| 2016-03-29 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Hunter Captain |
David John Baker |
|
|
torture (1), sentience (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1), sex (1)
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| 2013-09-24 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Fall of the Governor: Part One |
Jay Bonansinga and Robert Kirkman |
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|
horror (1), zombies (1), Walking Dead (1), torture (1), psychopath (1), romance (1), postapocalyptic (1), United States (1), strong female characters (1), despotism (1), vengeance (1), gladiatorial combat (1), escape (1)
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| 2011-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Bronze Summer |
Stephen Baxter |
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|
alternate history (1), climate change (1), vengeance (1), Troy (1), peace (1), slavery (1), potatoes (1), iron (1), levees (1), Turkey (1), North Sea (1), sociopaths (1), Iceland (1), volcano (1), mexico (1), torture (1), eunuchs (1)
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| 2009-09-03 |
NOVEL |
English |
Transition |
Iain M. Banks |
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|
time travel (1), science fiction (1), intrigue (1), paranormal talents (1), torture (1), murder (1), parallel earths (1), Multiple First person point of view (1), cabal (1), secret plots (1), strong female characters (1), betrayal (1), mind transfer (1), psychic drug (1)
|
| 2002-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The McCrath Model SS40-C Series S |
Edward Lee |
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|
Extreme horror (1), torture (1)
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| 2000-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Light of Other Days |
Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke |
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|
global computer network search engine (1), wormholes (1), hard sf (1), time viewer (1), science fiction (1), weather control (1), resurrection (1), religion (1), invention (1), tattoos (1), tigers (1), extinction (1), cloning (1), virtual reality (1), climate change (1), electromagnetic pulse (1), antigravity (1), artificial intelligence (1), mind control (1), shared mind (1), nuclear waste (1), surveillance (1), storms (1), set in 2030s (1), set in 2040s (1), set in 2080s (1), set in 22nd century (1), nanotechnology (1), london (1), Seattle (1), russia (1), antarctica (1), United Kingdom (1), Uzbekistan (1), Rome (1), africa (1), mathematics (1), genealogy (1), hominins (1), privacy (1), psychologists (1), war (1), torture (1), invisibility (1), physicists (1), evolution (1), comet impact (1), archaeology (1), journalists (1), drought (1), American civil war (1), music (1), Crusades (1), Abraham Lincoln (1), Albert Einstein (1), jesus (1), Moses (1), Christopher Columbus (1), William Shakespeare (1), Pierre de Fermat (1), Ötzi (1), Ludwig van Beethoven (1), sea level rise (1)
|
| 2000-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel |
Joe R. Lansdale |
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|
steampunk (1), parallel universes (1), American West (1), vampires (1), Morlocks (1), torture (1)
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| 1999-11-22 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
In the Deathroom |
Stephen King |
|
|
banana republic (1), torture (1), contemporary (1), electric shock (1)
|
| 1999-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Old Music and the Slave Women |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
science fiction (1), slavery (1), torture (1), biological warfare (1), revolution (1)
|
| 1998-06-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The Book of the New Sun |
Gene Wolfe |
|
|
science fiction (1), distant future (1), Earth (1), torture (1), first person point of view (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1996-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There Is a Violence |
Sally McBride |
|
|
first person point of view (1), alien artifacts (1), archaeology (1), female protagonist (1), family (1), alien psychology (1), torture (1), repatriation (1), collector (1)
|
| 1985-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Brightness Falls from the Air |
James Tiptree, Jr. |
|
|
love (1), suspended animation (1), time distortion (1), nova (1), alcohol (1), drugs (1), art (1), genocide (1), aliens (1), interstellar war (1), interstellar travel (1), distant future (1), science fiction (1), loss (1), memory erasure (1), murder (1), sadism (1), beauty (1), telepathy (1), reproduction (1), poison (1), rapid aging (1), torture (1)
|
| 1984-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Heretics of Dune |
Frank Herbert |
|
|
science fiction (1), space opera (1), interstellar travel (1), sex (1), love (1), politics (1), Clones (1), drugs (1), punishment (1), eugenics (1), education (1), Secrecy (1), art (1), precognition (1), genetic engineering (1), indeterminacy (1), strong female characters (1), vengeance (1), memory (1), religion (1), psychic probe (1), longevity (1), lasers (1), assassination (1), surveillance (1), diplomacy (1), pheromones (1), sadomasochism (1), prostitution (1), torture (1), weather control (1), desert (1), smell (1), loyalty (1), honor (1), computers (1), distant future (1), arcology (1), antigravity (1), diaspora (1)
|
