| 2004-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Be More Chill |
Ned Vizzini |
|
|
into-play (1)
|
| 2004-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Swedish |
|
John Ajvide Lindqvist |
|
|
vampires (2), horror (1), paranormal romance (1), winter (1), into-play (1), into-movie (1), LGBTQ+ (1)
|
| 1985-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Galapagos |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
Pacific (1), evolution (1), science fiction (1), into-play (1), into-music (1), epidemic (1), shipwreck (1)
|
| 1985-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Handmaid's Tale |
Margaret Atwood |
|
|
dystopia (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1), sexism (1), misogyny (1), near future (1), into-opera (1), into-music (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1), into-ballet (1), speculative fiction (1), women (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1984-05-21 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Witches of Eastwick |
John Updike |
|
|
into-movie (2), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1), fantasy (1), witches (1), Rhode Island (1), seduction (1), cancer (1), curse (1), into-tv (1), into-play (1), into-music (1)
|
| 1974-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
science fiction (1), into-music (1), into-play (1), drugs (1), police (1), parasites (1), United States (1), dystopia (1), genetic engineering (1), parallel worlds (1)
|
| 1974-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Night of the Living Dead |
John Russo |
|
|
novelization (1), apocalypse (1), horror (1), zombies (1), into-play (1)
|
| 1971-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Lathe of Heaven |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
dreams (2), science fiction (2), ecological decline (1), dystopia (1), Changes to Reality (1), Aldebaran (1), climate change (1), epidemic (1), aliens (1), philosophy (1), nuclear war (1), alternate history (1), perception of reality (1), overpopulation (1), war with aliens (1), racism (1), first contact (1), invention (1), psychology (1), into-play (1), into-tv (1)
|
| 1969-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
into-movie (1), Dresden (1), kidnapping (1), zoo (1), into-radio (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), into-play (1), Trauma (1), grief (1), war (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), free will (1), world war ii (1), time travel (1), science fiction (1), Germany (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), New York State (1), murder (1)
|
| 1968-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
androids (2), Oregon (1), into-comics (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)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Flowers for Algernon |
Daniel Keyes |
|
|
science fiction (2), into-radio (1), Brain surgery (1), Person with mental disabilities (1), Gifted person (1), declining intelligence (1), diary (1), into-music (1), into-dance (1), into-opera (1), into-play (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), disability (1), autobiography (1), scientists (1), neurology (1), first person point of view (1), experiment (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), enhanced intelligence (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), mind augmentation (1)
|
| 1966-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
My Mother Was a Witch |
William Tenn |
|
|
into-play (1)
|
| 1965-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
into-play (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1963-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Bernie the Faust |
William Tenn |
|
|
into-play (1)
|
| 1963-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cat's Cradle |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
scientists (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), tornadoes (1), music (1), Poetry (1), invention (1), New York State (1), Caribbean (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), neologisms (1), science fiction (1), philosophy (1), religion (1), into-movie (1), into-music (1), into-play (1), ice (1)
|
| 1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Clockwork Orange |
Anthony Burgess |
|
|
science fiction (1), first person point of view (1), slang (1), england (1), drugs (1), violence (1), music (1), behavior modification (1), bullying (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), coming of age (1), neologisms (1), into-play (1), dystopia (1), rape (1), theft (1), library (1), suicide (1), hospital (1), sociopaths (1), disowned by its author (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), into-movie (1), British dystopia (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (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)
|
| 1962-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mother Night |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
ahistorical (1), into-movie (1), into-play (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 |
Chinese |
|
|
|
|
into-play (1)
|
| 1956-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Question |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
Entropy (2), cyclical universe (1), artificial intelligence (1), far future (1), big data (1), colonization (1), philosophy (1), intergalactic travel (1), interplanetary travel (1), longevity (1), Earth (1), Solar power (1), distant future (1), set in 2060s (1), hyperspace (1), End of the Universe (1), immortality (1), overpopulation (1), interstellar travel (1), loss (1), last human (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1), reboot (1), heat death of the universe (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), computers (1)
|
| 1955-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway |
William Tenn |
|
|
X Minus 1 (1), science fiction (1), time travel (1), art (1), into-play (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Magician's Nephew |
C. S. Lewis |
|
|
Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), fantasy (1), young-adult fantasy (1), children (1), parallel worlds (1), london (1), witches (1), creation (1), winged horses (1), horses (1), apples (1), sorcerers (1), talking animals (1), immortality (1), into-play (1), into-tv (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Return of the King |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
|
|
