A collection of science fiction short stories.Contents:No Truce with KingsThe Critique of Impure ReasonEscape from OrbitEye Times FourTurning PointEpilogueDEEP SPACE and HIGH TIMETURNING POINT: That morning they invented the wheel; in the afternoon, the sailing ship; now night was falling and they looked up to the beckoning stars...EPILOGUE: Mankind and Earth meet again, at the Billion-year Reunion...NO TRUCE WITH KINGS: The Hugo Award-winning – novella of a feudal America at war...Always named among the handful of greats in the field of SF, Poul Anderson has expanded both his own reputation and the horizons of the art in this latest collection of stories from the pinnacle of the imagination.

    Sometimes sardonic, sometimes sad, often amusing, always brilliant, Harry Harrison's collection of mind-spinning tales re-emphasizes his status as a giant in the science fiction galaxy.

    This collection of short stories contain the following stories: Unite and Conquer (1948), Special Aptitude (1951), Mewhu's Jet (1946), Hurricane Trio (1955), The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast (1949), Thunder and Roses (1947), Bulkhead (1955), Tiny and the Monster (1947), A Way Home (1953).

    Here is a novel to equal Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End. It tells with frightening clarity of a desperately stricken earth-wracked by overpopulation and plagued by famine and despair. It tells, too, of a new breed of men and women--21st century lotus eaters caught up in a mysterious euphoria which will ultimately threaten all life on this planet; the drug-induced world of "happy dreams." Do these "happy dreamers" herald the end of the human species--or the next extraordinary step in the evolution of humanity?

    Includes Robert Silverberg's "How It Was When The Past Went Away"; "The Eve of RUMOKO" by Roger Zelazny and "We All Die Naked" by James Blish.

    A thinking person's collection of eight science fiction short stories by Blish first published in various magazines between 1953 and 1959.Tomb Tapper • (1956) • noveletteKing of the Hill • (1955) • shortstoryCommon Time • (1953) • shortstoryA Work of Art • (1956) • noveletteTo Pay the Piper • (1956) • shortstoryNor Iron Bars (expanded) • (1957) • noveletteBeep • (1954) • noveletteThis Earth of Hours • (1959) • novelette

    Aldiss: Section 1 Is Everythinbg An Illusion? Zirn Left Unguarded by Robert Sheckley Honeymoon in Space by George Griffiths Tonight the Sky Will Fall by Daniel Galouye Section 2 "Precipices of Light that Went Forever Up ..." The Star of Life by Edmond Hamiliton After Ixmal by Jeff Sutton Sea Change by Thomas N Scortia Section 3 Exile is Our Lot Breaking Point by James E Gunn The Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett All Summer in a Day by Raymond Bradbury The Mitr by Jack Vance Section 4 The God Like Machines The Storm by A E Van Vogt The Paradox Men by Charles Harness Time Fuze by Randall Garrett The Last Question by Isaac Asimov Answer by Frederic Brown

    Add to the names ofHEINLEINCLARKEBRUNNERALDISSand other titans of science fiction the name ofFRANK HERBERTwhose epic novel DUNE made SF best-seller history--along with his DUNE MESSIAH, THE SANTAROGA BARRIER, and others.DAW BOOKS proudly presents Frank Herbert's latest selection of his most outstanding fiction--ten mind-tingling tales of time, space and enigmas of man's future...THE BOOK OF FRANK HERBERT-----"Seed Stock""The Nothing""Rat Race""Gambling Device""Looking for Something?""The Gone Dogs""Passage For Piano""Encounter in a Lonely Place""Operation Syndrome""Occupation Force"

    These stories of other planets and galactic adventures show Arthur C Clarke at the peak of his powers: sometimes disturbing, always intriguing.

    The Man Who Had No Idea (1978)The Black Cat (1976)The Santa Claus Compromise (1974)The Vengeance of Hera or, Monogamy Triumphant (1980)Concepts (1978)The Apartment Next to the War (1975)The Foetus (1980)The Fire Began to Burn the Stick, the Stick Began to Beat the Dog (1976)At the Pleasure Centre (1974)The Grown-Up (1981)How to Fly (1977)Planet of the Rapes (1977)The Revelation (1980)Pyramids for Minnesota (1974)Josie and the Elevator: A Cautionary Tale (1980)An Italian Lesson (1982)Understanding Human Behavior (1982)

    This is the 1st edition.The universe of Cordwainer SmithGiant planoforming ships ply the spaceways...Men "built" from animals do mankind's labor - and plot in secret...Living weapons guard the most important secret in existence...A thousand planets acknowledge one ruler - the instrumentality of Mankind...Wierd, beautiful, terrifying - these stories of the far future paint a picture of the strangest universe ever imagined.Contains five stories:Mother Hitton's Littul KittonsThe Dead Lady of Clown TownDrunkboatThe Ballad of Lost C'MellA Planet Named Shayol

    Otherwise, the same contents.

    Nine stories: Profession; The Feeling of Power; The Dying Night; I'm in Marsport without Hilda; The Gentle Vultures; All the Troubles of the World; Spell my Name with an S; The Last Question (one of Asimov's most often requested stories); and The Ugly Little Boy (Asimov's own personal favorite).

    In “Vortex,” by Gregory Benford, astronauts find a once thriving microbial lifeform that carpets the caves of Mars dying off. A code monkey tracks down the vain creator of a pernicious software virus that people jack cerebrally in “RedKing,” by Craig DeLancey. In “Number Nine Moon,” by Alex Irvine, illicit scavengers on Mars are on a rescue mission to save themselves after one of their team members dies. A young girl’s thirst for vengeance becomes a struggle for survival when she is swallowed by a gigantic sea creature on an alien planet in “Of the Beast in the Belly,” by C.W. Johnson. In “The Seventh Gamer,” by Gwyneth Jones, a writer immerses herself into a MMORPG community to search for characters being played by real aliens from other worlds. A woman armed with a rifle stalks a herd of cloned wooly mammoths in British Columbia in “Chasing Ivory,” by Ted Kosmatka. In “Fieldwork,” by Shariann Lewitt, a volcanologist struggles with her research on Europa where both her mother and grandmother suffered dire consequences. A daughter pays homage to her mother with mega-engineering projects to deal with climate change over eons in “Seven Birthdays,” by Ken Liu. In “The Visitor from Taured,” by Ian R. MacLeod, a cosmologist in the near future is obsessed with proving his theory of multiverses. The citizens of a small town on a “Jackaroo” planet object to a corporation placing a radio telescope near local alien artifacts in “Something Happened Here, But We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was,” by Paul McAuley. And finally, in “Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee,” by Alastair Reynolds, a graduate student defends her dissertation on a solar anomaly that threatens humanity.

    Contents:The Gold at the Starbow's End (1972)Sad Solarian Screenwriter Sam (1972)Call Me Million (1970)Shaffery among the Immortals (1972)The Merchants of Venus (1972)