2023-08-08 |
NOVEL |
English |
Forged by Blood |
Ehigbor Okosun |
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fantasy (1), Afrofantasy (1), death (1), despotism (1), genocide (1), revenge (1)
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2022-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Country of Eternal Light |
Jennifer R. Donohue |
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death (1)
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2022-07-01 |
POEM |
English |
Grave Chill |
K. S. Hardy |
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horror (1), death (1), dark fantasy (1)
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2022-01-01 |
POEM |
English |
Rhe Deathbird |
K. S. Hardy |
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horror (1), death (1), dark fantasy (1)
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2021-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
An Hour to Ames |
Dan Reade |
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androids (1), family (1), death (1)
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2021-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Analogue |
Rob Osler |
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horror (1), madness (1), death (1), computers (1)
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2021-12-07 |
NOVEL |
English |
Of Fire and Ash |
Gillian Bronte Adams |
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young-adult fantasy (1), death (1), horses (1), princess (1), twins (1), war (1)
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2021-01-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Smart Death |
Arne Kilian |
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artificial intelligence (1), precognition (1), death (1)
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2021-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Shattered Hourglass |
K. S. Hardy |
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fantasy (1), death (1)
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2020-07-12 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Recognition |
Victor LaValle |
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ghost (1), apartment building (1), first person point of view (1), Covid-19 (1), contemporary (1), New York City (1), death (1)
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2020-11-18 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Faulty Scythe |
Bryce Ingman |
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death (1), grim reaper (1)
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2018-07-17 |
NOVEL |
English |
Graveyard Mind |
Chadwick Ginther |
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vampires (1), urban fantasy (1), necromancers (1), death (1), undead (1), redemption (1)
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2018-11-11 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Muzik di Zumbi |
Akwaeke Emezi |
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music (1), freedom (1), price (1), memory (1), fantasy (1), child protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), death (1), Curacao (1), second person point of view (1), contemporary (1), dead protagonist (1)
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2018-11-11 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Three Women, the Bear and the Fox |
Peter Rock |
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traveler (1), death (1), memory (1), senile dementia (1), bear (1), fox (1), telephone (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), Montana (1)
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2017-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Joy of Baking |
Holly Lyn Walrath |
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afterlife (1), female main character (1), death (1), speculative fiction (1), baking (1), fantasy (1)
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2015-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Descent |
Carmen Maria Machado |
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death (1)
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2015-11-03 |
NOVEL |
English |
My Diary from the Edge of the World |
Jodi Lynn Anderson |
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juvenile fantasy (1), family life (1), Automobile travel (1), mythical animals (1), supernatural (1), death (1), diaries (1)
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2015-04-24 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Special Collections |
Norman Partridge |
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Libraries (1), death (1)
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2015-01-06 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Many Lives of Hadley Monroe |
Bec McMaster |
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paranormal romance (1), death (1)
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2014-01-28 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy |
Karen Foxlee |
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juvenile fantasy (1), death (1), grief (1), museum (1), captives (1)
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2014-09-09 |
NOVEL |
English |
Station Eleven |
Emily St. John Mandel |
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near future (1), post apocalypse (1), cosy catastrophe (1), tattoos (1), Shakespeare (1), music (1), Michigan (1), Beethoven (1), pandemic (1), Toronto (1), Los Angeles (1), British Columbia (1), Malaysia (1), Virginia (1), education (1), surgery (1), set in 21st century (1), museum (1), nonsequential text (1), actors (1), theater (1), disability (1), death (1), suicide (1), religion (1), graphic novels (1), correspondence (1), journalists (1), scavenging (1), loss (1)
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2013-04-05 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
After Death ... |
Eric J. Guignard |
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horror (1), science fiction (1), alternate history (1), afterlife (1), death (1)
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2013-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Monster Makers |
Steve Rasnic Tem |
