| 2019-04-14 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Various Pre-Apocalyptic Postcoital Scenes |
Jackie Sibblies Drury |
|
|
only women (1), 2024 (1), screenplay (1), love (1), totalitarianism (1), only Earth (1)
|
| 2018-11-11 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
What We Did for Love |
Michael Cunningham |
|
|
fantasy (1), first person point of view (1), fairy (1), love (1), poet (1), dancer (1), Montreal (1), art (1), sacrifice (1), contemporary (1), poets (1)
|
| 2015-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Taking My Time |
Eric M. Bosarge |
|
|
first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), father (1), amnesia (1), military veteran (1), domestic violence (1), love (1), only Earth (1)
|
| 2013-08-13 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Jaws of Saturn |
Laird Barron |
|
|
smoking cessation (1), Old Ones (1), hitman (1), hypnosis (1), paranormal portal (1), love (1), sorcery (1), dreams (1), Broadsword Hotel (1), horror (1)
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| 2013-10-17 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love |
Robert Shearman |
|
|
dolls (1), love (1), siblings (1), sacrifice (1), time period around WWI (1)
|
| 2013-06-28 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Good Husband |
Nathan Ballingrud |
|
|
contemporary (1), horror (1), marriage (1), depression (1), suicide (1), love (1), undead (1), decay (1)
|
| 2012-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
2312 |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
|
|
quantum computing (2), artificial intelligence (1), LGBTQ+ (1), rewilding (1), Macondo (1), love (1), androids (1), pebble mob (1), hard science (1), extended lifespan (1), interplanetary travel (1), female protagonist (1), asteroid engineering (1), ecologic disaster (1), science fiction (1), Earth (1), mystery (1), transgender (1), asteroids (1), solar system (1), terraforming (1), venus (1), Titan (1), saturn (1), Mercury (1)
|
| 2012-10-23 |
NOVEL |
English |
Beautiful Redemption |
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), supernatural (1), psychic ability (1), love (1), South Carolina (1)
|
| 2009-08-25 |
NOVEL |
English |
Blood Promise |
Richelle Mead |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), vampires (1), love (1), supernatural (1), high school (1), Siberia (1), Russian Federation (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 2008-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Graveyard Book |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
Young Adult (1), 2-award-winner (1), ghosts (1), vampires (1), Destiny (1), love (1), graveyard (1), evil cabal (1), witch (1), episodic (1), Suspense (1), growing up (1), werewolf (1)
|
| 2001-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ship of Fools |
Richard Paul Russo |
|
|
horror (2), science fiction (1), generation ship (1), exoskeleton (1), birth defect (1), alien ship (1), first contact (1), first person point of view (1), Catholicism (1), love (1)
|
| 1998-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Perchance to Dream |
Marti McKenna |
|
|
only humans (1), only Earth (1), suspended animation (1), female protagonist (1), near future (1), illness (1), love (1), death (1), motherhood (1), birthday (1)
|
| 1998-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Tamarii Notebook |
Don Webb |
|
|
interstellar travel (1), culture (1), first person point of view (1), sociology (1), love (1), anthropologist (1), war with aliens (1), Mariticide (1)
|
| 1998-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Little Sisters of Eluria |
Stephen King |
|
|
weird sisters (1), beetles (1), fantasy (1), vampires (1), Dark Tower world (1), love (1)
|
| 1996-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Kahless |
Michael Jan Friedman |
|
|
science fiction (1), intertwined stories (1), clone (1), insurrection (1), Capt. Picard (1), Klingons (1), star trek (1), love (1), legendary hero (1), Clones (1)
|
| 1996-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Memory Games |
Dale L. Sproule |
|
|
alen invasion (1), love (1), paranoia (1), body snatchers (1), memory (1)
|
| 1995-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
At the Eschaton |
Charles Sheffield |
|
|
cryopreservation (1), love (1), far future (1), no aliens (1), evolution of mankind (1)
|
| 1995-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Genesis |
Poul Anderson |
|
|
hard sf (1), science fiction (1), simulation (1), repopulaton of earth (1), lifecycle of the sun (1), avatars (1), composite minds (1), distant future (1), love (1), no aliens (1)
|
| 1994-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Unchosen Love |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), alternative family structure (1), love (1), ghosts (1), castle (1), sex (1)
|
| 1992-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mars |
Ben Bova |
|
|
mars (2), science fiction (1), near future (1), first manned mars mission (1), international politics (1), love (1), rivalry (1), hard science (1), racial conflict (1), Navaho (1)
|
| 1991-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hardware Scenario G-49 |
James Alan Gardner |
|
|
love (1), reproduction (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), virtuality (1), hardware store (1), goddess (1), knight rescues damsel in distress (1)
|
| 1991-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Lady Slings the Booze |
Spider Robinson |
|
|
polymorphous sexuality (1), humor (1), vigilantism (1), love (1), New York City (1), telepathy (1), time control (1), time travel (1), roman a cle (1), prostitution (1), private eye (1), nuclear terrorism (1)
