ab Hugh, Dafydd
HNom NNom | nt | 1990 | The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, a Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk |
Abbott, E A
[k] | n | 1884 | Flatland |
Abernathy, Ralph
nt | 1942 | Heritage | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[a] | nt | 1954 | Pyramid |
[a] | s | 1953 | The Rotifers |
Ackroyd, Peter
[k,Pf] | n | 1985 | Hawksmoor |
Adams, Douglas
n | Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency | ||
A subtle uchronia. Better SF than Hitchhiker — cjh | |||
[i] | n | 1979 | Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the |
Hitchhiker trilogy 1 | |||
n | 1982 | Life, the Universe, and Everything | |
Hitchhiker trilogy 3. Downhill from the first book — arl | |||
n | 1980 | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | |
Hitchhiker trilogy 2. Downhill from the first — arl |
Adams, Richard
n | 1974 | Shardik | |
Better in many ways than Watership Down — arl | |||
[Pf] | n | 1972 | Watership Down |
Aldiss, Brian W.
[g] | nt | 1962 | A Kind of Artistry |
n | An Island Called Moreau | ||
Recommended by jr | |||
n | 1969 | Barefoot in the Head | |
nf | 1973 | Billion Year Spree | |
HNom | nv | 1978 | Enemies of the System |
n | 1973 | Frankenstein Unbound | |
[Psf] | n | 1964 | Greybeard |
NNom | n | 1982 | Heliconia Spring |
n | 1993 | Heliconia Summer | |
NNom | n | 1985 | Heliconia Winter |
[f] | nt | 1961 | Hothouse |
Included in ‘The Long Afternoon of Earth’ | |||
Hugo | se | Hothouse series | |
A few Hugos were given out for a series of stories | |||
[f] | s | 1957 | Let’s Be Frank |
HNom NNom | s | 1966 | Man in His Time |
[Psf] | n | 1958 | Non-Stop |
[f] | s | 1958 | Poor Little Warrior! |
n | 1958 | Starship | |
[i,Psf] | n | 1962 | The Long Afternoon of Earth |
Includes ‘Hothouse’ | |||
[Pf] | n | 1976 | The Malacia Tapestry |
Neb | nv | 1965 | The Saliva Tree |
HNom NNom | nt | 1968 | Total Environment |
nf | Trillion Year Spree | ||
Updating of ‘Billion Year Spree’ Recommended by mh | |||
s | 1958 | Who Can Replace a Man? | |
Recommended by jam and arl |
Aldiss, Brian W. and David Wingrove
Hugo | nf | 1986 | Trillion Year Spree |
Aldiss, Brian W. and Harry Harrison
nf | 1975 | Hell’s Cartographers | |
a | The Astounding-Analog Reader |
Aldridge, Mary C.
NNom | s | 1989 | The Adinkra Cloth |
Aldridge, Ray
NNom | nt | 1991 | Gate of Faces |
NNom | nv | 1993 | The Beauty Addict |
Alexander, Lloyd
n | 1967 | Taran Wanderer | |
Part of the ‘Prydain’ series | |||
n | 1960 | The Black Cauldron | |
Part of the ‘Prydain’ series | |||
n | 1964 | The Book of Three | |
Part of the ‘Prydain’ series | |||
n | 1966 | The Castle of Llyr | |
Part of the ‘Prydain’ series | |||
n | 1968 | The High King | |
Part of the ‘Prydain’ series |
Allen, Roger Macbride
n | 1988 | Orphans of Creation | |
Recommended by eac | |||
n | 1990 | The Ring of Charon | |
A superscience story in the tradition of Campbell’s Arcot, Wade and Morey — arl |
Allen, Steve
[g] | s | 1955 | The Public Hating |
Amis, Kingsley
nf | 1960 | New Maps of Hell | |
[k,Psf] | n | 1976 | The Alteration |
[k,Pf] | n | 1969 | The Green Man |
Anderson, Chester
HNom | n | 1967 | The Butterfly Kid |
Anderson, Kevin J. and Doug Beason
NNom | n | 1992 | Assemblers of Infinity |
Anderson, Poul
nv | 1958 | A Bicycle Built for Brew | |
Also titled “The Makeshift Rocket”. Recommended by mlo. Minor — arl | |||
n | 1974 | A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows | |
n | 1961 | After Doomsday | |
Recommended by jr | |||
n | 1954 | Brain Wave | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
nt | 1959 | Brave to Be a King | |
Contained in “The Time Patrol”. Excellent — arl | |||
[c,f] | nv | 1957 | Call Me Joe |
nt | 1962 | Critique of Impure Reason | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
[f] | nt | 1955 | Delenda Est |
Incorporated in “The Time Patrol” | |||
nv | 1962 | Epilog | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
HNom | n | 1974 | Fire Time |
Hugo Neb | nt | 1972 | Goat Song |
[f] | nt | 1961 | Hiding Place |
Part of “Trader to the Stars” | |||
n | 1973 | Hrolf Kraki’s Saga | |
Hugo | nt | 1978 | Hunter’s Moon |
nt | 1992 | In Memorium | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
[f] | nv | 1962 | Kings Who Die |
NNom [g] | s | 1968 | Kyrie |
HNom | nt | 1965 | Marque and Reprisal |
Contained in “The Star Fox” | |||
n | 1974 | Midsummer Tempest, A | |
Recommended by mlo & po | |||
n | 1977 | Mirkheim | |
Hugo [f] | nt | 1963 | No Truce with Kings |
n | 1971 | Operation Chaos | |
n | 1961 | Orbit Unlimited | |
n | 1983 | Orion Shall Rise | |
HNom [i,Psf] | n | 1970 | Tau Zero |
HNom NNom | n | 1989 | The Boat of a Million Years |
[a,i,k,Pf] | n | 1954 | The Broken Sword |
Excellent fantasy — arl & mlo. Current edition substantially re-written in 70s | |||
NNom | n | 1971 | The Byworlder |
n | 1965 | The Corridors of Time | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1972 | The Dancer from Atlantis | |
A fine time-travel novel — po | |||
HNom | n | 1958 | The Enemy Stars |
Originally titled “We Have Fed Our Sea” | |||
NNom | nv | 1970 | The Fatal Fulfillment |
The Helping Hand | |||
An analysis of the effects of foreign aid — arl | |||
HNom | n | 1960 | The High Crusade |
[f] | s | 1958 | The Last of the Deliverers |
Hugo | nt | 1960 | The Longest Voyage |
[f,l] | nt | 1956 | The Man Who Came Early |
[i] | n | 1958 | The Man Who Counts |
Also titled “War of the Wing-Men” | |||
HNom NNom | n | 1973 | The People of the Wind |
Hugo Neb | nt | 1971 | The Queen of Air and Darkness |
Hugo Neb | nv | 1981 | The Saturn Game |
Hugo NNom | nt | 1968 | The Sharing of Flesh |
n | 1966 | The Star Fox | |
A fix-up novel. Not his best — arl | |||
c | 1991 | The Time Patrol | |
NNom | nt | 1979 | The Ways of Love |
HNom | n | 1972 | There Will Be Time |
[k,Pf] | n | 1962 | Three Hearts and Three Lions |
Superb fantasy — mlo & arl | |||
c | 1964 | Time and Stars | |
c | 1966 | Trader to the Stars | |
n | 1961 | Twilight World |
Anderson, Poul and F. N. Waldrop
[e] | nt | 1947 | Tomorrow’s Children |
Expanded into ‘Twilight World’. Recommended by mlo |
Anderson, Poul and Gordon R. Dickson
c | 1957 | Earthman’s Burden | |
Classic collection of humorous SF. These are the original ‘Hoka’ stories. |
Anthony, Piers
n | 1977 | A Spell for Chameleon | |
First in the interminable Xanth seris. Stop after this one — po | |||
HNom NNom | n | 1967 | Chthon |
HNom | nt | 1968 | Getting Through University |
Contained in ‘Prostho Plus’ | |||
HNom | n | 1969 | Macroscope |
Except the last 20 pages — jds | |||
n | 1968 | Omnivore | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1970 | Orn | |
Recommended by kp. Starring a *Diatryma! — po | |||
n | 1976 | Ox | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1973 | Prostho Plus | |
Recommended by kp |
Anvil, Christopher
[f] | s | 1962 | Gadget vs. Trend |
[f] | nt | 1960 | Mind Partner |
[f] | s | 1963 | Not in the Literature |
[b] | nt | 1956 | Pandora’s Planet |
The novelette, *not* the novel — mlo |
Armer, Karl Michael
[g] | nt | 1986 | On the Inside Track |
Arthur, Robert
[a,f] | s | 1941 | Evolution’s End |
[f] | s | 1940 | Postpaid to Paradise |
Ashwell, Pauline
NNom | nv | 1991 | Man Opening a Door |
Written as by ‘Paul Ash’ | |||
HNom [l] | nt | 1960 | The Lost Kafoozalum |
HNom | nt | 1958 | Unwilling to School |
Asimov, Isaac
[f] | nt | 1951 | “Breeds There a Man–“ |
[f] | s | 1957 | A Loint of Paw |
Just a bad pun — arl | |||
[a,b] | nt | 1953 | Belief |
[e,f] | nt | 1945 | Blind Alley |
One of the very few Asimov stories with intelligent aliens | |||
[a,f] | s | 1955 | Dreaming Is a Private Thing |
[f] | s | 1946 | Evidence |
[f,i] | n | 1942 | Foundation |
[i] | n | 1952 | Foundation and Empire |
Hugo NNom [i] | n | 1982 | Foundation’s Edge |
Hugo | nt | 1991 | Gold |
s | 1957 | I’m in Marsport without Hilda | |
[i] | c | 1950 | I, Robot |
A collection of the best of the Robot stories | |||
Hugo | nf | 1994 | I. Asimov |
Asimov’s autobiography. Excellent — mlo | |||
[f] | s | 1941 | Liar! |
[f] | nt | 1947 | Little Lost Robot |
[f] | s | 1950 | Misbegotten Missionary |
[b,c,d,f] | nt | 1941 | Nightfall |
[i] | n | 1950 | Pebble in the Sky |
n | 1988 | Prelude to Foundation | |
Recommended by po | |||
HNom NNom | s | 1986 | Robot Dreams |
n | 1953 | Second Foundation | |
[f] | s | 1940 | Strange Playfellow |
[f] | s | 1957 | Strikebreaker |
HNom | nt | 1974 | That Thou Art Mindful of Him |
Hugo Neb | nt | 1976 | The Bicentennial Man |
[a,i] | n | 1954 | The Caves of Steel |
One of the best SF detective stories ever written — arl | |||
HNom | nv | 1945 | The Dead Hand |
incorporated in Foundation and Empire | |||
[g] | nv | 1956 | The Dead Past |
[Psf] | n | 1955 | The End of Eternity |
[f] | s | 1958 | The Feeling of Power |
Hugo Neb | n | 1972 | The Gods Themselves |
a | 1962 | The Hugo Winners Vol 1 | |
a | 1971 | The Hugo Winners Vol 2 | |
a | 1971 | The Hugo Winners Vol 3 | |
a | 1985 | The Hugo Winners Vol 4 | |
[f,g] | s | 1956 | The Last Question |
[a,c,f] | nv | 1952 | The Martian Way |
HNom [a] | nv | 1945 | The Mule |
Incorporated in “Foundation and Empire” | |||
[i] | n | 1957 | The Naked Sun |
[f] | nt | 1949 | The Red Queen’s Race |
HNom | n | 1983 | The Robots of Dawn |
n | 1951 | The Stars Like Dust | |
nv | 1958 | The Ugly Little Boy | |
[f] | nt | 1939 | Trends |
[g] | nt | 1970 | Waterclap |
[f] | s | 1961 | What Is This Thing Called Love? |
Atheling, William
ps | Pseudonym of James Blish used for critical work |
Attanasio, A. A.
NNom | n | 1981 | Radix |
Atwood, Margaret
NNom | n | 1986 | The Handmaid’s Tale |
Bailey, Dale
NNom | nt | 1995 | The Resurrection Man’s Legacy |
Bailey, Dennis and David Bischoff
NNom | s | 1976 | Tin Woodsman |
Baker, Anton Lee
HNom | s | 1958 | They’ve Been Working On…. |
Ballard, J. G.
s | 1961 | Billennium | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[g] | s | 1963 | Cage of Sand |
[g] | nt | 1960 | Chronopolis |
[Psf] | n | 1973 | Crash |
Recommended by arl | |||
[Psf] | n | 1975 | High-Rise |
NNom | nt | 1982 | Myths of the Near Future |
[g] | s | 1971 | Prima Belladonna |
s | 1964 | Terminal Beach | |
n | 1964 | The Burning World | |
s | 1967 | The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D | |
[k,Psf] | n | 1966 | The Crystal World |
Ballard is an acquired taste which I’ve never acquired… — mlo | |||
[Pf] | n | 1987 | The Day of Creation |
[Psf] | n | 1962 | The Drownded World |
[f] | s | 1962 | The Insane Ones |
[Pf] | n | 1979 | The Unlimited Dream Company |
[f] | nt | 1960 | The Voices of Time |
Balmer, E. and Phillip Wylie
n | 1934 | After Worlds Collide | |
For completeists. A letdown from When Worlds Collide — arl & mlo | |||
[i] | n | 1932 | When Worlds Collide |
Banks, Iain
n | 1993 | Against a Dark Background | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1988 | Consider Phlebas | |
[Pf] | n | 1986 | The Bridge |
n | 1990 | The Player of Games | |
n | 1992 | Use of Weapons | |
Recommended by kp |
Banks, Raymond E.
[f] | s | 1955 | The Short Ones |
Barjavel, Rene
[a] | n | 1943 | Ashes, Ashes |
n | 1970 | The Ice People | |
Threshold of the Stars |
Barnes, John
NNom | n | 1992 | A Million Open Doors |
HNom NNom | N | 1994 | Mother of Storms |
n | 1996 | One for the Morning Glory | |
A quirky, funny, and interesting fantasy — mlo | |||
NNom | n | 1991 | Orbital Resonance |
Barrett Jr., Neal
HNom NNom | nt | 1988 | Ginny Sweethips’ Flying Circus |
n | 1971 | The Leaves of Time | |
Recommended by arl |
Barton, William
HNom | nt | 1996 | Age of Aquarius |
Bass, T. J.
NNom | n | 1971 | Half Past Human |
NNom | n | 1974 | The Godwhale |
Batchelor, John Calvin
[Psf] | n | 1983 | Birth of the People’s Republic of Antarctica |
Bates, Harry
[d] | nv | 1934 | A Matter of Size |
[a,d,f] | nt | 1940 | Farewell to the Master |
Adapted into the movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” |
Baum, L. Frank
se | Oz Series | ||
[i] | n | 1900 | The Wizard of Oz |
Baxter, Stephen
n | 1992 | The Raft | |
n | 1994 | The Ring | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
HNom | n | 1995 | The Time Ships |
Bayley, Barrington J.
[l] | s | 1965 | All the King’s Men |
Beagle, Peter S.
[Pf] | n | 1960 | Fine and Private Place, A |
n | 1986 | The Folk of the Air | |
[Pf] | n | 1968 | The Last Unicorn |
Bear, Greg
NNom | n | 1985 | Blood Music |
Hugo Neb | nt | 1983 | Blood Music |
n | 1985 | Eon | |
HNom Neb | nv | 1983 | Hardfought |
HNom Neb | n | 1993 | Moving Mars |
NNom | s | 1982 | Petra |
HNom | n | 1990 | Queen of Angels |
NNom | nt | 1989 | Sisters |
Hugo Neb [g] | s | 1986 | Tangents |
HNom NNom | n | 1987 | The Forge of God |
n | 1984 | The Infinity Concerto | |
n | 1986 | The Serpent Mage |
Beaumont, Charles
The Howling Man | |||
Recommended by sj | |||
[f] | s | 1955 | The Vanishing American |
Beerbohm, Max
s | 1920 | Enoch Soames |
Bell, M. Shayne
HNom | s | 1994 | Mrs. Lincoln’s China |
Bellairs, John
c | 1966 | St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies | |
Humor | |||
n | 1969 | The Face in the Frost | |
One of the best fantasies ever — mlo, arl |
Bellamy, Edward
n | 1897 | Looking Backward |
Benet, Stephen Vincent
s | 1937 | By the Waters of Babylon |
Benford, Gregory
HNom | nv | 1977 | A Snark in the Night |
NNom | n | 1983 | Against Infinity |
HNom NNom | nt | 1969 | Deeper Than the Darkness |
HNom NNom | s | 1975 | Doing Lennon |
[g] | s | 1982 | Exposures |
NNom | n | 1988 | Great Sky River |
HNom | nv | 1996 | Immersion |
NNom | n | 1976 | In the Ocean of Night |
NNom | nt | 1992 | Matter’s End |
NNom | nv | 1986 | Newton Sleep |
[g] | s | 1982 | Relativistic Effects |
NNom | nv | 1994 | Soon Comes Night |
NNom | nv | 1981 | Swarmer, Skimmer |
n | 1989 | Tides of Light | |
Neb [i,Psf] | n | 1980 | Timescape |
Benson, D. R.
n | 1978 | …And Having Writ |
Berryman, John
[g] | nt | 1939 | Special Flight |
Bester, Alfred
[a,d,f] | s | 1941 | Adam and No Eve |
[a,c,f] | s | 1954 | Fondly Fahrenheit |
[a] | nv | 1942 | Hell Is Forever |
[a,f] | s | 1952 | Hobson’s Choice |
[f] | s | 1950 | Oddy and Id |
[a] | s | 1951 | Of Time and Third Avenue |
NNom | nt | 1972 | The Animal Fair |
HNom | n | 1975 | The Computer Connection |
Also known by the following titles… ‘Golem 100’, “The Indian Giver”, “Minotaur in a Mushroom Maze” | |||
Hugo [a,i,Psf] | n | 1952 | The Demolished Man |
HNom | s | 1974 | The Four-Hour Fugue |
HNom [g] | s | 1958 | The Men Who Murdered Mohammed |
HNom [f,g,l] | nt | 1959 | The Pi Man |
[f] | nt | 1942 | The Push of a Finger |
[a] | nt | 1954 | The Starcomber |
[i,Psf] | n | 1956 | The Stars My Destination |
[f] | nt | 1963 | They Don’t Make Life Like They Used To |
[a,f] | nt | 1953 | Time Is the Traitor |
Bethke, Bruce
ss | 1987 | It Came from the Slushpile | |
Recommended by arl |
Bettelheim, Bruno
nf | 1976 | The Uses of Enchantment |
Bierce, Ambrose
s? | 1891 | Occurrence at Owl Creek | |
Recommended by dgg |
Biggle Jr., Lloyd
HNom | nt | 1961 | Monument |
nt | 1961 | The Still, Small Voice | |
Expanded into the novel ‘The Still, Small Voice of the Trumpets’ in 1968. | |||
[f] | nv | 1957 | The Tunesmith |
n | 1966 | Watchers of the Dark |
Binder, Eando
c | 1937 | Anton York, Immortal | |
Of historical interest only — mlo | |||
[a,f] | s | 1939 | I, Robot |
Bishop, Michael
HNom NNom | nt | 1985 | A Gift from the Graylanders |
NNom | nv | 1991 | Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana |
HNom | N | 1994 | Brittle Innings |
HNom | s | 1974 | Cathadonian Odyssey |
n | 1992 | Count Geiger’s Blues | |
HNom NNom | nv | 1973 | Death and Designation Among the Asadi |
s | 1986 | Facetti’s Tomorrow | |
NNom | nv | 1983 | Her Habiline Husband |
NNom | s | 1992 | Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats |
Neb [Psf] | n | 1982 | No Enemy But Time |
NNom | nv | 1974 | On the Street of the Serpents |
HNom | s | 1975 | Rogue Tomato |
NNom | nv | 1983 | The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis |
NNom | s | 1989 | The Ommatidium Miniatures |
HNom Neb | nt | 1981 | The Quickening |
HNom NNom | nv | 1976 | The Samurai and the Willows |
HNom NNom | nv | 1973 | The White Otters of Childhood |
nt | 1973 | The Windows in Dante’s Hell | |
n | 1988 | Unicorn Mountain | |
NNom | s | 1979 | Vernalfast Morning |
HNom | NV | 1994 | Vri de Coeur |
[Pf] | n | 1984 | Who Made Stevie Crye? |
Bisson, Terry
Hugo Neb | s | 1990 | Bears Discover Fire |
HNom | s | 1994 | Dead Man’s Curve |
HNom NNom | s | 1993 | England Underway |
NNom | nt | 1993 | Necronauts |
HNom | s | 1991 | Press Ann |
HNom | nt | 1993 | The Shadow Knows |
NNom | s | 1991 | They’re Made Out of Meat |
Bixby, Jerome
[a,c,f] | s | 1953 | It’s a *Good* Life |
A classic horror tale | |||
[a] | s | 1954 | The Holes Around Mars |
Puns, puns, puns — arl |
Blaylock, James P.
n | 1987 | Land of Dreams | |
Recommended by po | |||
NNom | s | 1985 | Paper Dragons |
[Pf] | n | 1984 | The Digging Leviathan |
Blish, James
[f] | s | 1956 | A Work of Art |
[a,g] | nt | 1954 | Beep |
NNom [k,Pf] | n | 1968 | Black Easter |
[a] | nt | 1952 | Bridge |
Incorporated into ‘Cities in Flight’ | |||
Hugo [i,Psf] | n | 1958 | Case of Conscience, A |
[a,f] | s | 1953 | Common Time |
n | 1964 | Doctor Mirabilis | |
[i] | n | 1955 | Earthman Come Home |
Part of “Cities in Flight” series | |||
[c] | nv | 1953 | Earthman Come Home |
Included in the novel of the same name | |||
s | 1966 | How Beautiful with Banners | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[a] | n | 1952 | Jack of Eagles |
[i] | n | 1962 | Life for the Stars, A |
Part of “Cities in Flight series” | |||
nf | 1970 | More Issues at Hand | |
written using pseudonym of William Atheling | |||
n | 1957 | Seedling Stars, The | |
Fixup novel | |||
[a,f] | s | 1941 | Solar Plexus |
[a,c,g] | nt | 1952 | Surface Tension |
Incorporated in a radically different version in “The Seedling Stars”. Superb — po | |||
[a] | nt | 1953 | Testament of Andros |
[a,e] | s | 1949 | The Box |
[k,Pf] | n | 1971 | The Day After Judgement |
nf | 1964 | The Issue at Hand | |
Written using pseudonym of William Atheling | |||
[i] | n | 1958 | The Triumph of Time |
Part of “Cities in Flight” series. AKA ‘A Clash of Cymbals’ | |||
[a] | nv | 1941 | There Shall Be No Darkness |
[i] | n | 1957 | They Shall Have Stars |
Part of “Cities in Flight” series | |||
[a] | s | 1941 | Tiger Ride |
[a] | s | 1955 | Watershed |
Incorporated in “The Seedling Stars” | |||
HNom | nv | 1969 | We All Die Naked |
Bloch, Robert
s | 1956 | A Way of Life | |
Minor, but funny in a fannish manner — arl | |||
[g] | s | 1955 | I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell |
Hugo | s | 1958 | That Hell-Bound Train |
s | 1951 | The Man Who Collected Poe | |
s | 1950 | The Shadow from the Steeple | |
s | 1935 | The Shambler from the Stars | |
[f] | s | 1939 | The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton |
Block, Lawrence
[f] | s | 1959 | Make a Prison |
Bond, Nelson
[a,f] | s | 1946 | Conquerer’s Island |
n | 1950 | Lancelot Biggs, Spaceman | |
A fix-up novel. Suggested by arl | |||
[f] | nt | 1939 | Pilgrimage |
Bone, J. F.
