| 2011-01-18 |
NOVEL |
English |
Among Others |
Jo Walton |
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fantasy (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), recursive sf (1), Wales (1)
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| 2010-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
All Clear |
Connie Willis |
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time travel (1), 3-award-winner (1), strong female characters (1), world war ii (1), science fiction (1), historian (1), england (1)
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| 2010-01-28 |
NOVEL |
English |
Blackout |
Connie Willis |
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time travel (1), 3-award-winner (1), strong female characters (1), world war ii (1), science fiction (1), historian (1), england (1)
|
| 2009-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Windup Girl |
Paolo Bacigalupi |
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Bangkok (2), Thailand (2), 3-award-winner (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), elephants (1), Refugees (1), biopunk (1), expatriates (1), environmental issues (1), alternative energy (1), genetic engineering (1), science fiction (1), virus (1), present tense (1)
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| 2007-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Yiddish Policemen's Union |
Michael Chabon |
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alternate history (2), mystery (1), fantasy (1), science fiction (1), 3-award-winner (1)
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| 2003-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Paladin of Souls |
Lois McMaster Bujold |
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fantasy (1), 3-award-winner (1)
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| 2001-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
American Gods |
Neil Gaiman |
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into-tv (1), fantasy (1), superheroes (1)
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| 1997-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Forever Peace |
Joe Haldeman |
|
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nanotechnology (2), 3-award-winner (1), drugs (1), racial conflict (1), virtual reality (1), Jupiter (1), empathy (1), mecha (1), weapons (1), future war (1), technology (1), military sf (1), science fiction (1), sex (1), robots (1), scientists (1), cosmology (1), memory edit (1), pessimism (1), hive mind (1), cults (1), technothriller (1), jacking in (1), mixed first and third person point of view (1), big bang (1)
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| 1992-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Doomsday Book |
Connie Willis |
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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)
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| 1986-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Speaker for the Dead |
Orson Scott Card |
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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)
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| 1985-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ender's Game |
Orson Scott Card |
|
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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)
|
| 1984-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Neuromancer |
William Gibson |
|
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artificial intelligence (3), cyberpunk (3), science fiction (2), virtual reality (2), dystopia (2), near future (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), hard sf (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), Japan (1), poison (1), uploaded personalities (1), United States (1), istanbul (1), cryogenics (1), drugs (1), into-video game (1)
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| 1983-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Startide Rising |
David Brin |
|
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space opera (2), uplift (1), aquatic (1), 3-award-winner (1), dolphin (1), 2-award-winner (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), apes (1), alien artifacts (1), aliens (1), interstellar war (1), tsunami (1), Poetry (1), alien perspective (1), artificial intelligence (1), ancient library (1), trojan horse (1), ancient aliens (1), water world (1), strong female characters (1), dolphins (1), dolphin point of view (1), genetic engineering (1), interstellar travel (1), war in space (1), mysterious planetary ecology (1), genetic monsters (1)
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| 1979-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Fountains of Paradise |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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space elevator (2), science fiction (2), 2-award-winner (1), hard sf (1), Sri Lanka (1), engineering (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1978-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dreamsnake |
Vonda N. McIntyre |
|
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3-award-winner (1), science fiction (1)
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| 1977-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Gateway |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
5-award-winner (1), space opera (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), alternating chapter structure (1), interstellar travel (1), alien artifacts (1), survivor guilt (1), time dilation (1), black holes (1), into-video game (1)
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| 1975-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Forever War |
Joe Haldeman |
|
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military sf (4), space opera (3), science fiction (2), into-board game (1), sub-light speed (1), war with aliens (1), power armor (1), dilatation (1), time travel (1), relativistic time dilation (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1974-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
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science fiction (2), ambiguous utopia (1), 3-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), hard sf (1), love (1), celibacy (1), LGBTQ+ (1), alternating chapter structure (1), music (1), art (1), leather (1), food (1), into-radio (1), drought (1), anarchism (1), Utopia (1), mathematics (1), ansible (1), artificial language (1), physicists (1), university (1), double planet (1), interplanetary travel (1), interstellar travel (1), Tau Ceti (1), philosophy (1), Albert Einstein (1), childbirth (1), trains (1), architecture (1), education (1), artificial languages (1), famine (1), Time (1), revolution (1), desert (1)
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| 1973-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Rendezvous with Rama |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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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)
|
| 1972-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Gods Themselves |
Isaac Asimov |
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science fiction (2), first contact (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), parallel universe (1), translation (1), Moon colony (1), Solar apocalypse (1), advanced aliens (1), academia (1), rivalry (1), alternative energy (1), Etruscan (1), journalist (1), radioactivity (1), set in 22nd century (1), set in 2070s (1), intuition (1), lunar city (1), global Earth government (1), argon (1), tourism (1), power source (1), pions (1), gymnastics (1), nudity (1), immigration (1), plutonium (1), tungsten (1), food (1), genetic engineering (1), water (1), quasars (1), moon (1), aliens (1), alien perspective (1), sex (1)
|
| 1970-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ringworld |
Larry Niven |
|
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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)
|
| 1969-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
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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)
|
| 1965-12-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dune |
Frank Herbert |
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space opera (3), 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)
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