| 2022-01-11 |
NOVEL |
English |
To Paradise |
Hanya Yanagihara |
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epilepsy (1), food (1), HIV (1), euthanasia (1), correspondence (1), loss (1), flood (1), tsunami (1), extinction (1), set in 1890s (1), set in 1990s (1), sea level rise (1), climate change (1), pandemic (1), set in 2090s (1), New York City (1), science fiction (1), hawaii (1), dystopia (1), biologists (1), LGBTQ+ (1), alternate history (1), waste (1), coming of age (1), hospital (1), blindness (1), first person point of view (1)
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| 2020-05-19 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes |
Suzanne Collins |
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family pride (1), roses (1), treason (1), rebellion (1), sociopaths (1), cruelty (1), food (1), famine (1), United States (1), young-adult sf (1), music (1), poems (1), dystopia (1), genetic engineering (1), birds (1), snakes (1)
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| 2015-09-29 |
NOVEL |
English |
"Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?" |
Lemony Snicket |
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juvenile fantasy (1), mystery (1), train (1), food (1)
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| 2014-09-30 |
NOVEL |
English |
"Shouldn't You Be in School?" |
Lemony Snicket |
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reporter (1), library (1), food (1), mystery (1), juvenile fantasy (1), drugs (1)
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| 2013-10-15 |
NOVEL |
English |
"When Did You See Her Last?" |
Lemony Snicket |
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food (1), mystery (1), juvenile fantasy (1), library (1)
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| 2012-10-13 |
NOVEL |
English |
"Who Could That Be at This Hour?" |
Lemony Snicket |
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juvenile fantasy (1), food (1), mystery (1), seaweed (1), statue (1), library (1)
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| 2004-09-21 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Grim Grotto |
Lemony Snicket |
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cryptography (1), submarines (1), orphans (1), strong female characters (1), juvenile fantasy (1), kidnapping (1), food (1), fungi (1), toxins (1), Poetry (1)
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| 2003-10-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Slippery Slope |
Lemony Snicket |
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food (1), rescue (1), orphans (1), mountains (1), juvenile fantasy (1), strong female characters (1)
|
| 1999-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Household Gods |
Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove |
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time travel (1), strong female character (1), slavery (1), gods (1), tavern (1), smell (1), feminism (1), Austria (1), Los Angeles (1), out-of-body experience (1), rape (1), Roman Empire (1), religion (1), Physicians (1), dentists (1), epidemic (1), food (1), alcohol (1), barbarian invasion (1), sex (1), parasites (1), childbirth (1), funeral (1), prostitution (1), cruelty (1), justice (1), divorce (1), nudity (1), sculpture (1)
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| 1995-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
In the Night Kitchen |
Maurice Sendak |
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food (1), milk (1), nudity (1), into-movie (1)
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| 1988-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Prelude to Foundation |
Isaac Asimov |
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|
galactic empire (2), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), androids (1), psychohistory (1), food (1)
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| 1979-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Face |
Jack Vance |
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food (1), crime (1), science fiction (1), desert (1), mining (1), sex (1), sport (1), poison (1), interstellar travel (1)
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| 1979-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Whirligig of Time |
Lloyd Biggle, Jr. |
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science fiction (1), mystery (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), peace (1), religion (1), teleportation (1), matter transmission (1), subway (1), fungi (1), food (1), vengeance (1), strong female character (1), immigration (1), Refugees (1)
|
| 1977-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Taste of the Dish and the Savor of the Day |
John Brunner |
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food (1), longevity (1)
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| 1976-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Good Taste |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
science fiction (1), space habitats (1), food (1)
|
| 1976-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Triton |
Samuel R. Delany |
|
|
transgender (1), gay (1), science fiction (1), restaurant (1), sculpture (1), etiquette (1), prostitution (1), nonconformity (1), surveillance (1), interrogation (1), politics (1), gravity control (1), Triton (1), Ganymede (1), mars (1), Earth (1), interplanetary travel (1), interplanetary war (1), food (1), games (1), nudity (1), acrobats (1), street theater (1), neurosis (1), elegance (1), clothes (1), drugs (1), Mongolia (1), archaeology (1), holography (1)
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| 1975-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Marune: Alastor 933 |
Jack Vance |
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smell (1), food (1), science fiction (1), amnesia (1), sex (1), multiple star system (1), coming of age (1), murder (1)
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| 1974-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Monument |
Lloyd Biggle, Jr. |
|
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food (1), courtroom drama (1), interstellar travel (1), lost colony (1), science fiction (1), hotel (1), flowers (1), beauty (1), hunting (1), ecology (1)
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| 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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| 1970-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Say Goodbye to the Wind |
J. G. Ballard |
|
|
fashion (1), music (1), food (1)
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| 1967-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Torrent of Faces |
James Blish and Norman L. Knight |
|
|
overpopulation (1), Fix up (1), arsenic (1), horses (1), nature preserve (1), deepsea (1), computers (1), gallium (1), asteroid impact (1), birth control (1), Philadelphia (1), amino acids (1), hotel (1), dolphins (1), Australia (1), london (1), Illinois (1), food (1), extinction (1), Utopia (1), far future (1), science fiction (1), urban life (1), uplift (1), tobacco (1), advertising (1), arcology (1), hallucinations (1), genetic engineering (1), interstellar travel (1), bacteria (1), empathy (1), submersible (1), Washington, DC (1), crash landing (1), lasers (1), set in the 2700s (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Smith of Wootton Major |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
|
|
historical fantasy (1), england (1), fairies (1), food (1)
|
| 1965-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
science fiction (1), dystopia (1), food (1), humor (1), nonconformism (1), brainwashing (1), rebellion (1), Time (1), nonconformity (1), chaos (1), control (1)
|
| 1963-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
All the Colors of Darkness |
Lloyd Biggle, Jr. |
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oxygen (1), trust (1), music (1), food (1), detective (1), moon (1), aliens (1), invention (1), matter transmission (1), science fiction (1), sabotage (1), memory erasure (1)
|
| 1962-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
From Gustible's Planet |
Cordwainer Smith |
|
|
fire (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), aliens (1), food (1), China (1), Earth (1)
|
| 1959-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Statue for Father |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
science fiction (1), time travel (1), dinosaurs (1), eggs (1), food (1)
|
| 1958-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Iron Chancellor |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
robots (1), satire (1), near future (1), science fiction (1), food (1)
|
| 1954-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Patent Pending |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
science fiction (1), neurology (1), food (1), sex (1), invention (1)
|
| 1954-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Laxian Key |
Robert Sheckley |
|
|
interstellar travel (1), aliens (1), invention (1), food (1)
|
| 1953-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Roog |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
dogs (1), food (1)
|
| 1952-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Shipping Clerk |
William Morrison |
|
|
matter transmission (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1), food (1), hunger (1)
|
| 1952-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Good Provider |
Marion Gross |
|
|
time travel (1), food (1), invention (1)
|
| 1950-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
To Serve Man |
Damon Knight |
|
|
into-tv (1), twist ending (1), science fiction (1), Twilight Zone (1), force fields (1), longevity (1), aliens (1), United Nations (1), translation (1), food (1)
|
| 1949-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Farmer Giles of Ham |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
|
|
historical fantasy (1), medieval (1), humor (1), giants (1), dragons (1), food (1), talking animals (1), england (1)
|
| 1942-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1), higher intelligence (1), art (1), detective (1), science fiction (1), food (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1669-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Latin |
Satiricon Liber |
Petronius |
|
|
Roman Empire (1), food (1), ghosts (1), homoeroticism (1), first person point of view (1), gods (1), italy (1)
|
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