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Novel · 1995
The Time Ships is a 1995 hard science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter. A canonical sequel to the 1895 novella The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, it was officially authorized by the Wells estate to mark the centenary of the original's publication. The Time Ships won critical acclaim.
by Ray Nayler
Novella · 2024
A 2024 science fiction novella by Ray Nayler. Hugo Award winner; Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2016 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits.
Novel · 1974
The Unsleeping Eye is a 1974 science fiction novel by British writer D. G. Compton. It was first published in the United Kingdom as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe in 1974. It was adapted into the 1980 Bertrand Tavernier film Death Watch, starring Harvey Keitel, Romy Schneider and Max von Sydow.
by David Brin
Novel · 1987
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time.
by Gene Wolfe
Novel · 1987 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Urth of the New Sun is a 1987 science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe that serves as a coda to his four-volume Book of the New Sun series. Like Book of the New Sun, it is of the Dying Earth subgenre.
Novel · 1983
A love story of sorts set in a distant future. The narrator of the novel is captain of an interstellar ship ferrying passengers from a complex sybaritic culture.
Novel · 1990
The Vor Game is a science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, first published in September 1990. It won the 1991 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Novella · 1978
A 1978 science fiction novella by Christopher Priest. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novel · 2015
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez.
by Greg Bear
Novella · 1999
A 1999 science fiction novella by Greg Bear. Locus recognition.
Novel · 1978
On the planet Pern, which was colonised hundreds of years ago by Earth folk looking for a more agrarian lifestyle, "dragons" help humans to fight a deadly Thread that falls from a neighbouring planet as it cycles past once every couple of hundred years.
Novella · 1973
A 1973 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Kage Baker
Novella · 2009
A 2009 science fiction novella by Kage Baker. Locus and Nebula Award winner; Hugo recognition.
Novella · 1972
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning the ancient society.
Novel · 1970
Unavoidably, David Cheney becomes part of the future, in which a nuclear war has weakened both East and West, and in which America is torn by a race war. Yet among this desolate world, he discovers reasons for living.
Novel · 2002
With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Marstrilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years.
Novel · 2006
The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon.
Novella · 1982 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 1982 science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. Locus recognition.
by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Novella · 2019
Two rival agents exchange letters across the battlefield of time.
Novel · 1989
Onboard an ancient starship, Killeen and the Bishop tribe escape the mech-ruled world of Snowglade.
Novel · 1973
Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The book made the shortlist for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus awards for best science fiction novel of that year, although it did not win.
Novel · 1977
A time storm has devastated the Earth, and only a small fraction of humankind remains. From the rubble, three survivors form an unlikely alliance: a young man, a young woman, and a leopard.
by Ian McDonald
Novella · 2018
A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books. In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers.
Novel · 1980
Timescape is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford (with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister, Benford's sister-in-law, who is credited as having "contributed significantly to the manuscript"). It won the 1981 Nebula and 1980 British Science Fiction Award, and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
by John Varley
Novel · 1979
Titan is a science fiction novel by American writer John Varley, the first book in his Gaea Trilogy, published in 1979. It won the 1980 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was nominated for both the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1979, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1980.
Novella · 2019
Four explorers change themselves to meet the worlds they discover.
Novel · 1997
Connie Willis' entertaining comedy inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog).
Novel · 1971
Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world.
Novel · 1970
Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space.
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2023
"Translation State" is a 2023 science fiction novel by Ann Leckie, set in the Imperial Radch universe. It follows three characters whose lives intersect as they deal with the mystery of a missing Presger Translator, exploring themes of identity and belonging.
Novella · 2011
A 2011 science fiction novella by Alastair Reynolds. Hugo and Locus recognition.
by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow
Novella · 2008
"True Names" is a 2008 science fiction story by Cory Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum. It was first published in the anthology Fast Forward 2.
Novella · 2018
A 2018 science fiction novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman. Locus recognition.
by Kate Elliott
Novel · 2020
A 2020 science fiction novel by Kate Elliott. Locus recognition.
by Lavie Tidhar
Novel · 2018
Lior Tirosh is a semi-successful author of pulp fiction, an inadvertent time traveler, and an ongoing source of disappointment to his father. Tirosh has returned to his homeland in East Africa. But Palestina--a Jewish state founded in the early 20th century--has grown dangerous.
Novella · 1982
"Unsound Variations" is a 1982 science fiction short story by George R. R. Martin, about chess. It was first published in Amazing Stories.
by Sarah Gailey
Novella · 2020
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway.
Novella · 1994
A 1994 science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. Locus recognition.
Novella · 2004 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 2004 science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Locus recognition.
Novel · 1993
California, the not so distant future. Berry, ex-cop/private security, looking to just make ends meet. Chevette, a young bicycle messanger. A murder, a secret missing, and a murderer closing in on Chevette. Berry is the only thing standing between him and Chevette.
by Ian McDonald
Novella · 2009
A 2009 science fiction novella by Ian McDonald. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novel · 2016
It's been a year of upheaval, since Bren Cameron's return from space - a year since he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government overthrown and their world in chaos.
by Terry Bisson
Novel · 1990
A 1990 science fiction novel by Terry Bisson. Locus recognition.
Novel · 2017
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza―known to his friends as Hubert, Etc―was too old to be at that Communist party.
Novella · 1993
A 1993 science fiction novella by Walter Jon Williams. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Chuck Wendig
Novel · 2019
A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope.
Novel · 2020
A 2020 science fiction novel by Paul J. McAuley. Locus recognition.
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