| 1985-10-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels |
David Pringle |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Book with list (1), about science fiction (1)
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| 1975-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Norstrilia |
Cordwainer Smith |
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The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Australia (1), economics (1), telepathy (1), science fiction (1), Earth (1), human-animal hybrids (1), doctor (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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| 1970-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Tau Zero |
Poul Anderson |
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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)
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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), 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)
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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)
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| 1968-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Final Programme |
Michael Moorcock |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (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), secret breeding program (1), superman (1), revolution (1), mega-fauna (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), 2-award-winner (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), cult fiction (1), ornithopters (1), force fields (1), drugs (1), space fantasy (1), desert (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)
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| 1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Hothouse |
Brian W. Aldiss |
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Fix up (1), far future (1), dying earth (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), panspermia (1), parasites (1), mind control (1), moon (1), Earth (1), interplanetary travel (1), insects (1), evolution (1), locked rotation (1), science fiction (1), fungi (1)
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| 1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Man in the High Castle |
Philip K. Dick |
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alternate history (6), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), nazis (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), into-tv (1), Hitler Wins (1), I Ching (1), jewelry (1), Japan (1), slavery (1), racism (1), San Francisco (1), story within a story (1), creativity (1), evil (1), America (1), resistance (1), Yin and Yang (1), international politics (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), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Physicians (1), interstellar travel (1), set in 3700s (1), Texas (1), set in 3100s (1), cannibalism (1), set in 2500s (1), Utah (1), into-radio (1), euthanasia (1), United States (1), Renaissance (1), mutants (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), world war (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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| 1957-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Midwich Cuckoos |
John Wyndham |
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alien invasion (2), into-movie (2), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), cosy catastrophe (1), evil children (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), unusual children (1), england (1), parasites (1), telepathy (1), mind control (1), group mind (1), accelerated growth (1), into-radio (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), horror (1), creepy kids (1)
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| 1956-00-00 |
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 (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)
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| 1954-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Mirror for Observers |
Edgar Pangborn |
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Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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| 1954-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mission of Gravity |
Hal Clement |
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hard sf (2), first contact (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1), alien perspective (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), high gravity (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
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| 1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Bring the Jubilee |
Ward Moore |
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alternate history (2), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), time travel (1)
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| 1953-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Childhood's End |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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first contact (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), Utopia (1), tsunami (1), winged flight (1), creativity (1), antigravity (1), music (1), art (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (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), peace (1), deepsea environment (1), submarine (1), squid (1), whales (1), time viewer (1), hibernation (1), Australia (1), telekinesis (1)
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| 1953-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
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dystopia (4), science fiction (2), into-movie (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), bibliophily (1), USA (1), book burning (1), Libraries (1), fire (1), into-video game (1), into-tv (1)
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| 1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Flight into Yesterday |
Charles L. Harness |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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| 1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
More Than Human |
Theodore Sturgeon |
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Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), mutants (1), psychiatry (1), psychiatrist (1), teleportation (1), unusual children (1), gestalt (1), gestalt entity (1), baby (1), farmer (1), telepath (1), telepathy (1), telepathic (1), twins (1), twin sisters (1), telekinesis (1), telekinetics (1), memory loss (1), memory wiping (1), amnesia (1)
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| 1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ring Around the Sun |
Clifford D. Simak |
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science fiction (1), time theory (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), New Jersey (1), suspended animation (1), pioneers (1), hypnosis (1), twist ending (1), architecture (1), cars (1), durable goods (1), writer (1), economics (1), genetic memory (1), set in 1980s (1), longevity (1), artificial bodies (1), interstellar communication (1), telepathy (1), premonition (1), paranormal abilities (1), Solar power (1), robots (1), antigravity (1), mutants (1), surveillance (1), manhunt (1), alternate worlds (1), Illinois (1), Wisconsin (1), nostalgia (1), New York City (1), implanted memories (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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| 1952-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Limbo |
Bernard Wolfe |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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| 1952-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Demolished Man |
Alfred Bester |
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telepathy (2), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), New York City (1), science fiction (1), detective (1), earworm (1), time distortion (1), punishment (1), murder (1)
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| 1951-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Day of the Triffids |
John Wyndham |
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post-apocalyptic (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), strange vegetation (1), science fiction (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1), cosy catastrophe (1), survival (1), blindness (1), meteors (1), plants (1), england (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
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| 1951-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Puppet Masters |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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into-movie (2), special ops (1), science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), parasites (1), mind control (1), Titan (1), biological warfare (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 |
NOVEL |
English |
Earth Abides |
George R. Stewart |
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ecology (3), science fiction (2), pandemic (2), cosy catastrophe (2), descent to barbarism (1), post apocalypse (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), cultural decline (1), california (1), sociology (1), anthropology (1), disaster (1), ruined earth (1), pastoral (1), education (1), doomsday novel (1), rats (1), ants (1), depopulation (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), Escape (Radio) (1)
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| 1949-06-08 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nineteen Eighty-Four |
George Orwell |
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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)
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