1985-10-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels |
David Pringle |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Book with list (1), about science fiction (1)
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1984-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Neuromancer |
William Gibson |
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artificial intelligence (3), cyberpunk (3), virtual reality (2), science fiction (2), dystopia (2), into-video game (1), drugs (1), cryogenics (1), istanbul (1), United States (1), uploaded personalities (1), poison (1), Japan (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), hard sf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), near future (1)
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1983-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica |
John Calvin Batchelor |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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1983-00-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The Book of the New Sun, Vols. I & II |
Gene Wolfe |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1982-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
No Enemy But Time |
Michael Bishop |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), African Americans (1), United States (1), Kenya (1), time travel (1), dreams (1), hominins (1)
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1981-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Oath of Fealty |
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle |
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dystopia (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), arcology (1), Los Angeles (1)
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1981-00-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
The Dancers at the End of Time |
Michael Moorcock |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1981-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Unreasoning Mask |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1980-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Riddley Walker |
Russell Hoban |
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2-award-winner (1), 99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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1980-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine |
John Sladek |
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artificial intelligence (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), fantasy (1)
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1980-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dreaming Dragons |
Damien Broderick |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1980-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Timescape |
Gregory Benford |
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time travel (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), scientists (1), academia (1), ecological collapse (1), tachyons (1), california (1), england (1), epidemic (1)
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1980-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Wild Seed |
Octavia E. Butler |
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only humans (1), HumbleBundle (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), telepathy (1), telekinesis (1), strong female characters (1), spiritual (1), shapechangers (1), secret breeding program (1), fantasy (1), only Earth (1), mutant (1), immortal (1), human experiment (1), genetic engineering (1), female main character (1), female leaders (1), science fiction (1)
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1979-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Engine Summer |
John Crowley |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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1979-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Juniper Time |
Kate Wilhelm |
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science fiction (2), Oregon (2), space station (2), native americans (2), linguistics (2), desert (2), drought (2), climate change (2), decryption (1), translating machine (1), astronauts (1), near future (1), space program (1), translation (1), cold war politics (1), cold war (1), academia (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), holism (1), boston (1), Washington, DC (1), alien artifacts (1), strong female characters (1)
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1979-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
On Wings of Song |
Thomas M. Disch |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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1979-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Walking Shadow |
Brian Stableford |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1978-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Miracle Visitors |
Ian Watson |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), UFO (1)
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1977-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Michaelmas |
Algis Budrys |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), journalism (1), science fiction (1), artificial intelligence (1), world peace (1), parallel universes (1), AI personal assistant (1), international intrigue (1), near future (1), secret control of humanity (1), aliens (1), international interplanetary exploration team (1), switzerland (1), medical clinic (1)
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1977-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Ophiuchi Hotline |
John Varley |
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transhuman (1), moon (1), asteroid belt (1), dolphin (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), body backup drive (1), interstellar travel (1), interplanetary travel (1), black holes (1), Clones (1), first contact (1), first person point of view (1), science fiction (1)
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1976-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Man Plus |
Frederik Pohl |
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mars (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (1), cyborgs (1), cold war (1), artificial intelligence (1), transhuman (1), transformation (1)
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1976-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Alteration |
Kingsley Amis |
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alternate history (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), recursive sf (NESFA index) (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), story within a story (1), england (1), theocracy (1), eunuchs (1), music (1), fantasy (1)
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1976-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Woman on the Edge of Time |
Marge Piercy |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1975-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Galaxies |
Barry N. Malzberg |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1975-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
High-Rise |
J. G. Ballard |
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into-movie (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), doctor (1), isolation (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
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1975-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Norstrilia |
Cordwainer Smith |
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underground city (1), mars (1), longevity (1), psychotherapy (1), architecture (1), invisibility (1), murder (1), religion (1), food (1), smell (1), Miami (1), radio (1), theft (1), robots (1), hominins (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), interstellar travel (1), distant future (1), Poetry (1), music (1), economics (1), telepathy (1), science fiction (1), postage stamps (1), Earth (1), human-animal hybrids (1), Physicians (1), Australia (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1975-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Orbitsville |
Bob Shaw |
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dyson sphere (1), mega-engineering (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), space opera (1), science fiction (1)
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1975-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Female Man |
Joanna Russ |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), alternate history (1), science fiction (1), world without men/women (1)
