| 2011-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Embassytown |
|
|
|
space opera (2), linguistics (1), science fiction (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 2005-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Old Man's War |
John Scalzi |
|
|
military sf (3), space opera (3), mind cloning (2), war with aliens (1), genetic engineering (1), nanotechnology (1), science fiction (1), dyson sphere (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 2005-03-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Uglies |
Scott Westerfeld |
|
|
Young Adult (1), young-adult sf (1), dystopian (1), teen science fiction (1), totalitarianism (1), Hoverboards (1), plastic surgery (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1999-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cryptonomicon |
Neal Stephenson |
|
|
undersea cables (1), Turing (1), cryptography (1), families (1), world war ii (1), Philippines (1), gold (1), romance (1), strong female character (1), mining (1), Ronald Reagan (1), Douglas MacArthur (1), submarines (1), internet (1), nanotechnology (1), POWs (1), tech startups (1), entrepreneurs (1), computer security (1), hackers (1), Unix (1), jungle warfare (1), death (1), Manila (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), cryptology (1)
|
| 1996-03-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Ribofunk |
Paul Di Filippo |
|
|
Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1992-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Red Mars |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
|
|
mars (4), science fiction (2), terraforming (2), space elevator (2), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), nanotechnology (1), underground city (1), Phobos (1), Corporations (1), hard sf (1), Coyote (1), 2-award-winner (1), politics (1), genetic engineering (1), Mars colonization (1), climate control (1), longevity (1), revolution (1), near future (1), colonization (1)
|
| 1989-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Hyperion |
Dan Simmons |
|
|
space opera (4), nanotechnology (2), mega-flora (1), storytelling (1), AI (1), 2-award-winner (1), dolphin (1), science fiction (1), far future (1), space warfare (1), artificial intelligence (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1988-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Falling Free |
Lois McMaster Bujold |
|
|
science fiction (1), genetic engineering (1), hard sf (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1987-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Consider Phlebas |
Iain M. Banks |
|
|
artificial intelligence (3), space opera (3), ship AI (2), science fiction (2), nanotechnology (2), war with aliens (2), transhuman (1), ai citizens (1), dyson sphere (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 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)
|
| 1982-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nor Crystal Tears |
Alan Dean Foster |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1979-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
|
|
dolphin (1), comedy (1), philosophical quest (1), into-tv (1), cult fiction (1), from-radio (1), mega-engineering (1), england (1), interstellar travel (1), space drive (1), science fiction (1), into-movie (1), philosophy (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), into-video game (1)
|
| 1978-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stand |
Stephen King |
|
|
post apocalypse (3), horror (3), into-tv (2), post-apocalyptic (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1977-05-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika |
and |
|
|
Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1976-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Man Plus |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
mars (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (1), cyborgs (1), cold war (1), artificial intelligence (1), transhuman (1), transformation (1)
|
| 1975-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Female Man |
Joanna Russ |
|
|
SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), alternate history (1), science fiction (1), world without men/women (1)
|
| 1973-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Rendezvous with Rama |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
first contact (3), science fiction (3), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), 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)
|
| 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 |
Behold the Man |
Michael Moorcock |
|
|
time travel (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), religion (1), jesus (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (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)
|
| 1968-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
androids (2), Oregon (1), set in 1990s (1), into-video game (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), animals (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), robots (1), genetic engineering (1), pets (1), San Francisco (1), postapocalyptic (1), premonition (1), science fiction (1), bounty hunter (1), dystopia (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), population collapse (1), psychology (1), social commentary (1), interplanetary travel (1), ecological decline (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), what human is (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1967-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Logan's Run |
George Clayton Johnson and William F. Nolan |
|
|
dystopia (2), science fiction (1), novelization (1), overpopulation (1), into-movie (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), automated medical machinery (1)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Make Room! Make Room! |
Harry Harrison |
|
|
dystopia (2), overpopulation (2), science fiction (2), New York City (2), detective (2), social collapse (1), societal collapse (1), birth control (1), immigrants (1), murder (1), police investigations (1), police (1), police detective (1), New York (1), millenialism (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1965-12-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dune |
Frank Herbert |
|
|
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)
|
| 1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Wrinkle in Time |
Madeleine L'Engle |
|
|
into-movie (2), young-adult sf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), juvenile sf (1), into-opera (1), into-play (1), kidnapping (1), coming of age (1), aliens (1), female protagonist (1), good and evil (1), tesseract (1), child prodigy (1)
|
| 1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Hothouse |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
moon (1), science fantasy (1), fungi (1), science fiction (1), locked rotation (1), evolution (1), insects (1), interplanetary travel (1), Earth (1), Fix up (1), mind control (1), parasites (1), panspermia (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), dying earth (1), far future (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)