[f] | s | 1961 | A Prize for Edie |
nv | Insidekick | ||
Recommended by mlo | |||
HNom [b] | s | 1958 | Triggerman |
Borges, Jorge Luis
The Garden of the Forking Paths | |||
s | 1941 | The Library of Babel | |
[g] | s | 1941 | Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius |
NNom | s | 1975 | Utopia of a Tired Man |
Boucher, Anthony
[f] | s | 1954 | Balaam |
[f] | nv | 1942 | Barrier |
[a] | s | 1945 | Mr. Lupescu |
[d,f] | s | 1943 | Q. U. R. |
n | 1942 | Rocket to the Morgue | |
Mystery set in SF writer’s group with many recognizeable people | |||
[f] | s | 1941 | Snulbug |
[a] | nv | 1942 | The Compleat Werewolf |
[a,c,f] | s | 1951 | The Quest for Saint Aquin |
[e] | s | 1952 | The Star Dummy |
[a] | s | 1943 | They Bite |
Boulle, Pierre
n | 1963 | Planet of the Apes | |
This novel was written before the movies were made |
Bova, Ben
n | 1972 | As on a Darkling Plain | |
NNom | s | 1993 | Inspiration |
a | 1973 | SF Hall of Fame Vol 2 |
Bova, Ben and Harlan Ellison
HNom | s | 1970 | Brillo |
Brackett, Leigh
[a,f] | nt | 1943 | The Halfling |
[a] | nt | 1949 | The Lake of Gone Forever |
[Psf] | n | 1955 | The Long Tomorrow |
[k] | n | 1949 | The Sword of Rhiannon |
Classic lost Mars novel. Great! – arl | |||
[f] | nt | 1945 | The Vanishing Venusians |
[a,f] | nt | 1944 | The Veil of Astellar |
Bradbury, Ray
[Pf] | n | 1957 | Dandelion Wine |
A loose fix-up novel | |||
[a,i,Psf] | n | 1951 | Fahrenheit 451 |
Originally titled “The Fireman” | |||
[a,f] | s | 1949 | Kaleidoscope |
[a,c,f] | s | 1948 | Mars Is Heaven! |
Incorporated in “The Martian Chronicles” | |||
Something Wicked This Way Comes | |||
Recommended by jam | |||
s | 1949 | The Exiles | |
Incorporated into “The Martian Chronicles” | |||
[f] | s | 1951 | The Fire Balloons |
n | 1972 | The Halloween Tree | |
c | 1951 | The Illustrated Man | |
[i,Psf] | c | 1958 | The Martian Chronicles |
This is not a novel, but a collection of loosely-related stories | |||
[f] | s | 1946 | The Million Year Picnic |
Incorporated in “The Martian Chronicles” | |||
[f] | s | 1952 | The Pedestrian |
[f] | s | 1952 | The Sound of Thunder |
s? | 1946 | The Veldt | |
[f] | s | 1950 | There Will Come Soft Rains |
s | 1950 | Usher II | |
[f,g] | s | 1947 | Zero Hour |
Bradbury, Ray and Leigh Brackett
[f] | nv | 1946 | Lorelei of the Red Mist |
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
n | 1964 | The Bloody Sun | |
Original version, *NOT* the 1979 re-write! — po | |||
HNom | n | 1977 | The Forbidden Tower |
n | 1983 | The Mists of Avalon | |
HNom | n | 1961 | The Sword of Aldones |
[f] | nt | 1959 | The Wind People |
n | 1971 | The World Wreckers |
Bramah, Ernst
n | 1928 | Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat | |
c | 1922 | Kai Lung’s Golden Hours | |
Recommended by kp |
Brennert, Alan
Neb | s | 1991 | Ma Qui |
Bretnor, Reginald
NNom | s | 1967 | Earthwoman |
[f] | s | 1956 | The Doorstop |
s | 1950 | The Gnurrs Come From the Voodvork Out |
Breuer, Miles J.
[g] | s | 1930 | The Hungry Guinea Pig |
Brewster, Kent
NNom | s | 1995 | In the Pound, Near Breaktime |
Brin, David
HNom | n | 1995 | Brightness Reef |
HNom | n | 1990 | Earth |
HNom | n | 1993 | Glory Season |
nt | 1990 | Piecework | |
Recommended by arl | |||
Hugo Neb [i] | n | 1983 | Startide Rising |
n | 1980 | Sundiver | |
Hugo | s | 1984 | The Crystal Spheres |
HNom | s | 1988 | The Giving Plague |
HNom NNom | n | 1985 | The Postman |
nv | 1982 | The Postman | |
Incorporated in the novel of the same name | |||
n | 1984 | The Practice Effect | |
Recommended by kp | |||
Hugo NNom [i] | n | 1987 | The Uplift War |
HNom | nt | 1986 | Thor Meets Captain America |
[g] | nv | 1991 | What Continues, What Fails… |
Bringsvaerd, Tor Aage
[g] | s | 1968 | Codemus |
Broderick, Damien
[Psf] | n | 1980 | The Dreaming Dragons |
Brown, Fredric
[f] | s | 1954 | Answer |
[c,e,f] | nt | 1944 | Arena |
[f] | s | 1941 | Armageddon |
[a] | nv | 1949 | Come and Go Mad |
[a,f] | nt | 1943 | Daymare |
[f] | s | 1953 | Hall of Mirrors |
[f] | s | 1948 | Knock |
[b] | s | 1949 | Letter to a Phoenix |
[a] | n | 1954 | Martians Go Home |
Expanded from earlier novella of same name | |||
c | 1961 | Nightmares and Geezenstacks | |
HNom [f] | s | 1945 | Pi in the Sky |
[a,f] | s | 1946 | Placet Is a Crazy Place |
n | 1953 | The Lights in the Sky Are Stars | |
[d,f] | s | 1942 | The Star Mouse |
HNom [a,f] | nt | 1945 | The Waveries |
[f] | s | 1951 | The Weapon |
[i] | n | 1949 | What Mad Universe |
Expanded from shorter 1948 version |
Brown, Mary
n | 1986 | The Unlikely Ones | |
A creative fantasy — po |
Brown, Rosel George
n | 1966 | Sibyl Sue Blue | |
Recommended by arl |
Brown, Rosel George and Keith Laumer
n | 1966 | Earthblood |
Broxon, Mildred Downey
NNom | nt | 1981 | Sea Changling |
Brunner, John
HNom | nv | 1971 | Dread Empire |
Contained in “Traveller in Black” | |||
nt | 1955 | No Future in It | |
n | 1975 | Shockwave Rider | |
Hugo NNom [Psf] | n | 1968 | Stand on Zanzibar |
NNom | n | 1969 | The Jagged Orbit |
n | 1965 | The Long Result | |
NNom | n | 1972 | The Sheep Look Up |
HNom | n | 1965 | The Squares of the City |
n | 1973 | The Stone that Never Came Down | |
Suggested by cjh | |||
[f] | nt | 1963 | The Totally Rich |
c | 1966 | The Traveler in Black | |
HNom [i] | n | 1964 | The Whole Man |
n | 1969 | Times Without Number |
Brust, Steven
n | 1986 | Brokedown Palace | |
It shoulda been a contender… — po | |||
n | 1983 | Jhereg | |
n | 1991 | The Phoenix Guards | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1987 | The Sun, Moon and the Stars | |
n | 1984 | To Reign in Hell | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1984 | Yendi |
Bryant, Edward
HNom Neb [g] | s | 1979 | giANTS |
NNom | s | 1977 | Particle Theory |
NNom | s | 1973 | Shark |
HNom Neb | s | 1978 | Stone |
NNom | nt | 1980 | Strata |
NNom | s | 1976 | The Hibakusha Gallery |
HNom NNom | nt | 1981 | The Thermals of August |
Budrys, Algis
s | 1975 | A Scraping of the Bones | |
NNom | n | 1992 | Hard Landing |
[Psf] | n | 1977 | Michaelmas |
[a,f] | s | 1955 | Nobody Bothers Gus |
HNom [c,Psf] | n | 1960 | Rogue Moon |
[f] | s | 1956 | Silent Brother |
HNom | s | 1958 | The Edge of the Sea |
[a,f] | nt | 1954 | The End of Summer |
[a] | nv | 1953 | The Real People |
HNom | nv | 1975 | The Silent Eyes of Time |
[f] | s | 1961 | Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night |
HNom | n | 1958 | Who? |
Bujold, Lois McMaster
Hugo NNom | n | 1991 | Barrayar |
HNom Neb | n | 1988 | Falling Free |
Dreadful! – cjh A nice old-time Astounding-style story – jam | |||
HNom | n | 1996 | Memory |
Hugo | N | 1994 | Mirror Dance |
n | 1986 | Shards of Honor | |
Hugo Neb | nv | 1989 | The Mountains of Mourning |
Hugo | n | 1990 | The Vor Game |
NNom | nv | 1990 | Weatherman |
Incorporated into ?? |
Bulgakov, Mikhail
n | 1966 | The Master and Margarita |
Bull, Emma
HNom NNom | n | 1991 | Bone Dance |
n | 1994 | Finder | |
Recommended by po & mlo | |||
nt | 1992 | Silver or Gold | |
n | 1987 | War for the Oaks | |
Perfect — po |
Bulychev, Kirill
[g] | s | 1977 | I Was First to Find You |
Bunch, David R.
n | 1971 | Moderan | |
A collection of the Moderan stories. Recommended by arl |
Burford, Lolah
n | 1972 | The Vision of Stephen | |
Recommended by arl |
Burger, Donys
n | 1965 | Sphereland | |
Recommended by po |
Burgess, Anthony
[i,Psf] | n | 1962 | A Clockwork Orange |
Novel was written before the movie was made | |||
n | 1982 | The End of the World News | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[g] | s | 1964 | The Muse |
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
n | 1930 | A Fighting Man of Mars | |
n | 1922 | At the Earth’s Core | |
n | 1941 | Llana of Gathol | |
Minor — arl | |||
n | Out of Time’s Abyss | ||
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1923 | Pellucidar | |
[i,k] | n | 1912 | Princess of Mars, A |
HNom | nt | 1963 | Savage Pellucidar |
n | 1935 | Swords of Mars | |
n | 1933 | Tarzan and the Lion Men | |
Excellent ending with Tarzan in Hollywood — arl | |||
n | 1930 | Tarzan at the Earth’s Core | |
[k] | n | 1912 | Tarzan of the Apes |
Seminal — arl | |||
n | 1922 | The Chessmen of Mars | |
n | 1912 | The Gods of Mars | |
n | 1918 | The Land That Time Forgot | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1928 | The Master Mind of Mars | |
Brain transplants galore — arl | |||
n | The People that Time Forgot | ||
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1913 | The Return of Tarzan | |
n | 1939 | The Synthetic Men of Mars | |
n | 1914 | The Warlord of Mars | |
n | 1916 | Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
Burroughs, William S.
[Pf] | n | 1981 | Cities of the Red Night |
[Psf] | n | 1964 | Nova Express |
Burstein, Michael A.
HNom | s | 1995 | TeleAbsence |
Butler, Octavia
Hugo Neb | nt | 1984 | Bloodchild |
n | 1984 | Clay’s Ark | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1979 | Kindred | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1977 | Mind of My Mind | |
Recommended by po | |||
NNom | n | 1993 | Parable of the Sower |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1976 | Patternmaster | |
Hugo | s | 1983 | Speech Sounds |
NNom | nt | 1987 | The Evening and the Morning and the Night |
[Psf] | n | 1980 | The Wild Seed |
Recommended by po |
Butler, Samuel
n | Erewhon | ||
Another one of those ‘classics’ — po |
Cabell, James Branch
n | 1919 | Jurgen | |
Quite controversial in its day, but hopelessly dateed today — it’s adolescent giggling at sex — mlo |
Cadigan, Pat
HNom NNom | s | 1987 | Angel |
HNom | nt | 1991 | Dispatches from the Revolution |
HNom NNom | nv | 1990 | Fool to Believe |
Incorporated into “Fools” | |||
NNom | s | 1986 | Pretty Boy Crossover |
NNom | n | 1991 | Synners |
NNom | s | 1990 | The Power and the Passion |
HNom | nt | 1992 | True Faces |
Cady, Jack
HNom Neb | nv | 1993 | The Night We Buried Road Dog |
Calvino, Italo
[g] | s | 1968 | A Sign in Space |
[g] | s | 1968 | The Spiral |
Campbell, John W.
ps | See also pseudonym Don A. Stuart | ||
a | 1934 | Atomic Power | |
Written as by ‘Don A. Stuart’ | |||
[g] | s | 1934 | Atomic Power |
Written under the pseudonym of ‘Don A. Stuart’ | |||
s | 1935 | Blindness | |
Written as by “Don A. Stuart” | |||
[a,f] | nv | 1939 | Cloak of Aesir |
Written as by “Don A. Stuart” | |||
[a] | nt | 1938 | Dead Knowledge |
[d,g] | nt | 1937 | Forgetfulness |
Written as by “Don A. Stuart” | |||
n | 1961 | Invaders from the Infinite | |
Classic super science. Arcot-Wade-Morey #3 | |||
n | 1956 | Islands of Space | |
Classic super science. Arcot-Wade-Morey #2 | |||
s | 1935 | Night | |
Recommended by arl | |||
a | 1962 | Prologue to Analog | |
Excellent collection of SF from Astounding from the 50’s | |||
a | 1952 | The ASF Anthology | |
n | 1953 | The Black Star Passes | |
Classic super science. Arcot-Wade-Morey #1 | |||
n | 1935 | The Mightiest Machine | |
The ultimate super-science novel of the 30’s | |||
n | 1951 | The Moon Is Hell | |
Not very good — mlo | |||
[c] | s | 1934 | Twilight |
Written as by “Don A. Stuart” | |||
[c,d] | nv | 1938 | Who Goes There? |
“Possibly the best SF story ever written.” — Isaac Asimov |
Campbell, Ramsey
ss | 1989 | Meeting the Author | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[Pf] | n | 1986 | The Hungry Moon |
Capek, Karl
[i] | n | 1920 | R. U. R. |
The original robot story and the source of the word ‘robot’. | |||
[i] | n | 1936 | War with the Newts |
An sf analogy to WW II. |
Card, Orson Scott
HNom | nt | 1989 | Dogwalker |
Hugo Neb [i] | n | 1985 | Ender’s Game |
nt | 1977 | Ender’s Game | |
Expanded into the Hugo-winning novel of the same name | |||
Hugo | nv | 1987 | Eye for Eye |
n | 1983 | Hart’s Hope | |
Really strange fantasy — po | |||
HNom NNom | nt | 1986 | Hatrack River |
Incorporated in “Seventh Son” | |||
HNom NNom | s | 1989 | Lost Boys |
HNom NNom | nt | 1978 | Mikal’s Songbird |
HNom NNom | n | 1989 | Prentice Alvin |
HNom NNom | n | 1988 | Red Prophet |
HNom | n | 1987 | Seventh Son |
HNom | nv | 1979 | Songhouse |
Hugo Neb | n | 1986 | Speaker for the Dead |
HNom NNom | nt | 1985 | The Fringe |
nv | 1990 | The Originist | |
The best Foundation story ever written, Asimov’s included. It keeps Asimov’s feel and is much better written — mlo | |||
HNom NNom | s | 1979 | Unaccompanied Sonata |
n | 1987 | Wyrms | |
Minor — kp. Seriously underrated — po | |||
HNom | n | 1991 | Xenocide |
Carlson, William K.
NNom | nv | 1975 | Sunrise West |
Carr, John Dickson
[a,k] | n | 1951 | The Devil in Velvet |
Time travel, mystery & romance |
Carr, Terry
s | Best of the Year anthologies | ||
His whole series of Best of the Year books, both with DAW and lone, is excellent — mlo | |||
NNom | n | 1976 | Cirque |
HNom NNom | s | 1968 | The Dance of the Changer and the Three |
Carrere, Emmanuel
n | 1990 | Gothic Romance | |
Excellent and unjustly neglected — arl |
Carrington, Grant
NNom | nt | 1976 | His Hour Upon the Stage |
Carroll, Jonathan
n | 1987 | Bones of the Moon | |
[Pf] | n | 1980 | Land of Laughs |
HNom | nv | 1992 | Uh-Oh City |
Carroll, Lewis
[i,k] | n | 1865 | Alice in Wonderland |
[i,k] | n | 1871 | Through the Looking Glass |
Carter, Angela
[Psf] | n | 1969 | Heroes and Villains |
[Pf] | n | 1984 | Nights at the Circus |
[k,Pf] | n | 1972 | The Infernal Desire Machine of Dr. Hoffman |
[Pf] | n | 1977 | The Passion of New Eve |
Carter, Paul A.
[f] | nt | 1946 | The Last Objective |
Cartmill, Cleve
[f] | nt | 1944 | Deadline |
A definitive (and nearly the only) example of SF’s predictive abilities — mlo | |||
[d] | s | 1942 | The Link |
Chambers, Robert W.
n | 1895 | The King in Yellow | |
Became a cult book in the Chthulu Mythos! |
Chandler, A. Bertram
se | Commodore Grimes series | ||
HNom [a,f] | nv | 1945 | Giant Killer |
[f] | s | 1957 | The Cage |
nt | 1969 | The Kinsolving’s Planet Irregulars |
Chant, Joy
[Pf] | n | 1970 | Red Moon and Black Mountain |
n | 1977 | The Grey Mane of Morning |
Chappell, Fred
ss | 1991 | The Somewhere Doors | |
Recommended by arl |
Charnas, Suzy McKee
HNom | nt | 1996 | Beauty and the Opera or the Phanton Beast |
Hugo NNom | s | 1989 | Boobs |
NNom | nt | 1986 | Listening to Brahms |
n | 1978 | Motherlines | |
Recommended by arl | |||
NNom [Pf] | n | 1981 | The Vampire Tapestry |
Neb | nv | 1980 | Unicorn Tapestry |
[Psf] | n | 1974 | Walk to the End of the World |
Cherryh, C. J.
n | 1976 | Brothers of Earth | |
Hugo NNom | s | 1978 | Cassandra |
n | 1986 | Chanur’s Homecoming | |
HNom | n | 1985 | Cuckoo’s Egg |
Hugo | n | 1988 | Cyteen |
Hugo | n | 1981 | Downbelow Station |
n | 1991 | Heavy Time | |
Recommended by cjh | |||
n | 1982 | Merchanter’s Luck | |
After reading this book, ‘Downbelow Station’ make sense — po | |||
n | 1980 | Serpent’s Reach | |
Recommended by kp | |||
HNom NNom | n | 1978 | The Faded Sun: Kesrith |
n | 1978 | The Faded Sun: Shon’jir | |
The best of that series — po | |||
n | 1985 | The Kif Strike Back | |
Recommended by cjh The other volumes in series are Chanur’s Venture and Chanur’s Homecoming. | |||
HNom | n | 1982 | The Pride of Chanur |
HNom | nv | 1985 | The Scapegoat |
n | Tripoint | ||
Do you know the *whole* story? — cjh |
Chiang, Ted
HNom Neb | nt | 1990 | Tower of Babylon |
HNom | nt | 1991 | Understand |
Chilson, Robert
n | 1989 | Men Like Rats | |
Recommended by po |
Christopher, John
n | 1971 | Beyond the Burning Lands | |
2nd in ‘Prince in Waiting’ series. Recommended by po | |||
[Psf] | n | 1956 | No Blade of Grass |
AKA ‘The Death of Grass’ | |||
n | 1970 | Prince in Waiting | |
First in series. Recommended by po | |||
n | 1967 | The City of Gold and Lead | |
Part of the Tripods series. Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1968 | The Pool of Fire | |
Part of the Tripods series. Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1972 | The Sword of the Spirits | |
3rd in ‘Prince in Waiting’ series. Recommended by po | |||
n | 1967 | The White Mountains | |
Part of the Tripods series. Recommended by kp |
Clark, John D.
s | 1937 | Minus Planet | |
Not great, but the first SF story to eal with anti-matter — arl |
Clarke, Arthur C.
s | 1951 | “If I Forget Thee, O Earth…” | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | |
HNom | n | 1982 | 2010: Odyssey two |
HNom | n | 1962 | A Fall of Moondust |
HNom Neb [g] | nv | 1971 | A Meeting with Medusa |
[a,i] | n | 1948 | Against the Fall of Night |
Rewritten as ‘The City and the Stars’ | |||
s | 1961 | Before Eden | |
[a,i,Psf] | n | 1953 | Childhood’s End |
Good, but overrated — mlo | |||
[f] | s | 1961 | Death and the Senator |
n | 1955 | Earthlight | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
s | 1953 | Encounter at Dawn | |
[e,f] | s | 1949 | History Lesson |
[f] | s | 1960 | I Remember Babylon |
A prediction story which is coming true, but completely reversed! | |||
nt | 1953 | Jupiter V | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
[e] | s | 1946 | Loophole |
Hugo Neb | n | 1973 | Rendezvous With Rama |
[e,f] | s | 1946 | Rescue Party |
n | 1951 | Sands of Mars | |
s | 1951 | Second Dawn | |
j | |||
[f] | nt | 1951 | Superiority |
[f] | s | 1946 | Technical Error |
[i,Psf] | n | 1956 | The City and the Stars |
Major re-write of ‘Against the Fall of Night’ and greatly improved. Clarke’s best, in my opinion — mlo | |||
[a,f] | s | 1954 | The Deep Range |
Expanded into novel of same name | |||
[f] | s | 1947 | The Fires Within |
s | 1953 | The Forgotten Enemy | |
Hugo Neb | n | 1979 | The Fountains of Paradise |
[g] | s | 1965 | The Longest Science Fiction Story Ever Told |
[c,f] | s | 1953 | The Nine Billion Names of God |
nv | 1950 | The Road to the Sea | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
s | 1951 | The Sentinel | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
nt | 1957 | The Songs of Distant Earth | |
Later expanded into a novel of the same name | |||
Hugo [f,g] | s | 1955 | The Star |
nt | 1949 | The Wall of Darkness | |
s | 1952 | Time’s Arrow | |
s | 1949 | Transcience | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
[g] | s | 1971 | Transit of Earth |
Clayton, Jo
n | 1986 | Skeen’s Leap | |
n | 1986 | Skeen’s Return | |
n | 1987 | Skeen’s Search |
Clement, Hal
n | 1958 | Close to Critical | |
n | 1957 | Cycle of Fire | |
Recommended by kp | |||
nt | 1952 | Halo | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[f] | nt | 1963 | Hot Planet |
n | 1953 | Iceworld | |
[i,Psf] | n | 1953 | Mission of Gravity |
The best hard SF novel ever written. — mlo, arl | |||
[a,i] | n | 1949 | Needle |
[a,f,g] | s | 1942 | Proof |
HNom | n | 1970 | Star Light |
Hugo | s | 1945 | Uncommon Sense |
One of the best SF problem stories ever written — mlo |
Clifton, Mark
[f] | nv | 1956 | Clerical Error |
[f] | s | 1962 | Hang Head, Vandal! |
[a] | nt | 1955 | Sense from Thought Divide |
[a] | nt | 1952 | Star Bright |
[a,f] | s | 1952 | What Have I Done? |
[f] | nt | 1959 | What Now Little Man? |
Clingerman, Mildred
[a] | s | 1955 | Birds Can’t Count |
[f] | s | 1954 | Letters from Laura |
[a] | s | 1952 | Minister Without Portfolio |
Clute, John
Hugo | nf | 1995 | Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia |
Clute, John and Peter Nicholls
Hugo | nf | 1993 | The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |
Cogswell, Theodore
nf | 1993 | PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies | |
A collected fanzine of the best writers of the 50s |
Cogswell, Theodore R.
HNom | nf | 1993 | PITFCS: The Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies |
A reprinting of a classic 50’s professional fanzine | |||
[a,c] | nv | 1952 | The Spectre General |
Super! — arl | |||
[a,f] | nt | 1953 | The Wall Around the World |
Cole, E. B.
n | 1961 | The Philosophical Corps | |
A fix-up novel |
Compton, D. G.
