| 1999-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ghostwritten |
David Mitchell |
|
|
artificial intelligence (1), Japan (1), Radio disk jockey (1), subway (1), New York City (1), Advanced military technology (1), Killer satellites (1), quantum computing (1), ireland (1), Clear Island (1), terrorism (1), cult (1), Tokyo (1), art forgery (1), murder (1), Mental symbiote (1), Saint Petersburg (1), Mongolia (1), london (1), Holy Mountain (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), Hong Kong (1), ghosts (1), China (1), Chinese Cultural Revolution (1), Okinawa (1), only Earth (1)
|
| 1999-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Suicide Coast |
M. John Harrison |
|
|
near future (2), science fiction (2), virtual reality (1), london (1), extreme sports (1), first person (1), first person narrative (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1998-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
King Rat |
|
|
|
new weird (1), london (1)
|
| 1996-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sartor Resartus: Natural Supernaturalism (excerpt) |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghost (1), london (1)
|
| 1995-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Prestige |
Christopher Priest |
|
|
fantasy (1), steampunk (1), magician (1), electricity (1), Nicola Tesla (1), Colorado (1), london (1), diaries (1), twins (1), teleportation (1), human duplication (1), into-movie (1), murder (1)
|
| 1993-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Night in the Lonesome October |
Roger Zelazny |
|
|
Jack the Ripper (1), dogs (1), first person point of view (1), Sherlock Holmes (1), london (1), halloween (1), Dracula (1), frankenstein (1), werewolf (1), witches (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1992-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Corrosion |
Michael Cobley |
|
|
london (1)
|
| 1992-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mostly Harmless |
Douglas Adams |
|
|
science fiction (1), humor (1), interstellar travel (1), Earth (1), london (1), into-radio (1)
|
| 1991-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Victoria |
Paul Di Filippo |
|
|
steampunk (1), Queen Victoria (1), hellbender (1), genetic engineering (1), missing person (1), American (1), london (1), brothel (1), feminism (1), lesbianism (1), sex (1)
|
| 1990-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Difference Engine |
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling |
|
|
steampunk (6), alternate history (4), cyberpunk (2), victorian (2), science fiction (1), mechanical computers (1), historical characters (1), romance (1), crime (1), set in 1850s (1), london (1), surveillance (1), famine (1), Kurt Gödel (1), air pollution (1), revolution (1)
|
| 1989-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
At First Just Ghostly |
Karl Edward Wagner |
|
|
contemporary (1), london (1), SF authors (1), publishing business (1), magic (1), Harmonic Convergence (1), serendipity (1), drinking (1), fighting evil (1)
|
| 1989-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Mummy |
Anne Rice |
|
|
historical fantasy (1), horror (1), mummies (1), egypt (1), Archaeologists (1), curse (1), alcohol (1), london (1), poison (1), murder (1), enhanced intelligence (1), longevity (1), Cleopatra (1), tobacco (1), homoeroticism (1)
|
| 1988-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mona Lisa Overdrive |
William Gibson |
|
|
cyberpunk (3), nanotechnology (1), virtual reality (1), artificial intelligence (1), science fiction (1), london (1), memory (1), uploaded personalities (1), into-music (1)
|
| 1988-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mother London |
Michael Moorcock |
|
|
london (1)
|
| 1988-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Queen of the Damned |
Anne Rice |
|
|
vampires (2), into-movie (1), horror (1), first person point of view (1), mummies (1), rape (1), smell (1), homoeroticism (1), Saint Louis (1), murder (1), dreams (1), afterlife (1), longevity (1), out-of-body experience (1), new orleans (1), Miami (1), Chicago (1), New York City (1), pyrokinesis (1), telepathy (1), music (1), Florida (1), california (1), london (1), Pompeii (1), Rome (1), Athens (1), San Francisco (1), flying (1), Clairvoyance (1), telekinesis (1), genealogy (1), ghosts (1), tapestry (1), twins (1), reincarnation (1), genocide (1), witches (1), cannibalism (1), Greece (1)
|
| 1988-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Those Who Hunt the Night |
Barbara Hambly |
|
|
steampunk (1), adult vampire (1), vampire (1), alternate historical (1), london (1), espionage (1), vampires (1)
|
| 1987-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Medusa Frequency |
Russell Hoban |
|
|
london (1), Orpheus myth (1)
|
| 1984-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Domain |
James Herbert |
|
|
horror (1), rats (1), post apocalypse (1), london (1)
|
| 1982-02-15 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fire Watch |
Connie Willis |
|
|
time travel (3), world war ii (2), london (2), fire (1), historian (1), terrorism (1), churches (1), first person narrative (1), first person (1), academia (1), World War 2 (1), UK (1), england (1), cathedral (1)
|
| 1980-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Players at the Game of People |
John Brunner |
|
|
