I Am Crying All Inside – The Complete Clifford D. Simak, Vol. 1
By the time he was named the third Science Fiction Grand Master in 1977, Clifford D. Simak had already been …
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City – Clifford Simak
Clifford Simak’s cerebral fixup novel that takes humanity out of its far-future cities, to the stars, and beyond humanity itself.
F&SF – August 1954
Alfred Bester’s “Fondly Fahrenheit;” Zenna Henderson’s “Gilead;” Charles Beaumont’s “Quadriopoticon;” Manly Wade Wellman’s “Little Black Train;” stories by Richard Brookbank, Kay Rogers, and Doris P. Buck.
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 (1943)
A collection of the greatest science fiction stories and novellas from the year 1943, with notes by Asimov. A great selection, with many excellent authors and stories represented.
Singularity Station – Brian Ball
Sole survivor of shipwreck ventures into black hole after his lost command, while his girlfriend ends up hostage on a prison ship commandeered by mad neurosurgeon. Good times.
Terror Station & The Weapon From Eternity – Dwight V. Swain
Two old-school science fiction tales from the end of the pulp era: aliens invade a New Mexico army base, and fringe-planet raiders fight an empire to retain their freedom.
The City and The Stars – Arthur C. Clarke
For the first time in billions of years, a new human is born. More importantly, he’s the first person in billions of years with the driving curiosity to leave his utopian city.
The Atlantic Abomination – John Brunner
Scientists unleash ancient alien monstrosity from the briny deep; it proceeds to go about re-conquering our world via its psychic powers. A B-movie in book form.
Destination: Void – Frank Herbert
Human clones are sent from Earth as test dummies to colonize a habitable planet in Tau Ceti, overcoming a number of technological and pscyhological hurdles.
Sailing to Byzantium – Robert Silverberg
A 1980s-era man is deposited in a future so advanced and decadent that its inhabitants have nothing better to do than reconstruct (with some accuracy) ancient cities to hold their social events.
Dinosaur Beach – Keith Laumer
Hardboiled time cop is stranded in a time loop during the age of dinosaurs, and has to untangle a muddled web of intrigue and time paradoxes to get home alive.
Battered, Tattered, Yellowed, & Creased 