| 2015-09-22 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Binti |
Nnedi Okorafor |
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|
African speculative fiction (2), science fiction (1), Afrofuturism (1), Namibia (1), female main character (1), benevolent aliens (1), human-alien hybrids (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 2013-10-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Numbed! |
David Lubar |
|
|
juvenile sf (1), robots (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 2008-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Infinities |
Vandana Singh |
|
|
mathematics (2), india (2), conceptual breakthrough (1), teachers (1), religion (1), present tense (1), human conflict (1), religious conflict (1), mathematician (1), muslim (1)
|
| 2008-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Last Theorem |
Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl |
|
|
science fiction (1), Ceylon/Sri Lanka (1), mathematics (1), alien invasion (1), space elevator (1), solar sails (1), higher intelligence (1), cyborgs (1), electromagnetic pulse (1)
|
| 2007-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Glory |
Greg Egan |
|
|
mathematics (1), archeology (1), space opera (1), female main character (1)
|
| 2004-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Das Fraktal |
Reinhard Kleindl |
|
|
metaphysic (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 2004-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Chinese |
|
Cixin Liu |
|
|
science fiction (1), hard sf (1), physics (1), genius (1), education (1), mathematics (1), scientists (1), russia (1), lightning (1), weapons research (1), China (1), first person point of view (1), sailing (1), tornadoes (1), weather control (1), Schrödinger's cat (1)
|
| 2002-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Schild's Ladder |
Greg Egan |
|
|
science fiction (1), space opera (1), femtotechnology (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 2000-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Light of Other Days |
Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
wormholes (2), time viewer (2), science fiction (2), virtual reality (2), surveillance (2), Seattle (2), privacy (2), comet impact (2), global computer network search engine (1), hard sf (1), weather control (1), resurrection (1), religion (1), invention (1), tattoos (1), tigers (1), extinction (1), cloning (1), climate change (1), electromagnetic pulse (1), antigravity (1), artificial intelligence (1), mind control (1), shared mind (1), nuclear waste (1), storms (1), set in 2030s (1), set in 2040s (1), set in 2080s (1), set in 22nd century (1), nanotechnology (1), london (1), russia (1), antarctica (1), United Kingdom (1), Uzbekistan (1), Rome (1), africa (1), mathematics (1), genealogy (1), hominins (1), psychologists (1), war (1), torture (1), invisibility (1), physicists (1), evolution (1), archaeology (1), journalists (1), drought (1), American civil war (1), music (1), Crusades (1), Abraham Lincoln (1), Albert Einstein (1), jesus (1), Moses (1), Christopher Columbus (1), William Shakespeare (1), Pierre de Fermat (1), Ötzi (1), Ludwig van Beethoven (1), sea level rise (1), social change (1), viewing the past (1), viewing of past (1), view past/future (1), past/future viewer (1), past time viewer (1), FBI (1), brain implant (1), wormhole (1), journalist (1), amoral billionaire (1), billionaire (1), father and sons (1), father and son (1), half-sister (1), brothers (1), remote surveillance (1), near future (1), comet (1), comet collision (1), comet-caused disaster (1), time viewing (1), past viewer (1)
|
| 1997-00-00 |
NOVEL |
German |
Der Zahlenteufel |
Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
|
|
fantasy (1), mathematics (1), numbers (1), math (1), dreams (1), juvenile fantasy (1)
|
| 1995-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Feigenbaum Number |
Nancy Kress |
|
|
science fiction (1), Plato (1), mathematics (1), chaos theory (1), strange attractors (1)
|
| 1995-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fermat's Best Theorem |
Janet Kagan |
|
|
mathematics (1), Fermat's Theorem (1), secret society (1), female protagonist (1), private satisfaction (1)
|
| 1995-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Luminous |
Greg Egan |
|
|
mathematical (1), science fiction (1), mathematics (1), theory of mathematics (1), cyberpunk (1), inconsistency (1), supercomputing (1)
|
| 1994-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Voices in the Light |
Sean McMullen |
|
|
science fiction (1), future Australia (1), librarians (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 1992-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Anvil of Stars |
Greg Bear |
|
|
nanotechnology (1), space opera (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1), war with machines (1), neutronium (1), neutrinos (1), strategy (1), ansible (1), force fields (1), LGBTQ (1), smell (1), love (1), berserkers (1), Von Neumann machines (1), antimatter (1), supernova (1), artificial intelligence (1), robots (1), education (1), transmutation (1), deception (1), planetary engineering (1), mathematics (1), dreams (1), religion (1), genocide (1), alien artifacts (1), interstellar war (1), guilt (1), revenge (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), ethics (1)
