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by David Brin
Novel · 1983
David Brin: “Startide Rising” (1983) This is a sci fi story about a Terran (Earth) crew of neo-dolphins and humans on the starship “The Streaker”. Their mission is to find information about the first Galactic race, which existed billions of yeas ago.
by Nancy Kress
Novel · 2009
The aliens appeared one day, built a base on the moon, and put an ad on the internet. At first, everyone thought it was a joke. But it wasn't.
by John Varley
Novel · 1992
Steel Beach is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer John Varley. The novel was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel.
Novella · 1991
Stopping at Slowyear is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl.
by John Kessel
Novella · 2002
A 2002 science fiction novella by John Kessel. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1974
Strangers is a science fiction novel by American author Gardner Dozois, published in 1978.
Novella · 1987
A 1987 science fiction novella by Harry Turtledove. Locus recognition.
Novel · 2010
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.
Novella · 1987
A 1987 science fiction novella by Walter Jon Williams. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2022
Sweep of Stars 2022 is a science fiction novel by Maurice Broaddus and the first installation in the Astra Black trilogy. Sweep of Stars was a finalist for the Locus Award in 2023.
by Martha Wells
Novel · 2023
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits.
by Greg Bear
Novel · 2016
The conclusion to an epic interstellar trilogy of war from master of science fiction, Greg Bear.
by John Varley
Novella · 1986
A 1986 science fiction novella by John Varley. Locus recognition.
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 2007
Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring quantum relationships between gravity and light, his calibrator disappears and reappears one second later.
Novella · 2011 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 2011 science fiction novella by James P. Blaylock. Locus recognition.
Novel · 2004
It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.
Novel · 1998
Les Entités ont envahi la Terre et réduit l'humanité à l'esclavage ...
by Robert Reed
Novella · 2011
A 2011 science fiction novella by Robert Reed. Locus recognition.
by Gregory Benford & Gordon Eklund
Novella · 1976
A 1976 science fiction novella by Gregory Benford & Gordon Eklund. Locus recognition.
by Michael Shea
Novella · 1980
A 1980 science fiction novella by Michael Shea. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2004 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 2004 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson. Locus Award winner.
Novella · 1979
A 1979 science fiction novella by Hilbert Schenck. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Karen Lord
Novel · 2013
Karen Lord’s debut novel, the multiple-award-winning Redemption in Indigo, announced the appearance of a major new talent—a strong, brilliantly innovative voice fusing Caribbean storytelling traditions and speculative fiction with subversive wit and incisive intellect.
Novel · 2024
The bezzle is a term originally coined by John Kenneth Galbraith for a long-term pattern of bad faith in which the mark does not realize at the time that they have been a victim, and may even feel that they have gained in the short term, until being disillusioned later on.
Novella · 2018 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans.
Novella · 1986
"The Blind Geometer" is a 1986 science fiction story by American writer Kim Stanley Robinson. It was published by Asimov's Science Fiction.
Novella · 1984
A 1984 science fiction novella by Frederik Pohl. Locus recognition.
Novel · 1972
The Book of Skulls is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, first published in 1972. It was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1972, and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1973.
Novella · 2012
A 2012 science fiction novella by Walter Jon Williams. Locus recognition.
by Larry Niven
Novella · 1975
"The Borderland of Sol" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Larry Niven. It is the fifth in the Known Space series of stories about crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer.
Novel · 2018
Earth needs an escape plan. A gifted pilot needs a seat at the table.
by Andy Duncan
Novella · 2001
"The Chief Designer" is a science fiction novella by American writer Andy Duncan, originally published in the June 2001 issue of the Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. It won the 2002 Sturgeon Award and was nominated for the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 2011
Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy.
Novel · 2001
The Chronoliths is a 2001 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson. It was nominated for the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novel and tied for the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Novella · 2015
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology and esoteric sciences-its inhabitants capable of teleporting themselves anywhere, its weapons small and undetectable and deadly.
Novel · 2018
Would you give up everything to change the world? Humanity clings to life on January – a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2017
The Collapsing Empire is a space opera novel by American writer John Scalzi. The book was published by Tor Books on March 21, 2017. It is the first book in The Interdependency series, although it was originally intended to be a two book series.
Novella · 1989
A 1989 science fiction novella by James Tiptree Jr.. Locus recognition.
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 2000
The Arrival Is Imminent Joe Haldeman's novel The Comingis a tightly constructed near future thriller which begins by recapitulating a classic science fictional motif: the moment of first contact with an alien intelligence. The story begins on October 1, 2054.
Novel · 1975
Alfred Bester's first science fiction novel since The Stars My Destination was a major event--a fast-moving adventure story set in Earth's future. A band of immortals--as charming a bunch of eccentrics as you'll ever come across--recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess.
Novella · 2004 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 2004 science fiction novella by Charles Stross. Hugo Award winner; Locus recognition.
by Vernor Vinge
Novella · 2003
The Cookie Monster is a science fiction novella by American writer Vernor Vinge. It was first published in the October 2003 issue of Analog.
Novel · 2022
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is a 2022 novel by Mexican-Canadian writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia. It is loosely based on H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896). The novel received mixed reviews, with critics noting its exploration of feminism and colonialism.
by Fritz Leiber
Novella · 1997
Tor is pleased to present in print for the first time this short novel of cosmic dread and Lovecraftian horror. It is a story of science gone awry, of strange dimensions - of love and death.
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1973
The Death of Doctor Island is a science fiction novella by American writer Gene Wolfe first published as The Death of Dr. Island in Universe 3 (Editor Terry Carr, Random House, 1973).
by Ian McDonald
Novel · 2010
Seven days, six characters, three interconnected story strands, one central common core--the eponymous dervish house, a character in itself--that pins all these players together in a weave of intrigue, conflict, drama and a ticking clock of a thriller.
Novella · 1981 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 1981 science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. Locus recognition.
Novel · 1995
The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device.
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