| 2019-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Chasing Oumuamua |
Sean Monaghan |
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first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), family (1), mental illness (1), NASA (1), Oumuamua (1), interstellar object (1), space probe (1), engineering (1)
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| 2016-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dark Matter |
Blake Crouch |
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science fiction (1), thriller (1), quantum superposition (1), parallel universes (1), family (1), choice (1)
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| 2014-11-24 |
NOVEL |
English |
House of Robots |
Chris Grabenstein and James Patterson |
|
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juvenile sf (1), robots (1), Fifth grade (1), family (1), Inventors (1), humor (1)
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| 2013-03-01 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Fox |
Conrad Williams |
|
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guilty secret (1), fox (1), family (1), predator (1), farm (1), camping (1), first person point of view (1)
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| 2013-06-18 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Ocean at the End of the Lane |
Neil Gaiman |
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fantasy (1), cats (1), sacrifice (1), summoning (1), suicide (1), farms (1), ocean (1), first person point of view (1), strong female characters (1), magical beings (1), contemporary (1), england (1), friendship (1), family (1), childhood (1), matriarchy (1)
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| 2011-05-03 |
NOVEL |
English |
Divergent |
Veronica Roth |
|
|
young-adult sf (1), dystopia (1), into-movie (1), courage (1), family (1), identity (1), social class (1)
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| 2008-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
City of Ashes |
Cassandra Clare |
|
|
young-adult fantasy (1), Young Adult (1), New York City (1), supernatural (1), demonology (1), magic (1), female protagonist (1), family (1), demon hunter (1)
|
| 2007-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
13 O'Clock |
Mike O'Driscoll |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), family (1), nightmares (1)
|
| 2007-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lancashire |
Nicholas Royle |
|
|
contemporary (1), england (1), family (1), witchcraft (1)
|
| 2007-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Miss Ill-Kept Runt |
Glen Hirshberg |
|
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family (1), 5 year old girl point of view (1), car trip (1), contemporary (1), USA (1), horror (1), pact with evil (1)
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| 2007-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Children of Monte Rosa |
Reggie Oliver |
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|
Moonchild (1), contemporary (1), Portugal (1), expatriates (1), English (1), Aleister Crowley (1), child sacrifice (1), taxidermy (1), family (1), boy protagonist (1), puerunculus (1), horror (1)
|
| 2006-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Space Boy |
Orson Scott Card |
|
|
family (1), parallel universes (1), contemporary (1), juvenile (1), SF (1), Rumpelstiltskin (1)
|
| 2005-06-28 |
NOVEL |
English |
Scardown |
Elizabeth Bear |
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|
Hartford, CT (1), science fiction (1), military (1), first contact (1), asteroid strike (1), female protagonist (1), strong female characters (1), first person point of view (1), multiple points of view (1), alien technology (1), Canada (1), family (1), faster than light travel (1), generation ships (1), China (1), nanobots (1), artificial personalities (1), enhanced biology (1), post atomic war (1), ecological collapse (1), near future (1)
|
| 2000-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mom and Dad at the Home Front |
Sherwood Smith |
|
|
other worlds (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), family (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1)
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| 1999-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
Stephen King |
|
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horror (1), strong female characters (1), survival (1), bear (1), lost (1), forest (1), Maine (1), Appalachian Trail (1), Red Sox (1), baseball (1), female protagonist (1), preadolescent protagonist (1), family (1), divorce (1)
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| 1999-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Right Hand of Evil |
John Saul |
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horror (2), demonic possession (1), deals with the devil (1), Old family mansion (1), Mixed-race child of slave and master (1), Family Bible (1), contemporary (1), Selling soul to Devil (1), alcoholism (1), twin telepathy (1), Twin Sister and Brother (1), Catholic priest (1), voodoo (1), Demonic sacrifices (1), family (1), Small town Louisiana (1), haunted house (1)
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| 1997-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Guests |
Bentley Little |
|
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horror (1), grandmother (1), banya (1), household deity (1), Molokans (1), Arizona (1), Preteen protagonist (1), family (1), incest (1), demonic possession (1), Russian folklore (1), murder (1), native americans (1), curse (1), contemporary (1), cursed house (1)
|
| 1996-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There Is a Violence |
Sally McBride |
|
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first person point of view (1), alien artifacts (1), archaeology (1), female protagonist (1), family (1), alien psychology (1), torture (1), repatriation (1), collector (1)
