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Date Type Language Title Authors Parent Title Parent Authors Tags
2022-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Brassica Frankfurter Brett Gillet     veganism (1), genetic engineering (1), first person point of view (1), near future (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1)
2019-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Chasing Oumuamua Sean Monaghan     first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), family (1), mental illness (1), NASA (1), Oumuamua (1), interstellar object (1), space probe (1), engineering (1)
2019-04-14 SHORTFICTION English Presidential Paul Rudnick     screenplay (1), presidential politics (1), satire (1), Jared and Ivanka (1), 2024 (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1)
2019-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Recrossing Brooklyn Ferry John Richard Trtek     revolutionaries (1), time police (1), time travel (1), near future (1), Walt Whitman (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), New York City (1), 1940s (1)
2019-04-14 SHORTFICTION English South Platte Sharr White     xenophobia (1), drug abuse (1), mother (1), felon (1), into-video (1), screenplay (1), female protagonist (1), 2024 (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1)
2019-04-14 SHORTFICTION English The Escape Ted Malawer     only Earth (1), only humans (1), prison escape (1), attraction (1), 2024 (1), political satire (1), homosexual oppression (1), screenplay (1), gay protagonist (1)
2019-04-14 SHORTFICTION English Ye Jeremy O. Harris     only Earth (1), only humans (1), 2024 (1), postapocalyptic (1), screenplay (1), Kanye West (1), ideas (1), destruction (1), human nature (1), monologue (1)
2017-07-25 SHORTFICTION English Spring Break John Crowley     Edgar Allan Poe (1), library (1), Suspense (1), only humans (1), near future (1), Yale University (1), New Haven (1), first person point of view (1), gothic (1), murder (1)
2015-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Rubicon Megan Edwards     first person point of view (1), Caesar (1), time travel (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1)
2015-01-07 NOVEL French Soumission Michel Houellebecq     satire (1), near future (1), politics (1), France (1), only humans (1), islam (1), academia (1), first person point of view (1)
2015-07-00 SHORTFICTION English The Water Cycle Matt Tompkins     contemporary (1), fantasy (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), father (1), water cycle (1), first person point of view (1)
2015-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Thru the Cat Door Terry M. McLeod     first person point of view (1), parallel worlds (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), twist ending (1)
2011-01-11 NOVEL English Across the Universe Beth Revis     young-adult sf (1), young-adult romance (1), generation ship (1), cryogenics (1), female protagonist (1), genetic engineering (1), only humans (1), murder mystery (1)
2011-10-27 SHORTFICTION English The Dune Stephen King     precognition (1), judge (1), lawyer (1), old man (1), messages in the sand (1), last will and testament (1), twist ending (1), island (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), canoe (1), kayak (1)
2007-05-00 NOVEL English Incarceron Catherine Fisher     young-adult sf (1), single planet (1), prison world (1), only humans (1), artificial intelligence (1)
2006-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Derelict Geoffrey A. Landis     strong female character (1), hard sf (1), juvenile (1), first person point of view (1), orbital habitats (1), hostilities (1), adolescent risk-taking (1), only humans (1), science fiction (1)
2006-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Escape from Earth Allen Steele     Vermont (1), interstellar travel (1), interplanetary government (1), time travel (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), first person point of view (1), juvenile (1), SF (1)
2006-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Where the Golden Apples Grow Kage Baker     hard sf (1), juvenile (1), mars (1), only humans (1), terraforming (1), social commentary (1), frontier society (1), science fiction (1), child protagonist (1)
2005-00-00 NOVEL English Velocity Dean R. Koontz     Psychopaths (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), performance art (1), bartender (1), serial murders (1), mystery (1), Coma (1), Framed for crime (1), Parenticide (1), guilt (1)
2004-01-00 NOVEL English Forty Signs of Rain Kim Stanley Robinson     climate change (2), only humans (1), flood (1), storms (1), sea level rise (1), cli-fi (1), climate fiction (1), disaster (1), hard sf (1), female protagonists (1), science fiction (1), NSF (1), Washington, DC (1), near future (1), climate control (1), global warming (1), Buddhism (1), politics (1)
