| 2009-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Wake |
Robert J. Sawyer |
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artificial intelligence (2), science fiction (1), set in 2010s (1), internet (1), blindness (1), pandemic (1), Ontario (1), genocide (1), Tokyo (1), China (1), primates (1), sign language (1), art (1), information theory (1), higher intelligence (1)
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| 2001-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Blood and Gold |
Anne Rice |
|
|
vampires (3), horror (1), ice (1), druids (1), egypt (1), Rome (1), Constantinople (1), Venice (1), Florence (1), Renaissance (1), Roman Empire (1), art (1), homoeroticism (1), Dresden (1), telepathy (1)
|
| 1998-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Vampire Armand |
Anne Rice |
|
|
vampires (3), Ukraine (1), Constantinople (1), Venice (1), horror (1), slavery (1), art (1), homoeroticism (1), longevity (1), Paris (1), telepathy (1)
|
| 1995-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Memnoch the Devil |
Anne Rice |
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vampires (3), religion (1), Satan (1), ghosts (1), televangelists (1), vision (1), new orleans (1), angels (1), demons (1), horror (1), New York City (1), San Francisco (1), jesus (1), Constantinople (1), Crucifixion (1), first person point of view (1), Hell (1), story within a story (1), homoeroticism (1), art (1), antiques (1), sculpture (1), murder (1), tavern (1), Books (1), heaven (1), creation (1), music (1), Jerusalem (1), sex (1), afterlife (1), evolution (1)
|
| 1990-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Gift Upon the Shore |
M. K. Wren |
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post apocalypse (1), dogs (1), library (1), Oregon (1), science fiction (1), horses (1), religion (1), survival (1), art (1)
|
| 1987-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Bluebeard |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
first person point of view (1), art (1)
|
| 1986-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Count Zero |
William Gibson |
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|
cyberpunk (3), artificial intelligence (1), virtual reality (1), science fiction (1), Arizona (1), voodoo (1), espionage (1), New Jersey (1), Paris (1), art (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)
|
| 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)
|
| 1976-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Interview with the Vampire |
Anne Rice |
|
|
vampires (3), horror (2), into-movie (2), music (1), art (1), smell (1), Balkans (1), rats (1), set in 1900s (1), set in 1800s (1), unreliable narrator (1), depression (1), Paris (1), new orleans (1), slavery (1), children (1), fire (1), theater (1), homoeroticism (1), longevity (1), journalist (1), first person point of view (1), enhanced sensation (1), Louisiana (1), visions (1), ghosts (1), murder (1), lust (1), dolls (1), eidetic memory (1)
|
| 1974-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
science fiction (2), childbirth (1), physicists (1), university (1), double planet (1), interplanetary travel (1), interstellar travel (1), Tau Ceti (1), philosophy (1), Albert Einstein (1), ansible (1), trains (1), architecture (1), education (1), artificial languages (1), famine (1), Time (1), revolution (1), desert (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), music (1), ambiguous utopia (1), 3-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), hard sf (1), love (1), celibacy (1), LGBTQ+ (1), alternating chapter structure (1), artificial language (1), art (1), leather (1), food (1), into-radio (1), drought (1), anarchism (1), Utopia (1), mathematics (1)
|
| 1974-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Mote in God's Eye |
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle |
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|
first contact (2), space opera (2), lost colony (1), science fiction (1), concentration camp (1), rebellion (1), art (1), museum (1), aliens (1), zoo (1), scientists (1), religion (1), interstellar travel (1), lasers (1), force fields (1), coffee (1), collapse of civilization (1), asteroids (1), life cycle (1), military sf (1)
|
| 1973-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cemetery World |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
cyborgs (1), United States (1), time travel (1), first person point of view (1), ghosts (1), science fiction (1), Earth (1), interstellar travel (1), cemetery (1), theft (1), postapocalyptic (1), distant future (1), telepathy (1), robots (1), art (1), quest (1)
|
| 1969-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Emphyrio |
Jack Vance |
|
|
science fiction (1), revenge (1), art (1), aliens (1), kidnapping (1), space travel (1), Earth (1)
|
| 1968-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nova |
Samuel R. Delany |
|
|
music (1), feet (1), prosthesis (1), nova (1), Paris (1), disability (1), interstellar travel (1), ambition (1), terraforming (1), quest (1), set in the 3000s (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Hatred (1), cyborgs (1), tarot (1), forgery (1), art (1), museum (1), feud (1), science fiction (1), prosthetics (1), assassination (1)
|
| 1968-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Report on Probability A |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
