| 2019-09-10 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Seared Lands |
Deborah A. Wolf |
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fantasy (1), spiders (1), epic fantasy (1), China-inspired fantasy (1), Byzantium-inspired fantasy (1), North Africa-inspired fantasy (1), Middle-East inspired fantasy (1), desert (1)
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| 2017-04-04 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dragon's Legacy |
Deborah A. Wolf |
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fantasy (1), epic fantasy (1), China-inspired fantasy (1), Middle East-inspired fantasy (1), Byzantium-inspired fantasy (1), North Africa-inspired fantasy (1), desert (1)
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| 2015-09-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai |
Bradley P. Beaulieu |
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immortality (2), fantasy (1), city life (1), conspiracy (1), desert (1)
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| 2014-01-04 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Sand |
Hugh Howey |
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science fiction (1), climate change (1), desert (1)
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| 2011-02-15 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Desert of Souls |
Howard Andrew Jones |
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historical fantasy (1), desert (1), secrets (1), wizards (1), scholars (1)
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| 2007-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Yellow Dog |
Charles de Lint |
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Coyote (1), desert (1), Folk Tales (1), folklore (1), Illegal Immigrants (1), shapeshifters (1), Trickster Myths (1), urban fantasy (1), shapechangers (1)
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| 2002-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Joshua Tree |
Emma Bull |
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desert (1)
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| 2000-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Salt |
Adam Roberts |
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anarchism (1), terrorism (1), asymmetric warfare (1), science fiction (1), colonization of other worlds (1), colony planet (1), extrasolar colonies (1), human colonization of extrasolar planets (1), interplanetary colonization (1), interstellar colonization (1), planetary colonization (1), cryosleep (1), guerrilla war (1), desert (1)
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| 1996-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Skin Deep: The Fat Dancer's Tale |
A. C. Crispin |
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star wars (1), Yarla (1), dancing girl (1), desert (1), krayt dragon (1), sacrifice (1), romance (1), female protagonist (1), strong female character (1), Doallyn (1)
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| 1992-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Small Gods |
Terry Pratchett |
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humorous fantasy (1), pantheon (1), eagles (1), morality (1), Warfare (1), eidetic memory (1), desert (1), invention (1), philosophy (1), war machines (1), tortoise (1), discworld (1), Theology (1), satire (1), theocracy (1), gods (1), monks (1), turtle (1), zealotry (1), psychopath (1)
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| 1991-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Verdant Passage |
Troy Denning |
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desert (2), strong female characters (1), psionics (1), slavery (1), dwarves (1), gladiators (1), magic (1), fantasy (1), dragons (1), survival (1), telepathy (1), telekinesis (1), teleportation (1), wizards (1)
|
| 1987-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Great Sky River |
Gregory Benford |
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nanotechnology (1), science fiction (1), dogs (1), loss (1), black holes (1), interstellar travel (1), implants (1), machine intelligence (1), uploaded personalities (1), slower than light travel (1), robots (1), desert (1), climate change (1), cyborgs (1), distant future (1), autodoc (1), sculpture (1), survival (1), higher intelligence (1), immortality (1), energy being (1), alien perspective (1), hovercraft (1), ecocide (1), murder (1), mind control (1), virtual reality (1), dispersed intelligence (1), sex (1)
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| 1986-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Sword-Dancer |
Jennifer Roberson |
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fantasy (2), strong female characters (2), sword and sorcery (1), desert (1), swords (1)
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| 1984-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Heretics of Dune |
Frank Herbert |
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science fiction (1), space opera (1), interstellar travel (1), sex (1), love (1), politics (1), Clones (1), drugs (1), punishment (1), eugenics (1), education (1), Secrecy (1), art (1), precognition (1), genetic engineering (1), indeterminacy (1), strong female characters (1), vengeance (1), memory (1), religion (1), psychic probe (1), longevity (1), lasers (1), assassination (1), surveillance (1), diplomacy (1), pheromones (1), sadomasochism (1), prostitution (1), torture (1), weather control (1), desert (1), smell (1), loyalty (1), honor (1), computers (1), distant future (1), arcology (1), antigravity (1), diaspora (1)
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| 1984-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Spiral Winds |
Garry Kilworth |
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desert (1), time loop (1), science fiction (1)
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| 1982-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Water Witch |
Cynthia Felice and Connie Willis |
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science fiction (1), desert (1)