NNom | n | 1970 | The Steel Crocodile |
n | 1974 | The Unsleeping Eye | |
Recommended by arl |
Coney, Michael
n | 1982 | Cat Karina | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1984 | Gods of the Greataway | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1975 | Jaws that Bite, the Claws that Catch | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1989 | King of the Sceptered Isle | |
Recommended by po | |||
NNom | nt | 1995 | Tea and Hamsters |
n | 1973 | The Hero of Downways | |
Recommended by po |
- Conklin, Groff
- Groff Conklin was the first great anthologist of the field, and his anthologies, particularly the earlier ones, are nearly definitive collections of the great short SF of the time. — mlo
Many anthologies… |
Conner, Mike
Neb | nt | 1991 | Guide Dog |
Cooper, Edmund
n | 1958 | Deadly Image | |
Recommended by arl | |||
n | 1969 | Sea-Horse in the Sky | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1972 | The Overman Culture | |
Recommended by po |
Cooper, Susan
n | 1974 | Greenwitch | |
n | 1965 | Over Sea, Under Stone | |
n | 1977 | Silver on the Tree | |
n | 1973 | The Dark is Rising | |
n | 1975 | The Grey King |
Coppel, Alfred
n | 1960 | Dark December | |
Recommended by po |
Coupling, J. J.
ps | Pseudonym of John R. Pierce | ||
[a,f] | s | 1948 | Period Piece |
Cowper, Richard
HNom NNom | nv | 1976 | Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
HNom | nv | 1975 | The Custodians |
NNom | n | 1979 | The Road to Corlay |
n | 1974 | The Twilight of Briareus | |
Recommended by po |
Crook, Compton
ps | See pseudonym Stephen Tall |
Crowley, John
[Pf] | n | 1987 | Aegypt |
[i,Psf] | n | 1979 | Engine Summer |
HNom | s | 1996 | Gone |
NNom | nv | 1989 | Great Work of Time |
HNom NNom [i,Pf] | n | 1981 | Little, Big |
HNom NNom | s | 1985 | Snow |
Cummings, Ray
n | 1922 | The Girl in the Golden Atom | |
The original each-atom-is-a-solar-system story |
Curtis, Betsy
HNom | s | 1968 | The Steiger Effect |
Daley, Brian
n | 1983 | A Tapestry of Magics | |
Recommended by po |
Daniel, Tony
HNom | s | 1995 | Life on the Moon |
Dann, Jack
NNom | s | 1978 | A Quiet Revolution for Death |
NNom | nv | 1981 | Amnesia |
NNom | nt | 1984 | Bad Medicine |
NNom | nt | 1983 | Blind Shemmy |
NNom | nt | 1979 | Camps |
Neb | nv | 1995 | Da Vinci Rising |
NNom | s | 1981 | Going Under |
NNom | nv | 1973 | Junction |
NNom | n | 1984 | The Man Who Melted |
Davidson, Avram
nf | 1993 | Adventures in Unhistory | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
NNom | nv | 1966 | Clash of the Star Kings |
NNom | nv | 1983 | Eszterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention |
Hugo [f] | s | 1957 | Or All the Seas with Oysters |
[g] | s | 1955 | The Golem |
[Pf] | n | 1969 | The Phoenix and the Mirror |
[l] | nt | 1961 | The Sources of the Nile |
NNom | nv | 1980 | There Beneath the Silky Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me |
NNom | n | 1987 | Vergil in Averno |
NNom | nv | 1984 | Young Doctor Esterhazy |
Davidson, Avram and Ward Moore
n | 1971 | Joyleg |
Davis, Chan
[f] | s | 1959 | Adrift on the Policy Level |
[f] | s | 1947 | Letter to Ellen |
de Camp, L. Sprague
a | 1958 | An Elephant for Aristotle | |
Actually, this is historical fiction | |||
s | 1958 | Aristotle and the Gun | |
[a] | nv | 1949 | Cosmic Manhunt |
nv | 1939 | Divide and Rule | |
s | 1956 | Gun for Dinosaur, A | |
[e] | s | 1938 | Hyperpilosity |
Funny but minor — arl | |||
[a] | s | 1955 | Judgment Day |
[a] | n | 1941 | Land of Unreason |
[a,i] | n | 1939 | Lest Darkness Fall |
[a] | s | 1939 | Nothing in the Rules |
[d,f] | nt | 1939 | The Blue Giraffe |
[a] | nv | 1951 | The Continent Makers |
[b,f] | s | 1940 | The Exalted |
[a,f] | s | 1939 | The Gnarly Man |
n | 1968 | The Goblin Tower | |
[a] | n | 1950 | The Hand of Zei |
[k] | n | 1951 | The Tritonian Ring |
[a] | n | 1942 | The Undesired Princess |
[f] | s | 1940 | The Warrior Race |
[a] | nv | 1940 | The Wheels of If |
Hugo | nf | 1996 | Time and Chance |
de Camp, L. Sprague and Fletcher Pratt
[a,Pf] | n | 1941 | Castle of Iron |
[a,k] | n | 1941 | Land of Unreason |
[a,i] | n | 1940 | The Incomplete Enchanter |
A collection of the first 3 ‘Enchanter’ stories | |||
n | 1953 | The Wall of Serpents |
de Lint, Charles
n | 1987 | Jack the Giant Killer | |
Recommended by cjh | |||
n | 1984 | Moonheart | |
n | 1989 | Svaha | |
Cyberpunkish fantasy — po | |||
n | 1991 | The Little Country | |
n | 1986 | Yarrow |
Dean, Pamela
n | 1991 | Tam Lin | |
Superior fantasy transposition — dms |
del Rey, Lester
[a] | s | 1951 | …And It Comes Out Here |
[a,f] | s | 1940 | Dark Mission |
[a,f] | s | 1939 | Day Is Done |
[a] | nv | 1954 | For I Am a Jealous People! |
Humanity vs. God! — arl | |||
[c] | s | 1938 | Helen O’Loy |
[f] | s | 1941 | Hereafter, Inc. |
[a,e] | s | 1952 | Instinct |
HNom [a,f] | nt | 1945 | Into Thy Hands |
[f] | s | 1944 | Kindness |
[c,d,f,i] | n | 1942 | Nerves |
[b] | s | 1949 | Over the Top |
[a,f] | s | 1942 | The Wings of Night |
nv | 1951 | Wind Between the Worlds | |
Good! — arl |
Delaney, Joseph H.
HNom | nv | 1982 | Brainchild |
HNom | nv | 1983 | In the Face of My Enemy |
Delany, Samuel R.
HNom [g] | s | 1967 | Aye, and Gomorrah |
HNom Neb | n | 1966 | Babel-17 |
NNom | n | 1975 | Dhalgren |
The most famous unread novel in the field — mlo | |||
NNom | s | 1967 | Driftglass |
HNom NNom | nv | 1968 | Lines of Power |
HNom [i,Psf] | n | 1968 | Nova |
Old-time space opera by one of SF’s major stylists — arl | |||
HNom | nt | 1977 | Prismatica |
[i] | n | Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand | |
n | 1965 | The Ballad of Beta-2 | |
An underrated piece — po | |||
HNom Neb | n | 1967 | The Einstein Intersection |
Hugo | nf | 1988 | The Motion of Light in Water |
HNom | nv | 1967 | The Star-Pit |
NNom | nv | 1979 | The Tale of Gorgik |
Hugo Neb | nt | 1969 | Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones |
NNom | n | 1976 | Triton |
Denton, Bradley
HNom NNom | nv | 1988 | The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians |
HNom NNom | nv | 1992 | The Territory |
Deutsch, A. J.
[a,e,f] | s | 1950 | A Subway Named Mobius |
Di Filippo, Paul
s | 1993 | Campbell’s World | |
A bit of a gimmick story, but enjoyable — mlo | |||
NNom | s | 1987 | Kid Charlemagne |
NNom | s | 1992 | Lennon Spex |
DiChario, Nicholas A.
HNom | s | 1992 | The Winterberry |
Dick, Philip K.
[a] | nt | 1955 | Autofac |
[a] | s | 1952 | Beyond Lies the Wub |
[f] | s | 1955 | Captive Market |
n | 1975 | Confessions of a Crap Artist | |
Not SF | |||
NNom [Psf] | n | 1968 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep |
[Psf] | n | 1965 | Dr. Bloodmoney |
[i] | n | Eye in the Sky | |
HNom | nt | 1967 | Faith of Our Fathers |
HNom NNom | n | 1974 | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said |
[a] | s | 1954 | Foster, You’re Dead |
[f] | s | 1963 | If There Were No Benny Cemoli |
[a,f] | s | 1953 | Imposter |
[i,Psf] | n | 1964 | Martian Time Slip |
[a,g] | nt | 1953 | Second Variety |
[l] | s | 1963 | Stand-by |
[a,f] | s | 1954 | The Father-Thing |
[a] | nt | 1954 | The Golden Man |
[g] | s | 1953 | The Indefatigable Frog |
Hugo [i,Psf] | n | 1962 | The Man in the High Castle |
One of the best alternate histories — arl | |||
NNom | n | 1982 | The Transmigration of Timothy Archer |
s | 1964 | The Waterspider | |
[Psf] | n | 1965 | Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch |
Not to everyone’s taste — mlo | |||
[Psf] | n | 1959 | Time Out of Joint |
n | 1969 | Ubik | |
nv | 1966 | We Can Remember It for You Wholesale |
Dickens, Charles
[k] | nv | 1843 | A Christmas Carol |
Dickson, Gordon R.
[a,f] | s | 1954 | Black Charlie |
HNom Neb | nt | 1966 | Call Him Lord |
[g] | s | 1964 | Dolphin’s Way |
HNom [i] | c | 1959 | Dorsai! |
Also titled “The Genetic General” | |||
HNom | nt | 1970 | Jean Dupres |
Hugo NNom | nv | 1980 | Lost Dorsai |
[f] | nt | 1962 | Roofs of Silver |
n | 1971 | Sleepwalker’s World | |
Recommended by po | |||
Hugo [i] | nt | 1964 | Soldier, Ask Not |
nt | 1984 | Steel Brother | |
Hugo | nt | 1980 | The Cloak and the Staff |
Incorporated into ‘The Way of the Pilgrim’ | |||
[Pf] | n | 1976 | The Dragon and the George |
n | 1985 | The Final Encyclopedia | |
[i] | n | 1970 | The Tactics of Mistake |
n | 1987 | The Way of the Pilgrim | |
Recommended by jr | |||
HNom | n | 1977 | Time Storm |
n | 1968 | Wolfling |
Disch, Thomas M.
NNom [Psf] | n | 1974 | 334 |
[g] | s | 1974 | Angouleme |
NNom | nt | 1970 | Asian Shores |
[i,Psf] | n | 1968 | Camp Concentration |
[l] | s | 1964 | Now is Forever |
HNom NNom [i,Psf] | n | 1979 | On Wings of Song |
nt | 1967 | Problems of Creativeness | |
Origin of 334, recommended by arl | |||
HNom NNom | nv | 1980 | The Brave Little Toaster |
[k,Pf] | n | 1984 | The Businessman |
HNom | nt | 1978 | The Man Who Had No Idea |
NNom | nt | 1982 | Understanding Human Behavior |
NNom | s | 1988 | Voices of the Kill |
- Donaldson, Stephen R.
- “I recommend the Gap series. The first book is very nasty. The others are also nasty, but not quite to the degree of the first. However, despite this (maybe in some ways because of this) they are very good. They are also very imaginative. Sort of a dark space opera, in which all the characters should have been drowned at birth.” — jam
n | A Dark and Hungry God Arises | ||
Gap#3 | |||
[Pf] | n | 1977 | Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever |
A rotten series — mlo I liked it — jam | |||
nv | 1984 | Daughter of Regals | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | Forbidden Knowledge | ||
Gap#2 | |||
n | The Real Story: The Gap Into Knowledge | ||
Gap#1 |
Doyle, Arthur Conan
[k] | n | 1912 | The Lost World |
n | 1913 | The Poison Belt |
- Dozois, Gardner
- Gardner Dozois is probably the best modern editor of SF. His Best of the Year books are probably the definities post-Carr series.
NNom | s | 1970 | A Dream at Noonday |
HNom NNom | nt | 1972 | A Kingdom by the Sea |
HNom NNom | nv | 1971 | A Special Kind of Morning |
HNom NNom | nv | 1973 | Chains of the Sea |
s? | Descending | ||
Recommended by dgg | |||
NNom | s | 1981 | Disciples |
NNom | s | 1971 | Horse of Air |
Neb | s | 1984 | Morning Child |
HNom NNom | nv | 1974 | Strangers |
HNom NNom | s | 1983 | The Peacemaker |
Dozois, Gardner, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
NNom | s | 1985 | The Gods of Mars |
Duane, Diane
n | 1983 | So You Want to Be a Wizard | |
Pleasant YA — po | |||
n | 1979 | The Door into Fire |
Dunsany, Lord
c | 1972 | Beyond the Fields We Know | |
n | 1922 | Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley | |
c | 1959 | Gods, Men and Ghosts | |
Late collection which includes most of the Pegana stories | |||
n | 1926 | The Charwoman’s Shadow | |
[i,k] | n | 1924 | The King of Elfland’s Daughter |
Duntemann, Jeff
HNom | s | 1980 | Cold Hands |
HNom | s | 1980 | Guardian |
Dyer, S. N.
NNom | nt | 1992 | The July Ward |
Eager, Edward
[i] | n | 1954 | Half Magic |
n | 1956 | Knight’s Castle | |
Fine YA fantasy — po |
Eddings, David
n | 1982 | Pawn of Prophecy | |
First of looong series after which they start to degrade — po |
Eddison, E. R.
[a] | n | 1941 | A Fish Dinner in Memison |
Widely held to be unreadable — mlo & kp | |||
n | Mistress of Mistresses | ||
Recommended by jam | |||
[k] | n | 1926 | Worm Ouroboros |
Edmondson, G. C.
n | 1981 | To Sail the Century Sea | |
Recommended by arl |
Edwards, Dolton
[b,f] | s | 1946 | Meihem in ce Klasrum |
Effinger, George Alec
HNom | n | 1989 | A Fire in the Sun |
HNom | s | 1971 | All the Last Wars at Once |
HNom | nt | 1989 | Everything But Honor |
NNom | nv | 1989 | Marid Changes His Mind |
Hugo Neb | nt | 1988 | Schrodinger’s Kitten |
NNom | s | 1984 | The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean *Everything* |
HNom | nt | 1973 | The City on the Sand |
s | 1979 | The Pinch Hitters | |
Recommended by arl | |||
NNom | n | 1972 | What Entropy Means to Me |
HNom NNom | n | 1987 | When Gravity Fails |
Egan, Greg
HNom | nt | 1994 | Cocoon |
HNom | nt | 1995 | Luminous |
HNom | nt | 1995 | Tap |
Eisenstein, Phyllis
HNom NNom | nv | 1981 | In the Western Tradition |
HNom | nt | 1982 | Nightlife |
[Pf] | n | 1979 | Sorcerer’s Son |
Eklund, Gordon
NNom | nt | 1970 | Dear Aunt Annie |
Eklund, Gordon and Gregory Benford
Neb | nt | 1974 | If the Stars Are Gods |
Elgin, Suzette Hagin
n | 1981 | Twelve Fair Kingdoms |
Elliott, H. Chandler
n | 1955 | Reprieve from Paradise | |
Recommended by arl |
Ellison, Harlan
Hugo Neb | s | 1965 | ‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman |
HNom Neb | nv | 1969 | A Boy and His Dog |
Hugo | nt | 1974 | Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans |
a | 1972 | Again, Dangerous Visions | |
HNom | nv | 1980 | All the Lies That Are My Life |
F&SF version is abridged – full version is in “Shatterday” | |||
HNom NNom | nt | 1972 | Basilisk |
HNom | s | 1978 | Count the Clock That Tells the Time |
HNom | s | 1975 | Croatoan |
a | 1967 | Dangerous Visions | |
HNom | s | 1966 | Delusion for a Dragon Slayer |
nf | How You Stupidly Blew a Chance…. | ||
Ellison’s resignation letter to SFWA (found in ‘Strange Wine’. Recommended by jr | |||
Hugo | s | 1967 | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream |
Hugo Neb | s | 1977 | Jeffty Is Five |
HNom NNom | nv | 1993 | Mefisto in Onyx |
NNom | s | 1972 | On the Downhill Side |
Hugo NNom | nt | 1985 | Paladin of the Lost Hour |
HNom NNom | nt | 1967 | Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes |
NNom | s | 1975 | Shatterday |
NNom | s | 1969 | Shattered Like a Glass Goblin |
Hugo | s | 1968 | The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World |
Hugo NNom | nt | 1973 | The Deathbird |
HNom | nt | 1988 | The Function of Dream Sleep |
NNom | s | 1993 | The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore |
nt | 1978 | The New York Review of Bird | |
The ‘Strange Wine’ version – the ‘Weird Heros’ version has deletions. | |||
HNom NNom | nv | 1970 | The Region Between |
Emshwiller, Carol
[f] | s | 1959 | Day at the Beach |
[f] | s | 1957 | Hunting Machine |
Erlich, Max
n | 1949 | The Big Eye | |
Recommended by arl |
Ernst, Paul
[e] | s | 1935 | The 32nd of May |
Recommended by arl |
Eskridge, Kelley
NNom | s | 1995 | Alien Jane |
Farley, Ralph Milne
[e] | nt | 1936 | Liquid Life |
Recommended by arl. Empathy with an intelligent virus. |
Farmer, Philip Jose
[i,Pf] | n | 1969 | A Feast Unknown |
NNom | s | 1974 | After King Kong Fell |
n | 1960 | Flesh | |
n | 1957 | Green Odyssey | |
Good adventure — po | |||
n | 1968 | Image of the Beast | |
n | 1964 | Inside Outside | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1970 | Lord Tyger | |
recommened by David Grubbs | |||
[a] | nt | 1953 | Mother |
HNom | nt | 1960 | My Sister’s Brother |
Originally titled “Open to Me My Sister” | |||
n | 1966 | Night of Light | |
Recommended by arl | |||
Hugo NNom | nv | 1967 | Riders of the Purple Wage |
n | 1983 | River of Eternity | |
recommended by David Grubbs | |||
[a,f] | s | 1952 | Sail On! Sail On! |
HNom [f] | nt | 1959 | The Alley Man |
HNom | nt | 1965 | The Day of the Great Shout |
n | 1971 | The Fabulous Riverboat | |
[i] | n | 1952 | The Lovers |
See also novel version in 1962 | |||
n | 1965 | The Maker of Universes | |
[Psf] | n | 1980 | The Unreasoning Mask |
Hugo | n | 1971 | To Your Scattered Bodies Go |
Farnsworth, Duncan Wright
[a] | s | 1940 | All Roads |
Faulkner, William
[a] | n | 1950 | A Fable |
Feeley, Gregory
nt | 1996 | The Weighing of Ayre | |
Scientific warefare in an alternate 17th century — mlo |
Fehrenback, R. R.
[f] | s | 1961 | Remember the Alamo |
Finney, Charles G.
[k] | n | 1953 | The Circus of Dr. Lao |
Finney, Jack
[a,f] | s | 1951 | I’m Scared |
[Pf] | n | 1970 | Time and Again |
Florance-Guthridge, George
HNom NNom | s | 1981 | The Quiet |
Flynn, Michael F.
HNom | nv | 1986 | Eifelheim |
n | 1996 | Firestar | |
Great near-future SF — mlo | |||
n | 1990 | In the Country of the Blind | |
[g] | nv | 1990 | Mammy Morgan Played the Organ Her Daddy Beat the Drum |
HNom | NV | 1994 | Melodies of the Heart |
HNom | nv | 1987 | The Forest of Time |
Ford, John M.
n | 1989 | Casting Fortune | |
Recommended by cjh. Collection of several related Liavek stories. | |||
[g] | nt | 1994 | Chromatic Aberration |
NNom | nt | 1996 | Erase/Record/Play |
NNom | nv | 1987 | Fugue State |
n | 1993 | Growing Up Weightless | |
[g] | s | 1984 | Heat of Fusion |
n | 1987 | How Much for Just the Planet? | |
A Star Trek novel and one of the funniest SF books written — mlo | |||
[i] | n | 1983 | The Dragon Waiting |
n | 1988 | The Scholars of the Night | |
Historical thriller Recommended by cjh, dms and mlo | |||
n | 1980 | Web of Angels | |
Early cyberpunk? — po |
Forster, E. M.
[c] | nv | 1928 | The Machine Stops |
Forward, Robert
n | 1980 | Dragon’s Egg |
Forward, Robert L.
[g] | s | 1979 | The Singing Diamond |
Foster, Alan Dean
n | 1973 | Bloodhype | |
n | 1990 | Cyber Way | |
Navaho detective fantasy | |||
n | 1974 | Icerigger | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1986 | Into the Out Of | |
n | 1989 | Quozl | |
Wonderful aliens — po | |||
n | 1972 | The Tar-Aiym Krang |
Fowler, Karen Joy
NNom | s | 1990 | Lieserl |
NNom | n | 1992 | Sarah Canary |
NNom | s | 1991 | The Dark |
HNom NNom | s | 1987 | The Faithful Companion at Forty |
Fowles, John
[Pf] | n | 1965 | The Magus |
Frank, Pat
[i,Psf] | n | 1959 | Alas, Babylon |
Recommended by kp |
Franson, Robert Wilfred
n | 1983 | The Shadow of the Ship | |
Exceptionally interesting ‘space’ travel — po & mlo |
Frayn, Michael
[Pf] | n | 1973 | Sweet Dreams |
Friedberg, Gertrude
n | 1966 | The Revolving Boy | |
Recommended by po |
Friend, Oscar J.
[a,f] | s | 1940 | The Impossible Highway |
Friesner, Esther
n | Elf Defense | ||
Recommended by cjh |
Friesner, Esther M.
HNom Neb | s | 1995 | A Birthday |
NNom | s | 1992 | All Vows |
Neb | s | 1994 | Death and the Librarian |
A most moving story — mlo | |||
n | 1988 | Druid’s Blood | |
An excellently silly alternate history — mlo | |||
NNom | nt | 1994 | Jesus at the Bat |
n | 1986 | New York by Knight | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1993 | Yesterday We Saw Mermaids | |
Subdued and sad — po |
Fyfe, H. B.
[a] | s | 1950 | In Value Deceived |
[a] | nv | 1952 | Moonwalk |
[a,b] | s | 1951 | Protected Species |
Gaiman, Neil and Terry Pratchett
n | 1990 | Good Omens |
Gallun, Raymond Z.
[e,g] | s | 1935 | Davy Jones’ Ambassador |
An early sympathetic alien story — arl | |||
s | 1934 | Old Faithful | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[d] | nt | 1938 | Seeds of the Dusk |
Galouye, Daniel F.
HNom | n | 1961 | Dark Universe |
Gardner, John
[Pf] | n | 1971 | Grendel |
Gardner, Martin
[f] | s | 1948 | Thang |
Garfinkle, Richard
n | 1996 | Celestial Matters | |
Recommended by mlo |
Garner, Alan
[k] | n | 1973 | Red Shift |
Recommended by po | |||
[Pf] | n | 1967 | The Owl Service |
Recommended by po |
Garnett, David
HNom | s | 1986 | Still Life |
Garrett, Randall
ps | See also pseudonym Mark Phillips | ||
s | 1978 | Backstage Lensman | |
Superb pastiche of Doc Smith’s Lensman series which was hugely enjoyed by Doc Smith — mlo | |||
HNom | s | 1977 | Lauralyn |
NNom | nt | 1975 | The Final Fighting of Fion MacCumhaill |
[f] | nv | 1961 | The Highest Treason |
[f] | nt | 1954 | The Hunting Lodge |
[g] | s | 1954 | Time Fuze |
HNom | n | 1966 | Too Many Magicians |
Superb fantasy detective novel — mlo |
Garrett, Randall and Lin Carter
s | 1957 | Masters of the Metropolis | |
Marvellous parody of 30’s stf yarns — arl |
Garrett, Randall and Robert Silverberg
[b] | nt | 1956 | Sound Decision |
n | 1959 | The Dawning Light | |
Written under the pseudonym of Robert Randall | |||
n | 1957 | The Shrouded Planet | |
Written under the pseudonym of Robert Randall |
Gernsback, Hugo
n | Ralph 124C41+ | ||
Dreadful writing but influential on a generation of sf writers — arl |
Gerrold, David
NNom | nt | 1972 | In the Deadlands |
NNom | n | 1976 | Moonstar Odyssey |
n | 1972 | Space Skimmer | |
Recommended by kp | |||
HNom NNom [i] | n | 1973 | The Man Who Folded Himself |
Hugo Neb | NT | 1994 | The Martian Child |
HNom NNom | n | 1972 | When Harlie Was One |
Gerrold, David and Larry Niven
n | 1971 | The Flying Sorcerers | |
Good SF which is also funny — mlo |
Geston, Mark
n | Lords of the Starship | ||
Recommended by arl |
Gibson, William
NNom | s | 1982 | Burning Chrome |
HNom NNom | n | 1986 | Count Zero |
NNom [g] | s | 1981 | Johnny Mnemonic |
HNom NNom | n | 1988 | Mona Lisa Overdrive |
Hugo Neb [Psf] | n | 1984 | Neuromancer |
HNom NNom | nt | 1986 | The Winter Market |
HNom | n | 1993 | Virtual Light |
Gibson, William and Bruce Sterling
NNom | n | 1991 | The Difference Engine |
Gilman, Carolyn
NNom | nt | 1992 | The Honeycrafters |
Gilman, Greer
n | 1991 | Moonwise | |
Somewhat indescribable fantasy — po |
Godwin, Parke
HNom NNom | nt | 1981 | The Fire When It Comes |
Godwin, Tom
[c,f,g] | s | 1954 | The Cold Equations |
An important story marred by a forced situation and dreadful engineering design — arl | |||
n | 1958 | The Survivors |
Goingback, Owl
NNom | s | 1995 | Grass Dancer |
Gold, H. L.
