| 2023-06-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
AAL |
Thomas Frick |
|
|
invention (1), artificial intelligence (1)
|
| 2014-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Chinese |
|
Zhang Ran |
|
|
time travel (1), steampunk (1), China (1), scientist (1), inventing (1), inventor (1), invention (1), Inventions (1), civil war (1), siege (1), imprisonment (1), prison (1), prisoner (1)
|
| 2011-10-06 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Finishing School: A Colonial Adventure |
Kathleen Jennings |
|
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dentist (1), inventor (1), inventing (1), flight (1), Australia (1), friendship (1), invention (1), boarding school (1), innovation (1), airships (1), airplanes (1)
|
| 2009-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Consciousness Problem |
Mary Robinette Kowal |
|
|
Clones (1), science fiction (1), invention (1), love (1), loss (1), memory (1)
|
| 2001-02-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Ersatz Elevator |
Lemony Snicket |
|
|
invention (1), orphans (1), strong female characters (1), juvenile fantasy (1), fads (1)
|
| 2000-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Light of Other Days |
Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
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)
|
| 1999-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Trigger |
Arthur C. Clarke and Michael P. Kube-McDowell |
|
|
science fiction (1), invention (1), weapons (1)
|
| 1992-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Small Gods |
Terry Pratchett |
|
|
tortoise (1), psychopath (1), zealotry (1), turtle (1), monks (1), gods (1), theocracy (1), satire (1), Theology (1), discworld (1), humorous fantasy (1), war machines (1), philosophy (1), invention (1), desert (1), eidetic memory (1), Warfare (1), morality (1), eagles (1), pantheon (1)
|
| 1983-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
|
Samuel R. Delany |
|
|
invention (1), poststructualism (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1973-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers |
Harry Harrison |
|
|
humorous (1), space opera (1), parody (1), science fiction (1), invention (1), Cheese (1), Titan (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), LGBTQ+ (1)
|
| 1972-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Eurema's Dam |
R. A. Lafferty |
|
|
science fiction (1), invention (1), impostor syndrome (1)
|
| 1971-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Hell House |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
ghosts (1), telepathy (1), haunted house (1), into-movie (1), horror (1), possession (1), Maine (1), spiritualism (1), invention (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)
|
| 1970-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
In Our Hands, the Stars |
Harry Harrison |
|
|
science fiction (1), interplanetary travel (1), Israel (1), Denmark (1), submarine (1), invention (1)
|
| 1968-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Holmes-Ginsbook Device |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
invention (1), humorous (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Killer Thing |
Kate Wilhelm |
|
|
invention (1), force fields (1), invisibility (1), alien perspective (1), platinum (1), berkserker machine (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (1), robots (1), mining (1), rampaging robots (1), desert (1), venus (1), Tau Ceti (1), interstellar war (1), sensory deprivation (1), hallucination (1), thirst (1), wood (1), Allegorical of the Vietnam War (1)
|
| 1965-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Plague of Pythons |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
science fiction (1), mind control (1), invention (1), hawaii (1), mind transfer (1)
|
| 1965-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Committee of the Whole |
Frank Herbert |
|
|
invention (1), lasers (1), science fiction (1), Washington, DC (1)
|
| 1963-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
All the Colors of Darkness |
Lloyd Biggle, Jr. |
|
|
oxygen (1), trust (1), music (1), food (1), detective (1), moon (1), aliens (1), invention (1), matter transmission (1), science fiction (1), sabotage (1), memory erasure (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)
|
| 1963-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Drunkboat |
Cordwainer Smith |
|
|
hospital (1), science fiction (1), interstellar travel (1), invention (1), insanity (1), courtroom drama (1)
|
| 1962-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Gadget Vs. Trend |
Christopher Anvil |
|
|
Merril08 (1), science fiction (1), invention (1), silence (1)
|
| 1962-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Junior Achievement |
William M. Lee |
|
|
science fiction (1), children (1), invention (1), creativity (1)
|
| 1962-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Seven-Day Terror |
R. A. Lafferty |
|
|
science fiction (1), humor (1), invention (1), children (1)
|
| 1961-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rainbird |
R. A. Lafferty |
|
|
Merril07 (1), time travel (1), science fiction (1), invention (1)
|
| 1959-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
No, No, Not Rogov! |
Cordwainer Smith |
|
|
science fiction (1), hard sf (1), invention (1), neurology (1), telepathy (1), far future (1), dancing (1), espionage (1), cold war (1), russia (1), Earth (1), extreme beauty (1), zealotry (1), soviet science (1), poetic prose (1)
|
| 1959-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The People Maker |
Damon Knight |
|
|
