1990-00-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The Cosmic Trilogy |
C. S. Lewis |
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The 5-Parsec Shelf (1)
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1979-09-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction |
Michael Franklin and Martin Last and Beth Meacham and Baird Searles |
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The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), A-to-Z of writers (1), Book with list (1)
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1977-08-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The Cornelius Chronicles |
Michael Moorcock |
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The 5-Parsec Shelf (1)
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1975-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dhalgren |
Samuel R. Delany |
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The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), adventure (1), anarchism (1), survival (1), science fiction (1), United States (1), time distortion (1), fire (1), boredom (1), amnesia (1), unreliable narrator (1), dyslexia (1), gangs (1), sexuality (1)
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1975-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Norstrilia |
Cordwainer Smith |
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underground city (1), mars (1), longevity (1), psychotherapy (1), architecture (1), invisibility (1), murder (1), religion (1), food (1), smell (1), Miami (1), radio (1), theft (1), robots (1), hominins (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), interstellar travel (1), distant future (1), Poetry (1), music (1), economics (1), telepathy (1), science fiction (1), postage stamps (1), Earth (1), human-animal hybrids (1), Physicians (1), Australia (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1974-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Centauri Device |
M. John Harrison |
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space opera (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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1972-11-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
334 |
Thomas M. Disch |
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dystopia (1), overpopulation (1), skyscraper (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), everyday life (1), science fiction (1)
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1971-04-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Vermilion Sands |
J. G. Ballard |
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The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), science fiction (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), near future (1)
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1970-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
And Chaos Died |
Joanna Russ |
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The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), science fiction (1)
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1970-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ringworld |
Larry Niven |
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exploration (2), teleportation (1), natural disaster (1), faster than light travel (1), breeding program (1), time stasis (1), luck (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (1), longevity (1), superconductivity (1), into-game (1), into-video game (1), hard sf (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), asteroid (1), mega-engineering (1)
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1970-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Tau Zero |
Poul Anderson |
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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)
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1969-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
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science fiction (2), interstellar travel (1), androgyny (1), alternating chapter structure (1), sociology (1), philosophy (1), ice planet (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), multiple points of view (1), politics (1), social criticism (1), first contact (1), gender bending (1), first person (1), alien point of view (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), 3-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), cold (1)
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1968-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Stand on Zanzibar |
John Brunner |
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overpopulation (2), near future (1), revolution (1), 3-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), fictional Asian countries (1), science fiction (1), genetic engineering (1), neologisms (1), terrorism (1), africa (1), Indonesia (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1)
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1967-10-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
Dangerous Visions |
Harlan Ellison |
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Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), original anthology (1), science fiction (1)
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1967-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lord of Light |
Roger Zelazny |
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colony (1), hindu-mythos (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), fantasy (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), apotheosis (1), rebellion (1), murder (1), cloning (1), reincarnation (1), technology (1), religion (1)
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1966-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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artificial intelligence (3), moon (1), revolution (1), ai bootstrap (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), science fiction (1), electromagnetic catapults (1), polyandry (1), libertarianism (1), polyamory (1)
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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), desert (1), cult fiction (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), space fantasy (1), drugs (1), force fields (1), ornithopters (1), secret breeding program (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), 2-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), mega-fauna (1), revolution (1), superman (1)
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1965-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dark World |
Henry Kuttner |
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The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), science fantasy (1), heroic fantasy (1), fantasy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1964-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Earth's Last Citadel |
Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore |
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The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), time travel (1), post apocalypse (1), strong female characters (1), 1944 retro hugo nominee candidate (1), world war ii (1), Tunisia (1)
