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Date Type Language Title Authors Parent Title Parent Authors Tags
2004-00-00 NOVEL English River of Gods Ian McDonald     artificial intelligence (1), science fiction (1), india (1), Varanasi (1)
2004-10-00 NOVEL English The Algebraist Iain M. Banks     space opera (3), nanotechnology (2), gas giant planet (2), galactic empire (2), science fiction (2), methane breathers (1)
2003-08-00 NOVEL English Blind Lake Robert Charles Wilson     science fiction (1)
2003-02-00 NOVEL English Humans Robert J. Sawyer      
2003-07-00 NOVEL English Ilium Dan Simmons     posthuman (1), space opera (1), science fiction (1), greek mythology (1)
2003-09-00 NOVEL English Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold     fantasy (1), 3-award-winner (1)
2003-08-00 NOVEL English Singularity Sky Charles Stross     space opera (3), science fiction (3), singularity (2), nanotechnology (2), military sf (1), space navy (1), secret agent (1), interplanetary diplomacy (1), causality (1), revolution (1), revolutionaries (1), social impact of technology (1)
2002-00-00 NOVEL English Bones of the Earth Michael Swanwick     science fiction (1), plate tectonics (1), far future (1), time travel (1), dinosaurs (1), Cretaceous (1), paleontology (1)
2002-05-00 NOVEL English Hominids Robert J. Sawyer     population control (1), religion (1), surgery (1), language (1), magnetic pole reversal (1), intelligence (1), wolves (1), surveillance (1), eugenics (1), Utopia (1), reproduction (1), hominins (1), pheromones (1), smell (1), LGBTQ+ (1), rape (1), physicists (1), parallel world (1), Neanderthals (1), first contact (1), Ontario (1), science fiction (1)
2002-01-00 NOVEL English Kiln People David Brin     science fiction (1), Clones (1), detective (1), mind upload (1), california (1)
2002-04-00 NOVEL English The Scar
China Miéville?China Mieville
    steampunk (2), fantasy (1), new weird (1), dolphin (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1)
2002-01-00 NOVEL English The Years of Rice and Salt Kim Stanley Robinson     india (2), China (2), alternate history (2), disease (1), France (1), peace (1), weapons (1), Poetry (1), scientists (1), california (1), gender conflict (1), North America (1), eunuchs (1), epidemic (1), Athens (1), plague (1), Buddhism (1), islam (1), reincarnation (1), science fiction (1)
2001-07-00 NOVEL English American Gods Neil Gaiman     into-tv (1), fantasy (1), superheroes (1)
2001-04-00 NOVEL English Passage Connie Willis     science fiction (1), near-death experience (1), out of body experience (1), Denver (1), Alzheimer’s disease (1), disasters (1), death (1), titanic (1), hospital (1), afterlife (1), strong female character (1)
2001-08-00 NOVEL English The Chronoliths Robert Charles Wilson     science fiction (3), time travel (3), Thailand (2), Jerusalem (1), mexico (1), Wyoming (1), near future (1), academic mentor (1), first person (1)
2001-08-00 NOVEL English The Curse of Chalion Lois McMaster Bujold     fantasy (1)
2000-08-00 NOVEL English A Storm of Swords George R. R. Martin     fantasy (1), into-tv (1), dragons (1)
2000-06-00 NOVEL English Calculating God Robert J. Sawyer     science fiction (1), alien contact (1), uploaded personalities (1), Betelgeuse (1), supernova (1), virtual reality (1), mass extinction (1), paleontologists (1), Fermi paradox (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), Beta Hydri (1), genocide (1), genetic engineering (1), higher intelligence (1)
2000-11-00 NOVEL English Cosmonaut Keep Ken MacLeod     space opera (2), sub-light speed (1), science fiction (1)
2000-07-00 NOVEL English Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling     into-movie (1), fantasy (1), young-adult fantasy (1), magic school (1), orphan (1), hidden society (1), modern fantasy (1), media satire (1), england (1), into-video game (1)
2000-03-00 NOVEL English Midnight Robber Nalo Hopkinson     nanotechnology (1), science fiction (1), planetary colonization (1)
