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by Nino Cipri
Novella · 2020 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store ― but not that one ― slips through a portal to another dimension, it’s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company’s bottom line.
Novella · 2018
A 2018 science fiction novella by Jonathan P. Brazee. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2013
Cyrocelled for twelve years, Caine Riordan wakes up to a different world and embarks on a mission to investigate whether primitive beings in Delta Pavonis were once sentient life forms, but someone does not want his mission to succeed.
Novel · 2011
Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that a missing renowned physicist had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they vanished. Following the physicist's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger.
Novella · 1978
They plugged Michael Yarrow into the new ETHANAC computer to see what would happen before they used it on someone important.
Novel · 1974
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.
by Daniel Keyes
Novel · 1966
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight.
by Pat Cadigan
Novella · 1990
A 1990 science fiction novella by Pat Cadigan. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 1997
Joe Haldeman returns with a story about the horrors of war -- and how we might move past them. Julian Class is a physicist working on the largest particle accelerator ever built, a nanobot-constructed ring in the orbit of Jupiter.
Novella · 1994
A 1994 science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1982
After the defeat of the Mule by the Second Foundation, Terminus enjoys a period of prosperity and stability which is publicly attributed to the Seldon Plan, but which some feel is the work of the Second Foundation.
Novel · 1969 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Fourth Mansions is a science fiction novel by American author R. A. Lafferty, first published as an Ace Science Fiction Special in 1969. A UK hardcover was issued by Dennis Dobson in 1972, with a Star Books paperback following in 1977. A French translation appeared in 1973.
by Gene Wolfe
Novel · 1984
A group of four down-on-their-luck strangers respond to a classified ad offering a strange bargain: live free of charge in an old man's house, and help him to prevent the city from having the building demolished.
Novel · 1982
Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns.
Novel · 2005 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Greek gods are posing as humans and pulling humanity's strings in this mosaic novel about time travel, alternate worlds, and the making of a president.
by Lewis Shiner
Novel · 1984
A 1984 science fiction novel by Lewis Shiner. Nebula recognition.
by John M. Ford
Novella · 1987
A 1987 science fiction novella by John M. Ford. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1977
Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. It is the opening novel in the Heechee saga, with four sequels that followed.
by Paul Park
Novella · 2010
A 2010 science fiction novella by Paul Park. Nebula recognition.
by Tamsyn Muir
Novel · 2019 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers.
Novel · 2011
On a ravaged, contaminated world, a centuries-old holy war rages, fought by a bloody mix of mercenaries, magicians, and conscripted soldiers.
by Linda Nagata
Novella · 2000
A 2000 science fiction novella by Linda Nagata. Nebula Award winner.
by Kelly Robson
Novella · 2018
A 2018 science fiction novella by Kelly Robson. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
by John Kessel
Novel · 1989
George Eberhart is dead. Or was. The newsnet he works for has illegally revived him. But he finds himself examining the sensationalist stories he has been reporting on - for evidence that there are Aliens among us.
Novella · 2014
A 2014 science fiction novella by Rachel Swirsky. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1973
Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military.
Novel · 1987
Nearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, only a few hundred humans survive.
by John Crowley
Novella · 1989
"Great Work of Time" is a science fiction novella by American writer John Crowley, originally published in Crowley's 1989 book collection Novelty. A story involving time travel, it concerns a secret society whose aim is to avert World War I to preserve and expand the British Empire.
Novella · 1985
A 1985 science fiction novella by Bruce Sterling. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1993
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.Nearly a generation…
Novella · 1985
"Green Mars" is a science fiction novella by the American writer Kim Stanley Robinson, first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in September 1985, eight years before his novel of the same name.
Novella · 1992
A 1992 science fiction novella by Michael Swanwick. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1974
A 1974 science fiction novel by Barry N. Malzberg. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1994
Gun, with Occasional Music is a 1994 novel by American writer Jonathan Lethem that blends science fiction and hardboiled detective fiction. The novel won Lethem the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1995.
by T. J. Bass
Novel · 1971
Half Past Human is a fixup science fiction novel by American author T. J. Bass, published in 1971. Two short stories were combined and fleshed out to form this novel: "Half Past Human", first published in Galaxy Science Fiction in December 1969, and "G.I.T.A.R.", first published in If in November and December 1970.
by Algis Budrys
Novel · 1993
A 1993 science fiction novel by Algis Budrys. Nebula recognition.
by Greg Bear
Novella · 1983
The Nebula award-winning short story by master SF writer Greg Bear. Humans are engaged in a long war against an advanced alien race, the Senexi, but the possibility for peace may exist thanks to a young girl who learns the enemy's larger role and humanity's…
Novella · 1968
"Hawk Among the Sparrows" is a science fiction short story by Dean McLaughlin. It was first published in Analog Science Fiction in July 1968.
Novella · 1968
In the mid-21st century, time travel is used to send political prisoners to Hawksbill Station, a prison camp in the late Cambrian Era.
Novella · 1965
A 1965 science fiction novella by Roger Zelazny. Nebula Award winner.
Novel · 1982
Imagine a world in a system of twin stars, where Winter is 600 ice-locked years and every Spring is the first remembered. Imagine a People finding ruined cities beneath the melting snows. Never dreaming they had built them. And would again...
Novel · 1985 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Image Helliconia -- a world at the end of a reign that has lasted nearly two thousand years. The glorious civilization that blossomed during spring and summer has faded, and the dismal wasteland of winter is rapidly destroying the human race.
Novella · 1983
A 1983 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Locus Award winner; Nebula recognition.
by Vylar Kaftan
Novella · 2019
A 2019 science fiction novella by Vylar Kaftan. Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1975
A 1975 science fiction novella by Roger Zelazny. Hugo and Nebula Award winner; Locus recognition.
Novella · 1983
A 1983 science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1976
After a solar flare damages their ship, three astronauts are rescued by survivors of an Earth that has undergone dramatic change.
Novel · 1997
From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the Second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair. Twenty years after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle.
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