2004-07-07 SHORTFICTION English Leviathan Wept Daniel Abraham     immunological analogy (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), war against terrorism (1), brain implants connected to network (1), near future (1), disease (1)
2004-09-00 SHORTFICTION English The Third Party David Moles     lost human colony (1), interstellar civilizations (1), strong female character (1), economics (1), only humans (1), interstellar travel (1), preindustrial civilization (1)
2003-02-00 NOVEL English Jennifer Government Max Barry     only Earth (1), kidnapping (1), assassination (1), london (1), near future (1), satire (1), corporate dystopia (1), murder (1), consumer loyalty programs (1), strong female characters (1), government (1), only humans (1), NRA (1), Nike (1), ExxonMobil (1), Australia (1), New Zealand (1), USA (1), police (1)
1998-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Eat at Joe's Kiel Stuart     Roy Orbison (1), fantasy (1), diner (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), ghosts (1)
1998-06-00 NOVEL English Inversions Iain M. Banks     science fiction (1), fantasy (1), only humans (1), feudalism (1), first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1), physician (1)
1998-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Parameters of Dream Flight Arlan Andrews, Sr.     twist ending (1), childhood abuse (1), publishing business (1), author (1), recording dreams (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), near future (1), lucid dreaming (1), literary agents (1)
1998-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Perchance to Dream Marti McKenna     only humans (1), only Earth (1), suspended animation (1), female protagonist (1), near future (1), illness (1), love (1), death (1), motherhood (1), birthday (1)
1998-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Scipio Daniel Hood     slavery (1), reincarnation (1), vengeance (1), memories of past lives (1), rape (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1)
1998-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Stiletto Martin E. Cirulis     nanobots (1), bad girl (1), betrayal (1), crime (1), transpacific cold war (1), only humans (1), vancouver, canada (1), near future (1), noir (1), first person point of view (1), strong female characters (1), big score (1), romantic obsession (1)
1998-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Experiment Sharon N. Farber     psychiatry (1), PTSD (1), lsd (1), American GIs (1), satire (1), only humans (1), Vietnam War (1), Native American gods (1)
1998-02-00 SHORTFICTION English The Flood Linda Nagata     island (1), rising seas (1), only humans (1), end of the world (1), resistance (1)
1998-02-00 SHORTFICTION English The Time of Her Life Nancy Springer     contemporary (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), strong female character (1), female protagonist (1), fantasy (1), Time (1), marital discord (1)
1998-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Visitors L. A. Taylor     postapocalyptic (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), near future (1), artificial intelligence (1), smart house (1), disease (1)
1997-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Sic Transit Gloria Mundi George Allen     near future (1), genetic engineering (1), feminism (1), social commentary (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1)
1997-01-00 NOVEL English Sole Survivor Dean R. Koontz     suicide (1), psychological possession (1), widower (1), bereaved parent (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), strong female character (1), father (1), plane crash (1), evil institutions (1), human genetic engineering (1), paranormal powers (1), young girl (1), god (1), into-tv miniseries (1)
1996-12-00 SHORTFICTION English Domestic Slash and Thrust Jan Lars Jensen     satire (1), AI (1), merchandising (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), female protagonist (1)
1994-04-00 SHORTFICTION French Cloche vaine Francine Pelletier     epistolary (1), first person point of view (1), time travel (1), suicide (1), changing the past (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), twins (1), near future (1), Paris (1), Montreal (1)
1994-02-00 SHORTFICTION English The Hole in the Hole Terry Bisson     Lunar rover (1), wormhole (1), junkyard (1), Volvos (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), only humans (1), humor (1)
1993-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Into the Miranda Rift G. David Nordley     only humans (1), Miranda (Uranus moon) (1), marriage (1), spelunking (1), intelligent robots (1), survival (1), first person point of view (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1993-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Calligraphy Lesson Joyce Harrington     first person point of view (1), strong female character (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), radio DJ (1), twist ending (1), crazy former spouse (1)
