Secondhand Vintage Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2963

Secondhand Vintage Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2963

Eighteen more vintage science fiction paperbacks — two Philip K. Dick titles, two Heinlein, John Brunner, Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, A.E. van Vogt, Thomas M. Disch, Ron Goulart, and Damien Broderick's landmark Australian science fiction novel.

1. The Day Before Tomorrow — Gerard Klein — A French science fiction classic in English translation: a man who can manipulate time discovers the consequences of changing the future.
2. The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge — Harry Harrison — Jim diGriz takes on an entire planetary army. The second Stainless Steel Rat novel.
3. The Two Faces of Tomorrow — James P. Hogan — To test a new AI's responses to threat, the researchers must actually threaten it. A compulsive super-science thriller from the author of Inherit the Stars.
4. The Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov — Joseph F. Patrouch Jr. — A lively survey of Asimov's fiction, authorised by the master: Patrouch reads through the complete works and assesses what holds up and why.
5. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls — Robert A. Heinlein — A murder at a space station leads a writer into a conspiracy connecting multiple timelines. Late Heinlein at its most playful.
6. The Robot in the Closet — Ron Goulart — A walkie-talkie time machine and a robot in the closet: Goulart's comic science fiction at its most inventive.
7. The Shockwave Rider — John Brunner — Written in 1975, this is the novel that invented the concept of the computer worm: a fugitive in a surveillance society hacks his way to survival.
8. The Penultimate Truth — Philip K. Dick — Most of humanity lives underground, believing a war is still raging on the surface. The war ended years ago. Dick's most chilling vision of manufactured reality.
9. Now Wait for Last Year — Philip K. Dick — A time-bending drug, a corrupt future UN Secretary-General, and a doctor who must decide whether to save a man who doesn't deserve saving.
10. The City and the Stars — Arthur C. Clarke — A billion years in the future, the last city on Earth has everything its inhabitants could want — except the outside world. Clarke's most ambitious novel.
11. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress — Robert A. Heinlein — The lunar colony revolts against Earth, guided by a supercomputer that develops a sense of humour and political philosophy. Heinlein's most intellectually engaging novel.
12. Men and Machines — ed. Robert Silverberg — Science fiction masterworks from Lester del Rey, Silverberg, Fritz Leiber, James Blish, Brian Aldiss, and five others.
13. Who's Who in Science Fiction — Brian Ash — The essential biographical reference: brief entries on every significant author in the genre. "A must for every writer and reader's shelf" — Harry Harrison.
14. The Rest of the Robots — Isaac Asimov — More robot stories: the continuing development of the Three Laws and the humans and machines who live by them.
15. The Dreaming Dragons — Damien Broderick — Broderick's landmark Australian science fiction novel: an ancient mystery beneath Ayers Rock connects human evolution to something vast and strange.
16. The World of Null-A — A.E. van Vogt — The foundational van Vogt novel: a man with no memory, a world run by non-Aristotelian logic, and a conspiracy that reaches to Venus.
17. Isaac Asimov's Robots — An anthology of robot fiction edited by Asimov, featuring contributions from leading science fiction writers across the genre.
18. 334 — Thomas M. Disch — A future New York apartment building in the 2020s, its tenants' interlocking stories of poverty, bureaucracy, and diminished lives. One of the great literary science fiction novels.