| 2010-10-07 |
NOVEL |
English |
Surface Detail |
Iain M. Banks |
|
|
genetic engineering (2), AI (1), science fiction (1), interstellar conflict (1), self-replicating nanotechnology (1), virtuality (1), megastructures (1), aliens (1), hard sf (1), FTL travel (1), virtual war (1), avatars (1)
|
| 2010-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Age of Zeus |
James Lovegrove |
|
|
alternate history (1), gods (1), contemporary (1), hard sf (1), greek pantheon (1), rebellion (1)
|
| 2006-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Derelict |
Geoffrey A. Landis |
|
|
strong female character (1), hard sf (1), juvenile (1), first person point of view (1), orbital habitats (1), hostilities (1), adolescent risk-taking (1), only humans (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 2006-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Mars Girl |
Joe Haldeman |
|
|
alien disease (1), xenophobia (1), contact with aliens (1), Mars colony (1), juvenile protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1), strong female character (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 2006-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Where the Golden Apples Grow |
Kage Baker |
|
|
hard sf (1), juvenile (1), mars (1), only humans (1), terraforming (1), social commentary (1), frontier society (1), science fiction (1), child protagonist (1)
|
| 2004-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Forty Signs of Rain |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
|
|
climate change (2), only humans (1), flood (1), storms (1), sea level rise (1), cli-fi (1), climate fiction (1), disaster (1), hard sf (1), female protagonists (1), science fiction (1), NSF (1), Washington, DC (1), near future (1), climate control (1), global warming (1), Buddhism (1), politics (1)
|
| 2001-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Chimera |
Mark W. Tiedemann |
|
|
hard sf (1), murder mystery (1), robots (1), asimov's laws (1), cyborg (1), artificial intelligence (1), extrasolar colonies (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 2000-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Coming |
Joe Haldeman |
|
|
science fiction (1), dystopia (1), social commentary (1), politics (1), near future (1), academia (1), alien visitation (1), hard sf (1), climate change (1)
|
| 2000-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Light of Other Days |
Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
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)
|
| 1997-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Time to Kill |
David Weber |
|
|
mercy (1), interstellar travel (1), war with aliens (1), morality of war (1), hard sf (1), military sf (1), war (1), artificial intelligence (1), artificial intelligence point of view (1), alien point of view (1), genocide (1)
|
| 1996-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Halo |
Karl Schroeder |
|
|
hard sf (1), interstellar warfare (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1993-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lost Legion |
S. M. Stirling |
|
|
military sf (2), war (1), Latin America (1), revolutionaries (1), strong female character (1), artificial intelligence (1), hard sf (1), guerrillas (1)
|
| 1993-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nightmare Asylum |
Steve Perry |
|
|
military sf (1), war with aliens (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), female soldier (1)
|
| 1993-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Rama Revealed |
Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee |
|
|
cosmogony (1), alien culture (1), alien artifact (1), megastarship (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), xenophobia (1)
|
| 1992-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Barnacle Bill the Spacer |
Lucius Shepard |
|
|
science fiction (1), hard sf (1), space station (1), alien animals (1), terrorism (1)
|
| 1992-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Breakups |
Harry Turtledove |
|
|
alien artifacts (1), ancient aliens (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), hard sf (1), Crab Nebula (1)
|
| 1992-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fighting Words |
Janet Kagan |
|
|
hard sf (1), aliens (1), diplomacy (1), interstellar travel (1), strong female character (1), cats (1), alien psychology (1), religious prejudice (1)
|
| 1992-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
One Man's Meat |
Lawrence Watt-Evans |
|
|
alien culture (1), robots (1), palace intrigue (1), interspecies diplomacy (1), hard sf (1), interstellar travel (1), poison (1)
|
| 1991-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Walk in the Sun |
Geoffrey A. Landis |
|
|
near future (1), hard sf (1), moon (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1991-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Fallen Angels |
Michael F. Flynn and Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle |
|
|
fandom (1), recursive sf (1), fanfic (1), near future (1), hard sf (1), social criticism (1), science fiction (1), environmentalism (1), Ice age (1), social collapse (1)
|
| 1991-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lunar Descent |
Allen Steele |
|
|
luna (1), hard sf (1), only humans (1), near future (1), science fiction (1), construction on Luna (1), striking workers (1), financial crime (1), substance abuse (1), disk jockey (1)
|
| 1991-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Garden of Rama |
Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee |
|
|
alien artifact (1), hard sf (1), social criticism (1), megastarship (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1989-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Rama II |
Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee |
|
|
alien artifact (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), megastarship (1), social criticism (1)
|
| 1984-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
bad marriages (1), alternative energy (1), thermocline (1), love (1), family (1), ships (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), hard sf (1), first person point of view (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1983-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Orion Shall Rise |
Poul Anderson |
|
|
romance (1), heroic sacrifices (1), feudalism (1), industrialism (1), Gaeans (1), betrayal (1), friendship (1), intrigue (1), international politics (1), national politics (1), hard sf (1), strong female character (1), postapocalyptic (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), Project Orion (1), solar aerostat (1), pacific islands nation (1), aerostat (1)
|
| 1978-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Avatar |
Poul Anderson |
|
|
portal-gates (1), alien artifact (1), aliens (1), hard sf (1), Tipler cylinder (1), politics (1)
