| 2016-03-29 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Hunter Captain |
David John Baker |
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torture (1), sentience (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1), sex (1)
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| 2013-09-24 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Fall of the Governor: Part One |
Jay Bonansinga and Robert Kirkman |
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|
horror (1), zombies (1), Walking Dead (1), torture (1), psychopath (1), romance (1), postapocalyptic (1), United States (1), strong female characters (1), despotism (1), vengeance (1), gladiatorial combat (1), escape (1)
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| 2011-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Bronze Summer |
Stephen Baxter |
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levees (1), eunuchs (1), torture (1), mexico (1), volcano (1), Iceland (1), sociopaths (1), North Sea (1), Turkey (1), alternate history (1), iron (1), potatoes (1), slavery (1), peace (1), Troy (1), vengeance (1), climate change (1)
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| 2010-08-24 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mockingjay |
Suzanne Collins |
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battle (1), songs (1), poison (1), roses (1), post-traumatic stress disorder (1), hospital (1), insanity (1), food (1), romance (1), underground city (1), drugs (1), genocide (1), atrocity (1), post-apocalyptic (1), television (1), boobytraps (1), force fields (1), invisibility screen (1), rebellion (1), torture (1), genetic engineering (1), United States (1), tyranny (1), dystopia (1), into-movie (1), Young Adult (1)
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| 2009-09-03 |
NOVEL |
English |
Transition |
Iain M. Banks |
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time travel (1), science fiction (1), intrigue (1), paranormal talents (1), torture (1), murder (1), parallel earths (1), Multiple First person point of view (1), cabal (1), secret plots (1), strong female characters (1), betrayal (1), mind transfer (1), psychic drug (1)
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| 2002-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The McCrath Model SS40-C Series S |
Edward Lee |
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Extreme horror (1), torture (1)
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| 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)
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| 2000-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel |
Joe R. Lansdale |
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steampunk (1), parallel universes (1), American West (1), vampires (1), Morlocks (1), torture (1)
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| 1999-11-22 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
In the Deathroom |
Stephen King |
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banana republic (1), torture (1), contemporary (1), electric shock (1)
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| 1999-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Old Music and the Slave Women |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
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science fiction (1), slavery (1), torture (1), biological warfare (1), revolution (1)
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| 1998-06-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The Book of the New Sun |
Gene Wolfe |
|
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science fiction (1), distant future (1), Earth (1), torture (1), first person point of view (1), aliens (1)
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| 1996-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There Is a Violence |
Sally McBride |
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first person point of view (1), alien artifacts (1), archaeology (1), female protagonist (1), family (1), alien psychology (1), torture (1), repatriation (1), collector (1)
|
| 1985-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Brightness Falls from the Air |
James Tiptree, Jr. |
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distant future (1), torture (1), rapid aging (1), poison (1), reproduction (1), telepathy (1), beauty (1), sadism (1), murder (1), memory erasure (1), loss (1), science fiction (1), love (1), interstellar travel (1), interstellar war (1), aliens (1), genocide (1), art (1), drugs (1), alcohol (1), nova (1), time distortion (1), suspended animation (1)
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| 1984-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Heretics of Dune |
Frank Herbert |
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|
weather control (1), longevity (1), lasers (1), assassination (1), surveillance (1), diplomacy (1), pheromones (1), sadomasochism (1), prostitution (1), torture (1), psychic probe (1), desert (1), smell (1), loyalty (1), honor (1), computers (1), distant future (1), arcology (1), antigravity (1), diaspora (1), education (1), space opera (1), interstellar travel (1), sex (1), love (1), politics (1), Clones (1), drugs (1), punishment (1), eugenics (1), science fiction (1), Secrecy (1), art (1), precognition (1), genetic engineering (1), indeterminacy (1), strong female characters (1), vengeance (1), memory (1), religion (1)
|
| 1980-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Far Removed from the Scene of the Crime |
Simon Hawke |
|
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fantasy (1), torture (1), apartheid (1), South Africa (1), SWAPO (1), Namibia (1), Robben Island (1), alternate reality (1), ironic justice (1)
