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by John Scalzi
Novella · 2017
One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life.
Novel · 1974
Two worlds, opposing ideals, and a physicist trying to build a bridge.
by Sarah Gailey
Novel · 2020
The Echo Wife is a 2021 science fiction thriller novel by Sarah Gailey, published by Tor Books. It follows Doctor Evelyn Caldwell, an accomplished scientist researching cloning, who has discovered that her husband, Nathan, has used her research to create Martine, a clone of Evelyn who is his ideal wife.
by Kage Baker
Novella · 2003
"The Empress of Mars" is a science fiction novella by American writer Kage Baker, published in 2003. It won the 2004 Theodore Sturgeon Award and was nominated for the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Novella as well as the 2004 Nebula Award for Best Novella. The novella was expanded into a novel published in 2009.
by Kage Baker
Novel · 2003
"The Empress of Mars" is a science fiction novella by American writer Kage Baker, published in 2003. It won the 2004 Theodore Sturgeon Award and was nominated for the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Novella as well as the 2004 Nebula Award for Best Novella. The novella was expanded into a novel published in 2009.
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2008
A 2008 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Hugo Award winner; Locus recognition.
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1976
A 1976 science fiction novella by Gene Wolfe. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1978
A 1978 science fiction novel by C. J. Cherryh. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 1990
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it.
Novella · 1973
These stories were written before the end of Silverberg's "first period" (i.e., before 1974), and represent some of the finest short work he did during that time. The title story is a fine exploration of both survivor's guilt and the healing power of religious ecstasy.
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1972
Bien loin de la Terre, deux planètes soeurs, Sainte-Anne et Sainte-Croix, ont été colonisées par des Français qui ont détruit la population indigène de la…
Novel · 2025
A 2025 science fiction novel by Elizabeth Bear. Locus recognition.
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 1974
A soldier returns from battle to a world that has moved on without him.
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1987
A vanished moon of Jupiter, a 500-foot -high cinder cone in Death Valley never before seen, and an enormous granite mountain in Australia also never seen before all point the way to an alien invasion of planet Earth.
Novel · 1978
In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.
by Greg Egan
Novella · 2016
Camille is desperate to escape her home on colonized asteroid Vesta, journeying through space in a small cocoon pod covertly and precariously attached to a cargo ship.
by Peter Watts
Novella · 2018
How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift?
Novel · 2019
1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body.
Novel · 2021
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable.
Novella · 1991
A 1991 science fiction novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1972
The year is 2100 A.D.… And Man no longer stands alone in the universe. Now there are other worlds, other living beings. Alien beings who mate in threes and live on pure energy.
by T. J. Bass
Novel · 1973
Rorqual Maru was her name. She was a harvester - a vast plankton rake without a crop, abandoned by Earth society when the seas died. Part whale, part ship, and well over 600 feet long, she was left to rot in the sterile ocean.
Novella · 1972
DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT... ... the eight young astronauts, men and women, who were sent off to colonize a non-existent planet near Alpha Centauri while Washington disintegrated with revolution?
Novel · 1988
2027: Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young man lost in a world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs.
by John Varley
Novel · 1998
All the universe is a stage -- and Sparky Valentine is its itinerant thespian.
Novella · 2019 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
When the djinn king Melek Ahmar wakes up after millennia of imprisoned slumber, he finds a world vastly different from what he remembers.
Novel · 1985
A woman’s account of life inside a state that claims ownership of her.
Novella · 2019 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 is an alternate history science fantasy police procedural novella by American novelist P. Djèlí Clark. It was first published by Tor.com in 2019.
by Joe Haldeman
Novella · 1990
The Hemingway Hoax is a Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella that weaves an intricate plot of a fake Hemingway manuscript with time travel, multiple universes, and the potential destruction of the omniverse itself.
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 1992
Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own.
Novel · 2012
Suspected of involvement after the Regimental High Command is destroyed as they prepared to go to a new level of existence called Sublime, Lieutenant Commander Vyr Cossont must find a nine-thousand-year-old man to clear her name.
by Malka Older
Novel · 2024
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles is a 2024 science fiction mystery novella by Malka Older. It is the sequel to 2023's The Mimicking of Known Successes. It follows Mossa and Pleiti as they investigate several disappearances from Valdegeld University.
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1983
The Integral Trees is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven. Like much of Niven's work, the story is heavily influenced by the setting: a gas torus, a ring of air around a neutron star. A sequel, The Smoke Ring, was published in 1987.
Novella · 2016
A 2016 science fiction novella by Alastair Reynolds. Locus recognition.
by Samit Basu
Novel · 2023
A 2023 science fiction novel by Samit Basu. Locus recognition.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2022
The Kaiju Preservation Society 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 March 15, 2022; British hardcover and ebook editions were released by Tor UK on March 17, 2022.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2020
The Last Emperox is a space opera novel by American writer John Scalzi. The book was published by Tor Books on April 14, 2020. Audible released an audio book version narrated by Wil Wheaton. It is the final volume in The Interdependency trilogy series and a sequel to The Consuming Fire.
Novella · 1988
"The Last of the Winnebagos" is a short story written by American writer Connie Willis. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1988, and reprinted in the short story collections Impossible Things (1994) and The Best of Connie Willis (2013).
Novel · 1971
“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story) George Orr has a gift – he is an effective dreamer: his dreams become reality when he wakes up.
by Ted Chiang
Novella · 2010
The story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software.
Novel · 2019
The Light Brigade is a 2019 science fiction novel by Kameron Hurley, in which brutal descriptions of war and economic exploitation in a dystopian future are used to provide strongly critical commentary on the nature of warfare and capitalism. It was nominated for both Hugo and Locus awards for 2020.
by Kij Johnson
Novella · 2011 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Man Who Bridged the Mist is a science fiction/fantasy novella by Kij Johnson.
Novel · 1973
The Man Who Folded Himself is a 1973 science fiction novel by American writer David Gerrold. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1974.
Novel · 2024
The Man Who Saw Seconds is a 2024 science fiction thriller novel by the Slovak-Canadian writer Alexander Boldizar, published by CLASH Books. It won the 2025 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Novella · 2014
A 2014 science fiction novella by Cory Doctorow. Locus recognition.
by Julian May
Novel · 1981
When a one-way time tunnel to Earth's distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness.
by Joe Haldeman
Novella · 2006
A 2006 science fiction novella by Joe Haldeman. Locus recognition.
Novella · 1977
A 1977 science fiction novella by Robert Thurston. Locus recognition.
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