2000-03-00 NOVEL English Perdido Street Station
China Miéville?China Mieville
    steampunk (3), fantasy (2), new weird (2), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), 2-award-winner (1), science fiction (1)
1999-09-00 NOVEL English A Civil Campaign Lois McMaster Bujold     science fiction (1)
1999-03-00 NOVEL English A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge     space opera (2), nanotechnology (2), alien perspective (1), transhuman (1), first contact (1), 3-award-winner (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1999-05-00 NOVEL English Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson     undersea cables (1), Turing (1), cryptography (1), families (1), world war ii (1), Philippines (1), gold (1), romance (1), strong female character (1), mining (1), Ronald Reagan (1), Douglas MacArthur (1), submarines (1), internet (1), nanotechnology (1), POWs (1), tech startups (1), entrepreneurs (1), computer security (1), hackers (1), Unix (1), jungle warfare (1), death (1), Manila (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), cryptology (1)
1999-05-00 NOVEL English Darwin's Radio Greg Bear     2-award-winner (1), science fiction (1), abortion (1), reproduction (1), retrovirus (1), evolution (1), epidemic (1), mutation (1), Georgia (1)
1999-07-00 NOVEL English Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling     into-movie (1), fantasy (1), young-adult fantasy (1), magic school (1), orphan (1), hidden society (1), modern fantasy (1), Young Adult (1), time travel (1), wizards (1), england (1), into-video game (1)
1999-06-00 NOVEL English The Sky Road Ken MacLeod     nanotechnology (2), space opera (1), science fiction (1), tinkers (1), artificial intelligence (1), political science-fiction (1), Kazakhstan (1), scotland (1), Central Asia (1), second Soviet Union (1), socialism (1)
1998-03-00 NOVEL English Children of God Mary Doria Russell     religion (1), Vatican City (1), science fiction (1)
1998-06-00 NOVEL English Darwinia Robert Charles Wilson     current era (1), religion (1), parallel universe (1), far future (1), Earth (1), cybernetic storage of human mind (1), Creator vs. Creation (1), based on history (1), artificial intelligence (1), alternate history (1), alien manipulation (1), alien invasion (1), science fiction (1)
1998-10-00 NOVEL English Distraction Bruce Sterling     near future (1), nanotechnology (1), cyberpunk (1), politics (1), science fiction (1)
1998-06-00 NOVEL English Factoring Humanity Robert J. Sawyer     nanotechnology (1), science fiction (1)
1998-01-00 NOVEL English To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last Connie Willis     2-award-winner (1), time travel (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), fire (1), historian (1), romance (1), strong female characters (1), victorian (1), england (1), dogs (1), boats (1), churches (1), science fiction (1), humorous (1)
1997-01-00 NOVEL English City on Fire Walter Jon Williams     science fiction (1), force fields (1), world city (1)
1997-10-00 NOVEL English Forever Peace Joe Haldeman     nanotechnology (2), science fiction (1), big bang (1), mixed first and third person point of view (1), jacking in (1), technothriller (1), cults (1), hive mind (1), pessimism (1), memory edit (1), cosmology (1), scientists (1), robots (1), sex (1), military sf (1), technology (1), future war (1), weapons (1), mecha (1), empathy (1), Jupiter (1), virtual reality (1), racial conflict (1), drugs (1), 3-award-winner (1)
1997-05-00 NOVEL English Frameshift Robert J. Sawyer     science fiction (1)
1997-09-00 NOVEL English Jack Faust Michael Swanwick     genocide (1), parallel universes (1), temptation (1), Germany (1), science fiction (1), Faustian bargain (1)
1997-09-00 NOVEL English The Rise of Endymion Dan Simmons     space opera (2), nanotechnology (2), science fiction (1), far future (1)
