| 2023-09-05 |
NOVEL |
English |
My Brother's Keeper |
Tim Powers |
|
|
historical fantasy (1), curses (1), family (1), ghosts (1), werewolf (1)
|
| 2022-08-02 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Last White Man |
Mohsin Hamid |
|
|
race (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), city (1), family (1)
|
| 2021-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
An Hour to Ames |
Dan Reade |
|
|
androids (1), family (1), death (1)
|
| 2021-11-02 |
NOVEL |
English |
Blue-Skinned Gods |
S. J. Sindu |
|
|
fantasy (1), gods (1), family (1)
|
| 2021-08-31 |
NOVEL |
English |
Forestborn |
Elayne Audrey Becker |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), orphans (1), magic (1), love (1), Foster Homes (1), fantasy (1), family (1), Social Themes (1)
|
| 2021-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
|
Sebastian Maschuw |
|
|
economics (1), family (1), near future (1), satire (1)
|
| 2021-07-27 |
NOVEL |
English |
Red Wolf |
Rachel Vincent |
|
|
shapechangers (1), young-adult fantasy (1), Little Red Riding Hood (1), responsibility (1), teenagers (1), monsters (1), family (1), werewolf (1)
|
| 2020-09-15 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Don't Mind Me |
Suzanne Palmer |
|
|
mind control (1), underage (1), school (1), family (1)
|
| 2020-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Jigsaw Children |
Grace Chan |
|
|
family (1), science fiction (1), social commentary (1), genetics (1)
|
| 2019-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Chasing Oumuamua |
Sean Monaghan |
|
|
first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), family (1), mental illness (1), NASA (1), Oumuamua (1), interstellar object (1), space probe (1), engineering (1)
|
| 2019-10-15 |
NOVEL |
English |
War Girls |
Tochi Onyebuchi |
|
|
dystopian (1), family (1), military (1), Nigeria (1), siblings (1), war (1)
|
| 2018-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Ally |
Nalo Hopkinson |
|
|
family (1), LGBT (1), love (1), LGBTQ+ (1)
|
| 2018-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Finding Their Footing |
Marissa Lingen |
|
|
science fiction (1), family (1)
|
| 2018-02-22 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Smoke |
Simon Ings |
|
|
first person (1), social class (1), working class (1), family (1), rebirth (1), alternate history (1), second person (1), second person point of view (1), first person point of view (1), science fiction (1), first person narrative (1), london (1), Yorkshire (1), Jews (1), enhanced humans (1), engineered humans (1), Project Orion (1)
|
| 2017-04-25 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Buffalo Soldier |
Maurice Broaddus |
|
|
steampunk (2), alternate history (1), exile (1), family (1), fantasy (1), historical (1), love (1), Sanctuary (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 2017-07-25 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Five Daughters of the Moon |
Leena Likitalo |
|
|
historical fantasy (1), dark fantasy (1), family (1), historical (1), magic (1), sisters (1)
|
| 2017-08-09 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Uncanny Valley |
Greg Egan |
|
|
family (1), robots (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 2017-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
What to Do When It's Nothing but Static |
Cassandra Khaw |
|
|
family (1), Relationships (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 2016-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dark Matter |
Blake Crouch |
|
|
science fiction (1), thriller (1), quantum superposition (1), parallel universes (1), family (1), choice (1), into-tv (1)
|
| 2016-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Drakon |
A. M. Tuomala |
|
|
russia (1), dragons (1), historical fantasy (1), family (1)
|
| 2015-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Clade |
James Bradley |
|
|
science fiction (2), climate change (1), dystopia (1), family (1), Life Changes (1), near future (1), Refugees (1), science (1), speculative fiction (1), Time (1), antarctica (1)
|
| 2014-11-24 |
NOVEL |
English |
House of Robots |
Chris Grabenstein and James Patterson |
|
|
juvenile sf (1), robots (1), Fifth grade (1), family (1), Inventors (1), humor (1)
|
| 2013-03-01 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Fox |
Conrad Williams |
|
|
guilty secret (1), fox (1), family (1), predator (1), farm (1), camping (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 2013-06-18 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Ocean at the End of the Lane |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
fantasy (1), cats (1), sacrifice (1), summoning (1), suicide (1), farms (1), ocean (1), first person point of view (1), strong female characters (1), magical beings (1), contemporary (1), england (1), friendship (1), family (1), childhood (1), matriarchy (1)
|
| 2012-01-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Born Wicked |
Jessica Spotswood |
|
|
witches (2), young-adult fantasy (1), alternate history (1), historical fantasy (1), family (1), dystopia (1), secrets (1), responsibility (1), teenagers (1), unrequited love (1), siblings (1), sexism (1)
|
| 2012-10-23 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The First Witch of Damansara |
Zen Cho |
|
|
Malaysia (2), Kuala Lumpur (2), witchcraft (2), magic (2), family (1), fantasy (1), Traditions (1), Folk Tales (1), humour (1)
|
| 2011-05-03 |
NOVEL |