[a,e] | nt | 1938 | A Matter of Form |
[a,f] | s | 1954 | Man of Parts |
[a] | s | 1953 | The Man with English |
[a,f] | s | 1939 | Trouble with Water |
Goldin, Stephen
NNom | s | 1971 | The Last Ghost |
Golding, William
nt | 1956 | Envoy Extrordinary | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[Pf] | n | 1956 | Pincher Martin |
[Psf] | n | 1955 | The Inheritors |
Goldman, William
n | 1973 | The Princess Bride | |
But just the good parts… — po |
Goldstein, Lisa
n | 1987 | A Mask for the General | |
NNom | s | 1992 | Alfred |
NNom | s | 1987 | Cassandra’s Photographs |
[Pf] | n | 1985 | The Dream Years |
NNom | s | 1994 | The Narcissus Plague |
n | 1982 | The Red Magician |
Goonan, Kathleen Ann
NNom | s | 1996 | The String |
Gotleib, Phyllis
NNom | nv | 1972 | Son of the Morning |
Goulart, Ron
[i] | n | When the Waker Sleeps |
Gould, Steven
n | 1992 | Jumper | |
*Great* first novel — po & mlo | |||
HNom NNom | nt | 1988 | Peaches for Mad Molly |
n | 1996 | Wild Side | |
Recommended by mlo |
Grahame, Kenneth
n | 1933 | The Wind in the Willows |
Grant, C. L.
HNom Neb | s | 1976 | A Crowd of Shadows |
Neb | nt | 1978 | A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn’s Eye |
NNom | s | 1980 | Secrets of the Heart |
NNom | nv | 1974 | The Rest is Silence |
Grant, Richard
[g] | s | 1981 | Drode’s Equations |
Graves, Robert
[a] | n | 1945 | Hercules My Shipmate |
[Pf] | n | 1949 | Seven Days in New Crete |
Gray, Alasdir
[Pf] | n | 1981 | Lanark |
Green Jr., Robert M.
HNom NNom | nt | 1966 | Apology to Inky |
Greenberg, Martin Harry
a | 1992 | After the King | |
An excellent original anthology — a Festschrift for the Tolkein Centenary — mlo |
Greenhalgh, Zohra
n | 1989 | Contrarywise | |
Excellent and peculiar fantasy — po & mlo |
Gregor, Lee
[d] | s | 1939 | Heavy Planet |
Grendon, Edward
[f] | s | 1947 | The Figure |
Griffith, Nicola
Neb | n | 1995 | Slow River |
NNom | nv | 1995 | Yagura |
Grimm, Jacob Ludwig and Wilhelm
a | 1815 | The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales | |
Be sure to read an unbowdlerlized version! |
Guin, Wyman
[a] | nv | 1951 | Beyond Bedlam |
1950 | Trigger Tide | ||
Originally as by ‘Norman Menasco’. Recommended by arl |
Gunn, Eileen
HNom | s | 1989 | Computer Friendly |
HNom | s | 1988 | Stable Strategies for Middle Management |
Gunn, James
Hugo | nf | 1982 | Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction |
[a,f] | s | 1955 | The Cave of Night |
[f] | nv | 1958 | The Immortals |
[a] | nv | 1955 | The Joy Ride |
NNom | nt | 1968 | The Listeners |
[a] | s | 1952 | The Misogynist |
Guthridge, George
NNom | nt | 1995 | Mirror or Lop Nor |
Haggard, H. Rider
n | 1887 | Allan Quatermain | |
n | 1885 | King Solomon’s Mines | |
[k] | n | 1886 | She |
Haldeman II, Jack C. and Jack Dann
NNom | s | 1982 | High Steel |
Haldeman, Joe
nv | 1995 | For White Hill | |
A wonderful love story — mlo | |||
Neb | s | 1992 | Graves |
HNom | nv | 1972 | Hero |
HNom | n | 1976 | Mindbridge |
NNom | s | 1985 | More Than the Sum of His Parts |
Hugo NNom | s | 1994 | None So Blind |
Hugo Neb | n | 1975 | The Forever War |
Hugo Neb | nv | 1990 | The Hemingway Hoax |
Hugo NNom | s | 1976 | Tricentennial |
Hall, Austin and Homer Eon Flint
n | 1921 | The Blind Spot | |
Unreadable but important early work — mlo. Hard slogging but you can get through it — arl. A great story in there, anyway — po |
Hambly, Barbara
n | Ishmael | ||
IMHO the best Star Trek novel — po | |||
n | 1988 | Those Who Hunt the Night | |
Recommended by cjh. Good — arl |
Hamilton, Edmond
[f] | nt | 1949 | Alien Earth |
n | 1961 | Battle for the Stars | |
Pure space opera! — mlo | |||
s | 1936 | Devolution | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[f] | s | 1943 | Exile |
HNom | n | 1945 | Red Sun of Danger |
n | Star Kings | ||
Space opera! | |||
[a] | s | 1945 | The Inn Outside the World |
s | 1964 | The Pro | |
Possibly Hamilton’s best short — arl | |||
[a,f] | nt | 1952 | What’s It Like Out There? |
Hand, Elizabeth
Neb | nv | 1994 | Last Summer at Mars Hill |
Harness, Charles
HNom NNom | nt | 1966 | An Ornament to His Profession |
n | 1994 | Lunar Justice | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1990 | Lurid Dreams | |
Recommended by po | |||
NNom | nv | 1968 | Probable Cause |
HNom NNom | nt | 1966 | The Alchemist |
n | 1981 | The Firebird | |
[a,f] | nt | 1950 | The New Reality |
[Psf] | n | 1953 | The Paradox Men |
AKA ‘Flight into Yesterday’ | |||
n | 1968 | The Ring of Ritornel | |
Perfectly wonderful — po | |||
[a] | nv | 1953 | The Rose |
n | 1982 | The Venetian Court | |
Recommended by po | |||
[a] | nv | 1948 | Time Trap |
Harrison, Harry
[j] | s | 1967 | A Criminal Act |
a | 1973 | Astounding – The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology | |
Stories written for this book complete a half-dozen important series | |||
NNom | s | 1970 | By the Falls |
HNom | n | 1960 | Deathworld |
[Psf] | n | 1966 | Make Room! Make Room! |
HNom | n | 1961 | Planet of the Damned |
Original title “Sense of Obligation” | |||
n | 1961 | The Stainless Steel Rat | |
This is the first in a long series: ignore all the rest — mlo | |||
[f] | s | 1962 | The Streets of Ashkelon |
n | 1967 | The Technicolor Time Machine | |
n | 1984 | West of Eden |
Harrison, M. John
[Pf] | n | 1980 | A Storm of Wings |
[Psf] | n | 1974 | The Centauri Device |
Hartwell, David
a | 1989 | World Treasury of SF | |
A major modern collection |
Hartwell, David and Kathryn Cramer
c | 1994 | The Ascent of Wonder | |
A very large collection of hard SF |
Harvard Lampoon
nv | 1969 | Bored of the Rings | |
A popular parody of Lord of the Rings. Mostly written by Christopher Cerf. Tedious after a while — arl |
Hasse, Henry
[d] | nt | 1936 | He Who Shrank |
Hawkins, Williard
[f] | s | 1940 | The Dwindling Sphere |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
[g] | nv | 1844 | Rappaccini’s Daughter |
Healy, Raymond J. and J. Francis McComas
a | 1946 | Famous SF Stories: Adventures in Time and Space | |
The definitive collection of early short SF |
Heinlein, Robert A.
ps | See also pseudonym Anson MacDonald | ||
[a] | s | 1941 | …And He Built a Crooked House |
s | 1959 | All You Zombies | |
[a] | n | 1942 | Beyond This Horizon |
[b] | nt | 1940 | Blowups Happen |
[a,d,f] | nt | 1941 | By His Bootstraps |
Written as by “Anson Macdonald” | |||
[i] | n | 1957 | Citizen of the Galaxy |
The best Heinlein novel — mlo | |||
[a] | s | 1940 | Coventry |
Hugo [i] | n | 1955 | Double Star |
The best Heinlein novel — arl | |||
n | 1950 | Farmer in the Sky | |
HNom NNom | n | 1982 | Friday |
Not bad for late Heinlein — mlo | |||
HNom [i,Pf] | n | 1963 | Glory Road |
[a,e] | s | 1942 | Goldfish Bowl |
Written as by ‘Anson MacDonald’ | |||
[a] | nv | 1949 | Gulf |
HNom [i,Psf] | n | 1958 | Have Spacesuit – Will Travel |
[a,e,g] | s | 1947 | It’s Great to Be Back! |
NNom | n | 1984 | Job: A Comedy of Justice |
[a,f] | s | 1939 | Life-Line |
nv | 1941 | Lost Legacy | |
[a] | n | 1940 | Magic, Inc. |
[a,i] | n | 1941 | Methuselah’s Children |
[f] | nt | 1939 | Misfit |
[i] | n | 1963 | Podkayne of Mars |
Recommended by po | |||
s | 1953 | Project Nightmare | |
[a] | n | 1949 | Red Planet |
[a,d] | s | 1940 | Requiem |
[a] | s | 1941 | Solution Unsatisfactory |
According to Herman Kahn, one of the best pieces of predictive SF ever written — arl | |||
n | 1948 | Space Cadet | |
n | 1953 | Starman Jones | |
Hugo [i] | n | 1959 | Starship Troopers |
Hugo [i] | n | 1961 | Stranger in a Strange Land |
Originally published version only! — mlo | |||
[i,Psf] | n | 1956 | The Door Into Summer |
[a,g] | nt | 1947 | The Green Hills of Earth |
[a] | nv | 1950 | The Man Who Sold the Moon |
s | 1957 | The Man Who Travelled in Elephants | |
nt | 1957 | The Menace from Earth | |
Hugo NNom [i] | n | 1966 | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress |
Also nominated for 1965 due to serialization overlapping two years! Best RAH novel — jds | |||
[a,i,Psf] | n | 1951 | The Puppet Masters |
Originally published version only! — mlo | |||
[c,d] | nt | 1940 | The Roads Must Roll |
n | 1952 | The Rolling Stones | |
[a,Pf] | nt | 1942 | The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag |
[a] | nt | 1952 | The Year of the Jackpot |
[a] | s | 1941 | They |
HNom NNom | n | 1973 | Time Enough for Love |
In this long book there are a couple of really good novellas buried in among all the words — mlo | |||
[i] | n | 1955 | Tunnel in the Sky |
A personal favorite — po | |||
[a,c,e] | nv | 1941 | Universe |
Not the earliest, but one of the best of the generation ship stories — arl | |||
[a] | n | 1942 | Waldo |
[a] | s | 1941 | We Also Walk Dogs |
Helprin, Mark
[Pf] | n | 1983 | Winter’s Tale |
Henderson, Zenna
[a] | s | 1952 | Ararat |
A “People” story | |||
HNom | nt | 1958 | Captivity |
A “People” story | |||
[a] | s | 1951 | Come On, Wagon! |
c | 1996 | Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson | |
[i] | c | 1961 | Pilgrimage: the Book of the People |
A fix-up novel consisting of about half of the “People” stories | |||
[a] | nt | 1955 | Pottage |
A “People” story | |||
[i] | c | 1967 | The People: No Different Flesh |
A collection of most of the “People” stories not included in “Pilgrimage” |
Henneberg, Nathalie-Charles
[g] | s | 1960 | The Blind Pilot |
Herbert, Frank
HNom | n | 1976 | Children of Dune |
Hugo Neb [i,Psf] | n | 1965 | Dune |
Dune was originally published in two parts, the first of which, “Dune World” was nominated in 1964. A good, but over-rated book — mlo | |||
HNom | n | 1963 | Dune World |
The first half of “Dune” | |||
n | 1973 | Hellstrom’s Hive | |
n | 1956 | Under Pressure | |
Also titled “Twenty-First Century Sub” and “The Dragon in the Sea” | |||
n | 1970 | Whipping Star | |
Recommended by arl |
Hersey, John
n | 1974 | My Petition for More Space | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1960 | The Child Buyer | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1965 | White Lotus | |
Recommended by po |
Hilton, James
[k] | n | 1933 | Lost Horizon |
Hinz, Christopher
n | 1987 | Liege-Killer |
Hoban, Russell
[Psf] | n | 1980 | Riddley Walker |
Hodgell, P. C.
n | 1982 | God Stalk | |
Recommended by po |
Hodgson, William Hope
n | 1907 | The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” | |
[k] | n | 1908 | The House on the Borderland |
[k] | n | 1912 | The Nightland |
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
NNom | nv | 1993 | Haunted Humans |
NNom | nt | 1995 | Home for Christmas |
NNom | n | 1995 | The Silent Strength of Stones |
NNom | nt | 1993 | The Skeleton Key |
n | 1993 | The Thread that Binds the Bones | |
Recommended by po |
Hogan, James P.
n | 1977 | Inherit the Stars | |
A good first novel with a great picture of a momentous scientific discovery in the making — mlo | |||
[g] | s | 1981 | Making Light |
n | 1979 | The Two Faces of Tomorrow | |
Recommended by dgg |
Holdstock, Robert
[Pf] | n | 1984 | Mythago Wood |
Hollis, H. H.
NNom | s | 1968 | Sword Game |
NNom | nt | 1968 | The Guerrilla Trees |
Holt, Tom
[k] | n | 1987 | Expecting Someone Taller |
Minor — arl. But better than the opera — po. |
Horwood, W
n | 1980 | Duncton Wood |
Howard, Hayden
HNom NNom | nt | 1966 | The Eskimo Invasion |
Howard, Robert E.
se | Conan Series | ||
Especially the early ones. Few of the pastiches are worth reading — arl | |||
[Pf,k] | n | 1935 | Conan the Conquerer |
Hoyle, Fred
n | 1957 | The Black Cloud |
Hoyle, Fred and John Elliot
n | 1962 | A for Andromeda |
Hubbard, L. Ron
HNom | n | 1986 | Black Genesis |
It’s amazing what garbage occasionally gets nominated — mlo | |||
[a,k] | nv | 1940 | Fear |
[a] | n | 1940 | Final Blackout |
A great ‘after the war’ story — arl | |||
se | Ole’ Doc Methuselah stories | ||
Dreadful stories but very popular in their day — mlo. As by Rene Lafayette | |||
[a,k] | n | 1939 | Slaves of Sleep |
The original book is collected mainly for its Hannes Bok dj — arl. But *I* liked the story — mlo | |||
nv | 1940 | Typewriter in the Sky |
Hughart, Barry
n | 1984 | Bridge of Birds |
Hughes, Zach
[i] | n | 1972 | The Book of Rack the Healer |
Hugi, Maurice A
[d,f] | nt | 1941 | Mechanical Mice |
Huxley, Aldous
[a] | n | 1939 | After Many a Summer Dies the Swan |
[i] | n | 1939 | Brave New World |
Huxley, Julian
[e] | nt | 1927 | The Tissue-Culture King |
Very early biological cloning and its ethical consequences — arl |
Ing, Dean
[g] | s | 1979 | Down & Out on Ellfive Prime |
HNom NNom | nt | 1978 | The Devil You Don’t Know |
Israel, Peter
n | 1989 | I’ll Cry When I Kill You | |
Mystery set at an SF conmvention. Quite nasty in its characterization — arl |
Jackson, Shirley
[a,l] | s | 1955 | One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts |
[k,Pf] | n | 1959 | The Haunting of Hill House |
s | 1949 | The Lottery | |
[a] | s | 1950 | The Summer People |
n | 1962 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle |
Jameson, Malcolm
n | Bullard of the Space Patrol | ||
Fixup novel classic space opera — arl | |||
[e] | s | 1939 | Children of the “Betsy-B” |
nt | 1944 | Tricky Tonnage | |
Recommended by arl |
Janifer, Lawrence
ps | See also pseudonym Mark Phillips |
Jennings, Gary
HNom | nt | 1962 | Myrrha |
Jeter, K. W.
n | 1984 | Dr. Adder | |
[Pf] | n | 1983 | Soul Eater |
Jonas, Gerald
NNom | nt | 1970 | Shaker Revival |
Jones, Diana Wynne
nf | 1996 | The Tough Guide to Fantasyland | |
recommended by mlo |
Jones, Dianna Wynne
n | 1987 | A Tale of Time City | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1984 | Archer’s Goon | |
n | 1975 | Eight Days of Luke | |
n | 1984 | Fire and Hemlock | |
s | 1990 | nad and Dan adn Quaffy | |
Recommended by arl & mlo | |||
n | 1981 | The Homeward Bounders | |
Spooky — po | |||
n | 1988 | The Lives of Christopher Chant | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1979 | The Spell Coats | |
Recommended by po |
Jones, Guy and Constance
[a] | n | 1945 | Peabody’s Mermaid |
Jones, Raymond F.
[i] | n | Colossus | |
Not that good, but one of the first computer takes over the world stories — jr | |||
HNom [d,f] | s | 1945 | Correspondence Course |
[e,g] | s | 1947 | Person from Porlock |
A personal favorite — mlo | |||
HNom | s | 1966 | Rat Race |
n | 1952 | This Island Earth |
Juster, Norman
[i] | n | Phantom Tollbooth |
Kafka, Franz
In the Penal Colony | |||
recommended by arl | |||
s? | 1915 | The Metamorphosis |
Kagan, Janet
n | 1988 | Hellspark | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
Hugo NNom | nt | 1992 | The Nutcracker Coup |
Kahn, James
n | 1980 | World Enough and Time | |
Recommended by po. I didn’t like this at all — mlo |
Karr, Phyllis Ann
n | 1986 | At Amberleaf Fair | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1982 | The Idylls of the Queen | |
Recommended by po & mlo |
Kay, Guy Gavriel
n | 1992 | A Song for Arbonne | |
Recommended by po | |||
[Pf] | n | Silver on the Tree | |
Part of the Fionvar Tapestry trilogy | |||
[Pf] | n | 1985 | The Summer Tree |
Part of the Fionvar Tapestry trilogy | |||
[Pf] | n | 1986 | The Wandering Fire |
Part of the Fionvar Tapestry trilogy | |||
n | 1993 | Tigana |
Kaye, Marvin and Parke Godwin
n | 1978 | Masters of Solitude |
Kelleam, Joseph E.
[f] | s | 1939 | Rust |
Kelly, James Patrick
NNom | nv | 1990 | Mr. Boy |
HNom NNom | s | 1986 | Rat |
NNom | nt | 1984 | Saint Theresa of the Aliens |
NNom | nt | 1991 | Standing in Line with Mr. Jimmy |
Hugo NNom | nt | 1995 | Think Like a Dinosaur |
An even more contrived and less important answer to Godwin’s “The Cold Equations” — mlo |
Kennedy, Leigh
NNom | s | 1983 | Her Furry Face |
NNom | n | 1986 | The Journal of Nicholas the American |
Kerr, Katherine
n | 1992 | Resurrection | |
Recommended by arl |
Kersh, Gerald
[a] | n | 1953 | Secret Masters |
Kessel, John
HNom Neb | nv | 1982 | Another Orphan |
HNom NNom | s | 1991 | Buffalo |
NNom | n | 1989 | Good News from Outer Space |
nt | 1990 | Invaders | |
Recommended by arl | |||
NNom | s | 1988 | Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner |
HNom NNom | nt | 1993 | The Fanchise |
Key, Alexander
n | 1968 | Escape to Witch Mountain | |
Recommended by po Excellent juvenile — po |
Keyes, Daniel
Hugo Neb [Psf] | n | 1966 | Flowers for Algernon |
Short story version won Hugo in ’60! | |||
Hugo [c,i] | s | 1959 | Flowers for Algernon |
King, Stephen
Hugo | nf | 1981 | Danse Macabre |
n | 1986 | It | |
[Pf] | n | 1975 | Salem’s Lot |
[Pf] | n | 1977 | The Shining |
[i] | n | 1978 | The Stand |
NNom | nt | 1980 | The Way Station |
Kingsbury, Donald M.
HNom | n | 1982 | Courtship Rite |
HNom | nv | 1979 | The Moon Goddess and the Son |
[g] | nt | 1978 | To Bring in the Steel |
Kipling, Rudyard
.007 | |||
Recommended by bz and jb | |||
A Habitation Enforced | |||
Recommended by bz and jb | |||
[j] | nt | 1912 | As Easy as ABC |
c | Puck of Pook’s Hill | ||
Recommended by bz and jb | |||
c | Rewards & Fairies | ||
Recommended by bz and jb | |||
nv | 1898 | The Bridge-Builders | |
A surprisingly good fantasy in which the gods of India debate the destruction of a bridge — mlo | |||
The Brushwood Boy | |||
Recommended by bz and jb | |||
The Ship That Found Herself | |||
Recommended by bz and jb | |||
[g] | nv | 1909 | With the Night Mail |
Klein, Gerard
[g] | nt | 1976 | Party Line |
[g] | s | 1973 | The Valley of Echoes |
Knight, Damon
[a,f] | s | 1954 | Anachron |
[a] | nt | 1953 | Babel II |
nt | 1951 | Cabin Boy | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
[a] | nt | 1951 | Don’t Live in the Past |
[a] | nv | 1953 | Double Meaning |
[f,l] | nt | 1953 | Four in One |
HNom | s | 1976 | I See You |
s | 1958 | Idiot Stick | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
nf | 1956 | In Search of Wonder | |
Pioneering criticism of SF | |||
HNom NNom | s | 1968 | Masks |
[a] | nv | 1954 | Natural State |
[f] | s | 1950 | Not with a Bang |
nv | 1954 | Rule Golden | |
[f,g] | nt | 1956 | Stranger Station |
[a] | s | 1952 | The Analogues |
c | The Best of Orbit | ||
[c,f] | s | 1956 | The Country of the Kind |
[a] | nv | 1955 | The Earth Quarter |
nf | 1977 | The Futurians | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
[f] | s | 1960 | The Handler |
[f] | s | 1950 | To Serve Man |
[f] | nt | 1959 | What Rough Beast |
[a] | nv | 1951 | World Without Children |
Koontz, Dean R.
HNom | nv | 1970 | Beastchild |
Kornbluth, C. M.
[a,g] | nt | 1954 | Gomez |
c | 1997 | His Share of Glory — The Complete Short SF of C. M. Kornbluth | |
n | 1955 | Not This August | |
HNom | nt | 1958 | Shark Ship |
Originally titled “Reap the Dark Tide” | |||
[a] | nt | 1952 | That Share of Glory |
HNom | s | 1958 | The Advent on Channel Twelve |
[a,f] | s | 1952 | The Altar at Midnight |
[f] | s | 1957 | The Education of Tigress McCardle |
[a,c,f] | nt | 1950 | The Little Black Bag |
[a] | s | 1952 | The Luckiest Man in Denv |
[c,a,f] | s | 1951 | The Marching Morons |
[f] | s | 1950 | The Mindworm |
[f] | s | 1949 | The Only Thing We Learn |
[a] | s | 1953 | The Remorseful |
[a,f] | s | 1941 | The Rocket of 1955 |
[a,f] | s | 1950 | The Silly Season |
n | 1953 | The Syndic | |
[a,f] | s | 1941 | The Words of Guru |
HNom | s | 1958 | Theory of Rocketry |
[a] | nv | 1941 | Thirteen O’Clock |
[f,g,l] | nv | 1958 | Two Dooms |
[a,f] | nt | 1951 | With These Hands |
Kornbluth, C. M. and Judith Merril
n | 1952 | Gunner Cade | |
Writing as Cyril Judd |
Kosinski, Jerry
NNom | nv | 1971 | Being There |
Kotzwinkle, William
[Pf] | n | 1977 | Fata Morgana |
Kress, Nancy
HNom | nv | 1991 | And Wild for to Hold |
HNom NNom | N | 1994 | Beggars and Choosers |
HNom NNom | n | 1993 | Beggars in Spain |
Expanded from the novella of the same name. | |||
Hugo Neb | nv | 1991 | Beggars in Spain |
HNom NNom | nt | 1993 | Dancing on Air |
HNom | nv | 1995 | Fault Lines |
Neb | s | 1985 | Out of All Them Bright Stars |
s | 1993 | The Battle of Long Island | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
HNom NNom | s | 1992 | The Mountains to Mohammed |
HNom | nt | 1989 | The Price of Oranges |
NNom | nv | 1984 | Trinity |
Kube-McDowell, Michael
HNom | n | 1990 | The Quiet Pools |
Kurland, Michael
n | 1969 | The Unicorn Girl |
Kurten, Bjorn
n | 1980 | Dance of the Tiger | |
Recommended by po |
Kurtz, Katherine
n | 1972 | Deryni Checkmate | |
Deryni 2 | |||
n | 1970 | Deryni Rising | |
Deryni 1 | |||
n | 1973 | High Deryni | |
Deryni 3. The rest of the series (another dozen plus books (and still growing)) has become formulaic — arl |
Kushner, Ellen
n | 1990 | Thomas the Rhymer | |
Recommended by po |
Kuttner, Henry
ps | See also pseudonyms Lawrence O’Donnell and Lewis Padgett | ||
[a,f] | s | 1941 | A Gnome There Was |
[a,f] | s | 1946 | Absalom |
[f] | nt | 1949 | Cold War |
[a] | n | 1946 | Dark World |
[a,f] | s | 1948 | Don’t Look Now |
[a,i] | n | 1947 | Fury |
[a] | s | 1945 | Line to Tomorrow |
[a,f] | s | 1943 | The Iron Standard |
[f] | s | 1939 | The Misguided Halo |
[e,f] | s | 1945 | What You Need |
Kuttner, Henry and C. L. Moore
ps | see also pseudonyms Lawrence O’Donnell and Lewis Padgett | ||
[a,f] | nt | 1945 | Camouflage |
[a] | s | 1948 | Happy Ending |
[a] | nt | 1943 | Nothing But Gingerbread Left |
[a,f] | nt | 1949 | Private Eye |
[f] | nt | 1956 | Rite of Passage |
[a] | nt | 1944 | The Children’s Hour |
[a,f] | nt | 1945 | The Piper’s Son |
[a] | nv | 1947 | Tomorrow and Tomorrow |
[a] | s | 1955 | Two-Handed Engine |
Kuykendall, Roger
[b] | s | 0 | We Didn’t Do Anything Wrong, Hardly |
L’Engle, Madeleine
n | 1978 | A Swiftly Tilting Planet | |
n | 1973 | A Wind in the Door | |
[i] | n | 1962 | A Wrinkle in Time |
n | 1986 | Many Waters |
Lafferty, R. A.
