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Novel · 1959
The Enemy Stars, is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson, published in 1959 by J.B Lippincott in the US and by Longmans in Canada. Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction under the title We Have Fed Our Sea__, it was a nominee for the 1959 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2008
A 2008 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Hugo Award winner; Locus recognition.
Novel · 1978
A 1978 science fiction novel by C. J. Cherryh. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 1990
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it.
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1972
Bien loin de la Terre, deux planètes soeurs, Sainte-Anne et Sainte-Croix, ont été colonisées par des Français qui ont détruit la population indigène de la…
Novel · 2015 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The world is ending again. This time, the earth has a voice.
Novel · 1977 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
This is the novel of four who defied the powers of the matrix guardians, fanatics who protected those powers so that the planet of the ruddy sun might never fall beneath the influence of materialistic Terrans.
Novella · 1987
The Forest of Time is an alternate history novella by American writer Michael Flynn. It was originally published in the June 1987 issue of Analog magazine. In 1988, the story was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella.
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 1974
A soldier returns from battle to a world that has moved on without him.
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1987
A vanished moon of Jupiter, a 500-foot -high cinder cone in Death Valley never before seen, and an enormous granite mountain in Australia also never seen before all point the way to an alien invasion of planet Earth.
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2007
A 2007 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Nebula Award winner; Hugo recognition.
Novel · 1978
In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.
by Larry Niven
Novella · 1971
A 1971 science fiction novella by Larry Niven. Hugo recognition.
Novella · 1997
A 1997 science fiction novella by Adam-Troy Castro. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2021
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable.
Novella · 1991
A 1991 science fiction novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1973
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" is a science fiction novella by American writer James Tiptree, Jr. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1974.
Novel · 1968 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Having just returned to Earth from an intergalactic research mission, Professor Peter Maxwell, specialist in Supernatural Phenomena, finds himself in most desperate straits.
by John Scalzi
Novella · 2009 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Devoted to the Bishopry Militant and to his crew, ship captain Ean Tephe is given a secret mission to a hidden land.
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1972
The year is 2100 A.D.… And Man no longer stands alone in the universe. Now there are other worlds, other living beings. Alien beings who mate in threes and live on pure energy.
Novella · 1972
DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT... ... the eight young astronauts, men and women, who were sent off to colonize a non-existent planet near Alpha Centauri while Washington disintegrated with revolution?
Novella · 2004
"The Green Leopard Plague" is a 2004 science fiction novella by Walter Jon Williams. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction. In 2010, Night Shade Books republished it in The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (ISBN 978-1597801775). It also appears in The Best of Walter Jon Williams collection.
Novella · 2019 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 is an alternate history science fantasy police procedural novella by American novelist P. Djèlí Clark. It was first published by Tor.com in 2019.
by Joe Haldeman
Novella · 1990
The Hemingway Hoax is a Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella that weaves an intricate plot of a fake Hemingway manuscript with time travel, multiple universes, and the potential destruction of the omniverse itself.
Novel · 1960
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside…
Novella · 2012
A 2012 science fiction novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1983
The Integral Trees is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven. Like much of Niven's work, the story is heavily influenced by the setting: a gas torus, a ring of air around a neutron star. A sequel, The Smoke Ring, was published in 1987.
Novel · 1974
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2022
The Kaiju Preservation Society is a science fiction novel written by American author John Scalzi. It was first published in hardcover and ebook by Tor Books, and audiobook by Audible Studios, on March 15, 2022; British hardcover and ebook editions were released by Tor UK on March 17, 2022.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2007
Serving his human colony on distant Huckleberry as a village ombudsman, retired fighter John Perry looks forward to settling into farm life with his wife and adopted daughter before he is drawn back into the dangerous interstellar politics of his past.
Novella · 1988
"The Last of the Winnebagos" is a short story written by American writer Connie Willis. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1988, and reprinted in the short story collections Impossible Things (1994) and The Best of Connie Willis (2013).
Novel · 1971
“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story) George Orr has a gift – he is an effective dreamer: his dreams become reality when he wakes up.
Novel · 1969
An icy world. A solitary envoy. A radical question about being human.
by Ted Chiang
Novella · 2010
The story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software.
Novel · 2019
The Light Brigade is a 2019 science fiction novel by Kameron Hurley, in which brutal descriptions of war and economic exploitation in a dystopian future are used to provide strongly critical commentary on the nature of warfare and capitalism. It was nominated for both Hugo and Locus awards for 2020.
by Ian McDonald
Novella · 2005
A 2005 science fiction novella by Ian McDonald. Hugo recognition.
Novel · 1955
"No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America." --Constitution of the United States, Thirtieth Amendment Two generations after the…
Novella · 2010 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" is a science fiction/magical realism novella by the American writer Elizabeth Hand. It was first published in the Neil Gaiman/Al Sarrantonio-edited anthology Stories: All-New Tales, in 2010, and subsequently republished in Hand's 2012 anthology Errantry: Strange Stories from Small Beer Press.
Novel · 1962
The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.
by Kij Johnson
Novella · 2011 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Man Who Bridged the Mist is a science fiction/fantasy novella by Kij Johnson.
by Ken Liu
Novella · 2011
A 2011 science fiction novella by Ken Liu. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1973
The Man Who Folded Himself is a 1973 science fiction novel by American writer David Gerrold. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1974.
by Julian May
Novel · 1981
When a one-way time tunnel to Earth's distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness.
Novella · 1972
Why Has John Christian Falkenberg Thrown Millions of People on Dozens of Planets into Turmoil? Because he's given up the brilliant military career he's known since age fifteen to fight on his own.
by Malka Older
Novella · 2023
On a remote outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony's erudite university, and Mossa's former girlfriend
Novel · 2024
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on.
Novella · 1979
Diana's ambition to get a job on the moon started the same day she learned from a child's book of mythology that her namesake was the moon goddess. The time is the late 1980s.
Novel · 1965
It is the late 21st Century and the Moon has been colonized -- as a giant, open, prison.
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