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Novel · 2007
Ragamuffin is the second novel by Caribbean science fiction writer Tobias S. Buckell. It is the sequel to his first novel, Crystal Rain. Buckell labeled Ragamuffin a "Caribbean space opera", with his previous novel being called "Caribbean steampunk". It is followed by his third novel, Sly Mongoose.
Novel · 2015
A 2015 science fiction novel by Charles E. Gannon. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2024
A 2024 science fiction novel by Vajra Chandrasekera. Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Sheila Finch
Novella · 1998
A 1998 science fiction novella by Sheila Finch. Nebula Award winner.
Novella · 1999
A 1999 science fiction novella by Michael A. Burstein. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1992
Red Mars is the first novel of the Mars trilogy, published in 1992. It follows the beginnings of the colonization of Mars, from the arrival of the First Hundred to the First Martian Revolution.
Novel · 1990
Aboard the hyperspace liner Redshift, the first sign of trouble is the apparent suicide of a passenger. When first officer Jason Kraft discovers that she was murdered, Kraft wants to know why.
Novel · 1973
Something enormous has entered the solar system. The door is open.
by A. E. van Vogt & James H. Schmitz
Novella · 1965
A 1965 science fiction novella by A. E. van Vogt & James H. Schmitz. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1980
Engrossing post apocalyptic book that told entirely in a vividly degenerated post-English that the reader is left to decipher as they find their way through the novel.
Novella · 1967
"Riders of the Purple Wage" (1967) is a science fiction novella by American writer Philip José Farmer. It appeared in Dangerous Visions, the New Wave science fiction anthology compiled by Harlan Ellison and won the Hugo Award for best novella in 1968, jointly with Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey.
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.
Novel · 1968
After the destruction of Earth, humanity has established itself precariously among a hundred planets. Between them roam the vast Ships, doling out scientific knowledge in exchange for raw materials. On one of the Ships lives Mia Havero.
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.
Novella · 1965
A 1965 science fiction novella by Avram Davidson. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1965
A 1965 science fiction novel by Avram Davidson. Nebula recognition.
by S. B. Divya
Novella · 2016
A 2016 science fiction novella by S. B. Divya. Nebula recognition.
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...
Novella · 2005
A 2005 science fiction novella by Michael A. Burstein. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1991
When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort "the ugliest woman he could imagine" away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower.
Novel · 1985
In the far future, in a solar system colonized by a strange aggregation of human cultures, Abelard Lindsay, a rogue diplomat from the Mare Serenitatis Circumlunar Corporate Republic, struggles for survival amidst powerful, advanced societies warring to control the shape of human destiny.
Novel · 2005
In the far future when space travel is comm0nplace, antiquities dealers Alex and Chase find/sell artifacts, come across a cup from Seeker, a huge spaceship that left Earth 9,000 yrs earlier.
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1978
A 1978 science fiction novella by Gene Wolfe. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
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 · 1976
A Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist novel from a Grand Master of science fiction! A modern day Genghis Khan rules the world 30 years from now, after it has been ravaged by the Virus Wars.
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.
by Fritz Leiber
Novella · 1969 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 1969 science fiction novella by Fritz Leiber. Hugo Award winner; Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2011
A 2011 science fiction novella by Catherynne M. Valente. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by Mur Lafferty
Novel · 2017
A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again.
Novel · 1969
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Novel · 2024 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 2024 science fiction novel by Yaroslav Barsukov. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1995
Slow River is a science fiction novel by British writer Nicola Griffith, first published in 1995. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Lambda Literary Award. The novel received critical praise for its writing and setting, while its use of multiple narrative modes was criticised.
Novel · 2002
"Since the moment she came into the world, Ren "Jackal" Segura has been treated differently. As a Hope, she is a symbol of the highest principles of human society and is guaranteed a position of influence in the global government once she comes of age.
Novella · 1972
A 1972 science fiction novella by Phyllis Gotlieb. Nebula 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 · 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.
by John Brunner
Novel · 1968
Originally published in 1968, Stand on Zanzibar was a breakthrough in science fiction storytelling technique, and a prophetic look at a dystopian 2010 that remains compelling today.
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.
Novel · 1996
The only novel of its year to be nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Novella · 2007
A 2007 science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
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.
Novel · 1991
The story of a nameless bureaucrat who is sent by the Office of Technology Transfer, charged with restricting the flow of dangerous technologies, to the planet Miranda to search for a fugitive in possession of forbidden technological knowledge.
by John Kessel
Novella · 2002
A 2002 science fiction novella by John Kessel. Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Ted Chiang
Novella · 1998
"Story of Your Life" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in Starlight 2 in 1998, and later in 2002 in Chiang's collection of short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others. Some of the story's major themes include linguistics determinism.
Novel · 1978
Strangers is a science fiction novel by American author Gardner Dozois, published in 1978. The novel was expanded from its original form as a novella, which first appeared in New Dimensions IV (edited by Robert Silverberg) in 1974.
Novella · 2009
A 2009 science fiction novella by Jason Sanford. Nebula recognition.
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