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    Lost Sci-Fi Books 461 thru 480

    20 Classic Science Fiction Stories of Strange Worlds, Future Men, and Impossible Discoveries

    by Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Shaara, Robert Silverberg, Frank Belknap Long, Nelson S. Bond, Murray Leinster, Harry Harrison, Jack Williamson, Walter M. Miller Jr., Arthur Sellings, Randall Garrett, Stephen Bartholomew, Robert Wicks, Frank M. Robinson, Jack Vance, Alfred Coppel, James Bell, H. F. Arnold, Gene L. Henderson ...
    Narrated by Scott Miller ...
    Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi 20 Book Box Sets

    Unabridged

    10 hours 43 min

    Lost Sci-Fi Books 461–480 brings together 20 classic science fiction stories from some of the genre’s greatest writers, alongside forgotten authors whose imaginative tales deserve to be heard again.Travel from the hidden dangers of Arthur C. Clarke’s Hide and Seek to the unsettling future of Jack Vance’s The Men Return. Encounter a world where kindness has taken an unexpected turn in Arthur ... Read more

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  • Tales of the Dying Earth

    The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, Rhialto the Marvellous

    by Jack Vance ...
    Series series Dying Earth
    Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his 1964 novel, The Dying Earth, and its sequels--a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever.This omnibus volume comprised all four books in ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Tschai

    by Jack Vance ...
    The four Planet of Adventure volumes chronicle Adam Reith's saga on the planet Tschai, under the amber glow of the star Carina 4269. Reith is a Terran first-in scout stranded on a planet which he learns is now occupied, after an ancient struggle which has come to a standstill, by three technically advanced cultures who now guardedly share the surface while the original inhabitants- the mysterious ... Read more

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  • The Cadwal Chronicles

    by Jack Vance ...
    For centuries the breathtakingly beautiful planet Cadwal has been held in trust by a centuries-old Charter of Conservancy, created by the now-defunct Naturalist Society on Old Earth.Over time, restrictions on population expansion written into the Charter have become irksome to some who live on Cadwal—those who would take the unexploited wealth of Cadwal for themselves, also those forced to leave ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Three Trips in Time and Space

    by John Brunner, Larry Niven, Jack Vance ...
    Each major advance in the technology of communication or transportation has brought profound transformations and dislocations to human society. Three of science fiction's greatest authors--Larry Niven, Jack Vance, John Brunner--explore what would happen if teleportation were invented.Suppose it were possible, technologically and economically, to transport oneself to any point on the earth's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Demon Princes

    by Jack Vance ...
    In a far-off future, criminals have the freedom to pursue their most violent passions among the civilized worlds of the Oikumene, assured that justice cannot follow when they escape into the lawless Beyond—a vast playground where the most elusive and monomaniacal murderers, thieves, and slavers can conquer a world of their own, play out complex fantasies of bloodlust, pursue revenge and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight

    by Jack Vance ...
    For the second time, Iucounu the Laughing Magician has magicked Cugel the Clever to the farthest reaches of The Dying Earth. Beset by thieves and schemers whose cunning almost equals his own, Jack Vances most incorrigible rogue must fight the long way back to Iucounus manse, where he means to exact a comprehensive and memorable revenge before the old red sun goes out forever.SF Grandmaster Jack ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

    A Century of Science Fiction

    by Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Jules Verne, John W. Campbell, Jr., E.E. Doc Smith, Philip Franics Nowlan, L. Sprague de Camp, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak0, A. E. van Vogt1, Jack Williamson2, Tom Easton3, Avram Davidson4, Philip Jose Farmer5, C. M. Kornbluth6, Zenna Henderson7, Richard Matheson8, Jack Vance9, Robert Silverberg0, Brian W. Aldiss1, Isaac Asimov2, Ben Bova3, Joe Haldeman4, Ann McCaffrey5, R. A. Lafferty6, Octavia E. Butler7, Jack Dann8, Larry Niven9, Kitt Reed0, Vonda N. MacIntyre1, Joanna Russ2, Keith Roberts3, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.4, Gregory Benford5, H. P. Lovecraft6, Alan Dean Foster7, David Drake8, Pat Cadigan9, Lisa Goldstein0, James Morrow1, James Morrow2, Terry Pratchett3, Lucius Shepard4, Bruce Sterling5, Charles Stross6, Howard Waldrop7, Connie Willis8, Cory Doctorow9 ...
    A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays! ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Miro Hetzel

    by Jack Vance ...
    Time and technology will change the role of the modern literary private investigator. Rather than don a trench coat, engage in snooping, interrogation, prying, and producing disheartening snapshots, detectives of the future will by necessity command stealth and a variety of arcane techniques to satisfy their stingy and demanding clients, who seek results over interstellar distances.Miro Hetzel is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dragon Masters

    by Jack Vance ...
    Man has warred for centuries with the reptilian race called "Basics". The winner of each bloody encounter has made slaves of the loserbut in this far-future conflict each side improves its slaves with genetic engineering. On Aerlith, men have bred Basics into fearsome troops; on Coralyne, Basics have developed grotesque mutant human warriors. The mysterious Sacerdotes watch and wait for Aerlith ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Other Tales: Volume VI

    by Antoinette Van Sluytman, Jack Vance, George MacDonald, Leslie Perri, Poul Anderson ...
    Narrated by Adriel Brandt ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - Other Tales

    Unabridged

    5 hours 13 min

    Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume VI contains five bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including a rare tale by George MacDonald (mentor and precursor to J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), the complete text of Poul Anderson's sword & sorcery novella Witch of the Demon Seas, and an original afrofuturist fable by Antoinette Van Sluytman, ... Read more

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  • Clarges

    by Jack Vance ...
    In the far-future city of Clarges, you can live forever if you can make the grade.In Clarges, everyone competes for the ultimate prize: immortality. Gavin Waylock had that prize the live-forever rank of Amaranth, but lost it when he was accused of murder. Now, after seven years in hiding he begins again the struggle to reach the top. But a strong-willed woman,The Jacynth Martin, is determined to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD