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Titles marked by user Gzuckier with tag contemporary

Date Type Language Title Authors Parent Title Parent Authors Tags
1973-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Bleeding Stones Harlan Ellison     gargoyles (1), New York City (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), horror (1)
1973-05-28 NOVEL English Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.     free will (1), racism (1), insanity (1), into-movie (1), metafiction (1), poioumenon (1), social criticism (1), environmentalism (1), satire (1), mental illness (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
1973-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Something Up There Likes Me Alfred Bester     hard sf (1), first person (1), contemporary (1), artificial intelligence (1), artificial earth satellites (1), cold war (1)
1972-11-00 SHORTFICTION Russian
Тщетность?Tshchetnost'
Александр Горбовский?Alexander Gorbovsky
Aleksandr Gorbovsky
    undersea (1), alien on earth (1), alien point of view (1), contemporary (1)
1972-00-00 SHORTFICTION English A Legion Marching By John Kippax     Roman Empire (1), time travel (1), first person point of view (1), england (1), contemporary (1), Roman legions (1)
1972-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Corpse Harlan Ellison     fantasy (1), first person (1), contemporary (1), automobiles (1), New York City (1), religion (1)
1972-00-00 SHORTFICTION English On the Downhill Side Harlan Ellison     new orleans (1), first person (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), love (1), afterlife (1)
1972-00-00 NOVEL English The Guns of Avalon Roger Zelazny     unreliable narrator (1), palace intrigue (1), sibling rivalry (1), swordplay (1), parallel worlds (1), first person point of view (1), medieval society (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), fantasy (1), classical mythology (1)
1971-00-00 SHORTFICTION English At the Mouse Circus Harlan Ellison     contemporary (1), african-american (1), dinosaurs (1), new gods (1)
1971-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Erotophobia Harlan Ellison     lust (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), attractiveness (1)
1971-05-00 SHORTFICTION English The Animal Fair Robert Bloch     horror (1), contemporary (1), realism (1)
1971-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Dark Door Leo P. Kelley     first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), native americans (1), old gods (1), Indian reservation (1), spouse abuse (1), monsters (1)
1971-02-00 NOVEL English The Shores of Another Sea Chad Oliver     alien visitation (1), baboons (1), africa (1), contemporary (1), mind control (1)
1970-12-00 SHORTFICTION English One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty Harlan Ellison     into-tv (1), time travel (1), bullying (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), childhood (1)
1970-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Swastika! Brian W. Aldiss     regret (1), musical theatre (1), tongue in cheek (1), first person point of view (1), Hitler (1), contemporary (1), satire (1), Adolf Hitler (1), secret history (1)
1970-00-00 NOVEL English Time Trap Keith Laumer     time travel (2), contemporary (1), aliens (1)
1969-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Prey Richard Matheson     female main character (1), possession (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), Zuni fetish doll (1), fantasy (1)
1969-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Rock God Harlan Ellison     fantasy (1), Stonehenge (1), ancient gods (1), contemporary (1), corruption (1), New York City (1)
1969-05-00 NOVEL English The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton     science fiction (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), contemporary (1), United States (1), alien lifeform (1), panspermia (1), mutation (1), biowarfare research (1), plague (1), Arizona (1), Nevada (1), into-music (1)
1969-00-00 NOVEL English The Long Twilight Keith Laumer     broadcast power (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), ship AI (1), immortals (1), interstellar war (1), only Earth (1), natural disaster (1), hurricane (1), historical (1)
1969-05-00 SHORTFICTION English The Moment of Eclipse Brian W. Aldiss     disease as metaphor (1), erotic fixation (1), incest (1), third world politics (1), corruption (1), first person point of view (1), perversity (1), filmmaker (1), loiasis (1), parasite (1), West Africa (1), contemporary (1), Danish (1)
1969-07-00 SHORTFICTION English The Place with No Name Harlan Ellison     contemporary (1), criminal (1), New York City (1), fantasy (1), prometheus (1), manslaughter (1)
1968-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Ernest and the Machine God Harlan Ellison     fantasy (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1), North Carolina (1), jealous god (1)
1968-09-00 SHORTFICTION English O Ye of Little Faith Harlan Ellison     loss of faith (1), fortune-telling (1), love (1), mexico (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1)
1968-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Village Swindler Brian W. Aldiss     contemporary (1), scheduled caste (1), india (1), train (1), heart attack (1), Englishwoman (1), Hindu (1), doctor (1), plague (1), smallpox (1), beggars (1), untouchables (1), heart transplant (1), culture shock (1), female protagonist (1)
1968-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Try a Dull Knife Harlan Ellison     psychic vampires (1), empathy (1), contemporary (1)