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| 1981-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
God Emperor of Dune |
Frank Herbert |
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science fiction (1), space opera (1), climbing (1), smell (1), theocracy (1), urban planning (1), architecture (1), climate engineering (1), ornithopters (1), desert (1), murder (1), longevity (1), metamorphosis (1), eugenics (1), shapeshifters (1), memory (1), rebellion (1), distant future (1), library (1), lasers (1), peace (1), Clones (1), amazons (1), religion (1), enhanced intelligence (1), interstellar empire (1), drugs (1)
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| 1981-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Imaro |
Charles R. Saunders |
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sword and soul (1), wizards (1), supernatural (1), exiles (1), desert (1), Afrofantasy (1), Fix up (1), sword and sorcery (1)
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| 1979-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Juniper Time |
Kate Wilhelm |
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science fiction (2), Oregon (2), space station (2), native americans (2), linguistics (2), desert (2), drought (2), climate change (2), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), strong female characters (1), alien artifacts (1), Washington, DC (1), boston (1), holism (1), decryption (1), academia (1), cold war (1), cold war politics (1), translation (1), space program (1), near future (1), astronauts (1), translating machine (1)
|
| 1979-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Face |
Jack Vance |
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food (1), crime (1), science fiction (1), desert (1), mining (1), sex (1), sport (1), poison (1), interstellar travel (1)
|
| 1978-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Veils of Azlaroc |
Fred Saberhagen |
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Poetry (1), science fiction (1), pulsars (1), black holes (1), interstellar travel (1), tourism (1), cemetery (1), isolation (1), desert (1), regret (1), loss (1), artificial womb (1), time distortion (1), recycling (1), plate tectonics (1), holography (1), underground city (1), Sentient plants (1), robots (1), computers (1), longevity (1), force fields (1), xenobiology (1), fashion (1)
|
| 1977-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
Steven Spielberg and Leslie Waller |
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novelization (1), technology tycoon (1), infectious dementia (1), White Sands (1), Nevada heritage (1), contemporary (1), desert (1), horses (1), genetic modification (1), biological warfare (1), influenza (1)
|
| 1976-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Children of Dune |
Frank Herbert |
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science fiction (1), space opera (1), into-tv (1), terraforming (1), religion (1), precognition (1), interstellar empire (1), desert (1), memory (1), sign language (1), tigers (1), climate engineering (1), enhanced intelligence (1), possession (1), dreams (1), found art (1), longevity (1), ornithopters (1)
|
| 1974-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
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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)
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| 1969-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dune Messiah |
Frank Herbert |
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science fiction (1), space opera (1), into-tv (1), blindness (1), Poetry (1), architecture (1), memory (1), poison (1), tarot (1), space fantasy (1), precognition (1), resurrection (1), court intrigue (1), political intrigue (1), religion (1), Clones (1), murder (1), desert (1), antigravity (1), distant future (1), eugenics (1), genocide (1), lasers (1), force fields (1), interstellar empire (1), interstellar travel (1), genetic engineering (1), atomic weapons (1), mind control (1), drugs (1)
|
| 1969-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Phoenix |
Harlan Ellison |
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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)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Killer Thing |
Kate Wilhelm |
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rampaging robots (1), Allegorical of the Vietnam War (1), wood (1), thirst (1), hallucination (1), sensory deprivation (1), interstellar war (1), Tau Ceti (1), venus (1), desert (1), invention (1), mining (1), robots (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), berkserker machine (1), platinum (1), alien perspective (1), invisibility (1), force fields (1)
|
| 1965-12-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dune |
Frank Herbert |
|
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space opera (3), galactic empire (3), precognition (3), religion (2), ecology (2), into-movie (2), into-tv (2), science fiction (2), secret breeding program (1), superman (1), revolution (1), mega-fauna (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), 2-award-winner (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), cult fiction (1), ornithopters (1), force fields (1), drugs (1), space fantasy (1), desert (1), interstellar empire (1), space empire (1), specialized human breeding (1), prophecy (1), interstellar travel (1), eugenics (1), alien ecology (1), assassination (1), feud (1), strong female characters (1), into-board game (1)
|
| 1965-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
On the Sand Planet |
Cordwainer Smith |
|
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science fiction (1), desert (1), quest (1)
|
| 1941-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Door |
Oliver Saari |
|
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European explorer (1), interdimensional portal (1), Berber legend (1), Arab sheik (1), desert (1), twist ending (1), irony (1)
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