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Novel · 1968
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them.
Novel · 1992
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree.
Novel · 1976
Doorways in the Sand is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny. Featuring both detective fiction and comic elements, it was originally published in serial form in the magazine Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact; the hardcover edition was first published in 1976 and the paperback in 1977.
Novel · 1959
Dorsai! is the first published book of the incomplete Childe Cycle series of science fiction novels by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. Later books are set both before and after the events in Dorsai!.
Novel · 1956
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes.
Novel · 2003
Read Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom online at the Internet Archive . From the Back Cover " He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture!
Novella · 1993
"Down in the Bottomlands" is a novella written by Harry Turtledove, set in an alternate reality in which the Messinian salinity crisis continues to the present day. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1994.
Novel · 1981 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Pell's Star occupied the central spot in the coming conflict between Earth's tired stellar empire and the tough onslaught of its rebellious colonies.
Novel · 1970
From the shrouding fogs of its Mist Country to the lunatic tropical fertility of its jungles, the planet Belzagor was alien in the extreme. Before the decolonization movement, it had been part of Earth's Galaxy-wide empire.
Novel · 1963
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.
Novel · 1971
Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground.
Novella · 1967
Dragonriders of Pern is a science fantasy series written primarily by American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey, who initiated it in 1967. Beginning in 2003, her middle child Todd McCaffrey has written Pern novels, both solo and jointly with Anne. The series comprises 24 novels and two collections of short stories.
Novella · 1969
A 1969 science fiction novella by Anne McCaffrey. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes
Novel · 1981
A gaming park where visitors come to have their fantasies fulfilled turns into a nightmare when a game turns to murder.
Novel · 1998
Dreaming in Smoke is a science fiction novel by American writer Tricia Sullivan. The book is Sullivan's third science fiction novel and was first published as a hardcover by Millennium (an imprint of Orion Publishing Group) in January 1998. The novel won the 1999 Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel.
Novel · 2017
A 2017 science fiction novel by Anne Charnock. Clarke Award winner.
Novel · 1978
In a world devastated by nuclear holocaust, Snake is a healer. One of an elite band dedicated to caring for sick humanity, she goes wherever her skills are needed.
Novel · 1965
A desert planet. An empire in the balance. A future that refuses to stay written.
Novel · 1963
Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel Dune World and 1965 novel Prophet of Dune) in Analog magazine.
Novel · 2020
The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.
Novella · 1986
A 1986 science fiction novella by F. Paul Wilson. Nebula recognition.
Novel · 1972
David Selig is outwardly unimpressive. His early promise as a student and scholar is unrealised. He has no proper job, he has no girlfriend.
Novel · 1977
A whisperjewel summoned him to Worlorn, and a love he thought he'd lost. But Worlorn isn't the world Dirk t'Larien imagined, and Gwen Delvano is no longer the woman he once knew.
by David Brin
Novel · 1990
A microscopic black hole has accidently fallen into the Earth's core and the entire planet is in danger of being destroyed within two years.
by John Barnes
Novel · 1998
A novel on the Thousand Cultures, as Earth's colonies are known. Comprising more than a thousand planets, each has a unique civilization. The protagonists are two Earth agents--a married couple--sent to negotiate peace between warring Tamils and neo-Mayan Indians.
Novel · 2004
Art is a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, a secret society bound together by a sleep schedule.
Novel · 2000
Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world.
Novel · 2010
After 8000 years of star travel, humanity has found only one alien species. Alex Benedict may be on the path to finding another one, but an assassin has other ideas.
Novella · 1997
A 1997 science fiction novella by Geoffrey A. Landis. Hugo and Nebula recognition.
by R. B. Kelly
Novel · 2020
A 2020 science fiction novel by R. B. Kelly. Clarke recognition.
Novella · 1986
In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. Tom indeed becomes obsessed.
Novella · 2021
A junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.
Novella · 2004
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Novella · 1984 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
"Elemental" is a science fantasy novella by Geoffrey A. Landis. It was first published in Analog Science Fiction, in December 1984.
Novel · 2018
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia has a dark side.
Novel · 2011
Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet.
Novel · 2018
The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress.
Novel · 1984
After a bionuclear war destroys most of humanity, a young women seeks other survivors.
Novella · 1981
After a bionuclear war destroys most of humanity, a young women seeks other survivors.
Novel · 2019
A 2019 science fiction novel by Max Gladstone. Locus recognition.
Novel · 2006
Kit Nouveau didn't escape himself when he fled to Japan. Now running a biker bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo, he's also sleeping with the wife of a High Yakusa ganglord. All things considered, being held up at gunpoint isn't a complete shock.
Novel · 1985
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the "buggers".
Novel · 1999
This is Bean's installment of Orson Scott Card's Ender's saga. It is a great character building book for those who have read Ender's Game and want to know more about Bean and his background.
by Dan Simmons
Novel · 1995
Dan Simmons's Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989.
Novella · 1978
A 1978 science fiction novella by Brian W. Aldiss. Hugo recognition.
Novella · 1979
"Enemy Mine" is a science fiction novella by American writer Barry B. Longyear. It was originally published in the September 1979 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. The novella's plot concerns two soldiers, one human and one reptilian-like alien, who find themselves stranded together on a hostile planet.
by Greg Bear
Novel · 1985
Perhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but perhaps the arrival of the 300 km long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war.
Novella · 2013 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
A 2013 science fiction novella by Charles Stross. Hugo Award winner.
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