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Novella · 2021
Remote Control is a 2021 science fiction novella by Nigerian American Nnedi Okorafor. It is Okorafor's first novella after the Binti Trilogy and is set in the same universe as Okorafor's Who Fears Death and The Book of Phoenix.
Novel · 1973
Something enormous has entered the solar system. The door is open.
by Gene Wolfe
Novel · 2001
A 2001 science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe. Locus recognition.
by Yoon Ha Lee
Novel · 2018
Shuos Jedao is awake... and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet--a nobody--in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force. And he's the most feared, and reviled, man in the galaxy.
Novella · 1974
A 1974 science fiction novella by Norman Spinrad. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novel · 1988
RIMRUNNERS In space the line between patriot and pirate is as thin as a laser. And a lethal battle for power can be as near as your starship’s next deck . . . THE SPOOK Loki – mercenary spy ship and bounty hunter.
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1970
The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun.
Novella · 2020 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world.
by Sarah Gailey
Novella · 2017
River of Teeth is a 2017 alternate history novella by Sarah Gailey, first published by Tor Books with cover art by Richard Anderson.
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1985
Esta quinta novela de la «Serie de los robots» supone un sensacional hito en la galaxia de ciencia ficción de Asimov y constituye la apasionante…
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2018
"Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayChris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good."
Novella · 2024
Rose/House is a 2023 science fiction mystery novella by American author Arkady Martine. It was first published by Subterranean Press.
Novel · 2011
Head of the Rule 34 Squad monitoring the Internet for illegal activities, Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh investigates the link between three ex-con spammers who have been murdered.
Novella · 1985
The world's most distinguished author of the literature of the fantastic presents his most extraordinary stories of worlds lost and dreams fulfilled...
by Walter M. Miller Jr. & Terry Bisson
Novel · 1995
Following a nuclear war, the Dark Ages descend on 32nd century America which has split into warring nations. Only the Catholic Church has any influence and the novel follows the travels of its peace envoy, Brother Blacktooth.
Novel · 2008
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct—leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning.
Novel · 2022
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party.
Novella · 1983
A 1983 science fiction novella by David R. Palmer. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novella · 2004
"Sergeant Chip" is a science fiction novella by American writer Bradley Denton, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction issue of September 2004. It was the winner of the 2005 Sturgeon Award, and was nominated for the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Novel · 2024
Task Item No. 1: Become Self-Aware Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault - that is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner.
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1978
A 1978 science fiction novella by Gene Wolfe. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2020
Vân is a scholar from a poor background, eking out a living in the orbitals of the Scattered Pearls Belt as a tutor to a rich family, while hiding the illegal artificial mem-implant she manufactured as a student.
by Ada Palmer
Novel · 2017
It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now provides for everybody's basic needs. In which nobody living can remember an actual war.
by Mike Resnick
Novella · 1994
"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" is a science fiction novella by American writer Mike Resnick, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1994. It won the 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Novel · 2015
What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb.
by Ted Chiang
Novella · 2000 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
"Seventy-Two Letters" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, published in June 2000 in the Ellen Datlow's anthology Vanishing Acts. The novella can also be found in the anthologies Year's Best SF 6 (2001), edited by David G. Hartwell and Steampunk (2008), edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer.
Novel · 2001
Bean and other members of Ender's Dragon Army return to Earth after their victory in the Formic War. All but Bean are soon mysteriously kidnapped; Bean turns to Ender's brother Peter for help.
by James Morrow
Novella · 2009
In the summer of 1945, war is reigning in the Pacific Rim while Syms Thorley continues his life as a B-movie actor.
Novel · 2021
Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'. Some escaped, but millions more died. So to protect its colonies, humanity shaped the minds of Idris and others into weapons and sent them into battle.
Novella · 2024 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
She Who Knows is a 2024 novella by Nnedi Okorafor. It takes place in the universe of Who Fears Death and tells the story of Najeeba, mother of that novel’s protagonist, Onyesonwu. She Who Knows is the first novella in a planned trilogy. It was followed by One Way Witch in 2025.
Novel · 2025
Shroud is a 2025 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It concerns the discovery of alien life on a lightless moon, and the survival of two human scientists as they are trapped in this hostile environment.
Novella · 2011
A 2011 science fiction novella by Catherynne M. Valente. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1973
A 1973 science fiction novella by Philip José Farmer. Locus recognition.
Novella · 2015
An interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilisation itself.
by Claire North
Novel · 2025
A 2025 science fiction novel by Claire North. Locus recognition.
Novella · 1979
A 1979 science fiction novella by Orson Scott Card. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Novella · 1994
A 1994 science fiction novella by Gregory Benford. Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Joanna Russ
Novella · 1982
"Souls" is a 1982 science fiction novella by Joanna Russ. It was first published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in January 1982, and subsequently republished in Terry Carr's The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12, in Russ's 1984 collection Extra(ordinary) People, as well as in the first volume of the Isaac…
Novel · 2024
A 2024 science fiction novel by Catherynne M. Valente. Locus recognition.
Novel · 2018
Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization.
Novel · 1986
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.
Novel · 2005
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier.
Novella · 1991
A 1991 science fiction novella by Poul Anderson. Locus recognition.
by Jeanne Robinson & Spider Robinson
Novella · 1977
Stardance is a science fiction novel by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson, published by Dial Press in 1979 as part of its Quantum science fiction line. The novel's opening segment originally appeared in Analog in 1977 as the novella "Stardance", followed by the serialized conclusion, "Stardance II", in Analog in 1978.
by Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson
Novel · 1980
Stardance is a science fiction novel by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson, published by Dial Press in 1979 as part of its Quantum science fiction line. The novel's opening segment originally appeared in Analog in 1977 as the novella "Stardance", followed by the serialized conclusion, "Stardance II", in Analog in 1978.
Novel · 1984
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984) is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. It is part of what would have been a "diptych", in Delany's description, of which the second half, The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities, remains unfinished.
Novella · 2007
A 2007 science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2023
Starter Villain is a science fiction novel written by American author John Scalzi. It was first published in hardcover and ebook by Tor Books, and audiobook by Audible Studios, on September 19, 2023; British hardcover and ebook editions were released by Tor UK on September 21, 2023.
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