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Novella · 2024
Award-winning author of The Red Scholar’s Wake Aliette de Bodard comes for your heart with a compelling tale of love, duty, and found-family in an exciting new space opera that brings xianxia-style martial arts to the stars.
by Lavie Tidhar
Novel · 2022
A 2022 science fiction novel by Lavie Tidhar. Locus recognition.
Novel · 2013
After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.
by Martha Wells
Novel · 2020
Murderbot has inconvenient feelings and a much bigger problem.
Novel · 2017
It is 2140. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island.
Novella · 1980
The crew of the starship Nightflyer is heading into the outer reaches of known space in search of a legendary alien race known as the volcryn .
Novel · 2021
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is…
Novel · 2025
A 2025 science fiction novel by Isaac Fellman. Locus recognition.
by Greg Egan
Novella · 1998
"Oceanic" is a science fiction novella by Australian writer Greg Egan, published in 1998. It won the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Novella · 2022
Ogres is a 2022 novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It is the third entry in his Terrible Worlds: Revolutions series. It was a finalist for several science fiction and fantasy awards, including the Hugo Award and Locus Award.
Novella · 1978
A 1978 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Locus recognition.
Novella · 1999
"Old Music and the Slave Women" is a science fiction story by Ursula K. Le Guin. It was first published in the 1999 collection Far Horizons, edited by Robert Silverberg, and anthologized multiple times in collections of Le Guin's works.
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 2005
Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative.
Novella · 2012
For generations Prosper Station has thrived under the guidance of its Honoured Ancestress: born of a human womb, the station’s artificial intelligence has offered guidance and protection to its human relatives. But war has come to the Dai Viet Empire.
Novel · 1979
On Wings of Song is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Thomas M. Disch. It was first published as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in three installments in February to April 1979.
by Greg Egan
Novella · 2000
A 2000 science fiction novella by Greg Egan. Hugo and Locus recognition.
by Dan Simmons
Novella · 1999
"Orphans of the Helix" is a 46-page science fiction short story by American writer Dan Simmons, set in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe (one of three, the others being "Remembering Siri", a story which is also a chapter of Hyperion, and "The Death of a Centaur", which deals with an early and allegorical version of…
Novella · 1989
A 1989 science fiction novella by Orson Scott Card. Locus recognition.
Novella · 1979
A 1979 science fiction novella by Christopher Priest. Locus recognition.
Novella · 2009
Palimpsest is a 2009 science fiction novella by Charles Stross, exploring the conjunction of time travel and deep time. Originally published in Stross's 2009 collection Wireless, it won the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Subterranean Press announced they would reprint the novella separately in 2011.
Novel · 1993
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
Novella · 2002
Paradises Lost is a science fiction novella by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. It was first published in 2002 as part of the collection The Birthday of the World. It is set during a multigenerational voyage from Earth to a potentially habitable planet.
Novel · 2001
One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless suspense and cutting-edge science unlike anything you've ever read before.
Novella · 2019
A 2019 science fiction novella by Alastair Reynolds. Locus recognition.
Novel · 2017
Persepolis Rising is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and the seventh book in their series The Expanse. The title of the novel was announced in September 2016 and the cover was revealed on December 12, 2016.
Novel · 2025
A 2025 science fiction novel by Cory Doctorow. Locus recognition.
Novella · 1976 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 1976 science fiction novella by Richard Cowper. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2016
Original introduction by Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun Machine Who are these bold rebels pillaging their European neighbors in the name of revolution? The Futurists! Utopian pirate warriors of the diminutive Regency of Carnaro, scourge of the Adriatic Sea.
by Robert Reed
Novella · 2013
A 2013 science fiction novella by Robert Reed. Locus recognition.
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1988
Prelude to Foundation is a novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1988. It is one of two prequels to the Foundation series. For the first time, Asimov chronicles the fictional life of Hari Seldon, the man who invented psychohistory and the intellectual hero of the series.
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by John Varley
Novella · 1984
A 1984 science fiction novella by John Varley. Hugo and Locus and Nebula Award winner.
Novel · 1981
On the Rim planet fittingly called End of Nothing, a bizarre society.of robots and humans toiled for a thousand years to perfect a religion that would create a new and all-embracing faith—no novelty in a galaxy crowded with religions.
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1973
The Mission of Phssthpok Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his 32,000 years -- his mission, to save, develop and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some 2 1/2 million years before.
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2017 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A stand-alone adventure set in the world of Ancillary Justice. Ingray has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people: she must free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever…
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1990
In a world of wonders, wealth, and "perfect" mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder. Why?
Novel · 2003 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Volume One of The Baroque Cycle (Not to be confused with Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle 1) Quicksilver is a massive, exuberant and wildly ambitious historical novel that's also Neal Stephenson's eagerly awaited prequel to Cryptonomicon--his pyrotechnic reworking of the 20th century, from World War II…
Novella · 1986
A 1986 science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Locus and Nebula Award winner; Hugo recognition.
Novella · 2000
A 2000 science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 2006
World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone.
Novel · 2024
A 2024 science fiction novel by Vajra Chandrasekera. Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Yoon Ha Lee
Novel · 2017
A 2017 science fiction novel by Yoon Ha Lee. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novel · 2018
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen.
Novel · 1992
Red Mars is the first novel of the Mars trilogy, published in 1992. It follows the beginnings of the colonization of Mars, from the arrival of the First Hundred to the First Martian Revolution.
Novel · 2018
It is twenty-five years since China established the first colony on the moon, and the lives of three people are about to collide. American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip there, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation.
Novel · 2023
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star.
Novel · 2002
Redemption Ark is a 2002 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds set in the Revelation Space universe. It continues the story of Nevil Clavain begun in the short stories "Great Wall of Mars" and "Glacial".
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2012
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers.
Novel · 1994
Remake is a 1995 science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996. The book displays a dystopic near future, when computer animation and sampling have reduced the movie industry to software manipulation.
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