HNom NNom | s | 1970 | Continued on Next Rock |
NNom | s | 1970 | Entire and Perfect Chrysolite |
Hugo | s | 1972 | Eurema’s Dam |
NNom [Pf] | n | 1970 | Fourth Mansions |
nt | 1966 | Narrow Valley | |
s | 1966 | Nine Hundred Grandmothers | |
HNom NNom | n | 1968 | Past Master |
[f] | s | 1961 | Rainbird |
[f] | s | 1962 | Seven-Day Terror |
HNom | s | 1971 | Sky |
s | 1965 | Slow Tuesday Night | |
n | 1971 | The Devil Is Dead |
Landis, Geoffrey A.
HNom | s | 1991 | A Walk in the Sun |
HNom Neb | s | 1988 | Ripples in the Dirac Sea |
NNom | s | 1994 | The Kingdom of Cats and Birds |
HNom | nt | 1994 | The Singular Habits of Wasps |
Langford, Dave
n | 1984 | The Leaky Establishment | |
An autobiography (sorta) — mlo | |||
HNom | nf | 1996 | The Silence of the Langford |
Superb fan writing, and funny, too — mlo |
Lanier, Sterling
n | 1973 | Hiero’s Journey | |
se | The Brigadier ffellowes Series |
Latham, Philip
[a,g] | s | 1950 | The Xi Effect |
Laumer, Keith
n | 1965 | A Plague of Demons | |
[i] | 1976 | Bolo | |
nt | Diplomat at Arms | ||
The first and best of the Retief series — arl | |||
c | 1965 | Galactic Diplomat | |
Probably the best collection of Retief stories — mlo | |||
nv | 1968 | Greylorn | |
HNom NNom | nt | 1970 | In the Queue |
NNom | nt | 1968 | Once There Was a Giant |
n | 1965 | Retief’s War | |
NNom | nv | 1968 | The Day Beyond Forever |
HNom | nv | 1977 | The Wonderful Secret |
n | 1963 | Trace of Memory | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1962 | Worlds of the Imperium |
Le Guin, Ursula K.
HNom | nv | 1995 | A Man of the People |
HNom NNom | nv | 1995 | A Woman’s Liberation |
Hugo NNom | nt | 1987 | Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight |
HNom NNom | nt | 1976 | Diary of the Rose |
HNom NNom | NV | 1994 | Forgivness Day |
HNom | nt | 1996 | Mountain Ways |
NNom [g] | nt | 1969 | Nine Lives |
[j] | s | 1964 | Semley’s Necklace |
Recommended by arl | |||
HNom Neb | nt | 1994 | Solitude |
HNom | s | 1982 | Sur |
Neb | n | 1990 | Tehanu |
The late, sad, sorry addition to the otherwise fine Earthsea trilogy — mlo | |||
[g] | s | 1974 | The Author of the Acacia Seeds |
HNom Neb | s | 1974 | The Day Before the Revolution |
Hugo Neb [Psf] | n | 1974 | The Dispossessed |
[i] | n | 1972 | The Farthest Shore |
Earthsea trilogy #3 | |||
HNom NNom [i] | n | 1971 | The Lathe of Heaven |
Hugo [i,Psf] | n | 1969 | The Left Hand of Darkness |
HNom NNom | nt | 1994 | The Matter of Seggri |
HNom | nt | 1975 | The New Atlantis |
Hugo | s | 1973 | The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas |
NNom | nt | 1979 | The Pathways of Desire |
NNom | nt | 1990 | The Shobies’ Story |
[i] | n | 1971 | The Tombs of Atuan |
Earthsea trilogy #2. The best of the series — po | |||
Hugo NNom | nv | 1972 | The Word for World Is Forest |
HNom | s | 1971 | Vaster than Empires and More Slow |
HNom | nt | 1969 | Winter’s King |
[i,k,Pf] | n | 1968 | Wizard of Earthsea, A |
Earthsea trilogy #1 |
Lee, Tanith
NNom | s | 1979 | Red as Blood |
n | 1980 | Sabella | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1983 | Sung in Shadow | |
Recommended by po | |||
[i] | n | 1982 | The Silver Metal Lover |
Recommended by arl |
Leiber, Fritz
[a,f] | s | 1953 | A Bad Day for Sales |
HNom | nt | 1958 | A Deskful of Girls |
NNom | nt | 1976 | A Rite of Spring |
n | 1969 | A Spectre is Haunting Texas | |
NNom | s | 1967 | Answering Service |
Hugo Neb | s | 1975 | Catch That Zeppelin! |
[a,c,f] | s | 1950 | Coming Attraction |
See how much has come true….– ?? | |||
[i,k,Pf] | n | 1953 | Conjure Wife |
HNom | n | 1945 | Destiny Times Three |
[i] | n | Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser | |
[a] | n | 1950 | Gather, Darkness! |
Hugo Neb | nt | 1967 | Gonna Roll the Bones |
NNom | nv | 1982 | Horrible Imaginings |
Hugo Neb | nv | 1970 | Ill Met in Lankhmar |
[a] | nv | 1950 | Let Freedom Ring |
[f] | s | 1960 | Mariana |
HNom | nt | 1974 | Midnight by the Morphy Watch |
[a] | s | 1951 | Nice Girl with Five Husbands |
[k,Pf] | n | 1977 | Our Lady of Darkness |
[a,f] | s | 1951 | Pail of Air, A |
[a,g] | nt | 1951 | Poor Superman |
HNom | s | 1958 | Rum-Titty-Titty-Tum-Ta-Tee |
[f] | s | 1944 | Sanity |
HNom | nt | 1961 | Scylla’s Daughter |
Hugo NNom | nv | 1969 | Ship of Shadows |
[a] | s | 1941 | Smoke Ghost |
s | 1958 | Space-Time for Springers | |
HNom | nt | 1965 | Stardock |
[f] | s | 1940 | The Automatic Pistol |
[a,f] | s | 1953 | The Big Holiday |
Hugo [i] | nv | 1957 | The Big Time |
[a] | s | 1949 | The Girl with the Hungry Eyes |
[f] | s | 1962 | The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity |
[a] | s | 1947 | The Man Who Never Grew Young |
[a,f] | s | 1952 | The Moon Is Green |
n | 1961 | The Silver Eggheads | |
[Pf] | n | 1953 | The Sinful Ones |
[Pf] | n | 1968 | The Swords of Lankhmar |
HNom | nt | 1962 | The Unholy Grail |
Hugo [Psf] | n | 1964 | The Wanderer |
s | 1958 | Try and Change the Past | |
[f] | nt | 1945 | Wanted — An Enemy |
[a,f] | nt | 1952 | Yesterday House |
Leinster, Murray
[a,f] | s | 1946 | A Logic Named Joe |
[f] | s | 1945 | De Profundis |
[a] | 1949 | Doomsday Deferred | |
Hugo [f] | nt | 1955 | Exploration Team |
Hugo [a,b,c,e,f] | nt | 1945 | First Contact |
An archetype!! and the aponym for a phylum of stories — arl & mlo | |||
[b] | s | 1951 | Historical Note |
[a] | s | 1951 | Keyhole |
[a,e] | nt | 1944 | Plague |
One of the more pointed anti-bureaucracy stories — arl | |||
s | 1935 | Proxima Centauri | |
nv | 1934 | Sidewise in Time | |
This story introduced alternate history to SF. And it still holds up well today — mlo | |||
[a] | s | 1947 | Symbiosis |
HNom [e] | s | 1945 | The Ethical Equations |
n | 1954 | The Forgotten Planet | |
A fix-up novel | |||
s | 1935 | The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator | |
n | 1949 | The Last Spaceship | |
Very minor — mlo | |||
HNom | n | 1959 | The Pirates of Zan |
Also titled “The Pirates of Ersatz” | |||
[f] | s | 1945 | The Power |
[a,f] | s | 1948 | The Strange Case of John Kingman |
Lem, Stanislaw
[g] | s | 1977 | How Erg the Self-Inducting Slew a Paleface |
n | Solaris | ||
Described as “dull enough to be made into a Soviet film” | |||
[g] | s | 1977 | Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon |
The Cyberiad | |||
Those who don’t like Lem’s serious novels should give this one a try. |
Leman, Bob
NNom | s | 1980 | Window |
Lessing, Doris
[Pf] | n | 1971 | Briefing for a Descent into Hell |
Lethem, Jonathan
NNom | s | 1996 | Five Fvcks |
NNom | n | 1993 | Gun, with Occaisional Music |
NNom | nt | 1991 | The Happy Man |
Levin, Ira
[k,Pf] | n | 1967 | Rosemary’s Baby |
Levinson, Paul
NNom | nt | 1995 | The Chronology Protection Case |
Lewis, C. S.
n | 1938 | Out of the Silent Planet | |
Book 1 of the ‘Deep Space’ trilogy | |||
[a] | n | 1944 | Perelandra |
Part of ‘Deep Space’ trilogy | |||
[i] | n | 1951 | Prince Caspian |
Part of ‘Narnia’ series | |||
HNom | n | 1946 | That Hideous Strength |
Part of ‘Deep Space’ trilogy | |||
[i] | n | 1954 | The Horse and His Boy |
Part of ‘Narnia’ series | |||
[i] | n | 1956 | The Last Battle |
Part of ‘Narnia’ series | |||
[i,Pf] | n | 1950 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
Part of ‘Narnia’ series | |||
[i] | n | 1955 | The Magician’s Nephew |
Part of ‘Narnia’ series | |||
n | 1942 | The Screwtape Letters | |
Not exactly fantasy, but a must-read — mlo | |||
[i] | n | 1953 | The Silver Chair |
Part of ‘Narnia’ series | |||
[i] | n | 1952 | The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’ |
Part of ‘Narnia’ series | |||
n | 1956 | Till We have Faces | |
Superb retelling of the Psyche myth — mlo |
Ley, Willy
[d] | nf | 0 | V-2: Rocket Cargo Ship |
Linaweaver, Brad
NNom | nv | 1982 | Moon of Ice |
n | 1972 | Much Better | |
Recommended by jr |
Lindholm, Megan
HNom NNom | nv | 1989 | A Touch of Lavender |
n | 1991 | Cloven Hooves | |
Moody and erotic fantasy — po | |||
NNom | nt | 1989 | Silver Lady and The Fortish Man |
n | 1986 | The Wizard of the Pigeons |
Lindner, Robert
nf | 1954 | The Jet-Propelled Couch | |
Part of the ‘Fifty-Minute Hour’ psychological case studies — arl |
Lindsay, David
[k] | n | 1920 | A Voyage to Arcturus |
London, Jack
n | 1906 | Before Adam | |
Recommended by po | |||
s | The Flash and the Shadow | ||
Recommended by jr |
Long, Frank Belknap
[a] | s | 1942 | It Will Come to You |
c | 1946 | The Hounds of Tindalos | |
This is a collection | |||
nt | 1928 | The Space Eaters | |
Recommended by arl |
Longyear, Barry B.
Hugo Neb | nv | 1979 | Enemy Mine |
HNom | nt | 1979 | Homecoming |
HNom | nt | 1980 | Savage Planet |
Lovecraft, H. P.
[k] | nt | 1936 | At the Mountains of Madness |
se | Cthulhu Mythos Series | ||
s | 1936 | Haunter of the Dark | |
nt | 1941 | The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | |
[e] | s | 1927 | The Colour Out of Space |
Lupoff, Richard A.
HNom | nt | 1974 | After the Dreamtime |
HNom NNom | s | 1975 | Sail the Tides of Mourning |
NNom | n | 1976 | Sword of the Demon |
nt | 1985 | The Digital Wristwatch of Philip K. Dick | |
Recommened by arl | |||
nt | 1974 | Whatever Happened to Nick Neptune? | |
Recommended by arl | |||
NNom | nv | 1972 | With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama |
Lynn, Elizabeth
n | 1980 | The Northern Girl | |
Recommended by arl |
MacAvoy, R. A.
n | 1983 | Damiano | |
HNom NNom [Pf] | n | 1983 | Tea with the Black Dragon |
MacDonald, Anson
ps | Pseudonym of Robert A. Heinlein |
MacDonald, George
n | 1870 | At the Back of the North Wind | |
n | 1895 | Lilith | |
n | 1858 | Phantastes | |
n | 1882 | The Princess and Curdie | |
n | 1882 | The Princess and the Goblin |
MacDonald, John D.
[f] | s | 1948 | A Child Is Crying |
[f] | s | 1949 | Flaw |
[f] | s | 1952 | Game for Blondes |
n | 1951 | Planet of the Dreamers | |
[f] | s | 1948 | Ring Around the Redhead |
[f] | s | 1950 | Spectator Sport |
[Pf] | n | 1962 | The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything |
n | 1951 | Wine of the Dreamers | |
Recommended by eac & arl |
MacDonald, Philip
[f] | s | 1949 | Private–Keep Out |
MacLean, Katherine
[a] | nt | 1950 | Contagion |
[a,e,f] | s | 1949 | Defense Mechanism |
[a,f] | s | 1951 | Pictures Don’t Lie |
[a] | nv | 1953 | The Diploids |
Neb | nv | 1971 | The Missing Man |
[a,f,g] | s | 1952 | The Snowball Effect |
[f] | nt | 1958 | Unhuman Sacrifice |
MacLean, Katherine and Charles V. DeVet
HNom | nt | 1958 | Second Game |
MacLeish, Roderick
n | 1982 | Prince Ombra | |
Recommended by po |
MacLeod, Ian
NNom | nt | 1990 | 1/72nd Scale |
Malzberg, Barry N.
NNom | nt | 1975 | A Galaxy Called Rome |
This was expanded into a novel named ‘Galaxies’ which is not as good — arl | |||
n | 1972 | Beyond Apollo | |
NNom | s | 1982 | Corridors |
[Psf] | n | 1975 | Galaxies |
nv | 1971 | Gather in the Hall of Planets | |
n | 1973 | Herovit’s World | |
HNom | nt | 1992 | In the Stone House |
s | 1993 | The Passage of the Light | |
NNom | n | 1985 | The Remaking of Sigmund Freud |
HNom NNom | s | 1994 | Understanding Entropy |
Manning, Lawrence
nv | The Man Who Awoke | ||
Recommended by ?? |
Marks, Laurie J.
n | 1992 | The Watcher’s Mask | |
Recommended by po |
Marlowe, Webb
[d] | s | 1943 | Flight into Darkness |
Martin, George R. R.
HNom | nt | 1975 | …And Seven Times Never Kill Man |
Hugo NNom | nv | 1974 | A Song for Lya |
HNom NNom | nv | 1996 | Blood of the Dragon |
HNom | n | 1977 | Dying of the Light |
n | 1982 | Fevre Dream | |
Recommended by po | |||
HNom | nt | 1981 | Guardians |
HNom | nv | 1980 | Nightflyers |
HNom Neb | nt | 1985 | Portraits of His Children |
Hugo Neb | nt | 1979 | Sandkings |
Nasty and scary and very good indeed — po | |||
HNom NNom | nt | 1983 | The Monkey Treatment |
NNom | nt | 1976 | The Stone City |
Hugo NNom [j] | s | 1979 | The Way of Cross and Dragon |
HNom NNom | nv | 1982 | Unsound Variations |
HNom NNom | s | 1973 | With Morning Comes Mistfall |
Martin, George R. R. and Lisa Tuttle
HNom | nv | 1980 | One-Wing |
Part of the novel “Windhaven” | |||
HNom NNom | nv | 1975 | The Storms of Windhaven |
Part of the novel “Windhaven” | |||
n | 1981 | Windhaven |
Martin, Valerie
NNom | n | 1990 | Mary Reilly |
Martino, Joseph
[b] | s | 1960 | Pushbutton War |
Matheson, Richard
[c,f] | s | 1950 | Born of Man and Woman |
n | 1954 | I Am Legend | |
ss | 1955 | Pattern for Survival | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[Pf] | n | 1956 | The Shrinking Man |
[f] | s | 1954 | The Test |
May, Julian
n | 1994 | Diamond Mask | |
Recommended by po Galactic Millieu #3 | |||
[a,f] | nt | 1951 | Dune Roller |
n | 1987 | Intervention | |
Galactic Millieu #1. (Published in two volumes in paperback.) | |||
n | 1992 | Jack the Bodiless | |
Recommended by po Galactic Millieu #2 | |||
n | 1984 | The Adversary | |
Pliocene Exile tetrology #4 | |||
n | 1982 | The Golden Torc | |
Pliocene Exile tetrology #2 | |||
HNom NNom | n | 1981 | The Many-Colored Land |
Pliocene Exile tetrology #1 | |||
n | 1983 | The Nonborn King | |
Pliocene Exile tetrology #3 |
McAllister, Bruce
HNom NNom | nt | 1987 | Dream Baby |
[f] | s | 1963 | The Faces Outside |
McAuley, Paul J.
[j] | s | 1986 | Karl and the Ogre |
Recommened by arl |
McCaffrey, Anne
HNom | n | 1991 | All the Weyrs of Pern |
n | 1979 | Dragondrums | |
[i] | n | 1968 | Dragonflight |
HNom | n | 1971 | Dragonquest |
HNom Neb | nv | 1968 | Dragonrider |
n | 1977 | Dragonsinger | |
n | 1976 | Dragonsong | |
HNom NNom | nv | 1969 | Dramatic Mission |
HNom | n | 1983 | Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern |
Appalling! — mlo. No, worse than that! — arl | |||
[f,i] | nv | 1961 | The Ship Who Sang |
HNom | n | 1978 | The White Dragon |
Hugo NNom [g] | nv | 1967 | Weyr Search |
McDevitt, Jack
NNom | s | 1983 | Cryptic |
HNom NNom | s | 1988 | The Fort Moxie Branch |
HNom NNom | nv | 1996 | Time Travelers Never Die |
McDonald, Ian
n | 1991 | King of Morning, Queen of Day | |
The best fantasy of its year — po | |||
NNom | nt | 1988 | Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh |
McHugh, Maureen F.
HNom NNom | n | 1992 | China Mountain Zhang |
NNom | nt | 1993 | Nekropolis |
HNom NNom | nv | 1992 | Protection |
HNom NNom | nv | 1996 | The Cost to Be Wise |
Hugo NNom | s | 1995 | The Lincoln Train |
NNom | s | 1993 | Virtual Love |
McIntosh, J. T.
n | 1954 | One in Three Hundred | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[a] | nt | 1952 | The Bliss of Solitude |
n | 1953 | World Out of Mind | |
Recommended by arl |
McIntyre, Vonda N.
HNom NNom | nv | 1977 | Aztecs |
Hugo Neb | n | 1978 | Dreamsnake |
HNom | nt | 1979 | Fireflood |
HNom Neb | nt | 1973 | Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand |
NNom | nv | 1983 | Transit |
HNom NNom | s | 1973 | Wings |
McKenna, Bridget
HNom NNom | s | 1993 | The Good Pup |
McKenna, Richard
[f] | nt | 1960 | Mine Own Ways |
HNom Neb | s | 1966 | The Secret Place |
McKillip, Patricia
NNom | n | 1996 | Winter Rose |
McKillip, Patricia A.
HNom | n | 1979 | Harpist in the Wind |
Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy #3 | |||
n | 1977 | Heir of Sea and Fire | |
Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy #2 | |||
[Pf] | n | 1974 | The Forgotten Beasts of Eld |
n | 1976 | The Riddle-Master of Hed | |
Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy #1 | |||
n | 1991 | The Sorceress and the Cygnet | |
Recommended by po |
McKinley, Robin
n | 1978 | Beauty | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1984 | The Hero and the Crown | |
Recommended by po |
McLaughlin, Dean
HNom NNom | nv | 1968 | Hawk Among the Sparrows |
McLoughlin, John C.
n | 1983 | The Helix and the Sword | |
An excellent piece of SF very undervalued — mlo | |||
n | 1987 | Toolmaker Koan | |
Flawed – but, remember the eyes! — po |
Mead, Harold
n | 1956 | The Bright Phoenix | |
Recommended by arl |
Merril, Judith
[a] | nt | 1954 | Dead Center |
[a] | n | 1951 | Shadow on the Hearth |
[a] | s | 1951 | Survival Ship |
[a,c,f] | s | 1948 | That Only a Mother |
Merritt, A.
[k] | n | 1932 | Dwellers in the Mirage |
1919 | The Moon Pool | ||
Recommended by kp | |||
[k] | n | 1924 | The Ship of Ishtar |
Merwin, Jr., Sam
n | 1951 | The House of Many Worlds |
Miller Jr., Walter M.
Hugo [i,Psf] | n | 1960 | A Canticle for Leibowitz |
A fix-up novel | |||
[a] | nt | 1955 | A Canticle for Leibowitz |
Included in the fix-up novel of the same name | |||
[f] | s | 1952 | Command Performance |
[a] | nv | 1952 | Conditionally Human |
[a,f] | s | 1953 | Crucifixus Etiam |
[a] | nt | 1952 | Dumb Waiter |
[a] | s | 1954 | I Made You |
Hugo [a,f] | nt | 1954 | The Darfsteller |
[g] | nv | 1957 | The Lineman |
Miller, P. Schuyler
[a,d] | s | 1944 | As Never Was |
[a] | 1951 | Dark Benediction | |
[a,f] | nt | 1940 | Old Man Mulligan |
[a] | s | 1941 | Over the River |
[f] | s | 1943 | The Cave |
[d] | nt | 1937 | The Sands of Time |
Miller, R. DeWitt
[d] | s | 1937 | Within the Pyramid |
Mirrlees, Hope
n | 1930 | Lud-in-the-Mist | |
Recommended by kp |
Mixon, Laura
n | 1992 | Glass Houses | |
Recommended by po |
Moffett, Judith
NNom | nt | 1986 | Surviving |
NNom | nt | 1988 | The Hob |
HNom NNom | nv | 1989 | Tiny Tango |
Monteleone, Thomas F.
