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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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Armada (novel)
Armada, Ernest Cline's 2015 science fiction novel from Crown, follows gamer Zack Lightman, whose favorite game is a secret military sim preparing Earth for a real alien invasion. His second novel after Ready Player One; film rights at Universal.
Artemis (novel)
Artemis (2017) is Andy Weir's second novel, a lunar heist caper set in Artemis, the first Moon city, following smuggler Jazz Bashara; reviews were mixed, praising world-building but criticizing character writing, and the film adaptation remains unmade.
At the Mountains of Madness
At the Mountains of Madness is H. P. Lovecraft's 1931 cosmic horror novella, serialized in Astounding Stories in 1936, narrated by Dr. William Dyer of the 1930 Miskatonic Antarctic expedition that finds an Elder Thing city and shoggoths; distinct from The Thing films and del Toro's unmade adaptation.
Babylon's Ashes
Babylon's Ashes (2016) is the sixth Expanse novel by James S.A. Corey, pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, published by Orbit. It follows the Rocinante crew against Marco Inaros's Free Navy after Earth's asteroid bombardment, uses about 15-17 POV characters, won the 2017 Dragon Award, and was adapted as the TV series' sixth and final season.
Battlefield Earth (novel)
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000, L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 science fiction novel, depicts Psychlo-occupied Earth and Jonnie Goodboy Tyler's rebellion; a New York Times bestseller of over 4 million copies, later adapted into the notoriously panned 2000 film.
Blindsight (Watts novel)
Blindsight (2006) by Peter Watts, first of the Firefall series with Echopraxia: hard SF first-contact novel in which the crew of Theseus meets the non-conscious Scramblers at Oort object Rorschach; Hugo-nominated, Creative Commons full text online.
Broken Angels (novel)
Broken Angels (2003) by Richard K. Morgan is the second Takeshi Kovacs science fiction novel, a military SF war-and-salvage story set on Sanction IV, where Kovacs joins a covert team hunting an intact Martian spacecraft, published by Gollancz and Del Rey.
Caliban's War
Caliban's War (2012) is the second Expanse novel by James S. A. Corey, published by Orbit; a protomolecule monster on Ganymede pushes Earth, Mars, and the Belt back toward war.
Chapterhouse: Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune is Frank Herbert's 1985 sixth and final Dune novel, published by Putnam, following the Bene Gesserit under Darwi Odrade against the Honored Matres; it ends on a cliffhanger after Herbert's 1986 death.
Childhood's End
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by British author Arthur C. Clarke in which alien Overlords end war and bring a near-utopia to Earth.
Children of Dune
Children of Dune is Frank Herbert's 1976 third Dune novel, serialized in Analog, about the twins Leto II and Ghanima, Alia's possession, the Preacher, and Leto's Golden Path; a mainstream bestseller adapted as a 2003 Sci Fi Channel miniseries.
Children of Time (novel)
Children of Time (2015) is Adrian Tchaikovsky's hard SF novel in which spiders uplifted by a nanovirus inherit a terraformed planet from arriving human refugees; it won the 2016 Arthur C Clarke Award, and its series won the 2023 Hugo for Best Series.