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Novella · 2025
From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella about a crew of abandoned food service bots opening their very own restaurant.
Novella · 1977
A pilot replaces her heart. Her relationships face new pressures.
Novel · 1966
During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns one into an unwilling traitor as it alters perception and thought. This is discovered by the starship captain Rydra Wong.
Novella · 1992
An outsider needs protection. A space station edges toward revolt.
Novel · 1991
Barrayar is a science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold. It was first published as four installments in Analog in July–October 1991, and then published in book form by Baen Books in October 1991.
Novella · 1970
An alien excavates conquered Earth. A surviving child challenges hatred.
by Nancy Kress
Novel · 1994
Genetic privilege divides America. Dependence makes every division dangerous.
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 1991
In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep.Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha…
by Nancy Kress
Novel · 1991 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep.Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha…
Novel · 1980
Heechee Saga 2 “In book two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into…
by Mike Resnick & Susan Shwartz
Novella · 1995 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
An aid worker confronts AIDS. A mysterious visitor promises healing.
by Tom Kratman
Novella · 2014
A wounded tank remembers. Old loyalties face new questions.
Novella · 2015
One student carries her whole world into an unfamiliar universe.
Novella · 2017
It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places.
Novella · 2018
Binti: The Night Masquerade is a science fiction novella written by Nnedi Okorafor. The novella was published in 2018 by Tor.com, and it is the final novella in the Binti trilogy that began with 2015's Binti and 2017's Binti: Home.
Novel · 1985
One alien tries to help. Another plans his failure.
by Mira Grant
Novel · 2012
Blackout is the third book in the Newsflesh series of science fiction/horror novels set after a zombie apocalypse, written by Seanan McGuire under the pen name Mira Grant. It was published by Orbit Books on June 1, 2012. It was preceded by Feed (2010) and Deadline (2011).
Novel · 2010
Blackout and All Clear are the two volumes that constitute a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. Blackout was published February 2, 2010 by Spectra. The second part, the conclusion All Clear, was released as a separate book on October 19, 2010.
Novel · 2004
Blind Lake is a science fiction novel by Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson. It was published in 2003, and won a Prix Aurora Award for Best Long Form and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, both in 2004.
by Tom Reamy
Novel · 1978 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Blind Voices is a 1978 science fiction novel by Tom Reamy. Reamy's only novel, it was published "posthumously in a complete but not final draft" by Berkley Books.
by Peter Watts
Novel · 2006
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1985
In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements.
by John Varley
Novella · 1981
Her experiences belong to an audience. Can love remain private?
Novel · 1996
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster.
by Emma Bull
Novel · 1991 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Bone Dance is a 1991 novel by American writer Emma Bull, described variously as fantasy, hard science fiction and cyberpunk. It was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards in 1992.
Novel · 2002
World-renowned paleontologist Richard Leyster's universe changed forever the day a stranger named Griffin walked into his office with a remarkable job offer... and an ice cooler containing the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus.
Novel · 2009
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice.
Novella · 1974
His wife was among the rekindled dead now. He'd heard that she was on a plane to Zanzibar with five other rekindled dead.
by Randall Garrett & Laurence M. Janifer
Novel · 1959
A telepath steals secrets. An FBI agent seeks unlikely help.
Novella · 1982
An enhanced chimpanzee becomes property. A court must define personhood.
by Ian McDonald
Novel · 2007
Think Bladerunner in the tropics ... Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world's greatest and strangest nations.
Novella · 2002
A girl reaches the coast. New friendships widen her world.
by David Brin
Novel · 1995
Six species share a refuge. A starship breaks their isolation.
Novel · 1994 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Brittle Innings is a 1994 science fiction/fantasy novel by American author Michael Bishop.
Novella · 2002
Discarded toys make a home. One impossible egg changes its future.
Novel · 1969
Bug Jack Barron is a 1969 science fiction novel written by Norman Spinrad, and was a 1970 Hugo award nominee.
by Mike Resnick
Novella · 1990
Roosevelt changes his quarry. Colonial rule becomes his target.
Novella · 2005
"Burn" is a science fiction novella published in 2005 by James Patrick Kelly. It won the 2007 Nebula Award for Best Novella.
Novella · 1976
Stranded time travelers--including a partially disembodied Brooklynite searching for the rest of himself and a craps player from 1930 New York--collide headlong with cosmic warriors, hallucination-eating monsters, blind starship pilots, and other zany characters.
Novel · 2000
Calculating God is the new near-future SF thriller from the popular and award-winning Robert J. Sawyer. An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges, who says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist."
Novel · 2012
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance is a science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, part of the Vorkosigan Saga. The action centers on Miles Vorkosigan's cousin Ivan Vorpatril, now a captain, and a Jackson's Whole refugee called Tej.
by Timothy Zahn
Novella · 1983
Every jump reveals other lives. One passenger jeopardizes this one.
Novel · 1963
Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness.
Novella · 1973
Chains of the Sea is a 1973 anthology of three science-fiction novellas edited and with an introduction by Robert Silverberg. It is best known for its title story, authored by Gardner Dozois.
Novel · 1976
The science fiction masterpiece continues in the "major event,"( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune.
Novel · 1998
The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the Society of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri.
Novel · 1992
China Mountain Zhang is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Maureen F. McHugh. The novel is made up of several stories loosely intertwined. The novel was nominated for multiple major awards, including the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel.
Novel · 1967
It was a new word for Hell. An escape-proof prison mine, where the worst criminals in the Universe were condemned to perpetual suffering in the ruby darkness. Aton had committed the unpardonable crime.
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