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by Amitav Ghosh
Novel · 1996
A computer operator in New York stumbles on information regarding an experiment in 1895 Calcutta to change people. In the experiment, mosquitos were used to transfer chromosomes from one person to another.
by Sarah Hall
Novel · 2007
From Booker and Orange Prize-nominated author Sarah Hall comes the tale of an imaginary England, a future dystopian society where the right to bear a child is determined by a state lottery system.
by Ken MacLeod
Novel · 1998
A 1998 science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod. Clarke and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2013
A 2013 science fiction novella by Brad R. Torgersen. Hugo recognition.
by Andy Duncan
Novella · 2001
"The Chief Designer" is a science fiction novella by American writer Andy Duncan, originally published in the June 2001 issue of the Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. It won the 2002 Sturgeon Award and was nominated for the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
by Geoff Ryman
Novel · 1989
The Child Garden is a 1989 science fiction novel by Canadian writer Geoff Ryman. The novel is structured as two books with a brief introduction. The first book was originally published in two parts as "Love Sickness" in the Summer and Autumn 1987 editions of the British science fiction magazine Interzone.
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 2011
Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy.
Novel · 2001
The Chronoliths is a 2001 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson. It was nominated for the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novel and tied for the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
by Gene Wolfe
Novel · 1982
The Citadel of the Autarch is a science fantasy novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, first released in 1983. It is the fourth and final volume in the four-volume series The Book of the New Sun.
Novella · 2015
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology and esoteric sciences-its inhabitants capable of teleporting themselves anywhere, its weapons small and undetectable and deadly.
Novel · 2009 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Inspector Tyador Borlú must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of Besźel.
Novel · 2018
Would you give up everything to change the world? Humanity clings to life on January – a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other.
by Pat Murphy
Novel · 1989
Half a generation ago, a gesture in the name of peace turned out to spread plague and disaster. In San Francisco, the survivors are heir to a city transformed.
by Gene Wolfe
Novel · 1981 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Claw of the Conciliator is a science fantasy novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, first released in 1981.
by Theodore L. Thomas & Kate Wilhelm
Novel · 1965
The Clone is a science fiction novel written by Theodore L. Thomas and Kate Wilhelm, first published by Berkley in 1965. It is based on a short story of the same name written solely by Thomas that appeared in the December 1959 edition of Fantastic Science Fiction Stories.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2017
The Collapsing Empire is a space opera novel by American writer John Scalzi. The book was published by Tor Books on March 21, 2017. It is the first book in The Interdependency series, although it was originally intended to be a two book series.
by Wil McCarthy
Novel · 2000
No writer stretches the boundaries of science fiction LIKE Wil McCarthy does.
Novella · 1989
A 1989 science fiction novella by James Tiptree Jr.. Locus recognition.
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 2000
The Arrival Is Imminent Joe Haldeman's novel The Comingis a tightly constructed near future thriller which begins by recapitulating a classic science fictional motif: the moment of first contact with an alien intelligence. The story begins on October 1, 2054.
Novel · 1975
Alfred Bester's first science fiction novel since The Stars My Destination was a major event--a fast-moving adventure story set in Earth's future. A band of immortals--as charming a bunch of eccentrics as you'll ever come across--recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess.
Novella · 2004 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 2004 science fiction novella by Charles Stross. Hugo Award winner; Locus recognition.
by Vernor Vinge
Novella · 2003
The Cookie Monster is a science fiction novella by American writer Vernor Vinge. It was first published in the October 2003 issue of Analog.
by E. J. Swift
Novel · 2022
A 2022 science fiction novel by E. J. Swift. Clarke recognition.
Novella · 1996
A 1996 science fiction novella by Maureen F. McHugh. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1976
A 1976 science fiction novella by Richard Cowper. Hugo recognition.
Novel · 2014
A 2014 science fiction novel by Kevin J. Anderson. Hugo recognition.
Novel · 2022
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is a 2022 novel by Mexican-Canadian writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia. It is loosely based on H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896). The novel received mixed reviews, with critics noting its exploration of feminism and colonialism.
by Keith Laumer
Novella · 1968
The year was 2103. The place was Earth. And time-voyager Steve Dravek had already found out too much for his numbed brain to absorb. About the science of Cryonics, the freezing of human beings.
by Fritz Leiber
Novella · 1997
Tor is pleased to present in print for the first time this short novel of cosmic dread and Lovecraftian horror. It is a story of science gone awry, of strange dimensions - of love and death.
by Allen Steele
Novella · 1995
A 1995 science fiction novella by Allen Steele. Hugo Award winner; Nebula recognition.
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1973
The Death of Doctor Island is a science fiction novella by American writer Gene Wolfe first published as The Death of Dr. Island in Universe 3 (Editor Terry Carr, Random House, 1973).
Novel · 1951
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reichs heads a huge 24th century business empire, spanning the solar system. He is also an obsessed, driven man determined to murder a rival.
by Ian McDonald
Novel · 2010
Seven days, six characters, three interconnected story strands, one central common core--the eponymous dervish house, a character in itself--that pins all these players together in a weave of intrigue, conflict, drama and a ticking clock of a thriller.
Novella · 1981 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 1981 science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. Locus recognition.
Novel · 1995
The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device.
by Jack Dann
Novella · 2001 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
"The Diamond Pit" is a 2001 fantasy science fiction novella by American writer Jack Dann.
by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
Novel · 1990
1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time.
by Phillip Mann
Novel · 2014
A 2014 science fiction novel by Phillip Mann. Clarke recognition.
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 Peter Heller
Novel · 2012
Hig is a survivor. He has survived the sickness that claimed his wife and family, and the trout he loved to fish.
by A. D. Sui
Novella · 2024
A 2024 science fiction novella by A. D. Sui. Nebula Award winner.
by Laila Lalami
Novel · 2025
The Dream Hotel is a 2025 literary science fiction novel by Laila Lalami. It received positive reception from critics.
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.
Novel · 1967
The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967.
Novel · 2018
A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror.
by Ian Watson
Novel · 1973
A 1973 science fiction novel by Ian Watson. Nebula recognition.
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.
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