| 2022-01-11 |
NOVEL |
English |
To Paradise |
Hanya Yanagihara |
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pandemic (1), first person point of view (1), blindness (1), hospital (1), coming of age (1), waste (1), alternate history (1), LGBTQ+ (1), biologists (1), dystopia (1), hawaii (1), science fiction (1), New York City (1), set in 2090s (1), epilepsy (1), climate change (1), sea level rise (1), set in 1990s (1), set in 1890s (1), extinction (1), tsunami (1), flood (1), loss (1), correspondence (1), euthanasia (1), HIV (1), food (1)
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| 2018-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Monologue by an Unnamed Mage, Recorded at the Brink of the End |
Cassandra Khaw |
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courage (1), fae (1), faery (1), fantasy (1), loss (1), love (1)
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| 2018-04-17 |
CHAPBOOK |
English |
The Atrocities |
Jeremy C. Shipp |
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dark fantasy (1), fantasy (1), ghosts (1), gothic (1), grief (1), horror (1), loss (1), surreal (1)
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| 2018-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Things I Miss the Most |
Nisi Shawl |
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|
loss (1), love (1), science fiction (1)
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| 2014-09-09 |
NOVEL |
English |
Station Eleven |
Emily St. John Mandel |
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surgery (1), loss (1), scavenging (1), journalists (1), correspondence (1), graphic novels (1), religion (1), suicide (1), death (1), disability (1), theater (1), actors (1), nonsequential text (1), museum (1), set in 21st century (1), near future (1), education (1), Virginia (1), Malaysia (1), British Columbia (1), Los Angeles (1), Toronto (1), pandemic (1), Beethoven (1), Michigan (1), music (1), Shakespeare (1), tattoos (1), cosy catastrophe (1), post apocalypse (1)
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| 2012-08-16 |
NOVEL |
English |
Iron Winter |
Stephen Baxter |
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Peru (1), loss (1), epidemic (1), survival (1), climate change (1), Ice age (1), slavery (1), cold (1), Spain (1), mexico (1), alternate history (1), United States (1), Turkey (1), italy (1), France (1), China (1), Carthage (1), trains (1), dams (1)
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| 2009-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lady of the White-Spired City |
Sarah L. Edwards |
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science fiction (1), interstellar travel (1), relativistic time dilation (1), genealogy (1), loss (1), archives (1)
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| 2009-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Consciousness Problem |
Mary Robinette Kowal |
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Clones (1), science fiction (1), invention (1), love (1), loss (1), memory (1)
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| 1997-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Toward the End of Time |
John Updike |
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postapocalyptic (1), boston (1), alternate universe (1), cancer (1), deer (1), loss (1)
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| 1995-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Real World |
Brooks Caruthers |
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loss (1), friends (1), death (1), undead (1), dead people (1), partying (1), friendship (1), parties (1), living dead (1), Little Rock (1), Arkansas (1)
|
| 1993-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Parable of the Sower |
Octavia E. Butler |
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science fiction (2), 2020s (1), women (1), racism (1), post-apocalyptic (1), Fundamentalism (1), dystopian (1), apocalyptic (1), African American (1), Abuse (1), california (1), Capitalism (1), climate change (1), black protagonist (1), migrants (1), empath (1), Southern California (1), societal collapse (1), female protagonist (1), strong female character (1), first person point of view (1), death (1), loss (1), slavery (1), philosophy (1), god (1), change (1), spirituality (1), community (1)
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| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow |
Charles de Lint |
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horror (1), loss (1), urban fantasy (1)
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| 1987-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Great Sky River |
Gregory Benford |
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distant future (1), sex (1), dispersed intelligence (1), virtual reality (1), mind control (1), murder (1), ecocide (1), hovercraft (1), alien perspective (1), energy being (1), immortality (1), higher intelligence (1), survival (1), sculpture (1), autodoc (1), nanotechnology (1), cyborgs (1), climate change (1), desert (1), robots (1), slower than light travel (1), uploaded personalities (1), machine intelligence (1), implants (1), interstellar travel (1), black holes (1), loss (1), dogs (1), science fiction (1)
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| 1987-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Forge of God |
Greg Bear |
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aliens (1), Seattle (1), robots (1), Geology (1), geologists (1), mind control (1), Fermi paradox (1), terraforming (1), alien invasion (1), San Francisco (1), end of the world (1), Earth (1), plate tectonics (1), neutronium (1), antimatter (1), Australia (1), california (1), first contact (1), earthquake (1), tsunami (1), nuclear weapons (1), von Neumann probes (1), Pacific Ocean (1), space war (1), set in 1990s (1), Washington, DC (1), politicians (1), loss (1), science fiction (1), war with machines (1), mars (1), nanotechnology (1), space opera (1)
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| 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)
|
| 1982-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Letter from the Clearys |
Connie Willis |
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postapocalyptic (1), correspondence (1), dogs (1), science fiction (1), nuclear winter (1), loss (1)
|
| 1978-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Veils of Azlaroc |
