Get started ↓Want a great science fiction novel you can finish in a weekend? Every book here won at least one major award and runs under 300 pages.
Page counts come from English print editions and vary by edition. Each novel won at least one Hugo, Nebula, Locus or Arthur C. Clarke award.
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by Fritz Leiber
Novel · 1958
The Big Time is a short science fiction novel by American writer Fritz Leiber. Awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel or Novelette in 1958, The Big Time was published originally in two parts in Galaxy Magazine's March and April 1958 issues, illustrated by Virgil Finlay. It was subsequently reprinted in book form several times.
by Samuel R. Delany
Novel · 1967
The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967.
by Harry Josephine Giles
Novel · 2021
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.
by Robert A. Heinlein
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.
by Connie Willis
Novel · 1994
Remake is a 1995 science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996. The book displays a dystopic near future, when computer animation and sampling have reduced the movie industry to software manipulation.
by Roger Zelazny
Novel · 1965
This Immortal, serialized as ...And Call Me Conrad, is a science fiction novel by American author Roger Zelazny. For its original publication, it was abridged by the editor and published in two parts in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October and November 1965.
by Frank Riley & Mark Clifton
Novel · 1954
One of 3 novels by early Hugo winner Mark Clifton, exploring ideas re closed vs. open mind, individual vs. group thinking
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
by James Blish
Novel · 1958
The citizens of the planet Lithia are some of the most ethical sentient beings Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez has ever encountered.
by Samuel R. Delany
Novel · 1966
During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns one into an unwilling traitor as it alters perception and thought. This is discovered by the starship captain Rydra Wong.
by Jeff VanderMeer
Novel · 2014
An expedition enters a landscape that does not want to be understood.
by Clifford D. Simak
Novel · 1963
Way Station is a 1963 science fiction novel by American writer Clifford D. Simak, originally published as Here Gather the Stars in two parts in Galaxy Magazine in June and August 1963. Way Station won the 1964 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
by Robert Silverberg
Novel · 1971
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began as colonies, but now feel like home, each with its own long history of a thousand years or more, and each with its own unique…
by Frederik Pohl
Novel · 1976
Earth is in crisis. There simply isn't enough water and arable land to support the burgeoning population. As the threat of nuclear war looms, the United States looks to Mars for the precious resources that could save humanity.
by Philip José Farmer
Novel · 1971
Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world.
by Robert A. Heinlein
Novel · 1959
Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu.
by Anne Charnock
Novel · 2017
A 2017 science fiction novel by Anne Charnock. Clarke Award winner.
by Alfred Bester
Novel · 1951
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reichs heads a huge 24th century business empire, spanning the solar system. He is also an obsessed, driven man determined to murder a rival.
by Daniel Keyes
Novel · 1966
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight.
by Sierra Greer
Novel · 2024
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.
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.
by Jane Rogers
Novel · 2011
A 2011 science fiction novel by Jane Rogers. Clarke Award winner.
by Connie Willis
Novel · 1996
Pop culture, chaos theory and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and Nebula winning author of Doomsday Book. Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation.
by Philip K. Dick
Novel · 1962
The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.
by Kate Wilhelm
Novel · 1976
Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The…
by Michael Swanwick
Novel · 1991
The story of a nameless bureaucrat who is sent by the Office of Technology Transfer, charged with restricting the flow of dangerous technologies, to the planet Miranda to search for a fugitive in possession of forbidden technological knowledge.
by Alexei Panshin
Novel · 1968
After the destruction of Earth, humanity has established itself precariously among a hundred planets. Between them roam the vast Ships, doling out scientific knowledge in exchange for raw materials. On one of the Ships lives Mia Havero.
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 1974
A soldier returns from battle to a world that has moved on without him.
by Arthur C. Clarke
Novel · 1973
Something enormous has entered the solar system. The door is open.
by Martha Wells
Novel · 2023
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits.
by Arthur C. Clarke
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 Roger Zelazny
Novel · 1967
A colony of humankind is subjugated by the First Colonists, the crew of the starship that brought them to their new home 1000 years before. They have taken control of ancient technologies and enhanced themselves with godlike psychic powers and virtual immortality.
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Novel · 2000
Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth will discover a group of outcasts who still practice its lost religion-the Telling.
by M. John Harrison
Novel · 2006
Nova Swing is a science fiction novel by M. John Harrison published in 2006. It takes place in the same universe as Light. The novel won the Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick Awards in 2007.
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.
by Laura Jean McKay
Novel · 2020
The Animals in That Country is a 2020 science fiction novel by Australian writer Laura Jean McKay, published by Scribe. The novel won the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2020), Arthur C. Clarke Award (2021), Victorian Prize for Literature (2021), and Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction (2021).
by Gwyneth Jones
Novel · 2001
Bold As Love, first published in 2001, is a science fiction novel by British writer Gwyneth Jones. It is the first of a series of five books written by Gwyneth Jones and set in a near-future version of the United Kingdom. The full title of the novel is Bold as Love: a Near Future Fantasy.
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1970
The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun.
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 Ursula K. Le Guin
Novel · 1969
An icy world. A solitary envoy. A radical question about being human.
by Joe Haldeman
Novel · 2004
An unidentified artifact, found seven miles below the surface of the sea, stumps the scientists examining it but calls out to the two immortal creatures who have wandered the Earth for centuries, never crossing paths until now.
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