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Service Model
Service Model is Adrian Tchaikovsky's 2024 standalone satirical science fiction novel (Tordotcom) about the robot valet Charles, renamed Uncharles, who kills his master and searches a post-apocalyptic world; a 2025 Hugo, Clarke, and Locus finalist.
Seveneves
Seveneves is Neal Stephenson's 2015 hard science fiction novel in which the Moon shatters, the Hard Rain dooms Earth within two years, and seven Eves rebuild humanity in orbit; 5,000 years later their seven races return to Earth. Hugo-nominated, Prometheus Award winner, in TV development at Legendary.
Shroud (Tchaikovsky novel)
Shroud is a 2025 standalone science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK, Orbit US) about two humans stranded on a dark, high-gravity moon inhabited by a hive-mind alien species called the Shrouded; a 2026 Hugo Best Novel finalist.
Silo (series)
Silo is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction series on Apple TV+, created by Graham Yost and directed by Morten Tyldum, featuring Rebecca Ferguson in a mile-deep underground silo.
Slan
Slan is A. E. van Vogt's science fiction novel about telepathic mutant superhumans, serialized in Astounding 1940, published by Arkham House 1946, Retro-Hugo winner, source of the slogan "fans are slans."
Space Odyssey
Space Odyssey is a science fiction novel series by British author Arthur C. Clarke. It consists of four books, following black monolith artifacts that intervene in human evolution.
Speaker for the Dead
Speaker for the Dead (1986) by Orson Scott Card, sequel to Ender's Game and second Ender Quintet volume; Ender as the Xenocide Speakers for the dead among the piggies on Lusitania; won the 1986 Nebula and 1987 Hugo for Best Novel.
Sphere (novel)
Sphere is a 1987 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, published by Knopf, in which scientists investigate a huge, apparently undamaged spacecraft on the Pacific ocean floor.
Sprawl trilogy
The Sprawl trilogy, also called the Neuromancer, Cyberspace, or Matrix trilogy, is William Gibson's first novel sequence: Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), set in the Sprawl and foundational to cyberpunk.
Station Eleven
Station Eleven (2014) is Emily St. John Mandel's fourth novel, a literary post-apocalyptic story set 20 years after a flu kills 99% of humanity; Traveling Symphony, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, HBO adaptation.
Story of Your Life
Story of Your Life is Ted Chiang's 1998 Nebula- and Sturgeon-winning science fiction novella about linguist Louise Banks, whose study of the aliens' written language Heptapod B gives her a nonlinear view of time; adapted into Arrival (2016).
Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land is Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 Hugo-winning science fiction novel about Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised by Martians; known for the word "grok," its uncut edition, and mainstream bestseller status.
Sundiver
Sundiver is David Brin's 1980 debut novel, published by Bantam Books, and the first book of the Uplift saga, describing a human expedition from Mercury into the Sun and the 'wolfling' mystery of who uplifted humanity.
Swallowed Star (吞噬星空)
Swallowed Star (吞噬星空, The Legend of Spacewalker) is I Eat Tomatoes' 2010-2012 Qidian sci-fi web novel, 1,544 chapters, about Luo Feng in virus-ravaged Earth, with a Tencent donghua, films, games, and sequel Origin Continent.
TekWar
TekWar is a science fiction franchise created by William Shatner, comprising nine novels from 1989 to 1997, four TV movies, a series, and a video game.
The Algebraist
The Algebraist is a 2004 standalone space opera by Iain M. Banks, not a Culture novel. Set in 4034 AD, it follows Slow Seer Fassin Taak among the gas-giant Dwellers of Nasqueron, seeking a secret wormhole network; Hugo-nominated in 2005.
The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain is Michael Crichton's 1969 techno-thriller novel (Knopf) about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism from a crashed satellite and Project Wildfire; adapted by Robert Wise in 1971 and A&E in 2008, with sequel The Andromeda Evolution (2019).
The Beetle in the Anthill
The Beetle in the Anthill (Zhuk v muraveinike) is a 1979 science fiction novella by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, set in the Noon Universe, following investigator Maxim Kammerer.
The Blazing World
The Blazing World is a 1666 prose fiction work by Margaret Cavendish, following a kidnapped noblewoman made Empress of a parallel world, and regarded as the first science-fiction novel by a woman.
The Calcutta Chromosome
The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1995 novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, winner of the 1997 Arthur C. Clarke Award, reimagining Ronald Ross's malaria research.
The Captive's War
The Captive's War: science fiction series by James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), planned trilogy plus two novellas beginning with The Mercy of Gods (2024), about humans captured by the alien Carryx empire, with an Amazon MGM adaptation announced.
The Chrysalids
The Chrysalids (US title Re-Birth) is John Wyndham's 1955 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel about telepathic children fleeing Waknuk, a religious Labrador community that sterilizes and banishes anyone born mutated.
The Circle (Eggers novel)
The Circle is Dave Eggers's 2013 dystopian novel about Mae Holland, who joins a tech monopoly founded on TruYou that pursues total transparency; slogans include "Privacy is theft"; filmed in 2017; sequel The Every (2021).
The City of Ember
The City of Ember is Jeanne DuPrau's 2003 debut dystopian novel (Book of Ember #1), set in an underground city past its 220-year lifespan, following Lina and Doon; adapted as the 2008 film with Saoirse Ronan.
The Coming Race
The Coming Race, later titled Vril, the Power of the Coming Race, is an 1871 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton about an underground race called the Vril-ya and their energy, vril.
The Compound (Rawle novel)
The Compound is Aisling Rawle's 2025 debut novel, a dystopian satire in which contestant Lily competes on a desert-set reality TV show, blending Love Island-style dating-show mechanics with Lord of the Flies survivalism and consumerist critique.
The Crystal World
The Crystal World is J.G. Ballard's fourth novel (1966, Jonathan Cape), in which Dr. Edward Sanders journeys upriver in Cameroon toward a forest that crystallizes everything, part of his early transformation-story trilogy with The Drowned World and The Drought.
The Dark Tower (Lewis novel)
The Dark Tower (Lewis novel): unfinished C.S. Lewis science fiction fragment, apparent sequel to Out of the Silent Planet, published posthumously 1977 by Walter Hooper; features Ransom, MacPhee, a Chronoscope, and a disputed authorship controversy.
The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham's 1951 post-apocalyptic novel (first serialized as Revolt of the Triffids), follows sighted biologist Bill Masen after a blinding catastrophe, with carnivorous mobile plants and adaptations including the 1962 film and 1981 BBC serial.
The Dead Zone (novel)
The Dead Zone is Stephen King's August 1979 Viking Press novel about Johnny Smith, who gains precognitive touch after a coma and foresees politician Greg Stillson causing nuclear war. King's first #1 New York Times bestseller, it introduced Castle Rock and was filmed by David Cronenberg in 1983.