|
| 1995-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Conquerors' Heritage |
Timothy Zahn |
|
|
science fiction (1), family (1), interclan politics (1), treachery (1), space war (1), life after death (1), biological telepresence (1), alien point of view (1), interstellar travel (1), alien races (1)
|
| 1993-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
To Die For |
Ed Naha |
|
|
hollywood (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), television (1), family (1)
|
| 1991-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mama Gone |
Jane Yolen |
|
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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 |
1/72nd Scale |
Ian R. MacLeod |
|
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eerie (1), plastic model airplane kit (1), england (1), contemporary (1), dead older brother (1), family (1), animated inanimate object (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Knox's 'Nga |
Avram Davidson |
|
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contemporary (1), family (1), child (1), eerie (1), transitional object (1)
|
| 1986-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lost Art of Twilight |
Thomas Ligotti |
|
|
America (1), family (1), vampires (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), Aix en Provence (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 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
only humans (1), only Earth (1), overpopulation (1), death lottery (1), desperation (1), family (1), dystopia (1)
|
| 1982-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Merchanter's Luck |
C. J. Cherryh |
|
|
space opera (2), strong female characters (1), science fiction (1), space pirates (1), trading (1), pirates (1), operating on the fringes of the law (1), intrigue (1), PTSD (1), shame (1), loyalty (1), family (1), romance (1), interstellar travel (1), family spaceship (1)
|
| 1982-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Body |
Stephen King |
|
|
young-adult horror (1), into-movie (1), contemporary (1), boys (1), Maine (1), first person point of view (1), family (1), quest (1), reminiscence (1)
|
| 1981-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Kaeti's Nights |
Keith Roberts |
|
|
humans only (1), contemporary (1), family (1), vampire (1), first person point of view (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1979-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory |
Orson Scott Card |
|
|
visceral horror (1), guilt (1), manipulation (1), child molestation (1), punishment (1), family (1), physical manifestation (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)
|
| 1974-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Time Deer |
Craig Strete |
|
|
old age (1), spirituality (1), family (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)
|
| 1969-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
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into-movie (1), family (1), love (1), synthetic life forms (1), real people (1), license to reproduce (1)
|
| 1968-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Worm That Flies |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
far future (1), human evolution (1), immortality (1), life's work (1), family (1), death (1), science fiction (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)
|
| 1962-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Question My Son Asked |
Stanley Ellin |
|
|
electrocution (1), executioner (1), family (1), laws (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)
|
| 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)
|
| 1955-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Homecoming |
J. Harvey Haggard |
|
|
mutation (1), family (1), interstellar trade (1), polymorphism (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1953-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lot |
Ward Moore |
|
|
abandonment (1), evacuation (1), disaster preparedness (1), family (1), Nuclear attack (1), contemporary (1), california (1), near future (1)
|
| 1953-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Builder |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
punch-line (1), ridicule (1), family (1), obsession (1), suburban America (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1951-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Generation of Noah |
William Tenn |
|
|
Bomb shelter (1), family (1), cold war (1)
|
| 1950-09-23 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Veldt |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
X Minus 1 (2), into-music (1), Dimension X (1), children (1), psychologist (1), lions (1), simulation (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), horror (1), near future (1), smart house (1), family (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1), Simulated reality (1), CBC Playhouse (1)
|
| 1946-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Homecoming |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
fantasy (1), monsters (1), family (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1920-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Egg |
Sherwood Anderson |
|
|
Ohio (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), chicken farm (1), restaurant (1), early 20th century (1), failure (1), desperation (1), family (1), egg (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)
|
| 1794-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Mysteries of Udolpho |
Ann Radcliffe |
|
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Librivox (1), Google Books (1), gothic romance (1), family (1), 18th century (1), France (1), italy (1), castles (1), romance (1), female protagonist (1), morality (1), polite society, (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
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