NNom | s | 1976 | Breath’s a Ware That Will Not Keep |
NNom | s | 1976 | Camera Obscura |
Moon, Elizabeth
HNom | n | 1996 | Remnant Population |
Moorcock, Michael
[Psf] | n | 1972 | An Alien Heat |
recommended by dgg / Dancers at the End of Time trilogy | |||
Neb [i] | nv | 1967 | Behold the Man |
[Pf] | n | 1978 | Gloriana |
[k,Pf] | c | 1965 | Stormbringer |
Chilling last paragraph especially — po | |||
[Psf] | n | 1976 | The End of All Songs |
recommended by dgg / Dancers at the End of Time trilogy | |||
[Psf] | n | 1968 | The Final Programme |
[Psf] | n | 1974 | The Hollow Lands |
recommended by dgg / Dancers at the End of Time trilogy | |||
[Pf] | n | 1981 | The War Hound and the World’s Pain |
recommended by dgg |
Moorcock, Michael and Hilary Bailey
n | 1969 | The Black Corridor |
Moore, Brian
[Pf] | n | 1983 | Cold Heaven |
[Pf] | n | 1975 | The Great Victorian Collection |
Moore, C. L.
ps | See also pseudonyms Lawrence O’Donnell and Lewis Padgett | ||
[a] | nt | 1946 | Daemon |
[f] | s | 1943 | Doorway Into Time |
[a] | s | 1940 | Fruit of Knowledge |
[a,f] | nt | 1939 | Greater than Gods |
[a] | nt | 1943 | Judgment Night |
[a,e,f] | nt | 1944 | No Woman Born |
nt | 1933 | Shambleau |
Moore, Ward
[a,i,Psf] | n | 1953 | Bring the Jubilee |
[a] | n | 1947 | Greener Than You Think |
[a,f] | nt | 1953 | Lot |
[e] | s | 1950 | Peacebringer |
[f] | nt | 1960 | The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl |
More, St. Sir Thomas
n | 1516 | Utopia | |
The original |
Morris, William
n | 1896 | The Well at the World’s End |
Morrison, William
[a] | nt | 1953 | Country Doctor |
[a,f] | s | 1953 | The Model of a Judge |
[a,f] | nt | 1950 | The Sack |
Morrow, James
Neb | s | 1988 | Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge |
Neb | nv | 1992 | City of Truth |
NNom | n | 1990 | Only Begotten Daughter |
NNom | n | 1986 | This Is the Way the World Ends |
HNom NNom | N | 1994 | Towing Jehovah |
Moskowitz, Sam
nf | The Immortal Storm | ||
A history of SF Fandom in the 30’s. Said to be the only book to which WW II came as an anti-climax. |
Mullen, Stanley
HNom | s | 1958 | Space to Swing a Cat |
Mundy, Talbot
n | 1925 | Tros of Samothrace |
Murphy, Pat
HNom | nv | 1993 | An American Childhood |
HNom NNom | nv | 1990 | Bones |
NNom | s | 1988 | Dead Men on TV |
NNom | s | 1990 | Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates |
HNom Neb | nt | 1987 | Rachel in Love |
n | 1988 | The City, Not Long After | |
Neb | n | 1987 | The Falling Woman |
Myers, John Myers
[Pf] | n | 1949 | Silverlock |
Nahin, Paul J.
nf | 1993 | Time Machines | |
A physicist looks at time machines — mlo |
Nathan, Robert
nv | 1956 | Digging the Weans | |
[a] | n | 1939 | Portrait of Jennie |
Nelson, Ray
[f] | nt | 1963 | Turn Off the Sky |
Nesvadba, Josef
[g] | nt | 1973 | Captain Nemo’s Last Adventure |
Neville, Kris
[a] | nt | 1951 | Bettyann |
[b] | s | 1949 | Cold War |
Newman, Kim
n | 1992 | Anno Dracula |
Nichols, Peter
Hugo | nf | 1979 | The Science Fiction Encyclopedia |
Niven, Larry
HNom | s | 1968 | All the Myriad Ways |
HNom | nv | 1975 | ARM |
nt | At the Core | ||
Recommended by jam | |||
s | 1972 | Cloak of Anarchy | |
Recommended by arl | |||
NNom | nt | 1967 | Flatlander |
Hugo [g] | s | 1971 | Inconstant Moon |
Hugo | s | 1966 | Neutron Star |
HNom NNom | nt | 1969 | Not Long Before the End |
HNom | n | 1973 | Protector |
Hugo Neb [i] | n | 1970 | Ringworld |
Hugo | nt | 1975 | The Borderland of Sol |
nt | 1967 | The Ethics of Madness | |
HNom | nv | 1971 | The Fourth Profession |
Hugo [g] | s | 1974 | The Hole Man |
NNom | n | 1984 | The Integral Trees |
HNom | s | 1967 | The Jigsaw Man |
HNom | s | 1989 | The Return of William Proxmire |
HNom | n | 1980 | The Ringworld Engineers |
n | World of Ptavvs | ||
Recommended by jam |
Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle
HNom | n | 1985 | Footfall |
HNom NNom | n | 1975 | Inferno |
HNom | n | 1977 | Lucifer’s Hammer |
[Psf] | n | 1981 | Oath of Fealty |
HNom NNom [i] | n | 1974 | The Mote in God’s Eye |
Perhaps the best space opera ever written — mlo |
Niven, Larry and Steven Barnes
HNom | nt | 1979 | The Locusts |
Nordley, G. David
HNom NNom | nv | 1993 | Into the Miranda Rift |
Norton, Andre
n | 1961 | Catseye | |
n | 1968 | Dark Piper | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1959 | Galactic Derelict | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1963 | Judgment on Janus | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1962 | Lord of Thunder | |
n | 1966 | Moon of Three Rings | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1964 | Ordeal in Otherwhere | |
n | 1956 | Plague Ship | |
Part of Solar Queen series | |||
n | 1965 | Postmarked the Stars | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1965 | Quest Crosstime | |
n | 1955 | Sargasso of Space | |
n | 1955 | Sargasso of Space | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1960 | Sioux Spaceman | |
Very minor — kp | |||
n | 1957 | Star Born | |
n | 1958 | Star Gate | |
[i] | n | 1950 | Starman’s Son |
AKA ‘Daybreak 2250 A.D.’ A classic juvenile — po | |||
n | 1960 | Storm Over Warlock | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1959 | The Beast Master | |
[i] | n | 1954 | The Stars Are Ours |
n | 1958 | The Time Traders | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1968 | The Zero Stone | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1969 | Uncharted Stars | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1966 | Victory on Janus | |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1959 | Voodoo Planet | |
Recommended by kp | |||
HNom [Pf] | n | 1963 | Witch World |
HNom | nt | 1967 | Wizard’s World |
Nourse, Alan E.
n | 1974 | Bladerunner | |
NOT the same as the movie — po | |||
[f] | nt | 1956 | Brightside Crossing |
nt | 1953 | Nightmare Brother | |
n | 1962 | Raiders from the Rings | |
n | 1959 | Star Surgeon | |
[f] | nt | 1951 | Tiger by the Tail |
Nowlan, Phillip Francis
nv | 1929 | Armageddon 2419 | |
Of historical interest — the original Buck Rogers novel. The 1962 work Armageddon 2419 A.D.:fixup | |||
nt | 1928 | The Airlords of Han |
O’Brien, Flann
[Pf] | n | 1967 | The Third Policeman |
O’Donnell, K. M.
NNom | nt | 1968 | Final War |
O’Donnell, Lawrence
ps | Pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore | ||
[a,b,f] | nt | 1943 | Clash by Night |
[a,c,e,f,g] | nv | 1946 | Vintage Season |
Olden, Marc
n | 1978 | Poe Must Die |
Oliver, Chad
NNom | s | 1983 | Ghost Town |
n | 1971 | The Shores of Another Sea | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1957 | The Winds of Time | |
Recommended by po | |||
[f] | s | 1954 | Transformer |
Oltion, Jerry
HNom | nv | 1996 | Abandon in Place |
Oltion, Jerry and Lee Goodloe
NNom | nv | 1992 | Contact |
Orwell, George
[a,i,Psf] | n | 1949 | 1984 |
Probably the most famous SF book ever written — mlo | |||
HNom [a] | n | 1946 | Animal Farm |
Padgett, Lewis
ps | Pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore | ||
[a] | n | 1946 | Chessboard Planet |
Also titled the Fairy Chessmen | |||
[b] | s | 1948 | Ex Machina |
[f] | s | 1947 | Exit the Professor |
[a,c,e,f,g] | nt | 1943 | Mimsy Were the Borogoves |
[i] | nt | Robots have No Tails | |
HNom [f] | nt | 1945 | The Piper’s Son |
Part of Mutant. Recommended by arl. | |||
[f] | nt | 1949 | The Prisoner in the Skull |
[d,f,g] | nt | 1943 | The Proud Robot |
[a,d,f] | s | 1942 | The Twonky |
[d] | s | 1943 | Time Locker |
[a,b,f] | nt | 1944 | When the Bough Breaks |
Palmer, David
[i] | n | 1984 | Emergence |
Expansion of novella. Don’t believe the bit about the polar bear — mlo | |||
HNom | nv | 1981 | Emergence |
Incorporated in the novel of the same name | |||
HNom | nv | 1983 | Seeking |
Pangborn, Edgar
[a,f,i,Psf] | n | 1954 | A Mirror for Observers |
Pangborn’s best — po | |||
[a,f] | nt | 1951 | Angel’s Egg |
HNom [i] | n | 1964 | Davy |
NNom | nt | 1971 | Mount Charity |
n | 1975 | The Company of Glory | |
Recommended by po | |||
[a] | nt | 1954 | The Music Master of Babylon |
n | 1953 | West of the Sun | |
Recommended by po |
Panshin, Alexi
n | 1969 | Masque World | |
Anthony Villiars #3 | |||
HNom Neb | n | 1968 | Rite of Passage |
In RAH’s style and (one of his better novels) — po | |||
n | 1968 | Star Well | |
Anthony Villiars #1 | |||
n | 1968 | Thurb Revolution | |
Anthony Villiars #2 |
Panshin, Alexi and Cory
Hugo | nf | 1989 | The World Beyond the Hill |
Panshin, Alexie
nf | Heinlein in Dimension |
Park, Paul
NNom | n | 1995 | Celestis |
Pdgett, Lewis
HNom | s | 1945 | What You Need |
Peake, Mervyn
nt | 1956 | Boy in Darkness | |
A Titus Groan story. Recommended by arl | |||
[i,k,Pf] | n | 1950 | Gormenghast |
This series reads as if Charles Dickens’ stories were written by Franz Kafka — arl | |||
[i,k,Pf] | n | 1959 | Titus Alone |
Ghormenghast #3 | |||
[i,k,Pf] | n | 1956 | Titus Groan |
Ghormenghast #2 |
Petrey, Susan C.
HNom | s | 1980 | Spidersong |
Phillips, A. M.
[d] | nf | 1939 | Time-Travel Happens! |
Phillips, Mark
ps | Pseudonym of Randall Garrett and Lawrence Jannifer | ||
HNom | n | 1959 | Brain Twister |
Originally titled “That Sweet Little Old Lady”. | |||
n | 1960 | The Impossibles | |
n | Twisted |
Phillips, Peter
[a,f] | s | 1948 | Dreams Are Sacred |
[f] | nt | 1949 | Manna |
Phillips, Rog
[a,f] | s | 1952 | Lost Memory |
HNom | nt | 1958 | Rat in the Skull |
[f] | s | 1958 | The Yellow Pill |
Phillpotts, Eden
[a] | n | 1938 | Saurus |
Pierce, John R.
ps | See also pseudonym J. J. Coupling | ||
[a,b,f] | s | 1944 | Invariant |
s | 1962 | John Sze’s Future | |
A loving jab at John W. Campbell’s foibles — mlo |
Pierce, Meredith Ann
n | 1985 | The Woman Who Loved Reindeer | |
Recommended by po |
Piercy, Marge
[Psf] | n | 1976 | Woman on the Edge of Time |
Pinkwater, Daniel M.
n | 1979 | Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy From Mars | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1976 | Lizard Music | |
Recommended by po & mlo | |||
n | The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death | ||
Recommended by jam |
Piper, H. Beam
[a,f] | nt | 1948 | He Walked Around the Horses |
A particularly understated and fine alternate history story — mlo | |||
HNom [i] | n | 1962 | Little Fuzzy |
[i] | n | 1965 | Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen |
[b,f] | nt | 1957 | Omnilingual |
[b] | nt | 1948 | Police Operation |
n | 1963 | Space Viking | |
Quintessential space opera! — mlo | |||
n | 1963 | The Cosmic Computer | |
Also titled “Junkyard Planet” Good, hard SF — mlo | |||
[b] | nv | 1950 | The Last Enemy |
[i] | n | 1964 | The Other Human Race |
[a,e,f] | s | 1947 | Time and Time Again |
Plauger, P. J.
HNom NNom | s | 1975 | Child of All Ages |
Poe, Edgar Allan
[g] | s | 1841 | A Descent into the Maelstrom |
[e] | s | A Tale of the Ragged Mountains | |
Recommened by arl | |||
[k] | n | 1838 | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym |
Pohl, Frederik
HNom NNom | n | 1980 | Beyond the Blue Event Horizon |
[g] | s | 1966 | Day Million |
Hugo | s | 1985 | Fermi and Frost |
Hugo Neb [i] | n | 1977 | Gateway |
HNom NNom | n | 1979 | JEM |
HNom Neb [Psf] | n | 1976 | Man Plus |
NNom | nv | 1979 | Mars Masked |
HNom | s | 1983 | Servant of the People |
NNom | s | 1972 | Shaffery Among the Immortals |
HNom | nv | 1992 | Stopping at Slowyear |
[f] | nv | 1960 | The Day the Icicle Works Closed |
HNom NNom [g] | nv | 1972 | The Gold at Starbow’s End |
NNom | nv | 1984 | The Greening of Bed-Stuy |
[c] | nv | 1954 | The Midas Plague |
[a,f,j] | nt | 1955 | The Tunnel Under the World |
Pohl, Frederik and C. M. Kornbluth
[i] | n | 1955 | Gladiator at Law |
s | 1974 | Mute, Inglorious Tam | |
Hugo | s | 1972 | The Meeting |
[f] | nt | 1961 | The Quaker Cannon |
[i,Psf] | n | 1952 | The Space Merchants |
n | 1959 | Wolfbane |
Pollack, Frank
s | 1906 | Finis | |
Recommended by arl |
Pollack, Rachel
NNom | n | 1993 | Temporary Agency |
Popkes, Steven
NNom | s | 1988 | The Color Winter |
Pournelle, Jerry
HNom | nt | 1974 | Extreme Prejudice |
HNom | nt | 1973 | He Fell into a Dark Hole |
HNom | nv | 1972 | The Mercenary |
HNom | nt | 1975 | Tinker |
Powers, Tim
NNom | n | 1985 | Dinner at Deviant’s Palace |
NNom | n | 1995 | Expiration Date |
n | 1992 | Last Call | |
n | 1987 | On Stranger Tides | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
[Pf] | n | 1983 | The Anubis Gates |
Recommended by mlo | |||
[k] | n | 1979 | The Drawing of the Dark |
Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1989 | The Stress of Her Regard | |
Recommened by arl |
Pratchett, Terry
n | 1992 | Lords and Ladies | |
May be the best Discworld novel — po | |||
n | Strata | ||
A comic sendup of mega-engineering books like Ringworld. Recommended by cjh | |||
[k] | n | 1985 | The Colour of Magic |
Recommended by kp First of at least a dozen Discworld books |
Pratt, Fletcher
n | 1952 | The Blue Star | |
[a,k,Pf] | n | 1948 | Well of the Unicorn |
Price, Meredith
n | The Dark Angel |
Priest, Christopher
HNom [Psf] | n | 1974 | Inverted World |
HNom | nt | 1979 | Palely Loitering |
[Pf] | n | 1984 | The Glamour |
HNom | nv | 1978 | The Watched |
Priestley, J. B.
[a] | n | 1938 | The Doomsday Men |
n | 1961 | The Thirty-First of June | |
Recommended by arl |
Pronzini, Bill and Barry N. Malzberg
n | 1980 | Prose Bowl | |
Novel version – the shorter version is better — arl |
Ptacek, Kathryn
n | 1988 | In Silence Sealed | |
Recommended by arl |
Pynchon, Thomas
NNom | n | 1973 | Gravity’s Rainbow |
[Pf] | n | 1966 | The Crying of Lot 49 |
Rand, Ayn
n | 1946 | Anthem |
Randall, Marta
NNom | nv | 1980 | Dangerous Games |
NNom | n | 1976 | Islands |
n | 1983 | The Sword of Winter | |
Recommended by arl |
Randall, Robert
ps | Pseudonym of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett | ||
n | 1959 | The Dawning Light | |
n | 1957 | The Shrouded Planet |
Raphael, Rick
[b] | s | 1959 | A Filbert Is a Nut |
HNom | nt | 1963 | Code Three |
[f] | nv | 1960 | Make Mine…Homogenized |
HNom | s | 1964 | Once a Cop |
Reamy, Tom
HNom NNom | n | 1978 | Blind Voices |
HNom Neb | nt | 1975 | San Diego Lightfoot Sue |
NNom | nv | 1974 | Twilla |
Reaves, Michael
n | 1982 | Darkworld Detective | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1991 | Street Magic | |
Recommended by po |
Rebetez-Cortes, Rene
[g] | s | 1972 | The New Prehistory |
Reed, Kit
s | 1962 | Mister Da V. | |
Recommended by po |
Reed, Robert
HNom | s | 1996 | Decency |
HNom | s | 1990 | The Utility Man |
Resnick, Mike
HNom | nt | 1994 | A Little Knowledge |
HNom | s | 1994 | Barnaby in Exile |
HNom NNom | nv | 1990 | Bully! |
HNom NNom | nt | 1989 | For I Have Touched the Sky |
n | 1988 | Ivory | |
Hugo NNom | s | 1988 | Kirinyaga |
HNom | s | 1993 | Mwalimu in the Squared Circle |
HNom | s | 1991 | One Perfect Morning, With Jackals |
n | 1989 | Paradise | |
n | 1986 | Santiago | |
Hugo Neb | NV | 1994 | Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge |
nv | 1987 | Stalking the Unicorn | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1987 | The Dark Lady | |
HNom | nt | 1996 | The Land of Nod |
HNom | s | 1992 | The Lotus and the Spear |
Hugo | nt | 1990 | The Manamouki |
HNom NNom | nt | 1995 | When the Old Gods Die |
HNom | s | 1991 | Winter Solstice |
Resnick, Mike and Susan Schwartz
HNom NNom | nv | 1994 | Bibi |
Reynolds, Mack
[f] | s | 1956 | Compounded Interest |
[f] | s | 1962 | Earthlings Go Home! |
[e] | s | 1950 | Isolationist |
[Psf] | n | 1973 | Looking Backward from the Year 2000 |
[a] | s | 1954 | Prone |
HNom | nt | 1961 | Status Quo |
nt | 1965 | The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial | |
[f] | s | 1952 | The Business, as Usual |
Reynolds, Ted
HNom | s | 1979 | Can These Bones Live? |
HNom | nv | 1979 | Ker-Plop |
Rice, Ann
[a] | 1943 | The Refugee |
Rice, Jane
[a] | s | 1942 | Idol of the Flies |
Riley, Frank and Mark Clifton
Hugo | n | 1954 | They’d Rather Be Right |
Easily the weakest novel ever to win a Hugo — mlo |
Roberts, Keith
n | 1970 | Anita | |
[Psf] | n | 1966 | Pavane |
NNom | nv | 1971 | The God House |
n | 1970 | The Inner Wheel | |
Recommended by po | |||
HNom | nt | 1980 | The Lordly Ones |
NNom | nv | 1987 | The Tiger Sweater |
[g] | nt | 1972 | Weihnachtsabend |
Robinson, Frank M.
n | 1958 | The Power | |
Recommended by arl |
Robinson, Kim Stanley
HNom | nv | 1990 | A Short, Sharp Shock |
NNom | s | 1990 | Before I Wake |
HNom NNom | nt | 1983 | Black Air |
Hugo | n | 1996 | Blue Mars |
HNom NNom | nv | 1986 | Escape from Kathmandu |
Hugo NNom | n | 1993 | Green Mars |
This is *not* an expansion of the novella of the same name, but a separate work which is a direct sequel to ‘Red Mars’. | |||
HNom | nv | 1985 | Green Mars |
n | Icehenge | ||
Three interlocking but independent stories | |||
HNom | nv | 1987 | Mother Goddess of the World |
HNom Neb | n | 1992 | Red Mars |
HNom Neb | nv | 1987 | The Blind Geometer |
NNom | nt | 1984 | The Lucky Strike |
NNom | n | 1984 | The Wild Shore |
HNom | nv | 1982 | To Leave a Mark |
NNom | s | 1981 | Venice Drowned |
NNom | s | 1992 | Vinland the Dream |
Recommended by mlo |
Robinson, Spider
Hugo | nv | 1976 | By Any Other Name |
HNom | s | 1977 | Dog Day Evening |
Hugo | s | 1982 | Melancholy Elephants |
Robinson, Spider and Jeanne
Hugo Neb | nv | 1977 | Stardance |
Rocklynne, Ross
[a,f] | nt | 1940 | Into the Darkness |
[e] | nt | 1942 | Jackdaw |
Recommended by arl | |||
[d,f] | s | 1940 | Quietus |
s | 1938 | The Men in the Mirror | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[a,f] | nv | 1941 | Time Wants a Skeleton |
Rogers, Bruce Holland
Neb | nt | 1995 | Lifeboat on a Burning Sea |
NNom | s | 1996 | These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of |
Rohmer, Sax
n | 1913 | The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu |
Rosenblum, Mary
HNom | nv | 1996 | Gas Fish |
Rothman, Milton A.
[a,f] | s | 1939 | Heavy Planet |
Rotsler, William
HNom NNom | nt | 1972 | Patron of the Arts |
Rucker, Rudy
[g] | s | 1983 | Message Found in a Copy of Flatland |
n | 1990 | The Hollow Earth | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[Pf] | n | 1980 | White Light |
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn
NNom | nt | 1990 | A Time for Every Furpose |
NNom | nt | 1989 | Fast Cars |
NNom | s | 1990 | Story Child |
HNom NNom | nv | 1991 | The Gallery of His Dreams |
Rushdie, Salman
[Pf] | n | 1975 | Grimus |
n | 1980 | Midnight’s Children | |
Recommended by dgg |
Russ, Joanna
NNom | n | 1970 | And Chaos Died |
NNom | nt | 1982 | Mystery of the Young Gentleman |
[g] | s | 1972 | Nobody’s Home |
NNom | n | 1968 | Picnic on Paradise |
NNom | nt | 1971 | Poor Man, Beggar Man |
Hugo NNom | nv | 1982 | Souls |
NNom | s | 1979 | The Extraordinary Voyages of Amelie Bertrand |
NNom [Psf] | n | 1975 | The Female Man |
NNom | nt | 1970 | The Second Inquisition |
HNom Neb | s | 1972 | When It Changed |
Classic Planet Stories yarn turned inside out — arl |
Russell, Eric Frank
[a,c] | nv | 1951 | …And Then There Were None |
Incorporated in “The Great Explosion” A classic — mlo | |||
Hugo [f] | s | 1955 | Allamagoosa |
[a,e,f] | nt | 1950 | Dear Devil |
[a] | n | 1948 | Dreadful Sanctuary |
[f] | s | 1952 | Fast Falls the Eventide |
[a,b,f] | nt | 1947 | Hobbyist |
[f] | s | 1941 | Jay Score |
Incorporated in Men, Martians and Machines | |||
[a,b,f] | nv | 1948 | Late Night Final |
[i] | c | 1955 | Men, Martians and Machines |
A collection | |||
[a] | nv | 1946 | Metamorphosite |
[b] | s | 0 | Minor Ingredient |
[a,i] | n | 1939 | Sinister Barrier |
[a,d,f] | nt | 1943 | Symbiotica |
Incorporated in “Men, Martians and Machines” | |||
n | 1962 | The Great Explosion | |
A fix-up novel | |||
nv | 1959 | The Space Willies | |
Also titled “Plus X” and “Next of Kin”. Hilarious — po & mlo | |||
[i] | n | 1957 | Wasp |
A lot of fun — mlo |
Russell, Mary Doria
n | 1996 | The Sparrow | |
The best book of the year and it didn’t even get nominated. A superb First Contact novel. — mlo |
Ryan, Thomas P.
[i] | n | Adolescence of P1 |
Ryman, Geoff
NNom | nv | 1993 | Fan |
NNom [Pf] | nv | 1987 | The Unconquered Country |
Saberhagen, Fred
n | 1992 | A Question of Time | |
Recommended by po | |||
[i] | se | 0 | Berserker Series |
n | 1982 | Dominion | |
[i] | n | 1973 | Empire of the East |
A trilogy (The Broken Lands, xx and xx) begun in 1968 | |||
[f] | s | 1963 | Fortress Ship |
HNom | s | 1966 | Mr. Jester |
Sallis, James
NNom | s | 1970 | The Creation of Bennie Good |
Sarban
[Pf] | n | 1952 | The Sound of His Horn |
Sargent, Pamela
HNom Neb | nt | 1992 | Danny Goes to Mars |
Saunders, Jake
NNom | s | 1976 | Back to the Stone Age |
Sawyer, Robert J.
