Essential Single-Author SF Anthologies
Discover the best single-author SF anthologies with our curated list of essential reads. Explore must-have collections from top sci-fi writers for ultimate fans.
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Nine Hundred Grandmothers
by R. A. Lafferty
"Here at last are the finest of Lafferty's shorter works, stories about: a man who found one day that he knew absolutely everyone in the world; a race who kept their most ancient ancestors on shelves in the basements; a speeded-up world where a man could earn and lose a dozen fortunes a night; a friendly bearlike creature named Snuffles who said he was God ... In all, twenty-one immensely enjoyable stories that will continue to delight you long after you've finished reading them."--Page 1
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Virtual Unrealities
by Alfred Bester
"Dazzlement and enchantment are Bester's methods. His stories never stand still a moment." —Damon Knight, author of Why Do Birds Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than in these seventeen short stories—two of them previously unpublished—that have now been brought together in a single volume for the first time. Read about the sweet-natured young man whose phenomenal good luck turns out to be disastrous for the rest of humanity. Find out why tourists are flocking to a hellish little town in a post-nuclear Kansas. Meet a warlock who practices on Park Avenue and whose potions comply with the Pure Food and Drug Act. Make a deal with the Devil—but not without calling your agent. Dazzling, effervescent, sexy, and sardonic, Virtual Unrealities is a historic collection from one of science fiction's true pathbreakers. "Alfred Bester was one of the handful of writers who invented modern science fiction. " —Harry Harrison
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The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
by Arthur C. Clarke
Introduces readers to the author's shorter works, spanning his entire writing career, including "The Nine Billion Names of God," "Nemesis," "The Sentinel," and "The Songs of Distant Earth."
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The Essential Ellison
by Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison is probably best known as a script writer for sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV series such as the original Outer Limits, The Hunger, Logan's Run, and Babylon Five. But his range is much broader than that, encompassing stories, novels, essays, reviews, reminiscences, plays, even fake autobiographies. Essential Ellison includes contains 74 unabridged works, including such classics as A Boy and His Dog, Xenogenesis, and Mefisto in Onyx. Includes black-and-white photos.
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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
by James Tiptree
These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing a deeper view into her world and a better understanding of her work. The Nebula Award?winning short story Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, the Hugo Award?winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Award?winning novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are included.
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The Best of C. M. Kornbluth
by Cyril M. Kornbluth
Each story preceded by a paragraph of commentary.
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Ultimate Egoist
by Theodore Sturgeon
The first in a ten-volume collection of work by the writer who inspired Gene Roddenberry, Ray Bradbury, and Stephen King, "The Ultimate Egoist" brings together Theodore Sturgeon's earliest pieces.
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The Jack Vance Treasury
by Jack Vance
A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.
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Bradbury Stories
by Ray Bradbury
For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas. The stories within these pages were chosen by Bradbury himself, and span a career that blossomed in the pulp magazines of the early 1940s and continues to flourish in the new millennium. Here are representatives of the legendary author's finest works of short fiction, including many that have not been republished for decades, all forever fresh and vital, evocative and immensely entertaining.
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The Past Through Tomorrow
by Robert Anson Heinlein
Here in one monumental volume are all 21 of the stories, novellas and novels making up Heinlein's famous Future History - the rich, imaginative architecture of Man's destiny that many consider his greatest and most prophetic work - book cover.
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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The short happy life of the Brown Oxford
by Philip K. Dick
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Man in His Time
by Brian Wilson Aldiss
A collection of the author's best science fiction stories.
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