Colony
by Ben Bova
Novel · 1978
Locus recognition
A 1978 science fiction novel by Ben Bova. Locus recognition.
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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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Coming Home
Novel · 2014
Nebula recognition
Coming Home is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack McDevitt. It is the seventh in the Alex Benedict series, and was released in November 2014. Coming Home was nominated for the 2014 Nebula award for best novel.
Company Town
Novel · 2016
Locus recognition
A 2016 science fiction novel by Madeline Ashby. Locus recognition.
ContactJerry Oltion & Lee Goodloe
Contact
by Jerry Oltion & Lee Goodloe
Novella · 1991
Nebula recognition
A 1991 science fiction novella by Jerry Oltion & Lee Goodloe. Nebula recognition.
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
Novel · 2024
Clarke recognition
A 2024 science fiction novel by Isabel Waidner. Clarke recognition.
Cosmonaut Keep
by Ken MacLeod
Novel · 2000
Clarke recognitionHugo recognition
Cosmonaut Keep is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Ken MacLeod, published in 2000. It is the first book in the Engines of Light Trilogy, a 2001 nominee for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for best novel.
Count Zero
Novel · 1986
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting.
Countdown
by Mira Grant
Novella · 2011
Hugo recognition
A 2011 science fiction novella by Mira Grant. Hugo recognition.
Countess
Novella · 2024
Locus recognitionNebula recognition
A 2024 science fiction novella by Suzan Palumbo. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Courtship Rite
Novel · 1982
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
Courtship Rite is a science fiction novel by Canadian writer Donald Kingsbury, originally serialized in Analog magazine in 1982. The book is set in the same universe as some of Kingsbury's other stories, such as "Shipwright" (1978) and the unpublished The Finger Pointing Solward.
Coyote
by Allen Steele
Novel · 2002
Locus recognition
A group of political dissidents and their families escape the repressive world of twenty-first-century Earth to seek new lives as interstellar colonists, placing themselves in cold sleep for a two-century odyssey to the habitable world of Coyote.
Crescent City Rhapsody
Novel · 2000
Nebula recognition
A 2000 science fiction novel by Kathleen Ann Goonan. Nebula recognition.
Cri de Coeur
Novella · 1994
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A 1994 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Hugo and Locus recognition.
Cryoburn
Novel · 2010
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
When a Kibou-daini cryocorp--an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future--attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan to check it out.
Cryptonomicon
Novel · 1999
Locus winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognition
Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.
Cuckoo's Egg
Novel · 1985
Hugo recognition
Cuckoo's Egg is a science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh, which introduces a fictional race raising a human boy. It was published by DAW Books in 1985, and there was also a limited hardcover printing by Phantasia Press in the same year.
Cyclops
by David Brin
Novella · 1984
Hugo recognition
A 1984 science fiction novella by David Brin. Hugo recognition.
Cyteen
Novel · 1988
Hugo winnerLocus winner
ARIANE EMORY IS DEAD. BUT NOT FOR LONG. WHERE IS ARIANE? For fifty years, Dr. Ariane Emory has dominated politics on Cyteen Station. Because Dr. Emory controls Reseune, a city-sized factory that creates the one item essential to the planet's wealth.
Da Vinci Rising
by Jack Dann
Novella · 1995
Nebula winner
A 1995 science fiction novella by Jack Dann. Nebula Award winner.
Damnation Alley
Novella · 1968
Hugo recognition
Across a United States all but destroyed by war and characterized by violent storms and giant bats and snakes, men embark on a seemingly doomed mission to deliver an antiserum to plague-ridden Boston.
Dancing on Air
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 1993
Locus recognitionNebula recognition
A 1993 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Dangerous Games
Novella · 1980
Locus recognitionNebula recognition
A 1980 science fiction novella by Marta Randall. Locus and Nebula recognition.
Dangerous Space
Novella · 2007
Nebula recognition
A 2007 science fiction novella by Kelley Eskridge. Nebula recognition.
Dark Eden
Novel · 2012
Clarke winner
Dark Eden is a social science fiction novel by British author Chris Beckett, first published in the United Kingdom in 2012. The novel explores the disintegration of a small group of a highly inbred people, descendants of two individuals whose spaceship crashed on a rogue planet they call Eden.
