Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Collections 2009
Explore the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror collections from 2009. Featuring iconic authors like Ray Bradbury, Gene Wolfe, and Roger Zelazny, this curated list highlights top speculative fiction anthologies, including 'The Best of Michael Moorcock' and 'Cyberabad Days.' Dive into timeless classics, paranormal tales, and visionary American sci-fi stories in this essential genre roundup.
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Across the Sky
by Mark Rich
In 19 ventures into the future, Rich travels from a moving moment during human-alien contact to madcap conflict between human and vegetable, to a vision of life in Venusian orbit.
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Call Me Joe
by Poul Anderson
Presents a collection of short stories, including "Call Me Joe," "The Immortal Game," "The Live Coward," and "Then Death Will Come.".
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Men of the Otherworld
by Kelley Armstrong
This compendium of four tales introduces the Men of the Otherworld, a werewolf pack, and includes a new story.
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A is for Alien
by CaitlĂn R. Kiernan
From the wastelands of Mars to the streets of a late 21st-century Manhattan, from the moons of Europa and Saturn to an iceless Antarctica, these tales bring an acclaimed author's trademark brand of the eco-gothic to bear on what it means to be human and the paths that may face mankind only a little farther along.
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We'll Always Have Paris
by Ray Bradbury
Over the course of a storied literary career that has spanned more than half a century, Ray Bradbury has taken us to wonderful places: across vast oceans to foreign lands, onto summer porches of small-town America, through dark and dangerous forests where predators wait, into the hypnotic mists of dream, back to a halcyon past to remember, forward into an exhilarating future, and rocketing through outer space. In We'll Always Have Paris—a new collection of never-before-published stories—the inimitable Bradbury once again does what few writers have ever done as well. He delights us with prose that soars and sings. He surprises and inspires, exposing truths and provoking deep thought. He imagines great things and poignantly observes human foibles and frailties. He enchants us with the magic he mastered decades ago and still performs flawlessly. In these pages, radio voices become indomitable flesh and the dead arise to recapture life. There is joy in an eccentric old man's dance for the world and wonder over the workings of humankind's best friend, O Holy Dog. Whether he's exploring the myriad ways to be reborn, or the circumstances that can make any man a killer, or returning us to Mars, Bradbury opens the world to us and beckons us in. Get ready to travel far and wide once again with America's preeminent storyteller. His tales will live forever. We will always have Bradbury—and for that reason, we are eternally blessed.
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Worlds
by Eric Flint
Take a guided tour through the many worlds of "New York Times"-bestselling author Eric Flint. Known for his alternate history novels, he is equally a master of shorter forms, and this generous selection gathers the best of his shorter works.
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Threshold
by Roger Zelazny
Presents a collection of short stories, including "And the Darkness is Harsh," "Museum Piece," "Bok," and "From a Seat in the Chill Park."
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Power and Light
by Roger Zelazny
"This six volume collection includes all of Zelazny's know short fiction and poetry, three excerpts of important novels, a selection of non-fiction essays, and a few curiosities."--V. 1, p. 5
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Cyberabad Days
by Ian McDonald
This collection of seven stories and a thirty-one thousand word original novella revisits the vivid world of near future India that McDonald so successfully depicted in River of Gods (a BSFA Award winner). Readers will discover a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, and a population where males outnumber females four to one. This future India has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas. Includes one Hugo Award nominee and one Hugo Award winner.
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Returning My Sister's Face
by Eugie Foster
Enchantment, peril, and romance pervade the shadowy Far East from the elegant throne room of the emperor's palace to the humble teahouse of a peasant village in these stories of adventure and magic from the Orient.
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We Never Talk about My Brother
by Peter S. Beagle
The nine extraordinary stories in Peter S. Beagle's new fantasy collection are profound explorations of love, death, transformation, and the choices that define just who and what we are. ... [Includes] the recently rediscovered poem cycle, The unicorn tapestries.
