Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
Novel · 2021
Hugo recognition
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that.
A LIBRARY WITH A LITTLE DIRECTION
Browse award recognized science fiction books
Browse the complete public library of science fiction novels and novellas recognized by Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Clarke. Every title links to its own award history, sources and reading list options.
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Project Pope
Novel · 1981
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
On the Rim planet fittingly called End of Nothing, a bizarre society.of robots and humans toiled for a thousand years to perfect a religion that would create a new and all-embracing faith—no novelty in a galaxy crowded with religions.
ProtectionMaureen F. McHugh
Protection
Novella · 1992
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A 1992 science fiction novella by Maureen F. McHugh. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Protector
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1973
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
The Mission of Phssthpok Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his 32,000 years -- his mission, to save, develop and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some 2 1/2 million years before.
Provenance
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2017 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A stand-alone adventure set in the world of Ancillary Justice. Ingray has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people: she must free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever…
Pushing Ice
Novel · 2005
Clarke recognition
In 2057, Bella Lind and the crew of the Rockhopper mine comets for their ice, but when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is assigned to follow it.
Queen of Angels
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1990
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
In a world of wonders, wealth, and "perfect" mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder. Why?
Queen of the States
Novel · 1986
Clarke recognition
A 1986 science fiction novel by Josephine Saxton. Clarke recognition.
Quicksilver
Novel · 2003 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Clarke winnerLocus recognition
Volume One of The Baroque Cycle (Not to be confused with Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle 1) Quicksilver is a massive, exuberant and wildly ambitious historical novel that's also Neal Stephenson's eagerly awaited prequel to Cryptonomicon--his pyrotechnic reworking of the 20th century, from World War II…
R&R
Novella · 1986
Locus winnerNebula winnerHugo recognition
A 1986 science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Locus and Nebula Award winner; Hugo recognition.
Radiant Green Star
Novella · 2000
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
A 2000 science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Radix
Novel · 1981
Nebula recognition
Radix is a science fiction novel by American writer A. A. Attanasio, published in 1981 by Morrow. It was his debut work of science fiction. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981. It is the first of four books in Attanasio's Radix Tetrad, followed by In Other Worlds in 1984.
Raft
Novel · 1991
Clarke recognition
Raft is a 1991 hard science fiction book by British writer Stephen Baxter. Raft is both Baxter's debut novel and the first book in the Xeelee Sequence, although the Xeelee are not present. Raft was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1992.
Ragamuffin
Novel · 2007
Nebula recognition
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.
Rainbows End
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 2006
Hugo winnerLocus winner
World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone.
Raising Caine
Novel · 2015
Nebula recognition
A 2015 science fiction novel by Charles E. Gannon. Nebula recognition.
Rakesfall
Novel · 2024
Locus recognitionNebula recognition
A 2024 science fiction novel by Vajra Chandrasekera. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Raven Stratagem
by Yoon Ha Lee
Novel · 2017
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A 2017 science fiction novel by Yoon Ha Lee. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Reading the Bones
by Sheila Finch
Novella · 1998
Nebula winner
A 1998 science fiction novella by Sheila Finch. Nebula Award winner.
Reality Check
Novella · 1999
Nebula recognition
A 1999 science fiction novella by Michael A. Burstein. Nebula recognition.
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Novel · 2018
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen.
Recovering Apollo 8
Novella · 2007
Hugo recognition
A 2007 science fiction novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Hugo recognition.
Red Mars
Novel · 1992
Nebula winnerHugo recognitionLocus recognition
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.
Red Moon
Novel · 2018
Locus recognition
It is twenty-five years since China established the first colony on the moon, and the lives of three people are about to collide. American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip there, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation.
Red Spider, White Web
by Misha
Novel · 1990
Clarke recognition
A 1990 science fiction novel by Misha. Clarke recognition.
Red Team Blues
Novel · 2023
Locus recognition
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star.
Redemption Ark
Novel · 2002
Locus recognition
Redemption Ark is a 2002 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds set in the Revelation Space universe. It continues the story of Nevil Clavain begun in the short stories "Great Wall of Mars" and "Glacial".
Redshift Rendezvous
Novel · 1990
Nebula recognition
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.
Redshirts
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2012
Hugo winnerLocus winner
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers.
Remake
Novel · 1994
Locus winnerHugo recognition
Remake is a 1995 science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996. The book displays a dystopic near future, when computer animation and sampling have reduced the movie industry to software manipulation.
Remnant Population
Novel · 1996
Hugo recognition
For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and…
Remote Control
Novella · 2021
Locus recognition
Remote Control is a 2021 science fiction novella by Nigerian American Nnedi Okorafor. It is Okorafor's first novella after the Binti Trilogy and is set in the same universe as Okorafor's Who Fears Death and The Book of Phoenix.
Rendezvous with Rama
Novel · 1973
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
Something enormous has entered the solar system. The door is open.
Replay
by Ken Grimwood
Novel · 1986 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Clarke recognition
Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again.
Research Alpha
by A. E. van Vogt & James H. Schmitz
Novella · 1965
Nebula recognition
A 1965 science fiction novella by A. E. van Vogt & James H. Schmitz. Nebula recognition.
Retribution Falls
Novel · 2009
Clarke recognition
Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay. A womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, running contraband, robbing airships and making a nuisance of themselves.
Return to the Whorl
by Gene Wolfe
Novel · 2001
Locus recognition
A 2001 science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe. Locus recognition.
Revelation Space
Novel · 2000
Clarke recognition
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself.
Revenant Gun
by Yoon Ha Lee
Novel · 2018
Clarke recognitionHugo recognitionLocus recognition
Shuos Jedao is awake... and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet--a nobody--in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force. And he's the most feared, and reviled, man in the galaxy.
Riddley Walker
Novel · 1980
Nebula recognition
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.
Riders of the Purple Wage
Novella · 1967
Hugo winnerNebula recognition
"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.
Riding the TorchNorman Spinrad
Riding the Torch
Novella · 1974
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A 1974 science fiction novella by Norman Spinrad. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Rimrunners
Novel · 1988
Locus recognition
RIMRUNNERS In space the line between patriot and pirate is as thin as a laser. And a lethal battle for power can be as near as your starship’s next deck . . . THE SPOOK Loki – mercenary spy ship and bounty hunter.
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1970
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
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.
Riot Baby
Novella · 2020 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
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.
Rite of Passage
Novel · 1968
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
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.
River of Gods
by Ian McDonald
Novel · 2004
Clarke recognitionHugo recognition
River of Gods is a 2004 science fiction novel by British writer Ian McDonald. It depicts a futuristic India in 2047, a century after its independence from Britain, characterized both by ancient traditions and advanced technologies such as artificial intelligences, robots and nanotechnology.
River of Teeth
by Sarah Gailey
Novella · 2017
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
River of Teeth is a 2017 alternate history novella by Sarah Gailey, first published by Tor Books with cover art by Richard Anderson.
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