]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4443483.Strange_Pleasures_2 5.00 1
Contents
Introduction: "We Really Liked This, But… John Grant & Dave Hutchinson
Balzac · N. Lee Wood
Joey Ramone Saves the World · Nick Mamatas
An Open Door · David V. Barrett
The Art of Self-Abuse · Keith Brooke
Crowd Control · Lou Anders
Reflections · Fay Sampson
The Pier · Sarah Singleton
Most Dead Bodies in a Confined Space · Jean Marie Ward
The Impossibility of Travelling in Time · Paul Kincaid
Private View · Ian Johnson
The Stars Move Still · John Brunner
The Young Woman in a House of Old · Vera Nazarian
About the Contributors]]> 26169 4.10 311 36 498091 4.25 8 0 44071 3.24 75 13 193861 3.67 178 45 422126 3.72 46 3 162931 3.23 88 30 61741 3.62 91 31 117621 3.81 36 3 470587 3.61 203 56 901360 3.46 13 4 550793 4.00 2 2 6352 3.95 61 9 23113 3.78 2455 244 186145 3.86 1495 29 2003 176484 0312853548 9780312853549 0 <![CDATA[Kipling's Fantasy: Stories by Rudyard Kipling]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176484.Kipling_s_Fantasy_Stories_by_Rudyard_Kipling 4.00 1 6989 3.88 15448 1179 23113 3.78 2455 244 1992 6339451 1415671060 0 <![CDATA[IF Worlds of Science Fiction, 1971 June (Volume 20, No. 11)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237154269m/6339451.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237154269s/6339451.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6339451-if-worlds-of-science-fiction-1971-june 4.00 1 Battleground • shortstory by Gregory Benford and Jim Benford
Easy Way Out • novelette by John Brunner
The Right to Revolt • shortstory by Keith Laumer
The Right to Resist • shortstory by Keith Laumer
Fallen Spaceman • shortstory by Lee Harding
]]> 2854961 4.60 5 0 32303 3.81 1639 125 538445 3.31 13 1 10089 3.67 6803 412 22645 3.57 2500 180 2876685 4.00 1 0 23113 3.78 2455 244 1971 872225 0441043852 9780441043859 0 <![CDATA[Rocket To Limbo / Echo In The Skull]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179083995m/872225.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179083995s/872225.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872225.Rocket_To_Limbo_Echo_In_The_Skull 4.00 1 ~ ~~ ~
But, superimposed on those memories are OTHER lives recalled; lives on planets alien beyond comprehension. Lives ended in horror as each world was destroyed by a malignant alien, slimy and ugly, demanding sacrifice. What is happening to this girl's mind?

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ROCKET TO LIMBO: Lars Heldrigsson was fresh out of the Colonial Service Academy and his first assignment was a milk-run to Vega aboard the *Ganymede. Not a very exciting trip, except that the ship's commander, Walter Fox, had explored and opened more new colony-worlds than any other man.
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But the *Ganymede* had hardly blasted off before Lars discovered that not all the crew shared his admiration of their chief. Rumors circulated, rumblings of mutiny were heard, and the news finally broke that they weren't going to Vega at all, but to Wolf IV, the one planet from which no man had returned alive!]]> 283392 3.70 148 28 23113 3.78 2455 244 1959 6345336 0283982837 0 <![CDATA[Science fiction Special 13]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6345336-science-fiction-special-13 0.0 0 Brian N. Ball
John Brunner
Clifford Simak]]> 2878140 0.0 0 0 23113 3.78 2455 244 23012 3.81 2307 243 1975 6178175 0 <![CDATA[More Adventures on Other Planets]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233453062m/6178175.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233453062s/6178175.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6178175.More_Adventures_on_Other_Planets 0.0 0 What exciting adventures await mankind in the very near future when the first astronauts set foot on other worlds?
Though men are already in training for these cosmic voyages, only the vivid imaginations of the best science-fiction writers can penetrate in advance the wonders they will encounter.
Here, in this new anthology, you will find a preview of the thrills in store for men on scorching Mercury, shrouded Venus, ancient Mars and the other worlds of outer space.

Contents:

Child of the Sun by Leigh Brackett
Sunrise on Mercury by Robert Silverberg
By the Name of Man by John Brunner
The Red Death of Mars by Robert Moore Williams
The Planet of Doubt by Stanley G. Weinbaum
Tiger By the Tail by Poul Anderson]]> 450056 3.66 204 32 192309 4.09 322 40 32278 3.61 5259 381 22648 3.77 360 57 4338 3.77 10823 739 23113 3.78 2455 244 329582 3.09 11 6 1963 3609140 3453312783 9783453312784 0 <![CDATA[Planet der Träumer. Ein Stern kehrt zurück. Der Sommer geht]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3609140.Planet_der_Tr_umer_Ein_Stern_kehrt_zur_ck_Der_Sommer_geht 0.0 0 The Dreamers, an ancient race of men and women, live in a vast tower on a dying planet. Through their dreams they have found a way to contact Earth, but they believe that Earth's inhabitants are only the stuff of which their endless reveries are made - "dream creatures" to be toyed with ruthlessly and whose plans for spaceflight must be destroyed.
Then one of the Dreamers comes to realize that Mankind is indeed real. How he projects himself into Bard Lane's mind and falls in love with the beguiling Sharan Inly makes Planet of the Dreamers one of the best space-travel yarns of any year. It is a story that will appeal to the general reader as well as to the science-fiction fan.]]> 24690 3.87 8149 401 23113 3.78 2455 244 1360970 3.25 8 1 1951 6210082 2600157069 9782600157063 0 <![CDATA[New Worlds Science Fiction, June 1957 (Volume 20, No. 60)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6210082.New_Worlds_Science_Fiction_June_1957 0.0 0 ~ ~~ ~
NOVELETTES:
Misfit [Alan Barclay];
Stress Complex [Francis G. Rayer];
SHORT STORIES:
Sunrise on Mercury [Robert Silverberg];
The Eye of the Beholder [John Brunner];
The Golden Age [Philip E. High];
Fabulous Photographer [John Boland];
ARTICLES:
Planets Calling Earth [John Newman];
The Nuclear Navy [Part 1 of 2] [Kenneth Johns];
More Convention News [John Carnell]]]> 454826 5.00 3 0 23113 3.78 2455 244 731665 3.92 24 3 2827478 3.00 2 0 42514 3.29 14 13 1957 6528738 0886776562 9780886776565 0 <![CDATA[Heaven Sent: 18 Glorious Tales of the Angels]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1244349363m/6528738.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1244349363s/6528738.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6528738-heaven-sent 0.0 0
Contents
Words and Feelings · Peter Crowther
Introduction · Storm Constantine
Letting Go · Ken Wisman
Wings · James Lovegrove
Spirit Guides · Kristine Kathryn Rusch
House Call · Christopher Evans
The Big Sky [Newford] · Charles de Lint
Relief · Jane M. Lindskold
Spiritual Dysfunction and Counterangelic Longings; or, Sariela: A Case Study in One Act · Michael Bishop
Real Messengers · John Brunner
The Visit · Kathryn Ptacek
Part-Singing · Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Gordy's A-Okay · Stephen Laws
The Realms of Glory · Judith Moffett
Steam [Desolation Road] · Ian McDonald
Synandra · Ed Gorman
After the Elephant Ballet [Cedar Hill] · Gary A. Braunbeck
Cherub · Garry Kilworth
Angel Blood · Bruce D. Arthurs
In Gethsemene · Stephen Gallagher]]> 38592 3.57 488 66 26064 3.56 4920 594 45816 3.93 1930 137 207913 3.33 12 1 98903 3.42 165 46 43989 3.56 2714 288 376322 3.87 23 5 8456 3.95 21678 1561 140384 3.36 28 3 2844917 4.01 85 10 23113 3.78 2455 244 1360841 3.83 35 7 12991 3.84 3333 445 154482 3.23 121 17 114933 3.52 29 7 25376 3.85 1331 256 4844 3.88 3449 404 11508 3.65 1363 144 69469 3.82 289 30 1362543 3.74 294 2 64107 3.49 182 37 1995 6917855 0450021424 9780450021428 0 <![CDATA[Stopwatch: A collection of international SF stories]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6917855-stopwatch 0.0 0 The Protocols of the Elders of Britain John Brunner
Are Your Home Grown Vegetables Radioactive Kathleen Brennan
Ash, Ash Robert P. Holdstock
All We Have on This Planet A.E. van Vogt
EA5000: Report on the Effects of Riot Gas Ian Watson
Intracom Ursula K. Le Guin
A Bedtime Story D. Letts
The Invisible Men Christopher Priest
Now Is Forever Edward Allen
Charley Perry A. Chapdelaine
When the Music's Over Andrew Darlington
In Memoriam, Jeannie Josephine Saxton
Doctor Fausta David I. Masson
]]> 619526 2.50 2 0 23113 3.78 2455 244 2445856 3.43 7 0 858294 3.00 1 0 188057 3.43 166 7 1249865 3.00 1 0 3094789 0.0 0 0 2889929 3.00 1 0 1293688 3.75 2149 214 141334 3.35 246 39 874602 3.93 48523 4136 3094790 0.0 0 0 23419 3.74 2329 451 42168 3.48 50 11 1974 6100184 3453313607 9783453313606 0 <![CDATA[Farmer im All / Die Feuerteufel / Spion aus der Zukunft. Drei Science Fiction Romane in einem Band.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6100184.Farmer_im_All_Die_Feuerteufel_Spion_aus_der_Zukunft_Drei_Science_Fiction_Romane_in_einem_Band_ 0.0 0 205 3.77 102860 4392 29998 3.75 1366 189 23113 3.78 2455 244 1986