| 1990-00-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The Cosmic Trilogy |
C. S. Lewis |
|
|
The 5-Parsec Shelf (1)
|
| 1979-09-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction |
Michael Franklin and Martin Last and Beth Meacham and Baird Searles |
|
|
The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), A-to-Z of writers (1), Book with list (1)
|
| 1977-08-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The Cornelius Chronicles |
Michael Moorcock |
|
|
The 5-Parsec Shelf (1)
|
| 1975-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dhalgren |
Samuel R. Delany |
|
|
The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), adventure (1), anarchism (1), survival (1), science fiction (1), United States (1), time distortion (1), fire (1), boredom (1), amnesia (1), unreliable narrator (1), dyslexia (1), gangs (1), sexuality (1)
|
| 1975-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Norstrilia |
Cordwainer Smith |
|
|
The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Australia (1), Physicians (1), human-animal hybrids (1), Earth (1), postage stamps (1), science fiction (1), telepathy (1), economics (1), music (1), Poetry (1), distant future (1), interstellar travel (1), underground city (1), hominins (1), robots (1), theft (1), radio (1), Miami (1), smell (1), food (1), religion (1), murder (1), invisibility (1), architecture (1), psychotherapy (1), longevity (1), mars (1)
|
| 1974-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Centauri Device |
M. John Harrison |
|
|
space opera (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), ideology (1), space warfare (1)
|
| 1972-11-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
334 |
Thomas M. Disch |
|
|
dystopia (1), overpopulation (1), skyscraper (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), everyday life (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1971-04-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Vermilion Sands |
J. G. Ballard |
|
|
The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), science fiction (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), near future (1)
|
| 1970-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
And Chaos Died |
Joanna Russ |
|
|
The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1970-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ringworld |
Larry Niven |
|
|
exploration (2), natural disaster (1), mega-engineering (1), asteroid (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), science fiction (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), hard sf (1), into-video game (1), into-game (1), superconductivity (1), longevity (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), luck (1), time stasis (1), breeding program (1), faster than light travel (1), teleportation (1)
|
| 1970-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Tau Zero |
Poul Anderson |
|
|
generation ship (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), dilatation (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), hope (1), team psychology (1), Big Crunch (1), oscillating cosmological model (1), general relativity (1), galactic superclusters (1), galactic clusters (1), no faster than light travel (1), only humans (1), Bussard ramjet (1), gender relations (1)
|
| 1969-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
science fiction (2), cold (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), 3-award-winner (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), alien point of view (1), first person (1), gender bending (1), first contact (1), interstellar travel (1), social criticism (1), politics (1), multiple points of view (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), ice planet (1), philosophy (1), sociology (1), alternating chapter structure (1), androgyny (1)
|
| 1968-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Stand on Zanzibar |
John Brunner |
|
|
overpopulation (2), near future (1), revolution (1), 3-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), fictional Asian countries (1), science fiction (1), genetic engineering (1), neologisms (1), terrorism (1), africa (1), Indonesia (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1)
|
| 1967-10-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
Dangerous Visions |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), original anthology (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lord of Light |
Roger Zelazny |
|
|
colony (1), hindu-mythos (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), fantasy (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), apotheosis (1), rebellion (1), murder (1), cloning (1), reincarnation (1), technology (1), religion (1)
|
| 1966-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
artificial intelligence (3), moon (1), revolution (1), ai bootstrap (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), science fiction (1), electromagnetic catapults (1), polyandry (1), libertarianism (1), polyamory (1)
|
| 1965-12-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dune |
Frank Herbert |
|
|
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)
|
| 1965-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dark World |
Henry Kuttner |
|
|
The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), science fantasy (1), heroic fantasy (1), fantasy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1964-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Earth's Last Citadel |
Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore |
|
|
The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), time travel (1), post apocalypse (1), strong female characters (1), 1944 retro hugo nominee candidate (1), world war ii (1), Tunisia (1)
|
| 1963-10-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The Foundation Trilogy |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), social engineering (1), cult fiction (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Hothouse |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
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)
|
| 1962-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Little Fuzzy |
H. Beam Piper |
|
|
first contact (1), Librivox (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1962-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Man in the High Castle |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
alternate history (6), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), nazis (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), into-tv (1), Hitler Wins (1), I Ching (1), story within a story (1), San Francisco (1), racism (1), slavery (1), Japan (1), jewelry (1), creativity (1), evil (1), America (1), resistance (1), Yin and Yang (1), international politics (1), set in 1960s (1)
|
| 1959-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
|
|
religion (3), post apocalypse (2), post-apocalyptic (2), The 5-Parsec Shelf (2), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (2), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Physicians (1), interstellar travel (1), set in 3700s (1), Texas (1), set in 3100s (1), cannibalism (1), set in 2500s (1), Utah (1), into-radio (1), euthanasia (1), United States (1), Renaissance (1), mutants (1), Wandering Jew (1), monastery (1), nuclear war (1), science fiction (1), mexico (1), holy relics (1), historical perspective (1), warlords (1), Theology (1), Catholicism (1), illuminated manuscripts (1), canonizatioin (1), world war (1)
|
| 1959-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dorsai! |
Gordon R. Dickson |
|
|
military sf (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1958-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Case of Conscience |
James Blish |
|
|
first contact (1), religion (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Big Time |
Fritz Leiber |
|
|
Librivox (1), time travel (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Hitler Wins (1), science fiction (1), locked room mystery (1)
|
| 1957-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Citizen of the Galaxy |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