|
| 1991-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mama Gone |
Jane Yolen |
|
|
love (1), family (1), vampire (1), strong female character (1), juvenile protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1990-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Swan's Lake |
Susan Shwartz |
|
|
kingdom by the sea (1), sorcery (1), dead prince (1), royal tutor (1), making amends (1), swans (1), graveyard (1), love (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1990-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Langoliers |
Stephen King |
|
|
into-tv (1), nature of time (1), love (1), psychotic (1), second sight (1), blindness (1), pilot (1), airliner (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), Suspense (1)
|
| 1988-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Thing Itself |
Michael Blumlein |
|
|
illness (1), death (1), love (1)
|
| 1987-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Bride's Wisdom |
Peninnah Schram |
|
|
Judaic (1), folktale (1), widowhood (1), love (1), Wedding night (1), Angel of death (1), strong female character (1), Death on wedding day (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)
|
| 1983-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
On a Pale Horse |
Piers Anthony |
|
|
parallel earth (1), fantasy (1), magic (1), contemporary (1), fate (1), love (1), Satan (1), death (1), Purgatory (1), social satire (1), magical gems (1)
|
| 1983-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The High Test |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
attack by aliens (1), black holes (1), love (1), aliens (1), spacecraft driving instructor (1), interstellar travel (1), epistolary format (1), first person point of view (1), humor (1)
|
| 1981-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Stroke of Mercy |
Parke Godwin |
|
|
first person point of view (1), duel (1), Paris (1), 1806 (1), love (1), precognition (1), Battle of Gettysburg (1), B-24 bomber (1), WWII (1), Vietnam War (1), horrors of war (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dreamstone |
C. J. Cherryh |
|
|
dreams (1), sword and sorcery (1), forest (1), love (1), music (1), barbarism (1), high fantasy (1), vengeance (1), supernatural female (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sorrows of Witches |
Margaret St. Clair |
|
|
fantasy (1), necromancy (1), queen (1), female protagonist (1), love (1), jealousy (1), sacrifice (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Woman Who Loved the Moon |
Elizabeth A. Lynn |
|
|
female protagonist (1), warrior princesses (1), moon goddess (1), love (1), enchanted cave beneath the sea (1), legend (1)
|
| 1978-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
What Dreams May Come |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
dark fantasy (1), Hell (1), afterlife (1), into-movie (1), automatic writing (1), heaven (1), suicide (1), reincarnation (1), near-death experience (1), Orpheus myth (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), found manuscript (1), love (1), family (1), metaphysics (1)
|
| 1977-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sparklebugs, Holly and Love |
Michael G. Coney |
|
|
decadent society (1), Earth (1), future (1), empathy (1), love (1), spaceship crash (1), alien fireflies (1), organ cryopreservation (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1977-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Way It Was |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
economic collapse (1), virtual reality (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), near future (1), organ harvesting (1), betrayal (1), love (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1975-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows |
Poul Anderson |
|
|
secret agents (1), telepathy (1), love (1), aliens (1), interstellar war (1), war with aliens (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1974-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Stormy Weather |
Daniel P. Dern |
|
|
female protagonist (1), alien contact (1), introversion (1), love (1), contemporary (1), psychology (1)
|
| 1974-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Descent of Man |
J. A. Lawrence |
|
|
evolution (1), love (1), brain stimulation (1), contemporary (1), tongue in cheek (1)
|
| 1974-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
We Purchased People |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
aliens (1), faster than light communications (1), remote control of humans (1), crime (1), love (1), irony (1), punishment (1)
|
| 1973-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Wind in the Door |
Madeleine L'Engle |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), female protagonist (1), humanoids (1), good and evil (1), child prodigy (1), telepathy (1), disease (1), cherubim (1), mitochondria (1), love (1), teachers (1), strong female character (1), adolescent protagonists (1), contemporary (1), family (1)
|
| 1973-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Neon |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
angels (1), love (1), fantasy (1), near future (1)
|
| 1972-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hung-Wu and the Witch's Daughter |
Robert Nye |
|
|
love (1), twist ending (1), Monkey King (1), China (1), three sons (1), daughter (1), trickery (1), evil witch (1), love's labors (1), sacrifice (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 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Mathematical Princess |
