1964-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
To Conquer Chaos |
John Brunner |
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science fiction (1), Earth (1), far future (1), HumbleBundle (1)
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1963-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Think Blue, Count Two |
Cordwainer Smith |
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Merril09 (1), telepathy (1), science fiction (1), suspended animation (1), far future (1), psychology (1), interstellar travel (1), colonization (1), Miami (1), Earth (1)
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1962-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Epilogue |
Poul Anderson |
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Merril08 (1), science fiction (1), far future (1), Earth (1), machine intelligence (1), machine ecology (1)
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1962-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
From Gustible's Planet |
Cordwainer Smith |
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fire (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), aliens (1), food (1), China (1), Earth (1)
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1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Hothouse |
Brian W. Aldiss |
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Fix up (1), far future (1), dying earth (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), panspermia (1), parasites (1), mind control (1), moon (1), Earth (1), interplanetary travel (1), insects (1), evolution (1), locked rotation (1), science fiction (1), fungi (1), science fantasy (1)
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1962-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ballad of Lost C'mell |
Cordwainer Smith |
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Merril08 (1), reform (1), civil rights (1), enhanced intelligence (1), eagles (1), dystopia (1), far future (1), cats (1), human-animal hybrids (1), science fiction (1), Earth (1)
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1961-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard |
Cordwainer Smith |
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Merril07 (1), far future (1), prognostication (1), stylized (1), romance (1), Earth (1), Florida (1), Miami (1), world government (1), human-animal hybrids (1), dystopia (1), science fiction (1), telepathy (1), computers (1), architecture (1), uplift (1), robots (1), love (1), reform (1), economics (1), quest (1), birds (1), roads (1)
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1961-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Stranger in a Strange Land |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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new religion (1), religion (1), mars (1), foundling (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), cult fiction (1), group marriage (1), commune (1), time distortion (1), meditation (1), taxis (1), interplanetary travel (1), martyr (1), nudity (1), science fiction (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), sleep (1), astrology (1), out-of-body experience (1), televangelists (1), euthanasia (1), diplomacy (1), telekinesis (1), snakes (1), language (1), gambling (1), cats (1), smell (1), perfume (1), sculpture (1), alcohol (1), afterlife (1), United States (1), circus (1), Earth (1), neologisms (1), water (1), teleportation (1), telepathy (1), paranormal powers (1), sex (1), Martians (1), birth control (1), Maryland (1), Pennsylvania (1), tattoos (1), waterbed (1), Physicians (1), nurses (1), Lawyers (1), journalists (1), politicians (1), eidetic memory (1), heaven (1), alien perspective (1), cannibalism (1), first contact (1), kidnapping (1), murder (1), world government (1), angels (1), zoo (1), San Francisco (1), Las Vegas (1), exhibitionism (1), homophobia (1), discussion of pornography (1), near future (1), Florida (1), suicide (1), Clairvoyance (1), genocide (1), coming of age (1), water ritual (1)
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1960-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Old Hundredth |
Brian W. Aldiss |
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fantasy (1), enhanced animals (1), distant future (1), Earth (1), no humans (1), science fiction (1), music (1)
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1960-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Slavers of Space |
John Brunner |
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science fiction (1), Earth (1), hedonism (1), interstellar travel (1), androids (1), murder (1), slavery (1)
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1960-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lady Who Sailed the Soul |
Genevieve Linebarger and Cordwainer Smith |
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Merril06 (1), journalism (1), interstellar travel (1), colonization (1), science fiction (1), far future (1), solar sails (1), love (1), time distortion (1), rejuvenation (1), animated toys (1), Earth (1)
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1959-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Death in the House |
Clifford D. Simak |
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science fiction (2), farmer (1), alien (1), contemporary (1), Earth (1), crashed alien ship (1), plantlike alien (1), empathy (1), companionship (1)
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1959-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
No Life of Their Own |
Clifford D. Simak |
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alternate reality (1), virtual reality (1), telekinesis (1), luck (1), aliens (1), Earth (1), science fiction (1)
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1959-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
No, No, Not Rogov! |
Cordwainer Smith |
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science fiction (1), hard sf (1), invention (1), neurology (1), telepathy (1), far future (1), dancing (1), espionage (1), cold war (1), russia (1), Earth (1), extreme beauty (1), zealotry (1), soviet science (1), poetic prose (1)
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1959-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The 100th Millennium |
John Brunner |
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science fantasy (1), distant future (1), Earth (1), historians (1), quest (1)
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1959-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dreamsman |
Gordon R. Dickson |
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science fiction (1), Earth (1), twist ending (1), interplanetary travel (1), near future (1), psychic powers (1), concealment (1)
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1959-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Falling Torch |
Algis Budrys |
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aliens (1), Earth (1), rebellion (1), science fiction (1), exiles (1), guerilla war (1), exile (1), personal destiny (1)
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1959-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Sirens of Titan |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
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science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), aliens (1), time travel (1), Titan (1), Earth (1), free will (1), into-play (1)
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1958-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Starman's Quest |
Robert Silverberg |
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Librivox (1), faster than light travel (1), Earth (1), distant future (1), relativistic time dilation (1), interstellar travel (1), science fiction (1)
