Books like 'Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, October 1950 (Volume 1, No. 1)'
Readers who enjoyed Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, October 1950 (Volume 1, No. 1) by H.L. Gold, Clifford D. Simak, Theodore Sturgeon, Katherine MacLeane, Richard Matheson, Fritz Leiber, Fredric Brown, Isaac Asimov, Groff Conklin & Willy Ley also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The Ender Quintet by Orson Scott Card
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis set contains Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, and Ender in Exile.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied... -
Our Blue Orange by A.R. Merrydew
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen inventor Godfrey Davis arrived at the ministry that Monday morning he had his first experience of the new phenomenon. There was something wrong with the aging android fleet that served the colony... -
Fortune's Favors by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsARE YOU FEELING LUCKY? Mar Tyn eys'Ornstahl is a lucky man. His very presence can determine the fall of a card, the spin of a wheel, or whether the bread will rise or fall. In fact, Mar Tyn eys'Ornstahl isn't merely lucky. Mar Tyn is a Luck; a focal point for the elemental force of random event. While most people think that there is good luck and bad, Mar Tyn knows better... -
Warden's Folly: A Sci Fi Adventure by Tony James Slater
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLord Anakreon, Warden of the First Circle, has lost a weapon.Not just any weapon; the Planet Forge is an ancient alien artefact with the power to create worlds...Or to end them.His arch-rival, the traitor Lord Demios, is hell-bent on conquering Earth. He aims to tear the planet to pieces, and sell off the human population as spare parts... -
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Doctor Who: The Giggle (Target Collection) by James Goss
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, this thrilling third adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble...Categorized as:
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The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction by Arthur B. Evans, Edmond Hamilton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years' worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty-two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use... -
Back To The Future by George Gipe, Robert Zemeckis
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBased on a screenplay by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gule.HE WAS NEVER IN TIMEFOR HIS CLASSES...HE WASN'T IN TIME FOR HIS DINNER...THEN ONE DAY...HE WASN'T IN HIS TIME AT ALL... -
Nine Tomorrows by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsNine 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)...Categorized as:
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Temporal Contingency by Joseph R. Lallo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTemporal Contingency is the fourth book in the Big Sigma Series. Trevor “Lex” Alexander’s life has been less than blessed. In the past year he’s had to battle corrupt corporations, deranged techno-terrorists, and a robotic scourge. Now he’s received the opportunity to finally return to the racing career that had been cut short by some poor decisions... -
Free to Infect, First to Die by Ian C.P. Irvine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDuring a daring raid on a secret Pirate stronghold in the Caribbean, Captain Rob McGregor of the Sea Dancer and his own pirate crew steal the infamous treasure belonging to Captain William Kidd. Rich beyond their wildest dreams, Captain McGregor and his band of pirates set out to sea, their ships' holds full of pirate booty... -
Doctor Who: The TARDIS Handbook by Steve Tribe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the Eleventh Doctor and Amy embark on all-new adventures in time and space, The TARDIS Handbook gives you the inside scoop on 900 years of travel aboard the Doctor's famous time machine. Everything you need to know about the TARDIS is here - where it came from, where it's been, how it works, and how it has changed since we first encountered it in a London junkyard in 1963... -
Between Mountain and Sea: Paradisi Chronicles by M. Louisa Locke
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBetween Mountain and Sea, a science fiction coming of age novel, introduces Mei Lin Yu, a young New Eden girl, and Mabel, her ancestor who took the journey to New Eden from Earth over a century and a half earlier. This work is part of the Paradisi Chronicles. Mei Lin Yu should have been looking forward to the next stage in her life...Categorized as:
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The Dark Lord Trilogy by James Luceno, Matthew Woodring Stover
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor the first time in one thrilling volume, three novels–Labyrinth of Evil, Revenge of the Sith, and Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader–that follow an epic chain of events: the last days of the Republic, the creation of the Empire, and the ultimate transformation of Jedi Anakin Skywalker into the notorious Darth Vader... -
Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary by Jason Loborik
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJUST WHO IS THE DOCTOR?Now updated with all the latest information on all your Doctor Who favorites!The secrets of this mysterious time traveler lie within the pages of Doctor Who The Visual Dictionary , a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated guide to his world... -
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Fuzzies and Other People by H. Beam Piper
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe friendship between human Jack Holloway and the small, golden-furred creatures of the planet Zarathustra has a profound impact on both Holloway and the Fuzzies... -
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Secondary Phase (Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams, Geoffrey McGivern
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsQuandary and Quintessential Phases) to give a full, vibrant sound, now with Philip Pope’s version of the familiar theme tune and specially re-recorded announcements by John Marsh.Stranded on Prehistoric Earth since the end of the first series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are once again trying to hitch their way off the planet... -
The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1 by David Drake