fantasy (1), privileged class (1), societal collapse (1), Faustian (1), world war ii (1), World War 2 (1), the Blitz (1), UK (1), London, England (1), london (1), selling your soul (1)
|
| 1979-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lair |
James Herbert |
|
|
horror (1), rats (1), london (1)
|
| 1979-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta |
Doris Lessing |
|
|
nuclear war (1), Earth (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1), genetic engineering (1), alien perspective (1), london (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1979-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Unlimited Dream Company |
J. G. Ballard |
|
|
surrealism (1), 99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), london (1), first person point of view (1), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1)
|
| 1976-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
An Infinite Summer |
Christopher Priest |
|
|
time travel (1), science fiction (1), london (1), world war ii (1)
|
| 1974-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Give Warning to the World |
John Brunner |
|
|
science fiction (1), panspermia (1), alien invasion (1), parasites (1), london (1), amnesia (1), dreams (1), kidnapping (1)
|
| 1973-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Gravity's Rainbow |
Thomas Pynchon |
|
|
literary sf (1), 99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), Germany (1), world war ii (1), london (1), sex (1), plastics (1), missiles (1), paranoia (1), predestination (1), music (1), into-music (1), into-art (1), science fiction (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1972-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
An Alien Heat |
Michael Moorcock |
|
|
romance (1), victorian (1), london (1), far future (1), decadence (1), time travel (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Torrent of Faces |
James Blish and Norman L. Knight |
|
|
overpopulation (1), Fix up (1), arsenic (1), horses (1), nature preserve (1), deepsea (1), computers (1), gallium (1), asteroid impact (1), birth control (1), Philadelphia (1), amino acids (1), hotel (1), dolphins (1), Australia (1), london (1), Illinois (1), food (1), extinction (1), Utopia (1), far future (1), science fiction (1), urban life (1), uplift (1), tobacco (1), advertising (1), arcology (1), hallucinations (1), genetic engineering (1), interstellar travel (1), bacteria (1), empathy (1), submersible (1), Washington, DC (1), crash landing (1), lasers (1), set in the 2700s (1)
|
| 1967-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
murder (1), Jack the Ripper (1), science fiction (1), multiple personalities (1), telepathy (1), mind control (1), serial killer (1), london (1)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
October the First Is Too Late |
Fred Hoyle |
|
|
hawaii (1), Los Angeles (1), first person narrative (1), World War I (1), radio astronomy (1), far future (1), higher intelligence (1), overpopulation (1), science fiction (1), time travel (1), scotland (1), Greece (1), mexico (1), music (1), london (1), physicist (1), musicians (1), russia (1)
|
| 1964-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dark Light Years |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
climate change (1), sculpture (1), art (1), england (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), london (1), zoo (1), first contact (1), Pain (1), alien technology (1), alien perspective (1), nuclear warfare (1), communication (1), excrement (1), vegetarianism (1), synthetic food (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)
|
| 1962-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Wind from Nowhere |
J. G. Ballard |
|
|
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)
|
| 1959-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Medicine for Melancholy |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
romance (1), crowdsourcing (1), 18th century (1), illness (1), fantasy (1), london (1)
|
| 1959-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Echo in the Skull |
John Brunner |
|
|
amnesia (1), london (1), science fiction (1), dreams (1), kidnapping (1), parasites (1), panspermia (1), alien invasion (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Magician's Nephew |
C. S. Lewis |
|
|
Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), fantasy (1), young-adult fantasy (1), children (1), parallel worlds (1), london (1), witches (1), creation (1), winged horses (1), horses (1), apples (1), sorcerers (1), talking animals (1), immortality (1), into-play (1), into-tv (1)
|
| 1954-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Master Mind |
John Russell Fearn |
|
|
london (1)
|
| 1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Kraken Wakes |
John Wyndham |
|
|
science fiction (2), cosy catastrophe (2), Caribbean (2), england (2), london (2), sea level rise (2), cold war (2), first person point of view (2), Spain (1), ireland (1), Cayman Islands (1), into-radio (1), nuclear war (1), deep sea (1), Earth (1), alien invasion (1), climate change (1), cold war politics (1), ultrasound (1), journalists (1), journalist (1), societal collapse (1), first person (1), Cornwall (1), UK (1), atomic bomb (1), atomic weapons (1), Atlantic Ocean (1), oceanography (1), ship sinking (1), iceberg (1), married couple (1)
|
| 1949-06-08 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nineteen Eighty-Four |
George Orwell |
|
|