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1963-10-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The Foundation Trilogy |
Isaac Asimov |
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Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), social engineering (1), cult fiction (1), science fiction (1)
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1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Hothouse |
Brian W. Aldiss |
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moon (1), science fantasy (1), fungi (1), science fiction (1), locked rotation (1), evolution (1), insects (1), interplanetary travel (1), Earth (1), Fix up (1), mind control (1), parasites (1), panspermia (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), dying earth (1), far future (1)
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1962-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Little Fuzzy |
H. Beam Piper |
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first contact (1), Librivox (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), science fiction (1)
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1962-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Man in the High Castle |
Philip K. Dick |
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alternate history (6), racism (1), set in 1960s (1), international politics (1), Yin and Yang (1), resistance (1), America (1), evil (1), creativity (1), jewelry (1), Japan (1), slavery (1), San Francisco (1), story within a story (1), I Ching (1), Hitler Wins (1), into-tv (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), nazis (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
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1959-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
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religion (3), post apocalypse (2), post-apocalyptic (2), The 5-Parsec Shelf (2), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (2), mutants (1), world war (1), Wandering Jew (1), monastery (1), nuclear war (1), science fiction (1), mexico (1), holy relics (1), historical perspective (1), warlords (1), Theology (1), Catholicism (1), illuminated manuscripts (1), canonizatioin (1), Renaissance (1), United States (1), euthanasia (1), into-radio (1), Utah (1), set in 2500s (1), cannibalism (1), set in 3100s (1), Texas (1), set in 3700s (1), interstellar travel (1), Physicians (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
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1959-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dorsai! |
Gordon R. Dickson |
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military sf (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), science fiction (1)
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1958-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Case of Conscience |
James Blish |
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first contact (1), religion (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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1958-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Big Time |
Fritz Leiber |
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Librivox (1), time travel (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Hitler Wins (1), science fiction (1), locked room mystery (1)
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1957-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Citizen of the Galaxy |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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science fiction (1), young-adult sf (1), orphan (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), juvenile sf (1), slavery (1), interstellar travel (1), Wyoming (1), coming of age (1)
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1957-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Midwich Cuckoos |
John Wyndham |
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into-movie (2), alien invasion (2), england (1), creepy kids (1), horror (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), into-radio (1), accelerated growth (1), group mind (1), mind control (1), telepathy (1), parasites (1), unusual children (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), evil children (1), cosy catastrophe (1), science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
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1956-01-26 |
NOVEL |
English |
The City and the Stars |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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far future (2), science fiction (2), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), city life (1), coming of age (1), artificial intelligence (1), higher intelligence (1), incorporeal beings (1), subways (1), robots (1), interstellar travel (1), exploration (1), Utopia (1), sealed city (1), last city (1)
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1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stars My Destination |
Alfred Bester |
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science fiction (2), bodily augmentation (1), Aldebaran (1), synesthesia (1), shipwreck (1), caves (1), torture (1), love (1), tattoos (1), corporate fiefdoms (1), telepathy (1), interplanetary war (1), prison (1), only humans (1), space opera (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), vengeance (1), teleportation (1)
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1953-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Childhood's End |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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peace (1), into-radio (1), alien invasion (1), Earth (1), higher intelligence (1), telepathy (1), end of the world (1), last man on Earth (1), incorporeal beings (1), aliens (1), deepsea environment (1), submarine (1), squid (1), whales (1), time viewer (1), hibernation (1), Australia (1), telekinesis (1), Utopia (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), into-tv (1), cosy catastrophe (1), museum (1), virtual reality (1), first contact (1), tsunami (1), winged flight (1), creativity (1), antigravity (1), music (1), art (1), interstellar travel (1)
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1953-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
More Than Human |
Theodore Sturgeon |
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farmer (1), HumbleBundle (1), amnesia (1), memory wiping (1), memory loss (1), telekinetics (1), telekinesis (1), twin sisters (1), twins (1), telepathic (1), telepathy (1), telepath (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), baby (1), gestalt entity (1), gestalt (1), unusual children (1), teleportation (1), psychiatrist (1), psychiatry (1), mutants (1), science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1)
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1953-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Space Merchants |
C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl |
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dystopia (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), subliminal control (1), economics (1), addiction (1)
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1950-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
First Lensman |
Edward E. Smith |
