Damon Knight

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1954
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • Rule Golden

    As a newspaper publisher, Robert James Dahls found the news disconcerting; in fact, inexplicable. News items like two boxers simultaneously knocking each other out, prison guards sick and unable to guard the prisoners, policemen shooting fleeing culp...

  • Shall the Dust Praise Thee?

    in Dangerous Visions #2

  • The Country of the Kind

    in The Late Great Future
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    THEY'VE SEEN THE FUTURE -- AND IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.... What's going to happen when the world ends? Here are 14 humorous, poignant, eerie, and altogether too possible views of what things will be like when: • Walking for pleasure and exercise b...

  • First Contact

  • Orbit 11

  • Orbit Thirteen

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  • Orbit 12

  • Nebula Award Stories

  • The Best of Damon Knight

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    The best short stories of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight, who was best known for his short stories, filled with sardonic wit and unusual adventure--so this is a collection of the best of the best of the best. 'Nuff said. Read & enjoy!...



  • A Century of Science Fiction

  • Orbit Eighteen

  • Science Fiction in the `30s

  • Westerns of the 40's

  • Rule Golden and Other Stories

    Another excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's always-excellent stories--five novellas in this case, generally circling around the great unsolved problem of politics: how to keep the bastards from grinding you down.Rule Golden--what ...

  • A for Anything

    In a near future USA an obscure inventor creates the Gizmo - a device which can duplicate anything, including itself. The social and economic implications of this machine are explored in a brilliant and terrifying extrapolation, first published in 19...

  • Hell's Pavement

    Republishing all of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's books, in conjunction with the author's estate - see all of Damon Knight's books from ReAnimus Press!Anti-social behavior is cured? by giving everyone an analogue, a mental imprint of an authority f...

  • Orbit 21

  • First Voyages

    First Voyages is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Damon Knight, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander, first published in paperback by Avon Books in May 1981. It is a compilation of the first published stories of twenty pro...

  • World and Thorinn

    Thorinn, alienated from his father and brothers, embarks on a journey to the center of the earth, traveling down a dry well and encountering strange worlds, a variety of races, and finally, a supreme intelligence...



  • The Man in the Tree

    A poet, a millionaire, a circus freak. Gene Anderson was all these and much more. An incredible eight-and-a-half-foot giant, he had a power, a gift that enabled him to reach into other worlds and bring back miracles into this one. He saw a magnificen...

  • Late Knight Edition

    A time travel expedition through the stories of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight. Here are six of his stories and two essays, including a story never before published.Includes Damon's analysis of various definitions of Science Fiction, an interesting di...

  • Cv

    Sea Venture, CV for short, is the largest ocean-going vessel ever built by man. It is not a ship but a huge sea habitat housing a scientific research station, an entire city of thousands of permanent residents and passengers.For some, CV is the vacat...

  • Strangers on Paradise

  • The Observers

    An alien intelligence has infected the residents of Sea Venture with a personality change that gives them the ability to see the flaws in civilization and the evil power to affect changes to evolve to true intelligence...

  • One Side Laughing

    One of science fiction's preeminent writers for more than forty years, Damon Knight has always been considered a master of the short story. Deemed a brilliant craftsman who can handle any story form with crisp finesse by Alfred Bester, and considered...

  • A Reasonable World

    Sequel to CV and The Observers. After invading Sea Venture, Earth's largest ocean habitat, the Symbionts have infected the bodies of both humans and animals. Now, people become smarter -- or they die. Violence is punished by instant execution from wi...

  • Why Do Birds

    It is the early 21st century, and Ed Stone says he's been in suspended animation since the 1930s--put there by aliens who have sent him on a mission: convince the nations of the world to build a massive vault, in which humanity's billions will lie in...

  • Humpty Dumpty: An Oval

    DAMON KNIGHT is one of America's originals, a visionary iconoclast in the line of Twain, Bierce, Vonnegut, or Philip K. Dick. Now, with Humpty Dumpty, he offers an extraordinary capstone to his remarkable career, a meditation, by turns caustic and te...

  • Better Than One

    In their only book collaboration, two of science fictions most beloved, award-winning, married writers tackle the same science fiction story premise to get two incredibly different results, and reminisce about the writing process and their lives toge...



  • The Star Beast and Other Stories

    Six vintage stories from Science Fiction Grand Master, Damon Knight. First published in the 1940s & 50s, these stories show his diversity from galactic adventure to nihilistic philosophy.Doorway to Kal-Jmar -- Two men had died before Syme Rector's gu...

  • Earth Quarter & Envoy to New Worlds

    Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel, “Earth Quarter,” written by Damon Knight, is an exciting look at the dark side of human nature. When it came down to it, death and...

  • Special Delivery

    All Len had to hear was the old gag: "We've never lost a father yet." His child was not even born and it was thoroughly unbearable!...