Clones (1), slavery (1), invention (1), science fiction (1), human duplication (1), matter duplicator (1), Pennsylvania (1), coming of age (1), duel (1), dystopia (1), social collapse (1)
|
| 1959-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Snowmen |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1), cold (1), invention (1)
|
| 1958-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Matter of Traces |
Frank Herbert |
|
|
science fiction (1), invention (1), sabotage (1), distant future (1)
|
| 1958-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Cease Fire |
Frank Herbert |
|
|
Merril04 (1), Warfare (1), invention (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mr. Bass's Planetoid |
Eleanor Cameron |
|
|
new element (1), invention (1), panspermia (1), aliens (1), juvenile sf (1), scotland (1), california (1), rockets (1), telescopes (1), fungi (1)
|
| 1958-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Big Bounce |
Walter Tevis |
|
|
Librivox (1), science fiction (1), invention (1), Entropy (1)
|
| 1958-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Thing of Beauty |
Damon Knight |
|
|
invention (1), art (1), science fiction (1), time slip (1)
|
| 1957-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sleeping Beauty |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
science fiction (1), sleep (1), invention (1)
|
| 1957-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Man Who Ploughed the Sea |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
Merril03 (1), uranium (1), invention (1), submarine (1), science fiction (1), Florida (1)
|
| 1957-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ultimate Melody |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
earworm (1), music (1), science fiction (1), neurology (1), invention (1)
|
| 1956-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Big Game Hunt |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
mind control (1), invention (1), science fiction (1), squid (1)
|
| 1956-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
What Goes Up... |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
invention (1), antigravity (1), science fiction (1), Australia (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)
|
| 1954-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Armaments Race |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
weapons (1), hollywood (1), humor (1), science fiction (1), invention (1)
|
| 1954-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Patent Pending |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
science fiction (1), neurology (1), food (1), sex (1), invention (1)
|
| 1954-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Big Trip Up Yonder |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
Librivox (1), overpopulation (1), science fiction (1), New York City (1), longevity (1), invention (1)
|
| 1954-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Laxian Key |
Robert Sheckley |
|
|
interstellar travel (1), aliens (1), invention (1), food (1)
|
| 1953-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Button, Button |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
time travel (1), telekinesis (1), science fiction (1), invention (1)
|
| 1953-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mother of Invention |
Tom Godwin |
|
|
science fiction (1), diamonds (1), nova (1), antigravity (1), invention (1)
|
| 1953-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Available Data on the Worp Reaction |
Lion Miller |
|
|
invention (1), humor (1), science fiction (1), antigravity (1)
|
| 1952-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Captive of the Centaurianess |
Poul Anderson |
|
|
mathematician (1), invention (1), aliens (1), mars (1), faster than light travel (1), interstellar travel (1), interplanetary travel (1), Ganymede (1), Alpha Centauri (1), science fiction (1), amazons (1), tobacco (1), fascism (1)
|
| 1952-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Holes, Incorporated |
L. Major Reynolds |
|
|
science fiction (1), wormholes (1), invention (1)
|
| 1952-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Noise Level |
Raymond F. Jones |
|
|
science fiction (1), antigravity (1), invention (1)
|
| 1952-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Good Provider |
Marion Gross |
|
|
time travel (1), food (1), invention (1)
|
| 1951-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
McWhinney's Jaunt |
Robert Lawson |
|
|
juvenile sf (1), invention (1), Los Angeles (1)
|
| 1951-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Obviously Suicide |
S. Fowler Wright |
|
|
science fiction (1), ultimate weapon (1), invention (1)
|
| 1951-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Superiority |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
interstellar war (1), technology (1), science fiction (1), space navy (1), weapons (1), first person point of view (1), invention (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
One Against the Legion |
Jack Williamson |
|
|
science fiction (1), scientists (1), invention (1), kidnapping (1), interstellar travel (1), revenge (1)
|
| 1950-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Peacebringer |
Ward Moore |
|
|
peace (1), Los Angeles (1), invention (1), science fiction (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1950-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Scanners Live in Vain |
Cordwainer Smith |
|
|
science fiction (1), invention (1), guilds (1), far future (1), interstellar travel (1), suspended animation (1), reform (1), Earth (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Silence, Please! |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