English |
Divergent |
Veronica Roth |
|
|
young-adult sf (1), dystopia (1), into-movie (1), courage (1), family (1), identity (1), social class (1)
|
| 2011-03-16 |
NOVEL |
English |
Triptych |
J. M. Frey |
|
|
first contact (1), time travel (1), LGBTQ+ (1), gender identity (1), family (1)
|
| 2010-05-11 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Frozen Rabbi |
Steve Stern |
|
|
family (1), friendship (1), absurdist (1), satire (1), Judaism (1)
|
| 2010-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Sorcerer's House |
Gene Wolfe |
|
|
family (1), haunted house (1), magic (1), redemption (1), twins (1), wizards (1)
|
| 2009-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Endangered Camp |
Ann Leckie |
|
|
alternate reality (1), death (1), dinosaurs (1), family (1), science fiction (1), space (1)
|
| 2008-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
City of Ashes |
Cassandra Clare |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), Young Adult (1), New York City (1), supernatural (1), demonology (1), magic (1), female protagonist (1), family (1), demon hunter (1)
|
| 2007-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
13 O'Clock |
Mike O'Driscoll |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), family (1), nightmares (1)
|
| 2007-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lancashire |
Nicholas Royle |
|
|
contemporary (1), england (1), family (1), witchcraft (1)
|
| 2007-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Miss Ill-Kept Runt |
Glen Hirshberg |
|
|
family (1), 5 year old girl point of view (1), car trip (1), contemporary (1), USA (1), horror (1), pact with evil (1)
|
| 2007-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Children of Monte Rosa |
Reggie Oliver |
|
|
Moonchild (1), contemporary (1), Portugal (1), expatriates (1), English (1), Aleister Crowley (1), child sacrifice (1), taxidermy (1), family (1), boy protagonist (1), puerunculus (1), horror (1)
|
| 2006-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Space Boy |
Orson Scott Card |
|
|
family (1), parallel universes (1), contemporary (1), juvenile (1), SF (1), Rumpelstiltskin (1)
|
| 2005-06-28 |
NOVEL |
English |
Scardown |
Elizabeth Bear |
|
|
Hartford, CT (1), science fiction (1), military (1), first contact (1), asteroid strike (1), female protagonist (1), strong female characters (1), first person point of view (1), multiple points of view (1), alien technology (1), Canada (1), family (1), faster than light travel (1), generation ships (1), China (1), nanobots (1), artificial personalities (1), enhanced biology (1), post atomic war (1), ecological collapse (1), near future (1)
|
| 2004-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Footvote |
Peter F. Hamilton |
|
|
england (1), wormhole (1), contemporary (1), family (1), emigration (1), colonization of other planets (1), multiple points of view (1)
|
| 2000-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mom and Dad at the Home Front |
Sherwood Smith |
|
|
other worlds (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), family (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 2000-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Months of Manhattan |
Delia Sherman |
|
|
juvenile fantasy (1), Stepsisters (1), New York (1), fantasy (1), Months (1), painting (1), museum (1), family (1)
|
| 1999-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
His Brother's Keeper |
Gloria Skurzynski |
|
|
Genesis (1), mars (1), young-adult sf (1), family (1), jealousy (1), terraforming (1), brothers (1)
|
| 1999-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
Stephen King |
|
|
horror (1), strong female characters (1), survival (1), bear (1), lost (1), forest (1), Maine (1), Appalachian Trail (1), Red Sox (1), baseball (1), female protagonist (1), preadolescent protagonist (1), family (1), divorce (1)
|
| 1999-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Right Hand of Evil |
John Saul |
|
|
horror (2), demonic possession (1), deals with the devil (1), Old family mansion (1), Mixed-race child of slave and master (1), Family Bible (1), contemporary (1), Selling soul to Devil (1), alcoholism (1), twin telepathy (1), Twin Sister and Brother (1), Catholic priest (1), voodoo (1), Demonic sacrifices (1), family (1), Small town Louisiana (1), haunted house (1)
|
| 1998-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dark Lord of Derkholm |
Diana Wynne Jones |
|
|
fantasy (2), humorous (1), parallel universe (1), young-adult fantasy (1), quest (1), family (1)
|
| 1997-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Guests |
Bentley Little |
|
|
horror (1), grandmother (1), banya (1), household deity (1), Molokans (1), Arizona (1), Preteen protagonist (1), family (1), incest (1), demonic possession (1), Russian folklore (1), murder (1), native americans (1), curse (1), contemporary (1), cursed house (1)
|
| 1997-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Sinner |
Sara Douglass |
|
|
fantasy (1), siblings (1), family (1), jealousy (1), prophecies (1), revenge (1), race relations (1)
|
| 1996-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There Is a Violence |
Sally McBride |
|
|
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)
|
| 1995-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Blood Knot |
Steve Rasnic Tem |
|
|
horror (1), family (1), fatherhood (1)
|
| 1995-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Conquerors' Heritage |