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horror (2), death (1), parents (1), grandfather (1), children (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1)
|
2013-10-29 |
NOVEL |
English |
Two Serpents Rise |
Max Gladstone |
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fantasy (2), Alternate World (1), Aztec Mythology (1), death (1), demons (1), gods (1), magic (1), mystery (1), occult (1), Priests (1), religion (1), resurrection (1), speculative fiction (1), supernatural (1), technology (1), thriller (1)
|
2011-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ifs of Time |
James Stoddard |
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death (1), Time (1), story telling (1)
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2011-10-04 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Son of Neptune |
Rick Riordan |
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juvenile fantasy (1), demigods (1), quest (1), Thanatos (1), Juno (1), Hera (1), military camps (1), prophecies (1), monsters (1), greek mythology (1), roman mythology (1), death (1), Gaea (1), giants (1), Gorgons (1), mars (1), amnesia (1)
|
2010-03-00 |
POEM |
English |
Tommy |
Stephen King |
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1969 (1), hippies (1), death (1), homosexuality (1), funeral (1)
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2009-11-09 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Premium Harmony |
Stephen King |
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Convenience store (1), Jack Russell terrier (1), contemporary (1), marital strife (1), death (1), marriage (1), Maine (1)
|
2009-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sleight of Hand |
Peter S. Beagle |
|
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magician (1), Trauma (1), death (1)
|
2009-11-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Bone Church |
Stephen King |
|
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Elephant graveyard (1), Safari (1), death (1), Sole survivor (1), Mystical vision (1)
|
2009-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Endangered Camp |
Ann Leckie |
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alternate reality (1), death (1), dinosaurs (1), family (1), science fiction (1), space (1)
|
2009-09-01 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Your Last Breath, Inc. |
John Miller |
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death (1)
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2008-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
A Race of Giants |
K. S. Hardy |
|
|
death (1), fantasy (1), humor (1)
|
2008-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Judgement Bell |
K. S. Hardy |
|
|
fantasy (1), death (1)
|
2004-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Hebrew |
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afterlife (2), fantasy (1), death (1), grief (1), interpersonal relations (1), marriage (1), quest (1)
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2002-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
White Apples |
Jonathan Carroll |
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fantasy (1), fate (1), jealousy (1), death (1), fatherhood (1)
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2001-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Passage |
Connie Willis |
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science fiction (1), near-death experience (1), out of body experience (1), Denver (1), Alzheimer’s disease (1), disasters (1), death (1), titanic (1), hospital (1), afterlife (1), strong female character (1)
|
2001-12-24 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Death of Jack Hamilton |
Stephen King |
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visceral horror (1), first person (1), john dillinger (1), depression era (1), cops and robbers (1), bullet wound (1), death (1), gangrene (1)
|
2001-06-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Origin of Ghosts |
K. S. Hardy |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghosts (1), death (1)
|
1999-02-01 |
POEM |
English |
A Sleep with No Answers |
Faruk Ulay |
|
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death (1)
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1999-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
Bile |
Scott C. Holstad |
|
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horror poetry (1), death (1), Fear (1)
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1999-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cryptonomicon |
Neal Stephenson |
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nanotechnology (1), cryptology (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), Manila (1), death (1), jungle warfare (1), Unix (1), hackers (1), computer security (1), entrepreneurs (1), tech startups (1), POWs (1), undersea cables (1), internet (1), submarines (1), Douglas MacArthur (1), Ronald Reagan (1), mining (1), strong female character (1), romance (1), gold (1), Philippines (1), world war ii (1), families (1), cryptography (1), Turing (1)
|
1999-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Everywhere |
Geoff Ryman |
|
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science fiction (2), near future (2), england (1), northern England (1), northeast England (1), grandfather (1), death (1), dolphin (1), dolphins (1), first person (1), first person point of view (1)
|
1999-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
Returnto Love |
Scott C. Holstad |
|
|
surrealism (1), nightmare (1), death (1), horror poetry (1)
|
1999-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
Still, Again |
Scott C. Holstad |
|
|
horror poetry (1), dreams (1), monsters (1), ultraviolence (1), death (1)
|
1998-07-13 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Marzipan |
Aimee Bender |
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magical realism (1), surrealism (1), death (1), grief (1), Death of a Parent (1)
|
1998-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Perchance to Dream |
Marti McKenna |
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only humans (1), only Earth (1), suspended animation (1), female protagonist (1), near future (1), illness (1), love (1), death (1), motherhood (1), birthday (1)
|
1998-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Toxin (Condensed) |
