Secondhand Vintage Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4026

Secondhand Vintage Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4026

Twenty-four titles from the full sweep of classic science fiction — Cordwainer Smith, Clifford Simak, Philip José Farmer, Poul Anderson, R.A. Lafferty, Barry Malzberg, H.P. Lovecraft, Timothy Zahn, Douglas Adams, and more — spanning pulp originals through to 1990s paperbacks. Please note these are secondhand copies and may show light signs of wear.

1. Planet of the Dreamers — John D. MacDonald — An early MacDonald novel from before he found his voice in the Travis McGee series; a science fiction thriller that shows the hardboiled storyteller’s instincts applied to the genre.
2. City — Clifford D. Simak — Hugo Award winner; a mosaic novel following the Jenkins robots and a dog civilisation across thousands of years after humanity has left the Earth. One of the most quietly devastating works in the science fiction canon.
3. Conquerors’ Pride — Timothy Zahn — The first of Zahn’s Conquerors’ trilogy, in which first contact with an alien species goes catastrophically wrong and humanity finds itself at war with an enemy it cannot understand.
4. The Autumn Land and Other Stories — Clifford D. Simak — A collection of Simak’s short fiction, gathering his characteristic blend of rural American settings, gentle wonder, and cosmic scale. Hugo and Nebula winner.
5. Quest of the Three Worlds — Cordwainer Smith — Four connected novellas by one of science fiction’s most original stylists; the Instrumentality of Mankind universe at its most adventurous. Smith’s prose is unlike anything else in the genre.
6. The Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov — Joseph F. Patrouch Jr. — A critical study of Asimov’s science fiction output, authorised by Asimov himself. An essential guide for anyone reading deeply into the Robot and Foundation universes.
7. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos — H.P. Lovecraft and Others — The foundational Lovecraft Mythos anthology, gathering the original Lovecraft stories alongside contributions from August Derleth and others who extended the mythology. Volume One of Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book series.
8. Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book — A classic anthology of supernatural stories from the collection of Lord Halifax; a staple of mid-twentieth century ghost story reading.
9. The 27th Day — John Mantley — Five strangers from five nations are each given a capsule that can destroy all human life on Earth; a cold-war thriller built around one of science fiction’s most ingenious premises. Filmed in 1957.
10. Fourth Mansions — R.A. Lafferty — One of Lafferty’s most celebrated and maddening novels; a reporter stumbles onto a war between secret societies competing to determine the next stage of human evolution. Roger Zelazny called it essential.
11. The Instrumentality of Mankind — Cordwainer Smith — The definitive Cordwainer Smith collection, gathering the major stories of the Instrumentality universe. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how far outside the mainstream a science fiction imagination can reach.
12. Norstrilia — Cordwainer Smith — Smith’s only novel, set on the richest planet in the galaxy and following a boy’s quest to buy the entire planet Earth. Strange, funny, and unlike anything else published under the science fiction banner.
13. The Werewolf Principle — Clifford Simak — A man wakes from suspended animation with no memory and the ability to transform into two other beings; a characteristically thoughtful Simak meditation on identity.
14. The Door Through Space — Marion Zimmer Bradley — An early Bradley adventure novel set on the wolf-world of Wolf, where a former secret agent must re-enter the world he abandoned. Pre-Darkover, but showing Bradley’s gift for world-building already fully formed.
15. Fleet of the Damned — Allan Cole & Chris Bunch — The fourth Sten novel, in which the young soldier faces the most catastrophic battle of the Eternal Emperor’s wars. Cole and Bunch write military science fiction with real pace and black humour.
16. Herovit’s World — Barry N. Malzberg — A science fiction writer losing his grip on reality finds the characters from his own pulp novels invading his mental landscape; Malzberg at his most autobiographically savage. One of the key metafictional texts in science fiction.
17. The Twilight of Briareus — Richard Cowper — A supernova alters Earth’s climate and begins changing human consciousness in ways that terrify the establishment; Cowper is one of British science fiction’s most underappreciated voices.
18. The Dark Planet — J. Hunter Holly — An early American science fiction novel in which a planet of darkness threatens Earth; Holly was one of the few women publishing science fiction under their own name in this period.
19. Hail Hibbler — Ron Goulart — Comic science fiction from the prolific Goulart, featuring his most outlandish scientist protagonist; written with the sharp comic timing that made Goulart one of the genre’s most entertaining minor masters.
20. To Your Scattered Bodies Go — Philip José Farmer — Winner of the Hugo Award; every human being who ever lived wakes up simultaneously on the banks of a vast river, young and healthy. The opening volume of the Riverworld series is one of science fiction’s great premises.
21. The Rebel Worlds — Poul Anderson — Part of Anderson’s Dominic Flandry series, in which the troubleshooter for a declining empire must stop a rebellion that might actually be right. Anderson writes space opera with unusual moral seriousness.
22. The Icarus Hunt — Timothy Zahn — A freelance pilot takes a cargo job and discovers the ship he is flying may be the most valuable object in the galaxy; a standalone thriller that shows Zahn’s plotting gifts applied outside the Star Wars universe.
23. The Ethos Effect — L.E. Modesitt Jr. — A political thriller set in a far-future universe where the balance between competing power structures is maintained by a single organisation; Modesitt examines power and ethics with his characteristic rigour.
24. Life, the Universe and Everything — Douglas Adams — The third Hitchhiker’s Guide novel, in which Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect discover the real purpose behind the destruction of the planet Magrathea. Adams at his most cosmically absurd.