Timothy Zahn |
|
|
science fiction (1), family (1), interclan politics (1), treachery (1), space war (1), life after death (1), biological telepresence (1), alien point of view (1), interstellar travel (1), alien races (1)
|
| 1994-00-00 |
CHAPBOOK |
English |
The Magnificent Mummy Maker |
Elvira Woodruff |
|
|
fantasy (1), ancient egypt (1), wishes (1), mummies (1), juvenile fantasy (1), school (1), family (1)
|
| 1993-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
To Die For |
Ed Naha |
|
|
hollywood (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), television (1), family (1)
|
| 1991-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Atrocities |
Lucy Taylor |
|
|
horror (2), family (1), adultery (1), incest (1)
|
| 1991-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Black Maria |
Diana Wynne Jones |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), cloning (1), magic (1), siblings (1), family (1)
|
| 1991-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Changeling |
Barbara Hambly |
|
|
dragons (1), family (1)
|
| 1991-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mama Gone |
Jane Yolen |
|
|
love (1), family (1), vampire (1), strong female character (1), juvenile protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1991-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Old Glory |
Bruce Coville |
|
|
America (1), young-adult sf (1), science fiction (1), near future (1), dystopia (1), politics (1), family (1), protest (1)
|
| 1990-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
1/72nd Scale |
Ian R. MacLeod |
|
|
eerie (1), plastic model airplane kit (1), england (1), contemporary (1), dead older brother (1), family (1), animated inanimate object (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1989-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Egg |
Steven Popkes |
|
|
science fiction (1), ghosts (1), family (1), boston (1), dystopia (1), aliens (1), climate change (1), sea-level rise (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Knox's 'Nga |
Avram Davidson |
|
|
contemporary (1), family (1), child (1), eerie (1), transitional object (1)
|
| 1987-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Swordspoint |
Ellen Kushner |
|
|
fantasy (1), urban fantasy (1), gay (1), fantasy of manners (1), bisexual (1), dueling (1), family (1), Nobility (1), secrets (1), sword fighting (1)
|
| 1986-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lost Art of Twilight |
Thomas Ligotti |
|
|
America (1), family (1), vampires (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), Aix en Provence (1)
|
| 1984-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock |
Joe R. Lansdale |
|
|
horror (1), vacation (1), beach (1), family (1), fantasy (1), camping (1), murder (1), Rock (1)
|
| 1984-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Gift Giving |
Joan Aiken |
|
|
grief (1), fantasy (1), juvenile fantasy (1), music (1), family (1), uncle (1), grandmother (1), young-adult fantasy (1), sight (1), blindness (1)
|
| 1984-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
bad marriages (1), alternative energy (1), thermocline (1), love (1), family (1), ships (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), hard sf (1), first person point of view (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1983-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
only humans (1), only Earth (1), overpopulation (1), death lottery (1), desperation (1), family (1), dystopia (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1982-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Merchanter's Luck |
C. J. Cherryh |
|
|
space opera (2), strong female characters (1), science fiction (1), space pirates (1), trading (1), pirates (1), operating on the fringes of the law (1), intrigue (1), PTSD (1), shame (1), loyalty (1), family (1), romance (1), interstellar travel (1), family spaceship (1)
|
| 1982-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Miss Hooting's Legacy |
Joan Aiken |
|
|
science fiction (1), fantasy (1), androids (1), family (1)
|
| 1982-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Body |
Stephen King |
|
|
young-adult horror (1), into-movie (1), contemporary (1), boys (1), Maine (1), first person point of view (1), family (1), quest (1), reminiscence (1), boyhood (1), nostalgia (1), coming-of-age (1)
|
| 1981-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Kaeti's Nights |
Keith Roberts |
|
|
humans only (1), contemporary (1), family (1), vampire (1), first person point of view (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1981-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Jaunt |
Stephen King |
|
|
teleportation (1), science fiction (1), cosmic horror (1), near future (1), family (1)
|
| 1979-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory |
Orson Scott Card |
|
|
visceral horror (1), guilt (1), manipulation (1), child molestation (1), punishment (1), family (1), physical manifestation (1)
|
| 1978-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
What Dreams May Come |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
dark fantasy (1), Hell (1), afterlife (1), into-movie (1), automatic writing (1), heaven (1), suicide (1), reincarnation (1), near-death experience (1), Orpheus myth (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), found manuscript (1), love (1), family (1), metaphysics (1)
|