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1974-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Inverted World |
Christopher Priest |
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science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), time distortion (1), moving city (1), perception of reality (1), near future (1), no aliens (1), strong female character (1), first person point of view (1), multiple points of view (1), hyperboloid planet (1), guild system (1)
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1974-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Centauri Device |
M. John Harrison |
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space opera (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), ideology (1), space warfare (1)
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1974-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
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science fiction (2), childbirth (1), physicists (1), university (1), double planet (1), interplanetary travel (1), interstellar travel (1), Tau Ceti (1), philosophy (1), Albert Einstein (1), ansible (1), trains (1), architecture (1), education (1), artificial languages (1), famine (1), Time (1), revolution (1), desert (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), music (1), ambiguous utopia (1), 3-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), hard sf (1), love (1), celibacy (1), LGBTQ+ (1), alternating chapter structure (1), artificial language (1), art (1), leather (1), food (1), into-radio (1), drought (1), anarchism (1), Utopia (1), mathematics (1)
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1974-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Walk to the End of the World |
Suzy McKee Charnas |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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1973-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Crash |
J. G. Ballard |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), recursive sf (NESFA index) (1), science fiction (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), near future (1)
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1973-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Looking Backward, from the Year 2000 |
Mack Reynolds |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), looking backward (1), Looking Backward Sequel by Other Hands (1)
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1973-07-26 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Embedding |
Ian Watson |
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linguistics (2), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), Brazil (1), Nevada (1), first contact (1), Amazon jungle (1), unethical research (1), drug (1), drug use (1)
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1972-11-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
334 |
Thomas M. Disch |
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dystopia (1), overpopulation (1), skyscraper (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), everyday life (1), science fiction (1)
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1972-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Fifth Head of Cerberus |
Gene Wolfe |
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Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1970-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Tau Zero |
Poul Anderson |
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Big Crunch (1), gender relations (1), Bussard ramjet (1), only humans (1), no faster than light travel (1), galactic clusters (1), galactic superclusters (1), general relativity (1), oscillating cosmological model (1), generation ship (1), team psychology (1), hope (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), dilatation (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
|
1970-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Year of the Quiet Sun |
Wilson Tucker |
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time travel (1), post-apocalyptic (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Illinois (1), Chicago (1), loss (1), science fiction (1), Campbell Retrospective Prize (1)
|
1969-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Bug Jack Barron |
Norman Spinrad |
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Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), cryogenics (1), New York City (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), media satire (1), politics (1), science fiction (1), immortality (1), ideology (1)
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1969-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Downward to the Earth |
Robert Silverberg |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), colonization (1), guilt (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1), rebirth (1), tourism (1), interstellar travel (1)
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1969-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Heroes & Villains |
Angela Carter |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1969-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
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science fiction (2), interstellar travel (1), nonbinary gender (1), androgyny (1), alternating chapter structure (1), sociology (1), philosophy (1), ice planet (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), multiple points of view (1), politics (1), social criticism (1), first contact (1), gender bending (1), first person (1), alien point of view (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), 3-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), cold (1)
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1969-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Palace of Eternity |
Bob Shaw |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), transcendence (1), eternity (1), future (1), science fiction (1), war (1), aliens (1)
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1968-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Camp Concentration |
Thomas M. Disch |
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Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), enhanced intelligence (1), prison camp (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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1968-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
Philip K. Dick |
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androids (2), Oregon (1), into-comics (1), set in 1990s (1), into-video game (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), animals (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), robots (1), genetic engineering (1), pets (1), San Francisco (1), postapocalyptic (1), premonition (1), science fiction (1), bounty hunter (1), dystopia (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), population collapse (1), psychology (1), social commentary (1), interplanetary travel (1), ecological decline (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), what human is (1), into-movie (1)
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1968-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nova |
Samuel R. Delany |
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music (1), feet (1), prosthesis (1), nova (1), Paris (1), disability (1), interstellar travel (1), ambition (1), terraforming (1), quest (1), set in the 3000s (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Hatred (1), cyborgs (1), tarot (1), forgery (1), art (1), museum (1), feud (1), science fiction (1), prosthetics (1), assassination (1)
|
1968-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Pavane |
Keith Roberts |
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steampunk (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), 99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), england (1), alternate history (1)
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1968-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Stand on Zanzibar |
John Brunner |
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overpopulation (2), near future (1), revolution (1), 3-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), fictional Asian countries (1), science fiction (1), genetic engineering (1), neologisms (1), terrorism (1), africa (1), Indonesia (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1)
|
1968-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Final Programme |
