| 2011-01-18 |
NOVEL |
English |
Among Others |
Jo Walton |
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fantasy (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), recursive sf (1), Wales (1)
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| 2010-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
All Clear |
Connie Willis |
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time travel (1), 3-award-winner (1), strong female characters (1), world war ii (1), science fiction (1), historian (1), england (1)
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| 2010-01-28 |
NOVEL |
English |
Blackout |
Connie Willis |
|
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time travel (1), 3-award-winner (1), strong female characters (1), world war ii (1), science fiction (1), historian (1), england (1)
|
| 2009-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Windup Girl |
Paolo Bacigalupi |
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Bangkok (2), Thailand (2), 3-award-winner (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), elephants (1), Refugees (1), biopunk (1), expatriates (1), environmental issues (1), alternative energy (1), genetic engineering (1), science fiction (1), virus (1), present tense (1)
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| 2007-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Yiddish Policemen's Union |
Michael Chabon |
|
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alternate history (2), mystery (1), fantasy (1), science fiction (1), 3-award-winner (1)
|
| 2003-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Paladin of Souls |
Lois McMaster Bujold |
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fantasy (1), 3-award-winner (1)
|
| 2001-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
American Gods |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
into-tv (1), fantasy (1), superheroes (1)
|
| 1997-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Forever Peace |
Joe Haldeman |
|
|
nanotechnology (2), science fiction (1), big bang (1), mixed first and third person point of view (1), jacking in (1), technothriller (1), cults (1), hive mind (1), pessimism (1), memory edit (1), cosmology (1), scientists (1), robots (1), sex (1), military sf (1), technology (1), future war (1), weapons (1), mecha (1), empathy (1), Jupiter (1), virtual reality (1), racial conflict (1), drugs (1), 3-award-winner (1)
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| 1992-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Doomsday Book |
Connie Willis |
|
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3-award-winner (1), time travel (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), historian (1), epidemic (1), science fiction (1), strong female character (1), england (1), medieval (1), near future (1)
|
| 1986-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Speaker for the Dead |
Orson Scott Card |
|
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space opera (1), interstellar travel (1), artificial intelligence (1), far future (1), space colony (1), science fiction (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), symbiosis (1), epidemic (1), forests (1), aliens (1), relativistic time dilation (1), religion (1)
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| 1985-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ender's Game |
Orson Scott Card |
|
|
space opera (3), science fiction (3), military sf (2), into-movie (2), first contact (1), from-short (1), child protagonist (1), 3-award-winner (1), aliens (1), asteroids (1), antigravity (1), genocide (1), ansible (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), games (1)
|
| 1984-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Neuromancer |
William Gibson |
|
|
artificial intelligence (3), cyberpunk (3), virtual reality (2), science fiction (2), dystopia (2), into-video game (1), drugs (1), cryogenics (1), istanbul (1), United States (1), uploaded personalities (1), poison (1), Japan (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), hard sf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), near future (1)
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| 1983-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Startide Rising |
David Brin |
|
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space opera (2), alien perspective (1), genetic monsters (1), mysterious planetary ecology (1), war in space (1), interstellar travel (1), genetic engineering (1), dolphin point of view (1), dolphins (1), strong female characters (1), water world (1), ancient aliens (1), trojan horse (1), ancient library (1), artificial intelligence (1), Poetry (1), tsunami (1), interstellar war (1), aliens (1), alien artifacts (1), apes (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), 2-award-winner (1), dolphin (1), 3-award-winner (1), aquatic (1), uplift (1)
|
| 1979-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Fountains of Paradise |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
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space elevator (2), science fiction (2), 2-award-winner (1), hard sf (1), Sri Lanka (1), engineering (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1978-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dreamsnake |
Vonda N. McIntyre |
|
|
3-award-winner (1), science fiction (1)
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| 1977-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Gateway |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
5-award-winner (1), space opera (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), alternating chapter structure (1), interstellar travel (1), alien artifacts (1), survivor guilt (1), time dilation (1), black holes (1), into-video game (1)
|
| 1975-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Forever War |
Joe Haldeman |
|
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military sf (4), space opera (3), science fiction (2), into-board game (1), sub-light speed (1), war with aliens (1), power armor (1), dilatation (1), time travel (1), relativistic time dilation (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1974-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
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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)
|
| 1973-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Rendezvous with Rama |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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first contact (3), science fiction (3), Big Dumb Object (1), into-video game (1), into-radio (1), exploration (1), robots (1), space travel (1), genetic engineering (1), hard sf (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), 5-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), hard science fiction (1), sub-light speed (1), mega-starship (1), alien artifact (1), near future (1)
|
| 1972-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Gods Themselves |
Isaac Asimov |
|
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science fiction (2), food (1), argon (1), tourism (1), power source (1), pions (1), gymnastics (1), nudity (1), immigration (1), plutonium (1), tungsten (1), global Earth government (1), genetic engineering (1), water (1), quasars (1), moon (1), aliens (1), alien perspective (1), sex (1), alternative energy (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), parallel universe (1), translation (1), Moon colony (1), Solar apocalypse (1), advanced aliens (1), academia (1), rivalry (1), first contact (1), Etruscan (1), journalist (1), radioactivity (1), set in 22nd century (1), set in 2070s (1), intuition (1), lunar city (1)
|
| 1970-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ringworld |
Larry Niven |
|
|
exploration (2), teleportation (1), natural disaster (1), faster than light travel (1), breeding program (1), time stasis (1), luck (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (1), longevity (1), superconductivity (1), into-game (1), into-video game (1), hard sf (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), asteroid (1), mega-engineering (1)
|
| 1969-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
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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)
|
| 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), desert (1), cult fiction (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), space fantasy (1), drugs (1), force fields (1), ornithopters (1), secret breeding program (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), 2-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), mega-fauna (1), revolution (1), superman (1)
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