1993-02-00 SHORTFICTION English The Dark Backward Gregory Benford     only Earth (1), only humans (1), female protagonist (1), time travel (1), irony (1), Shakespeare (1), Hemingway (1)
1991-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Attack of the Jazz Giants Gregory Frost     Ku Klux Klan (1), fantasy (1), only Earth (1), US south (1), only humans (1), twentieth century (1)
1991-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Beachhead Joe Haldeman     near future (1), conscription (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), mandatory testing (1), mandatory assignment (1)
1991-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Frustration Isaac Asimov     computers (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), near future (1), science fiction (1), Warfare (1)
1991-12-00 SHORTFICTION English Hardware Scenario G-49 James Alan Gardner     love (1), reproduction (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), virtuality (1), hardware store (1), goddess (1), knight rescues damsel in distress (1)
1991-12-00 SHORTFICTION English Hotrider Keith Brooke     show business (1), multisensory recording (1), sport (1), only humans (1), interplanetary tourism (1), first person point of view (1), sports (1)
1991-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Iphigenia Nancy A. Collins     child (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), Warfare (1), United States (1), near future (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1)
1991-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Known But to God and Wilbur Hines James Morrow     first person point of view (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), ghost (1), Warfare (1), fantasy (1), World War I (1)
1991-10-00 NOVEL English Lunar Descent Allen Steele     luna (1), hard sf (1), only humans (1), near future (1), science fiction (1), construction on Luna (1), striking workers (1), financial crime (1), substance abuse (1), disk jockey (1)
1991-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Sacred Fire George Zebrowski     immortality (1), genetic engineering (1), only Earth (1), pacifism (1), first person point of view (1), only humans (1), elitocracy (1)
1991-11-00 SHORTFICTION English SEAQ and Destroy Charles Stross     epistolary (1), news bulletins (1), finance (1), satire (1), near future (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1)
1991-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Wartorn, Lovelorn Marc Laidlaw     war (1), royalty (1), first person point of view (1), romantic relationships (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1)
1990-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Nonstop Tad Williams     contemporary (1), only humans (1), air travel (1), phobia (1)
1990-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Secret Window, Secret Garden Stephen King     into-movie (1), guilt (1), psychosis (1), vendetta (1), plagiarism (1), author (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), Suspense (1), only humans (1), manifestation (1)
1989-03-00 SHORTFICTION English In Another Country Robert Silverberg     contemporary (1), meteor strike (1), disaster tourism (1), time travel (1), romance (1), only humans (1), USA (1), science fiction (1)
1989-00-00 NOVEL English Midnight Dean R. Koontz     SF (1), contemporary (1), nanotechnology (1), shapeshifting (1), only humans (1), service dogs (1), horror (1)
1989-11-00 NOVEL English Orbital Decay Allen Steele     hard sf (1), science fiction (1), near future (1), only humans (1), first person point of view (1), space station (1), construction in space (1), government surveillance (1), substance abuse (1)
1986-00-00 SHORTFICTION French La carte du Tendre
Élisabeth Vonarburg?Elisabeth Vonarburg
    science fiction (1), performance art (1), only humans (1)
1984-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Lucky Strike Kim Stanley Robinson     pacifism (2), alternate history (2), atomic bomb (1), WWII (1), into-radio drama (1), non-violence (1), ahimsa anthology (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), Enola Gay (1), alternative history (1), Hiroshima (1), Nagasaki (1), war (1)
1984-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles Frederik Pohl     bad marriages (1), alternative energy (1), thermocline (1), love (1), family (1), ships (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), hard sf (1), first person point of view (1), science fiction (1)
1983-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Homecoming Richard Evans (editor)     homesickness (1), adaptation (1), adolescent protagonist (1), colonization (1), only humans (1), interstellar travel (1), alien planet (1), personal air flitters (1)
