| 2000-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Light of Other Days |
Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
archaeology (1), United Kingdom (1), Uzbekistan (1), Rome (1), africa (1), mathematics (1), genealogy (1), hominins (1), privacy (1), psychologists (1), war (1), torture (1), invisibility (1), physicists (1), evolution (1), comet impact (1), antarctica (1), journalists (1), drought (1), American civil war (1), music (1), Crusades (1), Abraham Lincoln (1), Albert Einstein (1), jesus (1), Moses (1), Christopher Columbus (1), William Shakespeare (1), Pierre de Fermat (1), Ötzi (1), Ludwig van Beethoven (1), sea level rise (1), antigravity (1), wormholes (1), hard sf (1), time viewer (1), science fiction (1), weather control (1), resurrection (1), religion (1), invention (1), tattoos (1), tigers (1), extinction (1), cloning (1), virtual reality (1), climate change (1), electromagnetic pulse (1), global computer network search engine (1), artificial intelligence (1), mind control (1), shared mind (1), nuclear waste (1), surveillance (1), storms (1), set in 2030s (1), set in 2040s (1), set in 2080s (1), set in 22nd century (1), nanotechnology (1), london (1), Seattle (1), russia (1)
|
| 1999-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dark Cities Underground |
Lisa Goldstein |
|
|
urban fantasy (1), fantasy (1), San Francisco (1), london (1), egyptian mythology (1), Fisher King (1), Arthuriana (1)
|
| 1999-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ghostwritten |
David Mitchell |
|
|
murder (1), only Earth (1), Okinawa (1), Chinese Cultural Revolution (1), China (1), ghosts (1), Hong Kong (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), Holy Mountain (1), london (1), Mongolia (1), Saint Petersburg (1), Mental symbiote (1), artificial intelligence (1), art forgery (1), Tokyo (1), cult (1), terrorism (1), Clear Island (1), ireland (1), quantum computing (1), Killer satellites (1), Advanced military technology (1), New York City (1), subway (1), Radio disk jockey (1), Japan (1)
|
| 1999-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Suicide Coast |
M. John Harrison |
|
|
near future (2), science fiction (2), virtual reality (1), london (1), extreme sports (1), first person (1), first person narrative (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1998-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
King Rat |
|
|
|
new weird (1), london (1)
|
| 1996-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sartor Resartus: Natural Supernaturalism (excerpt) |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghost (1), london (1)
|
| 1995-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Prestige |
Christopher Priest |
|
|
fantasy (1), steampunk (1), magician (1), electricity (1), Nicola Tesla (1), Colorado (1), london (1), diaries (1), twins (1), teleportation (1), human duplication (1), into-movie (1), murder (1)
|
| 1993-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Night in the Lonesome October |
Roger Zelazny |
|
|
Jack the Ripper (1), dogs (1), first person point of view (1), Sherlock Holmes (1), london (1), halloween (1), Dracula (1), frankenstein (1), werewolf (1), witches (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1992-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Corrosion |
Michael Cobley |
|
|
london (1)
|
| 1992-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mostly Harmless |
Douglas Adams |
|
|
science fiction (1), humor (1), interstellar travel (1), Earth (1), london (1), into-radio (1)
|
| 1991-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Victoria |
Paul Di Filippo |
|
|
steampunk (1), Queen Victoria (1), hellbender (1), genetic engineering (1), missing person (1), American (1), london (1), brothel (1), feminism (1), lesbianism (1), sex (1)
|
| 1990-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Difference Engine |
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling |
|
|
steampunk (6), alternate history (4), cyberpunk (2), victorian (2), science fiction (1), mechanical computers (1), historical characters (1), romance (1), crime (1), set in 1850s (1), london (1), surveillance (1), famine (1), Kurt Gödel (1), air pollution (1), revolution (1)
|
| 1989-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
At First Just Ghostly |
Karl Edward Wagner |
|
|
contemporary (1), london (1), SF authors (1), publishing business (1), magic (1), Harmonic Convergence (1), serendipity (1), drinking (1), fighting evil (1)
|
| 1989-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Mummy |
Anne Rice |
|
|
historical fantasy (1), horror (1), mummies (1), egypt (1), Archaeologists (1), curse (1), alcohol (1), london (1), poison (1), murder (1), enhanced intelligence (1), longevity (1), Cleopatra (1), tobacco (1), homoeroticism (1)
|
| 1988-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mona Lisa Overdrive |