| 1975-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Ghost Belonged to Me |
Richard Peck |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), ghosts (1), family (1), adventure (1)
|
| 1974-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Perilous Gard |
Elizabeth Marie Pope |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), Tam Lin (1), resourcefulness (1), missing person (1), castle (1), family (1), fairies (1), druids (1), labyrinths (1)
|
| 1974-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Time Deer |
Craig Strete |
|
|
old age (1), spirituality (1), family (1)
|
| 1973-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Wind in the Door |
Madeleine L'Engle |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), female protagonist (1), humanoids (1), good and evil (1), child prodigy (1), telepathy (1), disease (1), cherubim (1), mitochondria (1), love (1), teachers (1), strong female character (1), adolescent protagonists (1), contemporary (1), family (1)
|
| 1969-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
into-movie (1), family (1), love (1), synthetic life forms (1), real people (1), license to reproduce (1)
|
| 1968-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Worm That Flies |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
far future (1), human evolution (1), immortality (1), life's work (1), family (1), death (1), science fiction (1), fantasy (1), Entropy (1)
|
| 1963-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Putnam Tradition |
Sonya Dorman |
|
|
Librivox (1), strong female characters (1), paranormal abilities (1), contemporary (1), family (1), modern magic (1), classical magic (1), maternal heritage (1), paternal heritage (1)
|
| 1962-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Question My Son Asked |
Stanley Ellin |
|
|
electrocution (1), executioner (1), family (1), laws (1)
|
| 1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
We Have Always Lived in the Castle |
Shirley Jackson |
|
|
contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), small town (1), atmospheric (1), family (1), homicide (1), female point of view (1), fox in the henhouse (1), plot twist (1), deceptive innocence (1), cat (1), shunning (1), invalid (1), child of nature (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1)
|
| 1960-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Callahan and the Wheelies |
Stephen Barr |
|
|
inventor (1), robots (1), evolution (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), Irish (1), magic (1), family (1)
|
| 1959-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Day at the Beach |
Carol Emshwiller |
|
|
science fiction (1), beach (1), postapocalyptic (1), mutants (1), family (1), normalcy (1)
|
| 1959-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Plenitude |
Will Mohler |
|
|
science fiction (1), son (1), first person point of view (1), technological life support (1), urban (1), hunting (1), subsistence agriculture (1), rural (1), family (1), postapocalyptic (1), homicide (1)
|
| 1955-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Homecoming |
J. Harvey Haggard |
|
|
mutation (1), family (1), interstellar trade (1), polymorphism (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1953-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lot |
Ward Moore |
|
|
abandonment (1), evacuation (1), disaster preparedness (1), family (1), Nuclear attack (1), contemporary (1), california (1), near future (1)
|
| 1953-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Builder |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
punch-line (1), ridicule (1), family (1), obsession (1), suburban America (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1951-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Generation of Noah |
William Tenn |
|
|
Bomb shelter (1), family (1), cold war (1)
|
| 1950-09-23 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Veldt |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
X Minus 1 (2), horror sci-fi (1), Dimension X (1), animals (1), into-music (1), children (1), psychologist (1), lions (1), simulation (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), horror (1), near future (1), smart house (1), family (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1), Simulated reality (1), CBC Playhouse (1)
|
| 1946-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Homecoming |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
fantasy (1), monsters (1), family (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1920-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Egg |
Sherwood Anderson |
|
|
Ohio (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), chicken farm (1), restaurant (1), early 20th century (1), failure (1), desperation (1), family (1), egg (1)
|
| 1837-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Werewolf |
Frederick Marryat |
|
|
werewolf (2), werewolves (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), love (1), family (1), first person point of view (1), Hartz Mountains (1)
|
| 1794-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Mysteries of Udolpho |
Ann Radcliffe |
|
|
Librivox (1), Google Books (1), gothic romance (1), family (1), 18th century (1), France (1), italy (1), castles (1), romance (1), female protagonist (1), morality (1), polite society, (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
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