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Novel · 1986
Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting.
Novella · 2024
A 2024 science fiction novella by Suzan Palumbo. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1982
Courtship Rite is a science fiction novel by Canadian writer Donald Kingsbury, originally serialized in Analog magazine in 1982. The book is set in the same universe as some of Kingsbury's other stories, such as "Shipwright" (1978) and the unpublished The Finger Pointing Solward.
by Allen Steele
Novel · 2002
A group of political dissidents and their families escape the repressive world of twenty-first-century Earth to seek new lives as interstellar colonists, placing themselves in cold sleep for a two-century odyssey to the habitable world of Coyote.
Novella · 1994
A 1994 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novel · 2010
When a Kibou-daini cryocorp--an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future--attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan to check it out.
Novel · 1999
Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.
Novel · 1988
ARIANE EMORY IS DEAD. BUT NOT FOR LONG. WHERE IS ARIANE? For fifty years, Dr. Ariane Emory has dominated politics on Cyteen Station. Because Dr. Emory controls Reseune, a city-sized factory that creates the one item essential to the planet's wealth.
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 1993
A 1993 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1980
A 1980 science fiction novella by Marta Randall. Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Greg Bear
Novel · 2001
Greg Bear's Nebula Award--winning novel, Darwin's Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution--one that would alter our species forever.
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1999
"Virus hunter" Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe in search of a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women and invariably results in miscarriage.
Novel · 1998
In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters.
Novel · 2025
Death of the Author is a 2025 Africanfuturist novel by Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor. The book follows Zelunjo Onyenezi-Onyedele, a Nigerian American writer who gains critical success through the publication of a science fiction work, entitled Rusted Robots.
by Cixin Liu
Novel · 2010
Death's End is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the third novel in the trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth's Past, following the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem and its sequel, The Dark Forest. The original Chinese version was published in 2010.
by Nino Cipri
Novella · 2021
Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work 18 hours later.
Novel · 2001
A 2001 science fiction novel by C. J. Cherryh. Locus recognition.
by John Varley
Novel · 1985
Demon is a science fiction novel by American writer John Varley, published in 1984. The third and final book in his Gaea Trilogy, it was nominated to the Locus Award.
Novel · 1975
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person…
Novel · 1998
It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets.
Novel · 1992
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree.
Novel · 1981 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Pell's Star occupied the central spot in the coming conflict between Earth's tired stellar empire and the tough onslaught of its rebellious colonies.
Novel · 1970
From the shrouding fogs of its Mist Country to the lunatic tropical fertility of its jungles, the planet Belzagor was alien in the extreme. Before the decolonization movement, it had been part of Earth's Galaxy-wide empire.
Novel · 1971
Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground.
by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes
Novel · 1981
A gaming park where visitors come to have their fantasies fulfilled turns into a nightmare when a game turns to murder.
Novel · 1978
In a world devastated by nuclear holocaust, Snake is a healer. One of an elite band dedicated to caring for sick humanity, she goes wherever her skills are needed.
Novel · 1972
David Selig is outwardly unimpressive. His early promise as a student and scholar is unrealised. He has no proper job, he has no girlfriend.
by David Brin
Novel · 1990
A microscopic black hole has accidently fallen into the Earth's core and the entire planet is in danger of being destroyed within two years.
Novel · 2004
Art is a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, a secret society bound together by a sleep schedule.
Novel · 2000
Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world.
Novel · 2018
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia has a dark side.
Novel · 2011
Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet.
Novel · 2018
The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress.
Novel · 2019
A 2019 science fiction novel by Max Gladstone. Locus recognition.
Novel · 1985
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the "buggers".
Novel · 1999
This is Bean's installment of Orson Scott Card's Ender's saga. It is a great character building book for those who have read Ender's Game and want to know more about Bean and his background.
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 1995
Dan Simmons's Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989.
Novella · 1979
"Enemy Mine" is a science fiction novella by American writer Barry B. Longyear. It was originally published in the September 1979 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. The novella's plot concerns two soldiers, one human and one reptilian-like alien, who find themselves stranded together on a hostile planet.
Novel · 2022
Eversion (from the verb evert) is the process of turning inside-out. Eversion may refer to: Eversion (kinesiology), the anatomical term of motion denoting the movement of the sole of the foot away from the median plane Eversion (video game), a 2010 platform video game by Guilherme S. Tows In sea cucumbers, a form of autotomy…
Novella · 1987
Eye for Eye (1987) is a science fiction novella by Orson Scott Card.
Novel · 2022
A 2022 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Locus recognition.
by Jo Walton
Novel · 2006 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
In an alternate reality in which a group of English nobles overthrew Winston Churchill and made peace with Adolf Hitler in 1941, a murder is committed at the home of Lord and Lady Eversley, and suspicion falls on David Kahn, the Jewish husband of Lucy…
by Vernor Vinge
Novella · 2001
A 2001 science fiction novella by Vernor Vinge. Hugo Award winner; Locus recognition.
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 1995
A 1995 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novel · 2005
Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers--and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change.
Novel · 1997
Life in space starring Fletcher Neihart, 17, a youth who becomes an apprentice crewman on his family's merchant spaceship. He does not like space, but he has no choice and gradually comes to enjoy it. A coming-of-age story.
by Nino Cipri
Novella · 2020 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store ― but not that one ― slips through a portal to another dimension, it’s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company’s bottom line.
Novella · 1978
They plugged Michael Yarrow into the new ETHANAC computer to see what would happen before they used it on someone important.
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