William Gibson |
|
|
cyberpunk (3), nanotechnology (1), virtual reality (1), artificial intelligence (1), science fiction (1), london (1), memory (1), uploaded personalities (1), into-music (1)
|
| 1988-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mother London |
Michael Moorcock |
|
|
london (1)
|
| 1988-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Queen of the Damned |
Anne Rice |
|
|
vampires (2), Florida (1), Greece (1), california (1), london (1), Pompeii (1), Rome (1), Athens (1), San Francisco (1), flying (1), Clairvoyance (1), telekinesis (1), genealogy (1), ghosts (1), tapestry (1), twins (1), reincarnation (1), genocide (1), witches (1), cannibalism (1), into-movie (1), afterlife (1), horror (1), first person point of view (1), mummies (1), rape (1), smell (1), homoeroticism (1), Saint Louis (1), murder (1), dreams (1), music (1), longevity (1), out-of-body experience (1), new orleans (1), Miami (1), Chicago (1), New York City (1), pyrokinesis (1), telepathy (1)
|
| 1988-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Those Who Hunt the Night |
Barbara Hambly |
|
|
steampunk (1), adult vampire (1), vampire (1), alternate historical (1), london (1), espionage (1), vampires (1)
|
| 1987-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Medusa Frequency |
Russell Hoban |
|
|
london (1), Orpheus myth (1)
|
| 1984-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Domain |
James Herbert |
|
|
horror (1), rats (1), post apocalypse (1), london (1)
|
| 1982-02-15 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fire Watch |
Connie Willis |
|
|
time travel (3), world war ii (2), london (2), fire (1), historian (1), terrorism (1), churches (1), first person narrative (1), first person (1), academia (1), World War 2 (1), UK (1), england (1), cathedral (1)
|
| 1980-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Players at the Game of People |
John Brunner |
|
|
fantasy (1), privileged class (1), societal collapse (1), Faustian (1), world war ii (1), World War 2 (1), the Blitz (1), UK (1), London, England (1), london (1), selling your soul (1)
|
| 1979-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lair |
James Herbert |
|
|
horror (1), rats (1), london (1)
|
| 1979-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta |
Doris Lessing |
|
|
nuclear war (1), Earth (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1), genetic engineering (1), alien perspective (1), london (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1979-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Unlimited Dream Company |
J. G. Ballard |
|
|
surrealism (1), 99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), london (1), first person point of view (1), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1)
|
| 1976-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
An Infinite Summer |
Christopher Priest |
|
|
time travel (1), science fiction (1), london (1), world war ii (1)
|
| 1974-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Give Warning to the World |
John Brunner |
|
|
science fiction (1), panspermia (1), alien invasion (1), parasites (1), london (1), amnesia (1), dreams (1), kidnapping (1)
|
| 1973-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Gravity's Rainbow |
Thomas Pynchon |
|
|
literary sf (1), 99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), Germany (1), world war ii (1), london (1), sex (1), plastics (1), missiles (1), paranoia (1), predestination (1), music (1), into-music (1), into-art (1), science fiction (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1972-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
An Alien Heat |
Michael Moorcock |
|
|
romance (1), victorian (1), london (1), far future (1), decadence (1), time travel (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Torrent of Faces |
James Blish and Norman L. Knight |
|
|
genetic engineering (1), Utopia (1), far future (1), science fiction (1), urban life (1), uplift (1), tobacco (1), advertising (1), arcology (1), hallucinations (1), extinction (1), interstellar travel (1), bacteria (1), empathy (1), submersible (1), Washington, DC (1), crash landing (1), lasers (1), set in the 2700s (1), birth control (1), Fix up (1), arsenic (1), horses (1), nature preserve (1), deepsea (1), computers (1), gallium (1), asteroid impact (1), overpopulation (1), Philadelphia (1), amino acids (1), hotel (1), dolphins (1), Australia (1), london (1), Illinois (1), food (1)
|
| 1967-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
murder (1), Jack the Ripper (1), science fiction (1), multiple personalities (1), telepathy (1), mind control (1), serial killer (1), london (1)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
October the First Is Too Late |
Fred Hoyle |
|
|
