Anthologies and Short Story Collections Books

	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, published: 2010-07-06 ASIN: 0312608985 sales rank: 66755 price: $6.99 (new), $4.40 (used)	The thirty-two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.  Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright. Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.
	The Golden Age of Science Fiction: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) by: Various publisher: Halcyon Press Ltd., published: 2010-02-03 ASIN: B0037Z70MQ sales rank: 7492	This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s. Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Williamson, Phillip Jose Farmer, Lester Del Rey, Leigh Brackett, Murray Leinster, Ben Bova, and many others. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder (James De Mille) A World by the Tale (Randall Garrett) A World is Born (Leigh Brackett) Accidental Death (Peter Baily) Earthmen Bearing Gifts (Fredric Brown) Atom Boy (Ray Cummings) Beyond Lies the Wub (Phillip K. Dick) Blind Spot (Bascom Jones) Cully (Jack Egan) Dead Giveaway (Randall Garrett) Dead Ringer (Lester Del Rey) Dead World (Jack Douglas) Divinity (Joseph Samachson) Four Miles Within (Anthony Gilmore) Heist Job on Thizar (Randall Garrett) Hex (Laurence Janifer) In the Year 2889 (Jules Verne) Indulgence of Negu Mah (Robert Arthur) Lease to Doomsday (Lee Archer) Lost in Translation (Laurence Janifer) McIlvane’s Star (August Derleth) Missing Link (Frank Herbert) Next Logical Step (Ben Bova) Pandemic (J.F. Bone) Remember the Alamo (T.R. Fehrenbach) Salvage in Space (Jack Williamson) Security (Poul Anderson) Subspace Survivors (E.E. “Doc” Smith) The Aliens (Murray Leinster) The Big Trip Up Yonder (Kurt Vonnegut) The Chronic Argonauts (H.G. Wells) The Cosmic Express (Jack Williamson) The Day Time Stopped Moving (Bradner Buckner) The Eternal Wall (Raymond Z. Gallun) The Gifts of Asti (Andre Norton) The Hated (Frederick Pohl) The Last Evolution (John W. Campbell) The Man Who Saw the Future (Edmond Hamilton) The Memory of Mars (Raymond F. Jones) The Moon is Green (Fritz Leiber) The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin) The Power and the Glory (Charles W. Diffin) The Radiant Shell (Paul Ernst) The Stoker and the Stars (Algis Budrys) The Street That Wasn’t There (Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak) The World Behind the Moon (Paul Ernst) There is a Reaper (Charles De Vet) They Twinkled Like Jewels (Phillip José Farmer) Waste Not, Want (Dave Dryfoos) Year of the Big Thaw (Marion Zimmer Bradley) This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.
	Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century publisher: Ace Trade, published: 2004-03-02 ASIN: 0441011330 sales rank: 25535 price: $9.80 (new), $1.50 (used)	An overview of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century as selected and evaluated by critically-acclaimed author Orson Scott Card. Featuring stories from the genre's greatest authors: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Harlan Ellison, George Alec Effinger, Brian W. Aldiss, William Gibson & Michael Swanwick, Theodore Sturgeon, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove, James Blish, George R. R. Martin, James Patrick Kelly, Karen Joy Fowler, Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Terry Bisson, Poul Anderson, John Kessel, R.A. Lafferty, C.J. Cherryh, Lisa Goldstein, and Edmond Hamilton
	Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick by: Philip K. Dick publisher: Pantheon Books, published: 2002-11-05 ASIN: 0375421513 sales rank: 53201 price: $18.33 (new), $14.99 (used)	Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next to Kafka and Vonnegut. Collected here are twenty-one of Dick's most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers. In "The Days of Perky Pat," people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live an idyllic life no longer available to the Earth's real inhabitants. "Adjustment Team" looks at the fate of a man who by mistake has stepped out of his own time. In "Autofac," one community must battle benign machines to take back control of their lives. And in "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon," we follow the story of one man whose very reality may be nothing more than a nightmare. The collection also includes such classic stories as "The Minority Report," the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie, and "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," the basis for the film Total Recall. Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a magnificent distillation of one of American literature's most searching imaginations.