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space opera (2), action-adventure (1), telepathy (1), science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), 1950 (1)
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1950-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Needle |
Hal Clement |
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first contact (2), science fiction (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), aliens (1), symbionts (1), Earth (1), Pacific Ocean (1), alien perspective (1), 1950 (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1950-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The Dying Earth |
Jack Vance |
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dying earth (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1), fantasy (1), far future (1), wizards (1), Appendix N (1), 1950 (1), science fantasy (1)
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1950-05-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The Martian Chronicles |
Ray Bradbury |
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science fiction (2), Dimension X (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), into-tv (1), mars (1), Martians (1)
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1949-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
A Martian Odyssey and Others |
Stanley G. Weinbaum |
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The 5-Parsec Shelf (1)
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1949-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Humanoids |
Jack Williamson |
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science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), dystopia (1), robots (1), interstellar travel (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1948-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The World of Null-A |
A. E. van Vogt |
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science fiction (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1)
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1936-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
At the Mountains of Madness |
H. P. Lovecraft |
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into-music (1), set in 1930s (1), into-graphic novel (1), aliens (1), continental drift (1), exploration (1), insanity (1), underground sea (1), paleontology (1), archaeology (1), first person point of view (1), geologist (1), Cthulhu Mythos (1), into-video game (1), BLEILER: Abominable snowmen (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), antarctica (1), cosmic horror (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), cold (1), horror (1)
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1935-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Odd John |
Olaf Stapledon |
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science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), telepathy (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), evolution (1), suicide (1), teenagers (1), telekinesis (1), mind reader (1), superpowers (1), friendship (1), gifted (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1930-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Last and First Men |
Olaf Stapledon |
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venus (2), Neptune (2), first person point of view (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), war with aliens (1), European interwar period (1), social commentary (1), sociology (1), psychology (1), interplanetary travel (1), telepathy across time (1), human evolution (1), distant future (1), genetic engineering (1), far future (1), future history (1), spirituality (1), Venusians (1), Martians (1), evolution (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), science fiction (1)
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1929-00-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The World Below |
S. Fowler Wright |
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The 5-Parsec Shelf (1)
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1919-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Moon Pool |
A. Merritt |
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Librivox (1), antigravity projectors (1), Disintegrator (1), invisibility cloak (1), Google Books (1), lost race (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), witches (1), magic door (1), fantasy (1), monster god (1), Alternate World (1), Underworld (1), Appendix N (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1917-10-10 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Princess of Mars |
Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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mars (4), action-adventure (2), science fantasy (2), science fiction (2), into-movie (2), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), into-board game (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), planetary romance (1), sword and planet (1), Barsoom (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), ipulpfiction (1), transported main character (1), fantastic adventure (1), Librivox (1), pgb (1), cliffhanger (1), swashbuckling adventure (1)
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1912-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Night Land |
William Hope Hodgson |
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weird (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), fantasy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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1895-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Time Machine |
H. G. Wells |
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time travel (4), inventor (2), into-movie (2), club story (1), Escape (Radio) (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), first person point of view (1), london (1), museum (1), social criticism (1), into-radio (1), invention (1), evolution (1), time machine (1), science fiction (1), cosy catastrophe (1), into-tv (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), dying earth (1), far future (1), ipulpfiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), dystopia (1), Librivox (1), chrononaut (1)
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1865-10-25 |
NOVEL |
French |
De la Terre à la Lune |
Jules Verne |
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Librivox (1), science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), into-movie (1), Scientific Association (1), Space ship (1), interplanetary travel (1), moon (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), into-tv (1)
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1818-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus |
Mary Shelley |
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science fiction (2), horror (2), Creator vs. Creation (2), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), medicine (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), [NESFA Core Reading List] (1), into-tv (1), into-ballet (1), into-music (1), into-play (1), into-movie (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), weird (1), Librivox (1), Google Books (1), pgs (1), mad scientist (1), Pursuit of Knowledge (1), Monstrosity (1)
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