Michael Moorcock |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1966-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Flowers for Algernon |
Daniel Keyes |
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science fiction (2), into-movie (1), tearjerker (1), Brain surgery (1), Person with mental disabilities (1), Gifted person (1), declining intelligence (1), diary (1), into-music (1), into-dance (1), into-opera (1), into-play (1), into-tv (1), into-radio (1), disability (1), autobiography (1), scientists (1), neurology (1), first person point of view (1), experiment (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), enhanced intelligence (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), mind augmentation (1)
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1966-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Make Room! Make Room! |
Harry Harrison |
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dystopia (2), overpopulation (2), science fiction (2), New York City (2), detective (2), social collapse (1), societal collapse (1), birth control (1), immigrants (1), murder (1), police investigations (1), police (1), police detective (1), New York (1), millenialism (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), into-movie (1)
|
1966-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Crystal World |
J. G. Ballard |
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Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), science fiction (1), insanity (1), crystals (1), suspended animation (1), africa (1), disease (1), doctor (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), fantasy (1)
|
1966-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dream Master |
Roger Zelazny |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), into-movie (1), blindness (1), dreams (1), psychotherapy (1), overpopulation (1), science fiction (1), psychology (1), blindess (1)
|
1965-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dr. Bloodmoney or How We Got Along After the Bomb |
Philip K. Dick |
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science fiction (1), post-holocaust (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), postapocalyptic (1), psychiatrist (1), nuclear warfare (1), california (1), mutants (1), enhanced intelligence (1), cats (1), dogs (1), telekinesis (1), telepathy (1), body swap (1)
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1965-12-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dune |
Frank Herbert |
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space opera (4), galactic empire (3), precognition (3), religion (2), ecology (2), into-movie (2), into-tv (2), science fiction (2), space empire (1), force fields (1), specialized human breeding (1), prophecy (1), interstellar travel (1), eugenics (1), alien ecology (1), assassination (1), feud (1), strong female characters (1), into-board game (1), into-comics (1), sand (1), political intrigue (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), interstellar empire (1), desert (1), space fantasy (1), drugs (1), secret breeding program (1), ornithopters (1), cult fiction (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), 2-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), mega-fauna (1), revolution (1), superman (1)
|
1965-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch |
Philip K. Dick |
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Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), science fiction (1), religion (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), interplanetary travel (1), climate change (1), drugs (1), art (1), genetic engineering (1), reporter (1), espionage (1), uploaded personalities (1), cyborgs (1), virtual reality (1)
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1964-08-12 |
NOVEL |
English |
Greybeard |
Brian W. Aldiss |
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Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), population ageing (1), old age (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), cosy catastrophe (1), england (1), sterility (1), science fiction (1), alternating chapter structure (1), dystopia (1), depopulation (1)
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1964-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Martian Time-Slip |
Philip K. Dick |
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mars (2), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), time travel (1), science fiction (1), emigration (1), schizophrenia (1), Martians (1), autism (1), precognition (1), robots (1), education (1), colonisation of Mars (1), real estate development corrupt practices (1), indigenous Martians (1), marriage (1)
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1964-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nova Express |
William S. Burroughs |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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1964-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Wanderer |
Fritz Leiber |
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first contact (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), moon (1), extrasolar planet (1), aliens (1), tsunami (1), england (1), Florida (1), New York City (1), Atlantic Ocean (1)
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1963-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cat's Cradle |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
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scientists (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), tornadoes (1), music (1), Poetry (1), invention (1), New York State (1), Caribbean (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), neologisms (1), science fiction (1), philosophy (1), religion (1), into-movie (1), into-music (1), into-play (1), ice (1)
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1963-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Way Station |
Clifford D. Simak |
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first contact (2), solitude (1), muteness (1), longevity (1), grave desecration (1), alien autopsy (1), contemporary (1), Civil War veteran (1), Wisconsin (1), rural (1), interstellar travel (1), love (1), life extension (1), US government surveillance (1), interstellar politics (1), deafness (1), butterflies (1), science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), alien artifact (1), aliens (1)
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1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Clockwork Orange |
Anthony Burgess |
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science fiction (1), first person point of view (1), slang (1), england (1), drugs (1), violence (1), music (1), behavior modification (1), bullying (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), coming of age (1), neologisms (1), into-play (1), dystopia (1), rape (1), theft (1), library (1), suicide (1), hospital (1), sociopaths (1), disowned by its author (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), into-movie (1), British dystopia (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
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1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Hothouse |
Brian W. Aldiss |
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moon (1), science fantasy (1), fungi (1), science fiction (1), locked rotation (1), evolution (1), insects (1), interplanetary travel (1), Earth (1), Fix up (1), mind control (1), parasites (1), panspermia (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), dying earth (1), far future (1)
|
1962-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Journey Beyond Tomorrow |
Robert Sheckley |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1)
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1962-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Drowned World |
J. G. Ballard |
|
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science fiction (1), post apocalypse (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), cosy catastrophe (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), climate fiction (1), cli-fi (1), devolution (1), rising sea level (1), climate change (1), england (1), london (1), anomie (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
1962-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Man in the High Castle |
Philip K. Dick |