science fiction (1), young-adult sf (1), orphan (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), juvenile sf (1), slavery (1), interstellar travel (1), Wyoming (1), coming of age (1)
|
| 1957-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Midwich Cuckoos |
John Wyndham |
|
|
alien invasion (2), into-movie (2), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), cosy catastrophe (1), evil children (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), unusual children (1), england (1), parasites (1), telepathy (1), mind control (1), group mind (1), accelerated growth (1), into-radio (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), horror (1), creepy kids (1)
|
| 1956-01-26 |
NOVEL |
English |
The City and the Stars |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
far future (2), science fiction (2), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), city life (1), coming of age (1), artificial intelligence (1), higher intelligence (1), incorporeal beings (1), subways (1), robots (1), interstellar travel (1), exploration (1), Utopia (1), sealed city (1), last city (1)
|
| 1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stars My Destination |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
science fiction (2), teleportation (1), vengeance (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), space opera (1), only humans (1), prison (1), interplanetary war (1), bodily augmentation (1), telepathy (1), corporate fiefdoms (1), tattoos (1), love (1), torture (1), caves (1), shipwreck (1), synesthesia (1), Aldebaran (1)
|
| 1953-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Childhood's End |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
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)
|
| 1953-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
More Than Human |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), mutants (1), psychiatry (1), psychiatrist (1), teleportation (1), unusual children (1), gestalt (1), gestalt entity (1), baby (1), farmer (1), telepath (1), telepathy (1), telepathic (1), twins (1), twin sisters (1), telekinesis (1), telekinetics (1), memory loss (1), memory wiping (1), amnesia (1), HumbleBundle (1)
|
| 1953-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Space Merchants |
C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl |
|
|
dystopia (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), subliminal control (1), economics (1), addiction (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
First Lensman |
Edward E. Smith |
|
|
space opera (2), action-adventure (1), telepathy (1), science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), 1950 (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Needle |
Hal Clement |
|
|
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)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The Dying Earth |
Jack Vance |
|
|
dying earth (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1), fantasy (1), far future (1), wizards (1), Appendix N (1), 1950 (1), science fantasy (1)
|
| 1950-05-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The Martian Chronicles |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
science fiction (2), Dimension X (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), into-tv (1), mars (1), Martians (1)
|
| 1949-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
A Martian Odyssey and Others |
Stanley G. Weinbaum |
|
|
The 5-Parsec Shelf (1)
|
| 1949-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Humanoids |
Jack Williamson |
|
|
science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), dystopia (1), robots (1), interstellar travel (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1948-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The World of Null-A |
A. E. van Vogt |
|
|
science fiction (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1)
|
| 1936-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
At the Mountains of Madness |
H. P. Lovecraft |
|
|
Cthulhu Mythos (1), horror (1), cold (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), cosmic horror (1), antarctica (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), BLEILER: Abominable snowmen (1), into-video game (1), into-music (1), geologist (1), first person point of view (1), archaeology (1), paleontology (1), underground sea (1), insanity (1), exploration (1), continental drift (1), aliens (1), into-graphic novel (1), set in 1930s (1)
|
| 1935-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Odd John |
Olaf Stapledon |
|
|
science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), telepathy (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), evolution (1), suicide (1), teenagers (1), telekinesis (1), mind reader (1), superpowers (1), friendship (1), gifted (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1930-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Last and First Men |
Olaf Stapledon |
|
|
venus (2), Neptune (2), far future (1), science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), evolution (1), Martians (1), Venusians (1), spirituality (1), future history (1), first person point of view (1), genetic engineering (1), distant future (1), human evolution (1), telepathy across time (1), interplanetary travel (1), psychology (1), sociology (1), social commentary (1), European interwar period (1), war with aliens (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1929-00-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The World Below |
S. Fowler Wright |
|
|
The 5-Parsec Shelf (1)
|
| 1919-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Moon Pool |
A. Merritt |
|
|
Librivox (1), antigravity projectors (1), Disintegrator (1), invisibility cloak (1), Google Books (1), lost race (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), witches (1), magic door (1), fantasy (1), monster god (1), Alternate World (1), Underworld (1), Appendix N (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1917-10-10 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Princess of Mars |
Edgar Rice Burroughs |
|
|
mars (4), action-adventure (2), science fantasy (2), science fiction (2), into-movie (2), transported main character (1), swashbuckling adventure (1), cliffhanger (1), pgb (1), Librivox (1), fantastic adventure (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), ipulpfiction (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), Barsoom (1), sword and planet (1), planetary romance (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), into-board game (1)
|
| 1912-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Night Land |
William Hope Hodgson |
|
|
weird (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), fantasy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1895-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Time Machine |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
time travel (4), inventor (2), into-movie (2), chrononaut (1), Librivox (1), dystopia (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), ipulpfiction (1), far future (1), dying earth (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), into-tv (1), cosy catastrophe (1), science fiction (1), time machine (1), evolution (1), invention (1), into-radio (1), social criticism (1), museum (1), london (1), first person point of view (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), Escape (Radio) (1), club story (1)
|
| 1865-10-25 |
NOVEL |
French |
De la Terre à la Lune |
Jules Verne |
|
|
Librivox (1), science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), into-movie (1), Scientific Association (1), Space ship (1), interplanetary travel (1), moon (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), into-tv (1)
|
| 1818-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus |
Mary Shelley |
|
|
Creator vs. Creation (2), science fiction (2), horror (2), Monstrosity (1), Pursuit of Knowledge (1), mad scientist (1), pgs (1), Google Books (1), Librivox (1), weird (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1), into-movie (1), into-play (1), into-music (1), into-ballet (1), into-tv (1), [NESFA Core Reading List] (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), medicine (1)
|
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