This 1954 collection of short science fiction works features early stories about robots, androids, and computers. Many classic science fiction authors are represented, including Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, and Poul Anderson.

Science Fiction Thinking Machines

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Groff Conklin

Science Fiction

Vanguard

In this provocative new novel, Pierre Boulle probes with a sharp scalpel the psychological anatomy of a spy - a man who sacrifices his country, his honor, and even his own life to an heroic image. In a story of intrigue and adventure as ingenious and gripping as anything in The Bridge Over the River Kwai, Mr. Boulle takes us from the aristocracy of British Intelligence and the German Secret Service to such ungentlemanly pursuits as torture, murder, and long-simmered revenge. The action revolves around Cousin - an intellectual author who prides himself on his own objectivity but who actually sees the world through the dreams of his own imagined superiority. World War II gives Cousin the chance to show that superiority by volunteering for espionage - a job, he feels, that is for gentlemen, and the arduous responsibilities of which only an aristocrat can assume. The heroic image to which Cousin sacrifices everything - including, at last, himself - is his own. A NOBLE PROFESSION is Boulle at his best - a sardonic, ironic, brilliant performance that adds a new and shining portrait to this master storyteller's wryly etched gallery of false heroes, charlatan saints, and vengeful patriots.

A Noble Profession

BOULLE, PIERRE

NY 1972 Vanguard. Translated by Michael Dobry and Lynda Cole. 8vo., hardcover. Fine in Near Fine DJ.

Ears of the jungle

Boule, Pierre

Oates, Joyce Carol, Do With Me What You Will

Do With Me What You Will

OATES,JOYCE CAROL

Little wear to boards. Content clean and bright. Good DJ.

Beyond the Gaslight: Science in Popular Fiction, 1985-1905

EVANS, Hilary & Dik

Trelawny: the incurable romancer by William St. Clair.

Trelawny : the incurable romancer

St.Clair, William

Describes the misadventures of a novice anthropologist trying to study the culture of the Dowayo people of the Cameroons

Adventures in a Mud Hut: An Innocent Anthropologist Abroad

Politics & Social Sciences

BARLEY, NIGEL

Social Sciences

The author looks at the sweep of human history through the lens of energy-into-work transformers and asserts that the two biggest technological events in modern history are the development of the heat engine and use of electromagnetism.

From Hand Ax to Laser

NO AUTHOR LISTED

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

Children's Books

DR.SEUSS

Humor

Divinity Of Doubt

Vincent Bugliosi

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