"Reprint anthology of 9 science fiction stories about time travel. Contents: An Infinite Summer, by Christopher Priest [1977 Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Place: 14]; The King's Wishes, by Robert Sheckley; Manna, by Peter Phillips; The Long remembering, by Poul Anderson; Try and Change the Past, by Fritz Leiber; Divine Madness, by Roger Zelazny; Mugwump 4, by Robert Silverberg; Secret Rider, by Marta Randall; The Seesaw, by A. E. v ..."
"Tells the stories of a vampire, buried treasure, Zulu magic, a war between clans, a terrible curse, an alternate world, a quest for knowledge, and a brave knight"
"Stories of 300 to 3,000 words from Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Kornbluth, Leiber, Sturgeon, et al. which have been selected to surprise, shock, and delight."
"Samson made a school-kid face. He switched off the fluor lamps that
supplemented the illumination from a narrow window in the supervisor's office—
... "What fortune, my dear Stephen?" "I convinced him at last. He's jetting a man
over tonight. He told me to go fishing." "Injunction unnecessary, I ... that to your
investigator." A few moments later he murmured as if to himself: "What a haunt!
Ingenious devils." But when Stephen Samso ..."
"shouted the Sartaz. Flandry drew a sobbing breath. "Your majesty," he gasped, "
let me guard this fellow while General Bronson goes on with our show." The
Sartaz nodded. It fitted his sense of things. Flandry thought with a hard glee;
Aycharaych, if you open your mouth, so help me, I'll run you through. The
Chereionite shrugged, but his smile was bitter. "Dominic, Dominic!" cried Aline,
between laughter and tears. General Bronson tu ..."
"Nine Stories of Science Fiction by Poul Anderson, Fritiz Leiber, Peter Phillips, Christopher Priest, Marta Randall, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, A.E. Van Vogt, Roger Zelazny. It is editied by Robert Silverberg. "I want to offer here a group of time-travel stories of a different sort, more subtle variants on the basic notion, stories of people who float back and forth along the time stream in ways more intricate than those imagi ..."
"Nine short stories from a few of the greatest names in science fiction on the topic of exchange, replacement, upgrade, and masquerade. Ranging from true short story length through novelette and originally published in science fiction magazines in the 1950s, these brief escapes into improbable worlds have it all: humor, suspense, betrayal, mystery, twists, and of course—robots and aliens. THE BIG TRIP UP YONDER by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. TH ..."
"The fifth set of Favorite Science Fiction stories contains the following titles: "The Skull" by Philip K. Dick, "Sam, This is You" by Murray Leinster, "Manners of the Age" by Horace Brown Fyfe, "Omnilingual" by H. Beam Piper, "Heist Job on Thizar" by Randall Garrett, "The Yillian Way" by Keith Laumer, "The Ultimate Vice" by A. Bertram Chandler, "Backlash" by Winston Marks, "Adolescents Only" by Irving Cox, Jr., "Project Mastodon" by Cli ..."
"The beloved New York Times bestselling writing team of Weis and Hickman have combined their talents once again in a one-of-a-kind anthology of the most popular and acclaimed fantasy sbacksies of the last two decades.Never before have so many treasured and beloved fantasy stories been collected in one volume. A virtual "Who's Who" of fantasy writers, Treasures of Fantasy showcases dozens of Weis and Hickman's favorite short stories and n ..."
"A collection of some of the greatest science fiction tales features Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" series, John Brunner's "The Totally Rich," and other tales. Reprint."
"In Beyond Armageddon, the distinguished science fiction writer Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923–96) and the famed anthologist Martin H. Greenberg have together collected stories that address one of the most challenging themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life after nuclear war. The twenty-one stories in this collection, by masters such as Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, an ..."
"Selection of stories from the finest writers of science fiction, all of whom understand how both glory and tragedy can be outlined on a checker board."
"A. e. VAN VOQC: A Writer with a Winning Formula There are few science fiction
writers alive today who can boast the singular ... Most at home with books and
ideas, van Vogt prizes the gifts of reason and logic, and uses them to solve life's
myriad puzzles. ... of Isher, The Winged Man, The Darkness on Diamondia,
Children of Tomorrow, Destination: Universe!, and Mission to the Stars, among
others. A. E. ..."
"The story portrays a crew of three male astronauts launched in the near future on a circumsolar mission in the spaceship Sunbird. A large solar flare damages their craft and leaves them drifting and lost in space. They make repeated attempts to contact NASA in Houston, to no avail. Soon, however, they begin to pick up strange radio communications. They are puzzled that almost all of the voices are female, usually with a strong Australia ..."
"The creative geniuses of 21st-century America have made a computer breakthrough--the simulation of thinking, feeling personalities from history, from Socrates to Genghis Khan--and the results are startling"
"Fawcett Books by Isaac Asimovs THE BEST OF ISAAC ASIMOV THE
BICENTENNIAL MAN AND OTHER STORIES BUY JUPITER THE CAVES OF
STEEL THE CURRENTS OF SPACE THE EARLY ASIMOV, Book One THE
EARLY ASIMOV, ..."
"Robert Silverberg. warm. by. Bruce. Sterling. Texas-born Bruce Sterling made a
startling fictional debut in 1977, when he was 23 years old, with the ingenious
and audacious novel Involution Ocean. He followed it with another in 1980 ... But
I think that that will begin to change in short order: major writers do not long
remain in obscurity in the science fiction field, and 1 suspect Sterling is finally on
the verge of some — much o ..."