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Novel · 1965
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965. The novel takes place in 2016.
by Cixin Liu
Novel · 2008
A scientific mystery opens a door humanity may wish had stayed shut.
Novella · 2004
A colony fears its neighbors. Murders expose a dangerous misunderstanding.
by Ray Nayler
Novella · 2024
The mammoths return to life. Their human enemies remain.
Novella · 2000
Three children inherit old Earth. A visitor reveals its future.
by Geoff Ryman
Novella · 1986 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A child faces war. Even the houses are alive.
by David Brin
Novel · 1987
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time.
by Gene Wolfe
Novel · 1987 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Urth of the New Sun is a 1987 science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe that serves as a coda to his four-volume Book of the New Sun series. Like Book of the New Sun, it is of the Dying Earth subgenre.
Novel · 1980
Hailed by Stephen King as "scary and suspenseful" and "unputdownable," and by Peter Beagle, author of THE LAST UNICORN, as "The best vampire novel I have ever read," THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY examines the classic monster as a biological, rather than supernatural, predator who awakens from…
Novel · 1983
A love story of sorts set in a distant future. The narrator of the novel is captain of an interstellar ship ferrying passengers from a complex sybaritic culture.
by Paul Melko
Novella · 2006
His double offers unlimited worlds. Home is not part of the bargain.
Novella · 1999
The Wedding Album may refer to: Wedding Album, a 1969 album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono Wedding Album (Leon and Mary Russell album), 1976 Duran Duran (1993 album), also known as The Wedding Album The Wedding Album (TV series), a FOX television pilot from 2006 Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album, a 1974 comedy album…
by Vylar Kaftan
Novella · 2013
"The Weight of the Sunrise" is a 2013 alternate history short story by Vylar Kaftan. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in February 2013.
Novella · 1973
A scholar serves a damaged world. Private loyalties complicate public power.
Novel · 1984
2047: and for sixty years America has been quarantined after a devastating nuclear attack. Seventeen-year-old Henry wants to help make America great again. Like it was before all the bombs went off.
Novel · 2009
What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution?
by Kate Wilhelm
Novella · 1981
An eagle researcher makes friends. Their secluded lives invite questions.
by Kage Baker
Novella · 2009
A discreet London brothel. A secret service of its own.
Novella · 1972
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning the ancient society.
Novel · 1970
Unavoidably, David Cheney becomes part of the future, in which a nuclear war has weakened both East and West, and in which America is torn by a race war. Yet among this desolate world, he discovers reasons for living.
Novel · 2006
The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon.
by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Novella · 2019
Two rival agents exchange letters across the battlefield of time.
by James Morrow
Novel · 1987
This Is the Way the World Ends is a post-apocalyptic novel by American writer James K. Morrow, published in 1986.
Novel · 1967
Duncan Chalk's six-hundred-pound frame is nearly as large as his media empire. Beneath the depths of his immense rolls of flab, the fabulously wealthy mogul wields the editorial power to deliver his programming across the solar system to billions of viewers.
Novel · 1973
Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The book made the shortlist for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus awards for best science fiction novel of that year, although it did not win.
Novella · 1995
Shel and his friend Dave journey through time in search of Shel's missing physicist-father, but make a devastating discovery that changes their lives forever when Shel violates their agreement not to visit the future.
Novel · 1980
Timescape is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford (with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister, Benford's sister-in-law, who is credited as having "contributed significantly to the manuscript"). It won the 1981 Nebula and 1980 British Science Fiction Award, and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Novella · 1989
A botanist guards her boundaries. Earth faces unexpected visitors.
by John Varley
Novel · 1979
Titan is a science fiction novel by American writer John Varley, the first book in his Gaea Trilogy, published in 1979. It won the 1980 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was nominated for both the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1979, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1980.
by Wil McCarthy
Novel · 2005
A refugee ship returns home. Immortality strains the solar system.
Novella · 1969
An aging traveler seeks renewal. A holy city offers uncertain hope.
Novel · 1997
Connie Willis' entertaining comedy inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog).
Novel · 1970
Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space.
Novel · 2018 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.
Novella · 1983
A crewman leaves his lover. Space offers no easy escape.
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2023
"Translation State" is a 2023 science fiction novel by Ann Leckie, set in the Imperial Radch universe. It follows three characters whose lives intersect as they deal with the mystery of a missing Presger Translator, exploring themes of identity and belonging.
Novel · 2014
When interstellar diplomat and intelligence operative Caine Riordan returns from humanity's first encounter with aliens, war erupts.
Novella · 2013
A companion needs treatment. His rescuer must face judgment.
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 1984
One sister seeks God. Another fears what the search will cost.
Novel · 1976
Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia (1976) is a science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany. It was nominated for the 1976 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for a retrospective James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1995. It was originally published under the shorter title Triton.
by Vernor Vinge
Novella · 1981
"A marvellous mixture of hard-science SF and sword-and-sorcery imagery.... You wish the author were present so you could applaud." - Analog
Novella · 1965
A Martian agent investigates. Prospectors claim extraordinary alien gifts.
Novella · 1980
Her patient claims to be a vampire. Therapy has its limits.
Novella · 1982
"Unsound Variations" is a 1982 science fiction short story by George R. R. Martin, about chess. It was first published in Amazing Stories.
Novel · 1969
Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event, without meeting yourself coming or going.
Novella · 2003
Shared ancestry divides two worlds. Attraction offers no easy translation.
Novella · 1993
Mary meets a different Byron. History rewrites the poet's influence.
Novella · 1968
A power network expands. Some people refuse its promise.
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