|
| 1990-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Braver Thing |
Charles Sheffield |
|
|
science fiction (2), suicide (1), mental illness (1), gifted child (1), mathematics (1), physics (1), Grand Unified Theory (1)
|
| 1990-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
In the Country of the Blind |
Michael F. Flynn |
|
|
conspiracy (2), near future (2), psychohistory (2), mechanical computers (2), female main character (2), Earth (1), mathematics (1), hidden society (1), strong female characters (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
NONFICTION |
German |
Die Welt der Mathematik: Computergrafik zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst |
Herbert W. Franke and Horst Helbig |
|
|
mathematics (1), computer (1)
|
| 1987-06-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder |
Rudy Rucker |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
| 1986-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Tangents |
Greg Bear |
|
|
science fiction (1), mathematics (1), hard sf (1), children (1), music (1), 4th dimension (1), tesseracts (1), homophobia (1), Ultra (1), Enigma (1)
|
| 1986-00-00 |
CHAPBOOK |
English |
The Blind Geometer |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
|
|
mathematics (1), near future (1), blindness (1), Washington, DC (1), espionage (1)
|
| 1986-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Blind Geometer |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
|
|
near future (1), espionage (1), Washington, DC (1), mathematics (1), blindness (1), science fiction (1), plot twist (1)
|
| 1983-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Message Found in a Copy of Flatland |
Rudy Rucker |
|
|
science fiction (1), mathematics (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1982-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Creatures of the Dark |
Rita Golden Gelman and Nancy Lamb |
|
|
mythical creatures (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 1981-09-28 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Limits |
Larry Niven |
|
|
immortality (1), language translator (1), aliens on Earth (1), interstellar commerce (1), spaceport (1), eavesdropping (1), sound damping (1), first person point of view (1), bartender (1), mathematics (1), tavern (1)
|
| 1977-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Rite of Spring |
Fritz Leiber |
|
|
science fiction (1), mathematics (1), numerology (1)
|
| 1974-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
science fiction (2), ambiguous utopia (1), 3-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), hard sf (1), love (1), celibacy (1), LGBTQ+ (1), alternating chapter structure (1), music (1), art (1), leather (1), food (1), into-radio (1), drought (1), anarchism (1), Utopia (1), mathematics (1), ansible (1), artificial language (1), physicists (1), university (1), double planet (1), interplanetary travel (1), interstellar travel (1), Tau Ceti (1), philosophy (1), Albert Einstein (1), childbirth (1), trains (1), architecture (1), education (1), artificial languages (1), famine (1), Time (1), revolution (1), desert (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1971-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Four-Color Problem |
Barrington J. Bayley |
|
|
science fiction (1), satire (1), WS Burroughs pastiche (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Why Call Them Back from Heaven? |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
religion (2), eternal life (1), time travel (1), Wisconsin (1), eternal youth (1), rejuvenation (1), peace (1), poverty (1), ostracism (1), overpopulation (1), set in 2100s (1), New York City (1), longevity (1), mathematics (1), alien artefacts (1), interstellar travel (1), euthanasia (1), cryogenics (1), court trial (1), death (1), drugs (1), depopulation (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
Fantasia Mathematica |
Clifton Fadiman |
|
|
mathematics (1), fantasy (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Jurgen Proves It by Mathematics |
James Branch Cabell |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Peter Learns Arithmetic |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
mathematics (1), education (1)
|
| 1958-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Feeling of Power |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
military sf (1), computers (1), mathematics (1), science fiction (1), interstellar war (1), army (1), artificial intelligence (1)
|
| 1958-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Wayward Cravat |
Gertrude Friedberg |
|
|
coming of age (1), mathematics (1), child prodigy (1)
|
| 1957-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Dutch |
Bolland: Een Roman van Gekromde Ruimten en Uitdijend Heelal |
Dr. Dionijs Burger |
|
|
expanding universe (1), mathematics (1), science fiction (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1954-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Devil and Simon Flagg |
