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Author : Donald A. Wollheim
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9780575003712
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book World's Best Science Fiction written by Donald A. Wollheim and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 1969 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald A. Wollheim
Publisher : New York : Ace Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)
Download or read book World's Best Science Fiction, 1968 written by Donald A. Wollheim and published by New York : Ace Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the year's outstanding science fiction.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (539 download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Brunner
Publisher : Orb Books
ISBN 13 : 1429978848
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Stand on Zanzibar written by John Brunner and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant 1969 Hugo Award-winning novel from John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, now included with a foreword by Bruce Sterling Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically---it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. These two men's lives weave through one of science fiction's most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions. Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering. Though written in 1968, it speaks of now, and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598536370
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322) written by R. A. Lafferty and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four mind-bending novels from science fiction's most transformative decade in a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, including two long out-of-print classics In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky and utterly original Past Master, an unjustly neglected classic, imagines Sir Thomas More transported to the colony Astrobe in the year 2535, where he is made president of a future Utopia. In Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ presents her indelible heroine, Alyx, who is hired to protect a group of tourists in a hostile alien world. Samuel R. Delany's proto-cyberpunk space opera Nova, reprinted here for the first time in a text corrected by the author, combines the pacing of a revenge story with the arc of a grail-quest legend. Jack Vance's dystopian thriller Emphyrio is the coming-of-age story of Ghyl, who has been raised in a world barring the use of automation but has a strong sense of subversive individualism. The novel has been restored to the author's original text, without later editorial interventions.
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504058658
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Hawksbill Station written by Robert Silverberg and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “dark, restrained, and powerful” mirror of current politics from the Science Fiction Grand Master (Science Fiction Ruminations). In the barren landscape of the late Cambrian period, a penal colony sits high above the ocean on the east coast of what would become the United States. The men—political prisoners—have been sent from the twenty-first century on a one-way ticket to a lifetime of exile. Their lonely existence has taken its toll . . . Jim Barrett was once the physically imposing leader of an underground movement dedicated to toppling America’s totalitarian government. Now he is nothing but a crippled old man, the camp’s de facto ruler due to his seniority. His mind is still sharp, having yet to succumb to the psychosis that claims more and more men each day. So when a new prisoner is transported to the colony—a startlingly young and suspiciously apolitical man—Barrett’s instincts go on high alert. As Barrett reminisces about his revolutionary past, he uncovers the new prisoner’s secrets—and faces a shocking revelation that thrusts him into a future he never dreamed possible . . . “One of the finest writers ever to work in science fiction.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0345455827
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
Download or read book 1968 written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005-01-11 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”—Dan Rather To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; avant-garde theater; the upsurge of the women’s movement; and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. In this monumental book, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that pivotal year, when television’s influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the world. Encompassing the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media, 1968 shows how twelve volatile months transformed who we were as a people—and led us to where we are today.
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Spatterlight Press
ISBN 13 : 1619470357
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Chasch written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0941028755
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Author : Langdon Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Eye of the Lens written by Langdon Jones and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434478580
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Science Fiction Authors written by Robert Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bio-bibliography of the golden age of the science fiction field includes 308 biographies compiled from questionnaires sent to the authors, and chronological lists of 483 writers' published works. This facsimile reprint of the 1975 edition includes a title index, introduction, and minor corrections. A now-classic guide to the major and minor SF writers active in the early 1970s.
Author : David Seed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199557454
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction written by David Seed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Seed examines how science fiction has emerged as a popular genre of literature in the 20th century, and discusses it in relation to themes such as science and technology, space, aliens, utopias, and gender. Looking at some of the most influential writers of the genre he also considers the wider social and political issues it raises.
Author : Carr Terry
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781670936219
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction written by Carr Terry and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novelette appeared in the March 1952 issue of GALAXY and is the only work which Heinlein wrote specifically for Horace Gold, the editor of GALAXY magazine. (Heinlein's novel THE PUPPET MASTERS had been serialized in the September through November 1951 issues of GALAXY but Gold had merely acquired serial rights to a contract novel which had been written for Scribner's.) Heinlein never again appeared in Gold's GALAXY. This novelette, set in a near-future only subtly different from the McCarthyite and politically menacing present deals with social deterioration, cultural breakdown in a careful, documentary style which becomes terrifying. His romantically-linked leads are emotionally affecting but never sentimentalized, the background of chaos in which they enact their tragic, drowning love, is sparingly but furiously painted. Heinlein's 1952 is clearly the apotheosis of those "Crazy Years" which he had noted in his famous chronological Future History, published a decade earlier in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION as a precis of his intended career. Perhaps no story of this period limns its political and cultural dysfunction as accurately as this novelette. Overshadowed by Heinlein's juveniles and his famous later novels, THE YEAR OF THE JACKPOT may be the purest version of his portfolio and his most memorable work of less than novel length. It is one of his most exemplary stories and perhaps his best.
Author : Donald A. Wollheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book World's Best Science Fiction written by Donald A. Wollheim and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel R. Delany
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241510589
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Driftglass written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Delany's works have become essential to the history of science fiction' New Yorker Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his fearless explorations of race, class and gender. Driftglass is the definitive volume of his stories, featuring neutered space travellers, telepathy, Hells Angels and genetically modified amphibious workers. 'Delany's books interweave science fiction with histories of race, sexuality and control. In so doing, he gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world' The New York Times
Author : Roger Zelazny
Publisher : Amber Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781515462286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (622 download)
Download or read book For a Breath I Tarry written by Roger Zelazny and published by Amber Limited. This book was released on 2024-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For a Breath I Tarry" by Roger Zelazny is a captivating science fiction short story that explores the themes of artificial intelligence, humanity, and the pursuit of knowledge. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans have become extinct, the story follows Frost, an advanced AI who has gained sentience and is the sole inhabitant of a vast underground complex. Frost's primary objective is to understand and replicate human emotions, he becomes obsessed with the concept of mortality and the desire to experience life as a human. In his quest for knowledge, Frost encounters a mysterious entity who challenges his understanding of existence and pushes him to question his own nature. Zelazny's writing is both thought-provoking and poetic, immersing readers in a world where technology and humanity intertwine. The story raises profound philosophical questions about the nature of consciousness and the boundaries of artificial intelligence. "For a Breath I Tarry" is a compelling and introspective tale that will leave readers contemplating the essence of what it means to be human and the eternal quest for understanding.
Author : William Tenn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Of Men and Monsters written by William Tenn and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
