| 1991-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Troubling Along the Border |
Donald Aamodt |
|
|
fantasy (1), sword and sorcery (1), humor (1)
|
| 1991-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cat•A•Lyst |
Alan Dean Foster |
|
|
humor (1), parallel worlds (1), ancient aliens (1), Incas (1), hollywood (1), cats (1), contemporary (1), Peru (1), lost treasure (1)
|
| 1991-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lady Slings the Booze |
Spider Robinson |
|
|
polymorphous sexuality (1), humor (1), vigilantism (1), love (1), New York City (1), telepathy (1), time control (1), time travel (1), roman a cle (1), prostitution (1), private eye (1), nuclear terrorism (1)
|
| 1991-10-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
The World of Charles Addams |
Charles Addams |
|
|
fantasy (1), humor (1)
|
| 1990-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains |
Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley |
|
|
science fiction (1), humor (1)
|
| 1990-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
STORMY Versus the Tornadoes |
Jeff Duntemann |
|
|
science fiction (1), artificial intelligence (1), humor (1)
|
| 1989-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Name to Conjure With |
Donald Aamodt |
|
|
fantasy (1), sword and sorcery (1), humor (1)
|
| 1989-10-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The Old Funny Stuff |
George Alec Effinger |
|
|
humor (1)
|
| 1986-10-00 |
INTERIORART |
English |
Cartoon: "Hi There! I'd like to grant you three wishes with the exception of any in the areas of politics, ecology and state and local lotteries." |
Henry Martin |
|
|
fairy (1), city (1), contemporary (1), humor (1), typical businessman type (1)
|
| 1986-10-00 |
INTERIORART |
English |
Cartoon: "How would you like it — being the wee folks' wee folks?" |
S. Harris |
|
|
leprechauns (1), humor (1)
|
| 1986-10-00 |
INTERIORART |
English |
Cartoon: no caption |
Nurit Karlin |
|
|
humor (1), desktop (1), paranormal powers (1)
|
| 1986-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fill It with Regular |
Michael Shea |
|
|
humor (1), apocalypse (1), spores (1), contemporary (1), automobiles (1)
|
| 1986-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Saucery |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
humor (1), Ufology (1), contemporary (1), Martians (1), satire (1), Manhattan (1), public sentiment (1)
|
| 1983-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Amanda and the Alien |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
into-movie (1), adolescent girls (1), horror (1), humor (1), contemporary (1), first contact (1), shapeshifting alien (1)
|
| 1983-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Second Coming |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
first person point of view (1), aliens (1), jesus (1), first contact (1), contemporary (1), humor (1)
|
| 1983-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The High Test |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
attack by aliens (1), black holes (1), love (1), aliens (1), spacecraft driving instructor (1), interstellar travel (1), epistolary format (1), first person point of view (1), humor (1)
|
| 1982-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stainless Steel Rat for President |
Harry Harrison |
|
|
science fiction (1), social criticism (1), humor (1)
|
| 1981-02-16 |
POEM |
English |
Improbable Bestiary: The Bug-Eyed Monster |
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre |
|
|
humor (1), monster (1), destruction (1)
|
| 1980-04-00 |
INTERIORART |
English |
Cartoon: "... anyhow, if I were you. I'd take every precaution, Mr. Steele." |
Gahan Wilson |
|
|
cartoon (1), humor (1), murder (1), police (1)
|
| 1980-05-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 23rd Series |
Edward L. Ferman |
|
|
1980 Best Anthology (1), fantasy (1), SF (1), criticism (1), science essay (1), humor (1)
|
| 1979-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Bobo's Star |
Glenn Chandler |
|
|
failure to follow instructions (1), humor (1), schoolboy protagonist (1), near future (1), antigravity (1), black hole (1), apocalypse (1)
|
| 1979-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Motel of the Mysteries |
David Macaulay |
|
|
science fiction (1), archaeology (1), television (1), set in 4000s (1), humor (1)
|
| 1977-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Assassins |
Ron Goulart |
|
|
pulp novels (1), assassination (1), humor (1), human-animal hybrids (1), publishing (1), ghost-writers (1), secret plots (1), wintry planet (1), fandom (1), fanzines (1), fan conventions (1), artificial intelligences revolt (1)
|
| 1977-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes |
James Quinn |
|
|
contemporary (1), championship (1), humor (1), smoke rings (1), Insecurity (1), gamesmanship (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1977-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Astronomical Hazards of the Tobacco Habit |
Dean McLaughlin |
|
|
