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Date Type Language Title Authors Parent Title Parent Authors Tags
1991-02-00 NOVEL English Synners Pat Cadigan     cyberpunk (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1991-09-00 NOVEL English The Garden of Rama Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee     alien artifact (1), hard sf (1), social criticism (1), megastarship (1), science fiction (1)
1991-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Understand Ted Chiang     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1991-12-00 SHORTFICTION English What Continues, What Fails ... David Brin     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1990-10-00 SHORTFICTION English A Niche Peter Watts     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1990-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Mammy Morgan Played the Organ, Her Daddy Beat the Drum Michael F. Flynn     ghosts (1), physics (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1990-00-00 NOVEL English Use of Weapons Iain M. Banks     space opera (4), artificial intelligence (2), science fiction (2), ship AI (1), nanotechnology (1), assassin (1), transhuman (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), hard sf (1), alternating chapter structure (1)
1989-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Foundation's Conscience George Zebrowski     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1989-05-00 NOVEL English Imago Octavia E. Butler     science fiction (1), coming of age (1), human-alien hybrids (1), hard sf (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)
1989-11-00 NOVEL English Rama II Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee     alien artifact (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), megastarship (1), social criticism (1)
1988-06-00 NOVEL English Adulthood Rites Octavia E. Butler     science fiction (1), human-alien hybrids (1), hard sf (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)
1988-05-00 NOVEL English Prelude to Foundation Isaac Asimov     galactic empire (2), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), androids (1), psychohistory (1), food (1)
1988-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Stop Evolution in Its Tracks! John Sladek     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1987-11-00 SHORTFICTION English All the Hues of Hell Gene Wolfe     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1987-05-00 NOVEL English Dawn Octavia E. Butler     science fiction (2), first contact (1), hard sf (1), human-alien hybrids (1), aliens (1), post apocalypse (1), alien spaceship (1), Living spaceship (1), Non-binary gender (1), post-apocalypse (1), captives (1), genetic modification (1), jungle (1), suspended animation (1), tentacles (1), Last survivors (1), Grey alien (1)
1987-00-00 NOVEL Polish Fiasko
Stanisław Lem?Stanislaw Lem
     hard sf (1), science fiction (1), planetary exploration (1)
1987-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Sexual Chemistry Brian Stableford     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1987-12-00 NOVEL English The Architects of Hyperspace Thomas R. McDonough     space opera (1), hard sf (1)
1986-02-00 NOVEL English A Door Into Ocean Joan Slonczewski     water (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1986-10-00 NOVEL English Foundation and Earth Isaac Asimov     science fiction (1), space opera (1), hard sf (1), androids (1), binary star system (1), robots (1), hermaphrodites (1), psychic ability (1), higher intelligence (1), water world (1)
1986-07-00 SHORTFICTION German Naturgesetze, Reform römisch Eins
Andreas Möhn?Andreas Moehn
     hard sf (1)
1986-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Tangents Greg Bear     science fiction (1), mathematics (1), hard sf (1)
1986-06-00 SHORTFICTION English The Beautiful and the Sublime Bruce Sterling     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1985-10-00 NOVEL English Contact Carl Sagan     first contact (1), science fiction (1), into-movie (1), hard sf (1), strong female character (1), higher intelligence (1), interstellar travel (1)
1985-08-00 NOVEL English Eon Greg Bear     space opera (2), time travel (2), transdimensional (1), first contact (1), artifact (1), near future (1), science fiction (1), parallel universe (1), hard sf (1), genetic engineering (1), religion (1), alien invasion (1), aliens (1), exploration (1), nuclear warfare (1), generation ship (1), terraforming (1), asteroid (1), mind augmentation (1)
1985-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Send Me a Kiss by Wire Hilbert Schenck     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1985-11-00 NOVEL English Spinneret Timothy Zahn     dyson sphere (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1984-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Chromatic Aberration John M. Ford     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1984-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Heat of Fusion John M. Ford     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1984-07-00 NOVEL English Neuromancer William Gibson     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)
1984-04-00 NOVEL English The Flight of the Dragonfly Robert L. Forward     hard sf (1), exploration (1), sub-light speed (1), near future (1)
1984-03-00 NOVEL English The Integral Trees Larry Niven     science fiction (2), non-planetary life (1), mega-flora (1), lost colony (1), colony (1), hard sf (1), neutron star (1)
1984-00-00 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)
1983-06-00 NOVEL English Code of the Lifemaker James P. Hogan     lost colony (1), evolution (1), artificial intelligence (1), von neuman replication (1), hard sf (1), saturn-titan (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1)
1983-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Message Found in a Copy of Flatland Rudy Rucker     science fiction (1), mathematics (1), hard sf (1)
