The Girl Who Heard Dragons and fourteen other stories of alien worlds and strange beings are all brought magically alive by the magic pen of Anne McCaffrey.

    Originally puublished uner the title 'The Many Worlds of Andre Norton'

    Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967 · The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World · nv Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967 · Scherzo for Schizoids: Notes on a Collaboration · ms Knight Nov ’65 · Up Christopher to Madness · Harlan Ellison & Avram Davidson · ss Knight Nov ’65 · Runesmith · Harlan Ellison & Theodore Sturgeon · ss F&SF May ’70 · Rodney Parish for Hire · Harlan Ellison & Joe L. Hensley · ss Swank May ’62 · The Kong Papers · Harlan Ellison & William Rotsler · ct The Kong Papers, William Rotsler & Harlan Ellison, 1969 · The Human Operators · Harlan Ellison & A. E. van Vogt · ss F&SF Jan ’71 · Survivor No. 1 [“The Man with the Green Nose”] · Harlan Ellison & Henry Slesar · ss Knave Sep ’59 · The Power of the Nail · Harlan Ellison & Samuel R. Delany · ss Amazing Nov ’68 · Wonderbird · Harlan Ellison & Algis Budrys · ss Infinity Science Fiction Sep ’57 · The Song the Zombie Sang · Harlan Ellison & Robert Silverberg · ss Cosmopolitan Dec ’70 · Street Scene [“Dunderbird”] · Harlan Ellison & Keith Laumer · ss Galaxy Jan ’69; this story has two different endings. The version with the Ellison ending was in Galaxy, the version with the Laumer ending was in Adam Mar ’69 as “Street Scene”. · Come to Me Not in Winter’s White · Harlan Ellison & Roger Zelazny · ss F&SF Oct ’69

    Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien inevitable.Now, in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, seventeen of her favorite stories reaffirm Ursula Le Guin as one of America's outstanding writers.CONTENTS:ForewordSemley's NecklaceApril in ParisThe MastersDarkness BoxThe Word of UnbindingThe Rule of NamesWinter's KingThe Good TripNine LivesThingsA Trip to the HeadVaster than Empires and More SlowThe Stars BelowThe Field of VisionDirection of the RoadThe Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasThe Day Before the Revolution

    "Especially when she's given one of your ultimate space ships.""I can vouch for her," the Galactic Co-ordinator said casually."But supposing another people--like the Daya-Bals--came into possession of one of our ultimate ships. They could duplicate it.""Don't worry--our Agents are psychologically incapable of giving away secrets that could cause us harm.""I know," the Scientist said. "That's why I was surprised to discover that there are two other Daya-Bals secretly aboard our Agent's ship!" (From the back cover)

    *** These stories were selected (and edited) by his wife Leigh Brackett, an author and a screenwriter. Her screen-writing credits include works on such films as The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, The Long Goodbye and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. I*** This collection spans nearly half a century of Edmond Hamilton's work and was selected from a repository of hundreds of stories that he had written over that period.Contents:The Monster-God of Mamurth (1926)The Man Who Evolved (1931)A Conquest of Two Worlds (1932)The Island of Unreason (1933)Thundering Worlds (1934)The Man Who Returned (1934)The Accursed Galaxy (1935)In the World's Dusk (1936)Child of the Winds (1936)The Seeds from Outside (1937)Fessenden's Worlds (1937)Easy Money (1938)He That Hath Wings (1938)Exile (1943)Day of Judgment (1946)Alien Earth (1949)What's It Like Out There? (1952)Requiem (1962)After a Judgement Day (1963)The Pro (1964)Castaway (1969)

    Jeanie first met McAndrew on a routine run to Titan and quickly learned he was a genius of the caliber of Newton or Einstein. When McAndrew invented a space drive that let frail humans survive hundreds of gravities of acceleration, he disappeared while testing it, and Jeanie had to find him, using a trail of cryptic messages he had left behind.That was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, in spite of the gray hairs that Jeanie began accumulating as a result of McAndrew's impractical nature and his talent for getting himself into trouble with much more practical villains, such as... A mass-murderer of several million people A highly-placed government official whose life McAndrew saved, but in an embarrassing way, and who consequently wants to kill both him and Jeanie The ruler of a slower-than-light spaceship that left Earth a long time ago, giving it time to develop some very strange customs by the time McAndrew and Jeanie visited it.And there are still more adventures of this spacegoing odd couple in The Compleat McAndrew.Publisher's Note: Part of this book was previously published as One Man's Universe.

