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A collection of ten stories from Moore's Northwest Smith series, interplanetary fatasy stories.
Table of contents: Shambleau; Black thirst; The tree of life; Scarlet dream; Dust of the gods; Lost paradise; Julhi; The cold gray god; Yvala; Song in a minor key
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The children in the novel have been mutated by a nuclear blast to have super-human abilities. They are gathered to a special school to explore their powers and reckon with their place in society. Generally thought to be inspiration for Lee and Kirby's X-Men. Originally published 1953.
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The Snows of Ganymede, first published serially in 1954: "When the Order of planetary engineers sent Hall Davenant to Ganymede for a terraforming survey, they knew that the job... would be tough... But they hadn't counted on the... intrigue, bigotry, and double-died treachery [of the colonists]. // War of the Wing-Men, first published 1958: "Only three humans survived the wreck of that spaceship on the little known planet... the survivors only had enough food for six weeks... Their desperate efforts to beat that fatal deadline makes [this] one of Poul Anderson's most exciting novels."
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A double novel.
An abridged copy of Asimov's The 1000-year plan, first published in 1951 and part of the Foundation series; from the text: "You will thrill to Seldon's battle plan to save a galaxy - even after his own death!"
Andersen's No World of Their Own, 1955, from the text: "They had followed orders, reached the stars, and now were bound back for Earth with a visitor, a strange star-born being..."
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A collection of three short stories by Sturgeon, plus a bibliography on his work.
Table of contents: Editor's notes; Introduction; Maturity; Bulkhead; The graveyard reader; Postscript; bibliography
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In Kroy, a country of horses and horse-like animals (zebras, donkeys, even river horses or hippopotamuses), one horse named Cobbler leads a fight against the neighboring Milts, a bird-insect-reptile hybrid who seek to enslave the residents of Kroy.
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A small chapbook collection of two short stories, an interview, and a spech by Le Guin, plus a map of EarthSea. Table of contents: Dreams must explain themselves; Map of EarthSea; The rule of names; National Book Award acceptance speech; Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
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This short story considers the boundaries of reality and alleged mental illness.
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This is a collection of previously published short stories and nonfiction works by Ellison, with a foreword by Stephen King. Table of contents: Foreword by Stephen King; "Introduction: Quiet Lies the Locust Tells"; "Grail"; "The Outpost Undiscovered By Tourists"; "Blank..."; Scenes From the Real World: I - The 3 Most Important Things In Life; "Visionary" (written with Joe L. Hensley); "Djinn, No Chaser"; "Invasion Footnote"; Scenes From the Real World: II - Saturn, November 11; "Night of Black Glass"; "Final Trophy"; "!!!The!!Teddy!Crazy!!Show!!!"; "The Cheese Stands Alone"; Scenes From The Real World: III - "Somehow, I Don't Think We're In Kansas, Toto"; "Transcending Destiny"; "The Hour That Stretches"; "The Day I Died"; 3 Tales From the Mountains of Madness: "Tracking Level", "Tiny Ally", "The Goddess in the Ice"; Scenes From The Real World: IV - Gopher In the Gilly
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From the jacket, quoting Dick: "It deals with a Jew living in a small rural town in Marin County; like Jay Gatsby he is shunned and looked down upon, excluded from the community, and yet he is destroying himself tring to help this very same community, to bring it into the twentieth century... A cruel prank is played on him...it has unexpected and and really quite extraordinary consequences.
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From the jacket: "I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit: I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, they do as I tell them. I am the Word and My name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be." In future 1992, psychic powers and cryonic technology enable corporations. Joe Chip experiences alterations of reality that can only be reversed with Ubik, a store-bought spray.
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From the back cover: "Strange things are said to have happened in this world - some are said to be happening still - but half of them, if I'm any judge, are lies. So begins one of the strangest fantasy tales ever written... this hard-tofind gem is what fantasy isall about, and what it should be." First published in 1985, reprinted.
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From the back cover: "After two years on an isolated plaet, Pugh and Martin looked forward to seeing another human face - any face after the boredom and loneliness of mining a dead world by themselves. When the relief team finally arrived, Martin and Pugh were startled to meet the same face... repeated ten times. The ten-clone performed their tasks better and faster than any team of 'singletons' could. Whatrtin and Pugh hadn't counted on was the self-contained nature of the clone. The clone shared everything among themselves and needed no one, including Martin and Pugh. Or so they thought." Originally published in Playboy in 1969, republished in a new version 1975.
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From the back cover: "Travis goes back in time to 1961 to the most important moment of his life: the day he met LeeAnn at a high school dance. Only the past isn't quite the way he remembers it...What chewed a hole in the highway to his old home town? Who are the mysterious people chasing a pair of ragged children? And why does he keep hearing about invaders from Outer Space?" Originally published in 1984, reprinted.
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from the back cover: "Case has spent several million American dollars, has fathered no children, married thrice in addition to seriously co-habiting with seven women, not counting Iris, who was crazy as a dung beetle in a hub-cap, and counting Pearl, whom he still thinks of every day. He has smoked maybe five zillion cigarettes ad tipped back an oil freighter or so of coffee, black. He has lived drunk and sober, rational and pissed off beyond sanity, benevolently then selfishly, and does not believe in the supernatural. Then a purple dinosaur steps on his 'Vette, and Case must re-evaluate... everything." Copyright of story 1989.
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From the back cover: "The Kondrei love humanity and all its stands for, even to the point of mimicing human culture. But to the last seven survivors of a destroyed Earth, the imitation is a mockery of all they love. For Michael Flynn, the situation becomes intolerable when the aliens begin to tinker with the last solely human pleasure left to him: music. Het sets out to stop this final blasphemy, but in the process discovers that the boundaries between what's human and what's alien are more blurred than he imagined." Copyright of story 1986.
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From the back cover: "In the Old Phoenix, a bar outside time and space, only one rule applies: on Losers' Night, never ask your companion's name. History's loses gather in this bar to talk about old battles, lost loves, an forgotten songs. But some of the guests are surprising - are they really losers? Or were they the winners?
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This story, originally published in 1959, is a space adventure story about encountering a new group of aliens.
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Sheehan's story, first published in 1920 in All-Story Magazine, is set in the Everglades and tells the story of a Seminole man named Blue Otter and his love affair with a white woman.
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This short story, first published in 1920, is the first appearance of Lovecraft's Pnakotic Manuscripts. It is reproduced in facsimile within The Philosopher, A casual imperiodical, or collection of poems and other short stories (not by Lovecraft).
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This short story, originally published in 1926 in Weird Tales, is about how killing cats became outlawed in a town called Ulthar.
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The short story by Barlow deals with fantasy transference to the future and was first published in The Californian in Summer1936. The preface by Lovecraft was first published in The Californian, Winter 1936.
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A reprint of Smith's 1920 poem. From the jacket: "By some explanation of cosmic consciousness, rather than a mere drug, used here as a symbol, the dreamer is carried to a height which he beholds the strange and multiform scenes of existence in alien worlds..."
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A reprinting of a series of stories by Barlow originally appearing in the pulp serial The Fantasy Fan from 1933-35.
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A collection of new short stories in the Cthulu mythos.
Table of contents: Introduction by Ramsey Campbell; Crouch End by Stephen King; The star pools by A.A. Attanasio; The second wish by Brian Lumley; Dark awakening by Frank Belknap Long; Shaft number 247 by Basil Cooper; Black man with a horn by T.E.D. Klein; The black tome of Alsophocus by H. P. Lovecraft and Martin S. Warnes; Than curse the darkness by David Drake; The faces at pine dunes by Ramsey Campbell