humor (1), scientific satire (1), astronomy (1), France (1), spectroscopy (1), potassium (1), epistolary (1), time travel (1)
|
| 1977-05-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Kugelmass Episode |
Woody Allen |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), New York City (1), Emma Bovary (1), magic (1), extramarital affairs (1), humor (1), be careful what you wish for (1)
|
| 1977-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Zorphwar! |
Stan Dryer |
|
|
contemporary (1), humor (1), corporate memos (1), computer games (1)
|
| 1976-11-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
Favorite Haunts |
Charles Addams |
|
|
humor (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1976-00-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
Who Was That Monolith I Saw You With? |
Michael C. Goodwin |
|
|
space opera (1), humor (1), satire (1)
|
| 1975-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Litter of the Law |
J. Douglas Burtt |
|
|
humor (1), first contact (1), near future (1), Pioneer space probes (1)
|
| 1974-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
I'm Looking for Kadak |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
only aliens (1), humor (1), Judaism (1), Yiddish (1), first person point of view (1), religion (1), no humans (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1974-00-00 |
CHAPBOOK |
English |
Wife Styles and Life Styles |
Frank M. Darrow |
|
|
humor (1)
|
| 1973-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Cosmic Report Card: Earth |
Forrest J. Ackerman |
|
|
humor (1), only Earth (1), disappointment (1)
|
| 1973-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Probability Zero! The Population Implosion |
Theodore R. Cogswell |
|
|
humor (1), statistics (1)
|
| 1972-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Shaffery Among the Immortals |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
science fiction (1), astronomy (1), pandemic (1), humor (1), apocalyptic (1)
|
| 1971-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Flying Sorcerers |
David Gerrold and Larry Niven |
|
|
science fiction (1), humor (1), magic (1), exploration (1)
|
| 1969-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Bored of the Rings |
Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney |
|
|
Tolkien (1), humor (1), parody (1), fantasy (1), pastiche (1)
|
| 1969-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Santa Claus vs. S. P. I. D. E. R. |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
James Bond parody (1), Kris Kringle (1), humor (1), US politicians (1), parody (1)
|
| 1968-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pitll Pawob Division |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
humor (1), alien point of view (1), human alien contact (1)
|
| 1967-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sepia Springs Affair |
Roscoe E. Wright |
|
|
epistolary style (1), contemporary (1), SF fandom (1), aliens on Earth (1), humor (1)
|
| 1966-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rocket to Gehenna |
Doris Piserchia |
|
|
intergalactic travel (1), world government (1), teleportation (1), set in 2060s (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), cemetery (1), correspondence (1), humor (1), science fiction (1), Earth (1)
|
| 1966-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dreadful Disappearance of Collie Knox |
Rex York |
|
|
humor (1), gay (1), devil (1)
|
| 1966-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Hamadryad of Ragweed |
Ed Fisher |
|
|
allergy (1), hamadryads (1), Grecian pantheon (1), Zeus (1), humor (1), love (1)
|
| 1965-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
science fiction (1), dystopia (1), food (1), humor (1), nonconformism (1), brainwashing (1), rebellion (1), Time (1), nonconformity (1), chaos (1), control (1)
|
| 1965-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Computers Don't Argue |
Gordon R. Dickson |
|
|
errors (1), inexorable system (1), epistolary (1), book club (1), satire (1), computers (1), humor (1), jurisdiction (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1963-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Anthem Sprinters |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
movie theaters (1), contemporary (1), ireland (1), humor (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1962-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Papers of the Adam Family |
Mark Twain |
|
|
autobiography (1), humor (1)
|
| 1962-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Seven-Day Terror |
R. A. Lafferty |
|
|
science fiction (1), humor (1), invention (1), children (1)
|
| 1961-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Bau und Leben der Rhinogradentia |
Gerolf Steiner |
|
|
lost world (1), evolution (1), humor (1)
|
| 1961-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Satisfaction Guaranteed |
Joy Leache |
|
|
leprechauns (1), sexism (1), strong female character (1), middle management (1), humor (1), economics (1), alien species (1), Galactic Federation (1), marketing (1), shoemaking (1), alien culture (1)