1968-11-00 SHORTFICTION English White on White Harlan Ellison     ladies' man (1), contemporary (1), search for true love (1), nepal (1), mountain climbing (1), Abominable Snowman (1)
1967-00-00 SHORTFICTION English How We Were Tracked by a Tripod John Christopher     escape (1), alien conquest (1), contemporary (1), France (1), first person point of view (1)
1967-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes Harlan Ellison     object possession (1), moll (1), betrayal (1), Las Vegas (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1)
1967-12-00 NOVEL English Quicksand John Brunner     only humans (1), martial arts (1), jealousy (1), free love (1), low self-esteem (1), mental fantasy (1), anomie (1), england (1), contemporary (1), twist ending (1), psychiatry (1), mental hospital (1), bad marriage (1), stranger from nowhere (1), parallel world (1), time travel (1), explorer (1)
1967-03-00 SHORTFICTION English The Billiard Ball Isaac Asimov     science fiction (1), mystery (1), antigravity (1), murder (1), theoretical physics vs applied physics (1), hard science fiction (1), rivalry (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), billiards (1)
1967-03-00 SHORTFICTION English The Sepia Springs Affair Roscoe E. Wright     epistolary style (1), contemporary (1), SF fandom (1), aliens on Earth (1), humor (1)
1966-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Delusion for a Dragon Slayer Harlan Ellison     contemporary (1), fantasy (1), mythic heroes (1)
1966-00-00 SHORTFICTION English See No Evil John R. Pierce     first person point of view (1), science fiction (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), big data (1), censorship (1), hollywood (1)
1966-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Six Cubed Plus One Douglas R. Mason     artificial intelligence (1), contemporary (1), hard sf (1), into-tv (1)
1966-03-00 SHORTFICTION English The Circulation of the Blood Brian W. Aldiss     penguins (1), contemporary (1), oceanography (1), second wife (1), son (1), tropic lagoon (1), antarctica (1), jewfish (1), copepods (1), incest (1), warm southward ocean current (1), Tyrrhenian Sea (1), alien virus (1), immortality (1), ex-husband (1), whale beachings (1), oedipus complex (1)
1966-00-00 NOVEL English The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon     novel within novella range (1), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1), stamps (1), contemporary (1), wife (1), conspiracies (1), postal delivery (1), Southern California (1), executing wills (1), satire (1), politics (1), history (1), female protagonist (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
1965-00-00 NOVEL English The Maker of Universes Philip José Farmer     pocket universe (1), mega-engineering (1), genetic engineering (1), family rivalry (1), pantheon (1), amnesia (1), mythological creatures (1), contemporary (1), portal to another universe (1), Appendix N (1)
1964-06-00 SHORTFICTION English Dolphin's Way Gordon R. Dickson     dolphin (1), twist ending (1), first contact (1), research station (1), dolphins (1), contemporary (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1)
1964-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Out of This World Alfred Bester     Merril10 (1), only Earth (1), parallel worlds (1), infatuation (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), telephones (1), New York City (1), first person point of view (1), science fiction (1)
1964-03-00 SHORTFICTION English The Terminal Beach J. G. Ballard     science fiction (1), symbolism (1), only Earth (1), hallucinogenic (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), decay (1), nuclear test (1), fantasy (1), Eniwetok (1), Pacific Ocean (1)
1963-00-00 SHORTFICTION English A Nice, Shady Place Dennis Etchison     contemporary (1), only Earth (1), summer camp (1), mutations (1), infiltration (1), horror (1)
1963-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Anthem Sprinters Ray Bradbury     movie theaters (1), contemporary (1), ireland (1), humor (1), first person point of view (1)
1963-11-00 SHORTFICTION English The Faceless Thing Edward D. Hoch     compassion (1), vengeance (1), brother and sister (1), old age (1), horror (1), contemporary (1)
1963-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Putnam Tradition Sonya Dorman     Librivox (1), strong female characters (1), paranormal abilities (1), contemporary (1), family (1), modern magic (1), classical magic (1), maternal heritage (1), paternal heritage (1)
1963-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Substance of Martyrs William Sambrot     miracles (1), redemption (1), holocaust (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), first person (1)
1963-00-00 NOVEL English Way Station Clifford D. Simak     first contact (2), solitude (1), muteness (1), longevity (1), grave desecration (1), alien autopsy (1), contemporary (1), Civil War veteran (1), Wisconsin (1), rural (1), interstellar travel (1), love (1), life extension (1), US government surveillance (1), interstellar politics (1), deafness (1), butterflies (1), science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), alien artifact (1), aliens (1)
1962-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Hey, Look at Me! Jack Finney     first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), Mill Valley California (1), writer (1), critic (1), fantasy (1), ghost (1)