Dark Heaven
Novella · 2007
Nebula recognition
A 2007 science fiction novella by Gregory Benford. Nebula recognition.
Dark Universe
Novel · 1961
Hugo recognition
Dark Universe is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Daniel F. Galouye, first published in 1961. It is currently in publication by Victor Gollancz Ltd as a collector's edition.
Darwin's Children
by Greg Bear
Novel · 2001
Clarke recognitionLocus recognition
Greg Bear's Nebula Award--winning novel, Darwin's Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution--one that would alter our species forever.
Darwin's Radio
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1999
Nebula winnerHugo recognitionLocus recognition
"Virus hunter" Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe in search of a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women and invariably results in miscarriage.
Darwinia
Novel · 1998
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters.
Davy
Novel · 1964
Hugo recognition
Davy is set in the far future of our world, in the fourth century after the collapse of what we describe as twentieth-century civilisation.
Days
Novel · 1997
Clarke recognition
A 1997 science fiction novel by James Lovegrove. Clarke recognition.
Deadline
by Mira Grant
Novel · 2011
Hugo recognition
Deadline, published by Orbit Books in 2011, is the second book in the Newsflesh series, a science fiction/horror series written by Seanan McGuire under the pen name Mira Grant. Deadline is preceded by Feed (2010) and succeeded by Blackout (2012).
Death and Designation Among the Asadi
Novella · 1973
Hugo recognitionNebula recognition
A 1973 science fiction novella by Michael Bishop. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
Death of the Author
Novel · 2025
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
Death of the Author is a 2025 Africanfuturist novel by Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor. The book follows Zelunjo Onyenezi-Onyedele, a Nigerian American writer who gains critical success through the publication of a science fiction work, entitled Rusted Robots.
Death's End
by Cixin Liu
Novel · 2010
Locus winnerHugo recognition
Death's End is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the third novel in the trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth's Past, following the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem and its sequel, The Dark Forest. The original Chinese version was published in 2010.
Deathworld
Novel · 1960
Hugo recognition
Deathworld is the name of a series of science fiction novels by American writer Harry Harrison, including the books Deathworld, Deathworld 2 and Deathworld 3, plus the short story "The Mothballed Spaceship". The central hero is a gambler who becomes involved with colonists of an extremely hostile planet.
Deep Wheel Orcadia
Novel · 2021
Clarke winner
Deep Wheel Orcadia is a science-fiction novel by Harry Josephine Giles. It is a verse novel written in the Orcadian dialect of the Scots language in parallel with an English translation. The book won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was published by Picador Poetry in 2021.
Defekt
by Nino Cipri
Novella · 2021
Locus recognition
Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work 18 hours later.
Defender
Novel · 2001
Locus recognition
A 2001 science fiction novel by C. J. Cherryh. Locus recognition.
Demon
by John Varley
Novel · 1985
Locus recognition
Demon is a science fiction novel by American writer John Varley, published in 1984. The third and final book in his Gaea Trilogy, it was nominated to the Locus Award.
DescentWole Talabi
Descent
by Wole Talabi
Novella · 2025 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula recognition
A 2025 science fiction novella by Wole Talabi. Nebula recognition.
Deserted Cities of the Heart
by Lewis Shiner
Novel · 1988
Nebula recognition
A 1988 science fiction novel by Lewis Shiner. Nebula recognition.
Destroying Angel
Novel · 1992
Clarke recognition
A 1992 science fiction novel by Richard Paul Russo. Clarke recognition.
Dhalgren
Novel · 1975
Locus recognitionNebula recognition
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person…
Dinner at Deviant's Palace
by Tim Powers
Novel · 1985
Nebula recognition
An early (1985 but based on earlier work) Powers novel with many of his usual themes such as alcoholism, vampirism, possession, erosion of the self, and the weight of one's past. Set in a post-apocalyptic LA area.
Diplomatic Immunity
Novel · 2002
Nebula recognition
Diplomatic Immunity is a 2002 science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, part of the Vorkosigan Saga. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2003.
Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle
Novella · 2025
Nebula recognition
A 2025 science fiction novella by Renan Bernardo. Nebula recognition.
Distraction
Novel · 1998
Clarke winnerHugo recognitionLocus recognition
It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets.
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