by Roger Zelazny (2000)
**Book 6 of the Chronicles of Amber.** Merlin, son of Prince Corwin, is finishing up his education on Shadow Earth, and wrapping up a few loose ends. For example, why does someone attempt to kill him, every April 30th? The latest attempt leads him to the loss of an old love, a strange deck of Trumps, and a reconnection with an old friend. But all roads lead to Amber, and the mystery leads him into further danger....
Philip José Farmer
It's the 35th century where a person is given one day a week to live, work and play and the other six days remain in suspended animation. There are "daybreakers", outlaws, who live seven different lives and Jeff Caird is one of these who finds his life in danger.
John Wyndham [pseud
It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people . . .For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless, they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water – one of the compounds upon which life depends – is turned against them. Finally, sea levels begin their inexorable rise . . .The Kraken Wakes is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive.
Robert Heinlein
Synopsis courtesy of GoodReads : Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the history tapes. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been very happy.... But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy. However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman was definitely not a good idea....
Damon Knight
A reprinting of 13 science fiction short stories by Damon Knight, originally published between 1949 and 1960 in various science fiction magazines. The introduction is by Anthony Boucher. Contains the famous "To Serve Man" which was later adapted for "The Twilight Zone" television show.