NNom | n | 1996 | Starplex |
HNom Neb | n | 1995 | The Terminal Experiement / Hobson’s Choice |
Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann
Neb | n | 1989 | The Healer’s War |
Schachner, Nat
[e] | nv | 1938 | The Ultimate Metal |
Great combination of speculation and purple prose — arl |
Schenck, Hilbert
n | 1982 | A Rose for Armageddon | |
n | 1981 | At the Eye of the Ocean | |
n | 1988 | Chronosequence | |
Recommended by po & mlo | |||
HNom | nv | 1983 | Hurricane Claude |
[g] | s | 1984 | Send Me a Kiss by Wire |
[j] | s | 1984 | Silicon Muse |
Recommended by arl | |||
HNom NNom | nv | 1979 | The Battle of the Abaco Reef |
HNom NNom | s | 1983 | The Geometry of Narrative |
[g] | nt | 1978 | The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck |
Schmitz, James H.
n | 1960 | Agent of Vega | |
Classic space opera. A fix-up novel | |||
s | 1965 | Balanced Ecology | |
nt | 1965 | Goblin Night | |
An early Telzey story | |||
nv | 0 | Gone Fishing | |
[a,f] | s | 1955 | Grandpa |
s | 1968 | Just Curious | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
HNom | nv | 1961 | Lion Loose |
nt | 1962 | Novice | |
The first Telzey story. Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1962 | Tale of Two Clocks, A | |
Also titled “Legacy” Recommended by mlo | |||
nt | 1968 | The Custodians | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1968 | The Demon Breed | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
[a] | nt | 1951 | The End of the Line |
[j] | nt | 1960 | The Second Night of Summer |
Part of “Agent of Vega”. Probably the best part — arl & mlo | |||
nt | 1964 | The Universe Against Her | |
An early Telzey story | |||
[i] | n | 1966 | The Witches of Karres |
Superb! — mlo | |||
[a,b,c,f] | nt | 1949 | The Witches of Karres |
Expanded into novel of the same name |
Schoenfeld, Howard
[a] | 1949 | Built Up Logically |
Scholz, Carter
HNom NNom | nt | 1977 | The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs |
Scott, Melissa
n | 1985 | Five-Twelfths of Heaven |
Shaara, Michael
[g] | s | 1956 | 2066: Election Day |
[This is not in Hartwell] | |||
[a] | nt | 1952 | Orphans of the Void |
Sharkey, Jack
[f] | s | 1959 | Multum in Parvo |
Shaver, Richard S.
HNom | nv | 1945 | I Remember Lemuria |
Pretty awful, but important in its day — mlo |
Shaw, Bob
NNom [g] | s | 1966 | Light of Other Days |
[Psf] | n | 1975 | Orbitsville |
nv | 1976 | The Gianconda Caper | |
Recommended by kp & kb | |||
[Psf] | n | 1969 | The Palace of Eternity |
HNom | n | 1986 | The Ragged Astronauts |
Shea, Michael
[Pf] | n | 1982 | Nifft the Lean |
Recommended by kp | |||
NNom | nt | 1979 | The Angel of Death |
HNom NNom | nt | 1980 | The Autopsy |
Sheckley, Robert
[f] | s | 1952 | Cost of Living |
n | 1969 | Dimension of Miracles | |
Recommended by po | |||
[g] | s | 1957 | Ghost V |
[Psf] | n | 1963 | Journey Beyond Tomorrow |
n | 1966 | Mindswap | |
Recommended by po | |||
[a] | nt | 1953 | Shape |
[f] | s | 1952 | The Impacted Man |
[f] | s | 1958 | The Prize of Peril |
[f] | s | 1959 | The World of Heart’s Desire |
HNom | n | 1958 | Time Killer |
Also titled “Immortality Delivered” and “Immortality, Inc.” | |||
[a,f] | s | 1953 | Warm |
nt | 1953 | Watchbird | |
Recommended by arl |
Sheffield, Charles
HNom | nt | 1990 | A Braver Thing |
Hugo Neb | nt | 1993 | Georgia on My Mind |
HNom | s | 1990 | Godspeed |
Sheffield, Charles and David Bischoff
n | 1982 | The Selkie | |
Scary, nasty, erotic contemporary piece — po |
Sheldon, Alice
ps | See pseudonyms James Tiptree, Jr. and Raccoona Sheldon |
Sheldon, Raccoona
ps | Pseudonym of Alice Sheldon | ||
See stories under James Tiptree, Jr. |
Shelley, Mary
[i,k] | n | 1818 | Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus |
Shepard, Lucius
NNom | nv | 1984 | A Traveler’s tale |
NNom | nt | 1986 | Aymara |
Hugo NNom | nv | 1992 | Barnacle Bill the Spacer |
n | 1987 | Life During Wartime | |
NNom | nt | 1984 | Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule |
HNom Neb | nv | 1986 | R&R |
NNom | s | 1984 | Salvador |
HNom | nv | 1989 | The Father of Stones |
NNom | nt | 1985 | The Jaguar Hunter |
HNom NNom | nv | 1988 | The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter |
Shepard, Lucius and Robert Frazier
NNom | nt | 1991 | The All-Consuming |
Sherred, T. L.
[a,b,c,e,f] | nt | 1947 | E for Effort |
Shiner, Lewis
NNom | n | 1988 | Deserted Cities of the Heart |
NNom | n | 1984 | Frontera |
Shiras, Wilmar H.
[i] | nt | 1953 | Children of the Atom |
Fixup novel | |||
[a,c,f] | nt | 1948 | In Hiding |
Incorporated in “Children of the Atom” |
Shute, Nevile
[a] | n | 1940 | An Old Captivity |
n | 1957 | On the Beach |
Shwartz, Susan
NNom | nt | 1991 | Getting Real |
NNom | nt | 1990 | Loose Cannon |
HNom NNom | nt | 1992 | Suppose They Gave a Peace… |
NNom | s | 1987 | Temple to a Minor Goddess |
n | 1992 | The Grail of Hearts | |
Recommended by po |
Silverberg, Robert
nv | 1992 | A Long Night’s Vigil at the Temple | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
HNom Neb | n | 1971 | A Time of Changes |
c | Alpha series | ||
An excellent reprint anthology series | |||
HNom Neb | nv | 1974 | Born with the Dead |
[Psf] | n | 1970 | Downward to the Earth |
HNom NNom | n | 1972 | Dying Inside |
Hugo NNom | nt | 1989 | Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another |
Hugo NNom | nv | 1986 | Gilgamesh in the Outback |
Best of the overdone ‘Heroes in Hell’ series — jr | |||
Neb | s | 1971 | Good News from the Vatican |
HNom NNom | nv | 1967 | Hawksbill Station |
NNom | nv | 1983 | Homefaring |
HNom | n | 1980 | Lord Valentine’s Castle |
Hugo NNom [i] | nv | 1968 | Nightwings |
HNom | s | 1980 | Our Lady of the Sauropods |
HNom Neb | s | 1969 | Passengers |
n | 1964 | Regan’s Planet | |
HNom Neb | nv | 1985 | Sailing to Byzantium |
HNom | s | 1974 | Schwartz Between the Galaxies |
a | 1970 | SF Hall of Fame Vol 1 | |
HNom NNom | n | 1976 | Shadrach in the Furnace |
n | 1986 | Star of Gypsies | |
Recommended by po | |||
s? | 1969 | Sundance | |
Recommended by dgg | |||
HNom NNom [i] | n | 1972 | The Book of Skulls |
s? | 1972 | The Feast of St. Dionysus | |
recommended by David Grubb | |||
[a] | nt | 1958 | The Iron Chancellor |
c | 1981 | The Majipoor Chronicles | |
Recommended by po. Nearly a fixup novel. | |||
[i] | n | 1969 | The Man in the Maze |
NNom | n | 1968 | The Masks of Time |
[f] | s | 1963 | The Pain Peddlers |
NNom | s | 1982 | The Pope of the Chimps |
HNom NNom | nv | 1987 | The Secret Sharer |
HNom | n | 1975 | The Stochastic Man |
HNom | n | 1971 | The World Inside |
Nominated, but withdrawn from Hugo competition by Silverberg | |||
HNom | nv | 1970 | The World Outside |
HNom NNom | n | 1967 | Thorns |
HNom NNom | nv | 1969 | To Jorslem |
HNom NNom | n | 1970 | Tower of Glass |
HNom NNom | n | 1969 | Up the Line |
HNom | s | 1972 | When We Went to See the End of the World |
[f] | s | 1957 | World of a Thousand Colors |
Simak, Clifford D.
HNom | n | 1972 | A Choice of Gods |
[f] | nt | 1959 | A Death in the House |
[a] | nt | 1947 | Aesop |
nt | 1960 | All the Traps of Earth | |
[i] | c | 1952 | City |
[a,f] | nt | 1944 | City |
Included in collection of same name | |||
HNom | s | 1973 | Construction Shack |
[a,e,f,g,j] | s | 1944 | Desertion |
Included in “City” | |||
[a,b,f] | s | 1949 | Eternity Lost |
HNom | n | 1968 | Goblin Reservation |
[a,c,f] | s | 1944 | Huddling Place |
Incorporated in “City” | |||
nt | 1954 | Immigrant | |
[f] | nt | 1963 | New Folks’ Home |
A pastoral Recommended by mlo | |||
[b] | nv | 1944 | Ogre |
HNom | n | 1981 | Project Pope |
[Psf] | n | 1953 | Ring Around the Sun |
HNom | s | 1971 | The Autumn Land |
Hugo [c,f] | nt | 1958 | The Big Front Yard |
nt | 1974 | The Birch Clump Cylinder | |
Hugo Neb | s | 1980 | The Grotto of the Dancing Deer |
nt | 1974 | The Marathon Photograph | |
HNom NNom | nv | 1970 | The Thing in the Stone |
[a] | n | 1951 | Time and Again |
HNom | n | 1961 | Time Is the Simplest Thing |
Original title “The Fisherman” | |||
Hugo [i,Psf] | n | 1963 | Way Station |
Originally titled “Here Gather the Stars” A personal favorite — mlo |
Simmons, Dan
Hugo | n | 1989 | Hyperion |
HNom NNom | n | 1990 | The Fall of Hyperion |
Sinclair, Andrew
[Pf] | n | 1967 | Gog |
Siodmak, Curt
[a] | n | 1942 | Donovan’s Brain |
Not the movie novelization, the original novel — jr |
Sladek, John
[Psf] | n | 1980 | Roderick |
recommended by dgg | |||
[Psf] | c | 1983 | Roderick at Random |
[g] | s | 1988 | Stop Evolution in Its Tracks! |
Sleator, William
n | 1974 | House of Stairs | |
Recommended by po |
Slesar, Henry
[f] | s | 1960 | Chief |
Smeds, Dave
NNom | s | 1994 | Short Timer |
Smith, Cordwainer
[f] | nt | 1961 | A Planet Named Shayol |
nt | 1961 | Alpha Ralpha Boulevard | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
s | 1963 | Drunkboat | |
nt | 1961 | Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
[f,g] | nt | 1959 | No, No, Not Rogov! |
[i,Psf] | n | 1975 | Norstrilia |
[a,c,f] | nt | 1948 | Scanners Live in Vain |
Earliest cyberpunk stpry — arl | |||
[c,f,j] | nv | 1962 | The Ballad of Lost C’mell |
[f] | s | 1958 | The Burning of the Brain |
nv | 1964 | The Dead Lady of Clown Town | |
A personal favorite — mlo. The best title in sf & a good story, too — po | |||
[a,f] | s | 1955 | The Game of Rat and Dragon |
[f] | nt | 1960 | The Lady Who Sailed the Soul |
HNom | n | 1964 | The Planet Buyer |
Original title: “The Boy Who Bought Old Earth” | |||
s | 1963 | Think Blue, Count Two | |
Recommended by po |
Smith, Dean Wesley
NNom | s | 1996 | In the Shade of the Slowboat Man |
- Smith, Edward E.
- Edward E. Smith, Ph.D., was one of the founders of modern SF. His Skylark of Space series was the first real space opera. Skylark and the later Lensman series had enormous influence in the field. None of this influence was due to Doc Smith’s writing skill: he was, even by the standards of the day, a mediocre writer. By today’s standards his books would probably be considered unpublishable. His deserved reputation rests on the pioneering nature of his writing, his personality — he was beloved by everyone in the field — and on the vitality of his storytelling. Read these books to enjoy them and to see where it all began.
[i] | se | 0 | “Lensmen Series” |
Quintessential Space Opera! — mlo | |||
se | 0 | “Skylark” series | |
Nearly unreadable, but seminal to the field. You should try to read it! — mlo | |||
n | 1954 | Children of the Lens | |
Lensman #6 | |||
n | 1950 | First Lensman | |
Lensman #3 | |||
n | 1950 | Galactic Patrol | |
Lensman #2 | |||
n | 1951 | Grey Lensman | |
Seminal but bad (though not as bad as Skylark). Lensman #4 | |||
n | 1953 | Second Stage Lensman | |
Lensman #5 | |||
HNom | n | 1965 | Skylark DuQuesne |
The last “Skylark” story and the only thing written by the beloved Doc Smith eligible for nomination for a Hugo. | |||
n | 1930 | Skylark of Three | |
Skylark #2 | |||
n | 1935 | Skylark of Valeron | |
Skylark #3 | |||
n | 1928 | The Skylark of Space | |
The first book of the “Skylark” series and the very first space opera! Seminal but awful — read it anyway! — mlo | |||
n | 1948 | Triplanetary | |
Lensman #1 |
Smith, George O.
[a] | nt | 1943 | Lost Art |
[a,f] | nt | 1942 | QRM-Interplanetary |
Incorporated in “Venus Equilateral” | |||
[i] | c | 1947 | Venus Equilateral |
Collection of all the “Venus Equilateral” stories except the last one in the Campbell Memorial Anthology |
Smith, Thorne
[k] | n | 1931 | Night Life of the Gods |
n | 1926 | Topper | |
[k] | n | 1931 | Turnabout |
More a 30s comedy than fantasy, but contains a distinct fantastic element – – mlo |
Sohl, Jerry
n | 1953 | Costigan’s Needle | |
Recommended by arl |
Somtow, S. P.
ps | Pseudonym of Somtow Sucharitkul |
Soukup, Martha
Neb | s | 1994 | A Defense of the Social Contract |
HNom NNom | s | 1991 | Dog’s Life |
HNom | nt | 1990 | Over the Long Haul |
HNom | s | 1992 | The Arbitrary Placement of Walls |
HNom | s | 1993 | The Story So Far |
NNom | nt | 1992 | Things Not Seen |
Spinrad, Norman
NNom [j] | s | 1973 | A Thing of Beauty |
HNom NNom [Psf] | n | 1969 | Bug Jack Barron |
s? | 1967 | Carcinoma Angels | |
recommended by David Grubb | |||
HNom NNom | nv | 1988 | Journals of the Plague Years |
s | 1964 | Last of the Romany | |
Recommended by arl | |||
HNom | nv | 1974 | Riding the Torch |
Excellent! — arl & mlo | |||
NNom | nt | 1969 | The Big Flash |
n | 1972 | The Iron Dream | |
nt | The Lost Continent | ||
Recommended by jcook@aaas.org | |||
1967 | The Men in the Jungle | ||
NNom | n | 1983 | The Void Captain’s Tale |
Springer, Nancy
HNom NNom | s | 1986 | The Boy Who Plaited Manes |
St. Clair, Margaret
[f] | s | 1956 | Horrer Howce |
[a] | s | 1954 | Short in the Chest |
Stableford, Brian
nt | 1992 | Complications | |
Recommended by arl | |||
HNom | NV | 1994 | Les Fleurs Du Mal |
NNom | nv | 1995 | Mortimer Gray’s History of Death |
[Psf] | n | 1979 | The Walking Shadow |
Stallman, Robert
NNom | n | 1980 | The Orphan |
Stanton, Mary
n | 1988 | The Heavenly Horse from the Uttermost West | |
Recommended by po |
Stapledon, Olaf
[i] | n | 1931 | Last & First Men |
[i] | n | 1935 | Odd John |
[a] | n | 1944 | Sirius |
n | 1937 | Star Maker | |
Recommended by mlo |
Steele, Allen
Hugo NNom | nv | 1995 | The Death of Captain Future |
HNom | nt | 1995 | The Good Rat |
Stephensen, Neal
Hugo NNom | n | 1995 | The Diamond Age |
Sterling, Bruce
HNom | nt | 1996 | Bicycle Repairman |
NNom | nt | 1983 | Cicada Queen |
HNom | nt | 1993 | Deep Eddy |
HNom | s | 1985 | Dinner in Audoghast |
HNom NNom | s | 1989 | Dori Bangs |
HNom NNom | nt | 1987 | Flowers of Edo |
NNom | nv | 1985 | Green Days in Brunei |
HNom | n | 1996 | Holy Fire |
HNom | n | 1988 | Islands in the Net |
HNom | s | 1988 | Our Neural Chernobyl |
NNom | n | 1985 | Schismatrix |
HNom | s | 1982 | Spider Rose |
NNom | s | 1984 | Sunken Gardens |
HNom NNom [j] | nt | 1982 | Swarm |
n | The Artificial Kid | ||
Probably the first cyberpunk novel – jds |
Stevenson, Robert Louis
[i,k] | nv | 1886 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Stevermer, Caroline
n | 1994 | A College of Magics | |
Recommended by mlo |
Stewart, George R.
[a,i,Psf] | n | 1949 | Earth Abides |
Stewart, Mary
n | 1970 | The Crystal Cave | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1973 | The Hollow Hills | |
Recommended by po |
Stewart, W. Gregory
NNom | s | 1991 | The button, and what you know |
[Check capitalization] |
Stith, John E.
NNom | n | 1990 | Redshift Rendezvous |
Stockton, Frank
n | 1889 | The Great War Syndicate | |
nv | The Lady or the Tiger | ||
Recommended by jr |
Stoker, Bram
[i,k] | n | 1897 | Dracula |
Strete, Craig
The Squaw | |||
NNom | s | 1975 | Time Deer |
Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris
[g] | nv | 1984 | Way to Amalteia |
Stuart, Don A.
ps | Pseudonym of John W. Campbell, Jr. |
Sturgeon, Theodore
[a] | nv | 1953 | …And My Fear Is Great |
[a,f] | s | 1953 | A Saucer of Loneliness |
[a] | nt | 1953 | A Way of Thinking |
[f] | s | 1956 | And Now the News… |
[a,c] | nv | 1952 | Baby Is Three |
Incorporated into “More Than Human” | |||
[a] | s | 1947 | Bianca’s Hands |
[a] | nt | 1955 | Bulkhead |
[f] | nt | 1940 | Butyl and the Breather |
NNom | nt | 1973 | Case and the Dreamer |
[f] | s | 1939 | Ether Breather |
[a,l] | nv | 1954 | Golden Helix |
[a] | nv | 1954 | Granny Won’t Knit |
NNom | nv | 1967 | If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? |
[a,f] | nt | 1940 | It |
[a,e,f] | nv | 1944 | Killdozer! |
[a] | nt | 1947 | Maturity |
[f] | s | 1946 | Memorial |
[a,e,f] | nt | 1946 | Mewhu’s Jet |
[a,c,f] | nt | 1941 | Microcosmic God |
[a,i,Psf] | n | 1953 | More Than Human |
A fix-up novel | |||
[a] | s | 1953 | Mr. Costello, Hero |
HNom | nt | 1960 | Need |
[g] | s | 1971 | Occam’s Scalpel |
[a] | nt | 1951 | Rule of Three |
[f] | nt | 1941 | Shottle Bop |
Hugo Neb | nt | 1970 | Slow Sculpture |
[a] | nv | 1955 | The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff |
[a] | nt | 1946 | The Chromium Helmet |
[a,i] | n | 1950 | The Dreaming Jewels |
[f,g] | s | 1949 | The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast |
NNom | s | 1969 | The Man Who Learned Loving |
HNom [f,g] | nt | 1959 | The Man Who Lost the Sea |
[a] | nv | 1948 | The Perfect Host |
[a,f] | s | 1953 | The World Well Lost |
[a,b,f] | s | 1947 | Thunder and Roses |
[f] | nt | 1947 | Tiny and the Monster |
[a] | nv | 1954 | To Here and the Easel |
[a] | s | 1955 | Twink |
HNom [Psf] | n | 1960 | Venus Plus X |
HNom [f] | nt | 1962 | When You Care, When You Love |
[a] | nt | 1955 | When You’re Smiling |
[f] | nt | 1955 | Who? |
Sucharitkul, Somtow
HNom | s | 1981 | Absent Thee from Felicity a While |
HNom | nt | 1982 | Aquila |
Sullivan, Timothy Robert
NNom | s | 1981 | Zeke |
Swann, Thomas Burnett
HNom [Pf] | n | 1966 | Day of the Minotaur |
n | 1974 | How Are the Mighty Fallen | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1968 | Moondust | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1977 | Queens Walk in the Dusk | |
n | 1971 | The Forest of Forever | |
Recommended by po | |||
HNom | nt | 1966 | The Manor of Roses |
HNom [l] | nt | 1962 | Where Is the Bird of Fire? |
Swanwick, Michael
NNom | nv | 1993 | Cold Iron |
NNom | nt | 1980 | Ginnungagap |
HNom | nv | 1991 | Griffin’s Egg |
In the Drift | |||
Recommended by po | |||
NNom | nv | 1984 | Marrow Death |
NNom | nt | 1981 | Mummer Kiss |
HNom Neb | n | 1991 | Stations of the Tide |
HNom | s | 1996 | The Dead |
HNom | s | 1989 | The Edge of the World |
NNom | nt | 1980 | The Feast of St. Janis |
NNom | nt | 1984 | Trojan Horse |
n | 1987 | Vacuum Flowers | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
HNom | s | 1995 | Walking Out |
Swanwick, Michael and William Gibson
HNom NNom | nt | 1985 | Dogfight |
Swift, Jonathan
[i,k] | n | 1726 | Gulliver’s Travels |
Sykes, S. C.
NNom | nt | 1985 | Rockabye Baby |
Taine, John
[f] | nt | 1939 | The Ultimate Catalyst |
Tall, Stephen
ps | Pseudonym of Compton Crook | ||
HNom | s | 1971 | The Bear with a Knot on His Tail |
Included in ‘The Stardust Voyages’ | |||
n | 1975 | The Stardust Voyages | |
Fix-up novel |
Tanner, Charles R.
nv | 1931 | Tumithak of the Corridors | |
Important for its day — mlo |
Tarr, Judith
n | 1989 | A Wind in Cairo | |
Minor, but fun — po | |||
n | 1992 | Lord of the Two Lands | |
An excellent historial fantasy — mlo | |||
n | 1995 | Pillar of Fire | |
A brilliant historical novel which is just barely a fantasy, too — mlo |
Taylor, Robert
NNom | s | 1968 | Idiot’s Mate |
Temple, William F.
[a,f] | nt | 1939 | The Four-Sided Triangle |
Tenn, William
[f] | nt | 1963 | Bernie the Faust |
[a] | s | 1951 | Betelgeuse Bridge |
[a,f] | s | 1948 | Brooklyn Project |
[a,b,e,f] | s | 1947 | Child’s Play |
[a,f] | nt | 1954 | Down Among the Dead Men |
Great story — arl | |||
[a,h] | nv | 1952 | Firewater |
[f] | s | 1951 | Null-P |
n | 1968 | Of Men and Monsters | |
Recommended by po | |||
[a] | nt | 1954 | Party of the Two Parts |
[a,f] | s | 1953 | The Liberation of Earth |
[f] | nt | 1959 | The Malted Milk Monster |
[a] | nt | 1949 | Venus and the Seven Sexes |
nt | 1957 | Winthrop Was Stubborn | |
Recommended by po. AKA “Time Waits for Winthrop” |
Tennant, Emma
[Pf] | n | 1976 | Hotel de Dream |
Tensei, Kono
[g] | s | 1982 | Triceratops |
Tepper, Sheri S.
HNom | n | 1989 | Grass |
s | 1988 | Marianne, the Madame and the Momentary Gods | |
Recommended by po. | |||
n | 1989 | Marianne, the Matchbox and the Malachite Mouse | |
n | 0 | The Awakener | |
Recommended by po. | |||
n | 1988 | The Gate to Women’s Country | |
Recommended by po. | |||
n | 1985 | The Song of Mavin Manyshaped | |
Recommended by po. |
Tevis, Walter
NNom | n | 1980 | Mockingbird |
Thomas, Theodore L.
NNom | s | 1967 | The Doctor |
[f,g] | nt | 1962 | The Weather Man |
Thompson, W. R.
