Act One
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2010
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A 2010 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
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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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After Atlas
by Emma Newman
Novel · 2016
Clarke recognitionLocus recognition
Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems...
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2012
Locus winnerNebula winnerHugo recognition
In the year 2035, all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell. After ecological disasters have nearly destroyed the Earth, twenty-six survivors are imprisoned in a sterile enclosure built by an alien race.
After the Siege
Novella · 2007
Locus winner
A 2007 science fiction novella by Cory Doctorow. Locus Award winner.
Against Infinity
Novel · 1983
Nebula recognition
On the poisonous, icy surface of Ganymede (one of the moons of Jupiter), a man and a boy are on a deadly hunt. Their prey is the Aleph-- an unknowable alien artifact that roamed and ruled Ganymede for countless millennia.
Agency
Novel · 2020
Locus recognition
Agency is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, released on January 21, 2020. It is a 'sequel and a prequel' to his previous novel The Peripheral (2014), reusing the technology from the novel to explore an alternative 2017 where Hillary Clinton won the 2016 Presidential Election.
Agents of Dreamland
Novella · 2017 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Locus recognition
A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona.
Air
by Geoff Ryman
Novel · 2005
Clarke winnerNebula recognition
Air, also known as Air: Or, Have Not Have, is a 2005 novel by Geoff Ryman.
Alice Payne Arrives
Novella · 2018
Nebula recognition
"Alice Payne Arrives is the story of a time traveling thief turned reluctant hero in this science fiction adventure"--Amazon.
Alien Clay
Novel · 2024
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go? Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close.
Alien Influences
Novel · 1994
Clarke recognition
On the planet Bountiful, under a harsh, harsh sun, human settlers live peacefully alongside aliens known as Dancers for their magical rituals. The colony children, in particular, are fascinated by their alien friends.
All Flesh Is Grass
Novel · 1965
Nebula recognition
Millville, USA. A small town like countless others, with people who assume that life as we know it is the only kind of life.
All Seated on the Ground
Novella · 2007
Hugo winnerLocus recognition
All Seated on the Ground is a science fiction novella by American writer Connie Willis, originally published in the December 2007 issue of American magazine Asimov's Science Fiction and as a standalone volume from Subterranean Press. It won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
All Systems Red
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2017
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
It hacked its programming. It would really rather watch television.
All That We See or Seem
by Ken Liu
Novel · 2025
Locus recognition
Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.
All the Birds in the Sky
Novel · 2016 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula winnerHugo recognition
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself.
All the Weyrs of Pern
Novel · 1991 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land.
American War
Novel · 2017
Clarke recognition
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.
Ammonite
Novel · 1993
Clarke recognition
Change or die. These are the only options available on planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women.
AmnesiaJack Dann
Amnesia
by Jack Dann
Novella · 1981
Nebula recognition
A 1981 science fiction novella by Jack Dann. Nebula recognition.
Anathem
Novel · 2008
Locus winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognition
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable — yet strangely inverted — world.Fraa Erasmas is a young…
Ancestral Night
Novel · 2019
Locus recognition
A 2019 science fiction novel by Elizabeth Bear. Locus recognition.
Ancient of Days
Novel · 1985
Clarke recognition
A 1985 science fiction novel by Michael Bishop. Clarke recognition.
Ancient Shores
Novel · 1996
Nebula recognition
It turned up in a North Dakota wheat field: a triangle, like a shark's fin, sticking up from the black loam. Tom Lasker did what any farmer would have done. He dug it up.
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2013
Clarke winnerHugo winnerNebula winner
A starship’s intelligence. One remaining body. A very personal reckoning.
Ancillary Mercy
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2015
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship.
Ancillary Sword
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2014
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.
And Chaos Died
by Joanna Russ
Novel · 1970
Locus recognitionNebula recognition
And Chaos Died (1970) is a science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ. Its setting is a dystopian projection of modern society, in which Earth's population has continued to grow, with the effects somewhat mitigated by advanced technology. The novel was nominated for the 1970 Nebula Award.
And Then There Were (N-One)
Novella · 2017
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"And Then There Were (N-One)" is a 2017 science fiction/murder mystery novella by Sarah Pinsker. It was first published in Uncanny Magazine. It was republished in the collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea.
And What Can We Offer You Tonight
Novella · 2021 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula winner
In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House.
And Wild for to Hold
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 1991
Hugo recognition
A 1991 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Hugo recognition.
Angelmaker
Novel · 2012
Clarke recognition
Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
Annabel Lee
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2013
Nebula recognition
A 2013 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Nebula recognition.
Annie Bot
by Sierra Greer
Novel · 2024
Clarke winner
Annie is the perfect girlfriend. She has dinner ready for Doug every night, wears the outfits he buys for her, and caters to his every sexual whim. Maybe her cleaning isn't always good enough, but she's trying really hard.
Annihilation
Novel · 2014
Nebula winner
An expedition enters a landscape that does not want to be understood.
Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance
Novel · 2014
Locus recognition
A 2014 science fiction novel by Jeff VanderMeer. Locus recognition.
Antarctica
Novel · 1997
Locus recognition
Eco-terrorists battle capitalists, seeking to open Antarctica to commercial exploitation. The time is the 21st century, the world is an ecological disaster, and the treaty banning mineral exploration of Antarctica has expired. By the author of Red Mars.
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
by Ted Chiang
Novella · 2019
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published in the 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories. The novella's name quotes a proverb by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) in his work The Concept of Anxiety (1844).
Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana
Novella · 1989
Nebula recognition
A 1989 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Nebula recognition.
April Fool's Day Forever
by Kate Wilhelm
Novella · 1970
Nebula recognition
A 1970 science fiction novella by Kate Wilhelm. Nebula recognition.
Arcadia
by Iain Pears
Novel · 2015
Clarke recognition
In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie.
ArgonauticaWalter Jon Williams
Argonautica
Novella · 1999 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula recognition
A 1999 science fiction novella by Walter Jon Williams. Nebula recognition.
Ariel
Novella · 2003
Locus recognition
A 2003 science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Locus recognition.
Arkfall
Novella · 2010
Nebula recognition
A 2010 science fiction novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman. Nebula recognition.
ARM
by Larry Niven
Novella · 1975
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A 1975 science fiction novella by Larry Niven. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Artificial Condition
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2018
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.
Ash: A Secret History
by Mary Gentle
Novel · 2000
Clarke recognition
Ash: A Secret History is a historical fantasy novel by British author Mary Gentle first published in 2000. Set in the 15th century, the alternate history posts a fantastical "true" history of the world.
Assault on a CityJack Vance
Assault on a City
by Jack Vance
Novella · 1974
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A 1974 science fiction novella by Jack Vance. Hugo and Locus recognition.
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