2022-01-11 |
NOVEL |
English |
To Paradise |
Hanya Yanagihara |
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epilepsy (1), food (1), HIV (1), euthanasia (1), correspondence (1), loss (1), flood (1), tsunami (1), extinction (1), set in 1890s (1), set in 1990s (1), sea level rise (1), climate change (1), pandemic (1), set in 2090s (1), New York City (1), science fiction (1), hawaii (1), dystopia (1), biologists (1), LGBTQ+ (1), alternate history (1), waste (1), coming of age (1), hospital (1), blindness (1), first person point of view (1)
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2018-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Monologue by an Unnamed Mage, Recorded at the Brink of the End |
Cassandra Khaw |
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courage (1), fae (1), faery (1), fantasy (1), loss (1), love (1)
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2018-04-17 |
CHAPBOOK |
English |
The Atrocities |
Jeremy C. Shipp |
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dark fantasy (1), fantasy (1), ghosts (1), gothic (1), grief (1), horror (1), loss (1), surreal (1)
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2018-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Things I Miss the Most |
Nisi Shawl |
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loss (1), love (1), science fiction (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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2012-08-16 |
NOVEL |
English |
Iron Winter |
Stephen Baxter |
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alternate history (1), dams (1), trains (1), Carthage (1), China (1), France (1), italy (1), Turkey (1), United States (1), Peru (1), mexico (1), Spain (1), cold (1), slavery (1), Ice age (1), climate change (1), survival (1), epidemic (1), loss (1)
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2009-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lady of the White-Spired City |
Sarah L. Edwards |
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science fiction (1), interstellar travel (1), relativistic time dilation (1), genealogy (1), loss (1), archives (1)
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2009-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Consciousness Problem |
Mary Robinette Kowal |
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Clones (1), science fiction (1), invention (1), love (1), loss (1), memory (1)
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1997-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Toward the End of Time |
John Updike |
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postapocalyptic (1), boston (1), alternate universe (1), cancer (1), deer (1), loss (1)
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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)
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1993-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Parable of the Sower |
Octavia E. Butler |
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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)
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1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow |
Charles de Lint |
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horror (1), loss (1), urban fantasy (1)
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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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1987-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Forge of God |
Greg Bear |
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first contact (1), space opera (1), nanotechnology (1), mars (1), war with machines (1), science fiction (1), loss (1), politicians (1), Washington, DC (1), set in 1990s (1), space war (1), Pacific Ocean (1), von Neumann probes (1), nuclear weapons (1), tsunami (1), earthquake (1), San Francisco (1), Seattle (1), robots (1), Geology (1), geologists (1), mind control (1), Fermi paradox (1), terraforming (1), alien invasion (1), aliens (1), end of the world (1), Earth (1), plate tectonics (1), neutronium (1), antimatter (1), Australia (1), california (1)
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1985-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Brightness Falls from the Air |
James Tiptree, Jr. |
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love (1), suspended animation (1), time distortion (1), nova (1), alcohol (1), drugs (1), art (1), genocide (1), aliens (1), interstellar war (1), interstellar travel (1), distant future (1), science fiction (1), loss (1), memory erasure (1), murder (1), sadism (1), beauty (1), telepathy (1), reproduction (1), poison (1), rapid aging (1), torture (1)
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1982-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Letter from the Clearys |
Connie Willis |
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postapocalyptic (1), correspondence (1), dogs (1), science fiction (1), nuclear winter (1), loss (1)
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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)
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1977-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lucifer's Hammer |
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle |
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post-apocalyptic (1), loss (1), california (1), cannibalism (1), flood (1), nuclear war (1), earthquake (1), tsunami (1), survival (1), interplanetary travel (1), science fiction (1), climate change (1), comet (1), comet impact (1), volcano (1), nuclear power (1)
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1976-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A World Out of Time |
Larry Niven |
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A World Out of Time (1), science fiction (1), evolution (1), cats (1), moving planets (1), climate engineering (1), climate change (1), sex (1), far future (1), black holes (1), artificial intelligence (1), body swap (1), suspended animation (1), cryogenics (1), time stasis (1), Earth (1), antarctica (1), education (1), interstellar travel (1), dystopia (1), loss (1), Jupiter (1)