HNom | s | 1990 | VRM-547 |
Tiptree Jr., James
ps | Pseudonym of Alice Sheldon | ||
NNom | nv | 1975 | A Momentary Taste of Being |
HNom NNom | s | 1972 | And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side |
nt | 1969 | Beam Us Home | |
Yes! — po | |||
s | 1989 | Color of …. Eyes | |
Recommended by jr | |||
s? | 1974 | Her Smoke Rose Up Forever | |
Hugo Neb | nv | 1976 | Houston, Houston, Do You Read? |
NNom | nt | 1981 | Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo |
HNom Neb | s | 1973 | Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death |
HNom | nt | 1972 | Painwise |
HNom | s | 1982 | The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever |
Hugo NNom | nv | 1973 | The Girl Who Was Plugged In |
NNom | s | 1969 | The Last Flight of Dr. Ain |
HNom NNom | nv | 1985 | The Only Neat Thing to Do |
[g] | s | 1976 | The Psychologist Who Wouldn’t Do Awful Things to Rats |
HNom Neb [j] | nt | 1977 | The Screwfly Solution |
Recommended by arl | |||
HNom | s | 1977 | Time-Sharing Angel |
HNom | n | 1978 | Up the Walls of the World |
Tolkien, J. R. R.
[a] | nv | 1949 | Farmer Giles of Ham |
nt | 1947 | Leaf by Niggle | |
nf | 1939 | On Fairy-Stories | |
[k,Pf] | n | 1952 | The Fellowship of the Ring |
Lord of the Rings #1 | |||
[i] | n | 1937 | The Hobbit |
[k,i] | n | 1954 | The Lord of the Rings |
Published in three volumes the progenitor of most modern fantasy and still the best ever written — mlo | |||
[k,Pf] | n | 1954 | The Return of the King |
Lord of the Rings #3 | |||
n | 1977 | The Silmarillion | |
[k,Pf] | n | 1953 | The Two Towers |
Lord of the Rings #2 |
Treece, Henry
n | 1966 | The Green Man | |
Recommended by arl |
Tubb, E. C.
n | 1957 | Alien Dust | |
Recommended by arl |
Tuck, Donald
nf | Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | ||
In three volumes the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the field. It took 15 years to publish. | |||
Hugo | nf | 1983 | Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol III |
Tucker, Wilson
n | 1974 | Ice and Iron | |
Recommended by arl | |||
n | 1958 | The Lincoln Hunters | |
n | 1952 | The Long Loud Silence | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[a] | s | 1951 | The Tourist Trade |
n | 1954 | Wild Talent | |
Recommended by po. | |||
HNom NNom [Psf] | n | 1970 | Year of the Quiet Sun |
Turner, George
NNom | n | 1988 | Drowning Towers |
[g] | nt | 1978 | In a Petri Dish Upstairs |
Turtledove, Harry
After the Last Elf is Dead | |||
Nasty! — mlo | |||
nt | 1986 | And So to Bed | |
Hugo | nv | 1993 | Down in the Bottomlands |
n | 1992 | Guns of the South | |
An excellent alternate history novel — mlo | |||
s | 1984 | Hindsight | |
HNom NNom | nt | 1995 | Must and Shall |
nt | 1985 | The Road Not Taken | |
A fascinating retelling of Anvil’s “Pandora’s Planet” — mlo |
Tuttle, Lisa
NNom | s | 1976 | Stone Circle |
Neb | s | 1982 | The Bone Flute |
Tutuola, Amos
[a] | n | 1953 | Palm Wine Drunkard |
Twain, Mark
[i] | n | 1889 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court |
[i] | n | 0 | Letters from Earth |
1916 | The Mysterious Stranger |
Updike, John
[g] | s | 1983 | The Chaste Planet |
[Pf] | n | 1984 | The Witches of Eastwick |
Utley, Steven and Howard Waldrop
NNom | nt | 1976 | Custer’s Last Jump |
van Ewyck, Annemarie
[g] | s | 1984 | The Lens |
van Loggem, Manuel
[g] | s | 1974 | Pairpuppets |
Van Scyoc, Sydney
n | 1971 | Saltflower | |
Recommended by arl |
Van Vogt, A. E.
[a,d,f] | nv | 1942 | Asylum |
[d,f] | nt | 1939 | Black Destroyer |
Incorporated in ‘Voyage of the Space Beagle’ | |||
[f] | nt | 1942 | Cooperate — Or Else! |
Incorporated in “The War Against the Rull” | |||
[a,f] | s | 1948 | Dormant |
n | 1956 | Empire of the Atom | |
‘I, Claudius’, revisited — mlo | |||
[a,f] | s | 1950 | Enchanted Village |
[a,f] | nt | 1944 | Far Centaurus |
Excellent idea story — mlo | |||
[f] | s | 1950 | Process |
nv | 1942 | Secret Unattainable | |
[a,i] | n | 1940 | Slan |
[k,Pf] | n | 1947 | The Book of Ptath |
HNom | nt | 1945 | The Mixed Men |
[f] | s | 1948 | The Monster |
[f] | nt | 1941 | The Seesaw |
Incorporated into ‘The Weapon Shops of Isher’ | |||
[f] | nt | 1943 | The Storm |
[i] | n | 1963 | The Voyage of the Space Beagle |
A fix-up novel | |||
n | 1959 | The War Against the Rull | |
A fix-up novel Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1947 | The Weapon Makers | |
[a,c,d,f] | nt | 1942 | The Weapon Shop |
n | 1951 | The Weapon Shops of Isher | |
Sequel to ‘Empire of the Atom’, but not as good — mlo | |||
n | 1962 | The Wizard of Linn | |
HNom [a,i] | n | 1945 | The World of Null-A |
[b,f] | s | 1940 | Vault of the Beast |
Vance, Jack
HNom | nv | 1974 | Assault on a City |
n | 1952 | Big Planet | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1969 | Emphyrio | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
s | 1963 | Green Magic | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
NNom | n | 1983 | Lyonesse |
n | 1996 | Night Lamp | |
Quintessential Vance — mlo | |||
[a] | nv | 1952 | Telek |
n | 1981 | The Book of Dreams | |
Demon Princes #5 | |||
Hugo | nt | 1962 | The Dragon Masters |
[a,i,k,Pf] | n | 1950 | The Dying Earth |
[Pf] | n | 1965 | The Eyes of the Overworld |
Recommended by kp | |||
n | 1979 | The Face | |
Demon Princes #4 | |||
[a] | nt | 1955 | The Gift of Gab |
n | 1964 | The Killing Machine | |
Demon Princes #2 | |||
n | 1957 | The Languages of Pao | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
Hugo Neb | nv | 1966 | The Last Castle |
HNom | nt | 1958 | The Miracle-Workers |
[c,f] | nv | 1961 | The Moon Moth |
n | 1964 | The Palace of Love | |
Demon Princes #3 | |||
nt | 1950 | The Potters of Firsk | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
n | 1964 | The Star King | |
Demon Princes #1 |
Varley, Jack
s | 1986 | The Unprocessed Word | |
Recommended by arl |
Varley, John
HNom NNom | s | 1977 | Air Raid |
Written as Herb Boehm | |||
HNom NNom | nt | 1980 | Beatnik Bayou |
HNom | nv | 1981 | Blue Champagne |
HNom | nt | 1976 | Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance |
NNom | nt | 1976 | In the Bowl |
HNom | nv | 1977 | In the Hall of the Martian Kings |
HNom | n | 1983 | Millennium |
HNom NNom | nt | 1979 | Options |
Hugo Neb | nv | 1984 | Press Enter [] |
NNom | nt | 1975 | Retrograde Summer |
HNom | n | 1992 | Steel Beach |
HNom | nt | 1978 | The Barbie Murders |
[Psf] | n | 1977 | The Ophiuchi Hotline |
Hugo Neb | nv | 1978 | The Persistence of Vision |
HNom [g] | nt | 1976 | The Phantom of Kansas |
Hugo NNom | s | 1981 | The Pusher |
HNom NNom | n | 1979 | Titan |
HNom | n | 1980 | Wizard |
Vercors,
HNom | n | 1961 | Sylva |
Verne, Jules
[i] | n | 1870 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
n | 1873 | Around the World in Eighty Days | |
n | 1862 | Five Weeks in a Balloon | |
[i] | n | 1865 | From the Earth to the Moon |
[g] | s | In the Year 2889 | |
[i] | n | 1863 | Journey to the Center of the Earth |
n | The Mysterious Island |
Vian, Boris
[g] | s | 1955 | The Dead Fish |
Vidal, Gore
NNom | n | 1978 | Kalki |
[a] | n | 1954 | Messiah |
Vinge, Joan D.
Hugo | nt | 1977 | Eyes of Amber |
HNom NNom | nv | 1978 | Fireship |
Hugo NNom [i] | n | 1980 | The Snow Queen |
HNom | n | 1991 | The Summer Queen |
nt | 1974 | The Tin Soldier | |
Recommended by po | |||
HNom | s | 1978 | View from a Height |
n | 1984 | World’s End | |
A very interesting middle-of-series item — po |
Vinge, Vernor
Hugo | n | 1992 | A Fire Upon the Deep |
[g] | nv | 1966 | Bookworm Run! |
nt | 1968 | Grimm’s Story | |
Included in ‘Grimm’s World’ | |||
HNom | n | 1986 | Marooned in Real Time |
nt | 1970 | Original Sin | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
HNom | nt | 1986 | The Barbarian Princess |
Included in ‘Grimm’s World’ | |||
n | 1984 | The Peace War | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
HNom NNom | nv | 1981 | True Names |
Volsky, Paula
n | 1992 | Illusion | |
Recommended by po |
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
HNom [Psf] | n | 1963 | Cat’s Cradle |
n | 1965 | God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | |
[g] | s | 1961 | Harrison Bergeron |
n | 1952 | Player Piano | |
[a] | s | 1950 | Report on the Barnhouse Effect |
HNom NNom | n | 1969 | Slaughterhouse-Five |
[a] | s | 1954 | The Big Trip Up Yonder |
HNom [i,Psf] | n | 1959 | The Sirens of Titan |
[a] | s | 1953 | Unready to Wear |
Waldrop, Howard
NNom | nv | 1989 | A Dozen Tough Jobs |
HNom NNom | nt | 1988 | Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance |
HNom | nt | 1991 | Fin de Cycle |
HNom NNom | s | 1985 | Flying Saucer Rock and Roll |
NNom | s | 1982 | God’s Hooks |
NNom | s | 1985 | Heirs of the Perisphere |
HNom | s | 1982 | Ike at the Mike |
NNom | s | 1976 | Mary Margaret Road-Grader |
HNom | s | 1987 | Night of the Cooters |
NNom | s | 1986 | The Lions Are Asleep This Night |
HNom Neb | nt | 1980 | The Ugly Chickens |
Wallace, F. L.
[a,f] | nv | 1952 | Delay in Transit |
[a] | nt | 1953 | Student Body |
Wallace, Ian
n | 1955 | Address Centauri | |
Recommended by arl | |||
n | 1967 | Croyd | |
Recommended by arl |
Walling, William
HNom | nt | 1974 | Nix Olympica |
Walpole, Horace
[k] | n | 1765 | Castle of Otranto |
The great granddaddy of the gothic |
Walton, Evangeline
n | 1936 | The Island of the Mighty | |
AKA ‘The Virgin and the Swine’ |
Wandrei, Donald
nt | 1934 | Colossus | |
Recommended by arl |
Warner Jr., Harry
Hugo | nf | 1992 | A Wealth of Fable |
Excellent history of SF fandom in the 50’s — mlo | |||
nf | 1969 | All Our Yesterdays | |
Classic history of SF fandom in the 40’s — mlo |
Watkins, William John
NNom | s | 1993 | The Beggar in the Living Room |
Watson, Ian
[Psf] | n | 1978 | Miracle Visitors |
HNom NNom | nt | 1983 | Slow Birds |
[Psf] | n | 1973 | The Embedding |
HNom [g] | s | 1978 | The Very Slow Time Machine |
Watt-Evans, Lawrence
nv | 1992 | The Rebirth of Wonder | |
Recommended by arl | |||
Hugo NNom | s | 1987 | Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers |
Wei, Vahua
nt | 1984 | Conjugal Happiness in the Arms of Morpheus | |
Recommended by arl |
Weinbaum, Stanley G.
[c,j] | nt | 1934 | A Martian Odyssey |
nv | 1938 | The Black Flame | |
Recommended by arl | |||
n | 1939 | The New Adam |
Wellman, Manly Wade
HNom | s | 1958 | Nine Yards of Other Cloth |
[a] | n | 1938 | The Dark Destroyers |
[a] | s | 1955 | Walk Like a Mountain |
Wells, H. G.
Men Like Gods | |||
The Door in the Wall | |||
Recommended by pt | |||
n | 1901 | The First Men in the Moon | |
n | 1903 | The Food of the Gods | |
The Glass Egg | |||
[i] | n | 1897 | The Invisible Man |
nv | 1896 | The Island of Dr. Moreau | |
[g,j] | nv | 1903 | The Land Ironclads |
s | 1901 | The New Accelerator | |
The Shape of Things to Come | |||
s | 1897 | The Star | |
[c,i] | nv | 1895 | The Time Machine |
[i] | n | 1898 | The War of the Worlds |
[i] | n | 1898 | When the Sleeper Wakes |
Whelan, Michael
Hugo | nf | 1987 | Michael Whelan’s Works of Wonder |
White, James
HNom | s | 1996 | Un-Birthday Boy |
White, James A.
[f] | nt | 1962 | Christmas Treason |
HNom | s | 1976 | Custom Fitting |
[i] | a | 1962 | Hospital Station |
HNom | n | 1961 | Second Ending |
[i] | n | 1963 | Star Surgeon |
[a] | nt | 1954 | The Conspirators |
White, T. H.
[i,k,Pf] | n | 1958 | The Once and Future King |
n | 1937 | The Sword in the Stone | |
Included in ‘The Once and Future King’ |
Wilde, Oscar
[k] | nt | 1891 | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Wilder, Cherry
n | 1977 | The Luck of Brin’s Five | |
Fine YA fantasy — po |
Wilhelm, Kate
HNom | nt | 1974 | A Brother to Dragons, a Companion to Owls |
NNom | s | 1970 | A Cold Dark Night With Snow |
NNom | nv | 1970 | April Fool’s Day Forever |
NNom | nt | 1967 | Baby, You Were Great |
NNom | nt | 1971 | Encounter |
HNom Neb | s | 1987 | Forever Yours, Anna |
HNom NNom | s | 1994 | I Know What You’re Thinking |
NNom [Psf] | n | 1979 | Juniper Time |
NNom | n | 1971 | Margaret and I |
NNom | n | 1992 | Naming the Flowers |
NNom | nt | 1972 | The Funeral |
Neb | nt | 1986 | The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky |
NNom | nv | 1985 | The Gorgon Field |
NNom | nv | 1971 | The Infinity Box |
[f,l] | s | 1957 | The Mile-Long Spaceship |
Neb [g] | s | 1968 | The Planners |
NNom | nv | 1971 | The Plastic Abyss |
NNom | nv | 1981 | The Winter Beach |
Hugo NNom | n | 1976 | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang |
HNom | nv | 1981 | With Thimbles, With Forks and Hope |
Willey, Elizabeth
n | 1995 | A Sorcerer and a Gentleman | |
Recommend by mlo | |||
n | 1994 | The Well-Favored Man | |
Amber done better — po |
Williams, Charles
[k] | n | 1930 | War in Heaven |
Williams, Ralph
[b] | s | 1958 | Business as Usual, During Alterations |
HNom | nt | 1959 | Cat and Mouse |
Williams, Robert Moore
[a,d] | s | 1938 | Robot’s Return |
Williams, Tad
n | 1985 | Tailchaser’s Song | |
Recommended by arl |
Williams, Walter Jon
n | 1992 | Aristoi | |
One of the best novels in an exceptional year — po & mlo | |||
n | 1997 | City on Fire | |
recommended by mlo | |||
HNom | nt | 1987 | Dinosaurs |
n | 1986 | Hardwired | |
n | 1985 | Knight Moves | |
Very reminiscent of some of Zelazny’s stories, but better — mlo | |||
NNom | n | 1995 | Metropolitan |
NNom | nt | 1992 | Prayers on the Wind |
HNom NNom | nv | 1988 | Surfacing |
HNom NNom | nv | 1993 | Wall, Stone, Craft |
NNom | nv | 1987 | Witness |
Williamson, Jack
nv | 1948 | …And Searching Mind | |
Incorporated in “The Humanoids” | |||
nt | 1934 | Born of the Sun | |
Recommended by arl | |||
[a,k,Pf] | n | 1940 | Darker Than You Think |
[a] | s | 1954 | Guinivere For Everybody |
[a,b,f] | s | 1940 | Hindsight |
[a] | n | 1940 | Realm of Wizardry |
[a,f] | nt | 1939 | Star Bright |
[a,i] | n | 1948 | The Humanoids |
n | 1935 | The Legion of Space | |
Classic very early space opera | |||
[j] | s | 1928 | The Metal Man |
Recommended by arl | |||
[a,c,e,f] | nv | 1947 | With Folded Hands… |
Incorporated in “The Humanoids” |
Willis, Connie
Neb | s | 1982 | A Letter from the Clearys |
s | 0 | All My Darling Daughters | |
Recommended by jr | |||
HNom Neb | nt | 1989 | At the Rialto |
HNom | s | 1990 | Cibola |
HNom | s | 1979 | Daisy, in the Sun |
Hugo NNom | n | 1993 | Death on the Nile |
Hugo Neb | n | 1992 | Doomsday Book |
Hugo Neb | s | 1992 | Even the Queen |
Hugo Neb | nt | 1982 | Fire Watch |
HNom | s | 1991 | In the Late Cretaceous |
HNom NNom | nv | 1991 | Jack |
HNom | nt | 1991 | Miracle |
HNom | n | 1995 | Remake |
NNom | nt | 1987 | Schwarzschild Radius |
HNom | nv | 1986 | Spice Pogrom |
Hugo Neb | nv | 1988 | The Last of the Winnebagos |
HNom NNom | nt | 1983 | The Sidon in the Mirror |
HNom | s | 1996 | The Soul Selects Her Own Society |
HNom | nv | 1989 | Time-Out |
Willis, Walt
nf | Warhoon 28 | ||
A huge, hardbound ‘fanzine’ which collects some of the best fan writing (not fan fiction!) ever written — mlo |
Wilson, F. Paul
NNom | nv | 1986 | Dydeetown Girl |
Wilson, Richard
[a] | s | 1952 | Love |
[Is this actually *Richard* Wilson?] | |||
HNom Neb | nt | 1968 | Mother to the World |
NNom | nv | 1979 | The Story Writer |
Wilson, Robert Charles
n | 1991 | A Bridge of Years | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1989 | Gypsies | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1994 | Mysterium | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1990 | The Divide | |
Recommended by po | |||
n | 1993 | The Harvest | |
Recommended by po | |||
NNom | nt | 1995 | The Perseids |
Wolfe, Bernard
[a,Psf] | n | 1953 | Limbo |
[a] | nt | 1951 | Self-Portrait |
Wolfe, Gene
NNom | s | 1984 | A Cabin on the Coast |
NNom | s | 1972 | Against the Lafayette Escadrille |
[g] | s | 1987 | All the Hues of Hell |
NNom | n | 1994 | Calde of the Long Sun |
nt | 1984 | Detective of Dreams | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
NNom | n | 1986 | Free Live Free |
NNom | s | 1973 | How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion |
s | 1970 | How the Whip Came Back | |
Recommended by arl | |||
NNom | s | 1970 | Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories |
NNom | n | 1993 | Nightside the Long Sun |
[Pf] | n | 1975 | Peace |
[g] | s | 1984 | Procreation |
HNom NNom | nv | 1978 | Seven American Nights |
n | 1989 | Soldier of Arete | |
NNom | n | 1987 | Soldier of the Mist |
NNom [Psf] | n | 1983 | The Citadel of the Autarch |
HNom Neb [Psf] | n | 1981 | The Claw of the Conciliator |
HNom Neb | nv | 1973 | The Death of Dr. Island |
NNom | nv | 1976 | The Eyeflash Miracles |
HNom NNom [g,i,Psf] | nv | 1972 | The Fifth Head of Cerberus |
NNom [Psf] | n | 1980 | The Shadow of the Torturer |
HNom NNom [Psf] | n | 1982 | The Sword of the Lictor |
HNom NNom | n | 1987 | The Urth of the New Sun |
HNom | s | 1981 | The Woman the Unicorn Loved |
NNom | s | 1980 | War Beneath the Trees |
s | 1976 | When I Was Ming the Merciless | |
Recommended by jr |
Wollheim, Donald A.
[f] | s | 1942 | Mimic |
[f] | s | 1954 | The Lysenko Maze |
Wolverton, Dave
NNom | nt | 1996 | After a Lean Winter |
Wrede, Patricia C.
n | 1989 | Snow White and Rose Red | |
Recommended by arl |
Wrede, Patricia D.
n | 1991 | Mairelon the Magician | |
Recommended by po |
Wrede, Patricia D. and Caroline Stevermer
n | 1988 | Sorcerery and Cecelia | |
Quirky and delightful — po |
Wright, Austin Tappan
n | 1942 | Islandia |
Wright, S. Fowler
[d] | s | 0 | Brain |
n | 1928 | Deluge |
Wu, William F.
HNom NNom | s | 1985 | Hong’s Bluff |
HNom NNom | s | 1983 | Wong’s Lost and Found Emporium |
Wyndham, John
n | 1968 | Chocky | |
Recommended by po | |||
s | 1956 | Consider Her Ways | |
Recommended by po | |||
[a,i,Psf] | n | 1951 | Day of the Triffids |
[a] | n | 1953 | Out of the Deeps |
[i] | n | 1955 | Rebirth |
Also titled “The Chrysalids”. Really good — po | |||
[a] | nt | 1953 | The Chronoclasm |
[Psf] | n | 1957 | The Midwich Cookoos |
nt | 1952 | The Perfect Creature | |
Recommended by arl | |||
n | 1960 | Trouble with Lichen |
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn
[Pf] | n | 1980 | Ariosto |
Recommended by po | |||
se | 0 | St. Germain series | |
A classic vampire series. Recommended by arl |
Yefremov, Ivan
nv | 1959 | Heart of the Serpent | |
Retelling of Leinster’s “First Contact” from a proper Communist perspective |
Yolen, Jane
NNom | n | 1992 | Briar Rose |
NNom | n | 1989 | Sister Light, Sister Dark |
NNom | nv | 1988 | The Devil’s Arithmetic |
NNom | n | 1990 | White Jenna |
Young, Robert F.
HNom | s | 1964 | Little Dog Gone |
Yulsman, Jerry
n | 1984 | Elleander Morning |
Zahn, Timothy
n | 1985 | A Coming of Age | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
Hugo | nv | 1983 | Cascade Point |
HNom | nt | 1982 | Pawn’s Gambit |
Zamayatin, Victor
n | 1972 | “We” |
Zebrowski, George
NNom | s | 1971 | Heathen God |
NNom | s | 1984 | The Eichmann Variations |
Zelazny, Roger
NNom | n | 1993 | A Night in the Lonseome October |
HNom [c,f] | nt | 1963 | A Rose for Ecclesiastes |
HNom | s | 1966 | Comes Now the Power |
n | 1969 | Creatures of Light and Darkness | |
Recommended by mlo | |||
HNom | nv | 1967 | Damnation Alley |
In perspective, trivial even before rotten movie — cjh | |||
HNom | n | 1975 | Doorways in the Sand |
HNom | nt | 1966 | For a Breath I Tarry |
Neb | nv | 1965 | He Who Shapes |
Expanded into ‘The Dream Master’ | |||
Hugo Neb | nv | 1975 | Home Is the Hangman |
NNom | n | 1969 | Isle of the Dead |
HNom [Pf] | n | 1971 | Jack of Shadows |
s | 1989 | Loki 7281 | |
Recommended by arl | |||
Hugo NNom | n | 1967 | Lord of Light |
n | 1970 | Nine Princes in Amber | |
A good, ground-breaking fantasy. The nine (at least!) sequels went downhill pretty fast — mlo & cjh | |||
Hugo NNom | nt | 1986 | Permafrost |
HNom Neb | nt | 1965 | The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth |
[Psf] | n | 1966 | The Dream Master |
Expanded from ‘He Who Shapes’ | |||
NNom | s | 1974 | The Engine at Heartspring’s Center |
NNom | nt | 1967 | The Keys to December |
NNom | nt | 1966 | The Moment of the Storm |
Hugo | n | 1965 | This Immortal |
Originally titled “…And Call Me Conrad” | |||
HNom | nt | 1966 | This Moment of the Storm |
NNom | nt | 1967 | This Mortal Mountain |
Hugo NNom | nv | 1985 | Twenty-Four Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai |
Hugo | nt | 1981 | Unicorn Variation |
Zelazny, Roger and Fred Saberhagen
n | 1990 | The Black Throne | |
Recommended by arl |