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis volume features all of the Hammer’s Slammer short fiction, as well as all of the interstitial material from the original Slammers collection, new artwork and new interstitial material. Volume 1 also features an introduction by Gene Wolfe and an original Slammers story, “A Death in Peacetime... -
The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo of the Grand Master's finest: The saga of the opening of the space frontier as courageous men and women risked their lives to build the first space station and colonize the Moon and Venus, while praying for one last landing on the globe that gave them birth, to return to The Green Hills of Earth... -
The Persistence of Vision by John Varley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIntroduction · Algis Budrys · in The Phantom of Kansas · nv Galaxy Feb ’76 Air Raid [as by Herb Boehm] · ss IASFM Spr ’77 Retrograde Summer · nv F&SF Feb ’75 The Black Hole Passes · nv F&SF Jun ’75 In the Hall of the Martian Kings · na F&SF Feb ’77 In the Bowl · nv F&SF Dec ’75 Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance · nv Galaxy Jul ’76 Overdrawn at the Memory Bank · nv Galaxy May ’76 The...Categorized as:
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Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century by Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAn overview of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century as selected and evaluated by critically-acclaimed author Orson Scott Card...Categorized as:
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Fuzzy Sapiens by H. Beam Piper
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAre Fuzzies People?Pendarvis' Decision had finally declared the Fuzzies to be intelligent beings, and that meant some drastic changes for the Earthmen who had colonized their planet, changes that a lot of people weren't going to accept easily. But why worry? said others.The Fuzzies seemed lovable, fun-loving creatures, only two feet high, and covered with soft, golden fur... -
The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells by H.G. Wells
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSeven of Well's greatest, most startling forays into the realm of the fantastic. Includes The Time Machine, Island of Dr. Moreau, Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, First Men in the Moon, Food of the Gods, and In the Days of the Comet...Categorized as:
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Doctor Who: The Women Who Lived by Christel Dee, Simon Guerrier
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeet the women who run the Whoniverse. From Sarah Jane Smith to Bill Potts, from Susan Foreman to the Thirteenth Doctor, women are the beating heart of Doctor Who. Whether they’re facing down Daleks or thwarting a Nestene invasion, these women don’t hang around waiting to be rescued – they roll their sleeves up and get stuck in... -
Red Limit Freeway by John DeChancie
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJake McGraw is a man on the run from half the universe. After stumbling upon what seems to be the fabled roadmap to the stars, Jake must outrun the most detestable vermin and roadbugs in the galaxy and the only thing separating him from them is his tattered starrig. In the lawless region of space Jake must keep his rig running if he knows what-s good for him... -
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Astounding Science Fiction, February 1943 by John W. Campbell Jr., A.E. van Vogt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:The Silver Lining / essay by The Editor (i.e. John W. Campbell Jr.)The Weapon Makers, Part 1 of 3 (Weapon Shops of Isher #) / A.E. van Vogt; interior artwork by Frank Kramer In Times to Come / essay by unknownFlight into Darkness / Webb Marlowe (i.e. J. Francis McComas); interior artwork by Frank KramerMimsy Were the Borogoves / Lewis Padgett (i.e. Henry Kuttner and C.L... -
The Time Machine by Chris Sasaki, H.G. Wells
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIllus. in black-and-white. When a turn-of-the-century scientist travels into the distant future in his time machine, he expects to find progress and superior people. But instead he discovers a world in decay. Reading level: 2.4... -
Phelix by Andrew Clark, Dee Matthews
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFollow the Bradbeer family and their adventures once again in PHELIX, the second offering of The Time Store. RULE NUMBER TWO OF TIME TRAVEL, LEAVE NOTHING BEHIND. London. A borough steeped in history. Home of the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, Old Royal Naval College and the PRIME MERIDIAN. Also home to the Bradbeers, a family of Time Travellers. The year is 1913... -
Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By & Touched by an Angel by Dan Abnett, Jonathan Morris
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDirect to you from Doctor Who, the hit BBC television program that has enchanted fans of the fantastic for more than fifty years, comes this collection of two novels featuring the TARDIS-traveling Eleventh Doctor and his loyals companions Amy and Rory. The Silent Stars Go By by Dan Abnett. The winter festival is approaching for the hardy colony of Morphans, but no one is in the mood to celebrate... -
The Time Machine (Great Illustrated Classics) by Shirley Bogart
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe world's best-loved children's stories set in large type for easy reading... -
How It Unfolds by James S.A. Corey
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAn astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhilarating short story by James S. A. Corey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Expanse series. Roy Court and his crew are taking the trip of a lifetime—several lifetimes in fact—duplicated and dispatched across the galaxies searching for Earthlike planets. Many possibilities for the future... -
Odyssey by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA man without memory, stranded on an icy asteroid. His only chance for survival is locked within a band of mining robots who are dutifully searching the surface for a mysterious object known as the Key to Perihelion. His name is Derec. His journey will take him to a city different from any he has ever known. A fantastic metropolis beyond his dreams: Robot City... -
What Distant Deeps by David Drake
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNO REST FOR THE WEARY Captain Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy, have been in the front lines of Cinnabar's struggle against the totalitarian Alliance. Now these galactic superpowers have signed a peace of mutual exhaustion--But the jackals are moving in!The Republic of Cinnabar was on the verge of collapse under the weight of taxes, casualties, and war's disruption of trade... -
