| 2015-09-22 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Binti |
Nnedi Okorafor |
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|
African speculative fiction (2), science fiction (1), Afrofuturism (1), Namibia (1), female main character (1), benevolent aliens (1), human-alien hybrids (1), mathematics (1)
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| 2013-10-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Numbed! |
David Lubar |
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juvenile sf (1), robots (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 2008-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Infinities |
Vandana Singh |
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|
mathematics (2), india (2), conceptual breakthrough (1), teachers (1), religion (1), present tense (1), human conflict (1), religious conflict (1), mathematician (1), muslim (1)
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| 2008-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Last Theorem |
Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl |
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science fiction (1), Ceylon/Sri Lanka (1), mathematics (1), alien invasion (1), space elevator (1), solar sails (1), higher intelligence (1), cyborgs (1), electromagnetic pulse (1)
|
| 2007-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Glory |
Greg Egan |
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|
mathematics (1), archeology (1), space opera (1), female main character (1)
|
| 2004-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Chinese |
|
Cixin Liu |
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science fiction (1), hard sf (1), physics (1), genius (1), education (1), mathematics (1), scientists (1), russia (1), lightning (1), weapons research (1), China (1), first person point of view (1), sailing (1), tornadoes (1), weather control (1), Schrödinger's cat (1)
|
| 2004-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Das Fraktal |
Reinhard Kleindl |
|
|
metaphysic (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 2002-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Schild's Ladder |
Greg Egan |
|
|
science fiction (1), space opera (1), femtotechnology (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 2000-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Light of Other Days |
Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke |
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|
wormholes (2), comet impact (2), privacy (2), Seattle (2), surveillance (2), virtual reality (2), time viewer (2), science fiction (2), jesus (1), social change (1), sea level rise (1), Ludwig van Beethoven (1), Ötzi (1), Pierre de Fermat (1), William Shakespeare (1), Christopher Columbus (1), Moses (1), viewing of past (1), Albert Einstein (1), global computer network search engine (1), Abraham Lincoln (1), Crusades (1), music (1), American civil war (1), drought (1), journalists (1), past viewer (1), billionaire (1), comet collision (1), comet (1), near future (1), remote surveillance (1), brothers (1), half-sister (1), time viewing (1), father and son (1), father and sons (1), viewing the past (1), amoral billionaire (1), journalist (1), wormhole (1), brain implant (1), FBI (1), past time viewer (1), past/future viewer (1), view past/future (1), comet-caused disaster (1), climate change (1), set in 2040s (1), set in 2030s (1), storms (1), nuclear waste (1), shared mind (1), mind control (1), artificial intelligence (1), antigravity (1), electromagnetic pulse (1), set in 2080s (1), cloning (1), extinction (1), tigers (1), tattoos (1), invention (1), religion (1), resurrection (1), weather control (1), hard sf (1), africa (1), evolution (1), physicists (1), invisibility (1), torture (1), war (1), psychologists (1), hominins (1), genealogy (1), mathematics (1), archaeology (1), Rome (1), Uzbekistan (1), United Kingdom (1), antarctica (1), russia (1), london (1), nanotechnology (1), set in 22nd century (1)
|
| 1998-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Aurora in Four Voices |
Catherine Asaro |
|
|
science fiction (1), crime (1), mathematics (1), prisoners (1), decadence (1), Artists (1), art (1), space opera (1), human augmentation (1)
|
| 1997-00-00 |
NOVEL |
German |
Der Zahlenteufel |
Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
|
|
fantasy (1), mathematics (1), numbers (1), math (1), dreams (1), juvenile fantasy (1)
|
| 1995-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Feigenbaum Number |
Nancy Kress |
|
|
science fiction (1), Plato (1), mathematics (1), chaos theory (1), strange attractors (1)
|
| 1995-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fermat's Best Theorem |
Janet Kagan |
|
|
mathematics (1), Fermat's Theorem (1), secret society (1), female protagonist (1), private satisfaction (1)
|
| 1995-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Luminous |
Greg Egan |
|
|
mathematical (1), science fiction (1), mathematics (1), theory of mathematics (1), cyberpunk (1), inconsistency (1), supercomputing (1)
|
| 1994-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Voices in the Light |
Sean McMullen |
|
|
science fiction (1), future Australia (1), librarians (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 1992-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Anvil of Stars |
Greg Bear |
|
|
