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Novel · 1994
Remake is a 1995 science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996. The book displays a dystopic near future, when computer animation and sampling have reduced the movie industry to software manipulation.
Novel · 1996
For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and…
Novel · 1973
Something enormous has entered the solar system. The door is open.
by Yoon Ha Lee
Novel · 2018
Shuos Jedao is awake... and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet--a nobody--in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force. And he's the most feared, and reviled, man in the galaxy.
Novella · 1967
"Riders of the Purple Wage" (1967) is a science fiction novella by American writer Philip José Farmer. It appeared in Dangerous Visions, the New Wave science fiction anthology compiled by Harlan Ellison and won the Hugo Award for best novella in 1968, jointly with Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey.
Novella · 1974
A 1974 science fiction novella by Norman Spinrad. Hugo and Locus recognition.
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1970
The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun.
Novella · 2020 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world.
Novel · 1968
After the destruction of Earth, humanity has established itself precariously among a hundred planets. Between them roam the vast Ships, doling out scientific knowledge in exchange for raw materials. On one of the Ships lives Mia Havero.
by Ian McDonald
Novel · 2004
River of Gods is a 2004 science fiction novel by British writer Ian McDonald. It depicts a futuristic India in 2047, a century after its independence from Britain, characterized both by ancient traditions and advanced technologies such as artificial intelligences, robots and nanotechnology.
by Sarah Gailey
Novella · 2017
River of Teeth is a 2017 alternate history novella by Sarah Gailey, first published by Tor Books with cover art by Richard Anderson.
by Algis Budrys
Novel · 1960
It was there on the dark side of the Moon, waiting for the first human explorers to discover it -- an alien formation, a trap for the unwary, a place into which many men would venture but from which none would return.
Novel · 2007
Accepting a rollback--an experimental rejuvenation procedure--for herself and her husband in exchange for deciphering a message from aliens, Dr. Sarah Halifax is faced with a dilemma when the procedure works on her husband, but not on her.
Novella · 2024
Rose/House is a 2023 science fiction mystery novella by American author Arkady Martine. It was first published by Subterranean Press.
Novella · 1985
The world's most distinguished author of the literature of the fantastic presents his most extraordinary stories of worlds lost and dreams fulfilled...
by Mira Grant
Novella · 2012
A 2012 science fiction novella by Mira Grant. Hugo recognition.
Novel · 2008
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct—leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning.
by James White
Novel · 1961
Second Ending is a science fiction novel by Great British writer James White, published in June 1961. It first appeared in Fantastic Stories of Imagination edited by Cele Goldsmith and publish by Ziff Davis.
by Wang Jinkang
Novella · 2002
A 2002 science fiction novella by Wang Jinkang. Hugo recognition.
Novella · 1983
A 1983 science fiction novella by David R. Palmer. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novella · 2004
"Sergeant Chip" is a science fiction novella by American writer Bradley Denton, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction issue of September 2004. It was the winner of the 2005 Sturgeon Award, and was nominated for the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Novel · 2024
Task Item No. 1: Become Self-Aware Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault - that is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner.
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1978
A 1978 science fiction novella by Gene Wolfe. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Mike Resnick
Novella · 1994
"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" is a science fiction novella by American writer Mike Resnick, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1994. It won the 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Novel · 2015
What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb.
by Ted Chiang
Novella · 2000 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
"Seventy-Two Letters" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, published in June 2000 in the Ellen Datlow's anthology Vanishing Acts. The novella can also be found in the anthologies Year's Best SF 6 (2001), edited by David G. Hartwell and Steampunk (2008), edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer.
Novel · 1976
A Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist novel from a Grand Master of science fiction! A modern day Genghis Khan rules the world 30 years from now, after it has been ravaged by the Virus Wars.
by James Morrow
Novella · 2009
In the summer of 1945, war is reigning in the Pacific Rim while Syms Thorley continues his life as a B-movie actor.
by Fritz Leiber
Novella · 1969 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 1969 science fiction novella by Fritz Leiber. Hugo Award winner; Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2025
Shroud is a 2025 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It concerns the discovery of alien life on a lightless moon, and the survival of two human scientists as they are trapped in this hostile environment.
Novella · 2011
A 2011 science fiction novella by Catherynne M. Valente. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2003
Singularity Sky is a science fiction novel by British writer Charles Stross, published in 2003. A sequel, Iron Sunrise, was published that same year. Together the two are referred to as the Eschaton novels, after a near-godlike intelligence that exists in both.
by Mur Lafferty
Novel · 2017
A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again.
by E. E. Smith
Novel · 1965
Skylark DuQuesne is a science fiction novel by American writer E. E. Smith, the final novel in his Skylark series. Written as Smith's last novel in 1965 and published shortly before his death, it expands on the characterizations of the earlier novels with some discrepancies. Marc DuQuesne, the major villain of the three previous novels…
Novel · 1969
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Novella · 2015
An interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilisation itself.
by Emily Tesh
Novel · 2022
While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth.
by Kage Baker
Novella · 1999
A 1999 science fiction novella by Kage Baker. Hugo recognition.
Novella · 1979
A 1979 science fiction novella by Orson Scott Card. Hugo and Locus recognition.
by Joanna Russ
Novella · 1982
"Souls" is a 1982 science fiction novella by Joanna Russ. It was first published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in January 1982, and subsequently republished in Terry Carr's The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12, in Russ's 1984 collection Extra(ordinary) People, as well as in the first volume of the Isaac…
Novel · 2018
Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization.
Novel · 1986
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.
Novella · 1986
A 1986 science fiction novella by Connie Willis. Hugo recognition.
Novel · 2005
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier.
by John Brunner
Novel · 1968
Originally published in 1968, Stand on Zanzibar was a breakthrough in science fiction storytelling technique, and a prophetic look at a dystopian 2010 that remains compelling today.
by Hal Clement
Novel · 1971
In this sequel to Hal Clement's "Mission of Gravity" human beings have recruited Barlennan and a host of Mesklinites to explore another massive planet named Drawhn.
by Jeanne Robinson & Spider Robinson
Novella · 1977
Stardance is a science fiction novel by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson, published by Dial Press in 1979 as part of its Quantum science fiction line. The novel's opening segment originally appeared in Analog in 1977 as the novella "Stardance", followed by the serialized conclusion, "Stardance II", in Analog in 1978.
Novel · 1996
The only novel of its year to be nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
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