Ring by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMichael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS--and a promise... -
Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life..."This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind - all the way to the end of the Universe itself...Categorized as:
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Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is a volume in the NESFA's Choice series. The objective of this series is to publish the classic works of neglected sf authors, and to keep these works in print...Categorized as:
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The Pnume by Jack Vance, H.R. Van Dongen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Pnume are native to Tschai, living underground in a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the Pnumekin... -
Star Wars: The Rise of the Empire by John Jackson Miller, James Luceno
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWitness the rise of the Empire with these two thrilling Star Wars novels—plus exclusive short stories by Melissa Scott, John Jackson Miller, and Jason Fry! TARKIN “Compelling . . . The villains of Star Wars are as much fun as the good guys... -
Noon: 22nd Century by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSummary (From the publisher):The 22nd Century. Mankind is free from the age-old misery and poverty that have kept it in bondage, free to create a new world, to explore the universe, to confront the mysteries of human existence. Russia's greatest S-F writeres, Arkday and Boris Strugatsky, have produced a futuristic masterpiece of epic proportions and breathtaking vision... -
Alien vs. Predator: Armageddon by Tim Lebbon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Rage launch the ultimate assault on the Human Sphere. Their greatest weapons are the most fearsome creatures in the galaxy—the Xenomorphs. Having fled centuries before, the Rage return to take revenge and claim the planet for their own. Now, through a deal struck with the unlikeliest of allies, the human race may rely on the Predators to ensure mankind’s ultimate freedom... -
A New Hope: The Illustrated Screenplay (Star Wars, Episode IV) by George Lucas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNow here is the complete screenplay of the film that launched a science fiction phenomenon. Experience the capture of Princess Leia by Lord Darth Vader and the evil minions of the Empire...Farmboy Luke Skywalker's discovery of her desperate message hidden in the droid R2-D2...Luke's fateful meetings with legendary Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and intergalactic smuggler Han Solo.. -
The Collectors by Christopher L. Bennett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn all-new Star Trek e-novella featuring the Department of Temporal Investigations!The dedicated agents of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations have their work cut out for them protecting the course of history from the dangers of time travel. But the galaxy is littered with artifacts that, in the wrong hands, could threaten reality... -
Timediver's Dawn by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe author of The Fires of Paratime returns readers to the world of witches, high technology and space travel, of science and superstition--a world so short of energy resources that all fuels are grown or captured from the sun. It is on this world that a lone man must achieve the impossible... -
Adrift by W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fifth book in the thrilling Donovan sci-fi series returns to a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.The Maritime Unit had landed in paradise. After a terrifying ten-year transit from Solar System aboard the Ashanti, the small band of oceanographers and marine scientists were finally settled... -
Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Weapons & Technology by W. Haden Blackman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere’s more to the arms, artillery, and exotic equipment of the Star Wars galaxy than Jedi lightsabers and blasters. Species such as the tree-dwelling Wookiees, the amphibious Gungans, and the deadly Yuuzhan Vong have yielded a staggering array of unique weapons and devices...Categorized as:
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Warrior's Blood by Shawn Jones
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn Mars, Cort Addison, his eleventh great-granddaughter Kay, and his gray wolf Sköll seek only two things: the freedom of Kay’s son Rand, imprisoned on Mars for a crime he didn’t commit, and to be left alone. As they prepare their own colony on Mars, new enemies stand against Cort and his family. The ensuing conflict liberates Mars from Earth oversight and leads to the founding of an empire... -
Doctor Who: Damaged Goods by Russell T. Davies
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Wherever this cocaine has travelled, it hasn't gone alone. Death has been its attendant. Death in a remarkably violent and inelegant form."The Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz, arrive at the Quadrant, a troubled council block in Thatcher's Britain. There's a new drug on the streets, a drug that's killing to a plan. Somehow, the very ordinary people of the Quadrant are involved... -
The Six Fingers of Time by R.A. Lafferty
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime is money. Time heals all wounds. Given time, anything is possible... -
Doctor Who: Interference - Book Two by Lawrence Miles
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey call it the Dead Frontier. It's as far from home as the human race ever went, the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.But while one Doctor faces both his past and his future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the empire are only just being sown... -
Before the Golden Age 1 by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s, #1 of 4Contents:* The Man Who Evolved / Edmond Hamilton; * The Jameson Satellite / Neil R. Jones; * Submicroscopic / Capt. S.P. Meek; * Awlo of Ulm / Capt. S.P. Meek; * Tetrahedra of Space / P. Schuyler Miller; * The World of the Red Sun / Clifford D. Simak. Originally 26 stories published in one hardcover volume... -
All the Traps of Earth and other stories by Clifford D. Simak
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlternative cover for same ISBN: here.A collection of Simak's sci-fi stories...
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