1983-03-00 NOVEL English Orion Shall Rise Poul Anderson     hard sf (1), aerostat (1), pacific islands nation (1), solar aerostat (1), Project Orion (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), postapocalyptic (1), strong female character (1), romance (1), national politics (1), international politics (1), intrigue (1), friendship (1), betrayal (1), Gaeans (1), industrialism (1), feudalism (1), heroic sacrifices (1)
1983-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Procreation Gene Wolfe     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1983-09-00 NOVEL English Startide Rising David Brin     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)
1982-09-00 NOVEL English Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov     science fiction (2), 2-award-winner (1), hard sf (1), computers (1), antigravity (1), mental power (1), psychic ability (1), group mind (1), smell (1), world city (1), microfilm (1), language (1), virtual reality (1), telepathy (1), tachyons (1), evolution (1), courtroom drama (1), faster than light drive (1), Earth (1), interstellar travel (1), galactic empire (1), library (1), encyclopedia (1), weather control (1), politicians (1), historians (1), mind shield (1), mind control (1), distant future (1), psychohistory (1), higher intelligence (1), male bonding (1), radioactivity (1), fashion (1), time travel (1), robots (1), multiverse (1)
1982-00-00 NOVEL English Helliconia Spring Brian W. Aldiss     2-award-winner (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), cold (1), xenobiology (1), strong female characters (1), afterlife (1), aliens (1), seasons (1), interstellar travel (1), far future (1), climate change (1), neologisms (1)
1982-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Relativistic Effects Gregory Benford     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1982-04-00 NOVEL English Voyage from Yesteryear James P. Hogan     colonization (1), sub-light speed (1), hard sf (1), colony (1)
1981-02-00 NOVEL English Downbelow Station C. J. Cherryh     space opera (3), military sf (2), science fiction (1), space pirates (1), into-board game (1), pirates (1), hard sf (1), Tau Ceti (1)
1981-06-00 SHORTFICTION English Drode's Equations Richard Grant     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1981-07-06 SHORTFICTION English Exposures Gregory Benford     first contact (1), astronomy (1), religion (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1981-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Johnny Mnemonic William Gibson     dolphin (1), corporate espionage (1), cyberpunk (1), Yakuza (1), bioengineered human enhancement (1), near future (1), into-movie (1), first person point of view (1), female fighter (1), assassin (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1981-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Making Light James P. Hogan     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1980-05-00 NOVEL English Dragon's Egg Robert L. Forward     first contact (2), hard sf (1), alien perspective (1), high gravity (1), science fiction (1), neutron star (1)
1980-03-00 NOVEL English Thrice Upon a Time James P. Hogan     hard sf (1), time travel (1), scotland (1), physics (1), scientists (1), epidemic (1)
1980-08-05 SHORTFICTION Croatian Zatvoren u sobi
Drago Vučinić?Drago Vucinic
Drago Vuchinic
     hard sf (1)
1979-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Down & Out on Ellfive Prime Dean Ing     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1979-08-00 SHORTFICTION English giANTS Edward Bryant     recursive sf (NESFA index) (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1979-01-00 NOVEL English The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke     space elevator (2), science fiction (2), 2-award-winner (1), hard sf (1), Sri Lanka (1), engineering (1), first contact (1)
1979-02-00 SHORTFICTION English The Singing Diamond Robert L. Forward     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1978-00-00 SHORTFICTION English In a Petri Dish Upstairs George Turner     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1978-10-00 NOVEL English The Avatar Poul Anderson     portal-gates (1), alien artifact (1), aliens (1), hard sf (1), Tipler cylinder (1), politics (1)
1978-04-00 NOVEL English The Genesis Machine James P. Hogan     hard sf (1), intellectual thriller (1), science fiction (1)
1978-09-00 SHORTFICTION English The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck Hilbert Schenck     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1978-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Very Slow Time Machine Ian Watson     science fiction (2), time travel (1), hard sf (1)
1978-07-00 SHORTFICTION English To Bring in the Steel Donald Kingsbury     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
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)
1977-05-00 NOVEL English Inherit the Stars James P. Hogan     first contact (2), lost heritage (1), hard sf (1), archeology (1), intellectual thriller (1), science fiction (1)
1977-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Period of Totality Fred Saberhagen     science fiction (1), hard sf (1), space opera (1), scientists (1)
1976-00-00 SHORTFICTION English In the Hall of the Martian Kings John Varley     hard sf (1), mars (1), space exploration (1), exobiology (1)
1976-09-00 NOVEL English Mindbridge Joe Haldeman     telepathy (2), science fiction (2), space opera (1), hard sf (1), explorers (1), interplanetary exploration (1), interstellar exploration (1), planetary exploration (1), Alien Communication (1), communication (1), interspecies communication (1), thought communication (1), dangerous missions (1), suicide (1)
1976-05-00 SHORTFICTION English The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats James Tiptree, Jr.     science fiction (1), psychology (1), scientists (1), hard sf (1)
