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2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)
2001: A Space Odyssey is Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 science fiction novel, developed with Stanley Kubrick from Clarke's story "The Sentinel" and written alongside the film screenplay. It follows the Discovery mission to Saturn, HAL 9000's breakdown, and Bowman's transformation, and spawned three sequels.
2010: Odyssey Two
2010: Odyssey Two is Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 science fiction novel, the second Space Odyssey book, written as a sequel to Kubrick's 2001 film rather than the novel. It follows a joint US-Soviet Jupiter mission with HAL 9000, Floyd, Chandra, Bowman, Europa, and Jupiter ignited into a mini-sun; filmed by Peter Hyams in 1984.
3001: The Final Odyssey
3001: The Final Odyssey is Arthur C. Clarke's 1997 novel, the fourth and final Space Odyssey book, in which Frank Poole, killed by HAL 9000 in 2001, is revived a millennium later and faces the Monoliths' judgment of humanity.
A Boy and His Dog
A Boy and His Dog is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by Harlan Ellison, first published in 1969 and winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novella.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller Jr., 1959/1960) is a Hugo-winning post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, a fix-up of three F&SF novellas about monks of the Albertian Order of St. Leibowitz preserving knowledge across 2,000 years.
A Clockwork Orange (novel)
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess's 1962 dystopian novel, follows violent teen Alex, told in the Russian-based slang Nadsat; state conditioning via the Ludovico Technique raises its free-will theme; Kubrick filmed it in 1971.
A Deepness in the Sky
A Deepness in the Sky (1999) is Vernor Vinge's Hugo and Prometheus Award-winning hard science fiction prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, set in the Slow Zone, where the Qeng Ho traders, the Focus-enslaving Emergents, and alien Spiders contend at the cyclic On/Off star.
A Desolation Called Peace
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan #2) is Arkady Martine's 2021 Tor space opera sequel to A Memory Called Empire, about first contact with an uncommunicable alien armada; it won the 2022 Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel.
A Fall of Moondust
A Fall of Moondust is a 1961 hard science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, first published by Gollancz. The tourist cruiser Selene sinks into the Sea of Thirst after a moonquake; shortlisted for the 1963 Hugo Award.
A Fire Upon the Deep
A Fire Upon the Deep is Vernor Vinge's 1992 Hugo-winning space opera, opening the Zones of Thought series: galaxy regions (Slow Zone, Beyond, Transcend) limiting intelligence, the Blight threat, and the pack-minded Tines.
A Memory Called Empire
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1) is Arkady Martine's 2019 debut space opera about ambassador Mahit Dzmare of Lsel Station, her sabotaged imago memory implant, and the poetry-driven Teixcalaanli Empire; it won the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly is Philip K. Dick's 1977 semi-autobiographical novel of undercover narcotics agent Bob Arctor, who surveils himself under Substance D's brain-splitting effects; Richard Linklater's 2006 rotoscoped film adaptation is considered Dick's most faithful screen translation.
A Sound of Thunder
A Sound of Thunder is Ray Bradbury's 1952 Collier's short story, collected in The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), in which a time safari hunter kills a butterfly and returns to an altered 2055; it inspired the butterfly-effect idea in fiction.
Abaddon's Gate
Abaddon's Gate (2013) is the third Expanse novel by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), published by Orbit June 4, 2013. It follows the Rocinante crew to a protomolecule-built ring near Uranus; winner of the 2014 Locus Award for Best SF Novel.
Absolution (VanderMeer novel)
Absolution is a 2024 science fiction novel by Jeff VanderMeer, the fourth Southern Reach novel, a prequel and sequel to the original trilogy set in and around Area X.
Acceptance (novel)
Acceptance (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer is the third Southern Reach novel, concluding the trilogy begun with Annihilation and Authority; it follows Control and Ghost Bird into Area X, was a New York Times bestseller, and gained a 2024 prequel, Absolution.
Ace Books
Ace Books, American science fiction and fantasy paperback publisher founded by A. A. Wyn (1952 or 1953) with editor Donald A. Wollheim; creator of the Ace Doubles; now a Berkley/Penguin Random House imprint.
Aelita
Aelita (Аэлита) is a 1922 science fiction novel by Alexei Tolstoy about an engineer's voyage to Mars and a failed revolution there, a founding work of Soviet science fiction.
African Writers Series
The African Writers Series was a paperback series published by Heinemann from 1962 to 2003, beginning with Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and totaling 359 books.
Africanfuturism
Africanfuturism is a subgenre of science fiction defined by Nnedi Okorafor as rooted in African culture, history, and mythology, similar to Afrofuturism but not centering the West.
Alien Clay
Alien Clay is a 2024 standalone science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK) in which xeno-biologist Arton Daghdev, exiled by the authoritarian Mandate to the prison planet Kiln, uncovers ruins of a vanished alien civilization and a symbiosis-based ecology; finalist for the 2025 Hugo and Locus Awards.
Alien invasion
Alien invasion, a science fiction premise in which hostile extraterrestrials conquer or destroy Earth; established by Wells's The War of the Worlds (1897/1898), rooted in colonial reversal, remade each era from Cold War paranoia to subtle modern variants.
All Tomorrows
All Tomorrows (Nemo Ramjet, C. M. Kosemen) is a 2006 free-online speculative-evolution book in which the alien Qu genetically remake humanity into posthuman species over a billion years; viral after Alt Shift X's 2021 video, with a 2026 Wilton Square eBook.
Altered Carbon
Altered Carbon, 2002 cyberpunk novel by Richard K. Morgan (Gollancz; US Del Rey 2003), first Takeshi Kovacs book: cortical stacks store consciousness, resleeving swaps bodies, Meths buy immortality; Philip K. Dick Award 2003; Netflix series 2018.
Alternate history
Alternate history, also called alternative history or uchronia, is a speculative fiction genre imagining outcomes of changed historical events; first novel Geoffroy 1836, entered SF with Leinster's 1934 "Sidewise in Time".
Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories, American science fiction magazine founded by Hugo Gernsback in April 1926 as the first magazine devoted exclusively to the genre, originally "scientifiction", later edited by Sloane, Palmer, and Ted White, and revived online.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, launched 1930 as Astounding Stories of Super-Science, is the long-running American hard-SF magazine edited by Campbell, Bova, Schmidt, and Quachri, home of Foundation, Dune, and Ender's Game.
Anathem
Anathem is Neal Stephenson's 2008 philosophical science fiction novel (William Morrow; Locus Award winner) set on Arbre, following the avout scholar Fraa Erasmas of the concent Saunt Edhar through a once-a-decade opening and a quantum-cosmological crisis.
Ancillary Justice
Ancillary Justice (2013), Ann Leckie's debut and first Imperial Radch novel, narrated by ship-AI fragment Breq seeking revenge on Anaander Mianaai; won Hugo, Nebula, Clarke, Locus, BSFA, and Seiun awards.
Annihilation (VanderMeer novel)
Annihilation (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer, first volume of the Southern Reach trilogy, follows a twelfth expedition of four women into the mysterious Area X; Nebula Award winner, adapted by Alex Garland in 2018.