Fred Saberhagen |
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time distortion (1), fashion (1), xenobiology (1), force fields (1), longevity (1), computers (1), robots (1), Sentient plants (1), underground city (1), holography (1), plate tectonics (1), recycling (1), Poetry (1), artificial womb (1), loss (1), regret (1), desert (1), isolation (1), cemetery (1), tourism (1), interstellar travel (1), black holes (1), pulsars (1), science fiction (1)
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| 1977-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lucifer's Hammer |
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle |
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post-apocalyptic (1), loss (1), california (1), cannibalism (1), flood (1), nuclear war (1), earthquake (1), tsunami (1), survival (1), interplanetary travel (1), science fiction (1), climate change (1), comet (1), comet impact (1), volcano (1), nuclear power (1)
|
| 1976-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A World Out of Time |
Larry Niven |
|
|
body swap (1), Jupiter (1), loss (1), dystopia (1), interstellar travel (1), education (1), antarctica (1), Earth (1), time stasis (1), cryogenics (1), suspended animation (1), A World Out of Time (1), artificial intelligence (1), black holes (1), far future (1), sex (1), climate change (1), climate engineering (1), moving planets (1), cats (1), evolution (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1970-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Year of the Quiet Sun |
Wilson Tucker |
|
|
time travel (1), post-apocalyptic (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Illinois (1), Chicago (1), loss (1), science fiction (1), Campbell Retrospective Prize (1)
|
| 1966-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
For a Breath I Tarry |
Roger Zelazny |
|
|
Faustian bargain (1), temptation (1), sculpture (1), art (1), library (1), loss (1), cloning (1), artificial intelligence (1), science fiction (1), postapocalyptic (1), robots (1), philosophy (1)
|
| 1965-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Eyes Do More Than See |
Isaac Asimov |
|
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posthuman (1), far future (1), science fiction (1), incorporeal beings (1), loss (1), memory (1)
|
| 1962-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dog Star |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
interplanetary travel (1), love (1), loss (1), earthquakes (1), dogs (1), astronomers (1), moon (1), california (1), San Francisco (1), science fiction (1), dreams (1), memory (1)
|
| 1962-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Wind from Nowhere |
J. G. Ballard |
|
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natural disaster (2), dictatorship (1), disowned by its author (1), man versus nature (1), survival (1), hubris (1), suicide (1), science fiction (1), loss (1), london (1), england (1), Wind (1)
|
| 1962-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Triumph |
Philip Wylie |
|
|
sexual revolution (1), underwater city (1), underground city (1), submarines (1), USSR (1), romance (1), insanity (1), roller skating (1), radiation (1), radiation sickness (1), cobalt (1), sodium (1), set in 1970s (1), drones (1), Jews (1), post apocalypse (1), loss (1), tobacco (1), alcohol (1), racism (1), adultery (1), panic (1), firestorm (1), nuclear war (1), science fiction (1), connecticut (1), survival (1), Australia (1), Costa Rica (1), United States (1)
|
| 1961-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sun Saboteurs |
Damon Knight |
|
|
science fiction (1), xenophobia (1), aliens (1), loss (1)
|
| 1959-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Trouble with Toys |
Kate Wilhelm |
|
|
loss (1), greed (1), crime (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1958-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Aristotle and the Gun |
L. Sprague de Camp |
|
|
time travel (1), Alexander the Great (1), Aristotle (1), science fiction (1), loss (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Lincoln Hunters |
Wilson Tucker |
|
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science fiction (1), time travel (1), lincoln (1), Illinois (1), Cleveland (1), oratory (1), Shakespeare (1), romance (1), distant future (1), dystopia (1), loss (1), American presidents (1)
|
| 1957-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Statues |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
childhood (1), contemporary (1), friendship (1), loss (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)
|
| 1954-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
All Summer in a Day |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
rain (1), bullying (1), into-tv (1), science fiction (1), venus (1), Poetry (1), children (1), sadness (1), loss (1), gloom (1), sun (1), female protagonist (1), child protagonist (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1954-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Let's Not |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
nuclear warfare (1), mars (1), science fiction (1), academia (1), suicide (1), loss (1)
|
| 1950-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Forever and the Earth |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
science fiction (1), mars (1), interplanetary travel (1), writing (1), Tom Wolfe (1), time travel (1), loss (1)
|
| 1934-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Twilight |
John W. Campbell, Jr. |
|
|
loss (1), interplanetary travel (1), music (1), curiosity (1), loneliness (1), dogs (1), robots (1), Neptune (1), set in 1930s (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), Nevada (1), longevity (1), science fiction (1), artificial intelligence (1), first person point of view (1), time travel (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), far future (1), mysterious hitchhiker (1), decline of humanity (1), automated civilization (1)
|
| 1881-00-00 |
POEM |
English |
Requiescat |
Oscar Wilde |
|
|
grave (1), girl (1), loss (1), innocence (1), premature death (1), sadness (1)
|
| 1849-00-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Forsaken Merman |
Matthew Arnold |
|
|
loss (1), merfolk (1), divorce (1), children (1), abandonment (1)
|
| 1818-01-11 |
POEM |
English |
Ozymandias |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
|
|
statue (1), loss (1)
|
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