  • The Last Laugh

    Detective Tales, March 1946THE LAST LAUGHAn Unusual Short Storyby Damon KnightI couldn’t help it! You would have laughed, too, if you’d seen that fat stoolie sewed up so tight in a red murder-frame that he couldn’t breathe.THE LAST LAUGH -- was...

  • The Futurians

    _With fifty illustrations, many never before published._The Futurian Society was founded in 1938 by thirteen science fiction fans; it never numbered more than twenty, including wives, girl friends and hangers-on; yet out of this small group came seve...

  • In Search of Wonder

    A classic must-have for all readers and writers of science fiction! Damon Knight effectively invented science fiction criticism. His reviews were not mere statements of his personal preferences -- his skillful essays analyzed the books and told why t...

  • The Avenger

    Karson was creating a superman to fight the weird super-monsters who had invaded Earth. But he was forgetting one tiny thing -- like calls to like....

  • Beyond the Barrier

    A physics professor begins to doubt that he is a human being. He imagines that he may have been sent from another world to rescue Earth... or perhaps to destroy it? Solving the mystery takes him far into the future......

  • Mind Switch

    A zoo acquires a new specimen: Fritz, a biped from Brecht's planet. Fritz is intelligent, and his keepers treat him with a mix of courtesy and disdain; he is kept in a display with another (presumably female) biped and the two are required to work fo...

  • The Rithian Terror

    A psychological thriller that follows an Earth security officer in the future who is racing against time to locate an alien spy. This is one of the first books to feature a surveillance drone.In the year 2521, the xenophobic Earth is the dominant pow...



  • Far Out

    SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight was primarily known for his short stories, and this is his first collection of his finest stories.To Serve ManIdiot StickThing of BeautyThe EnemyNot with a BangBabel IIAnachronSpecial DeliveryYou're AnotherTime EnoughExt...

  • In Deep

    An excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's stories, including several classics.What happens when society is unwilling to inflict punishment? When explorers fall into a very strange pool? When man meets machine? Dive in deep to find ou...

  • Off Center

    A collection of five short novels & short stories from a SFWA Grandmaster. Is teaching dolphins to be scientists a good idea? Ruminations on God's Nose... What would Jesus be like in another dimension? How many ghosts inhabit _your_ body? And what's ...

  • The Sun Saboteurs

    Why did the aliens on a remote planet keep all the humans locked inside a section of the city?Humans are used to be the top dog wherever they are--what are they going to do about it?(Also published as The Earth Quarter.)...

  • World Without Children and The Earth Quarter

    Two science fiction novels of tomorrowWorld Without Children: When humans can live for thousands of years, will it doom itself to extinction?The Earth Quarter: Why did the aliens on a remote planet keep all the humans locked inside a section of the c...

  • God's Nose

    A collection of short stories and novelettes selected and written by SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight, originally created for Pulphouse's Author's Choice Monthly series. From the introduction:This series of stories begins with the Creation and ends with...

  • Masters of Evolution

    SHOWDOWN WITH MONSTERS!Alvah Gustad was typical of New York City's twenty million citizens. He took for granted such luxuries as synthetic food and robot-servants, and he knew beyond a doubt that the Cities offered the only acceptable way of life for...

  • Three Novels

    An excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's always-excellent stories--three short novels in this case:Rule Golden--what if the Golden Rule were enforced in reverse by some force--the bad things you do to others are done to you?Natural ...

  • Turning On

    Another excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's stories, including several classics.What would happen if you could invent any vision you liked? If you could turn back time? If vampires were plants? Turn on your eyeballs and find out.....

  • Turning Points

    SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight edits and contributes to this incredible collection of essays on writing, reading, and the nature of science fiction, written by all the greatest science fiction writers ever. Contents include:Introduction. A Walk Around...



  • Faking Out the Reader and It All Begins with Characters

    Bonus! Two chapbooks on writing from the master.Faking Out the Reader focuses on using head fakes in writing for delightful results.It All Begins with Characters is a brief masterclass on how to create the best characters.Both of these were originall...

  • Doorway to Kal-Jmar

    Two men had died before Syme Rector's guns to give him the key to the ancient city of Kal-Jmar -- a city of untold wealth, and of robots that made desires instant commands....

  • A Likely Story

    If you discovered a fantastic power like this, you'd use it benevolently, for the good of the entire human race -- wouldn't you? Sure you would! A comedy by the author of "To Serve Man," this classic story features thinly disguised science ficti...

  • Definition

    You can look up the Kassids in the manual. They were a legend, a group of legends, fifteen thousand years old. Space messiahs preaching a new gospel, and all who fall under their influence are new recruits spreading the message. But is it a hoax? Or ...

  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow; Ten Tales of the Future,

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  • The Worshippers

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    Destiny reached out a hand to Algernon Weaver -- but he was a timid man, at first. But on the strange world of Terranova, there was much to be learned -- of destiny, and other things.......

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Damon Knight has published 55 books.

Damon Knight does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Definition, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Damon Knight, Rule Golden, was published in May 1954.

No. Damon Knight does not write books in series.
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