Secondhand Vintage Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2962

Secondhand Vintage Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2962

Eighteen classic science fiction paperbacks from the golden and silver ages — Bradbury, Frank Herbert (twice), Heinlein, Asimov (twice), Zelazny, Bester, Philip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl, and more. Beautifully worn vintage editions for collectors and readers.

1. The Martian Chronicles — Ray Bradbury — Bradbury's lyrical mosaic of Earth's colonisation of Mars and what it costs both worlds. The classic edition with the distinctive red planet cover.
2. Xanthe and the Robots — Sheila MacLeod — A satirical novel of automation and its human consequences from the Scottish novelist and critic.
3. Dune — Frank Herbert — The original and still unsurpassed novel of ecology, religion, and imperial power on the desert planet Arrakis. The film tie-in edition.
4. Stories from the Twilight Zone — Rod Serling — Short stories adapted from Serling's legendary anthology television series, with an introduction by T.E.D. Klein.
5. Home is the Hangman — Roger Zelazny — TOR SF Double No. 21: Zelazny's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella. A hitman is sent to destroy a robot that has returned from the stars — and isn't happy.
6. Have Space Suit Will Travel — Robert A. Heinlein — A teenager wins a space suit in a contest and immediately finds himself in the middle of an interstellar crisis. Heinlein's most beloved juvenile novel.
7. Greybeard — Brian Aldiss — Radiation has rendered the human race infertile. The last generation grows old in an England returning to wilderness. One of Aldiss's finest novels.
8. Warm Worlds and Otherwise — James Tiptree Jr. — Award-winning stories from the pseudonymous Alice Sheldon, including "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" and "The Girl Who Was Plugged In."
9. Soul of a Robot — Barrington J. Bayley — Bayley's philosophical adventure in robot consciousness: what does it mean for a machine to think, and what rights might it have?
10. The Pseudo-People — ed. William F. Nolan — Android fiction featuring Bradbury, Asimov, Kuttner, Charles Beaumont, Ron Goulart, Richard Matheson, Robert F. Young, and others.
11. Destination: Void — Frank Herbert — Four crew members must create an artificial consciousness to save their ship — and may accidentally create a god.
12. The Demolished Man — Alfred Bester — The first Hugo Award winner: in a world where telepaths make murder nearly impossible, a wealthy man plans the perfect killing.
13. The Caves of Steel — Isaac Asimov — Detective Elijah Baley and robot R. Daneel Olivaw investigate a murder in the enclosed world of future New York. The first and best Lije Baley mystery.
14. I, Robot — Isaac Asimov — The foundational robot stories: the Three Laws, Susan Calvin, and the questions about machine intelligence that shaped the genre.
15. WarGames — David Bischoff — A teenage hacker accidentally accesses a military supercomputer and nearly starts World War III. The novelisation of the 1983 film.
16. We Can Build You — Philip K. Dick — A company builds android replicas of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin Stanton — and the line between human and machine begins to dissolve.
17. Profiles of the Future — Arthur C. Clarke — Clarke's celebrated survey of what technology can and cannot achieve, including his original essay on communication satellites.
18. Man Plus — Frederik Pohl — A man is surgically transformed into a creature capable of surviving on Mars. Hugo Award winner and one of Pohl's best novels.