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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dr. Patrick Cory
series3 books1942
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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 Giver
series5 books1993
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The Giver Quartet is a series of four books about a dystopian world by American author Lois Lowry, which consists of The Giver (1993), Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012). The first book won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 50 million copies. The story takes place at an unknown point of time within the future. Each book has a different protagonist but is set in the same futuristic era.
- The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick
series11 books1987
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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.
- The Invisible Man
series6 books1897
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The Invisible Man is H. G. Wells's 1897 science fiction novel about Griffin, a scientist who works out how to make living tissue invisible and tests the process on himself, only to discover he has no way to reverse it. Unseen and increasingly cut off from other people, he turns to theft and violence while trying to survive and find a cure, making the book as much about his moral collapse as about the invisibility premise itself. It's a single self-contained novel; the two listed titles here are duplicate editions rather than separate books.
- 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.
- Radix Tetrad
series4 books1981
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The Radix Tetrad is a group of four science fiction books by A. A. Attanasio. The first novel, the Nebula Award-nominated Radix, was published in 1981, and the last novel, The Last Legends of Earth, was published in 1989.
- Up the Walls of the World
James Tiptree & Jr.standalone novel1978
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Up the Walls of the World is a 1978 science fiction novel by American author Alice Sheldon, who wrote under the pen name of James Tiptree, Jr. It was the first novel she published, having until then worked and built a reputation only in the field of short stories.
- 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.
- The Drowned World
J. G. Ballardstandalone novel1962
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The Drowned World is a 1962 science fiction novel by J. G. Ballard. It first appeared in shortened form in the January 1962 issue of the UK edition of Science Fiction Adventures and was published in book form later that year by Victor Gollancz Ltd in London; an American edition followed from Berkley Medallion. Critics have grouped The Drowned World with Ballard's early science-fiction novels as part of an "ambiguous apocalypse" sequence that also includes The Drought and The Crystal World, from the period in which he was developing the ideas he described as "inner space". Set in a future in which solar radiation has melted the polar ice caps and transformed London into a flooded tropical lagoon, the novel follows biologist Robert Kerans as he becomes increasingly drawn toward the altered environment rather than toward restoring the old social order.
- The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
series24 books1947
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- Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1961
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Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by the American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians, and explores his interaction with and eventual transformation of Terran culture.
- 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.
- Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1975
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Dhalgren is a 1975 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany. It features an extended trip to and through Bellona, a fictional city in the American Midwest cut off from the rest of the world by an unknown catastrophe. It is number 33 on the 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction list.
- The Infinite Cage
Keith Laumerstandalone novel1972
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Synopsis from back cover: A little wisp of a man appears from who-knows-where, apparently suffering from delusions, schizophrenia, paranoia, and mental maladies not yet named. His misadventures in a hostile world would put Walter Mitty to shame for lack of imagination. He finds he has strange powers that bring him spectacular success at whatever he attempts--followed, it seems inevitably, by crushing disaster. At last, on the verge of utter despair, he stumbles onto a clue to the secret of his existence... Keith Laumer, famous for his witty novels of galaxy-hopping adventure, has created a spooky, funny, hauntingly brilliant novel that cannot be put down--and will never be forgotten-- Welcome To Adam's World
- 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.
- VALIS
series4 books1981
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The VALIS trilogy is a set of science fiction/philosophical novels by author Philip K. Dick which include VALIS (1981), The Divine Invasion (1981), and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982). Dick's first novel about the VALIS concept originally titled "VALISystem A", was published as Radio Free Albemuth after Dick's death in 1985.
- 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.
