| 2004-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Chinese |
|
Cixin Liu |
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science fiction (1), hard sf (1), physics (1), genius (1), education (1), mathematics (1), scientists (1), russia (1), lightning (1), weapons research (1), China (1), first person point of view (1), sailing (1), tornadoes (1), weather control (1), Schrödinger's cat (1)
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| 2000-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Light of Other Days |
Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke |
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archaeology (1), United Kingdom (1), Uzbekistan (1), Rome (1), africa (1), mathematics (1), genealogy (1), hominins (1), privacy (1), psychologists (1), war (1), torture (1), invisibility (1), physicists (1), evolution (1), comet impact (1), antarctica (1), journalists (1), drought (1), American civil war (1), music (1), Crusades (1), Abraham Lincoln (1), Albert Einstein (1), jesus (1), Moses (1), Christopher Columbus (1), William Shakespeare (1), Pierre de Fermat (1), Ötzi (1), Ludwig van Beethoven (1), sea level rise (1), antigravity (1), wormholes (1), hard sf (1), time viewer (1), science fiction (1), weather control (1), resurrection (1), religion (1), invention (1), tattoos (1), tigers (1), extinction (1), cloning (1), virtual reality (1), climate change (1), electromagnetic pulse (1), global computer network search engine (1), artificial intelligence (1), mind control (1), shared mind (1), nuclear waste (1), surveillance (1), storms (1), set in 2030s (1), set in 2040s (1), set in 2080s (1), set in 22nd century (1), nanotechnology (1), london (1), Seattle (1), russia (1)
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| 1981-09-28 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Limits |
Larry Niven |
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immortality (1), language translator (1), aliens on Earth (1), interstellar commerce (1), spaceport (1), eavesdropping (1), sound damping (1), first person point of view (1), bartender (1), mathematics (1), tavern (1)
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| 1974-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
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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)
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| 1967-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Why Call Them Back from Heaven? |
Clifford D. Simak |
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religion (2), depopulation (1), eternal life (1), drugs (1), death (1), court trial (1), cryogenics (1), euthanasia (1), interstellar travel (1), alien artefacts (1), mathematics (1), longevity (1), New York City (1), set in 2100s (1), overpopulation (1), ostracism (1), poverty (1), peace (1), rejuvenation (1), eternal youth (1), Wisconsin (1), time travel (1)
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| 1958-00-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
Fantasia Mathematica |
Clifton Fadiman |
|
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mathematics (1), fantasy (1), science fiction (1)
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| 1958-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Jurgen Proves It by Mathematics |
James Branch Cabell |
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|
mathematics (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Peter Learns Arithmetic |
H. G. Wells |
|
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mathematics (1), education (1)
|
| 1958-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Feeling of Power |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
military sf (1), computers (1), mathematics (1), science fiction (1), interstellar war (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Wayward Cravat |
Gertrude Friedberg |
|
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coming of age (1), mathematics (1), child prodigy (1)
|
| 1957-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Dutch |
Bolland: Een Roman van Gekromde Ruimten en Uitdijend Heelal |
Dr. Dionijs Burger |
|
|
expanding universe (1), mathematics (1), science fiction (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1953-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Magician |
Bruce Elliott |
|
|
mathematics (1), topology (1), Klein bottle (1), prestidigitation (1)
|
| 1952-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Island of the Five Colors |
Martin Gardner |
|
|
maps (1), mathematics (1), fourth dimension (1), anthropology (1), Klein bottle (1)
|
| 1951-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Foundation |
Isaac Asimov |
|
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archaeology (1), surveillance (1), world city (1), nuclear power (1), nuclear weapons (1), scientists (1), transmutation (1), symbolic logic (1), gold (1), courtroom drama (1), time capsule (1), force fields (1), hyperwave (1), diplomacy (1), ray guns (1), iron (1), interstellar trade (1), empire (1), computers (1), encyclopedia (1), mathematics (1), interstellar travel (1), antigravity (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), religion (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Fix up (1), galactic empire (1), space opera (1), psychohistory (1)
|
| 1951-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Mathematical Voodoo |
H. Nearing, Jr. |
|
|
voodoo (1), mathematics (1), education (1)
|
| 1950-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Subway Named Mobius |
A. J. Deutsch |
|
|
science fiction (1), Moebius strip (1), topology (1), mathematics (1), subways (1)
|
| 1947-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
No-Sided Professor |
Martin Gardner |
|
|
science fiction (1), mathematics (1), topology (1), Moebius strip (1)
|
| 1945-12-22 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A. Botts and the Möebius Strip |
William H. Upson |
|
|
mathematics (1), Moebius strip (1)
|
| 1945-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ethical Equations |
Murray Leinster |
|
|
science fiction (1), interplanetary travel (1), first contact (1), mathematics (1), ethics (1), nitrogen (1), isotopes (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1943-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pythagoras and the Psychoanalyst |
Arthur Koestler |
|
|
mathematics (1), psychiatry (1)
|
| 1941-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
"—And He Built a Crooked House" |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
tesseract (2), science fiction (1), architecture (1), humor (1), california (1), Laurel Canyon (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), fourth dimension (1), topology (1), earthquake (1), escape (1), mathematics (1), Los Angeles (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1940-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mother and the Decimal Point |
Richard Llewellyn |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
| 1939-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Misfit |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
science fiction (1), coming of age (1), mathematics (1), asteroid belt (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1938-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Czech |
Smrt Archimédova |
|
|
|
mathematics (1), roman invasion (1), Archimedes (1), Siracusa (1), dilemma (1)
|
| 1936-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Brink of Infinity |
Stanley G. Weinbaum |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
| 1929-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Captured Cross-Section |
Miles J. Breuer, M.D. |
|
|
fourth dimension (1), geometrical rotation (1), fourth-dimensional being (1), mathematics (1), BLEILER: abduction by aliens (1)
|
| 1924-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Young Archimedes |
Aldous Huxley |
|
|
music (1), mathematics (1), child prodigy (1), italy (1)
|
| 1884-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
Edwin A. Abbott |
|
|
Librivox (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), Internet Archive (1), into-movie (1), mathematics (1), transdimensional (1), satire (1), fantasy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1874-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Tachypomp |
Edward Page Mitchell |
|
|
technology (1), romance (1), science fiction (1), love (1), creditors (1), hole through the center of the Earth (1), mathematics (1)
|
| date unknown |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Socrates and the Slave |
Plato |
|
|
mathematics (1)
|
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