time travel (1), russia (1), musicians (1), physicist (1), london (1), music (1), mexico (1), Greece (1), scotland (1), hawaii (1), science fiction (1), overpopulation (1), higher intelligence (1), far future (1), radio astronomy (1), World War I (1), first person narrative (1), Los Angeles (1)
|
| 1964-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dark Light Years |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
first contact (1), synthetic food (1), vegetarianism (1), excrement (1), communication (1), nuclear warfare (1), alien perspective (1), alien technology (1), Pain (1), climate change (1), zoo (1), london (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (1), england (1), art (1), sculpture (1)
|
| 1962-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Drowned World |
J. G. Ballard |
|
|
science fiction (1), post apocalypse (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), cosy catastrophe (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), climate fiction (1), cli-fi (1), devolution (1), rising sea level (1), climate change (1), england (1), london (1), anomie (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1962-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Wind from Nowhere |
J. G. Ballard |
|
|
natural disaster (2), dictatorship (1), disowned by its author (1), man versus nature (1), survival (1), hubris (1), suicide (1), science fiction (1), loss (1), london (1), england (1), Wind (1)
|
| 1959-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Medicine for Melancholy |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
romance (1), crowdsourcing (1), 18th century (1), illness (1), fantasy (1), london (1)
|
| 1959-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Echo in the Skull |
John Brunner |
|
|
amnesia (1), london (1), science fiction (1), dreams (1), kidnapping (1), parasites (1), panspermia (1), alien invasion (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Magician's Nephew |
C. S. Lewis |
|
|
Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), fantasy (1), young-adult fantasy (1), children (1), parallel worlds (1), london (1), witches (1), creation (1), winged horses (1), horses (1), apples (1), sorcerers (1), talking animals (1), immortality (1), into-play (1), into-tv (1)
|
| 1954-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Master Mind |
John Russell Fearn |
|
|
london (1)
|
| 1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Kraken Wakes |
John Wyndham |
|
|
cosy catastrophe (2), first person point of view (2), cold war (2), sea level rise (2), london (2), england (2), Caribbean (2), science fiction (2), journalists (1), married couple (1), iceberg (1), ship sinking (1), oceanography (1), Atlantic Ocean (1), atomic weapons (1), atomic bomb (1), UK (1), Cornwall (1), first person (1), societal collapse (1), journalist (1), deep sea (1), ultrasound (1), Spain (1), cold war politics (1), ireland (1), climate change (1), alien invasion (1), Earth (1), Cayman Islands (1), into-radio (1), nuclear war (1)
|
| 1949-06-08 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nineteen Eighty-Four |
George Orwell |
|
|
dystopia (3), social criticism (2), Newspeak (1), near future (1), horror (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), science fiction (1)
|
| 1948-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Forgotten Enemy |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
science fiction (1), climate change (1), cold (1), london (1)
|
| 1947-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Voices in the Dust of Annan |
Gerald Kersh |
|
|
post-apocalypse (1), fairies (1), london (1), post apocalypse (1)
|
| 1938-05-25 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Old Burying Place ... |
Gerald Kersh |
|
|
london (1), post-apocalypse (1), post apocalypse (1)
|
| 1937-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Superhuman |
John Russell Fearn |
|
|
london (1)
|
| 1935-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Muggridge's Aunt |
August Derleth |
|
|
london (1), nephew (1), poor cousin (1), callousness (1), death (1), inheritance (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), lobelias (1), decor (1), dream (1)
|
| 1932-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
|
|
NESFA Core Reading List (1), cloning (1), virtual reality (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), forbidden books (1), into-tv (1), biologic engineering (1), drug addiction (1), social engineering (1), consumerism (1), social dictatorship (1), in-vitro (1), london (1), science fiction (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1), psychological conditioning (1), sleep learning (1), into-movie (1), native americans (1), British dystopia (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), dystopia (1), CBS Radio Workshop (1), Utopia (1)
|
| 1931-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Old Man |
