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by Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds
Novel · 2016
Inspired by Sir Arthur C. Clarke's award-winning novella A Meeting With Medusa, this is a novel of the unfolding rivalry between Mankind and Machines, spanning centuries and the spaces of the solar system and leading to a future neither could have envisaged.
Novel · 2024
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end. The Carryx – part empire, part hive – have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy.
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 · 2020
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us.
by Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven
Novel · 1974
Science fiction classic about the rise, fall and subsequent rise of a civilization where the peak catastrophe is known as the "crazy eddy point".
Novella · 1989
The Mountains of Mourning is a science fiction novella by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. It is part of her Vorkosigan Saga, chronologically taking place between the novels The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game. It won the 1990 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the Nebula Award for Best Novella of 1989.
Novella · 1985
A 1985 science fiction novella by James Tiptree Jr.. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by John Varley
Novel · 1977
Earth has been taken over by bizarre beings, and Man has made a new life on other planets, a strange life made possible by information provided by beings from Ophiuchi.
Novella · 2021
The Past Is Red is a 2021 fantasy novella by Catherynne M. Valente. It includes two parts; Part I, The Future Is Blue, was previously published as a novelette, winning the Theodore Sturgeon Award in 2017. Part II is an original work entitled The Past Is Red.
by Larry Niven
Novella · 1980
The Patchwork Girl is a science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven. Part of his Known Space series, it is the fourth of five Gil Hamilton detective stories and the first to be published as a stand-alone novel in 1980.
Novel · 1973
The People of the Wind is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson, first published in 1973. It was a 1974 nominee of the Nebula Award for Science Fiction. The novel is the last book in Anderson’s Polesotechnic League series.
Novel · 2014
Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade are rare, Flynne assists her brother's latest beta-test tech assignment only to uncover an elaborate murder scheme.
by John Varley
Novella · 1978
"The Persistence of Vision" is a novella by American writer John Varley. It was included in the anthology of the same name and in The John Varley Reader.
Novella · 1985
A 1985 science fiction novella by George R. R. Martin. Locus recognition.
by David Brin
Novel · 1985
This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.
by David Brin
Novella · 1982
This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.
Novella · 2024
A 2024 science fiction novella by Sofia Samatar. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1981
A 1981 science fiction novel by C. J. Cherryh. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novel · 2022
Xich Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just been captured by the Red Banner pirate fleet, famous for their double-dealing and cruelty.
by Ken Liu
Novella · 2014
A 2014 science fiction novella by Ken Liu. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2020
It's 1963, and riots and sabotage plague the space program. The climate change caused by the Meteor is becoming more and more clear, but tensions are rising, and the IAC's goal of getting humanity off Earth is threatened.
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1979
The Ringworld Engineers is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven. It is the first sequel to Niven's Ringworld and was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1981.
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 1997
After a prolonged decline, the Catholic Church receives a new lease of life when it discovers a way to resurrect the dead. Final volume in a multifaceted series on the far future.
Novel · 2023
A 2023 science fiction novel by Connie Willis. Locus recognition.
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1983
A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.
Novel · 2019
A 2019 science fiction novel by Tade Thompson. Locus recognition.
Novella · 1976
A 1976 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1981
"The Saturn Game" is a science fiction novella by American writer Poul Anderson, originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in February 1981.
Novella · 1985
"The Scapegoat" is a science fiction novella by American writer C. J. Cherryh, set in her Alliance-Union universe. It deals with a war in which the two opposing species can not communicate with one another and do not know how to stop the conflict.
Novella · 1987
A 1987 science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2025
The Shattering Peace is a science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi, the seventh book set in the Old Man's War universe, and takes place ten years after the events of The End of All Things. The book is written as a first-person narrative from the viewpoint of Gretchen Trujillo.
by John Brunner
Novel · 1975
This 1975 book pretty much nailed the contradictions inherent in global networking, long before the network was created. It's full of wiretapping spooks, genius kids, networked churches, fake identities, network worms, encryption, nonprofits that outfox the spooks to help society, the works.
by Algis Budrys
Novella · 1975
A 1975 science fiction novella by Algis Budrys. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novel · 1980
The Snow Queen is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Joan D. Vinge. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1981, and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981.
Novel · 2022
The Spare Man is a 2022 science fiction murder mystery novel by Mary Robinette Kowal. The novel was a finalist for the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2023 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Novel · 2002
In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made.
Novel · 2017
A 2017 science fiction novel by Kameron Hurley. Locus recognition.
by Jay Lake
Novella · 2012
A 2012 science fiction novella by Jay Lake. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1975
A 1975 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
by George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle
Novella · 1975
A 1975 science fiction novella by George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1998
A 1998 science fiction novella by Ian R. MacLeod. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novel · 1991
MOON DAWNTREADER is Lady of Tiamat, pledged to forever end offworld exploitation and save the mers, whose blood gives immortality. But hostile Summer tribes and treacherous Winters plot to subvert...
Novella · 2018
Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars.
by Ian McDonald
Novella · 2008
A 2008 science fiction novella by Ian McDonald. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novel · 2000
Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth will discover a group of outcasts who still practice its lost religion-the Telling.
Novel · 2023
The Terraformers is a science fiction novel by Annalee Newitz, published on January 31, 2023. Environmentalism is a major theme.
Novel · 2019
15 years after the sons of Jacob seized power in the USA and became Gilead. The story is told from three female viewpoints; Daisy, Agnes and Lydia.
by Cixin Liu
Novel · 2008
A scientific mystery opens a door humanity may wish had stayed shut.
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