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- More Than Human
Theodore Sturgeonstandalone novel1953
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More Than Human is a 1953 science fiction fix-up novel by American writer Theodore Sturgeon. It is a revision and expansion of his 1952 novella Baby Is Three, which is bracketed by two additional parts written for the novel, "The Fabulous Idiot" and "Morality". It won the 1954 International Fantasy Award, which was also given to works in science fiction. It was additionally nominated in 2004 for a "Retro Hugo" award for the year 1954. Science fiction critic and editor David Pringle included it in his book Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels.
- Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1953
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Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows a peaceful alien invasion of Earth by mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
- The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick
series11 books1987
completed
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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a collection of 118 science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Underwood-Miller in 1987 as a five volume set. See Philip K. Dick bibliography for information about the mass market reprints.
- Ring Around the Sun
Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1953
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Ring Around the Sun is a science fiction novel by American writer Clifford D. Simak. Its anti-urban and pro-agrarian sentiments are typical of much of Simak's work.
- The Midwich Cuckoos
John Wyndhamstandalone novel1957
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The Midwich Cuckoos is a 1957 science fiction novel written by the English author John Wyndham. It tells the tale of an English village in which the women become pregnant by brood parasitic aliens. The book has been praised by many critics, including the dramatist Dan Rebellato, who called it "a searching novel of moral ambiguities", and the novelist Margaret Atwood, who called the book Wyndham's "chef d'œuvre". The book has been adapted for film, radio, and television.
- The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guinstandalone novel1971
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The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, first serialized in the American science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. It won the 1972 Locus Award for Best Novel and was a finalist for the 1971 Nebula Award for Best Novel and 1972 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Two television film adaptations were released: the PBS production, The Lathe of Heaven (1980), and Lathe of Heaven (2002), a remake produced by the A&E Network.
- Eye in the Sky
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1957
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Eight visitors touring a particle-accelerator facility are caught in a catastrophic malfunction, a collapsing platform, a burst of radiation, that leaves them all unconscious. When protagonist Jack Hamilton, an engineer recently fired over Red Scare-era suspicions about his wife's politics, comes to, the world around him is subtly, then not so subtly, wrong: physics bends to fit one fellow victim's religious convictions, then to another's paranoid fears, as the group cycles through what turn out to be shared hallucinations built from each other's private belief systems. Philip K. Dick's early novel about how differently people actually see the same world.
- Twilight Zone Collections
series8 books1960
part of Twilight Zone
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- The Dream Master
Roger Zelaznystandalone novel1966
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The Dream Master (1966) is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, based on the novella He Who Shapes. Zelazny's original title was The Ides of Octember. He Who Shapes won the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Novella.
- The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1967
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The Einstein Intersection is a 1967 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. The title is a reference to Einstein's Theory of Relativity connecting to Kurt Gödel's Constructible universe, which is an analogy to science meeting philosophy. The original publisher, Ace Books, changed Delany's originally intended title from A Fabulous, Formless Darkness for commercial reasons.
- Quicksand
John Brunnerstandalone novel1967
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A British psychiatrist in a deadening job and a deadening marriage gets a mysterious patient; a petite young woman who speaks an unrecognizable language and is unfamiliar with the common objects, sights, and behaviors of normal life, yet who is able to quickly and easily cripple or kill a large man with her bare hands when she feels threatened. He feels more than professional concern for the woman, who he believes is not actually mentally ill but is in fact a more unusual case.
- Twilight Zone
universe40 books1960
Start hereStories from the Twilight Zone · Start here
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Picture, if you will, an ordinary person on an ordinary afternoon: a tired salesman, a frightened child, a man who wants only to be left alone. Somewhere between the streetlight and the front door, the rules quietly change. This is the Twilight Zone — not a place on any map but a middle ground between light and shadow, science and superstition, the pit of our fears and the summit of our knowledge. There is no continuing saga here, no cast to follow across the years. There is only the door, and the parable waiting on the far side of it. What the shelf holds is Rod Serling's anthology given the permanence of print. Serling turned his own teleplays into prose, the collections that open with Stories from the Twilight Zone, and the scripts survive alongside them — his and Richard Matheson's, the two hands that set the show's pulse. Around that core gather the story-collections of Walter B. Gibson, the volumes of new tales assembled by Carol Serling, standalone novels, and paired reissues: dozens of self-contained pieces, many writers under one banner. Read one or read forty. Each closes its own circle. The machinery is always the same and never predictable — a reasonable premise, a moral squeeze, a final turn that lands like a tap on the shoulder, sometimes cruel, sometimes merciful, always earned. Beneath the twist runs Serling's true subject: ordinary conscience under strain — prejudice, vanity, loneliness, the wish to go back. Begin where he began, with his own Stories from the Twilight Zone, then follow Matheson. There is no order to keep. You unlock this door with the key of imagination.