fantasy (2), into-board game (1), eagles (1), little people (1), halflings (1), wraiths (1), orcs (1), war (1), map (1), hobbits (1), dwarfs (1), elves (1), into-video game (1), into-play (1), into-music (1), into-movie (1), into-radio (1), Poetry (1), wizards (1), volcano (1), tobacco (1), into-tv (1), high fantasy (1), into-rpg (1), quest (1), epic fantasy (1), sword and sorcery (1)
|
| 1954-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Fellowship of the Ring |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
|
|
fantasy (3), into-movie (2), into-play (1), little people (1), halflings (1), orcs (1), demons (1), wraiths (1), map (1), into-music (1), Poetry (1), hobbits (1), ichnology (1), into-radio (1), into-video game (1), into-tv (1), quest (1), wizards (1), tobacco (1), good vs evil (1), friendship (1), elves (1), dwarves (1), into-board game (1), high fantasy (1), into-rpg (1), epic fantasy (1), sword and sorcery (1)
|
| 1954-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Tenants |
William Tenn |
|
|
into-play (1)
|
| 1954-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Two Towers |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
|
|
fantasy (2), into-play (1), little people (1), orcs (1), spiders (1), halflings (1), Sentient trees (1), war (1), map (1), dwarfs (1), elves (1), tracking (1), horses (1), into-video game (1), into-board game (1), Warfare (1), into-radio (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1), ichnology (1), Poetry (1), into-music (1), cave (1), tobacco (1), wizards (1), hobbits (1), high fantasy (1), into-rpg (1), quest (1), epic fantasy (1), sword and sorcery (1)
|
| 1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Starman Jones |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
science fiction (1), juvenile sf (1), young-adult sf (1), military sf (1), guilds (1), eidetic memory (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (1), pets (1), into-play (1)
|
| 1952-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader |
C. S. Lewis |
|
|
dragons (2), talking animals (1), into-video game (1), into-music (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1), merpeople (1), suspended animation (1), gold (1), sea serpents (1), transformation (1), slavery (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), exploration (1), parallel worlds (1), children (1), juvenile fantasy (1), young-adult fantasy (1), sea adventure (1), fantasy (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1951-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Prince Caspian |
C. S. Lewis |
|
|
fantasy (1), young-adult fantasy (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1), alternate worlds (1), time travel (1), dwarfs (1), children (1), talking animals (1), into-music (1), into-play (1), into-video game (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The 13 Clocks |
James Thurber |
|
|
juvenile fantasy (1), into-play (1), into-music (1), into-radio (1), into-opera (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
C. S. Lewis |
|
|
sacrifice (1), into-video game (1), portal fantasy (1), winter (1), 1950 (1), children (1), witches (1), talking animals (1), world war ii (1), england (1), parallel worlds (1), young-adult fantasy (1), giants (1), wolves (1), fauns (1), cold (1), into-play (1), into-tv (1), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), into-movie (1), fantasy (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)
|
| 1949-06-08 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nineteen Eighty-Four |
George Orwell |
|
|
dystopia (3), social criticism (2), science fiction (2), near future (2), horror (2), Newspeak (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)
|
| 1945-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story |
George Orwell |
|
|
Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), animal fantasy (1), allegory (1), roman a clef (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), into-movie (1), pigs (1), england (1), social criticism (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1939-10-21 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Unicorn in the Garden |
James Thurber |
|
|
unicorns (1), marital strife (1), insanity (1), fantasy (1), into-play (1), into-movie (1), into-opera (1)
|
| 1937-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
|
|
fantasy (2), quest (1), into-computer game (1), dwarfs (1), map (1), eagles (1), dwarves (1), elves (1), little people (1), into-video game (1), travel (1), spiders (1), shapechangers (1), trolls (1), goblins (1), halflings (1), bears (1), into-opera (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), dragons (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), Appendix N (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1), Poetry (1), tobacco (1), wizards (1), hobbits (1), young-adult fantasy (1), into-board game (1), The Seven-League Shelf (1)
|
| 1933-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lost Horizon |
James Hilton |
|
|
lost race (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), China (1), longevity (1), into-radio (1), into-movie (1), into-play (1), fantasy (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)
|
| 1920-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Voyage to Arcturus |
David Lindsay |
|
|
color (1), nonbinary gender (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), seance (1), into-movie (1), into-radio (1), into-opera (1), allegory (1), into-play (1), science fiction (1), quest (1), into-music (1), sexuality (1), Arcturus (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1), Librivox (1)
|
| 1910-00-00 |
NOVEL |
French |
Le fantôme de l'Opéra |
Gaston Leroux |
|
|
into-movie (1), Librivox (1), horror (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), into-play (1)
|
| 1909-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Machine Stops |
E. M. Forster |
|
|
dystopia (2), artificial intelligence (1), British dystopia (1), into-play (1), into-tv (1), internet (1), Earth (1), underground city (1), science fiction (1), travel (1), into-music (1), NESFA Core Reading List (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)
|
| 1897-09-15 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Invisible Man |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
england (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), london (1), Sussex (1), Victorian England (1), Victorian era (1), into-video game (1), into-music (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1), mad scientist (1), invention (1), physics (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), science fiction (1), invisibility (1), Librivox (1), human experiment (1)