Robert Nye |
|
|
King Cole (1), love (1), strong female character (1), opposites attract (1), princess (1), shepherd (1)
|
| 1969-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Boy and His Dog |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
underground cities (1), genetic engineering (1), twist ending (1), Kansas (1), rape (1), satire (1), barbarism (1), love (1), uplift (1), alternate history (1), telepathy (1), dogs (1), mutants (1), postapocalyptic (1), sterility (1), sex (1), hunger (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1969-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
into-movie (1), family (1), love (1), synthetic life forms (1), real people (1), license to reproduce (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)
|
| 1967-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Counter-Clock World |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
time in reverse (1), science fiction (1), only humans (1), resurrection (1), police (1), love (1), philosophy (1), religion (1), Time (1), racial tension (1), near future (1), prophet (1)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
School for Ghosts |
Vida Derry and |
|
|
Mandarin China (1), haunted house (1), ghost girls (1), love (1)
|
| 1966-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Hamadryad of Ragweed |
Ed Fisher |
|
|
allergy (1), hamadryads (1), Grecian pantheon (1), Zeus (1), humor (1), love (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)
|
| 1962-08-00 |
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)
|
| 1962-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
To Lift a Ship |
Kit Reed |
|
|
strong female character (1), telekinetic flight (1), contemporary (1), love (1), betrayal (1), telepathy (1)
|
| 1961-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Of All Possible Worlds |
Rosel George Brown |
|
|
first person point of view (1), interstellar travel (1), first contact (1), alien society (1), love (1), stable society (1), minimalist society (1), habits (1), routines (1), contentment (1), oviparous (1), generational cycle (1), suicide (1), ambiguous utopia (1)
|
| 1960-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Step IV |
Rosel George Brown |
|
|
war between the sexes (1), ethics (1), only humans (1), interstellar travel (1), parthenogenesis (1), love (1), trust (1), female protagonist (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)
|
| 1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stars My Destination |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
bodily augmentation (1), Aldebaran (1), synesthesia (1), shipwreck (1), caves (1), torture (1), love (1), tattoos (1), corporate fiefdoms (1), telepathy (1), science fiction (1), interplanetary war (1), prison (1), only humans (1), space opera (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), vengeance (1), teleportation (1)
|
| 1955-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Canvas Bag |
Alan E. Nourse |
|
|
contemporary (1), rootlessness (1), love (1), eternal youth (1)
|
| 1953-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Time Is the Traitor |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
divergence (1), business (1), satire (1), love (1), cloning (1), near future (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), into-radio (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1947-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Anchor |
Jack Snow |
|
|
love (1), horror (1), ghosts (1), lake (1), moth (1)
|
| 1939-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The High Places |
Frances Garfield |
|
|
fantasy (1), air travel (1), love (1), ghosts (1), 1930s (1), first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1), United States (1), dead ex-lover (1)
|
| 1935-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
One Chance |
Ethel Helene Coen |
|
|
ship (1), love (1), horror (1), twist ending (1), quarantine (1), plague (1), new orleans (1), casket (1)
|
| 1915-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Herland |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
|
|
Librivox (1), feminist (1), Utopia (1), lesbian (1), explorers (1), parthenogenesis (1), social commentary (1), love (1), motherhood (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), world without men/women (1), women (1)
|
| 1906-01-13 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Gavon's Eve |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), moors (1), scotland (1), witches (1), love (1)
|
| 1901-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Purple Cloud |
M. P. Shiel |
|
|
weird (1), Librivox (1), religious faith (1), feral child (1), love (1), last man on Earth (1), postapocalyptic (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), manichean (1), Arctic exploration (1), near future (1), poison (1), murder (1), horror (1), morals (1)
|
| 1891-02-08 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Bottle Imp |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
|
|
wishes (1), horror (1), hawaii (1), devil (1), greed (1), despair (1), karma (1), love (1), wish fulfillment (1), demon in a bottle (1), bargain with a denon (1), non-European cultural point of view (1)
|
| 1839-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Werewolf (excerpt: chapter 39 of The Phantom Ship) |
Frederick Marryat |
|
|
fantasy (3), werewolves (2), werewolf (2), horror (1), love (1), family (1), first person point of view (1), Hartz Mountains (1)
|
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