Secondhand Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2832

Secondhand Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2832

Six Brian Aldiss titles form the backbone of a richly stocked science fiction box that takes in Tiptree, Tevis, Mitchison, and two rare Olaf Stapledon titles alongside key Asimov and essential anthology volumes. From Hothouse to The Gods Themselves, this is a box for readers who care about the history and ambition of British SF paperback publishing — twenty-one titles spanning the form's most fertile decades.

1. Up the Walls of the World — James Tiptree Jr. — One of the only novels by the great SF stylist; an exploration of alien consciousness and human self-destruction that remains one of the form's most psychologically complex achievements.
2. Nightfall Two — Isaac Asimov — The second volume of the Panther Nightfall collection, gathering more of Asimov's finest short fiction; a cornerstone of the golden age short story tradition.
3. The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fifth Series — Edited by Anthony Boucher — Another excellent volume in the celebrated anthology series drawn from the pages of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
4. The God Killers — John Baxter — A rare early novel by the prolific Australian author and film critic; science fiction of ideas from one of the genre's more varied and restless talents.
5. We All Died at Breakaway Station — Richard C. Meredith — A gripping military SF novel about a desperate last stand in deep space; Meredith's taut, character-driven storytelling at its best.
6. Last Men in London — Olaf Stapledon — A companion to Last and First Men in which one of humanity's distant inheritors observes the contemporary world through a young man's mind; typically visionary and strange.
7. Nebula Maker — Olaf Stapledon — A posthumously published early draft of what became Star Maker; invaluable for the light it sheds on Stapledon's creative process and extraordinary cosmological imagination.
8. Hothouse — Brian Aldiss — Aldiss's landmark vision of a far-future Earth locked to the sun, overrun by carnivorous vegetation; one of the most inventive and unsettling novels in British SF.
9. The Airs of Earth — Brian Aldiss — A collection from the early 1960s; characteristically varied in form and feeling, with an eye for the strange textures of the near and far future.
10. The Interpreter — Brian Aldiss — An early Aldiss novel set in an occupied future Europe; a thriller in which language and translation become instruments of power and resistance.
11. Space, Time and Nathaniel — Brian Aldiss — Aldiss's first collection, gathering the stories that announced one of SF's most distinctive voices in the late 1950s.
12. The Canopy of Time — Brian Aldiss — Connected stories spanning from the present to the far future; Aldiss's early and ambitious attempt at the deep-time narrative, told through linked vignettes.
13. Earthworks — Brian Aldiss — A dystopian novella set on a stripped and overpopulated Earth; dark, compressed, and characteristically prophetic.
14. The Man Who Fell to Earth — Walter Tevis — The novel behind the Bowie film; Tevis's melancholy masterpiece about an alien who comes to Earth for water and is undone by human cruelty and indulgence.
15. Memoirs of a Spacewoman — Naomi Mitchison — A pioneering feminist SF novel from 1962; the career memoirs of a specialist in alien communication, remarkable for its intelligence and quiet radicalism.
16. The Ruins of Earth — Edited by Thomas M. Disch — A landmark ecological SF anthology from 1973, gathering stories about environmental catastrophe from some of the finest writers of the era.
17. Analog Science Fiction — An anthology drawn from the pages of the world's most influential hard SF magazine; essential reading for any student of the genre's golden age.
18. The Heavenly Host — Isaac Asimov — Asimov in philosophical mode; a story of first contact and the challenge that extraterrestrial life poses to religious faith.
19. Introducing SF — Edited by Brian W. Aldiss — Aldiss's Faber anthology assembled to demonstrate the breadth and literary ambition of science fiction as a literary form.
20. A Science Fiction Anthology — A further anthology drawing on the short fiction tradition; SF at its most varied and inventive.
21. The Gods Themselves — Isaac Asimov — Asimov's own favourite of his novels; a story of parallel universes and the disastrous energy exchange that threatens both worlds, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1973.