| 2011-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Embassytown |
|
|
|
space opera (2), linguistics (1), science fiction (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 2005-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Old Man's War |
John Scalzi |
|
|
military sf (3), space opera (3), mind cloning (2), war with aliens (1), genetic engineering (1), nanotechnology (1), science fiction (1), dyson sphere (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 2005-03-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Uglies |
Scott Westerfeld |
|
|
Young Adult (1), young-adult sf (1), dystopian (1), teen science fiction (1), totalitarianism (1), Hoverboards (1), plastic surgery (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1999-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cryptonomicon |
Neal Stephenson |
|
|
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)
|
| 1996-03-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Ribofunk |
Paul Di Filippo |
|
|
Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1992-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Red Mars |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
|
|
mars (4), science fiction (2), terraforming (2), space elevator (2), nanotechnology (1), colonization (1), near future (1), revolution (1), longevity (1), climate control (1), Mars colonization (1), genetic engineering (1), politics (1), 2-award-winner (1), Coyote (1), hard sf (1), Corporations (1), Phobos (1), underground city (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1989-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Hyperion |
Dan Simmons |
|
|
space opera (4), nanotechnology (2), mega-flora (1), storytelling (1), AI (1), 2-award-winner (1), dolphin (1), science fiction (1), far future (1), space warfare (1), artificial intelligence (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1988-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Falling Free |
Lois McMaster Bujold |
|
|
science fiction (1), genetic engineering (1), hard sf (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1987-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Consider Phlebas |
Iain M. Banks |
|
|
artificial intelligence (3), space opera (3), ship AI (2), science fiction (2), nanotechnology (2), war with aliens (2), transhuman (1), ai citizens (1), dyson sphere (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1985-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ender's Game |
Orson Scott Card |
|
|
space opera (3), science fiction (3), military sf (2), child protagonist (2), into-movie (2), first contact (1), from-short (1), 3-award-winner (1), aliens (1), asteroids (1), antigravity (1), genocide (1), ansible (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), games (1)
|
| 1982-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nor Crystal Tears |
Alan Dean Foster |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1979-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
|
|
science fiction (3), dolphin (1), comedy (1), philosophical quest (1), into-tv (1), cult fiction (1), from-radio (1), mega-engineering (1), england (1), interstellar travel (1), space drive (1), into-movie (1), philosophy (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), into-video game (1)
|
| 1978-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stand |
Stephen King |
|
|
post apocalypse (3), horror (3), into-tv (2), post-apocalyptic (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (1), quest (1), epic (1), Colorado (1), antichrist (1), demon (1), Las Vegas (1), california (1), pandemic (1), dark fantasy (1)
|
| 1977-05-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika |
and |
|
|
Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1976-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Man Plus |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
mars (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (1), cyborgs (1), cold war (1), artificial intelligence (1), transhuman (1), transformation (1)
|
| 1975-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Female Man |
Joanna Russ |
|
|
SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), alternate history (1), science fiction (1), world without men/women (1)
|
| 1973-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Rendezvous with Rama |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
science fiction (3), first contact (3), near future (1), alien artifact (1), mega-starship (1), sub-light speed (1), hard science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), 5-award-winner (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), hard sf (1), genetic engineering (1), space travel (1), robots (1), exploration (1), into-radio (1), into-video game (1), Big Dumb Object (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la 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), into-comics (1)
|
| 1969-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Behold the Man |
Michael Moorcock |
|
|
time travel (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), religion (1), jesus (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (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), nonbinary gender (1)
|
| 1968-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
androids (2), science fiction (1), into-movie (1), what human is (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), ecological decline (1), interplanetary travel (1), social commentary (1), psychology (1), population collapse (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), dystopia (1), bounty hunter (1), Oregon (1), premonition (1), postapocalyptic (1), San Francisco (1), pets (1), genetic engineering (1), robots (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1), animals (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), into-video game (1), set in 1990s (1), into-comics (1)
|
| 1967-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Logan's Run |
George Clayton Johnson and William F. Nolan |
|
|
dystopia (2), science fiction (1), novelization (1), overpopulation (1), into-movie (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), automated medical machinery (1)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Make Room! Make Room! |
Harry Harrison |
|
|
science fiction (2), dystopia (2), overpopulation (2), New York City (2), detective (2), into-movie (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), millenialism (1), New York (1), police detective (1), police (1), police investigations (1), murder (1), immigrants (1), birth control (1), societal collapse (1), social collapse (1)
|
| 1965-12-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dune |
Frank Herbert |
|
|
space opera (4), 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), into-comics (1), sand (1), political intrigue (1)
|
| 1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Wrinkle in Time |
Madeleine L'Engle |
|
|
into-movie (2), young-adult sf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), juvenile sf (1), into-opera (1), into-play (1), kidnapping (1), coming of age (1), aliens (1), female protagonist (1), good and evil (1), tesseract (1), child prodigy (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)
|
| 1962-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Drowned World |
J. G. Ballard |
|
|
science fiction (1), post apocalypse (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), cosy catastrophe (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), climate fiction (1), cli-fi (1), devolution (1), rising sea level (1), climate change (1), england (1), london (1), anomie (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1961-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Polish |