sound damping (1), science fiction (1), humor (1), physics (1), invention (1)
|
| 1949-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Gulf |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
science fiction (1), genius (1), breeding (1), semantics (1), invention (1), nuclear weapons (1), linguistics (1)
|
| 1949-12-07 |
NOVEL |
English |
Sixth Column |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
science fiction (1), racism (1), Colorado (1), religion (1), invention (1), weapons (1), death ray (1)
|
| 1947-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
E for Effort |
T. L. Sherred |
|
|
science fiction (1), secret history (1), movies (1), nuclear war (1), time viewer (1), Los Angeles (1), Chicago (1), invention (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), viewing the past (1)
|
| 1947-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Person from Porlock |
Raymond F. Jones |
|
|
science fiction (1), invention (1), matter transmission (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1947-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
With Folded Hands ... |
Jack Williamson |
|
|
Dimension X (2), invention (1), interstellar travel (1), science fiction (1), robots (1), dystopia (1), palladium (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1944-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Eternal Now |
Murray Leinster |
|
|
science fiction (1), time distortion (1), invention (1)
|
| 1943-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Time Locker |
Henry Kuttner |
|
|
science fiction (1), time machine (1), drunkenness (1), enhanced intelligence (1), invention (1)
|
| 1941-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Adam and No Eve |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
last man on Earth (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), post-apocalyptic (1), circle of life (1), science fiction (1), invention (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), post apocalypse (1), mad scientist (1), into-comics (1)
|
| 1941-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Microcosmic God |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
artificial life (1), biologists (1), Inventors (1), omniscient narrator (1), Denver (1), new england (1), set in 20th century (1), biologist (1), bankers (1), genetic engineering (1), misanthrope (1), murder (1), force fields (1), invention (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), science fiction (1), pocket universe (1), evolution (1)
|
| 1940-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dwindling Sphere |
Willard E. Hawkins |
|
|
far future (1), science fiction (1), invention (1), Earth (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1939-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Study in Darkness |
Carl Jacobi |
|
|
horror (1), rats (1), invention (1), mad scientist (1)
|
| 1939-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Life-Line |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
science fiction (1), invention (1), into-tv (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), insurance (1)
|
| 1936-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Point of View |
Stanley G. Weinbaum |
|
|
Librivox (1), others visualizations (1), invention (1), mind reader (1), science fiction (1), telepathy (1)
|
| 1935-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Portuguese |
|
Monteiro Lobato |
|
|
literary adaptation (1), science (1), invention (1), living toys (1)
|
| 1934-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Before the Dawn |
John Taine |
|
|
science fiction (1), time viewer (1), dinosaurs (1), invention (1)
|
| 1932-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Why the Heavens Fell |
C. P. Mason |
|
|
dishwashing ray (1), first person point of view (1), invention (1), science fiction (1), United States (1), inverse-square law (1), shaggy dog story (1), scientists (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), superstrength (1)
|
| 1930-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The First Ornithopter |
Jack Winks |
|
|
invention (1), ornithopters (1)
|
| 1915-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Man Who Rocked the Earth |
Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood |
|
|
science fiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), terrorism (1), Algeria (1), France (1), United States (1), Canada (1), invention (1), nuclear weapons (1), peace (1), radiation (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)
|
| 1895-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Time Machine |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
time travel (4), inventor (2), into-movie (2), frame story (1), club story (1), Escape (Radio) (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), first person point of view (1), london (1), museum (1), social criticism (1), into-radio (1), invention (1), evolution (1), time machine (1), science fiction (1), cosy catastrophe (1), into-tv (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), dying earth (1), far future (1), ipulpfiction (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), dystopia (1), Librivox (1), chrononaut (1)
|
| 1890-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
La journée d'un journaliste américain en 2890 |
Jules Verne and Michel Verne |
|
|
science fiction (2), Librivox (1), Media (1), United States (1), aliens (1), invention (1), suspended animation (1), communication (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
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