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1957-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mark Elf |
Cordwainer Smith |
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Merril03 (1), radioactivity (1), environmental remediation (1), postapocalyptic (1), talking animals (1), machine intelligence (1), science fiction (1), suspended animation (1), far future (1), telepathy (1), Maryland (1), Germany (1), Earth (1)
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1957-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Coffin Cure |
Alan E. Nourse |
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Librivox (1), X Minus 1 (1), side effects (1), unintended consequences (1), antibodies (1), Earth (1), only humans (1), contemporary (1), vaccine (1), common cold (1), smell (1), disease (1), science fiction (1)
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1957-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Shrines of Earth |
Robert Silverberg |
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science fiction (1), Earth (1), alien invasion (1)
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1956-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Details |
Poul Anderson |
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science fiction (1), aliens (1), Earth (1)
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1956-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
PRoblem |
Alan E. Nourse |
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Librivox (1), science fiction (1), Earth (1), Reptilian aliens (1), nova (1), parallel universe (1)
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1956-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Question |
Isaac Asimov |
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artificial intelligence (1), computers (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), heat death of the universe (1), reboot (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), last human (1), loss (1), interstellar travel (1), overpopulation (1), immortality (1), End of the Universe (1), Entropy (1), hyperspace (1), set in 2060s (1), distant future (1), Solar power (1), Earth (1), longevity (1), interplanetary travel (1), intergalactic travel (1), philosophy (1), colonization (1), big data (1)
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1956-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The World Jones Made |
Philip K. Dick |
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science fiction (1), dystopia (1), post-apocalyptic (1), relativism (1), mutants (1), genetic engineering (1), Earth (1), venus (1), precognition (1), predestination (1), philosophy (1), determinism (1), first contact (1), aliens (1), xenophobia (1), assassination (1)
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1956-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Time for the Stars |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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telepathy (2), young-adult sf (1), exploration (1), sub-light speed (1), psionics (1), juvenile sf (1), interstellar travel (1), mutiny (1), twins (1), aliens (1), Earth (1)
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1954-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Star Beast |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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aliens (2), Young Adult (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), young-adult sf (1), juvenile sf (1), pets (1), diplomacy (1), Earth (1)
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1953-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Childhood's End |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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first contact (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), into-tv (1), cosy catastrophe (1), museum (1), virtual reality (1), Utopia (1), tsunami (1), winged flight (1), creativity (1), antigravity (1), music (1), art (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (1), into-radio (1), alien invasion (1), Earth (1), higher intelligence (1), telepathy (1), end of the world (1), last man on Earth (1), incorporeal beings (1), peace (1), deepsea environment (1), submarine (1), squid (1), whales (1), time viewer (1), hibernation (1), Australia (1), telekinesis (1)
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1953-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Encounter in the Dawn |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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science fiction (1), aliens (1), exploration (1), Earth (1), first contact (1)
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1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Iceworld |
Hal Clement |
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first contact (1), science fiction (1), Earth (1), tobacco (1), narcotics (1), alien perspective (1)
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1953-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Impostor |
Philip K. Dick |
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near future (1), memory replaced (1), doppelgänger (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1), alien invasion (1), Earth (1), moon (1), androids (1), aliens (1)
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1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Kraken Wakes |
John Wyndham |
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science fiction (2), cosy catastrophe (2), cold war (2), ultrasound (1), climate change (1), alien invasion (1), Earth (1), deep sea (1), nuclear war (1), into-radio (1), cold war politics (1), Cayman Islands (1), ireland (1), Spain (1), journalists (1), journalist (1), societal collapse (1), sea level rise (1), first person point of view (1), first person (1), england (1), london (1), Cornwall (1), UK (1), atomic bomb (1), atomic weapons (1), Atlantic Ocean (1), oceanography (1), Caribbean (1), ship sinking (1), iceberg (1), married couple (1)
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1952-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Blood Bank |
Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
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Earth (1), cannibalism (1), genocide (1), evolution (1), interstellar travel (1), science fiction (1)
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1952-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Firewater |
William Tenn |
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science fiction (1), first contact (1), enhanced intelligence (1), Earth (1), aliens (1), paranormal powers (1)
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1952-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Love Thy Vimp |
Alan E. Nourse |
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science fiction (1), alien invasion (1), Earth (1), hate (1)
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1951-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Pail of Air |
Fritz Leiber |
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post apocalypse (1), survival (1), X Minus 1 (1), Earth (1), rogue star (1), science fiction (1), cold (1)
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1951-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pictures Don't Lie |
Katherine MacLean |
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X Minus 1 (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1), Earth (1)
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1951-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stars, Like Dust |
Isaac Asimov |
