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Novella · 2004
"The Green Leopard Plague" is a 2004 science fiction novella by Walter Jon Williams. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction. In 2010, Night Shade Books republished it in The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (ISBN 978-1597801775). It also appears in The Best of Walter Jon Williams collection.
Novella · 1984
A 1984 science fiction novella by Frederik Pohl. Nebula recognition.
Novella · 2019 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
When the djinn king Melek Ahmar wakes up after millennia of imprisoned slumber, he finds a world vastly different from what he remembers.
Novel · 2007
The H-Bomb Girl is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter.
Novel · 1985
A woman’s account of life inside a state that claims ownership of her.
Novella · 2019 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 is an alternate history science fantasy police procedural novella by American novelist P. Djèlí Clark. It was first published by Tor.com in 2019.
Novella · 2007 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 2007 science fiction novella by Matthew Hughes. Nebula recognition.
by Joe Haldeman
Novella · 1990
The Hemingway Hoax is a Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella that weaves an intricate plot of a fake Hemingway manuscript with time travel, multiple universes, and the potential destruction of the omniverse itself.
Novel · 1975
THE EPIC of DARKOVER Described as "Bradley's best novel" by Locus, THE HERITAGE OF HASTUR, longest and most intricate of the Darkover books, is a brilliant epic of the pivotal event in the strange love-hate relationship between the Terran worlds and the semi-alien offspring of…
Novel · 1960
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside…
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 1992
Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own.
Novel · 2012
Suspected of involvement after the Regimental High Command is destroyed as they prepared to go to a new level of existence called Sublime, Lieutenant Commander Vyr Cossont must find a nine-thousand-year-old man to clear her name.
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 1990
A 1990 science fiction novel by Dan Simmons. Clarke recognition.
Novella · 2012
A 2012 science fiction novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by Malka Older
Novel · 2024
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles is a 2024 science fiction mystery novella by Malka Older. It is the sequel to 2023's The Mimicking of Known Successes. It follows Mossa and Pleiti as they investigate several disappearances from Valdegeld University.
Novel · 2020
A 2020 science fiction novel by Patience Agbabi. Clarke recognition.
by Kate Wilhelm
Novella · 1971
The Infinity Box is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by American writer Kate Wilhelm, published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1975. It was reprinted in paperback by Pocket Books in 1976; a British edition was published by Arrow Books in 1979, and a French translation, Le Village, appeared in 1987.
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1983
The Integral Trees is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven. Like much of Niven's work, the story is heavily influenced by the setting: a gas torus, a ring of air around a neutron star. A sequel, The Smoke Ring, was published in 1987.
Novel · 1974
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers.
Novel · 1993 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Iron Dragon's Daughter is a 1993 science fantasy novel by American writer Michael Swanwick. The story follows Jane, a changeling girl who slaves at a dragon factory in the world of Faerie, building part-magical, part-cybernetic monsters that are used as jet fighters.
Novel · 1972
The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by American author Norman Spinrad. The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story. On the surface, the novel presents a post-apocalyptic adventure tale entitled Lord of the Swastika, written by an alternate-history Adolf Hitler shortly before his death in 1953.
Novella · 2016
A 2016 science fiction novella by Alastair Reynolds. Locus recognition.
by John Brunner
Novel · 1969
Summer in 2014. Morning. The City Council of Washington, D.C. ignores yet another request to remove the paint from the facade of the Black House. Lyla Clay, pythoness, finds her apartment house comweb stuffed with advertising satches that will overload her garbage drain.
by Samit Basu
Novel · 2023
A 2023 science fiction novel by Samit Basu. Locus recognition.
Novel · 1986
College student Nicholas Dal shares the family talent --- he's a tele-empath who experiences the emotions of others. And overpowering emotion can induce seizures. So Nicholas has lived alone and dull with vodka.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2022
The Kaiju Preservation Society is a science fiction novel written by American author John Scalzi. It was first published in hardcover and ebook by Tor Books, and audiobook by Audible Studios, on March 15, 2022; British hardcover and ebook editions were released by Tor UK on March 17, 2022.
Novel · 2019
A 2019 science fiction novel by David Wellington. Clarke recognition.
by Jack Vance
Novella · 1966
A group of aristocratic, decadent earth men and women try to survive a revolt on the part of the alien races enslaved by them.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2007
Serving his human colony on distant Huckleberry as a village ombudsman, retired fighter John Perry looks forward to settling into farm life with his wife and adopted daughter before he is drawn back into the dangerous interstellar politics of his past.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2020
The Last Emperox is a space opera novel by American writer John Scalzi. The book was published by Tor Books on April 14, 2020. Audible released an audio book version narrated by Wil Wheaton. It is the final volume in The Interdependency trilogy series and a sequel to The Consuming Fire.
Novel · 1997
The Last Hawk is a 1997 science fiction novel by Catherine Asaro.
Novella · 1988
"The Last of the Winnebagos" is a short story written by American writer Connie Willis. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1988, and reprinted in the short story collections Impossible Things (1994) and The Best of Connie Willis (2013).
Novel · 1971
“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story) George Orr has a gift – he is an effective dreamer: his dreams become reality when he wakes up.
Novel · 1969
An icy world. A solitary envoy. A radical question about being human.
by Ted Chiang
Novella · 2010
The story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software.
Novel · 2019
The Light Brigade is a 2019 science fiction novel by Kameron Hurley, in which brutal descriptions of war and economic exploitation in a dystopian future are used to provide strongly critical commentary on the nature of warfare and capitalism. It was nominated for both Hugo and Locus awards for 2020.
by Ian McDonald
Novella · 2005
A 2005 science fiction novella by Ian McDonald. Hugo recognition.
Novel · 1955
"No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America." --Constitution of the United States, Thirtieth Amendment Two generations after the…
Novel · 2014
A small spaceship. A wonderfully mismatched crew. A very long journey.
Novel · 2018
A 2018 science fiction novel by Aliya Whiteley. Clarke recognition.
by James Smythe
Novel · 2013
A 2013 science fiction novel by James Smythe. Clarke recognition.
Novella · 2010 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" is a science fiction/magical realism novella by the American writer Elizabeth Hand. It was first published in the Neil Gaiman/Al Sarrantonio-edited anthology Stories: All-New Tales, in 2010, and subsequently republished in Hand's 2012 anthology Errantry: Strange Stories from Small Beer Press.
Novel · 1962
The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.
by Kij Johnson
Novella · 2011 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The Man Who Bridged the Mist is a science fiction/fantasy novella by Kij Johnson.
by Ken Liu
Novella · 2011
A 2011 science fiction novella by Ken Liu. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1973
The Man Who Folded Himself is a 1973 science fiction novel by American writer David Gerrold. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1974.
by Jack Dann
Novel · 1984
The Man Who Melted is a warning for the future. It is the Brave New World and 1984 for our time, for it gives us a glimpse into our own future -- a future ruled by corporations that control deadly and powerful forms of mass…
Novel · 2024
The Man Who Saw Seconds is a 2024 science fiction thriller novel by the Slovak-Canadian writer Alexander Boldizar, published by CLASH Books. It won the 2025 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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