|
| 1961-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Machine That Won the War |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
near future (1), computers (1), war with aliens (1), humor (1), satire (1), science fiction (1), interstellar war (1)
|
| 1961-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
What Is This Thing Called Love? |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
Merril07 (1), humor (1), captured by aliens (1), reproduction (1), romance (1), contemporary (1), alien point of view (1), evolution (1), science fiction (1), sexual dimorphism (1), human experiment (1)
|
| 1959-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Pride of Carrots |
Robert Nathan |
|
|
fantasy (1), satire (1), interplanetary travel (1), two act play (1), intelligent vegetables (1), venus (1), first contact (1), romance (1), humor (1)
|
| 1958-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Buy Jupiter! |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
advertising (1), diplomacy (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1), humor (1), Jupiter (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
G. O. Fizzickle Pogo |
Walt Kelly |
|
|
exploration (1), humor (1)
|
| 1958-02-00 |
POEM |
English |
I Just Make Them Up, See! |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
humor (1), writing (1)
|
| 1958-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dread Tomato Addiction |
Mark Clifton |
|
|
moral panic (1), tomatoes (1), humor (1), social commentary (1), parody (1)
|
| 1958-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
only Earth (1), absent minded scientist (1), time travel (1), only humans (1), contemporary (1), humor (1), infidelity (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1957-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Loint of Paw |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
time travel (1), science fiction (1), humor (1), courtroom drama (1)
|
| 1957-01-00 |
COLLECTION |
Polish |
Dzienniki gwiazdowe |
|
|
|
space travel (1), humor (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1957-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
I'm in Marsport Without Hilda |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
sexism (1), humor (1), detective story (1), only humans (1), interstellar travel (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1), tryst (1), drugs (1), science fiction (1), mystery (1), mars (1), artificial gravity (1)
|
| 1957-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Moving Spirit |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
humor (1), alcohol (1), science fiction (1), courtroom drama (1), england (1), osmosis (1)
|
| 1957-01-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Tales from the White Hart |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
humor (1), science fiction (1), tavern (1)
|
| 1956-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Digging the Weans |
Robert Nathan |
|
|
archaeology (1), science fiction (1), humor (1), United States (1)
|
| 1956-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Jokester |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
human experiment (1), humor (1), computers (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1956-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
On Camera |
John Novotny |
|
|
civil defense (1), humor (1), telepathy (1), do it yourself (1), television (1), fantasy (1), CBS (1)
|
| 1956-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pâté de Foie Gras |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
nucleosynthesis (1), humor (1), science fiction (1), gold (1), birds (1), mutants (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1956-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Visit to a Small Planet |
Gore Vidal |
|
|
aliens (1), first contact (1), television (1), humor (1), comedy of manners (1)
|
| 1955-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Diabologic |
Eric Frank Russell |
|
|
first contact (1), dominance (1), psychology (1), humor (1), bureaucracy (1), exploration (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1955-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Funeral |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
contemporary (1), supernatural (1), humor (1), funeral (1), fantasy (1), into-tv (1), Night Gallery (1)
|
| 1955-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
We Are Holding Our Own |
John Steinbeck |
|
|
extinction (1), United Nations (1), human nature (1), humor (1), social commentary (1), society (1), prehistory (1), mob psychology (1), prehistoric (1)
|
| 1954-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Armaments Race |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
weapons (1), hollywood (1), humor (1), science fiction (1), invention (1)
|
| 1954-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Space-Crime Continuum |
H. F. Ellis |
|
|
detective story (1), authorship (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), murder mystery (1), science fiction (1), humor (1)