Robin Cook and Editors of Reader's Digest |
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United States (1), contemporary (1), Slaughterhouse (1), Regulatory violation (1), death (1), FDA (1), Food poisoning (1), Investigation (1), Surgeon (1), hospital (1), daughter (1), murder (1)
|
1997-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Murmurous Haunt of Flies |
Bentley Little |
|
|
horror (1), death (1)
|
1995-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Real World |
Brooks Caruthers |
|
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loss (1), friends (1), death (1), undead (1), dead people (1), partying (1), friendship (1), parties (1), living dead (1), Little Rock (1), Arkansas (1)
|
1995-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Think Like a Dinosaur |
James Patrick Kelly |
|
|
science fiction (2), fantasy (1), hard sf (1), death (1), reptiles (1), Reptilian aliens (1), sentient reptiles (1), teleport duplication (1), teleportation (1), teleportation device (1), teleporter (1), first person point of view (1), first person (1), first person narrative (1), alien technology (1), teletransporter (1), teletransportation (1)
|
1994-01-00 |
NOVEL |
French |
Les thanatonautes |
Bernard Werber |
|
|
fantasy (1), death (1)
|
1993-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Death, She Said |
Edward Lee |
|
|
suicide (1), nihilism (1), horror (1), death (1)
|
1993-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Parable of the Sower |
Octavia E. Butler |
|
|
science fiction (2), community (1), spirituality (1), change (1), god (1), philosophy (1), slavery (1), loss (1), death (1), first person point of view (1), strong female character (1), female protagonist (1), societal collapse (1), Southern California (1), 2020s (1), empath (1), migrants (1), black protagonist (1), climate change (1), Capitalism (1), california (1), Abuse (1), African American (1), apocalyptic (1), dystopian (1), Fundamentalism (1), post-apocalyptic (1), racism (1), women (1)
|
1992-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Murder Mysteries |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
angels (2), into-comics (1), creation (1), jealousy (1), detective (1), murder mystery (1), murder (1), mystery (1), heaven (1), Los Angeles (1), justice (1), death (1), love (1), god (1), memory (1)
|
1992-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Silver or Gold |
Emma Bull |
|
|
science fiction (1), not science fiction (1), fantasy (1), witches (1), death (1), curses (1), riddles (1)
|
1992-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Old Man and the Dead |
Mort Castle |
|
|
zombies (1), suicide (1), Ernest Hemingway (1), war (1), death (1)
|
1990-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Death of a Right Fielder |
Stuart Dybek |
|
|
baseball (1), death (1), America (1)
|
1990-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Entropy's Bed at Midnight |
Dan Simmons |
|
|
death (1), accidents (1), insurance (1), anxiety (1)
|
1989-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Carnal House |
Steve Rasnic Tem |
|
|
death (1)
|
1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Death Dances |
Tanith Lee |
|
|
fantasy (1), death (1), changing roles (1)
|
1988-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Thing Itself |
Michael Blumlein |
|
|
illness (1), death (1), love (1)
|
1987-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dream Baby |
Bruce McAllister |
|
|
heroin (1), drug addiction (1), death (1), Nursing (1), vietnam (1), esp (1), precognition (1), psychic powers (1), science fiction (1)
|
1985-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Potter, Come Fly to the First of the Earth |
Walter Wangerin, Jr. |
|
|
religious fantasy (1), death (1)
|
1985-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Robots and Empire |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
science fiction (2), robots (2), galactic empire (2), robotics (1), Laws of Robotics (1), series (1), positronic robots (1), space colonies (1), politics (1), psi powers (1), future histories (1), starship (1), hyperspace (1), uranium (1), mind control (1), androids (1), death (1), evolution (1), infrasound (1), telepathy (1), Pennsylvania (1), New York City (1), flying cars (1), friendship (1), genetic engineering (1), hyperwave (1), ansible (1), fusion reactors (1), empathy (1), racism (1), psychohistory (1), physics (1), oratory (1), Solar power (1), interstellar travel (1), beards (1), radioactivity (1), longevity (1)
|
1985-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Life of Death |
Clive Barker |
|
|
death (1), disease (1)
|
1985-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Vampire Lestat |
Anne Rice |
|
|
vampires (3), horror (1), story within a story (1), suicide (1), Venice (1), Rome (1), loneliness (1), alcohol (1), quest (1), theater (1), aristocrats (1), hunting (1), wolves (1), France (1), humanism (1), philosophy (1), telepathy (1), San Francisco (1), egypt (1), new orleans (1), Paris (1), first person point of view (1), unreliable narrator (1), longevity (1), homoeroticism (1), tuberculosis (1), depression (1), music (1), telekinesis (1), pyrokenesis (1), enhanced sensation (1), death (1), religion (1), Roman Empire (1), set in 1700s (1), set in 1800s (1), set in 1900s (1), smell (1), horses (1), Alexandria (1)
|
1984-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Angel's Exchange |
Jessica Amanda Salmonson |
|
|
horror (1), death (1), sleep (1)
|
1984-10-31 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Bad News |
Alvin Schwartz |
|
|
baseball (1), heaven (1), death (1), juvenile fantasy (1), horror (1)
|
1983-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
On a Pale Horse |
Piers Anthony |
|
|
parallel earth (1), fantasy (1), magic (1), contemporary (1), fate (1), love (1), Satan (1), death (1), Purgatory (1), social satire (1), magical gems (1)
|
1983-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Pet Sematary |
Stephen King |
|
|
horror (2), into-movie (2), Creepy Child (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), zombies (1), cats (1), ghosts (1), supernatural (1), death (1)
|
1982-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Confess the Seasons |
