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I read this book several times in the 70s through the 90s. It is about a shape shifter who can disguise himself. He is on a space ship voyage in disguise. The timtle may be something similar to "The Illustrated Man" because I once got the tities confused.

i’m trying to find this book i read forever ago, and this is literally all i can seem to remember. at the end of the third book they were falling into a huge pit that might have been the grand canyon ?

Don't remember title or author, hardback book, novel, probably from public library (I spent a lot of time in public libraries as a child). Government research project sending subjects to another dimension but when they return they have lost their mind. One person comes back is able to retain...

Radiation affects human colonists of the solar system and makes men incapable of fathering daughters. The Spacers (?) Are forced to raid earth for resources unavailable in space including for young women to become forced brides (mawkis?). Protagonist is a young man on his first raid who is...

For many years I've saw reference to Little Fuzzy and always thought I'd read it, it turns out I had it confused with another book. This is what I recall of this other book I want to identify.... A person joins a starship crew and gets looked down upon by the others. "Huh! It's a Garvian and...

Hi readers, I'm a children's librarian with very little knowledge of science fiction. An adult patron came in today looking for a book he recalls reading in the late 60s to early 70s. He thinks it may have been by Isaac Asimov but thinks it was a novel, not a short story. (Though if you know of...

It has become apparent that we are not alone, multi dimensioned earths with different histories and physical realities exist along side our own. The best and the brightest when sent travelling to these strange worlds come back quivering wrecks. What's needed are the loose and dysfunctional who...

I read this book sometime in the early 80s and am trying to remember the name. The earth is at war with colonies established in the asteroid belt. The story follows a raid on earth in which a girl is kidnapped by one of the raiders who is solo in a ship. If I remember correctly, another male...

I CANNOT find this book for the life of me. It's for my dad who read it sometime in the early '70s. From what I can remember it sounds like an awesome and interesting book. It's about a group of scientist who are studying absolute zero. There's something where they can't look directly at...

problem is, i can't remember what it was called or who it's by! it was a collection (all by the same author) which contained a story about a man who could "jump" from one reality to another: it started off with a California ruled by Mongols, went on to a weird interlude where it was set in San...

Many years ago, mid to late 1960s I came across a science fiction book in the local library. It is one of the first science fiction books I ever read, possibly even the very first. I have no idea who wrote it, what the name was or anything else, but I do remember parts of the story line. If...