| 2008-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Philosopher's Apprentice |
James Morrow |
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|
science fiction (1), philosophy (1), conscience (1)
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| 1998-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Story of Your Life |
Ted Chiang |
|
|
linguistics (2), physics (2), first contact (1), into-movie (1), communication (1), first person point of view (1), prognostication (1), free will (1), philosophy (1)
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| 1996-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Starborne |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
science fiction (1), Utopia (1), telepathy (1), first contact (1), philosophy (1)
|
| 1991-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Face of the Waters |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
water (1), science fiction (1), philosophy (1), religion (1), penal colony (1), water world (1), floating islands (1), quest (1)
|
| 1985-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Vampire Lestat |
Anne Rice |
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|
vampires (3), enhanced sensation (1), first person point of view (1), unreliable narrator (1), longevity (1), homoeroticism (1), tuberculosis (1), depression (1), music (1), telekinesis (1), pyrokenesis (1), Paris (1), death (1), religion (1), Roman Empire (1), set in 1700s (1), set in 1800s (1), set in 1900s (1), smell (1), horses (1), Alexandria (1), aristocrats (1), horror (1), story within a story (1), suicide (1), Venice (1), Rome (1), loneliness (1), alcohol (1), quest (1), theater (1), new orleans (1), hunting (1), wolves (1), France (1), humanism (1), philosophy (1), telepathy (1), San Francisco (1), egypt (1)
|
| 1984-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish |
Douglas Adams |
|
|
science fiction (1), humorous (1), philosophy (1), england (1), interstellar travel (1), romance (1), robots (1), dolphins (1), into-radio (1)
|
| 1982-00-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
The Fate of the Earth |
Jonathan Schell |
|
|
nuclear war (1), philosophy (1)
|
| 1981-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Creation |
Gore Vidal |
|
|
99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), China (1), india (1), Greece (1), Persia (1), philosophy (1), religion (1), strong female characters (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1979-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
|
|
dolphin (1), comedy (1), philosophical quest (1), into-tv (1), cult fiction (1), from-radio (1), mega-engineering (1), england (1), interstellar travel (1), space drive (1), science fiction (1), into-movie (1), philosophy (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), into-video game (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)
|
| 1974-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
—That Thou Art Mindful of Him! |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
science fiction (1), robots (1), philosophy (1)
|
| 1971-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Lathe of Heaven |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
perception of reality (1), Aldebaran (1), climate change (1), epidemic (1), dreams (1), aliens (1), philosophy (1), nuclear war (1), alternate history (1), ecological decline (1), science fiction (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 |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
science fiction (2), interstellar travel (1), androgyny (1), alternating chapter structure (1), sociology (1), philosophy (1), ice planet (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), multiple points of view (1), politics (1), social criticism (1), first contact (1), gender bending (1), first person (1), alien point of view (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), 3-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), cold (1)
|
| 1967-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fiddler's Green |
Richard McKenna |
|
|
fruit (1), hypnosis (1), engineer (1), gambling (1), cannibalism (1), murder (1), Indian Ocean (1), thirst (1), perception of reality (1), interdimensional travel (1), science fiction (1), philosophy (1), betrayal (1), shipwreck (1), first person point of view (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)
|
| 1963-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cat's Cradle |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
|
|
neologisms (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), tornadoes (1), music (1), Poetry (1), invention (1), New York State (1), Caribbean (1), scientists (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), philosophy (1), religion (1), into-movie (1), into-music (1), into-play (1), ice (1)
|
| 1958-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Triumph of Time |
James Blish |
|
|
flying city (1), End of the Universe (1), center of the universe (1), cepheid variables (1), sleep learning (1), antimatter (1), antigravity (1), interstellar travel (1), intergalactic travel (1), computers (1), Greater Magellanic Cloud (1), science fiction (1), interstellar war (1), nuclear warfare (1), games (1), alien life (1), astronomer (1), philosophy (1), physics (1), ansible (1), New York City (1)
|
| 1957-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Black Cloud |
Fred Hoyle |
|
|
first contact (2), climate change (2), science fiction (2), england (2), cosmic disaster (1), philosophy (1), hard sf (1), UK (1), scientist (1), scientists (1), astronomer (1), astromomers (1), astronomy (1), alien intelligence (1), Alien Communication (1), politics (1), politicians (1), genius (1), radio astronomy (1), nebula (1), higher intelligence (1), music (1), interstellar travel (1), astronomers (1), computers (1)
|
| 1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The World Jones Made |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
science fiction (1), dystopia (1), post-apocalyptic (1), relativism (1), mutants (1), genetic engineering (1), Earth (1), venus (1), precognition (1), predestination (1), philosophy (1), determinism (1), first contact (1), aliens (1), xenophobia (1), assassination (1)
|
| 1953-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
... And the Truth Shall Make You Free |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
computer (1), mutants (1), exploration (1), distant future (1), aliens (1), spiders (1), dogs (1), philosophy (1), science fiction (1), meaning of life (1)
|
| 1946-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Paradise |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
science fiction (1), mutants (1), philosophy (1), robots (1), dogs (1), Jupiter (1)
|
| 1944-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Huddling Place |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
surgery (1), philosophy (1), Martians (1), science fiction (1), mars (1), Earth (1), agoraphobia (1), interplanetary travel (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1941-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Spanish |
La biblioteca de Babel |
Jorge Luis Borges |
|
|
library (2), fantasy (1), universal library (1), philosophy (1), religion (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1941-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Reason |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
into-tv (1), robots (1), science fiction (1), religion (1), microwaves (1), philosophy (1), power station (1), solar energy (1)
|
| 1941-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lost Street |
Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1), apocalypse (1), United States (1), recluse (1), philosophy (1), Alternate World (1), plague (1), tobacco (1), set in 1960s (1)
|
| 1940-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Spanish |
|
Jorge Luis Borges |
|
|
science fiction (1), parallel universe (1), first person point of view (1), linguistics (1), subjective idealism (1), philosophy (1), fantasy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1937-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Star Maker |
Olaf Stapledon |
|
|
social commentary (1), nebula (1), Sentient plants (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), philosophy (1), star-dwelling beings (1), sentient stars (1), astral projection (1), distant past (1), spirituality (1), science fiction (1), evolution (1), aliens (1), mental intergalactic travel (1), mental time travel (1), distant future (1), first person point of view (1), European interwar period (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
|
| 1845-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Imp of the Perverse |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
first person point of view (1), murder (1), guilt (1), philosophy (1)
|
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