| 2018-05-04 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
How I Beat the System |
Ralph Robert Moore |
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horror (1), social criticism (1)
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| 2017-03-14 |
NOVEL |
English |
New York 2140 |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
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science fiction (1), climate change (1), global warming (1), New York City (1), economics (1), sea level rise (1), flood (1), Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards Shortlist (1), climate fiction (1), cli-fi (1), rewilding (1), social criticism (1), finance (1)
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| 2013-06-00 |
ESSAY |
English |
New Taboos and Other Unauthorized Suggestions |
John Shirley |
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social criticism (1)
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| 2007-03-06 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Craters |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
|
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social criticism (1), female main character (1), social commentary (1), writing (1), near future (1), social fiction (1), female protagonist (1)
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| 2007-03-06 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rocket Boy |
Paul J. McAuley |
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science fiction (1), crime (1), social fiction (1), social criticism (1), social commentary (1), planetary adventure (1)
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| 2004-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Buying Primo Time |
Wanda Coleman |
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near future (1), social criticism (1), african-american (1)
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| 2004-11-01 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Cells |
Scott C. Holstad |
|
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surrealism (1), dark humor (1), social criticism (1), horror poetry (1), insanity (1), survival (1), Poetry (1), Google Books (1)
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| 2002-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Archform: Beauty |
L. E. Modesitt, Jr. |
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science fiction (1), female main character (1), nanotechnology (1), social criticism (1)
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| 1995-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Places |
Scott C. Holstad |
|
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social criticism (1), Poetry (1), adventure (1), survival (1), Pulitzer-nominated (1), Google Books (1)
|
| 1995-00-00 |
POEM |
English |
this is what we are |
Scott C. Holstad |
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|
social criticism (1)
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| 1992-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Even the Queen |
Connie Willis |
|
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near future (1), science fiction (1), social criticism (1), satire (1), menstruation (1), feminism (1)
|
| 1991-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Fallen Angels |
Michael F. Flynn and Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle |
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fandom (1), recursive sf (1), fanfic (1), near future (1), hard sf (1), social criticism (1), science fiction (1), environmentalism (1), Ice age (1), social collapse (1)
|
| 1991-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Garden of Rama |
Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee |
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alien artifact (1), hard sf (1), social criticism (1), megastarship (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1990-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Hocus Pocus |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
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Vietnam War (1), Japanese economic takeover (1), college (1), prison escape (1), prison (1), tralfamadore (1), 2020 (1), near future (1), first person point of view (1), epistolary (1), social criticism (1), Hiroshima nuclear bombing (1), nuclear bombs (1), Hiroshima (1)
|
| 1989-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Phylum Monsters |
Hayford Peirce |
|
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telepathy (1), social criticism (1), genetic engineering (1), humorous (1)
|
| 1989-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Rama II |
Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee |
|
|
alien artifact (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), megastarship (1), social criticism (1)
|
| 1986-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pink Bears |
David Holmstrom |
|
|
fantasy (1), social criticism (1)
|
| 1983-03-01 |
ESSAY |
German |
Liebe Perry Rhodan-Freunde (Perry Rhodan #282) |
William Voltz |
|
|
social criticism (1)
|
| 1982-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stainless Steel Rat for President |
Harry Harrison |
|
|
science fiction (1), social criticism (1), humor (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Phase Two |
Leigh Richmond and Walt Richmond |
|
|
revolution (1), asteroid belt (1), social criticism (1)
|
| 1978-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Persistence of Vision |
John Varley |
|
|
social criticism (1), science fiction (1), telepathy (1)
|
| 1973-05-28 |
NOVEL |
English |
Breakfast of Champions |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
free will (2), racism (2), into-movie (2), social criticism (2), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2), insanity (1), metafiction (1), poioumenon (1), environmentalism (1), satire (1), mental illness (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1973-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
dystopia (2), social criticism (1), psychology (1), philosophy (1), scapegoat (1), first person point of view (1), Utopia (1), happiness (1), science fiction (1), horror (1)
|
| 1973-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Women Men Don't See |
James Tiptree, Jr. |
|
|
science fiction (3), aliens (2), near future (1), social criticism (1), first person point of view (1), alien visitation (1), airplane crash (1), plane crash (1), crash landing (1), survival (1), mother and daughter (1)
|
| 1972-03-17 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Funeral |
Kate Wilhelm |
|
|
social criticism (1), near future (1), dystopia (1), age (1), girls (1), longevity (1), children (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1972-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Sheep Look Up |
John Brunner |
|
|
pollution (3), near future (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), dystopia (1), ecologic disaster (1), British dystopia (1), United States (1), biological warfare (1), africa (1), Central America (1), social collapse (1), social criticism (1), terrorism (1), science fiction (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1)
|
| 1970-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Gallagher's Glacier |
Leigh Richmond and Walt Richmond |
|
|
revolution (1), social criticism (1)
|
| 1969-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Phoenix Ship |
Leigh Richmond and Walt Richmond |
|
|
social criticism (1), asteroid belt (1), revolution (1)
|
| 1969-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Age of the Pussyfoot |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
science fiction (1), cryopreservation (1), social criticism (1), aliens (1), cryogenics (1), Sirians (1)
|
| 1969-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
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)
|
| 1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Recalled to Life |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
science fiction (1), social criticism (1), politics (1), Bioscience (1), New inventions (1)
|
| 1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Wanting Seed |
Anthony Burgess |
|
|
dystopia (1), overpopulation (1), grief (1), religion (1), blight (1), england (1), social collapse (1), social criticism (1), cannibalism (1), LGBTQ+ (1), war (1), ireland (1), homosexuality (1), science fiction (1), history (1)
|
| 1958-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Distributor |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), psychology (1), social criticism (1), realism (1)
|
| 1956-02-17 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The "Lomokome" Papers |
Herman Wouk |
|
|
peace (1), nuclear warfare (1), moon (1), science fiction (1), dystopia (1), interplanetary travel (1), social criticism (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Gladiator-at-Law |
C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl |
|
|
social criticism (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1952-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Luckiest Man in Denv |
C. M. Kornbluth |
|
|
endless war (1), social criticism (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1949-06-08 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nineteen Eighty-Four |
George Orwell |
|
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dystopia (3), social criticism (2), science fiction (2), near future (2), horror (2), Newspeak (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), into-ballet (1), endless war (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), into-opera (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), torture (1), london (1), neologisms (1), story within a story (1), history rewritten (1), surveillance state (1), British dystopia (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), 99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
|
| 1945-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story |
George Orwell |
|
|
Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), animal fantasy (1), allegory (1), roman a clef (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), into-movie (1), pigs (1), england (1), social criticism (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1945-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
That Hideous Strength |
C. S. Lewis |
|
|
science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Merlin (1), Theology (1), social criticism (1), contemporary (1), ancient evil gods (1), england (1), into-music (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1911-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Jesus Christ in Texas |
W. E. B. Du Bois |
|
|
social criticism (1), racism (1), jesus (1), Texas (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1895-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Time Machine |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
time travel (4), inventor (2), into-movie (2), frame story (1), 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)
|
| 1895-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Wonderful Visit |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
angels (1), fantasy (1), satire (1), england (1), social criticism (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1835-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Young Goodman Brown |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
|
|
fantasy (1), satire (1), witchcraft (1), Satan (1), new england (1), social criticism (1), Puritan (1), 17th century (1), horror (1)
|
| 1771-00-00 |
NOVEL |
French |
L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante, rêve s'il en fut jamais |
Louis-Sébastien Mercier |
|
|
Internet Archive (1), Google Books (1), Utopia (1), hibernation (1), social criticism (1)
|
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