1975-06-00 ANTHOLOGY English Combat SF Gordon R. Dickson     extrastellar travel (1), robots (1), aliens (1), combat (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1975-01-00 NOVEL English The Forever War Joe Haldeman     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)
1975-01-05 SHORTFICTION English The Life and Times of Multivac Isaac Asimov     science fiction (1), hard sf (1), computers (1)
1975-03-00 NOVEL English The Shockwave Rider John Brunner     cyberpunk (1), revolution (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), computers (1), alternating chapter structure (1)
1974-06-00 COLLECTION English A Hole in Space Larry Niven     detective (1), hard sf (1), teleportation (1), collection (1), cryopreservation (1), Bussard ramjets (1), Known Space (1), science essay (1), megastructures (1), memory RNA (1), science fiction (1), cryogenics (1)
1974-04-00 SHORTFICTION English A Kind of Murder Larry Niven     teleportation (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), murder mystery (1)
1974-05-00 NOVEL English The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia Ursula K. Le Guin     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)
1974-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Hole Man Larry Niven     alien artifact (1), black hole (1), murder mystery (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), mars (1)
1974-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club Larry Niven     teleportation (1), science fiction (1), murder mystery (1), hard sf (1), flash mobs (1)
1973-08-00 SHORTFICTION English All the Bridges Rusting Larry Niven     teleportation (2), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1973-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Interlude George O. Smith     interplanetary travel (1), matter transmission (1), hard sf (1), quantum physics (1)
1973-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Lodestar Poul Anderson     faster than light travel (1), aliens (1), hard sf (1), space traders (1), science fiction (1), FTL travel (1)
1973-06-00 NOVEL English Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke     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)
1973-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Something Up There Likes Me Alfred Bester     hard sf (1), first person (1), contemporary (1), artificial intelligence (1), artificial earth satellites (1), cold war (1)
1973-06-00 SHORTFICTION English The Alibi Machine Larry Niven     teleportation (1), murder mystery (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1973-11-00 SHORTFICTION English The Mothballed Spaceship Harry Harrison     hard sf (1), artificial intelligence (1), interstellar colonization (1), space warship (1)
1971-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Occam's Scalpel Theodore Sturgeon     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1971-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Rammer Larry Niven     memory RNA (1), Bussard ramjets (1), cryopreservation (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), memory replaced (1), cryogenics (1), body swap (1)
1971-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Cruel Equations Robert Sheckley     space travel (1), hard science fiction (1), into-tv (1), artificial intelligence (1), military (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1971-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Transit of Earth Arthur C. Clarke     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1970-10-00 NOVEL English Ringworld Larry Niven     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)
1970-00-00 NOVEL English Tau Zero Poul Anderson     generation ship (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), dilatation (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), hope (1), team psychology (1), Big Crunch (1), oscillating cosmological model (1), general relativity (1), galactic superclusters (1), galactic clusters (1), no faster than light travel (1), only humans (1), Bussard ramjet (1), gender relations (1)
1970-02-00 SHORTFICTION English The Horars of War Gene Wolfe     hard sf (1), military (1), androids (1)
1970-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Time Piece Joe Haldeman     wormholes (1), interspecies warfare (1), interstellar travel (1), hard sf (1), relativistic time dilation (1)
1970-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Waterclap Isaac Asimov     science fiction (2), hard sf (1), deepsea (1), submersible (1)
1969-01-00 NOVEL English Brother Assassin Fred Saberhagen     time travel (3), science fiction (2), artificial intelligence (1), war with machines (1), Human planet not earth (1), episodic (1), hard sf (1)
1969-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Nine Lives Ursula K. Le Guin     hard sf (1), science fiction (1), cloning (1), interstellar travel (1), mining (1), love (1), famine (1)
1968-00-00 NOVEL English 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke     artificial intelligence (4), ship AI (2), near future (2), into-movie (2), science fiction (2), first contact (1), computer (1), hard sf (1), Iapetus (1), moon (1), Earth (1), interplanetary travel (1), interstellar travel (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), alien artifact (1), saturn (1), HAL-9000 (1)
1968-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Grendel Larry Niven     hard sf (1), kidnapping (1), first person (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (1), rejuvenation (1), life in vacuum (1)
1968-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Kyrie Poul Anderson     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1968-04-00 COLLECTION English Neutron Star Larry Niven     hard sf (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (1)
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