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alternate history (6), jewelry (1), antiques (1), authenticity (1), reality (1), resistance (1), America (1), evil (1), set in 1960s (1), international politics (1), Yin and Yang (1), creativity (1), bigotry (1), anti-semitism (1), art (1), Japan (1), slavery (1), racism (1), San Francisco (1), story within a story (1), I Ching (1), Hitler Wins (1), into-tv (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), nazis (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
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1960-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Rogue Moon |
Algis Budrys |
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telepathy (1), zone (1), labyrinth (1), daredevil (1), moon (1), cold war (1), toxic masculinity (1), seductress (1), sexism (1), near future (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), sacrifice (1), science fiction (1), human duplication (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), matter transmission (1), psychology (1), alien artifact (1), evolutionary step (1)
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1960-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Venus Plus X |
Theodore Sturgeon |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), science fiction (1), nonbinary gender (1)
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1959-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
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religion (3), post apocalypse (2), post-apocalyptic (2), The 5-Parsec Shelf (2), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (2), science fiction (2), Wandering Jew (1), fantasy (1), monastery (1), nuclear war (1), mexico (1), holy relics (1), historical perspective (1), warlords (1), Theology (1), Catholicism (1), illuminated manuscripts (1), canonizatioin (1), world war (1), mutants (1), Renaissance (1), United States (1), euthanasia (1), into-radio (1), Utah (1), set in 2500s (1), cannibalism (1), set in 3100s (1), Texas (1), set in 3700s (1), interstellar travel (1), Physicians (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1)
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1959-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Alas, Babylon |
Pat Frank |
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nuclear war (1), alternate history (1), near future (1), dystopia (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), Florida (1), science fiction (1), postapocalyptic (1), into-tv (1)
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1959-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Sirens of Titan |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
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1959-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Time Out of Joint |
Philip K. Dick |
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1958-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Case of Conscience |
James Blish |
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first contact (1), religion (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
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1958-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Have Space Suit - Will Travel |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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1958-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Non-Stop |
Brian W. Aldiss |
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1957-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Door Into Summer |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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time travel (2), science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), alcoholism (1), cats (1), robots (1), suspended animation (1), United States (1), into movie (1)
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1957-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Midwich Cuckoos |
John Wyndham |
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1956-01-26 |
NOVEL |
English |
The City and the Stars |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Death of Grass |
John Christopher |
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1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stars My Destination |
Alfred Bester |
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science fiction (2), bodily augmentation (1), Aldebaran (1), synesthesia (1), shipwreck (1), caves (1), torture (1), love (1), tattoos (1), corporate fiefdoms (1), telepathy (1), interplanetary war (1), prison (1), only humans (1), space opera (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), vengeance (1), teleportation (1)
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1955-08-25 |
NOVEL |
English |
The End of Eternity |
Isaac Asimov |
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time travel (2), science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), time patrol (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1)
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1955-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Inheritors |
William Golding |
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prehistoric (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Neanderthals (1)
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1955-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Long Tomorrow |
Leigh Brackett |
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1954-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Mirror for Observers |
Edgar Pangborn |
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1954-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Mission of Gravity |
Hal Clement |
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1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Bring the Jubilee |
Ward Moore |
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alternate history (2), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), time travel (1)
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1953-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Childhood's End |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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1953-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
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1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Flight into Yesterday |
Charles L. Harness |
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1953-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
More Than Human |
Theodore Sturgeon |
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1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ring Around the Sun |
Clifford D. Simak |
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1953-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Space Merchants |
C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl |
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dystopia (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), subliminal control (1), economics (1), addiction (1), business (1)
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1952-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Limbo |
Bernard Wolfe |
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SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), dystopia (1)
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1952-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Demolished Man |
Alfred Bester |
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1951-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Day of the Triffids |
John Wyndham |
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1951-10-11 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Puppet Masters |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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science fiction (2), into-movie (2), special ops (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), parasites (1), mind control (1), Titan (1), biological warfare (1)
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1950-05-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The Martian Chronicles |
Ray Bradbury |
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science fiction (3), Dimension X (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), into-tv (1), mars (1), Martians (1), horror (1), into-comics (1)
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1949-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Earth Abides |
George R. Stewart |
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