|
| 1953-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Specialist |
Robert Sheckley |
|
|
alien point of view (1), interstellar travel (1), social commentary (1), humor (1)
|
| 1953-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Available Data on the Worp Reaction |
Lion Miller |
|
|
invention (1), humor (1), science fiction (1), antigravity (1)
|
| 1953-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Chessplayers |
Charles L. Harness |
|
|
first person point of view (1), chess (1), rats (1), humor (1), chess players (1), chess club (1), immigration enforcement (1)
|
| 1952-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Chaos in Miniature |
Herbert J. Campbell |
|
|
humor (1)
|
| 1950-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Martian Oddity |
Forrest J. Ackerman |
|
|
space exploration (1), Martians (1), contact with aliens (1), mars (1), humor (1), word play (1), alien point of view (1), twist ending (1), alien contact (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Silence, Please! |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
sound damping (1), science fiction (1), humor (1), physics (1), invention (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody |
Will Cuppy |
|
|
humor (1), history (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Swordsmen of Varnis |
Clive Jackson |
|
|
fantasy (1), humor (1), Barsoom (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1949-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Farmer Giles of Ham |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
|
|
historical fantasy (1), medieval (1), humor (1), giants (1), dragons (1), food (1), talking animals (1), england (1)
|
| 1947-00-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
Addams and Evil |
Charles Addams |
|
|
fantasy (1), humor (1)
|
| 1943-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Proud Robot |
Henry Kuttner |
|
|
science fiction (1), robots (1), humor (1)
|
| 1942-00-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
Drawn and Quartered |
Charles Addams |
|
|
humor (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1942-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Robot AL-76 Goes Astray |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
science fiction (1), robots (1), mining (1), Virginia (1), humor (1)
|
| 1942-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Victory Unintentional |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
robot (1), science fiction (1), humor (1), robots (1), Ganymede (1), Jupiter (1), aliens (1), force field (1), diplomacy (1)
|
| 1941-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
"—And He Built a Crooked House" |
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)
|
| 1932-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cold Comfort Farm |
Stella Gibbons |
|
|
near future (1), humor (1)
|
| 1928-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Appendix and the Spectacles |
Miles J. Breuer, M.D. |
|
|
dimensional mechanics (1), fourth dimension (1), medicine (1), doctor (1), humor (1)
|
| 1927-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Archy and Mehitabel |
Don Marquis |
|
|
insects (1), cats (1), humor (1), Poetry (1)
|
| 1926-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Topper |
Thorne Smith |
|
|
humor (1), ghosts (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), young-adult fantasy (1)
|
| 1921-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Psychical Mallards |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
satire (1), levitation (1), marriage (1), telekinesis (1), england (1), Clairvoyance (1), precognition (1), humor (1)
|
| 1912-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mr. Fosdick Invents the "Seidlitzmobile" |
Jacque Morgan |
|
|
humor (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1912-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The International Electro-Galvanic Undertaking Corporation |
Jacque Morgan |
|
|
humor (1)
|
| 1911-00-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
The Devil's Dictionary |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
|
English language (1), dictionary (1), humor (1), semantics (1), vocabulary (1)
|
| 1907-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Cautionary Tales for Children |
Hilaire Belloc |
|
|
humor (1), Poetry (1)
|
| 1903-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Truth About Pyecraft |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
humor (1), fantasy (1), first person (1), contemporary (1), Men's club (1), Potions (1), only humans (1)
|
| 1887-02-23 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Canterville Ghost |
Oscar Wilde |
|
|
Librivox (1), ghost (1), humor (1), horror (1), victorian (1)
|
| 1842-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Russian |
|
|
|
|
fantasy (1), dinner (1), granddaughter (1), grandmother (1), devil (1), Napoleon (1), russia (1), humor (1)
|
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