    Dick creates a novel that manages to be simultaneously unpredictable and perversely logical. Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He's also lost his wife, but he'll get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. It's all part of the rules of Bluff, the game that's become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically and terminally--because Pete Garden will be playing his next game against an opponent who isn't even human, for stakes that are a lot higher than Berkeley.

    It was a time of Decision.The bureaucrats of Earth, the stark pioneers of "terraformed" Mars, and the proud gill-altered rulers of Venus were torn between two techno-religions - one offering the certainty of eternal life; and the other, a far-flung destiny among the stars.

    The novel about: the absolutely ultimate weapon that can ever exist...The sub-human who found it and tried to use it...The beasts who manned humanity's last star fleet...The widening rim in the space-time continuum...The brief cosmic empire of the pigs...The theory of gravitaitational recession...The super-samurai who served the zen-gunner...The colonial girl who defied the galactic empire...And many more "nova" ideas from the author of whom Michael Moorcock said, "There is no one else to match him."

    No one could say if they were ghosts or gods or devils. They only knew they came from the sky, silver clad, ominous, with a Medusa glance that could freeze a man in his tracks. They stole women and carried them off to heaven, decimating the Earth's population and threatening the survival of the human species.Berry, chief of the Londos clan, frustrated by the uselessness of his tribes' primitive weapons, ventures into the inner circle of the Night Comers and is spirited away in their ship to their home in the stars. There, Berry's fight for survival holds the key to the existence of his own world and that of the Night Comers as well.

    The alien offered him the key to the Universe - how long could even a master thief resist?

    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

    Now they are trapped in the Dome--an underwater laboratory off the coast of Hawaii.Scientists. Technicians. Bureaucrats. And the special ones, recipients of an advanced technology--as much machine as human, or more animal than man. They are the citizens of the Dome. Sentenced to the endless night of the ocean floor. Safe from the virus-ravaged surface. They are humanity's last chance...

    CAMPBELLHere are the finest stories by the man who almost single-handedly created modern science fiction--the writer who taught a generation to dream...and to write of all possible futures.TWILIGHTHe was a mere hitchhiker now, but he had once seen the far, far future...and had returned to mourn what he had seen!THE MACHINEThe machine was ultimately benevolent...so benevolent that it gave mankind the ultimate but most unwanted gift!FORGETFULNESSThey were like children in the museum of Earth's glorious past...children who had forgotten so much, but whose powers were those of gods!And the classic that was to become the movie THE THING: WHO GOES THERE?The Thing was the most dreadful threat men had ever faced...a creature that could be any one--or all--of them!And many more!Contents:· Introduction: The Three Careers of John W. Campbell · Lester del Rey · in · The Last Evolution · ss Amazing Aug ’32 · Twilight [as by Don A. Stuart; Dying Earth] · ss Astounding Nov ’34 · The Machine [as by Don A. Stuart; Machine, et seq] · ss Astounding Feb ’35 · The Invaders [as by Don A. Stuart; Machine, et seq] · ss Astounding Jun ’35 · Rebellion [as by Don A. Stuart; Machine, et seq] · nv Astounding Aug ’35 · Blindness [as by Don A. Stuart] · ss Astounding Mar ’35 · Elimination [as by Don A. Stuart] · ss Astounding May ’36 · Forgetfulness [as by Don A. Stuart] · nv Astounding Jun ’37 · Out of Night [as by Don A. Stuart; Sarn] · nv Astounding Oct ’37 · Cloak of Aesir [as by Don A. Stuart; Sarn] · na Astounding Mar ’39 · Who Goes There? [as by Don A. Stuart] · na Astounding Aug ’38 · Space for Industry · ar Astounding Apr ’60 · Afterword: Postscriptum · Mrs. John Campbell · aw