1983-03-00 NOVEL English Orion Shall Rise Poul Anderson     romance (1), heroic sacrifices (1), feudalism (1), industrialism (1), Gaeans (1), betrayal (1), friendship (1), intrigue (1), international politics (1), national politics (1), hard sf (1), strong female character (1), postapocalyptic (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), Project Orion (1), solar aerostat (1), pacific islands nation (1), aerostat (1)
1983-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair Frederik Pohl     only humans (1), only Earth (1), overpopulation (1), death lottery (1), desperation (1), family (1), dystopia (1), science fiction (1)
1983-09-15 SHORTFICTION English We, the People Jack C. Haldeman, II     only Earth (1), only humans (1), artificial intelligence (1), taxes (1), near future (1), science fiction (1)
1982-08-00 SHORTFICTION English The Breathing Method Stephen King     horror (1), Christmas (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), unwed pregnancy (1), strong female character (1), social club (1), uncanny setting (1)
1981-00-00 NOVEL English Starworld Harry Harrison     Britain (1), Israel (1), treachery (1), rebellion (1), only humans (1), space battles (1), space opera (1), 25th century (1), faster than light travel (1), interstellar colonies (1), insurrection (1), espionage (1)
1980-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Grotto of the Dancing Deer Clifford D. Simak     immortality (1), Basque (1), cave paintings (1), paleontology (1), bone flute (1), loneliness (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), science fiction (1), archaeology (1), France (1), Artists (1)
1980-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Secrets of the Heart Charles L. Grant     horror (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), child protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), psychic powers (1), fantasy (1)
1980-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Terrarium Scott Russell Sanders     closed cities (1), man and woman (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), nonconformity (1)
1980-09-00 SHORTFICTION English The Ugly Chickens Howard Waldrop     only humans (1), only Earth (1), appalachia (1), dodos (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), graduate student (1), ornithologist (1), Texas (1), birds (1), Mississippi (1), extinction (1), fantasy (1)
1980-07-00 NOVEL English Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler     only humans (1), HumbleBundle (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), telepathy (1), telekinesis (1), strong female characters (1), spiritual (1), shapechangers (1), secret breeding program (1), fantasy (1), only Earth (1), mutant (1), immortal (1), human experiment (1), genetic engineering (1), female main character (1), female leaders (1), science fiction (1)
1978-03-00 SHORTFICTION English What Johnny Did on His Summer Vacation Joe Haldeman and Robert Thurston     only Earth (1), only humans (1), teachers (1), realistic fantasy (1), assassination (1), vacation (1), near future (1)
1977-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Rem the Rememberer Frederik Pohl     ecology (1), near future (1), dreams (1), child protagonist (1), only humans (1), New York (1)
1977-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Way It Was Frederik Pohl     economic collapse (1), virtual reality (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), near future (1), organ harvesting (1), betrayal (1), love (1), twist ending (1)
1977-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Tunnel Roger Aday     only Earth (1), only humans (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), tunnel (1), twist ending (1)
1976-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Final Victory Jill Taggart     postapocalyptic (1), irony (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), social commentary (1), post apocalypse (1)
1975-03-00 SHORTFICTION English A Question of Priorities Allan J. Wind     near future (1), only humans (1), global warfare (1), lunar settlement (1), nuclear holocaust (1), nuclear disaster (1)
1975-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Growing Up in Edge City Frederik Pohl     only Earth (1), only humans (1), sealed city (1), nonconformists (1), science fiction (1)
1975-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Visible Man Gardner Dozois     massachusetts (1), twist ending (1), near future (1), escaped criminal (1), punishment (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), hunting (1), psychological blindness (1)
1974-06-00 SHORTFICTION English Devonshire's Song Matt Graham     21st century (1), exploration (1), psychology (1), only humans (1), galactic edge (1), epistolary (1), Flying Dutchman (1)