dystopia (3), social criticism (2), near future (1), science fiction (1), 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), horror (1), Newspeak (1)
|
| 1948-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Forgotten Enemy |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
science fiction (1), climate change (1), cold (1), london (1)
|
| 1947-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Voices in the Dust of Annan |
Gerald Kersh |
|
|
post-apocalypse (1), fairies (1), london (1), post apocalypse (1)
|
| 1938-05-25 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Old Burying Place ... |
Gerald Kersh |
|
|
london (1), post-apocalypse (1), post apocalypse (1)
|
| 1937-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Superhuman |
John Russell Fearn |
|
|
london (1)
|
| 1935-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Muggridge's Aunt |
August Derleth |
|
|
london (1), nephew (1), poor cousin (1), callousness (1), death (1), inheritance (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), lobelias (1), decor (1), dream (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), native americans (1), into-movie (1), sleep learning (1), psychological conditioning (1), into-play (1), into-radio (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), into-tv (1), forbidden books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), virtual reality (1), cloning (1)
|
| 1931-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Old Man |
Holloway Horn |
|
|
prediction (1), future (1), science fiction (1), fantasy (1), london (1)
|
| 1925-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Bagnell Terrace |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
ghosts (1), fantasy (1), cats (1), first person point of view (1), london (1), Egyptian cult (1), cat statue (1)
|
| 1922-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hypnos |
H. P. Lovecraft |
|
|
drugs (1), dreams (1), cosmic horror (1), paranormal supernatural exploration (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), london (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1922-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mr. Tilly's Séance |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
Librivox (1), seance (1), ghost (1), traffic accident (1), deceased point of view (1), london (1)
|
| 1919-03-15 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Girl in the Golden Atom |
Ray Cummings |
|
|
microcosmos (1), young-adult sf (1), london (1), science fiction (1), XIX century (1)
|
| 1912-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Terror by Night |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), london (1), Davos (1), consumption (1), psychic messages (1)
|
| 1908-05-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Where the Tides Ebb and Flow |
Lord Dunsany |
|
|
dreams (1), fantasy (1), london (1)
|
| 1906-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Bus-Conductor |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), precognition (1), bus driver (1), hearse (1), london (1), story within a story (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 1899-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
When the Sleeper Wakes |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
Librivox (1), thought control (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), economics (1), poor and rich (1), totalitarism (1), king of the world (1), hibernation (1), near future (1), dystopia (1), suspended animation (1), plutocracy (1), revolution (1), london (1), air travel (1), euthanasia (1), castes (1), NESFA Core Reading List (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)
|
| 1897-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dracula |
Bram Stoker |
|
|
horror (2), vampires (2), into-movie (1), Dracula (1), Librivox (1), weird (1), The Seven-League Shelf (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1), into-tv (1), england (1), london (1), Romania (1), diary (1), correspondence (1), arctic (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1897-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Invisible in London |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
escaping pursuit (1), invisibility (1), Victorian era (1), london (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1897-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Invisible Man |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
mad scientist (1), human experiment (1), Librivox (1), invisibility (1), science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1), physics (1), invention (1), england (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), into-music (1), into-video game (1), Victorian era (1), Victorian England (1), Sussex (1), london (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (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)
|
| 1890-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Sign of Four |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
|
|
private investigator (1), murder mystery (1), treasure (1), india (1), london (1), first person point of view (1), locked room mystery (1)
|
| 1859-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
|
|
haunted house (2), fantasy (1), first person point of view (1), london (1), 1800s (1), child murder (1), ghosts (1), retribution (1), mesmeric power (1)
|
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