Secondhand Vintage Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP3005

Secondhand Vintage Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP3005

Twenty-three books of vintage science fiction — Arthur C. Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut, Olaf Stapledon, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Silverberg, Ben Bova, and Australian SF. Anthologies, classics, and overlooked gems from the golden and silver ages.

1. The Sirens of Titan — Kurt Vonnegut Jr. — The first of Vonnegut's great satirical novels: Malachi Constant is drawn into a cosmic conspiracy involving Mars, Saturn's moon, and the manipulation of all human history.
2. The Humanoid Touch — Jack Williamson — From the bestselling author of The Humanoids: the questions about artificial humanity that science fiction has never stopped asking.
3. Glide Path — Arthur C. Clarke — Clarke's only autobiographical novel: his wartime years developing Ground Controlled Approach radar, a young scientist at the beginning of the technological revolution.
4. The Last Starship from Earth — John Boyd — A classic of the New Wave: in an alternate world where genetics and sociology are religions, one man defies the order that has imprisoned humanity.
5. Last and First Men — Olaf Stapledon — The visionary two-billion-year history of humanity across eighteen species: arguably the most ambitious work of science fiction ever written.
6. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — Jules Verne — Captain Nemo and the Nautilus: the undersea adventure that created the template for every submarine story that followed.
7. Sirius — Olaf Stapledon — A dog with a human brain searches for meaning in a world that can't fully accept or understand him: one of the strangest and most moving novels in science fiction.
8. Tower of Glass — Robert Silverberg — A millionaire builds a glass tower to the stars while his android workforce stirs toward revolution: one of Silverberg's major 1970s novels.
9. Worlds to Come — ed. Damon Knight — Science fiction adventure classics by Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Algis Budrys, John D. MacDonald, Robert A. Heinlein, L.M. Kornbluth, and James Blish.
10. Childhood's End — Arthur C. Clarke — The Overlords arrive and bring a golden age of peace — but their true purpose, slowly revealed, is both inevitable and shattering: perhaps Clarke's finest novel.
11. Who? — Algis Budrys — A scientist is returned from behind the Iron Curtain with a metal face and metal hands: is he the same man who went in? A Cold War parable of identity and trust.
12. Sapphire Road — Wynne N. Whiteford — One of the small canon of Australian science fiction novels from the golden age, by the country's most prolific SF writer of the era.
13. Cyborg — Martin Caidin — The novel that became The Six Million Dollar Man: Steve Austin, rebuilt from the wreckage of a crashed aircraft, half human and half machine.
14. The First Men in the Moon — H.G. Wells — Two men reach the moon to find it inhabited by the insectile Selenites and their underground civilisation. Complete and unabridged.
15. The Lost World — Arthur Conan Doyle — Professor Challenger leads an expedition to a South American plateau where dinosaurs still roam: the original lost world adventure.
16. Hell's Cartographers — The personal histories of six great science fiction writers: Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, Brian W. Aldiss, and Harry Harrison.
17. Looking for Blücher — Jack Wodhams — Australian SF Vol. 1: short stories from one of the most original Australian voices in science fiction.
18. Options — Robert Sheckley — Sheckley's wildest, most experimental novel: a book that keeps interrupting itself, questioning its own existence, and refusing to behave like a novel.
19. Less Than Human — Charles Platt — Delightfully clever, humorous, and a damnably good story about humanity and its manufactured Others.
20. The Precipice: Asteroid Wars 1 — Ben Bova — Humanity moves into the solar system and the conflicts of Earth move with it: the first novel in Bova's Asteroid Wars series.
21. Top Science Fiction — 25 stories selected and introduced by the authors themselves: each writer's own choice for the story that represents them best.
22. Matilda at the Speed of Light — A new anthology of Australian science fiction.
23. The Zeitgeist Machine — ed. Damien Broderick — A new anthology of Australian science fiction selected by one of its most important practitioners and critics.