Holloway Horn |
|
|
prediction (1), future (1), science fiction (1), fantasy (1), london (1)
|
| 1925-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Bagnell Terrace |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
ghosts (1), fantasy (1), cats (1), first person point of view (1), london (1), Egyptian cult (1), cat statue (1)
|
| 1922-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hypnos |
H. P. Lovecraft |
|
|
drugs (1), dreams (1), cosmic horror (1), paranormal supernatural exploration (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), london (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1922-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mr. Tilly's Séance |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
Librivox (1), seance (1), ghost (1), traffic accident (1), deceased point of view (1), london (1)
|
| 1919-03-15 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Girl in the Golden Atom |
Ray Cummings |
|
|
microcosmos (1), young-adult sf (1), london (1), science fiction (1), XIX century (1)
|
| 1912-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Terror by Night |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), london (1), Davos (1), consumption (1), psychic messages (1)
|
| 1908-05-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Where the Tides Ebb and Flow |
Lord Dunsany |
|
|
dreams (1), fantasy (1), london (1)
|
| 1906-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Bus-Conductor |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), precognition (1), bus driver (1), hearse (1), london (1), story within a story (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 1899-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
When the Sleeper Wakes |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
dystopia (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), castes (1), euthanasia (1), air travel (1), london (1), revolution (1), plutocracy (1), suspended animation (1), Librivox (1), near future (1), hibernation (1), king of the world (1), totalitarism (1), poor and rich (1), economics (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), thought control (1)
|
| 1898-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The War of the Worlds |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
into-movie (3), war with aliens (2), alien invasion (2), chemical weapons (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), disease (1), genocide (1), interplanetary travel (1), Earth (1), alien artifacts (1), into-music (1), into-radio (1), into-video game (1), into-game (1), into-play (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), bacteria (1), evolution (1), Martians (1), england (1), london (1), first person point of view (1), into-tv (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), science fiction (1), mars (1), Librivox (1), aliens (1), into-radio drama (1)
|
| 1897-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dracula |
Bram Stoker |
|
|
horror (2), vampires (2), Horror: 100 Best Books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), arctic (1), correspondence (1), diary (1), Romania (1), london (1), england (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), The Seven-League Shelf (1), weird (1), Librivox (1), Dracula (1)
|
| 1897-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Invisible in London |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
escaping pursuit (1), invisibility (1), Victorian era (1), london (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1897-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Invisible Man |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
england (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), london (1), Sussex (1), Victorian England (1), Victorian era (1), into-video game (1), into-music (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1), mad scientist (1), invention (1), physics (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), science fiction (1), invisibility (1), Librivox (1), human experiment (1)
|
| 1895-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Time Machine |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
time travel (4), inventor (2), into-movie (2), 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)
|
| 1890-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Sign of Four |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
|
|
private investigator (1), murder mystery (1), treasure (1), india (1), london (1), first person point of view (1), locked room mystery (1)
|
| 1859-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
|
|
haunted house (2), fantasy (1), first person point of view (1), london (1), 1800s (1), child murder (1), ghosts (1), retribution (1), mesmeric power (1)
|
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