|
| 1980-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Shadow of the Torturer |
Gene Wolfe |
|
|
far future (2), 2-award-winner (1), science fiction (1), fantasy (1), torture (1), library (1)
|
| 1969-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Eve of RUMOKO |
Roger Zelazny |
|
|
martial arts (1), virus (1), torture (1), interrogation (1), romance (1), surveillance (1), computers (1), sabotage (1), artificial land (1), volcano (1), deep-sea drilling (1), underwater city (1), science fiction (1), drugs (1)
|
| 1967-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Toy for Juliette |
Robert Bloch |
|
|
Benjamin Bathurst (1), Jack the Ripper (1), science fiction (1), time travel (1), kidnapping (1), torture (1), serial killer (1), murder (1), horror (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Test to Destruction |
Keith Laumer |
|
|
mind probe (1), torture (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1964-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Star King |
Jack Vance |
|
|
space opera (1), tavern (1), science fiction (1), crime (1), revenge (1), space travel (1), academia (1), torture (1), aliens (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)
|
| 1961-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Planet Named Shayol |
Cordwainer Smith |
|
|
human-animal hybrids (1), penal system (1), addiction (1), euphoriant (1), torture (1), corruption (1), alien microbes (1), galactic empire (1), prison planet (1), longevity (1), Pain (1), far future (1), science fiction (1), drugs (1), hospital (1), into-radio (1)
|
| 1961-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Quaker Cannon |
C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl |
|
|
science fiction (1), late 20th century (1), world war with communist countries (1), military secrets (1), torture (1), ruse (1), twist ending (1), military plan (1)
|
| 1957-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Victim from Space |
Robert Sheckley |
|
|
science fiction (1), torture (1)
|
| 1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stars My Destination |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
science fiction (2), bodily augmentation (1), Aldebaran (1), synesthesia (1), shipwreck (1), caves (1), torture (1), love (1), tattoos (1), corporate fiefdoms (1), telepathy (1), interplanetary war (1), prison (1), only humans (1), space opera (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), vengeance (1), teleportation (1)
|
| 1955-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Psionic Mousetrap |
Murray Leinster |
|
|
science fiction (1), Siberia (1), invention (1), teleportation (1), torture (1), scientists (1), Washington DC (1), kidnapping (1)
|
| 1951-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hostess |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
X Minus 1 (2), interrogation (1), murder (1), thriller (1), cancer (1), symbiosis (1), marital strife (1), policeman (1), interstellar travel (1), incorporeal beings (1), paranormal powers (1), torture (1), convergent evolution (1), hydrogen cyanide (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1), biologist (1), longevity (1), parasites (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)
|
| 1930-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Gladiator |
Philip Wylie |
|
|
science fiction (1), Librivox (1), invention (1), enhanced strength (1), Colorado (1), torture (1), archaeology (1), into-movie (1), super man (1)
|
| 1928-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Chain |
H. Warner Munn |
|
|
adultery (1), horror (1), revenge (1), torture (1), chain (1), oubliette (1), gothic (1), crumbling castle (1)
|
| 1928-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Justice of the Czar |
George Fielding Eliot |
|
|
torture (1), russia (1), Czar's family (1), retribution (1), twist ending (1), executioner (1)
|
| 1927-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Witch-Baiter |
Anthony M. Rud |
|
|
Spanish Netherlands (1), Inquisition (1), judge (1), witchcraft accusations (1), torture (1), executions (1), irony (1), revenge (1), justice (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1893-12-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Squaw |
Bram Stoker |
|
|
Librivox (1), horror (1), monsters (1), fantasy (1), cats (1), revenge (1), first person point of view (1), tourism (1), Germany (1), torture (1), native americans (1)
|
| 1890-07-12 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Mark of the Beast |
Rudyard Kipling |
|
|
Librivox (1), fantasy (1), werewolves (1), vampires (1), first person point of view (1), india (1), the British Raj (1), Hanuman (1), leper (1), offending a god (1), torture (1), curse (1), New Year's Eve (1), corruption of soul (1), horror (1), tibet (1)
|
| 1889-03-11 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
His Unconquerable Enemy |
W. C. Morrow |
|
|
punishment (1), torture (1), revenge (1), king (1), india (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1883-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
La torture par l'espérance |
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam |
|
|
Suspense (1), torture (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), realism (1), Spanish Inquisition (1)
|
| 1842-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pit and the Pendulum |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
horror (1), into-movie (1), torture (1), Spain (1), first person point of view (1), Fear (1), into-music (1), Spanish Inquisition (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), shocker (1)
|
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