|
| 1961-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Polish |
Solaris |
|
|
|
science fiction (2), into-movie (2), psychology (1), mega-fauna (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), space station (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1960-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Venus Plus X |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1959-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
|
|
religion (3), post apocalypse (2), post-apocalyptic (2), The 5-Parsec Shelf (2), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (2), mutants (1), world war (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), Renaissance (1), United States (1), euthanasia (1), into-radio (1), Utah (1), set in 2500s (1), cannibalism (1), set in 3100s (1), Texas (1), set in 3700s (1), interstellar travel (1), Physicians (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
|
| 1959-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Alas, Babylon |
Pat Frank |
|
|
nuclear war (1), alternate history (1), near future (1), dystopia (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Florida (1), science fiction (1), postapocalyptic (1), into-tv (1)
|
| 1959-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Starship Troopers |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
military sf (4), science fiction (2), into-movie (2), young-adult sf (1), power armor (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), space opera (1), into-tv (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), coming of age (1), punishment (1), war with aliens (1), world government (1), into-video game (1), into-board game (1)
|
| 1959-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Sirens of Titan |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), aliens (1), time travel (1), Titan (1), Earth (1), free will (1), into-play (1)
|
| 1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Death of Grass |
John Christopher |
|
|
post apocalypse (1), england (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), cosy catastrophe (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), into-movie (1), into-radio-play (1), blight (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Chrysalids |
John Wyndham |
|
|
dystopia (2), telepathy (1), science fiction (1), mutants (1), post apocalypse (1), cosy catastrophe (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), C1 Nanzan 117 (1), into-radio (1), coming of age (1), unusual children (1), New Zealand (1), Canada (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Long Tomorrow |
Leigh Brackett |
|
|
post-apocalyptic (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), religion (1), science fiction (1), United States (1), post apocalypse (1), post-apocalypse (1), postapocalyptic America (1)
|
| 1954-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mission of Gravity |
Hal Clement |
|
|
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)
|
| 1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ring Around the Sun |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
surveillance (1), interstellar communication (1), telepathy (1), premonition (1), paranormal abilities (1), Solar power (1), robots (1), antigravity (1), mutants (1), artificial bodies (1), manhunt (1), alternate worlds (1), Illinois (1), Wisconsin (1), nostalgia (1), New York City (1), implanted memories (1), architecture (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), science fiction (1), cars (1), durable goods (1), writer (1), economics (1), genetic memory (1), set in 1980s (1), longevity (1)
|
| 1952-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Demolished Man |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
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)
|
| 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)
|
| 1951-02-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The Illustrated Man |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
living tattoo (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), tattoos (1), science fiction (1), living artwork (1)
|
| 1949-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Earth Abides |
George R. Stewart |
|
|
ecology (2), science fiction (2), pandemic (2), cosy catastrophe (2), Escape (Radio) (1), descent to barbarism (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), rats (1), ants (1), depopulation (1), doomsday novel (1), education (1), pastoral (1), ruined earth (1), disaster (1), anthropology (1), sociology (1), california (1), cultural decline (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), post apocalypse (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)
|
| 1935-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Odd John |
Olaf Stapledon |
|
|
science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), telepathy (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), evolution (1), suicide (1), teenagers (1), telekinesis (1), mind reader (1), superpowers (1), friendship (1), gifted (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1933-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
When Worlds Collide |
Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie |
|
|
natural disaster (1), science fiction (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), into-movie (1), end of the world (1), astronomy (1), scientists (1), tsunami (1), earthquakes (1), United States (1), alien artifacts (1), into-music (1), extrasolar planet (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1932-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
|
|
native americans (1), suicide (1), forbidden books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), exile (1), drugs (1), brave new world (1), artificial wombs (1), set in 2500s (1), New Mexico (1), biologic engineering (1), into-movie (1), sleep learning (1), psychological conditioning (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), into-tv (1), virtual reality (1), cloning (1), euthanasia (1), Utopia (1), CBS Radio Workshop (1), dystopia (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), British dystopia (1), contraception (1), sterilization (1), science fiction (1), William Shakespeare (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), london (1), in-vitro (1), social dictatorship (1), consumerism (1), social engineering (1), drug addiction (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)
|
| 1864-11-25 |
NOVEL |
French |
Voyage au centre de la terre |
Jules Verne |
|
|
exploration (1), underworld adventure (1), lost race (1), Librivox (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), into-video game (1), dinosaurs (1), Iceland (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), science fiction (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1)
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