	Allan Gilbreath: A Short Story Collection by: Allan Gilbreath publisher: Kerlak Publishing, published: 2011-05-23 ASIN: B0052G5G38 sales rank: 357370	Discover 19 extraordinary stories ranging from dark fantasy to science fiction and steampunk. Allan Gilbreath has created a stimulating collection of possessed raccoons, doubtful demons, secret potions, Hellish mornings, murderous black holes, dangerous missions, miniature dragons, fake vampires, real ducks, and a cranky detective. This collection showcases Allan's astounding attention to detail and the sensual imagery his works are famous for.
	Dark Journeys: A Short Story Collection by: Jennifer Hudock publisher: Double J Media, published: 2010-07-23 ASIN: B003X9576W sales rank: 374956	They say life is a journey, but the path between life and death is never straight. You never know what to expect on the dark road between here and there. Follow the dark road to see where it leads. Contains all ten original Dark Journeys short stories, plus an added bonus zombie apocalypse tale titled, "Two Weeks."
	Year's Best SF 9 by: David G. Hartwell publisher: Harper Voyager, published: 2004-05-25 ASIN: 006057559X sales rank: 601308 price: $18.62 (new), $0.01 (used)	The best short form science fiction of 2003, selected by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field. The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in science fiction today. It is where the hot new authors emerge and where the beloved giants of the field continue to publish. Now, building on the success of the first eight volumes, Eos will once again present a collection of the best stories of the year in mass market. Here, fathered by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field, are stories with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of the strange and the familiar, of the unknown and the unknowable. With stories from some of the best and brightest writers in science fiction, "YEAR' S BEST SF 9" is an indispensable guide for every science fiction fan. This anthology will feature some of the biggest, most popular names in SF today. These stories have only been published previously in magazines. This is their first appearance in book form.
	Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse publisher: Night Shade Books, published: 2008-01-15 ASIN: 1597801054 sales rank: 37404 price: $9.24 (new), $3.71 (used)	Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction, including George R.R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E. Butler, and Stephen King, Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon.
	Strange Brew publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, published: 2009-07-07 ASIN: 0312383363 sales rank: 42410 price: $5.09 (new), $2.29 (used)	Today’s hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic! In Charlaine Harris’ “Bacon,” a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line to find out who killed her beloved husband. In “Seeing Eye” by Patricia Briggs, a blind witch helps sexy werewolf Tom Franklin find his missing brother—and helps him in more ways than either of them ever suspected.  And in Jim Butcher’s “Last Call,” wizard Harry Dresden takes on the darkest of dark powers—the ones who dare to mess with this favorite beer. For anyone who’s ever wondered what lies beyond the limits of reality, who’s imagined the secret spaces where witches wield fearsome magic, come and drink deep. Let yourself fall under the spell of this bewitching collection!
	The Collected Works of Jules Verne: 36 Novels and Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) by: Jules Verne publisher: Halcyon Press Ltd., published: 2009-07-09 ASIN: B002GYVWAK sales rank: 2969	This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains 36 of Jules Verne's best known works. Verne (1828-1905) was a French writer who, along with English author H.G. Wells, is regarded as the "Father of Science Fiction." He is best known for his novels A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (1864), FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (1865), 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1869–1870), A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1871) AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (1873) and THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. A number of his works have been made into feature films and his books remain popular and in print more than a century after his death. This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents 1. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 2. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3. Around The World In Eighty Days 4. The Mysterious Island 5. From The Earth To The Moon 6. Around The Moon 7. A Voyage In A Balloon 8. Doctor Ox's Experiment 9. Master Zacharius 10. A Drama In The Air 11. A Winter Amid The Ice 12. Ascent Of Mont Blanc 13. An Antarctic Mystery 14. Dick Sand; Or, A Captain At Fifteen 15. Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon 16. Facing The Flag 17. Five Weeks In A Balloon 18. Godfrey Morgan 19. The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras Part I: The English At The North Pole Part Ii: The Field Of Ice 21. In Search Of The Castaways 22. Michael Strogoff 23. Off On A Comet 24. Robur The Conqueror 25. The Adventures Of A Special Correspondent 26. The Blockade Runners 27. The Fur Country 28. The Master Of The World 29. The Pearl Of Lima 30. The Secret Of The Island 31. The Survivors Of The Chancellor 32. The Underground City 33. The Waif Of The Cynthia 34. Ticket No. 9262 35. Topsy Turvy 36. In The Year 2889 This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.

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