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science fiction (3), romance (2), space opera (2), galactic empire (1), only humans (1), cloak and dagger (1), interstellar travel (1), rebellion (1), feudal society (1), hyperspace travel (1), Horsehead Nebula (1), Earth (1), ansible (1), hyperspace (1), cloak & dagger (1), politics (1), far future (1), galactic empires (1), pulp SF (1)
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1951-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Tiger by the Tail |
Alan E. Nourse |
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science fiction (1), Earth (1), aluminum (1), scientists (1), parallel universe (1)
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1950-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Farmer in the Sky |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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young-adult sf (1), juvenile sf (1), Ganymede (1), terraforming (1), Earth (1), overpopulation (1), quakes (1), alien artifacts (1), 1950 (1), science fiction (1)
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1950-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Needle |
Hal Clement |
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first contact (2), science fiction (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), aliens (1), symbionts (1), Earth (1), Pacific Ocean (1), alien perspective (1), 1950 (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1950-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Scanners Live in Vain |
Cordwainer Smith |
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science fiction (1), invention (1), guilds (1), far future (1), interstellar travel (1), suspended animation (1), reform (1), Earth (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1949-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
History Lesson |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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alien perspective (1), cold (1), science fiction (1), Earth (1), venus (1), glaciation (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1949-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Only Thing We Learn |
C. M. Kornbluth |
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science fiction (1), distant future (1), interstellar empire (1), interstellar war (1), Earth (1)
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1948-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rat Race |
Dorothy de Courcy and John de Courcy |
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alien invasion (1), science fiction (1), Earth (1)
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1948-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Monster |
A. E. van Vogt |
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genocide (1), nuclear bombs (1), interstellar travel (1), first contact (1), paranormal powers (1), ray guns (1), Earth (1), longevity (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), science fiction (1), museum (1), universal translator (1), resurrection (1), end of the world (1), enhanced intelligence (1), teleportation (1), alien invasion (1), last man on Earth (1), telepathy (1), esp (1), psi powers (1)
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1947-07-26 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
"It's Great to Be Back!" |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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science fiction (1), hard sf (1), moon (1), Earth (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1946-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rescue Party |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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science fiction (2), Earth (2), nova (2), aliens (1), subways (1), supernova (1), alien point of view (1), space fleet (1), aliens on Earth (1), devastated Earth (1), Solar apocalypse (1), friendly aliens (1), group mind (1), gestalt entity (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1944-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Huddling Place |
Clifford D. Simak |
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surgery (1), philosophy (1), Martians (1), science fiction (1), mars (1), Earth (1), agoraphobia (1), interplanetary travel (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1943-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Death Sentence |
Isaac Asimov |
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Arcturus (1), science fiction (1), psychohistory (1), robots (1), interstellar empire (1), aliens (1), archaeology (1), androids (1), albinos (1), Earth (1)
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1942-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
When the Earth Shook |
Walter Kubilius |
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science fiction (1), Earth (1), higher intelligence (1), end of the world (1), earthquake (1)
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1941-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Earth for Inspiration |
Clifford D. Simak |
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robots (1), Earth (1), interstellar travel (1), science fiction (1), far future (1)
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1941-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Heredity |
Isaac Asimov |
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science fiction (1), twins (1), Earth (1), Ganymede (1), mars (1)
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1940-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Farewell to the Master |
Harry Bates |
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science fiction (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), voice recording (1), Washington, DC (1), Earth (1), first contact (1), robots (1), aliens (1), into-movie (1), into-comics (1), assassination (1), alien visitation (1)
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1940-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dwindling Sphere |
Willard E. Hawkins |
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far future (1), science fiction (1), invention (1), Earth (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1929-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Eternal Man |
D. D. Sharp |
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suspended animation (1), immortality (1), Earth (1), far future (1), corruption (1), museum (1), rats (1), chemist (1)
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1928-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
War No. 81-Q |
Cordwainer Smith |
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science fiction (1), space battle (1), Earth (1), airships (1)
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1909-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Machine Stops |
E. M. Forster |
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dystopia (2), artificial intelligence (1), British dystopia (1), into-play (1), into-tv (1), internet (1), Earth (1), underground city (1), science fiction (1), travel (1), into-music (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
1898-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The War of the Worlds |
H. G. Wells |
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into-movie (3), war with aliens (2), alien invasion (2), into-radio drama (1), aliens (1), Librivox (1), mars (1), science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), into-tv (1), first person point of view (1), london (1), england (1), Martians (1), evolution (1), bacteria (1), chemical weapons (1), disease (1), genocide (1), interplanetary travel (1), Earth (1), alien artifacts (1), into-music (1), into-radio (1), into-video game (1), into-game (1), into-play (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
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