- Way Station
Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1963
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The human operator of a transfer station for aliens traveling between planets, kept secret from the human race, deals with discovery by the US government and interplanetary political crisis, as well as his own emotional issues.
- The Hollow Man
Dan Simmonsstandalone novel1992
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The Hollow Man is a novel by American author Dan Simmons. The book was initially published by Bantam Books on September 1, 1992. It narrates the story of a university lecturer who has the ability to "hear" the thoughts of others, an ability he shares with his dying wife.
- The Best of Philip K. Dick selections
series3 books1977
completed
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- Time Out of Joint
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1959
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Time Out of Joint is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in novel form in the United States in 1959. An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds Science Fiction in several installments from December 1959 to February 1960.
- Dr. Patrick Cory
series3 books1942
completed
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Donovan's Brain (1942) is one of the earliest and most influential 'brain in a jar' stories: Dr. Patrick Cory keeps the disembodied brain of a dead millionaire alive in his lab, only to find it telepathically overriding his own mind and will. Curt Siodmak revisited the same premise and character in Hauser's Memory, where Cory absorbs a dying spy's memories through an experimental serum, with consequences of his own. Both were adapted for film and television, and the 1942 original is often cited as a formative influence on later mad-science and body-horror fiction.
- The Triffids
series3 books1951
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John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1951) opens with a meteor-shower-like event that leaves most of Britain's population blind, throwing civilization into collapse just as triffids, an aggressive and mobile species of poisonous plant, become free to hunt the helpless survivors. Simon Clark's authorized sequel The Night of the Triffids (2001) picks up a generation later, narrated by the original protagonist's son as he confronts a new triffid-dominated world, and John Whitbourn's The Age of the Triffids extends the shared setting further still. Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.
- The Purple Cloud
M. P. Shielstandalone novel1901
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Around 1900, the author receives a packet of writings of a psychic, who recounts her vision of the multi-decade diary of an arctic explorer of the future, the first to reach the north pole; but during his multiyear trek, an unknown eruption temporarily poisons the atmosphere with cyanide, killing all human and animal life, sparing only the arctic latitudes and leaving him the last man on earth.
- A Stir of Echoes
Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1958
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A Stir of Echoes is a supernatural novel by American writer Richard Matheson, published in 1958. It served as the inspiration for the 1999 film Stir of Echoes.
- Pstalemate
Lester del Reystandalone novel1971
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From the back cover of the Berkley Medallion paperback: A young man finds he has extrasensory talents. Then he discovers that others have them, too - though few as powerful as his. And then comes an appalling discovery: he finds that if he cannot master these PSI powers he will certainly go mad. And no one has ever mastered them. His desperate battle to find the secret of the power leads him to a source utterly alien - and awesome in its implications for Earth's fate....
- Richard Matheson: Collected Stories
series4 books1989
completed
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- The Werewolf Principle
Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1967
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From the back cover of the first DAW printing: "Andrew Blake, found in a space capsule on a distant planet, was brought back to an unfamiliar Earth, where antigravity devices had replaced the wheel and houses talk and even fly! Yet nothing was as strange as Blake's own feelings. Tormented by eerie sensations and a loss of memory, he didn't know who he really was nor exactly where he came from. His destiny only began to grow frighteningly clear when he met a weird, tassel-eared creature who darkly hinted at the truth about Blake's origins. Slowly Blake became aware of the long hushed-up "Werewolf Principle," a scientific theory buried in the past, which held the key to Blake's own fate - and the future of the human race..."