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The Best of Gene Wolfe
by Gene Wolfe
The best stories of a long and influential career by “quite simply a superb writer” (The Washington Post Book World)
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The Sound of Dead Hands Clapping
by Mark Rich
"From the exquisitely odd to the disquietingly familiar ... Six tales - lifting the frayed edges of our multi-textured times to reveal hidden regions rarely seen - where dislocated lives drift, struggle, and try to flee - betwen layers of shifting reality."--Back cover blurb
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Robots Have No Tails
by Henry Kuttner
Hounded by creditors and heckled by an uncooperative robot, binge-drinking inventor Galloway Gallegher must solve the mystery of his own machines before his reckless lifestyle catches up with him. Kuttner's five classic "Gallegher" stories present the author at the height of his imaginative genius.
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Marionettes, Inc
by Ray Bradbury
In five stories (one of them original to this collection, plus a rare, previously unpublished screen treatment) Bradbury explores the concept of Robotics and examines its impact on the day-to-day lives of ordinary people.
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Metamorphosis
by James P. Blaylock
Metamorphosis: three stories, each one involving a man who discovers that he has come to dwell, for an hour or for a lifetime, in a house and in a mind not quite his own. Each one opens doors onto rooms of illusion, radiance, regret, and dark enchantment. Welcome to the stories of three young writers, stories written in collaboration with James P. Blaylock. Welcome to the borderland of illusion and reality. Three tales, written in collaboration by James P. Blaylock with students in a class by Tim Powers, with an introduction and illustrations by Tim, an afterword by Blaylock, and some necessary meddling by William Ashbless.
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The Best of Michael Moorcock
by Michael Moorcock
This collection ranges from the genre tales that continue to define heroic fantasy to the author's critically acclaimed mainstream works.
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The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg
by Robert Silverberg
Subterranean Press's definitive collection of Silverberg's short fiction, with stories produced during the years 1953 to 2009. The volumes include commentary by the author.
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Of Berserkers, Swords and Vampires
by Fred Saberhagen
In a book that will be irresistible for the thousands of Saberhagen fans, all three of his most popular series--Berserkers, Lost Swords, and Dracula--are represented here, as well as gems from his other series, including his first-published story and his last-written story, marking the endpoints of a remarkable writer's remarkable career that spanned more than four decades.
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This Mortal Mountain
by Roger Zelazny
This Mortal Mountain covers the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Zelazny's breadth of interests developed into a variety of styles.
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Last Exit to Babylon
by Roger Zelazny
"This six volume collection includes all of Zelazny's know short fiction and poetry, three excerpts of important novels, a selection of non-fiction essays, and a few curiosities."--V. 1, p. 5
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Wireless
by Charles Stross
The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as "Accelerando, Halting State," and "Saturn's Children" delivers a rich selection of speculative fiction in this collection.
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Dreamwish Beasts and Snarks
by Michael D. Resnick
"Resnick's avid interest in safaris and Africa are highlighted in this collection of his futuristic hunting stories; several of the stories were directly inspired from his personal stalking of game, with camera and not gun, experiences"--Provided by publisher.
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Crystal Nights and Other Stories
by Greg Egan
A representative sampling of Hugo winner Egan's distinctive hard science fiction drawing from previously uncollected stories.
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Slow Sculpture
by Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon was a model for his friend Kurt Vonnegut’s legendary character Kilgore Trout, and his work was an acknowledged influence on important younger writers from Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg to Stephen King and Octavia Butler. His work has long been deeply appreciated for its sardonic sensibility, dazzling wordplay, conceptual brilliance, memorable characters, and unsparing treatment of social issues such as sex, war, and marginalized members of society. Sturgeon also authored several episodes of the original Star Trek TV series and originated the Vulcan phrase “Live long and prosper.” This twelfth volume of North Atlantic’s ambitious series reprinting his complete short stories includes classic works such as the award-winning title story, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1971, as well as “Case and the Dreamer,” a well-crafted tale of an encounter with a trans-spatial being that is also a meditation on love, and “The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff,” a creative exploration of the human ability to achieve self-realization in response to crisis. The book includes a new Foreword, an illuminating section of Story Notes, and a comprehensive index for the entire series.
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Fire
by Robin McKinley
Five tales of creatures who live and die by fire from both the present day and the prehistoric past.