Arthur Porges |
|
|
humorous (1), devil (1), fantasy (1), mathematics (1), music (1)
|
| 1953-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Magician |
Bruce Elliott |
|
|
mathematics (1), topology (1), Klein bottle (1), prestidigitation (1)
|
| 1952-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Island of the Five Colors |
Martin Gardner |
|
|
maps (1), mathematics (1), fourth dimension (1), anthropology (1), Klein bottle (1)
|
| 1951-08-30 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Foundation |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
empire (1), psychohistory (1), space opera (1), galactic empire (1), Fix up (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), religion (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), antigravity (1), interstellar travel (1), mathematics (1), encyclopedia (1), computers (1), courtroom drama (1), surveillance (1), world city (1), nuclear power (1), nuclear weapons (1), scientists (1), transmutation (1), symbolic logic (1), gold (1), archaeology (1), time capsule (1), force fields (1), hyperwave (1), diplomacy (1), ray guns (1), iron (1), interstellar trade (1)
|
| 1951-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Mathematical Voodoo |
H. Nearing, Jr. |
|
|
voodoo (1), mathematics (1), education (1)
|
| 1950-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Subway Named Mobius |
A. J. Deutsch |
|
|
science fiction (1), Moebius strip (1), topology (1), mathematics (1), subways (1), boston (1)
|
| 1948-06-30 |
NOVEL |
English |
Beyond This Horizon |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
science fiction (1), longevity (1), genetic engineering (1), enhanced intelligence (1), reincarnation (1), telepathy (1), genetic manipulation (1), revolution (1), mathematics (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1947-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
No-Sided Professor |
Martin Gardner |
|
|
science fiction (1), mathematics (1), topology (1), Moebius strip (1)
|
| 1945-12-22 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A. Botts and the Möebius Strip |
William H. Upson |
|
|
mathematics (1), Moebius strip (1)
|
| 1945-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ethical Equations |
Murray Leinster |
|
|
science fiction (1), interplanetary travel (1), first contact (1), mathematics (1), ethics (1), nitrogen (1), isotopes (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), aliens (1), suspended animation (1)
|
| 1943-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pythagoras and the Psychoanalyst |
Arthur Koestler |
|
|
mathematics (1), psychiatry (1)
|
| 1941-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
|
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
tesseract (2), science fiction (1), architecture (1), humor (1), california (1), Laurel Canyon (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), fourth dimension (1), topology (1), earthquake (1), escape (1), mathematics (1), Los Angeles (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1940-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mother and the Decimal Point |
Richard Llewellyn |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
| 1939-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Misfit |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
science fiction (1), coming of age (1), mathematics (1), asteroid belt (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1938-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Czech |
Smrt Archimédova |
|
|
|
mathematics (1), roman invasion (1), Archimedes (1), Siracusa (1), dilemma (1)
|
| 1936-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Brink of Infinity |
Stanley G. Weinbaum |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
| 1929-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Futility |
S. P. Meek |
|
|
mechanical predestination (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 1929-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Captured Cross-Section |
Miles J. Breuer, M.D. |
|
|
fourth dimension (1), geometrical rotation (1), fourth-dimensional being (1), mathematics (1), BLEILER: abduction by aliens (1)
|
| 1924-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Young Archimedes |
Aldous Huxley |
|
|
music (1), mathematics (1), child prodigy (1), italy (1)
|
| 1884-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
Edwin A. Abbott |
|
|
Librivox (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), Internet Archive (1), into-movie (1), mathematics (1), transdimensional (1), satire (1), fantasy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1874-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Tachypomp |
Edward Page Mitchell |
|
|
technology (1), romance (1), science fiction (1), love (1), creditors (1), hole through the center of the Earth (1), mathematics (1)
|
| date unknown |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Socrates and the Slave |
Plato |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
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