1996-04-00 NOVEL English Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson     science fiction (3), mars (3), terraforming (2), space elevator (2), memory loss (1), nanotechnology (1), Corporations (1), immigration (1), asteroid belt (1), hard sf (1), 2-award-winner (1), genetic engineering (1), revolution (1), longevity (1), Titania (1), Mercury (1), climate change (1), climate control (1), near future (1), colonization (1)
1996-00-00 NOVEL English Holy Fire Bruce Sterling     science fiction (1)
1996-10-00 NOVEL English Memory Lois McMaster Bujold     science fiction (1)
1996-05-00 NOVEL English Remnant Population Elizabeth Moon     first contact (2), linguistics (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1996-00-00 NOVEL English Starplex Robert J. Sawyer     science fiction (1)
1995-09-00 NOVEL English Brightness Reef David Brin     space opera (1), science fiction (1), colonization (1), aliens (1), amnesia (1), robots (1), alien artifacts (1), music (1)
1995-02-00 NOVEL English The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson     nanotechnology (4), steampunk (3), cyberpunk (2), near future (2), science fiction (2), neo-victorian (1), postcyberpunk (1), 3-award-winner (1), hard sf (1), sociology (1), education (1), post-cyberpunk (1), matter duplication (1), computers (1), artificial intelligence (1)
1995-05-00 NOVEL English The Terminal Experiment Robert J. Sawyer     nanotechnology (1), 2-award-winner (1), science fiction (1), afterlife (1), immortality (1), artificial intelligence (1), soul (1), primates (1), internet (1), murder (1), mystery (1)
1995-00-00 NOVEL English The Time Ships Stephen Baxter     time travel (2), nanotechnology (1), 3-award-winner (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), dyson sphere (1), science fiction (1)
1994-10-00 NOVEL English Beggars & Choosers Nancy Kress     nanotechnology (1), science fiction (1)
1994-05-00 NOVEL English Brittle Innings Michael Bishop     science fiction (1)
1994-03-00 NOVEL English Mirror Dance Lois McMaster Bujold     science fiction (1), cloning (1)
1994-07-00 NOVEL English Mother of Storms John Barnes     Siberia (1), robots (1), moon (1), antimatter (1), set in 2020s (1), methane clathrate (1), global government (1), electromagnetic pulse (1), sex (1), virtual reality (1), cosmetic surgery (1), nuclear warfare (1), Von Neumann machines (1), Alaska (1), science fiction (1), storms (1), geoengineering (1), climate control (1), climate change (1), methane (1), hawaii (1), comet (1), Oceania (1), United States (1), automatic cars (1), mind control (1), ireland (1), murder (1), Thailand (1), journalists (1), interplanetary travel (1), terraforming (1), privacy (1), uploaded personalities (1), New York City (1), nanotechnology (1), Bangladesh (1), Pacific Ocean (1), Marshall Islands (1), mexico (1), enhanced intelligence (1), television (1), masers (1), diplomacy (1), gallium (1), computer viruses (1)
1994-12-00 NOVEL English Remake Connie Willis     science fiction (1), Animation (1)
1994-05-00 NOVEL English Towing Jehovah James Morrow     fantasy (1), religion (1), satire (1)
1993-04-00 NOVEL English Beggars in Spain Nancy Kress     nanotechnology (1), sleep (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1993-05-00 NOVEL English Glory Season David Brin     science fiction (1), colonization (1), genetic engineering (1), life cycle (1), Clones (1), Utopia (1), dystopia (1)
1993-10-00 NOVEL English Green Mars Kim Stanley Robinson     science fiction (3), mars (3), terraforming (2), colonization (2), space elevator (2), coup (1), nanotechnology (1), orbital mirrors (1), underground city (1), sea level rise (1), hard sf (1), Seiun Award for best foreign language novel nominee (1), 2-award-winner (1), politics (1), economics (1), longevity (1), revolution (1), genetic engineering (1), Mars colonization (1), near future (1)