| 1980-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Far Removed from the Scene of the Crime |
Simon Hawke |
|
|
fantasy (1), torture (1), apartheid (1), South Africa (1), SWAPO (1), Namibia (1), Robben Island (1), alternate reality (1), ironic justice (1)
|
| 1980-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Shadow of the Torturer |
Gene Wolfe |
|
|
far future (2), 2-award-winner (1), science fiction (1), fantasy (1), torture (1), library (1)
|
| 1969-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Eve of RUMOKO |
Roger Zelazny |
|
|
martial arts (1), virus (1), torture (1), interrogation (1), romance (1), surveillance (1), computers (1), sabotage (1), artificial land (1), volcano (1), deep-sea drilling (1), underwater city (1), science fiction (1), drugs (1)
|
| 1967-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Toy for Juliette |
Robert Bloch |
|
|
Benjamin Bathurst (1), Jack the Ripper (1), science fiction (1), time travel (1), kidnapping (1), torture (1), serial killer (1), murder (1), horror (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Test to Destruction |
Keith Laumer |
|
|
mind probe (1), torture (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1964-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Star King |
Jack Vance |
|
|
space opera (1), tavern (1), science fiction (1), crime (1), revenge (1), space travel (1), academia (1), torture (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1961-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Planet Named Shayol |
Cordwainer Smith |
|
|
human-animal hybrids (1), penal system (1), addiction (1), euphoriant (1), torture (1), corruption (1), alien microbes (1), galactic empire (1), prison planet (1), longevity (1), Pain (1), far future (1), science fiction (1), drugs (1), hospital (1), into-radio (1)
|
| 1957-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Victim from Space |
Robert Sheckley |
|
|
science fiction (1), torture (1)
|
| 1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stars My Destination |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
science fiction (1), teleportation (1), vengeance (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), space opera (1), only humans (1), prison (1), interplanetary war (1), bodily augmentation (1), telepathy (1), corporate fiefdoms (1), tattoos (1), love (1), torture (1), caves (1), shipwreck (1), synesthesia (1), Aldebaran (1)
|
| 1955-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Psionic Mousetrap |
Murray Leinster |
|
|
science fiction (1), Siberia (1), invention (1), teleportation (1), torture (1), scientists (1), Washington DC (1), kidnapping (1)
|
| 1951-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hostess |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
X Minus 1 (2), parasites (1), longevity (1), biologist (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1), hydrogen cyanide (1), convergent evolution (1), torture (1), interrogation (1), paranormal powers (1), incorporeal beings (1), interstellar travel (1), policeman (1), marital strife (1), symbiosis (1), cancer (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)
|
| 1930-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Gladiator |
Philip Wylie |
|
|
science fiction (1), Librivox (1), invention (1), enhanced strength (1), Colorado (1), torture (1), archaeology (1), into-movie (1), super man (1)
|
| 1928-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Chain |
H. Warner Munn |
|
|
adultery (1), horror (1), revenge (1), torture (1), chain (1), oubliette (1), gothic (1), crumbling castle (1)
|
| 1928-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Justice of the Czar |
George Fielding Eliot |
|
|
torture (1), russia (1), Czar's family (1), retribution (1), twist ending (1), executioner (1)
|
| 1927-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Witch-Baiter |
Anthony M. Rud |
|
|
Spanish Netherlands (1), Inquisition (1), judge (1), witchcraft accusations (1), torture (1), executions (1), irony (1), revenge (1), justice (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1893-12-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Squaw |
Bram Stoker |
|
|
Librivox (1), horror (1), monsters (1), fantasy (1), cats (1), revenge (1), first person point of view (1), tourism (1), Germany (1), torture (1), native americans (1)
|
| 1890-07-12 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Mark of the Beast |
Rudyard Kipling |
|
|
Librivox (1), fantasy (1), werewolves (1), vampires (1), first person point of view (1), india (1), the British Raj (1), Hanuman (1), leper (1), offending a god (1), torture (1), curse (1), New Year's Eve (1), corruption of soul (1), horror (1)
|
| 1889-03-11 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
His Unconquerable Enemy |
W. C. Morrow |
|
|
punishment (1), torture (1), revenge (1), king (1), india (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1883-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
La torture par l'espérance |
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam |
|
|
Suspense (1), torture (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), realism (1), Spanish Inquisition (1)
|
| 1842-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pit and the Pendulum |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
horror (1), into-movie (1), torture (1), Spain (1), first person point of view (1), Fear (1), into-music (1), Spanish Inquisition (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
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