| 2020-07-12 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Recognition |
Victor LaValle |
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ghost (1), apartment building (1), first person point of view (1), Covid-19 (1), contemporary (1), New York City (1), death (1)
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| 2018-11-11 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Muzik di Zumbi |
Akwaeke Emezi |
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music (1), freedom (1), price (1), memory (1), fantasy (1), child protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), death (1), Curacao (1), second person point of view (1), contemporary (1), dead protagonist (1)
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| 2018-11-11 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Three Women, the Bear and the Fox |
Peter Rock |
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traveler (1), death (1), memory (1), senile dementia (1), bear (1), fox (1), telephone (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), Montana (1)
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| 2015-11-03 |
NOVEL |
English |
My Diary from the Edge of the World |
Jodi Lynn Anderson |
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juvenile fantasy (1), family life (1), Automobile travel (1), mythical animals (1), supernatural (1), death (1), diaries (1)
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| 2013-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Monster Makers |
Steve Rasnic Tem |
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horror (2), death (1), parents (1), grandfather (1), children (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1)
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| 2011-10-04 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Son of Neptune |
Rick Riordan |
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monsters (1), amnesia (1), mars (1), Gorgons (1), giants (1), Gaea (1), death (1), roman mythology (1), greek mythology (1), juvenile fantasy (1), prophecies (1), military camps (1), Hera (1), Juno (1), Thanatos (1), quest (1), demigods (1)
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| 2010-03-00 |
POEM |
English |
Tommy |
Stephen King |
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1969 (1), hippies (1), death (1), homosexuality (1), funeral (1)
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| 2009-11-09 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Premium Harmony |
Stephen King |
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Convenience store (1), Jack Russell terrier (1), contemporary (1), marital strife (1), death (1), marriage (1), Maine (1)
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| 2009-11-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Bone Church |
Stephen King |
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Elephant graveyard (1), Safari (1), death (1), Sole survivor (1), Mystical vision (1)
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| 2001-12-24 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Death of Jack Hamilton |
Stephen King |
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visceral horror (1), first person (1), john dillinger (1), depression era (1), cops and robbers (1), bullet wound (1), death (1), gangrene (1)
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| 1999-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cryptonomicon |
Neal Stephenson |
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undersea cables (1), Turing (1), cryptography (1), families (1), world war ii (1), Philippines (1), gold (1), romance (1), strong female character (1), mining (1), Ronald Reagan (1), Douglas MacArthur (1), submarines (1), internet (1), nanotechnology (1), POWs (1), tech startups (1), entrepreneurs (1), computer security (1), hackers (1), Unix (1), jungle warfare (1), death (1), Manila (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), cryptology (1)
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| 1998-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Perchance to Dream |
Marti McKenna |
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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)
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| 1998-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Toxin (Condensed) |
Robin Cook and Editors of Reader's Digest |
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United States (1), contemporary (1), Slaughterhouse (1), Regulatory violation (1), death (1), FDA (1), Food poisoning (1), Investigation (1), Surgeon (1), hospital (1), daughter (1), murder (1)
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| 1993-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Parable of the Sower |
Octavia E. Butler |
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science fiction (2), 2020s (1), women (1), racism (1), post-apocalyptic (1), Fundamentalism (1), dystopian (1), apocalyptic (1), African American (1), Abuse (1), california (1), Capitalism (1), climate change (1), black protagonist (1), migrants (1), empath (1), Southern California (1), societal collapse (1), female protagonist (1), strong female character (1), first person point of view (1), death (1), loss (1), slavery (1), philosophy (1), god (1), change (1), spirituality (1), community (1)
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| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Death Dances |
Tanith Lee |
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fantasy (1), death (1), changing roles (1)
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| 1988-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Thing Itself |
Michael Blumlein |
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illness (1), death (1), love (1)
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| 1985-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Life of Death |
Clive Barker |
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death (1), disease (1)
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| 1983-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
On a Pale Horse |
Piers Anthony |
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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)
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| 1969-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Phoenix |
Harlan Ellison |
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only humans (1), only Earth (1), first person point of view (1), desert (1), twist ending (1), Atlantis (1), New York City (1), expedition (1), lost continent (1), death (1), physical mass of time (1)
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| 1968-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Worm That Flies |
Brian W. Aldiss |
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far future (1), human evolution (1), immortality (1), life's work (1), family (1), death (1), science fiction (1)
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| 1963-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pleiades |
Otis Kidwell Burger |
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Merril09 (1), female protagonists (1), aging (1), death (1), carnival midway show (1), eternal youth (1), irony (1), immortality (1), circus (1)
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| 1949-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Kaleidoscope |
Ray Bradbury |
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Dimension X (1), Suspense (1), near future (1), space travel (1), only humans (1), death (1), camaraderie (1), regret (1), science fiction (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
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| 1944-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There Was an Old Woman |
Ray Bradbury |
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contemporary (1), fantasy (1), death (1), ghosts (1)
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| 1935-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Muggridge's Aunt |
August Derleth |
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london (1), nephew (1), poor cousin (1), callousness (1), death (1), inheritance (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), lobelias (1), decor (1), dream (1)
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| 1934-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pale Man |
Julius Long |
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first person point of view (1), hotel (1), death (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), supernatural (1)
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| 1927-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Soul-Catcher |
Robert S. Carr |
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hospital (1), souls (1), doctor (1), death (1), first person point of view (1), astral travel (1), contemporary (1), irony (1)
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| 1906-03-25 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
La nuit et le silence |
Maurice Level |
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blindness (1), deaf-mutism (1), terror (1), contemporary (1), death (1), brothers (1), sister (1), premature burial (1)
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| 1881-00-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Demon of the Gibbet |
Fitz-James O'Brien |
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death (1), horse riding (1), fleeing (1)
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| 1782-00-00 |
POEM |
German |
Der Erlkönig |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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death (1), son (1), father (1), into-movie (1)
|
| date unknown |
COVERART |
English |
VALIS |
Heidi North |
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time transcendence (1), saviors (1), aliens living among us (1), ancient aliens (1), death (1), first person point of view (1), Gnosticism (1), Theology (1), autobiographical (1), multiple personality (1), schizophrenia (1), insanity (1), unreliable narrator (1), contemporary (1), psychotropic drugs (1), Richard Nixon (1)
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