1962-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman Harlan Ellison     first person point of view (1), jazz trumpet (1), love (1), resurrection (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), ghosts (1), jazz (1)
1962-09-00 NOVEL English Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury     fortune-telling Gypsy witch (1), horror (1), American Midwest (1), tempted to the dark side (1), dark character vs light character (1), aging in reverse (1), rapid aging (1), library (1), contemporary (1), midwest US (1), freak show (1), into-movie (1), childhood friends (1), fathers and sons (1), ancient evil (1), reanimation (1), carousel (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), dark carnival (1), living tattoo (1), child protagonist (1), magic (1)
1962-04-00 SHORTFICTION English To Lift a Ship Kit Reed     strong female character (1), telekinetic flight (1), contemporary (1), love (1), betrayal (1), telepathy (1)
1962-00-00 NOVEL English We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson     contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), small town (1), atmospheric (1), family (1), homicide (1), female point of view (1), fox in the henhouse (1), plot twist (1), deceptive innocence (1), cat (1), shunning (1), invalid (1), child of nature (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1)
1961-12-16 SHORTFICTION English My Name Is Everyone Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.     first person point of view (1), romance (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), community theater (1), actors (1), autism (1), introspection (1)
1961-08-00 SHORTFICTION English The Haunted Woodshed Harold R. Daniels     murder (1), mystery (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), haunting (1), new england (1), woodshed (1)
1961-05-00 SHORTFICTION English The Teeth of Despair Avram Davidson and Sidney Klein     contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), satire (1), college professors (1), quiz shows (1), hubris (1)
1961-03-00 SHORTFICTION English What Is This Thing Called Love? Isaac Asimov     Merril07 (1), humor (1), captured by aliens (1), reproduction (1), romance (1), contemporary (1), alien point of view (1), evolution (1), science fiction (1), sexual dimorphism (1), human experiment (1)
1960-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Callahan and the Wheelies Stephen Barr     inventor (1), robots (1), evolution (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), Irish (1), magic (1), family (1)
1960-10-00 SHORTFICTION English From Shadowed Places Richard Matheson     fantasy (1), juju (1), curse (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), africa (1), USA (1), Ngombo (witch doctor) (1)
1960-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Graveyard Shift Richard Matheson     horror (1), contemporary (1), rural America (1), epistolary format (1), mother (1), child (1), vengeance (1)
1960-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Face of Helene Bournouw Harlan Ellison     contemporary (1), New York City (1), female protagonist (1), demonic handiwork (1), beauty (1), destructive relationships (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), into-tv (1), The Hunger (1)
1960-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Galactic Calabash G. C. Edmondson     first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), mexico (1), farrming (1), alien artifact (1)
1959-04-00 SHORTFICTION English The Amulet Gordon R. Dickson     Merril05 (1), cats (1), witches (1), rural (1), only Earth (1), enchantment (1), contemporary (1)
1959-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Pi Man Alfred Bester     Merril05 (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), OCD (1), romance (1), cosmic balance (1), first person point of view (1), science fiction (1), New York City (1)
1959-12-00 SHORTFICTION English The Terra-Venusian War of 1979 Gerard E. Neyroud     fantasy (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), venus (1), happiness (1), love (1)
1959-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Will You Wait? Alfred Bester     only Earth (1), only humans (1), satire (1), bureaucracy (1), selling your soul (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1)
1958-12-00 SHORTFICTION English Are You Listening? Harlan Ellison     first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), alienation (1)
1958-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Levitation Joseph Payne Brennan     fantasy (1), contemporary (1), traveling carnival (1), hypnosis (1), levitation (1)
1958-11-00 SHORTFICTION English People Soup Alan Arkin     Merril04 (1), shapeshifters (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), children (1), whimsical (1), shapechangers (1)
1958-03-08 SHORTFICTION English River of Riches Gerald Kersh     fantasy (1), first person (1), contemporary (1), Amazon River (1), Indians (1), con man (1)
1958-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee Fritz Leiber     Merril04 (1), arts (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), contemporary (1), magic (1), fads (1), advertising (1), sociology (1), obsessive-compulsive (1), witch doctor (1), spirit (1), fantasy (1)
1958-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Space-Time for Springers Fritz Leiber     heroism (1), self-sacrifice (1), bittersweet (1), consciousness (1), spirit (1), maturation (1), only Earth (1), contemporary (1), feline point of view (1), juvenile protagonist (1), hidden psychic power (1), mental illness (1), cats (1)
