Secondhand Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2824

Secondhand Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2824

Five Robert Heinlein titles, three Ursula K. Le Guin novels, three A.E. Van Vogt works, three Clifford D. Simak novels, two Asimov Foundation books, and Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, John Varley, Robert Silverberg, and Joe Haldeman — this is golden age science fiction at its most concentrated. Dominated by Panther Science Fiction paperbacks from the peak era of British SF publishing, the box spans the full width of the genre's most fertile period — twenty-two titles from the absolute heart of the canon.

1. Mindbridge — Joe Haldeman — Haldeman's second novel, following an alien-contact mission with the same intensity and technical rigour that distinguished The Forever War; an underrated gem of late-1970s SF.
2. The Lathe of Heaven — Ursula K. Le Guin — A man whose dreams alter reality becomes the subject of a psychiatrist's dangerous experiments; Le Guin at her most unsettling and philosophically rich.
3. City of Illusions — Ursula K. Le Guin — A man with no memory wanders a far-future forest Earth trying to recover who he is; early Le Guin with all her characteristic intelligence and strangeness.
4. The Flight of the Horse — Larry Niven — A government agent is sent back in time to collect extinct animals with wildly unexpected results; Niven's time travel stories at their most inventive and dryly funny.
5. The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin — Le Guin's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpiece; a physicist travels between twin worlds built on opposed political philosophies and must reconcile what both reveal about freedom and human solidarity.
6. Way Station — Clifford D. Simak — Simak's Hugo Award-winning novel about a man who has secretly run an alien transit station in rural Wisconsin for over a century; one of the most quietly beautiful science fiction novels ever written.
7. Titan — John Varley — The first of Varley's Gaean trilogy, in which a spacecraft crew discovers a vast, inhabited ring world in orbit around Saturn; ambitious, inventive, and full of biological imagination.
8. The Man Who Sold the Moon — Robert Heinlein — Stories of the first heroic age of space exploration, anchored by the novella of a visionary entrepreneur who schemes his way to the Moon; Heinlein's Future History at its most exhilarating.
9. Space Family Stone — Robert Heinlein — The Rolling Stones family takes their ship on an impromptu solar system tour; quintessential Heinlein with warmth, humour, and relentless forward motion.
10. The Door into Summer — Robert Heinlein — An engineer betrayed by his business partners uses time travel to set things right; beautifully paced and endlessly satisfying, one of Heinlein's most popular and accessible novels.
11. Time for the Stars — Robert Heinlein — Twin telepaths are separated when one joins a relativistic space voyage; as the ship accelerates through the cosmos, the twins age at different rates in one of Heinlein's finest explorations of time and loyalty.
12. Methuselah's Children — Robert Heinlein — The long-lived Howard families, their secret exposed, flee Earth on an improvised interstellar voyage; the first appearance of Lazarus Long, full of the philosophical provocation that defines late Heinlein.
13. Foundation and Empire — Isaac Asimov — The second Foundation novel; the unpredictable Mule emerges to threaten Seldon's plan for the galaxy's future, and no probabilistic model can account for him.
14. Second Foundation — Isaac Asimov — The third Foundation novel, in which the existence of the secret Second Foundation becomes the central mystery; Asimov's plotting at its most ingenious and satisfying.
15. Time and Again — Clifford D. Simak — An elegant novel of alien influence and the deep strangeness of identity across time; quiet, melancholy, and rich with the pastoral lyricism that made Simak unique in American SF.
16. Time is the Simplest Thing — Clifford D. Simak — A parapsychic traveller makes contact with an alien intelligence; Simak's characteristic blend of small-town Americana and cosmic wonder at its most affecting.
17. The Gryb — A.E. Van Vogt — A collection of Van Vogt's short fiction; the master of the fix-up novel in his natural form, weaving ideas of staggering ambition into tight, propulsive stories.
18. The Time Hoppers — Robert Silverberg — A time travel novel of overpopulation and escape into the past; a taut and prescient thriller from Silverberg's most inventive and prolific period.
19. The War Against the Rull — A.E. Van Vogt — Humanity's long intergalactic war with the telepathic Rull; Van Vogt's conceptual imagination at full stretch in one of his most sustained and compelling narratives.
20. The Voyage of the Space Beagle — A.E. Van Vogt — One of Van Vogt's most celebrated novels; an exploration ship encounters a series of alien threats and its crew must apply disciplined scientific reasoning to survive each encounter.
21. The Dream Master — Roger Zelazny — Zelazny's Nebula Award-winning novel of a psychotherapist who enters the minds of his patients and faces a case that may destroy him; brilliant, psychologically intense, and unlike anything else in the genre.
22. A Rose for Ecclesiastes — Roger Zelazny — A collection of Zelazny's finest short fiction; proof that no writer in 1960s science fiction combined poetic language and high concept more dazzlingly or more consistently.