Solaris |
|
|
|
science fiction (2), into-movie (2), psychology (1), mega-fauna (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), space station (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1960-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Venus Plus X |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (1), nonbinary gender (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), science fiction (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), mexico (1), holy relics (1), historical perspective (1), warlords (1), Theology (1), Catholicism (1), illuminated manuscripts (1), canonizatioin (1), world war (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1959-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Alas, Babylon |
Pat Frank |
|
|
nuclear war (1), alternate history (1), near future (1), dystopia (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Florida (1), science fiction (1), postapocalyptic (1), into-tv (1)
|
| 1959-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Starship Troopers |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
military sf (4), science fiction (2), into-movie (2), young-adult sf (1), power armor (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), space opera (1), into-tv (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), coming of age (1), punishment (1), war with aliens (1), world government (1), into-video game (1), into-board game (1)
|
| 1959-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Sirens of Titan |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
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)
|
| 1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Death of Grass |
John Christopher |
|
|
post apocalypse (1), england (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), cosy catastrophe (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), into-movie (1), into-radio-play (1), blight (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Chrysalids |
John Wyndham |
|
|
dystopia (2), telepathy (1), science fiction (1), mutants (1), post apocalypse (1), cosy catastrophe (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), C1 Nanzan 117 (1), into-radio (1), coming of age (1), unusual children (1), New Zealand (1), Canada (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Long Tomorrow |
Leigh Brackett |
|
|
post-apocalyptic (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), religion (1), science fiction (1), United States (1), post apocalypse (1), post-apocalypse (1), postapocalyptic America (1)
|
| 1954-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mission of Gravity |
Hal Clement |
|
|
hard sf (2), first contact (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1), alien perspective (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), high gravity (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ring Around the Sun |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
science fiction (1), time theory (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), New Jersey (1), suspended animation (1), pioneers (1), hypnosis (1), twist ending (1), architecture (1), cars (1), durable goods (1), writer (1), economics (1), genetic memory (1), set in 1980s (1), longevity (1), artificial bodies (1), interstellar communication (1), telepathy (1), premonition (1), paranormal abilities (1), Solar power (1), robots (1), antigravity (1), mutants (1), surveillance (1), manhunt (1), alternate worlds (1), Illinois (1), Wisconsin (1), nostalgia (1), New York City (1), implanted memories (1)
|
| 1952-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Demolished Man |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
telepathy (2), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), New York City (1), science fiction (1), detective (1), earworm (1), time distortion (1), punishment (1), murder (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)
|
| 1951-02-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The Illustrated Man |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
science fiction (2), living tattoo (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), tattoos (1), living artwork (1), horror (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1949-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Earth Abides |
George R. Stewart |
|
|
ecology (2), science fiction (2), pandemic (2), cosy catastrophe (2), descent to barbarism (1), post apocalypse (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), cultural decline (1), california (1), sociology (1), anthropology (1), disaster (1), ruined earth (1), pastoral (1), education (1), doomsday novel (1), depopulation (1), ants (1), rats (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), Escape (Radio) (1)
|
| 1949-06-08 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nineteen Eighty-Four |
George Orwell |
|
|
dystopia (3), near future (2), social criticism (2), science fiction (2), horror (2), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), 99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1), British dystopia (1), surveillance state (1), history rewritten (1), story within a story (1), neologisms (1), london (1), torture (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1), into-opera (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), endless war (1), into-ballet (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), Newspeak (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)
|
| 1933-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
When Worlds Collide |
Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie |
|
|
natural disaster (1), science fiction (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), into-movie (1), end of the world (1), astronomy (1), scientists (1), tsunami (1), earthquakes (1), United States (1), alien artifacts (1), into-music (1), extrasolar planet (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1932-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
|
|
science fiction (1), Utopia (1), CBS Radio Workshop (1), dystopia (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), British dystopia (1), contraception (1), sterilization (1), euthanasia (1), William Shakespeare (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), london (1), in-vitro (1), social dictatorship (1), consumerism (1), social engineering (1), drug addiction (1), biologic engineering (1), suicide (1), forbidden books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), exile (1), drugs (1), brave new world (1), artificial wombs (1), set in 2500s (1), New Mexico (1), native americans (1), into-movie (1), sleep learning (1), psychological conditioning (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), into-tv (1), virtual reality (1), cloning (1)
|
| 1898-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The War of the Worlds |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
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)
|
| 1864-11-25 |
NOVEL |
French |
Voyage au centre de la terre |
Jules Verne |
|
|
exploration (1), underworld adventure (1), lost race (1), Librivox (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), into-video game (1), dinosaurs (1), Iceland (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), science fiction (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1)
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