1958-11-00 SHORTFICTION English The Jam Henry Slesar     fantasy (1), horror (1), Hudson River Tunnels (1), contemporary (1), driving (1), wreck (1), traffic jam (1), addict (1), afterlife (1), traffic (1)
1958-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Men Who Murdered Mohammed Alfred Bester     only Earth (1), absent minded scientist (1), time travel (1), only humans (1), contemporary (1), humor (1), infidelity (1), science fiction (1)
1958-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit Ray Bradbury     contemporary (1), Latin America (1), poverty (1), partnership (1), clothes make the man (1)
1958-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Track 12 J. G. Ballard     infidelity (1), revenge (1), sound recording (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1)
1957-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Green Wine for Dreaming Ray Bradbury     illness (1), rural America (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), summer (1), oppressive heat (1)
1957-05-16 SHORTFICTION English Illumination Ray Bradbury     contemporary (1), childhood (1), transcendence (1)
1957-03-00 SHORTFICTION English S.R.O. Harlan Ellison     twist ending (1), contemporary (1), New York City (1), alien contact (1), show business (1), impresario (1), entrepreneur (1)
1957-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Statues Ray Bradbury     childhood (1), contemporary (1), friendship (1), loss (1)
1957-02-00 SHORTFICTION English The Cat and the Canaries Helen M. Urban     contemporary (1), first contact (1), planetary exile (1), cats (1), exile (1)
1957-04-00 SHORTFICTION English The Coffin Cure Alan E. Nourse     Librivox (1), X Minus 1 (1), side effects (1), unintended consequences (1), antibodies (1), Earth (1), only humans (1), contemporary (1), vaccine (1), common cold (1), smell (1)
1955-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Burnt Toast Mack Reynolds     fantasy (1), horror (1), demon (1), contemporary (1), twist ending (1), ironic (1), deals with the devil (1)
1955-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Harry Rosemary Timperley     horror (1), fantasy (1), ghosts (1), adoption (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), imaginary playmate (1), imaginary friend (1)
1955-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Ringing the Changes Robert Aickman     married couple (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), resurrection (1), church bells (1), vacation (1), england (1), ghosts (1)
1955-04-00 SHORTFICTION English The Canvas Bag Alan E. Nourse     contemporary (1), rootlessness (1), love (1), eternal youth (1)
1955-04-00 SHORTFICTION English The Funeral Richard Matheson     contemporary (1), supernatural (1), humor (1), funeral (1), fantasy (1), into-tv (1), Night Gallery (1)
1955-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Little Mice Ray Bradbury     Mexican immigrants (1), tenants (1), surrealism (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1)
1955-00-00 COLLECTION English The October Country Ray Bradbury     The Seven-League Shelf (1), supernatural (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1)
1955-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Telephone Mary Treadgold     messages from beyond the grave (1), infidelity (1), england (1), female protagonist (1), ghost (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1)
1955-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Tunnel Under the World Frederik Pohl     Librivox (1), Merril01 (1), X Minus 1 (1), contemporary (1), no aliens (1), robots (1), science fiction (1), brain uploading (1)
1954-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Dusty Zebra Clifford D. Simak     SF (1), contemporary (1), parallel universes (1), science fiction (1)
1954-00-00 NOVEL English I Am Legend Richard Matheson     vampires (3), horror (1), into-movie (1), zombies (1), post apocalypse (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1), epidemic (1), bacteria (1), contemporary (1), last man on Earth (1), into-radio (1), Los Angeles (1), music (1), loneliness (1), science fiction (1)
1954-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Off the Map Rex Dolphin     first person point of view (1), england (1), map (1), village (1), hiking (1), contemporary (1), legend (1), plague (1), fantasy (1)
1954-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Dwarf Ray Bradbury     horror (1), realism (1), contemporary (1), carnies (1)
1954-07-00 SHORTFICTION English The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone Ray Bradbury     contemporary (1), realism (1), first person (1), writers (1)
1954-06-01 SHORTFICTION English Touched with Fire Ray Bradbury     heat (1), soft sf (1), contemporary (1), psychology (1), into-tv (1)
1953-06-00 SHORTFICTION English Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury     reminiscence (1), transcendence (1), rural America (1), childhood (1), contemporary (1)
1953-06-00 SHORTFICTION English Flies Isaac Asimov     college reunion (1), flies (1), contemporary (1), animal psychology (1), fantasy (1), devil (1), Beelzebub (1)
1953-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Hail and Farewell Ray Bradbury     CBC Radio Workshop (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), perpetual childhood (1)
1953-01-00 SHORTFICTION English I Can't Wear White Suzanne Pickett     fantasy (1), contemporary (1), phantom hitchhiker (1), romance (1), father (1), first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1)
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