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Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman
  • Eleven essential classics in one volume

    This last volume in the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964 contains eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.

    Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.

    This volume contains the following:

    Introduction by Ben Bova

    The Martian Way by Isaac Asimov

    Earthman, Come Home by James Blish

    Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys

    The Spectre General by Theodore Cogswell

    The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster

    The Midas Plague by Frederik Pohl

    The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz

    E for Effort by T. L. Sherred

    In Hiding by Wilmar H. Shiras

    The Big Front Yard by Clifford D. Simak

    The Moon Moth by Jack Vance

  • Eleven essential classics in one volume

    This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.

    Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, the Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.

    This volume contains the following:

    Introduction by Ben Bova

    Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson

    Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. (as Don A. Stuart)

    Nerves by Lester del Rey

    Universe by Robert A. Heinlein

    The Marching Morons by C. M. Kornbluth

    Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (as Lawrence O’Donnell)

    … And Then There Were None by Eric Frank Russell

    The Ballad of Lost C’Mell by Cordwainer Smith

    Baby Is Three by Theodore Sturgeon

    The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

    With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson

  • The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929 and 1964

    This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be. The authors chosen for the Science Fiction Hall Fame are the men and women who have shaped the body and heart of modern science fiction; their brilliantly imaginative creations continue to inspire and astound new generations of writers and fans.

    Robert Heinlein in “The Roads Must Roll” describes an industrial civilization of the future caught up in the deadly flaws of its own complexity. “Country of the Kind,” by Damon Knight, is a frightening portrayal of biological mutation. “Nightfall,” by Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest stories in the science fiction field, is the story of a planet where the sun sets only once every millennium and is a chilling study in mass psychology.

    Originally published in 1970 to honor those writers and their stories that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame, Vol. 1, was the book that introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction. Too long unavailable, this new edition will treasured by all science fiction fans everywhere.

    The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, includes the following:

    Introduction by Robert Silverberg

    “A Martian Odyssey” by Stanley G. Weinbaum
    “Twilight” by John W. Campbell
    “Helen O’Loy” by Lester del Rey
    “The Roads Must Roll” by Robert A. Heinlein
    “Microcosmic God” by Theodore Sturgeon
    “Nightfall” by Isaac Asimov
    “The Weapon Shop” by A. E. van Vogt
    “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” by Lewis Padgett
    “Huddling Place” by Clifford D. Simak
    “Arena” by Fredric Brown
    “First Contact” by Murray Leinster
    “That Only a Mother” by Judith Merril
    “Scanners Live in Vain” by Cordwainer Smith
    “Mars Is Heaven!” by Ray Bradbury
    “The Little Black Bag” by C. M. Kornbluth
    “Born of Man and Woman” by Richard Matheson
    “Coming Attraction” by Fritz Leiber
    “The Quest for Saint Aquin” by Anthony Boucher
    “Surface Tension” by James Blish
    “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke
    “It’s a Good Life” by Jerome Bixby
    “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin
    “Fondly Fahrenheit” by Alfred Bester
    “The Country of the Kind” Damon Knight
    “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes
    “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” by Roger Zelazny

  • From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their check-ins with Julie over the course of three decades: their thank-you notes, letters of condolence, family gossip, and good old-fashioned familial passive-aggression.

    Together, their missives—some sardonic, others absurd, others heartbreaking—weave a tapestry of a very modern family trying (and often failing) to show one another they care.

    The titular “nuclear family” includes, among many others, a narcissistic former-child-prodigy father who has taken up haiku writing in his old age and his new wife, a traditional Chinese woman whose attempts to help her stepdaughter find a man include FedExing her silk gowns from Filene’s Basement; their six-year-old son, Stuart, whose favorite condiment is truffle oil and who wears suits to bed; and Julie’s mother, a psychologist who never remarried but may be in love with her arrogant Rabbi and overshares about everything, including the threesome she had with Dutch grad students in 1972.

  • A #1 New York Times Bestseller: Mark Helprin’s masterpiece transports you to New York of the Belle Epoque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented snows…

    A Winter’s Tale is a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, and Jennifer Connelly.

    This is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love, and justice, and yet you can lose yourself in it as if it were a dream. You will be transported to New York of the Belle Epoque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented winters. One night, Peter Lake—orphan, master-mechanic, and master second-story man—attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between the middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. Because of a love that at first he cannot fully understand, Peter, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven "to stop time and bring back the dead." His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and beset by winter, is a truly beautiful and extraordinary story.