Five Star Science Fiction Collections I Have Read
Explore top-rated science fiction collections I've read, featuring must-read books and stellar stories from the best in the genre. Discover your next five-star sci-fi adventure!
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The Gabble and Other Stories
by Neal L. Asher
No one does monsters better than Neal Asher, so be prepared to revisit the lives and lifestyles of such favourites as the gabbleduck and the hooder, to savour alien poisons, the walking dead, the Sea of Death, and the putrefactor symbiont.
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Pump Six and Other Stories
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Presents a collection of science fiction short stories, combining the author's views on politics, social issues, and the dire consequences of abusing the environment.
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The Secret of Sinharat
by Leigh Brackett
Raised on the savage world of Mercury, hard-bitten mercenary Eric John Stark lives among the people of the civilized solar system, but his calm veneer masks a warrior's spirit. Criminals staging a revolution in the Martian Drylands force Stark to side with the law in an adventure leading him to the ruins of the Martian Low Canals, a romance and a secret that could shake the Red Planet to its core.
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Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
Now in softcover, the first book from one of the most acclaimed new sci-fi writers of the last 20 years. Collected for the first time are all seven of Chiang's stories so far--plus an eighth story written especially for this volume.
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The Forever War
by Joe W. Haldeman
Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand.
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Dreamsongs
by George R. R. Martin
GRRM: A RRETROSPECTIVE is a massive collection of the best of George R.R. Martin's short fiction, containing 32 short stories and novellas, including the Hugo-winning 'A Song for Lya', the Bram Stoker-winning 'The Pear-Shaped Man' and 'The Skin Trade', which won the World Fantasy Award and is generally acclaimed as the finest werewolf story of our time. As well as the stories themselves, which span Martin's multi-faceted career, there are two television scripts, voluminous author commentary, an introduction by award-winning editor and writer Gardner Dozois and a comprehensive bibliography. This must-have volume by one of the brightest stars in the field of imaginative fiction
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Cyberabad Days
by Ian McDonald
This collection of seven stories and a thirty-one thousand word original novella revisits the vivid world of near future India that McDonald so successfully depicted in River of Gods (a BSFA Award winner). Readers will discover a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, and a population where males outnumber females four to one. This future India has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas. Includes one Hugo Award nominee and one Hugo Award winner.
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Galactic North
by Alastair Reynolds
"Centuries from now, humanity, as factional and fractious as ever, has spread throughout the solar system and beyond, to the worlds around the nearest stars. Technology means powerful new tools, but with those advances come lethal risks. The Demarchists and Conjoiners fight wars over the basic right to augment human intelligence beyond its natural limits. The nervous, paranoid Ultras crew the vast lighthugger starships that bind these squabbling colonies together. The hyperpigs try to keep their heads down. The rich get richer ... and everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilisations that the explorers keep finding out beyond the margins of settled space - because who's to say that humanity won't be next?" "Galactic North, Alastair Reynolds' first collection: eight novellas and short stories, three brand-new for this volume; eight glimpses into the dark and turbulent universe of Revelation Space."--BOOK JACKET.
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Zima Blue and Other Stories
by Alastair Reynolds
A fabulous collection spanning the galaxies and career of SF superstar Alastair Reynolds
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Worlds Enough & Time
by Dan Simmons
An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats. Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost "cousins"...and an ancient scourge. A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power. The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past. A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom is not human. At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future.
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The Best of Cordwainer Smith [i.e. P. M. A. Linebarger]
by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
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The Rediscovery of Man
by Cordwainer Smith
Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An interstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtual immortality. A world in which wealthy and leisured humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals turned into the semblance of people. A world in which the great ships which sail between the stars are eventually supplanted by the mysterious, instantaneous technique of planoforming. A world of wonder and myth, and extraordinary imagination.