genocide (1), robots (1), education (1), transmutation (1), deception (1), planetary engineering (1), mathematics (1), dreams (1), religion (1), artificial intelligence (1), alien artifacts (1), interstellar war (1), guilt (1), revenge (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), ethics (1), force fields (1), space opera (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1), war with machines (1), neutronium (1), neutrinos (1), strategy (1), ansible (1), nanotechnology (1), LGBTQ (1), smell (1), love (1), berserkers (1), Von Neumann machines (1), antimatter (1), supernova (1)
|
| 1991-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Division by Zero |
Ted Chiang |
|
|
science fiction (1), mathematics (1), Kurt Gödel (1), philosophy (1), inconsistency (1), depression (1), suicide (1), paradoxes (1)
|
| 1990-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Braver Thing |
Charles Sheffield |
|
|
science fiction (2), suicide (1), mental illness (1), gifted child (1), mathematics (1), physics (1), Grand Unified Theory (1)
|
| 1990-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
In the Country of the Blind |
Michael F. Flynn |
|
|
conspiracy (2), near future (2), psychohistory (2), mechanical computers (2), female main character (2), Earth (1), mathematics (1), hidden society (1), strong female characters (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
NONFICTION |
German |
Die Welt der Mathematik: Computergrafik zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst |
Herbert W. Franke and Horst Helbig |
|
|
mathematics (1), computer (1)
|
| 1987-06-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder |
Rudy Rucker |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
| 1986-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Tangents |
Greg Bear |
|
|
science fiction (1), mathematics (1), hard sf (1), children (1), music (1), 4th dimension (1), tesseracts (1), homophobia (1), Ultra (1), Enigma (1)
|
| 1986-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Blind Geometer |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
|
|
near future (1), espionage (1), Washington, DC (1), mathematics (1), blindness (1), science fiction (1), plot twist (1)
|
| 1986-00-00 |
CHAPBOOK |
English |
The Blind Geometer |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
|
|
mathematics (1), near future (1), blindness (1), Washington, DC (1), espionage (1)
|
| 1983-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Message Found in a Copy of Flatland |
Rudy Rucker |
|
|
science fiction (1), mathematics (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1982-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
And He Built Another Crooked House |
Martin Gardner |
|
|
mathematics (1), fourth dimension (1)
|
| 1982-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Creatures of the Dark |
Rita Golden Gelman and Nancy Lamb |
|
|
mythical creatures (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 1981-09-28 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Limits |
Larry Niven |
|
|
immortality (1), language translator (1), aliens on Earth (1), interstellar commerce (1), spaceport (1), eavesdropping (1), sound damping (1), first person point of view (1), bartender (1), mathematics (1), tavern (1)
|
| 1977-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Rite of Spring |
Fritz Leiber |
|
|
science fiction (1), mathematics (1), numerology (1)
|
| 1974-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
science fiction (2), childbirth (1), physicists (1), university (1), double planet (1), interplanetary travel (1), interstellar travel (1), Tau Ceti (1), philosophy (1), Albert Einstein (1), ansible (1), trains (1), architecture (1), education (1), artificial languages (1), famine (1), Time (1), revolution (1), desert (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), music (1), 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), artificial language (1), art (1), leather (1), food (1), into-radio (1), drought (1), anarchism (1), Utopia (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 1971-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Four-Color Problem |
Barrington J. Bayley |
|
|
science fiction (1), satire (1), WS Burroughs pastiche (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Why Call Them Back from Heaven? |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
religion (2), depopulation (1), eternal life (1), drugs (1), death (1), court trial (1), cryogenics (1), euthanasia (1), interstellar travel (1), alien artefacts (1), mathematics (1), longevity (1), New York City (1), set in 2100s (1), overpopulation (1), ostracism (1), poverty (1), peace (1), rejuvenation (1), eternal youth (1), Wisconsin (1), time travel (1)
|
| 1963-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Masters |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
post apocalypse (1), science fiction (1), post-apocalyptic (1), torture (1), forbidden knowledge (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
Fantasia Mathematica |
Clifton Fadiman |
|
|
mathematics (1), fantasy (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Jurgen Proves It by Mathematics |
James Branch Cabell |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Peter Learns Arithmetic |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
mathematics (1), education (1)
|
| 1958-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Feeling of Power |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
military sf (1), computers (1), mathematics (1), science fiction (1), interstellar war (1), army (1), artificial intelligence (1)
|
| 1958-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Wayward Cravat |
