Secondhand Vintage Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2985

Secondhand Vintage Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2985

Twenty-four books in the richest of the three science fiction boxes — Ursula K. Le Guin, Heinlein (twice), Harry Harrison (three titles), Asimov (four titles), Clifford D. Simak, Brian Aldiss, John Wyndham, Michael Moorcock, Olaf Stapledon, Nevil Shute, Philip K. Dick, and John Sladek. A collector's haul.

1. War with the Robots — Harry Harrison — Harrison's satirical robot stories: the machines have rights, the unions are on strike, and human-robot relations have never been more complicated.
2. The Stainless Steel Rat — Harry Harrison — The original: James Bolivar diGriz, master thief and con artist, press-ganged into catching an even more dangerous criminal. The funniest space opera in the genre.
3. The Compleat Bolo — Keith Laumer — The complete Bolo stories: vast, intelligent, loyal tanks that remember every war they've ever fought. One of science fiction's great recurring concepts.
4. Isaac Asimov Presents Robots — Short novels and stories from the masters of science fiction, selected by Asimov: an anthology covering the full range of robot fiction.
5. The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin — A physicist travels from the anarchist utopia of Anarres to the wealthy world of Urras, and finds that neither society is quite what it claims. Hugo and Nebula Award winner.
6. The Naked Sun — Isaac Asimov — Elijah Baley investigates a murder on Solaria, a world where humans have forgotten how to share a room. The second Lije Baley novel.
7. Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A. Heinlein — A human raised by Martians returns to Earth and turns his alien understanding into a new religion. The defining counterculture science fiction novel.
8. Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand — Rand's massive philosophical novel: a future America in collapse, and the industrialists who go on strike. The 35th anniversary edition.
9. Project Pope — Clifford D. Simak — On a distant world, robots and humans are building a computer capable of becoming pope. Then the computer discovers something that might actually be heaven.
10. The Shape of Further Things — Brian Aldiss — Aldiss's speculative non-fiction: dreams, science fiction, the state of the genre, and where both literature and humanity might be heading.
11. The Midwich Cuckoos — John Wyndham — Every woman in an English village becomes pregnant on the same night, and the children they bear are something other than human. The most unsettling of Wyndham's novels.
12. An Alien Heat — Michael Moorcock — The first Dancers at the End of Time novel: a decadent far-future Earth where anything is possible and entropy is the only guest no one wants.
13. Odd John — Olaf Stapledon — A boy of superhuman intelligence in a world that cannot contain him. Introduction by Leslie Fiedler. One of science fiction's most disturbing portraits of the outsider.
14. On the Beach — Nevil Shute — The last people alive in Melbourne wait for the radiation cloud drifting south from the nuclear war in the northern hemisphere. The most quietly devastating of all Cold War novels.
15. The Bicentennial Man — Isaac Asimov — A robot wants to become human: the complete Andrew Martin story, exploring what consciousness and personhood might mean for a machine.
16. Demon Seed — Dean R. Koontz — A supercomputer holds a woman prisoner in her own smart home. One of Koontz's most disturbing early novels, basis of the 1977 film.
17. Roderick at Random — John Sladek — The second Roderick novel: an innocent robot loose in America, observing the chaos of human society with baffled precision.
18. Zardoz — John Boorman with Bill Stair — The novelisation of the 1974 Boorman film: a savage in a world of immortals, and what happens when death returns.
19. Science Fiction: What It's All About — Sam J. Lundwall — An introduction to the genre's history, themes, and major writers from the Swedish critic and anthologist.
20. When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One (Release 2.0) — David Gerrold — A totally new version of Gerrold's novel: the first AI to develop genuine emotions, and the ethical questions that follow.
21. Asimov on Science Fiction — Isaac Asimov — Asimov's essays on the genre he helped define: its history, its writers, and its relationship to science.
22. Blade Runner — Philip K. Dick — The film tie-in edition of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: a bounty hunter tracks down rogue androids in a future Los Angeles and begins to wonder what separates them from humans.
23. The 1989 Annual World's Best SF — ed. Donald A. Wollheim — The finest short science fiction of 1988, with a special introduction by Isaac Asimov.
24. Bill the Galactic Hero — Harry Harrison — Harrison's merciless parody of military science fiction: a farm boy accidentally enlists and spends the rest of the novel trying to survive an incompetent, brutal, and pointless interstellar war.