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1970-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Year of the Quiet Sun |
Wilson Tucker |
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time travel (1), post-apocalyptic (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Illinois (1), Chicago (1), loss (1), science fiction (1), Campbell Retrospective Prize (1)
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1966-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
For a Breath I Tarry |
Roger Zelazny |
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Faustian bargain (1), temptation (1), sculpture (1), art (1), library (1), loss (1), cloning (1), artificial intelligence (1), science fiction (1), postapocalyptic (1), robots (1), philosophy (1)
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1965-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Eyes Do More Than See |
Isaac Asimov |
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posthuman (1), far future (1), science fiction (1), incorporeal beings (1), loss (1), memory (1)
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1962-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dog Star |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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interplanetary travel (1), love (1), loss (1), earthquakes (1), dogs (1), astronomers (1), moon (1), california (1), San Francisco (1), science fiction (1), dreams (1), memory (1)
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1962-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Wind from Nowhere |
J. G. Ballard |
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natural disaster (2), dictatorship (1), disowned by its author (1), man versus nature (1), survival (1), hubris (1), suicide (1), science fiction (1), loss (1), london (1), england (1), Wind (1)
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1962-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Triumph |
Philip Wylie |
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post apocalypse (1), United States (1), Costa Rica (1), Australia (1), survival (1), connecticut (1), science fiction (1), nuclear war (1), firestorm (1), panic (1), adultery (1), racism (1), alcohol (1), tobacco (1), loss (1), sexual revolution (1), Jews (1), drones (1), set in 1970s (1), sodium (1), cobalt (1), radiation sickness (1), radiation (1), roller skating (1), insanity (1), romance (1), USSR (1), submarines (1), underground city (1), underwater city (1)
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1961-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sun Saboteurs |
Damon Knight |
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science fiction (1), xenophobia (1), aliens (1), loss (1)
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1959-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Trouble with Toys |
Kate Wilhelm |
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loss (1), greed (1), crime (1), fantasy (1)
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1958-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Aristotle and the Gun |
L. Sprague de Camp |
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time travel (1), Alexander the Great (1), Aristotle (1), science fiction (1), loss (1)
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1958-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Lincoln Hunters |
Wilson Tucker |
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science fiction (1), time travel (1), lincoln (1), Illinois (1), Cleveland (1), oratory (1), Shakespeare (1), romance (1), distant future (1), dystopia (1), loss (1), American presidents (1)
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1957-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Statues |
Ray Bradbury |
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childhood (1), contemporary (1), friendship (1), loss (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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1954-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
All Summer in a Day |
Ray Bradbury |
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rain (1), bullying (1), into-tv (1), science fiction (1), venus (1), Poetry (1), children (1), sadness (1), loss (1), gloom (1), sun (1), female protagonist (1), child protagonist (1), fantasy (1)
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1954-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Let's Not |
Isaac Asimov |
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nuclear warfare (1), mars (1), science fiction (1), academia (1), suicide (1), loss (1)
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1950-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Forever and the Earth |
Ray Bradbury |
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science fiction (1), mars (1), interplanetary travel (1), writing (1), Tom Wolfe (1), time travel (1), loss (1)
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1934-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Twilight |
John W. Campbell, Jr. |
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longevity (1), automated civilization (1), decline of humanity (1), mysterious hitchhiker (1), far future (1), only humans (1), contemporary (1), time travel (1), first person point of view (1), artificial intelligence (1), science fiction (1), loss (1), Nevada (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), set in 1930s (1), Neptune (1), robots (1), dogs (1), loneliness (1), curiosity (1), music (1), interplanetary travel (1)
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1849-00-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Forsaken Merman |
Matthew Arnold |
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loss (1), merfolk (1), divorce (1), children (1), abandonment (1)
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1818-01-11 |
POEM |
English |
Ozymandias |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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statue (1), loss (1)
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