1974-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Racial Memory Ralph O. Hughes, Jr.     post-apocalyptic (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), human nature (1), past (1), near future (1), dreams (1), awakening (1)
1974-06-00 NOVEL English Rings of Ice Piers Anthony     LGBTQ (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), climate disaster (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), climate engineering (1), climate change (1), LGBTQ+ (1)
1974-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Twice Removed R. Michael Rosen     interstellar exploration (1), ancient past (1), first contact (1), only humans (1), twist ending (1)
1973-12-00 SHORTFICTION English For the Good of Society Terri E. Pinckard     social commentary (1), near future (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), courtroom trial (1), twist ending (1)
1973-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Hindsight: 480 Seconds Harlan Ellison     end of the world (1), interstellar travel (1), city ships (1), poet (1), rogue planet (1), only humans (1), poets (1)
1972-04-00 SHORTFICTION English The Pill Maggie Nadler     mother and daughter (1), old age home (1), youth pill (1), near future (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1)
1972-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Royal Opera House Carl Jacobi     near future (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), preservation (1), modernization (1), demolition (1), artifact from future (1)
1971-00-00 SHORTFICTION Polish Ananke
Stanisław Lem?Stanislaw Lem
    bureaucracy (1), neuroses (1), automation (1), cybernetics (1), computers (1), interplanetary travel (1), mars (1), only humans (1)
1971-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Erotophobia Harlan Ellison     lust (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), attractiveness (1), fantasy (1)
1970-12-00 SHORTFICTION English One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty Harlan Ellison     into-tv (1), ironic twist (1), first person point of view (1), time travel (1), bullying (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), childhood (1), nostalgia (1)
1970-00-00 NOVEL English Tau Zero Poul Anderson     Big Crunch (1), gender relations (1), Bussard ramjet (1), only humans (1), no faster than light travel (1), galactic clusters (1), galactic superclusters (1), general relativity (1), oscillating cosmological model (1), generation ship (1), team psychology (1), hope (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), dilatation (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
1970-05-00 SHORTFICTION English The Patterns of Dorne Theodore Sturgeon     social change (1), assassination (1), immortality (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), revolution (1), tyrant (1)
1969-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Phoenix Harlan Ellison     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)
1968-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Asleep: With Still Hands Harlan Ellison     mental weapons (1), mental compulsion (1), war (1), peace (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), stagnation (1), several centuries in future (1)
1967-00-00 NOVEL English An Age Brian W. Aldiss     time travel (1), surprise ending (1), metaphysics (1), anomie (1), england (1), Jurassic era (1), Victorian era (1), social commentary (1), coup (1), cryptozoic era (1), near future (1), only humans (1), distant future (1), military dictatorship (1), science fiction (1), dystopia (1)
1967-02-00 NOVEL English Counter-Clock World Philip K. Dick     time in reverse (1), science fiction (1), only humans (1), resurrection (1), police (1), love (1), philosophy (1), religion (1), Time (1), racial tension (1), near future (1), prophet (1)
1967-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Fifteen Miles Ben Bova     hard sf (1), only humans (1), rescue (1), exploration (1), science fiction (1)
1967-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Latter-Day Daniel Betsy Curtis     near future (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), zoo (1), lion (1), animal protection (1), thrill show (1), thwarting theft (1), romance (1)
1967-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Moonshine Joseph Wesley     distilling moonshine (1), cold war (1), luna (1), only humans (1), Lunar life (1), US (1), USSR (1), US Marines (1)
1967-12-00 NOVEL English Quicksand John Brunner     only humans (1), martial arts (1), jealousy (1), free love (1), low self-esteem (1), mental fantasy (1), anomie (1), england (1), contemporary (1), twist ending (1), psychiatry (1), mental hospital (1), bad marriage (1), stranger from nowhere (1), parallel world (1), time travel (1), explorer (1)
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