Gertrude Friedberg |
|
|
coming of age (1), mathematics (1), child prodigy (1)
|
| 1957-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Dutch |
Bolland: Een Roman van Gekromde Ruimten en Uitdijend Heelal |
Dr. Dionijs Burger |
|
|
expanding universe (1), mathematics (1), science fiction (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1954-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Devil and Simon Flagg |
Arthur Porges |
|
|
humorous (1), devil (1), fantasy (1), mathematics (1), music (1)
|
| 1953-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Magician |
Bruce Elliott |
|
|
mathematics (1), topology (1), Klein bottle (1), prestidigitation (1)
|
| 1952-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Island of the Five Colors |
Martin Gardner |
|
|
maps (1), mathematics (1), fourth dimension (1), anthropology (1), Klein bottle (1)
|
| 1951-08-30 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Foundation |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
archaeology (1), surveillance (1), world city (1), nuclear power (1), nuclear weapons (1), scientists (1), transmutation (1), symbolic logic (1), gold (1), courtroom drama (1), time capsule (1), force fields (1), hyperwave (1), diplomacy (1), ray guns (1), iron (1), interstellar trade (1), empire (1), computers (1), encyclopedia (1), mathematics (1), interstellar travel (1), antigravity (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), religion (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Fix up (1), galactic empire (1), space opera (1), psychohistory (1)
|
| 1951-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Mathematical Voodoo |
H. Nearing, Jr. |
|
|
voodoo (1), mathematics (1), education (1)
|
| 1950-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Subway Named Mobius |
A. J. Deutsch |
|
|
science fiction (1), Moebius strip (1), topology (1), mathematics (1), subways (1), boston (1)
|
| 1948-06-30 |
NOVEL |
English |
Beyond This Horizon |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
science fiction (1), longevity (1), genetic engineering (1), enhanced intelligence (1), reincarnation (1), telepathy (1), genetic manipulation (1), revolution (1), mathematics (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1947-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
No-Sided Professor |
Martin Gardner |
|
|
science fiction (1), mathematics (1), topology (1), Moebius strip (1)
|
| 1945-12-22 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A. Botts and the Möebius Strip |
William H. Upson |
|
|
mathematics (1), Moebius strip (1)
|
| 1945-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ethical Equations |
Murray Leinster |
|
|
science fiction (1), interplanetary travel (1), first contact (1), mathematics (1), ethics (1), nitrogen (1), isotopes (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), aliens (1), suspended animation (1)
|
| 1943-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pythagoras and the Psychoanalyst |
Arthur Koestler |
|
|
mathematics (1), psychiatry (1)
|
| 1941-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
|
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
tesseract (2), science fiction (1), architecture (1), humor (1), california (1), Laurel Canyon (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), fourth dimension (1), topology (1), earthquake (1), escape (1), mathematics (1), Los Angeles (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1940-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mother and the Decimal Point |
Richard Llewellyn |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
| 1939-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Misfit |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
science fiction (1), coming of age (1), mathematics (1), asteroid belt (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1938-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Czech |
Smrt Archimédova |
|
|
|
mathematics (1), roman invasion (1), Archimedes (1), Siracusa (1), dilemma (1)
|
| 1936-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Brink of Infinity |
Stanley G. Weinbaum |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
| 1929-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Futility |
S. P. Meek |
|
|
mechanical predestination (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 1929-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Captured Cross-Section |
Miles J. Breuer, M.D. |
|
|
fourth dimension (1), geometrical rotation (1), fourth-dimensional being (1), mathematics (1), BLEILER: abduction by aliens (1)
|
| 1924-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Young Archimedes |
Aldous Huxley |
|
|
music (1), mathematics (1), child prodigy (1), italy (1)
|
| 1884-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
Edwin A. Abbott |
|
|
Librivox (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), Internet Archive (1), into-movie (1), mathematics (1), transdimensional (1), satire (1), fantasy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1874-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Tachypomp |
Edward Page Mitchell |
|
|
technology (1), romance (1), science fiction (1), love (1), creditors (1), hole through the center of the Earth (1), mathematics (1)
|
| date unknown |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Socrates and the Slave |
Plato |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
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