science fiction (1), Heisenberg uncertainty principle (1), physics (1), art (1), parallel worlds (1)
|
| 1968-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Goblin Reservation |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
cyborgs (1), William Shakespeare (1), cats (1), cannibalism (1), Jurassic (1), interstellar travel (1), matter transmission (1), magic (1), body duplication (1), Neanderthals (1), tavern (1), alcohol (1), brewing (1), aliens (1), Earth (1), academia (1), mechanical translation (1), fairies (1), dragons (1), hive mind (1), Wisconsin (1), artificial planet (1), art (1), Big Crunch (1), big bang (1), library (1), museum (1), party (1), time travel (1), science fiction (1), goblins (1), banshees (1), trolls (1), ghosts (1), hominins (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Riders of the Purple Wage |
Philip José Farmer |
|
|
science fiction (1), economics (1), arcology (1), art (1), sex (1), LGBTQ+ (1), Los Angeles (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)
|
| 1966-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Castle |
Jack Vance |
|
|
future earth (1), war with aliens (1), alien slaves (1), feudal future (1), decadence (1), rebellion (1), science fiction (1), art (1), siege (1)
|
| 1965-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), science fiction (1), religion (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), interplanetary travel (1), climate change (1), drugs (1), art (1), genetic engineering (1), reporter (1), espionage (1), uploaded personalities (1), cyborgs (1), virtual reality (1)
|
| 1964-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Leaf by Niggle |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
|
|
trees (1), afterlife (1), christian fantasy (1), fantasy (1), art (1), museum (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1964-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dark Light Years |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
first contact (1), synthetic food (1), vegetarianism (1), excrement (1), communication (1), nuclear warfare (1), alien perspective (1), alien technology (1), Pain (1), climate change (1), zoo (1), london (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (1), england (1), art (1), sculpture (1)
|
| 1962-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dragon Masters |
Jack Vance |
|
|
art (1), space travel (1), far future (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1), alien perspective (1), breeding (1)
|
| 1961-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Studio 5, The Stars |
J. G. Ballard |
|
|
anomie (1), art (1)
|
| 1960-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Botticelli Horror |
Lloyd Biggle, Jr. |
|
|
leather (1), alien life (1), science fiction (1), Kansas (1), venus (1), art (1)
|
| 1958-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Thing of Beauty |
Damon Knight |
|
|
invention (1), art (1), science fiction (1), time slip (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)
|
| 1953-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Childhood's End |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
peace (1), into-radio (1), alien invasion (1), Earth (1), higher intelligence (1), telepathy (1), end of the world (1), last man on Earth (1), incorporeal beings (1), aliens (1), deepsea environment (1), submarine (1), squid (1), whales (1), time viewer (1), hibernation (1), Australia (1), telekinesis (1), Utopia (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), into-tv (1), cosy catastrophe (1), museum (1), virtual reality (1), first contact (1), tsunami (1), winged flight (1), creativity (1), antigravity (1), music (1), art (1), interstellar travel (1)
|
| 1953-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Jupiter Five |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
science fiction (2), Jupiter (2), alien artifacts (1), Martians (1), museums (1), art (1), Jovian Moons (1), orbital mechanics (1)
|
| 1952-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Smile |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
resentment (1), near future (1), Mona Lisa (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), postapocalyptic dystopia (1), catharsis (1), art (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Guyal of Sfere |
Jack Vance |
|
|
art (1), fantasy (1), far future (1), adventure (1), museum (1), quest (1)
|
| 1946-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Vintage Season |
Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore |
|
|
contemporary (1), time travel (1), romance (1), only humans (1), USA (1), meteor strike (1), disaster tourism (1), art (1), epidemic (1), fashion (1), meteor impact (1), science fiction (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1942-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1), higher intelligence (1), art (1), detective (1), science fiction (1), food (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1941-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
"—We Also Walk Dogs" |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
science fiction (1), antigravity (1), 3D television (1), art (1), NESFA Core Reading List (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)
|
| 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)
|
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