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City (novel)
City (1952) is Clifford D. Simak's fix-up science fiction novel, eight Astounding stories framed as tales told by intelligent dogs after humanity abandons cities, Earth, and life itself; it won the 1953 International Fantasy Award.
Clockwork Planet (クロックワーク・プラネット)
Clockwork Planet (クロックワーク・プラネット) is a completed 10-volume clockpunk light novel by Yuu Kamiya and Tsubaki Himana, illustrated by Shino (Kodansha Lanove Bunko, 2013–2018), set on a clockwork-rebuilt Earth, with a Kuro manga and a 2017 Xebec anime.
Commonwealth Saga
The Commonwealth Saga is a science-fiction duology by British author Peter F. Hamilton, consisting of Pandora's Star (2004) and Judas Unchained (2005), set in the Intersolar Commonwealth.
Consider Phlebas
Consider Phlebas (1987) is Iain M. Banks's first Culture novel, following shape-shifter Bora Horza Gobuchul, who fights for the Idirans against the Culture's Minds during the Idiran-Culture War of 1327-1375.
Contact (novel)
Contact (Carl Sagan, Simon and Schuster, 1985) is the astronomer's only novel, about radio astronomer Ellie Arroway decoding an alien message; it inspired the 1997 film and modern wormhole research.
Crash (Ballard novel)
Crash is J.G. Ballard's 1973 novel, published by Jonathan Cape, about characters sexually obsessed with car crashes, narrated by James Ballard. Jean Baudrillard called it the first great novel of simulation; David Cronenberg filmed it in 1996.
Dark Matter (Crouch novel)
Dark Matter (2016) is Blake Crouch's science fiction thriller about physicist Jason Dessen, abducted into an alternate life via the many-worlds interpretation; a NYT bestseller adapted by Crouch himself into Apple TV+'s series with Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly.
Death of the Author (novel)
Death of the Author is Nnedi Okorafor's 2025 metafiction novel (William Morrow) about Zelu, a disabled Nigerian American writer whose hit sci-fi novel Rusted Robots escapes her control; Locus, NAACP Image Award winner, Hugo finalist.
Digital Devil Story (デジタル・デビル物語)
Digital Devil Story (デジタル・デビル物語), Aya Nishitani's 1986–1993 demon-summoning novel series from Tokuma Shoten, source of the Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei, and Persona game franchises.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is Philip K. Dick's 1968 science fiction novel about bounty hunter Rick Deckard, the Voigt-Kampff empathy test, Mercerism, and electric animals, adapted as Blade Runner in 1982.
Dreamcatcher (novel)
Dreamcatcher is Stephen King's 2001 Scribner novel, his first after his 1999 accident, written in longhand and originally titled Cancer. Four Derry, Maine friends with telepathic bonds fight an alien invasion; adapted to film by Lawrence Kasdan in 2003.
Dune (novel)
Dune (1965) is Frank Herbert's best-selling science fiction novel about Paul Atreides, the desert planet Arrakis, the spice melange, the Fremen, and sandworms; serialized in Analog, rejected 20 times, published by Chilton, winner of the Nebula and a shared Hugo.
Dune Messiah
Dune Messiah (1969) is Frank Herbert's sequel to Dune, showing Paul Atreides twelve years later as emperor facing a conspiracy; it deconstructs the messiah hero and is being adapted as Dune: Part Three (December 2026).
Ender's Game (novel series)
Ender's Game (novel series) is a science fiction series by Orson Scott Card, which follows Andrew Wiggin as he navigates humanity's conflict with aliens and explores themes of empathy.
Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
Exodus: The Archimedes Engine is Peter F. Hamilton's 2024 space opera, first of a duology set 40,000 years after humanity's exodus from Earth, in the Centauri Cluster of the Exodus RPG universe, following Finn's bid to become a Traveler.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell is Neal Stephenson's 2019, 880-page sequel to Reamde, in which Richard Dodge Forthrast's scanned brain awakens as the deity Egdod in the digital afterlife Bitworld, set against a post-truth Ameristan.
Firestarter (novel)
Firestarter (神秘火焰) is Stephen King's 1980 Viking Press novel about Charlie McGee, a pyrokinetic girl hunted by the secret agency The Shop after her parents took the drug Lot Six; adapted to film in 1984 and 2022.
Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes's 1959 short story expanded into a 1966 Hugo- and Nebula-winning novel, follows Charlie Gordon, whose IQ is tripled by experimental surgery before he regresses; adapted as Charly (1968).
Forever Free (novel)
Forever Free (1999) by Joe Haldeman, Ace Books, is the direct sequel to The Forever War, following William Mandella and Marygay on Middle Finger as they hijack the Time Warp starship, meet the Omnis, and reach a deus ex machina ending.
Foundation (Asimov novel)
Foundation is a 1951 science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov and the first in his Foundation series, introducing the mathematician Hari Seldon and the science of psychohistory.
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Four Ways to Forgiveness is Ursula K. Le Guin's 1995 HarperPrism collection of four linked Hainish novellas set on Werel and Yeowe, reissued in 2017 as Five Ways to Forgiveness.
Frederik Pohl bibliography
Frederik Pohl bibliography (1919–2013): catalog of the American SF writer's novels, stories, series, and anthologies, including The Space Merchants, Gateway, the Heechee books, pseudonyms, and standard bibliography sources.
Gaal Dornick
Gaal Dornick, a character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, is a young mathematician from Synnax who joins Hari Seldon on Trantor; a minor book character, gender-flipped and expanded to protagonist in Apple TV+'s Foundation, played by Lou Llobell.
Genocidal Organ (虐殺器官)
Genocidal Organ (虐殺器官, Gyakusatsu kikan) is Project Itoh's 2007 debut SF novel about a linguist seeding genocide; finalist for the 7th Komatsu Sakyo Award, adapted as a 2017 anime film by Shukou Murase.
God Emperor of Dune
God Emperor of Dune is Frank Herbert's 1981 fourth Dune Chronicles novel, following Leto II Atreides, a sandworm-human hybrid God Emperor enforcing his Golden Path across 3,500 years on the transformed planet Rakis.
Gor
Gor is the Counter-Earth setting of John Norman's sword-and-planet series begun with Tarnsman of Gor (1966), reaching 38 novels by 2024, known for its Priest-Kings, Kurii, slavery themes, and Gorean subculture.
Greg Bear bibliography
Greg Bear bibliography: works of American SF writer Greg Bear (1951–2022), author of Eon, Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, and the Halo Forerunner Saga; over thirty novels, five story collections, five Nebulas, two Hugos.
Hainish Cycle
The Hainish Cycle, also called the Ekumen cycle, is Ursula K. Le Guin's shared-universe science fiction series (1964-2000), including The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, set among human worlds seeded by the planet Hain.
Heretics of Dune
Heretics of Dune, the fifth Dune novel, is Frank Herbert's 1984 science fiction book set 1,500 years after God Emperor of Dune, following the Bene Gesserit, Sheeana, a Duncan Idaho ghola, and the Honored Matres, ending with Rakis's destruction.
High-Rise (novel)
High-Rise, J.G. Ballard's 1975 Jonathan Cape novel, follows 2,000 affluent residents of a 40-storey London tower block descending into tribal violence; final book of his urban disaster sequence, adapted by Ben Wheatley in 2015.