My Science-fiction Authors Hall of Fame
Explore the greatest science-fiction authors in our Hall of Fame! Discover iconic writers, legendary books, and timeless stories that shaped the sci-fi genre. A must-read for fans!
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Flatland
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
A humorous examination with serious overtones of the concepts of space, time, and dimension.
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Time Patrol
by Poul Anderson
Forget minor hazards like nuclear bombs. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes. But Manse Everard, the Patrol's finest temporal trouble-shooter, bears a heavy burden. The fabric of history is stained with human blood and suffering which he cannot, must not do anything to alleviate, lest his tampering bring disastrous alterations in future time. Everard must leave the horrors of the past in place, lest his tampering-or that of the Patrol's opponents, the Exaltationists-erase all hope of a better future, and instead bring about a future filled with greater horrors than any recorded by past history at its darkest and most foul.
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Gods and Pawns
by Kage Baker
A collection of seven short stories set in the universe of the Company chronicles the history and adventures of the organization and its operatives, including Mendoza, Lewis, and Joseph.
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Childhood's End
by Arthur C. Clarke
Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends--and then the age of Mankind begins....
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Wraeththu
by Storm Constantine
Here at last in a single volume are all three of Constantine's Wraeththu trilogy: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, and The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire. In this powerful and elegant story set in a future Earth very different from our own, a new kind of human has evolved to challenge the dominion of Homo sapiens. This new breed is stronger, smarter, and far more beautiful than their parent race, and are endowed with psychic as well as physical gifts. They are destined to supplant humanity as we know it, but humanity won't die without a struggle.
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Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
In one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel "to stand with the best American fiction of the 1970s" (Jonathan Lethem, bestselling author of Fortress of Solitude). Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there.... The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. Into this disaster zone comes a young man—poet, lover, and adventurer—known only as the Kid. Tackling questions of race, gender, and sexuality, Dhalgren is a literary marvel and groundbreaking work of American magical realism.
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Ubik
by Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.
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The Naked God
by Peter F. Hamilton
Part I of the long-awaited finale to the epic science fiction series that began with The Reality Dysfunction (a USA Today bestseller) & The Neutronium Alchemist.
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Retief!
by Keith Laumer
This novel and collection of stories have previously appeared in parts in "Envoy to New Worlds, Galactic Diplomat, " and "Retief's War." Exploring the origins of the Corps Diplomatique, the background of Retief is told for the first time.
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The Dancers at the End of Time
by Michael Moorcock
The Eternal Champion series continues with "The Dancers at the End of Time", a monumental science-fiction epic blending humor and romance in a story that spans all of space and time. Can love blossom the a millennia? In world where "conscience" and "morality" are meaningless? In a multiverse that is collapsing and racing toward the brink of destruction? This tenth volume of the Eternal Champion series makes the complete omnibus of this incredible story available in paperback for the first time.
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Red Dwarf Omnibus
by Grant Naylor
Here are the first two novels of the cult series Red Dwarf in one volume – Red Dwarf and Better Than Life – plus the first draft of the original TV pilot script. It all when Dave Lister is celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London, and somehow ends up three million years from Earth, marooned in the wrong dimension of the wrong reality, and down to his last two cigarettes. Together with a dead man, a senile computer, a deranged sanitation mechanoid with an overactive guilt chip and the best-dressed entity in all six known universes, the last remaining member of the human race begins his epic journey home.
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Gateway
by Frederik Pohl
The Heechee gateways, remnants of an ancient civilization, provide instantaneous passage to the far reaches of the universe but do not ensure destination, return, wealth, or survival.
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Master of Space and Time
by Rudy Rucker
The real world is unbearable to madcap inventor Harry Gerber, so he uses his genius to twist the laws of science and create his own tailor-made universe. Master of Space and Time combines high physics and high jinks, blurring the line between science and magic. From a voyage to a mirror-image world where sluglike parasites make slaves of humanity, to trees and bushes that grow fries and pork chops, to a rain of fish, author Rudy Rucker—two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award—takes readers on the ultimate joyride. But once the gluons at the core of Harry's creation run out ... disaster looms for Harry and his friends.
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Hominids
by Robert J. Sawyer
In a parallel world in which Neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, a dangerous scientific experiment traps a Neanderthal physicist on Earth.
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The Tenth Victim
by Robert Sheckley
In the year of the future, Caroline Meredith, a survivor as Hunted and as Victim seeks her tenth and final legal kill from Victim Marcello
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The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg: Secret sharers
by Robert Silverberg
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Venus Plus X
by Theodore Sturgeon
The Ledom have made a world without war, without fear -- a world in which each individual is free to love, to create, to explore. This gentle and kindly new race have made their twentieth-century guest, Charlie Johns, welcome to their paradise, where Charlie thinks he is in heaven. But when he finds out where and when he is, all that may change. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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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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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
Follows Professor Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans as they explore a volcanic crater in Iceland that leads them to the center of the Earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.
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Interplanetary Odysseys
by Stanley G Weinbaum
INTERPLANETARY ODYSSEYS .."...One of the novas of the SF cosmos." The New Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction Interplanetary Odysseys collects together all of Stanley G. Weinbaum's tales set on the planets and moons of our own solar system. With their colony cities and fast, easy space travel, these stories from the great romantic tradition of SF remain entertaining, readable and relevant. Weinbaum was noted as the first SF writer to create believable aliens that were a product of their own planetary environments and eco-systems. The lead story, the classic "A Martian Odyssey," demonstrates this talent perfectly and with the nine other tales included here it gives readers new and old a chance to relive the sense of wonder that sprang from the glory days of science fiction.