1993-11-00 NOVEL English Moving Mars Greg Bear     mars (2), nanotechnology (1), 2-award-winner (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), robots (1), interplanetary war (1), teleportation (1), cosmology (1), interplanetary travel (1), artificial intelligence (1), moon (1), Earth (1), moving planets (1)
1993-09-00 NOVEL English Virtual Light William Gibson     cyberpunk (1), nanotechnology (1)
1992-04-00 NOVEL English A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge     space opera (3), nanotechnology (1), alien perspective (1), artificial intelligence (1), transhuman (1), galactic culture (1), science fiction (1), 2-award-winner (1), war with machines (1), hard sf (1)
1992-03-20 NOVEL English China Mountain Zhang Maureen F. McHugh     China (1), science fiction (1)
1992-07-00 NOVEL English Doomsday Book Connie Willis     3-award-winner (1), time travel (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), historian (1), epidemic (1), science fiction (1), strong female character (1), england (1), medieval (1), near future (1), humouros (1)
1992-09-00 NOVEL English Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson     mars (4), science fiction (2), terraforming (2), space elevator (2), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), nanotechnology (1), underground city (1), Phobos (1), Corporations (1), hard sf (1), Coyote (1), 2-award-winner (1), politics (1), genetic engineering (1), Mars colonization (1), climate control (1), longevity (1), revolution (1), near future (1), colonization (1)
1992-07-00 NOVEL English Steel Beach John Varley     nanotechnology (2), female main character (1), transhuman (1), artificial intelligence (1), science fiction (1)
1991-09-00 NOVEL English All the Weyrs of Pern Anne McCaffrey     dragons (1), science fiction (1)
1991-10-00 NOVEL English Barrayar Lois McMaster Bujold     3-award-winner (1), science fiction (1)
1991-05-00 NOVEL English Bone Dance Emma Bull     science fiction (1), post apocalypse (1), body hopping (1), voodoo loa (1), voodoo (1), United States (1), strong female characters (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), voodoo chwal (1), artificial body (1)
1991-02-00 NOVEL English Stations of the Tide Michael Swanwick     nanotechnology (1), 2-award-winner (1), science fiction (1)
1991-11-00 NOVEL English The Summer Queen Joan D. Vinge     science fiction (1)
1991-08-00 NOVEL English Xenocide Orson Scott Card     space opera (1), Catholicism (1), science fiction (1), alien culture (1), alien ecology (1), alien perspective (1), religion (1), chinese culture (1), space fleet (1), genocide (1), symbiosis (1), neologisms (1)
1990-06-00 NOVEL English Earth David Brin     nanotechnology (1), overpopulation (1), science fiction (1), black hole (1), switzerland (1), kleptocracy (1), ecological collapse (1), climate change (1)
1990-07-00 NOVEL English Queen of Angels Greg Bear     nanotechnology (1), science fiction (1), Earth (1), Alpha Centauri (1), artificial intelligence (1), detective (1), murder (1), neurology (1), psychology (1), consciousness (1), voodoo (1)
1990-03-00 NOVEL English The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons     space opera (2), nanotechnology (2), 3-award-winner (1), science fiction (1), far future (1)
1990-05-00 NOVEL English The Quiet Pools Michael P. Kube-McDowell     science fiction (1)
1990-09-00 NOVEL English The Vor Game Lois McMaster Bujold     science fiction (1)
1989-07-00 NOVEL English A Fire in the Sun George Alec Effinger     science fiction (1)
1989-09-00 NOVEL English Grass Sheri S. Tepper     science fiction (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)
1989-02-00 NOVEL English Prentice Alvin Orson Scott Card     alternate history (1), magic (1), slavery (1), fantasy (1)
1989-11-00 NOVEL English The Boat of a Million Years Poul Anderson     nanotechnology (1), science fiction (1)
1988-05-00 NOVEL English Cyteen C. J. Cherryh     cloning (1), psychology (1), 3-award-winner (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (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)
