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by Dan Simmons
Novella · 1993
America, 2036. Powerful magnate Hiroshi Nakamura needs ex-cop Nick Bottom's services, and, in particular, his memories. As head of the original investigation into the murder of Nakamura's son, Bottom's flashbacks hold the key to solving what was the toughest case of his career.
Novel · 2019
The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew follow a distress call from the human starship Lucy's Ghost , whose crew have sought refuge aboard an abandoned generation ship launched ten thousand years before by an alien race.
Novel · 1974
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.
by Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven
Novel · 1985
The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.
Novel · 1994
The story of humans stranded on an alienplanet where registered assassination is a way of life. They are the descendants of a space ship which lost itsway 500 years earlier.
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 1997
Joe Haldeman returns with a story about the horrors of war -- and how we might move past them. Julian Class is a physicist working on the largest particle accelerator ever built, a nanobot-constructed ring in the orbit of Jupiter.
Novella · 1994
A 1994 science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2003
The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation's capital--and in the daily…
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1986
Foundation and Earth is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation series and chronologically the last in the series. It was published in 1986, four years after the first sequel to the Foundation trilogy, which is titled Foundation's Edge.
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1982
After the defeat of the Mule by the Second Foundation, Terminus enjoys a period of prosperity and stability which is publicly attributed to the Seldon Plan, but which some feel is the work of the Second Foundation.
Novel · 1969 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Fourth Mansions is a science fiction novel by American author R. A. Lafferty, first published as an Ace Science Fiction Special in 1969. A UK hardcover was issued by Dennis Dobson in 1972, with a Star Books paperback following in 1977. A French translation appeared in 1973.
Novel · 1982
Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns.
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2021
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
by Kate Elliott
Novel · 2022
A 2022 science fiction novel by Kate Elliott. Locus recognition.
Novel · 2009
In a novel of stunning dimensions, the acclaimed author of the Mars trilogy brings us the story of the incredible life – and death – of Galileo, the First Scientist.
Novel · 1977
Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. It is the opening novel in the Heechee saga, with four sequels that followed.
Novel · 2006
When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him.
by David Brin
Novel · 1993
Maia and her twin sister must leave their home to seek their fortunes. On their journey they endure hardship, hunger, imprisonment, bloody battles with pirates and separation. Maia meets a traveler who threatens the delicate balance of their society.
by Kelly Robson
Novella · 2018
A 2018 science fiction novella by Kelly Robson. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2022
Goliath is a 2022 science fiction novel by Nigerian American writer Tochi Onyebuchi. It is his first adult science fiction novel and it was first published in New York on January 25, 2022, by Tor Books.
Novel · 1989
Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. But before humanity arrived, another species had already claimed Grass for its own. It too had developed a culture......
Novel · 1993
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.Nearly a generation…
Novella · 1985
"Green Mars" is a science fiction novella by the American writer Kim Stanley Robinson, first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in September 1985, eight years before his novel of the same name.
Novella · 1992
A 1992 science fiction novella by Michael Swanwick. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2007
In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are
by Greg Bear
Novella · 1983
The Nebula award-winning short story by master SF writer Greg Bear. Humans are engaged in a long war against an advanced alien race, the Senexi, but the possibility for peace may exist thanks to a young girl who learns the enemy's larger role and humanity's…
Novella · 1995
A 1995 science fiction novella by Poul Anderson. Locus recognition.
by Greg Bear
Novella · 1990
A 1990 science fiction novella by Greg Bear. Locus recognition.
by David Brin & Gregory Benford
Novel · 1986
From inside front cover: EXILES from a world devastated by fear and political strife. HEROES who first must conquer their own conflicts before the greater goal can be won.
Novel · 1984
Heechee Rendezvous is a science fiction novel by the American writer Frederik Pohl, published in 1984 by the Del Rey imprint of Ballantine Books. It is a sequel to Gateway (1977) and Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1981) and is set about three decades after Gateway.
Novel · 1983
Imagine a world a thousand light years from Earth, where each season lasts for generations, and each generation knows only one season. Where twin suns warm the icy winds of the Sibornal, the forests blaze and kingdoms turn into ashes... once every 2500 years.
Novel · 1985 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Image Helliconia -- a world at the end of a reign that has lasted nearly two thousand years. The glorious civilization that blossomed during spring and summer has faded, and the dismal wasteland of winter is rapidly destroying the human race.
Novella · 1983
A 1983 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Locus Award winner; Nebula recognition.
by Joe Haldeman
Novella · 1972
A 1972 science fiction novella by Joe Haldeman. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novel · 1996
Holy Fire is a 1996 science fiction novel by American writer Bruce Sterling. It was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award in 1996, and for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1997.
Novella · 1975
A 1975 science fiction novella by Roger Zelazny. Hugo and Nebula Award winner; Locus recognition.
Novella · 1983
A 1983 science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1976
After a solar flare damages their ship, three astronauts are rescued by survivors of an Earth that has undergone dramatic change.
Novella · 1995
A 1995 science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Locus recognition.
Novella · 2005
A 2005 science fiction novella by Cory Doctorow. Locus recognition.
Novel · 2021
Hummingbird Salamander is a 2021 novel by American author Jeff VanderMeer. It is set in a near-future dystopia affected by climate change, and narrated by a corporate security consultant, "Jane Smith," who is drawn into a mystery incited by her receipt of a taxidermied hummingbird from an extinct species.
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 1989
Seven pilgrims. Seven stories. One destination beyond explanation.
by Nancy Kress
Novel · 2018
Ten years after the Aliens left Earth, humanity succeeds in building a ship, Friendship, to follow them home to Kindred. Aboard are a crew of scientists, diplomats, and a squad of Rangers to protect them. But when the Friendship arrives, they find nothing they expected.
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 2003
Ilium is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, the first part of the Ilium/Olympos cycle, concerning the re-creation of the events in the Iliad on Earth and Mars. These events are set in motion by beings who have taken on the roles of the Greek gods.
by Gene Wolfe
Novel · 2000
Horn's physique is slowly changing, causing his friends and family to wonder who he really is, so to prove his identity, he reminisces about his many space adventures.
Novella · 2012
A 2012 science fiction novella by Elizabeth Bear. Locus recognition.
Novel · 1977
2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
Novella · 1981
"In the Western Tradition" is a science fiction short story by Phyllis Eisenstein. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, in March 1981.
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