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by Kage Baker
Novel · 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.
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1955
The story of temporal engineers who meta-regulate the history of humanity through the centuries, eliminating risk, adventure, and space travel in the process.
by Drew Magary
Novel · 2011
A 2011 science fiction novel by Drew Magary. Clarke recognition.
Novel · 1959
The Enemy Stars, is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson, published in 1959 by J.B Lippincott in the US and by Longmans in Canada. Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction under the title We Have Fed Our Sea__, it was a nominee for the 1959 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Novel · 1994
The Engines of God is a science fiction novel by American author Jack McDevitt, published in 1994.
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2008
A 2008 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Hugo Award winner; Locus recognition.
by James White
Novel · 1964
The Escape Orbit (British title: Open Prison) is a science fiction novel by northern Irish author James White. It was first published in serial form in 1964 under the name "Open Prison" in the magazine New Worlds. It was nominated for best novel in the 1965 Nebula Awards.
Novel · 1967
A 1967 science fiction novel by Hayden Howard. Nebula recognition.
by Ken MacLeod
Novel · 2007
The Execution Channel is an alternate history science fiction novel by British writer Ken MacLeod, which focuses on the early decades of the 21st century.
Novel · 1975
The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside.
Novel · 1998
After visiting a virtual-reality store--selling the scenario of a mass shooting--a killer carries out a mass shooting himself. FBI agent Teresa Simons tries to determine if the experience influenced him. A look at the effect of violence-entertainment on people.
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1976
A 1976 science fiction novella by Gene Wolfe. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1978
A 1978 science fiction novel by C. J. Cherryh. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 1990
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it.
Novel · 1997
THE ONCE FERTILE EARTH OF DORA HENRY'S CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN UNDERVALUED AND OVERDEVELOPED. NOW NATURE, APPARENTLY, HAS DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK.Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange things are happening everywhere she turns.
Novella · 1970
A 1970 science fiction novella by Poul Anderson. Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1973
These stories were written before the end of Silverberg's "first period" (i.e., before 1974), and represent some of the finest short work he did during that time. The title story is a fine exploration of both survivor's guilt and the healing power of religious ecstasy.
by Joanna Russ
Novel · 1975
Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world.
by Gene Wolfe
Novella · 1972
Bien loin de la Terre, deux planètes soeurs, Sainte-Anne et Sainte-Croix, ont été colonisées par des Français qui ont détruit la population indigène de la…
Novel · 2015 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The world is ending again. This time, the earth has a voice.
by Claire North
Novel · 2014
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before.
Novel · 2025
A 2025 science fiction novel by Elizabeth Bear. Locus recognition.
Novel · 1977 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
This is the novel of four who defied the powers of the matrix guardians, fanatics who protected those powers so that the planet of the ruddy sun might never fall beneath the influence of materialistic Terrans.
Novella · 1987
The Forest of Time is an alternate history novella by American writer Michael Flynn. It was originally published in the June 1987 issue of Analog magazine. In 1988, the story was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella.
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 1974
A soldier returns from battle to a world that has moved on without him.
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1987
A vanished moon of Jupiter, a 500-foot -high cinder cone in Death Valley never before seen, and an enormous granite mountain in Australia also never seen before all point the way to an alien invasion of planet Earth.
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2007
A 2007 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Nebula Award winner; Hugo recognition.
Novel · 1978
In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.
by Greg Egan
Novella · 2016
Camille is desperate to escape her home on colonized asteroid Vesta, journeying through space in a small cocoon pod covertly and precariously attached to a cargo ship.
by Larry Niven
Novella · 1971
A 1971 science fiction novella by Larry Niven. Hugo recognition.
by Peter Watts
Novella · 2018
How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift?
Novella · 1997
A 1997 science fiction novella by Adam-Troy Castro. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 2019
1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body.
Novel · 2021
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable.
Novella · 1991
A 1991 science fiction novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Locus Award winner; Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1965
The Genocides is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Thomas M. Disch, first published by Berkley Books as a Berkley Medallion paperback. It was Disch's first novel and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel for 1965.
Novella · 2021
A 2021 science fiction novella by Eugenia Triantafyllou. Nebula recognition.
Novella · 1973
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" is a science fiction novella by American writer James Tiptree, Jr. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1974.
by M. R. Carey
Novel · 2014
Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class.
Novel · 1968 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Having just returned to Earth from an intergalactic research mission, Professor Peter Maxwell, specialist in Supernatural Phenomena, finds himself in most desperate straits.
by John Scalzi
Novella · 2009 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Devoted to the Bishopry Militant and to his crew, ship captain Ean Tephe is given a secret mission to a hidden land.
Novella · 1971
A 1971 science fiction novella by Keith Roberts. Nebula recognition.
by Isaac Asimov
Novel · 1972
The year is 2100 A.D.… And Man no longer stands alone in the universe. Now there are other worlds, other living beings. Alien beings who mate in threes and live on pure energy.
by T. J. Bass
Novel · 1973
Rorqual Maru was her name. She was a harvester - a vast plankton rake without a crop, abandoned by Earth society when the seas died. Part whale, part ship, and well over 600 feet long, she was left to rot in the sterile ocean.
Novella · 1972
DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT... ... the eight young astronauts, men and women, who were sent off to colonize a non-existent planet near Alpha Centauri while Washington disintegrated with revolution?
Novel · 1988
2027: Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young man lost in a world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs.
by John Varley
Novel · 1998
All the universe is a stage -- and Sparky Valentine is its itinerant thespian.
Novella · 1983 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 1983 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Nebula recognition.
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