1988-07-00 NOVEL English Islands in the Net Bruce Sterling     cyberpunk (3), science fiction (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)
1988-01-00 NOVEL English Red Prophet Orson Scott Card     alternate history (1), magic (1), fantasy (1)
1987-07-00 NOVEL English Seventh Son Orson Scott Card     alternate history (1), magic (1), children (1), child prodigy (1), fantasy (1)
1987-09-00 NOVEL English The Forge of God Greg Bear     aliens (1), Seattle (1), robots (1), Geology (1), geologists (1), mind control (1), Fermi paradox (1), terraforming (1), alien invasion (1), San Francisco (1), end of the world (1), Earth (1), plate tectonics (1), neutronium (1), antimatter (1), Australia (1), california (1), first contact (1), earthquake (1), tsunami (1), nuclear weapons (1), von Neumann probes (1), Pacific Ocean (1), space war (1), set in 1990s (1), Washington, DC (1), politicians (1), loss (1), science fiction (1), war with machines (1), mars (1), nanotechnology (1), space opera (1)
1987-04-00 NOVEL English The Uplift War David Brin     space opera (2), uplift (1), 2-award-winner (1), science fiction (1), ecological collapse (1), aliens (1), dolphins (1), apes (1), interstellar travel (1)
1987-08-00 NOVEL English The Urth of the New Sun Gene Wolfe     science fiction (1), far future (1), fantasy (1), time travel (1)
1987-01-00 NOVEL English When Gravity Fails George Alec Effinger     city life (1), cyborg (1), science fiction (1), into-video game (1), LGBTQ (1)
1986-02-00 NOVEL English Black Genesis L. Ron Hubbard     science fiction (1)
1986-02-00 NOVEL English Count Zero William Gibson     cyberpunk (3), artificial intelligence (1), virtual reality (1), science fiction (1), Arizona (1), voodoo (1), espionage (1), New Jersey (1), Paris (1), art (1)
1986-00-00 NOVEL English Marooned in Realtime Vernor Vinge     nanotechnology (1), science fiction (1), time distortion (1), time travel (1), murder (1), deep time (1), far future (1), evolution (1)
1986-03-00 NOVEL English Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card     space opera (1), interstellar travel (1), artificial intelligence (1), far future (1), space colony (1), science fiction (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), symbiosis (1), epidemic (1), forests (1), aliens (1), relativistic time dilation (1), religion (1)
1986-07-00 NOVEL English The Ragged Astronauts Bob Shaw     science fiction (1)
1985-04-00 NOVEL English Blood Music Greg Bear     nanotechnology (1), science fiction (1), cyberpunk (1), cosmology (1), consciousness (1), artificial intelligence (1)
1985-05-00 NOVEL English Cuckoo's Egg C. J. Cherryh     science fiction (1), linguistics (1)
1985-01-00 NOVEL English Ender's Game Orson Scott Card     space opera (3), science fiction (3), military sf (2), into-movie (2), first contact (1), from-short (1), child protagonist (1), 3-award-winner (1), aliens (1), asteroids (1), antigravity (1), genocide (1), ansible (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), games (1)
1985-05-00 NOVEL English Footfall Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle     generation ship (2), military (1), kinetic weapons (1), nuclear war (1), suspended animation (1), Kansas (1), Alpha Centauri (1), lasers (1), Kremlin (1), alien psychology (1), contemporary (1), war in space (1), White House (1), first contact (1), Project Orion (1), Bussard ramjet (1), alien point of view (1), survivalists (1), SF fandom (1), SF authors (1), United States (1), africa (1), killer asteroid (1), alien invasion (1), science fiction (1)
1985-11-00 NOVEL English The Postman David Brin     science fiction (1), post apocalypse (1), post-apocalyptic (1), 2-award-winner (1), into-movie (1), social collapse (1), survival (1), artificial intelligence (1), Oregon (1), United States (1), Shakespeare (1), mail (1)
1984-11-00 NOVEL English Emergence David R. Palmer     science fiction (1)
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