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Hindi science fiction
Hindi science fiction (हिन्दी विज्ञान कथा, vijñān kathā) is science fiction written in Hindi, a tradition dating to Ambika Datta Vyas's Aashcharya Vrittant, serialized between 1884 and 1888.
How High We Go in the Dark
How High We Go in the Dark is Sequoia Nagamatsu's 2022 debut novel-in-stories about the Arctic Plague, released from melting Siberian permafrost in 2030, following linked characters across centuries. Also a NYT bestseller and Le Guin Prize finalist.
Hunters of Dune
Hunters of Dune is a 2006 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the first part of the two-volume conclusion to Frank Herbert's Dune series.
Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia
Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia (魔装学園H×H, Masō Gakuen H×H) is Masamune Kuji's ecchi light novel series, Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko 2014–2022, 14 volumes, with manga by Riku Ayakawa and a 2016 Production IMS anime.
Hyperion (Simmons novel)
Hyperion (1989) is Dan Simmons's Hugo Award-winning space opera, first of the four-book Hyperion Cantos. Seven pilgrims travel to the Time Tombs to face the Shrike, in a Canterbury Tales-style frame narrative.
Hyperion Cantos
Hyperion Cantos: Dan Simmons's four-novel science fiction series (Hyperion 1989, The Fall of Hyperion 1990, Endymion 1995, The Rise of Endymion 1997), a Canterbury Tales-style space opera featuring the Hegemony, TechnoCore, Shrike, and Hugo-winning first volume.
I Am Legend (novel)
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson's 1954 science fiction horror novel (also issued as The Omega Man), follows Robert Neville, sole human survivor of a bacterial vampire plague in 1976 Los Angeles, whose ending reverses hero and monster.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is Harlan Ellison's 1967 post-apocalyptic short story, Hugo winner in 1968, about the sentient computer AM torturing five survivors; adapted into a 1995 point-and-click game co-designed by Ellison and remastered by Nightdive in 2025.
I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter
Short story by Isabel Fall, published in Clarkesworld January 1, 2020; reclaims the transphobic attack-helicopter meme through a pilot reassigned as a helicopter; withdrawn after backlash, retitled Helicopter Story, reprinted in The Big Book of Cyberpunk.
I, Robot
I, Robot is Isaac Asimov's 1950 Gnome Press collection of nine robot short stories from 1940-1950, framed as Susan Calvin's recollections, that introduced the Three Laws of Robotics; distinct from the 2004 film and Eando Binder's story of the same name.
Instrumentality of Mankind
The Instrumentality of Mankind is Cordwainer Smith's (Paul Linebarger's) future history of a ruling galactic body, and a 1979 Ballantine collection of 14 of his short stories.
Iron Gold
Iron Gold (2018) by Pierce Brown is the fourth Red Rising saga novel, set ten years after Morning Star, told through four narrators, Darrow, Lyria, Ephraim, and Lysander, during the Solar Republic's war against the Ash Lord's Gold remnants.
Johnny Mnemonic
Johnny Mnemonic: cyberpunk short story by William Gibson, first published in Omni, May 1981, collected in Burning Chrome (1986); first Sprawl story, Nebula-nominated, root of Neuromancer, filmed by Robert Longo in 1995.
Jurassic Park (novel)
Jurassic Park is Michael Crichton's 1990 Knopf science fiction thriller, also called the Jurassic Park novel, about John Hammond's dinosaur theme park built from cloned ancient DNA. Chaos theorist Ian Malcolm predicts its collapse; the darker novel differs from Spielberg's 1993 film, which made Hammond kindly and left Malcolm alive.
Kim Stanley Robinson bibliography
Kim Stanley Robinson bibliography: the published works of the American SF writer born 1952, author of the Mars trilogy, 2312, and The Ministry for the Future, with 21 novels and 8 story collections as of 2025.
Known Space
Known Space is Larry Niven's future history series of about 40 stories and novels set within 60 light-years of Earth, spanning the 1970s to 3101, from "The Coldest Place" (1964) through Ringworld and the Man-Kzin Wars.
Krakatit
Krakatit is a utopian science-fiction novel by the Czech writer Karel Čapek, first published in 1924, about engineer Prokop, who invents a terribly powerful explosive named after Krakatoa.
Lady Jessica
Lady Jessica Atreides is a fictional character in Frank Herbert's Dune (1965): a Bene Gesserit whose disobedience, bearing Paul instead of a daughter, drives the plot.
Last and First Men
Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon is a future-history science fiction novel narrated telepathically by the Last Man, spanning two billion years and eighteen human species across Earth, Venus, and Neptune.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (銀河英雄伝説, Ginga Eiyū Densetsu) is Yoshiki Tanaka's ten-volume Japanese space-opera novel series (1982–1989) about the Galactic Empire versus the Free Planets Alliance, led by Reinhard von Lohengramm and Yang Wen-li, with 15 million copies sold and a landmark OVA adaptation.
Livesuit
Livesuit is a 2024 science fiction novella by James S.A. Corey, pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, set in their Captive's War series.
Lost Universe (ロスト・ユニバース)
Lost Universe (ロスト・ユニバース) is a comedic space-opera franchise by Slayers creator Hajime Kanzaka: five light novels (1992–1999), a Shoko Yoshinaka manga, and a 26-episode 1998 TV Tokyo anime infamous for the 'Yashigani' episode-4 animation collapse.
Make Room! Make Room!
Make Room! Make Room! is Harry Harrison's 1966 dystopian science fiction novel, also published as Soylent Green tie-in editions, set in overpopulated 1999 New York City with 35 million residents and detective Andy Rusch; it inspired the 1973 film Soylent Green, whose cannibalism twist is absent from the book.
Marathi science fiction
Marathi science fiction (विज्ञानकथा, vidnyankatha) is science fiction written in the Marathi language, principally in Maharashtra, India, which took off in the 1970s through the Marathi Vidnyan Parishad and astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar.
Mars in fiction
Mars in fiction is the body of novels, films, and radio works set on the planet. It dates to 17th-century speculation and later the late 19th century.
Mars trilogy
The Mars trilogy is a sequence of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, covering the colonization and terraforming of Mars.
Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror
Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror is Steve Alten's 1997 debut thriller about megalodons surviving in the Mariana Trench, haunting Jonas Taylor; it hit #19 on the NYT list and inspired the 2018 film The Meg.
Memory's Legion
Memory's Legion (2022) is James S.A. Corey's complete Expanse short-story collection, gathering eight novellas and stories from Drive to the new coda The Sins of Our Fathers, with author's notes; it excludes the RPG-only Last Flight of the Cassandra.
Mickey7
Mickey7, Edward Ashton's 2022 St. Martin's Press sci-fi novel about Expendable clone colonist Mickey Barnes on the ice planet Niflheim, teletransportation-paradox themes, Mickey8 duplicate, NPR Best Book, basis of Bong Joon Ho's 2025 film Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson.
Monday Begins on Saturday
Monday Begins on Saturday (Понедельник начинается в субботу) is a 1965 satirical science-fantasy novella by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, subtitled "a fairy tale for junior research workers."