| 2008-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Philosopher's Apprentice |
James Morrow |
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science fiction (1), philosophy (1), conscience (1)
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| 1998-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Story of Your Life |
Ted Chiang |
|
|
linguistics (2), physics (2), first contact (1), into-movie (1), communication (1), first person point of view (1), prognostication (1), free will (1), philosophy (1)
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| 1996-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Starborne |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
science fiction (1), Utopia (1), telepathy (1), first contact (1), philosophy (1)
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| 1991-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Face of the Waters |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
water (1), science fiction (1), philosophy (1), religion (1), penal colony (1), water world (1), floating islands (1), quest (1)
|
| 1985-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Vampire Lestat |
Anne Rice |
|
|
vampires (3), horror (1), story within a story (1), suicide (1), Venice (1), Rome (1), loneliness (1), alcohol (1), quest (1), theater (1), aristocrats (1), hunting (1), wolves (1), France (1), humanism (1), philosophy (1), telepathy (1), San Francisco (1), egypt (1), new orleans (1), Paris (1), first person point of view (1), unreliable narrator (1), longevity (1), homoeroticism (1), tuberculosis (1), depression (1), music (1), telekinesis (1), pyrokenesis (1), enhanced sensation (1), death (1), religion (1), Roman Empire (1), set in 1700s (1), set in 1800s (1), set in 1900s (1), smell (1), horses (1), Alexandria (1)
|
| 1984-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish |
Douglas Adams |
|
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science fiction (1), humorous (1), philosophy (1), england (1), interstellar travel (1), romance (1), robots (1), dolphins (1), into-radio (1)
|
| 1982-00-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
The Fate of the Earth |
Jonathan Schell |
|
|
nuclear war (1), philosophy (1)
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| 1981-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Creation |
Gore Vidal |
|
|
99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), China (1), india (1), Greece (1), Persia (1), philosophy (1), religion (1), strong female characters (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1979-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
|
|
dolphin (1), comedy (1), philosophical quest (1), into-tv (1), cult fiction (1), from-radio (1), mega-engineering (1), england (1), interstellar travel (1), space drive (1), science fiction (1), into-movie (1), philosophy (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), into-video game (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)
|
| 1974-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
—That Thou Art Mindful of Him! |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
science fiction (1), robots (1), philosophy (1)
|
| 1971-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Lathe of Heaven |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
science fiction (1), into-tv (1), into-play (1), psychology (1), invention (1), first contact (1), racism (1), war with aliens (1), overpopulation (1), perception of reality (1), ecological decline (1), alternate history (1), nuclear war (1), philosophy (1), aliens (1), dreams (1), epidemic (1), climate change (1), Aldebaran (1)
|
| 1969-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
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)
|
| 1967-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fiddler's Green |
Richard McKenna |
|
|
fruit (1), hypnosis (1), engineer (1), gambling (1), cannibalism (1), murder (1), Indian Ocean (1), thirst (1), perception of reality (1), interdimensional travel (1), science fiction (1), philosophy (1), betrayal (1), shipwreck (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1966-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
For a Breath I Tarry |
Roger Zelazny |
|
|
Faustian bargain (1), temptation (1), sculpture (1), art (1), library (1), loss (1), cloning (1), artificial intelligence (1), science fiction (1), postapocalyptic (1), robots (1), philosophy (1)
|
| 1963-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cat's Cradle |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), ice (1), into-play (1), into-music (1), into-movie (1), religion (1), philosophy (1), science fiction (1), neologisms (1), scientists (1), Caribbean (1), New York State (1), invention (1), Poetry (1), music (1), tornadoes (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1958-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Triumph of Time |
James Blish |
|
|
science fiction (1), New York City (1), ansible (1), physics (1), philosophy (1), astronomer (1), alien life (1), games (1), nuclear warfare (1), interstellar war (1), flying city (1), Greater Magellanic Cloud (1), computers (1), intergalactic travel (1), interstellar travel (1), antigravity (1), antimatter (1), sleep learning (1), cepheid variables (1), center of the universe (1), End of the Universe (1)
|
| 1957-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Black Cloud |
Fred Hoyle |
|
|
first contact (2), climate change (2), science fiction (2), england (2), philosophy (1), computers (1), astronomers (1), interstellar travel (1), music (1), higher intelligence (1), nebula (1), radio astronomy (1), genius (1), politicians (1), politics (1), Alien Communication (1), alien intelligence (1), astronomy (1), astromomers (1), astronomer (1), scientists (1), scientist (1), UK (1), hard sf (1), cosmic disaster (1)
|
| 1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The World Jones Made |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
science fiction (1), dystopia (1), post-apocalyptic (1), relativism (1), mutants (1), genetic engineering (1), Earth (1), venus (1), precognition (1), predestination (1), philosophy (1), determinism (1), first contact (1), aliens (1), xenophobia (1), assassination (1)
|
| 1953-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
... And the Truth Shall Make You Free |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
computer (1), mutants (1), exploration (1), distant future (1), aliens (1), spiders (1), dogs (1), philosophy (1), science fiction (1), meaning of life (1)
|
| 1946-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Paradise |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
science fiction (1), mutants (1), philosophy (1), robots (1), dogs (1), Jupiter (1)
|
| 1944-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Huddling Place |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
surgery (1), philosophy (1), Martians (1), science fiction (1), mars (1), Earth (1), agoraphobia (1), interplanetary travel (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1941-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Spanish |
La biblioteca de Babel |
Jorge Luis Borges |
|
|
library (2), fantasy (1), universal library (1), philosophy (1), religion (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1941-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Reason |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
into-tv (1), robots (1), science fiction (1), religion (1), microwaves (1), philosophy (1), power station (1), solar energy (1)
|
| 1941-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lost Street |
Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1), apocalypse (1), United States (1), recluse (1), philosophy (1), Alternate World (1), plague (1), tobacco (1), set in 1960s (1)
|
| 1940-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Spanish |
|
Jorge Luis Borges |
|
|
science fiction (1), parallel universe (1), first person point of view (1), linguistics (1), subjective idealism (1), philosophy (1), fantasy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1937-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Star Maker |
Olaf Stapledon |
|
|
science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), European interwar period (1), first person point of view (1), distant future (1), mental time travel (1), mental intergalactic travel (1), aliens (1), evolution (1), social commentary (1), spirituality (1), distant past (1), astral projection (1), sentient stars (1), star-dwelling beings (1), philosophy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), Sentient plants (1), nebula (1)
|
| 1845-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Imp of the Perverse |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
first person point of view (1), murder (1), guilt (1), philosophy (1)
|
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