|
| 1976-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
In the Hall of the Martian Kings |
John Varley |
|
|
hard sf (1), mars (1), space exploration (1), exobiology (1)
|
| 1975-06-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
Combat SF |
Gordon R. Dickson |
|
|
extrastellar travel (1), robots (1), aliens (1), combat (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1974-06-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
A Hole in Space |
Larry Niven |
|
|
detective (1), hard sf (1), teleportation (1), collection (1), cryopreservation (1), Bussard ramjets (1), Known Space (1), science essay (1), megastructures (1), memory RNA (1), science fiction (1), cryogenics (1)
|
| 1974-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Kind of Murder |
Larry Niven |
|
|
teleportation (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), murder mystery (1)
|
| 1974-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Hole Man |
Larry Niven |
|
|
alien artifact (1), black hole (1), murder mystery (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), mars (1)
|
| 1974-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club |
Larry Niven |
|
|
teleportation (1), science fiction (1), murder mystery (1), hard sf (1), flash mobs (1)
|
| 1973-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
All the Bridges Rusting |
Larry Niven |
|
|
teleportation (2), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1973-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Interlude |
George O. Smith |
|
|
interplanetary travel (1), matter transmission (1), hard sf (1), quantum physics (1)
|
| 1973-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lodestar |
Poul Anderson |
|
|
faster than light travel (1), aliens (1), hard sf (1), space traders (1), science fiction (1), FTL travel (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)
|
| 1973-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Alibi Machine |
Larry Niven |
|
|
teleportation (1), murder mystery (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1973-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Mothballed Spaceship |
Harry Harrison |
|
|
hard sf (1), artificial intelligence (1), interstellar colonization (1), space warship (1)
|
| 1971-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rammer |
Larry Niven |
|
|
memory RNA (1), Bussard ramjets (1), cryopreservation (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), memory replaced (1), cryogenics (1), body swap (1)
|
| 1970-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Horars of War |
Gene Wolfe |
|
|
hard sf (1), military (1), androids (1)
|
| 1970-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Time Piece |
Joe Haldeman |
|
|
wormholes (1), interspecies warfare (1), interstellar travel (1), hard sf (1), relativistic time dilation (1)
|
| 1969-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Brother Assassin |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
time travel (3), science fiction (2), artificial intelligence (1), war with machines (1), Human planet not earth (1), episodic (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1968-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Grendel |
Larry Niven |
|
|
hard sf (1), kidnapping (1), first person (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (1), rejuvenation (1), life in vacuum (1)
|
| 1968-04-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Neutron Star |
Larry Niven |
|
|
hard sf (1), interstellar travel (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1968-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There Is a Tide |
Larry Niven |
|
|
science fiction (1), hard sf (1), Known Space (1), alien encounter (1), neutronium (1)
|
| 1967-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fifteen Miles |
Ben Bova |
|
|
hard sf (1), only humans (1), rescue (1), exploration (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1967-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Flatlander |
Larry Niven |
|
|
hyperspace (1), matter transmission (1), hard sf (1), interstellar travel (1), antimatter (1), first person (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1), exploration (1)
|
| 1967-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ethics of Madness |
Larry Niven |
|
|
interstellar travel (1), slower than light travel (1), hydrogen ramscoop fusion drive (1), revenge (1), paranoia (1), hard sf (1), automated medical machinery (1), longevity (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Handicapped |
Larry Niven |
|
|
interstellar travel (1), first person (1), sentience (1), xenobiology (1), hard sf (1), mind control (1), telepathy (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1967-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Command |
Keith Laumer |
|
|
military hardware (1), artificial intelligence (1), hard sf (1), first person point of view (1), veteran (1), artificial intelligence point of view (1)
|
| 1967-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Soft Weapon |
Larry Niven |
|
|
hard sf (1), interstellar travel (1), war with aliens (1), alien artifacts (1), into-tv (1), force fields (1), time distortion (1), Beta Lyrae (1), time stasis (1)
|
| 1966-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Relic of the Empire |
Larry Niven |
|
|
space pirates (1), interstellar travel (1), hard sf (1), xenobiology (1), science fiction (1), revenge (1), beards (1)
|
| 1966-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
At the Core |
Larry Niven |
|
|
hyperspace (1), hard sf (1), faster than light travel (1), interstellar travel (1), first person (1), science fiction (1), FTL travel (1)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Defence Mechanism |
Vincent King |
|
|
hard sf (1), far future (1), decayed metropolis (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1966-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
In the Temple of Mars |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
hard sf (1), FTL travel (1), space war (1), war with machines (1), berserker machine (1), ship AI (1), death cult (1), mind control (1)
|
| 1966-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mr. Jester |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
hard sf (1), FTL travel (1), war with machines (1), berserker machine (1), ship AI (1), social commentary (1)
|
| 1966-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Neutron Star |
Larry Niven |
|
|
hyperspace (1), neutron star (1), hard sf (1), interstellar travel (1), first person (1), tides (1), aliens (1), Doppler effect (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Six Cubed Plus One |
Douglas R. Mason |
|
|
artificial intelligence (1), contemporary (1), hard sf (1), into-tv (1)
|
| 1966-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Face of the Deep |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
hard sf (1), berserker machine (1), war with machines (1), FTL travel (1), ship AI (1), black hole (1)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pen and the Dark |
Colin Kapp |
|
|
hard sf (1), alien visitation (1), alien artifact (1)
|
| 1965-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Masque of the Red Shift |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
hard sf (1), ship AI (1), social commentary (1), berserker machine (1), war with machines (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1965-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Patron of the Arts |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
art (1), space combat (1), artificial intelligence (1), extrastellar travel (1), hard sf (1), berserker machine (1), ship AI (1), war with machines (1)
|
| 1965-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sign of the Wolf |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
hard sf (1), ship AI (1), berserker machine (1), war with machines (1), pastoral society (1)
|
| 1965-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Stone Place |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
hard sf (1), FTL travel (1), interstellar warfare (1), war with robots (1), ship AI (1), berserker machine (1)
|
| 1965-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
What T and I Did |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
hard sf (1), FTL travel (1), interstellar travel (1), interstellar war (1), ship AI (1), berserker machine (1), war with machines (1), first person (1), split brain (1)
|
| 1964-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Men of Good Will |
Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis |
|
|
Merril10 (1), laws of physics (1), moon (1), cold war (1), hard sf (1), near future (1)
|
| 1964-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Single Combat |
Joseph Green |
|
|
Merril10 (1), hard sf (1), interstellar warfare (1), tribal culture (1)
|
| 1964-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Life Hater |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
hard sf (1), FTL travel (1), space war (1), war with machines (1), berserker machine (1), ship AI (1)
|
| 1963-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fortress Ship |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
learning algorithms (1), berserker machine (1), ship AI (1), hard sf (1), space war (1), artificial intelligence (1), alien animals (1), war with machines (1), FTL travel (1)
|
| 1963-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Goodlife |
Fred Saberhagen |
|
|
berserker machine (1), ship AI (1), space war (1), hard sf (1), war with machines (1), interstellar travel (1), FTL travel (1)
|
| 1962-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Snowbank Orbit |
Fritz Leiber |
|
|
hard sf (1), solar system travel (1), war with aliens (1)
|
| 1961-11-24 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Das Geheimnis der Zeitgruft |
Clark Darlton |
|
|
space warfare (1), science fiction (1), psychological warfare (1), war with aliens (1), FTL communication (1), FTL travel (1), hard sf (1), interstellar travel (1), humanoid aliens (1), artificial intelligence (1), Perry Rhodan (1), telepaths (1), telekinetics (1), remote viewing (1), Reptilian aliens (1), ancient technology (1), fifth dimension (1), immortality (1), psychic mutants (1)
|
| 1960-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Combat Unit |
Keith Laumer |
|
|
Merril06 (1), nonhuman point of view (1), first person point of view (1), war (1), hard sf (1), artificial intelligence (1), military sf (1), science fiction (1), artificial intelligence point of view (1), war with aliens (1)
|
| 1960-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Deadly Moon |
Fritz Leiber |
|
|
hard sf (1), global disaster (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1960-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Trouble with Tycho |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
science fiction (1), moon (1), hard sf (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1954-05-00 |
ANTHOLOGY |
English |
The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction |
Oscar J. Friend and Leo Margulies |
|
|
hard sf (1)
|
| 1953-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Scavengers |
James White |
|
|
hard sf (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), military (1)
|
| 1952-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dumb Waiter |
Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
|
|
hard sf (1), cybernetics (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1952-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Ricochet on Miza |
Gordon R. Dickson |
|
|
hard sf (1), aliens (1), hunting (1), telepathy (1)
|
| 1951-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Situation Thirty |
Frank M. Robinson |
|
|
interstellar travel (1), interspecies warfare (1), hard sf (1), psychological warfare (1)
|
| 1950-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pallas Rebellion |
Donald A. Wollheim |
|
|
interplanetary travel (1), robot rebellion (1), hard sf (1), artificial ignorance (1)
|
| 1949-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Enchantress of Venus |
Leigh Brackett |
|
|
venus (1), hard sf (1), planetary romance (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1949-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fireproof |
Hal Clement |
|
|
espionage (1), orbital military launch platforms (1), hard sf (1), near future (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1949-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hide and Seek |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
hard sf (1), interplanetary travel (1), space combat (1), first person (1), Phobos (1), science fiction (1), story within a story (1)
|
| 1948-01-10 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Black Pits of Luna |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
hard sf (1), juvenile (1), first person (1), humans only (1), luna (1), near future (1), moon (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1946-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Forgotten World |
Edmond Hamilton |
|
|
science fiction (1), interplanetary travel (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1942-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Wabbler |
Murray Leinster |
|
|
hard sf (1), artificial intelligence (1), war (1), nonhuman point of view (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1940-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sun Maker |
Jack Williamson |
|
|
hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
|
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