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The Diamond Age
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a 1995 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson set in a future Shanghai, winner of the Hugo and Locus Awards.
The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, Ursula K. Le Guin's 1974 Hainish novel about the physicist Shevek, who travels from the anarchist moon Anarres to the state-ridden planet Urras; winner of the 1975 Hugo and Nebula Awards.
The Faith of Beasts
The Faith of Beasts (2026) by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), book two of The Captive's War space opera trilogy, continues humanity's enslavement under the Carryx empire after its conquest of Anjiin.
The Fall of Hyperion (novel)
The Fall of Hyperion is Dan Simmons's 1990 science fiction novel, second in the Hyperion Cantos after Hyperion. It depicts galactic war between the Hegemony, Ousters, and TechnoCore, the Fall of the Farcasters, and the pilgrims' confrontation with the Shrike; Locus Award winner and Nebula nominee.
The Fatal Eggs
The Fatal Eggs (Роковые яйца) is a satirical science-fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1924 and published in Nedra in 1925, his only major work issued complete in his lifetime.
The Fireman (novel)
The Fireman (novel) is Joe Hill's 2016 apocalyptic horror novel, also his fourth, about the Dragonscale fungal pandemic causing spontaneous combustion; pregnant nurse Harper Grayson and the Fireman seek survival, published by William Morrow.
The Fountains of Paradise
The Fountains of Paradise is Arthur C. Clarke's 1979 Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction novel about building a space elevator on the fictional island Taprobane, modeled on Sri Lanka; its elevator rises 36,000 km from the mountain Sri Kanda, with engineer Vannevar Morgan as protagonist.
The Garden of Rama
The Garden of Rama (1991) by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee is the third Rama novel, continuing Rama II with three trapped cosmonauts voyaging to the Node, then a 2000-colonist human habitat and the New Eden colony.
The Girl Who Was Plugged In
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" is a 1973 science fiction novella by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon), published in New Dimensions 3 and winner of the 1974 Hugo for Best Novella, about P. Burke remotely controlling the celebrity body Delphi in a future where advertising is banned.
The Girl with All the Gifts
The Girl with All the Gifts is a 2014 science-fiction horror novel by M. R. Carey (Mike Carey) and the first book of the Hungry Plague series, about a fungal apocalypse.
The High Crusade
The High Crusade is a 1960 comic science fiction novel by Poul Anderson, serialized in Astounding and published by Doubleday, in which 1345 English crusaders under Sir Roger de Tourneville capture a Wersgorix starship and conquer an alien empire; Hugo nominee, 1994 film.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel), by Douglas Adams, published 12 October 1979, adapts his 1978 six-episode BBC radio serial into the first of five books, selling about 14 million copies.
The Host (novel)
The Host is Stephenie Meyer's 2008 adult science fiction romance (Little, Brown), set after alien 'souls' conquer Earth, featuring Melanie Stryder, Wanderer, and a two-body love triangle; a #1 NYT bestseller filmed in 2013.
The House of the Scorpion
The House of the Scorpion (2002) is Nancy Farmer's National Book Award-winning young adult science fiction novel about Matt, a clone of the drug lord El Patrón, raised in the opium country of Opium between the US and Mexico; sequel The Lord of Opium.
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (Гиперболоид инженера Гарина), also translated as The Garin Death Ray, is a 1927 science fiction novel by the Russian writer Aleksey Tolstoy.
The Illustrated Man
The Illustrated Man is Ray Bradbury's 1951 Doubleday collection of eighteen science fiction short stories framed by a tattooed wanderer whose living tattoos predict the future; famous stories include The Veldt, Kaleidoscope, and The Rocket Man.
The Invention of Morel
The Invention of Morel (La invención de Morel) is a 1940 novella by the Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, considered a classic of Argentine science fiction.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance is H. G. Wells's 1897 scientific romance about Griffin, an optics scientist who renders himself invisible by lowering his refractive index, cannot reverse it, and is killed by a mob; first adapted by James Whale in 1933 and distinct from Ralph Ellison's 1952 Invisible Man.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau is H. G. Wells's 1896 science fiction novel in which shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds Doctor Moreau creating human-animal hybrids by vivisection, a landmark of bioethics-themed fiction.
The Jesus Incident
The Jesus Incident is a 1979 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, sequel to Destination: Void and first Pandora Sequence book, set on planet Pandora where the sentient AI Ship demands human worship.
The Last Man
The Last Man (1826) by Mary Shelley, also called Le Dernier Homme in French scholarship, is the first major post-apocalyptic pandemic novel: Lionel Verney narrates humanity's extinction by plague in the late 21st century, as a roman à clef of Shelley, Byron, and their circle.
The Last Question
The Last Question is a 1956 Isaac Asimov short story, first published in Science Fiction Quarterly, in which humanity repeatedly asks the supercomputer Multivac and its successors whether entropy can be reversed; Asimov's own favorite story, ending with "Let there be light."
The Lathe of Heaven
The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin's 1971 Locus Award-winning SF novel (serialized in Amazing Stories, published by Scribner), about George Orr, whose dreams alter reality, and Dr. Haber, who exploits them; adapted for TV in 1980 and 2002.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness is Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 science fiction novel about envoy Genly Ai on the ambisexual ice planet Gethen, with its monthly kemmer cycle; it won both the 1970 Hugo and Nebula Awards.
The Lost Fleet
The Lost Fleet is a military science fiction series by Jack Campbell, pen name of John G. Hemry, following Captain "Black Jack" Geary commanding a fleet stranded behind enemy lines.
The Lost World (Crichton novel)
The Lost World (1995) is Michael Crichton's only sequel to Jurassic Park, published by Knopf; Ian Malcolm returns to a second Costa Rican dinosaur island, and the 1997 Spielberg film adapted it very loosely.
The Lost World (Doyle novel)
The Lost World (1912) is Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure and science fiction novel introducing Professor Challenger, who leads Malone, Summerlee, and Roxton to a South American plateau where dinosaurs and ape-men survive; it founded the lost-world genre.
The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops is E. M. Forster's 1909 dystopian science fiction short story, first published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review, about Vashti and Kuno in an underground society dependent on the Machine, which anticipates the internet and video calls.
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle is Philip K. Dick's 1962 alternate history novel, published by Putnam, in which the Axis won World War II and rules partitioned America; it won the 1963 Hugo Award and inspired the 2015 Amazon series.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles (1950), Ray Bradbury's Doubleday fix-up also published as The Silver Locusts, links short stories about expeditions to and colonization of Mars, mirroring the colonization of North America.