Charles L. Grant |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), death (1)
|
1982-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Threshold |
Sharon Webb |
|
|
death (1), communication (1), language (1), apes (1), science fiction (1), consciousness (1), gorilla (1), Mortality salience (1)
|
1981-08-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Final Quest |
William F. Nolan |
|
|
Merlin (1), King Arthur (1), death (1)
|
1980-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Sky Trapeze |
Claude Nunes |
|
|
levitation (1), death (1)
|
1978-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Quiet Revolution for Death |
Jack Dann |
|
|
science fiction (1), death (1), dying (1), cemeteries (1), experimental style (1)
|
1977-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Particle Theory |
Edward Bryant |
|
|
science fiction (1), supernova (1), nova (1), cancer (1), death (1), mortality (1)
|
1975-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Farthest Star |
Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson |
|
|
mega-engineering (1), diplomacy (1), mind cloning (1), dyson sphere (1), Clones (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), teleportation (1), alien artifacts (1), death (1), Nuclear pulse propulsion (1), edited organisms (1), conflict with aliens (1), love (1), extragalactic objects (1), tachyon communication (1), translators (1), flying (1), taming alien species (1), confederation of humans and alien species (1), exploration (1), modified chimp (1)
|
1974-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Day Before the Revolution |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
revolution (1), science fiction (1), anarchism (1), old age (1), death (1), grief (1), sexuality (1)
|
1974-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Engine at Heartspring's Center |
Roger Zelazny |
|
|
science fiction (2), death (1), cyborg (1), love (1), suicide (1), euthanasia (1)
|
1973-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Swedish |
|
Astrid Lindgren |
|
|
juvenile fantasy (1), war (1), love (1), death (1), good and evil (1), Platonic love (1), brothers (1), afterlife (1), courage (1)
|
1970-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Maze of Death |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
science fiction (2), death (1), murder (1), interstellar travel (1), alien artifacts (1), suicide (1), colonization (1), insanity (1), human experiment (1), tattoos (1), virtual reality (1)
|
1969-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Phoenix |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
only humans (1), only Earth (1), first person point of view (1), desert (1), twist ending (1), Atlantis (1), New York City (1), expedition (1), lost continent (1), death (1), physical mass of time (1)
|
1968-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Worm That Flies |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
far future (1), human evolution (1), immortality (1), life's work (1), family (1), death (1), science fiction (1), fantasy (1), Entropy (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)
|
1963-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pleiades |
Otis Kidwell Burger |
|
|
Merril09 (1), female protagonists (1), aging (1), death (1), carnival midway show (1), eternal youth (1), irony (1), immortality (1), circus (1)
|
1959-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Certificate |
Avram Davidson |
|
|
human slaves (1), aliens rule earth (1), near future (1), death (1)
|
1958-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Casey Agonistes |
Richard McKenna |
|
|
disease (1), fantasy (1), hallucination (1), perception of reality (1), death (1)
|
1954-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Appointment at Noon |
Eric Frank Russell |
|
|
fantasy (1), death (1)
|
1954-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Messiah |
Gore Vidal |
|
|
religion (1), mob psychology (1), egypt (1), United States (1), television (1), death (1), near future (1), first person point of view (1)
|
1950-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Satan's Best Girl |
Mark Van Doren |
|
|
death (1), violence (1), devil (1)
|
1949-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Kaleidoscope |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
Dimension X (1), Suspense (1), near future (1), space travel (1), only humans (1), death (1), camaraderie (1), regret (1), science fiction (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
1944-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There Was an Old Woman |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
ghosts (2), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), death (1), humour (1)
|
1935-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Muggridge's Aunt |
August Derleth |
|
|
london (1), nephew (1), poor cousin (1), callousness (1), death (1), inheritance (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), lobelias (1), decor (1), dream (1)
|
1934-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pale Man |
Julius Long |
|
|
first person point of view (1), hotel (1), death (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), supernatural (1)
|
1927-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Soul-Catcher |
Robert S. Carr |
|
|
hospital (1), souls (1), doctor (1), death (1), first person point of view (1), astral travel (1), contemporary (1), irony (1)
|
1922-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Portuguese |
A morte e o lenhador |
Monteiro Lobato |
|
|
juvenile fantasy (1), death (1)
|
1914-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Cobweb |
Saki |
|
|
predictions of tragedy (1), old woman (1), farm (1), death (1)
|
1906-03-25 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
La nuit et le silence |
Maurice Level |
|
|
blindness (1), deaf-mutism (1), terror (1), contemporary (1), death (1), brothers (1), sister (1), premature burial (1)
|
1889-07-14 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Boarded Window |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
|
horror (1), Librivox (1), cats (1), first person point of view (1), Ohio (1), pioneer (1), recluse (1), log cabin (1), death (1), gothic (1), panther (1), wife (1), story within a story (1), grief (1), burial preparations (1), twist ending (1)
|