|
| 1890-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Oscar Wilde |
|
|
into-play (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), immortality (1), immorality (1), youth (1), morality (1), corruption (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), into-opera (1), into-music (1), Librivox (1), into-tv (1), fashion (1), art (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), into-movie (1), devil (1), fantasy of manners (1), gay (1), horror (1), weird (1)
|
| 1882-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lady or the Tiger? |
Frank R. Stockton |
|
|
fantasy (1), moral of a fable (1), penalty (1), guessing (1), barbarians (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), into-movie (1), into-music (1)
|
| 1876-00-00 |
CHAPBOOK |
English |
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits |
Lewis Carroll |
|
|
into-music (1), into-opera (1), into-play (1), talking animals (1), maps (1), hunt (1), fantasy (1), Poetry (1), monsters (1), neologisms (1), into-game (1)
|
| 1872-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There |
Lewis Carroll |
|
|
talking animals (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), into-art (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), music (1), dreams (1), neologisms (1), precognition (1), Librivox (1), insects (1), chess (1), garden (1), Sentient plants (1), Poetry (1), logic (1), juvenile fantasy (1), young-adult fantasy (1), through the looking glass (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1865-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
|
|
into-movie (2), fantasy (2), talking animals (1), into-video game (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), into-art (1), into-ballet (1), into-play (1), into-opera (1), into-tv (1), music (1), courtroom drama (1), dreams (1), rabbits (1), Poetry (1), logic (1), humorous (1), young-adult fantasy (1), juvenile fantasy (1), The Seven-League Shelf (1), Librivox (1)
|
| 1849-03-07 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hop-Frog; or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
revenge (1), murder (1), Librivox (1), dwarfs (1), into-movie (1), into-music (1), into-painting (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1)
|
| 1846-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Cask of Amontillado |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
revenge (1), murder (1), Librivox (1), into-movie (1), first person point of view (1), wine (1), horror (1), into-tv (1), into-play (1), italy (1), burial alive (1)
|
| 1845-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
Librivox (1), zombies (1), into-movie (1), first person point of view (1), mesmerism (1), 19th century (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), moment of death (1), experiment (1), horror (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1), grotesque, shocker (1)
|
| 1845-04-26 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Oval Portrait |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
Librivox (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), first person point of view (1), italy (1), art (1), story in a story (1), disease (1), into-play (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1845-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
comedy (1), insanity (1), France (1), first person point of view (1), banquet (1), insane asylum (1), into-play (1), into-opera (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1), into-music (1), inmates running asylum (1)
|
| 1844-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rappaccini's Daughter |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
|
|
Librivox (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), fantasy (1), into-movie (1), science fiction (1), automata (1), poison (1), garden (1), italy (1), love (1), into-opera (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), into-tv (1), [NESFA Core Reading List] (1), Gothic tale (1)
|
| 1844-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Purloined Letter |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
detective (1), into-tv (1), into-play (1), mystery (1), correspondence (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), doppelganger (1)
|
| 1843-12-17 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens |
|
|
Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), england (1), into-ballet (1), into-opera (1), into-radio (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), into-play (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), [NESFA Core Reading List] (1), Librivox (1), XIX century (1), ghosts (1), moral of a fable (1), old greedy (1), time travel (1), Christmas (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1843-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Black Cat |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
burial alive (2), cats (2), horror (2), first person point of view (1), felicide (1), premature burial (1), shocker (1), Masters of Horror (1), into-radio (1), guilt (1), fire (1), alcoholism (1), into-painting (1), into-play (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), Librivox (1), murder (1), insanity (1)
|
| 1839-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Fall of the House of Usher |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), tarn (1), hereditary Neurasthenia (1), gothic (1), castle (1), siblings (1), decay (1), vampire (1), Escape (Radio) (1), horror (1), burial alive (1), insanity (1), isolation (1), first person point of view (1), into-opera (1), into-music (1), into-play (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1818-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus |
Mary Shelley |
|
|
horror (3), science fiction (2), Creator vs. Creation (2), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), frame story (1), vivisection (1), medicine (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), [NESFA Core Reading List] (1), into-tv (1), into-ballet (1), into-music (1), into-play (1), into-movie (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), weird (1), Librivox (1), Google Books (1), pgs (1), mad scientist (1), Pursuit of Knowledge (1), Monstrosity (1)
|
| 1590-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Chinese |
|
uncredited |
|
|
China (1), Buddhism (1), shenmo xiaoshuo (1), into-play (1)
|
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