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The Mercy of Gods
The Mercy of Gods is a 2024 space opera novel by James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck of The Expanse), first of the Captive's War trilogy, in which the alien Carryx conquer the human planet Anjiin and abduct scientists including Dafyd Alkhor.
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos, also published in the US as Village of the Damned, is John Wyndham's 1957 science fiction novel about an English village whose women are mysteriously impregnated and bear identical telepathic alien children, filmed in 1960, 1995, and adapted for Sky in 2022.
The Ministry of Time (novel)
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley's 2024 debut novel (Sceptre, Avid Reader Press), blends time travel, spy thriller, and romance: a Cambodian-English civil servant guides Franklin expedition officer Graham Gore, extracted from 1847 by a secret British ministry.
The Minority Report
The Minority Report is Philip K. Dick's 1956 science fiction novelette, first published in Fantastic Universe, about Precrime director John Anderton, predicted by three precogs to murder, and the source of Spielberg's 2002 film.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel (Putnam; serialized in Worlds of If), depicts a 2075 lunar penal colony revolt led by Mannie, Wyoh, Professor de la Paz, and the sentient computer Mike; it won the 1967 Hugo Award and coined TANSTAAFL.
The Murderbot Diaries
The Murderbot Diaries is Martha Wells' Hugo, Nebula, and Locus-winning science fiction series about a rogue SecUnit that hacked its governor module, published by Tor.com from 2017 and adapted into an Apple TV+ series starring Alexander Skarsgård.
The Nine Billion Names of God
Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 short story in which Tibetan monks hire a computer to enumerate nine billion names of God; when the list is complete, the stars quietly go out.
The Peripheral
The Peripheral is William Gibson's 2014 science fiction novel, first of the Jackpot sequence with Agency (2020). Flynne Fisher's VR beta-test links rural America to post-Jackpot London via quantum-tunneling 'stubs'; adapted for Prime Video 2022, canceled 2023.
The Redemption of Time (观想之宙)
The Redemption of Time (观想之宙, Three Body X: Aeon of Contemplation) is Baoshu's 2011 Three-Body continuation, written in three weeks as fan fiction after Death's End, published with Liu Cixin's permission; Ken Liu translated it for Tor in 2019.
The Returned (novel)
The Returned (novel) refers to three unrelated books: Jason Mott's 2013 NYT-bestselling debut about the dead returning to life, adapted as ABC's Resurrection; Seth Patrick's 2014 novelization of Les Revenants; and Amanda Cassidy's 2023 Irish crime novel.
The Running Man (novel)
The Running Man is a dystopian science fiction novel by Stephen King, published in 1982. It follows Ben Richards, who must evade hunters for $1 billion.
The Sentinel (short story)
"The Sentinel" ("Sentinel of Eternity") is Arthur C. Clarke's 1948 short story, first published 1951 in 10 Story Fantasy, about a lunar pyramid artifact whose destruction signals aliens; it inspired 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Sirens of Titan
The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut's second novel (1959), is a comic science fiction satire in which human history is revealed as a Tralfamadorian scheme to deliver a spaceship part to Salo on Titan, probing free will, religion, and meaning.
The Space Trilogy
The Space Trilogy (Cosmic Trilogy) is C. S. Lewis's three science fiction novels, Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943), and That Hideous Strength (1945), following philologist Elwin Ransom to Mars, Venus, and Earth, blending medieval cosmology with Christian theology.
The Sun Eater
The Sun Eater is Christopher Ruocchio's seven-novel science fantasy space opera (2018–2025), narrated in memoir form by Hadrian Marlowe, humanity's greatest hero and most infamous monster; published by DAW, Baen, then DAW again.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is Philip K. Dick's 1965 Doubleday science fiction novel, Nebula-nominated, about Mars colonists, the drugs Can-D and Chew-Z, and the reality-warping industrialist Palmer Eldritch.
The Three-Body Problem (novel)
The Three-Body Problem (三体, San Ti) is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin, serialized in 2006 and published as a book in 2008.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine (1895), H. G. Wells's first novel, is the founding time-travel science-fiction novella: a Richmond dinner-party frame, a fourth-dimension machine, and a journey to 802,701 AD where humanity splits into Eloi and Morlocks.
The Tommyknockers
The Tommyknockers is Stephen King's 1987 Putnam horror-science fiction novel in which writer Bobbi Anderson unearths an alien spaceship near Haven, Maine, transforming the townspeople; written during King's addiction, adapted as a 1993 ABC miniseries.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells's 1898 alien-invasion novel (serialized 1897 in Pearson's Magazine), depicts Martians destroying England until microbes kill them; an anti-imperialist classic behind the 1938 Welles broadcast, 1953 and 2005 films, and Jeff Wayne's musical.
There Is No Antimemetics Division
There Is No Antimemetics Division is a science-fiction horror novel by qntm (Sam Hughes). Serialized on the SCP wiki from 2015, self-published 2020, rewritten for Ballantine/Del Rey in November 2025; its Antimemetics Division fights memory-erasing entities.
There Will Come Soft Rains (short story)
There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury's 1950 science fiction short story from The Martian Chronicles, depicts an automated house in Allendale, California, on August 4, 2026, serving a family killed by nuclear war, titled after Sara Teasdale's 1918 poem.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019) is an epistolary sci-fi novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone in which rival time agents Red and Blue fall in love via hidden letters; it won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for Best Novella.
Translation State
Translation State, Ann Leckie's 2023 standalone Imperial Radch novel (Orbit; Nebula nominee, 2024 Hugo finalist), follows Enae, Reet, and the Presger translator Qven during a treaty renegotiation.
Tuf Voyaging
Tuf Voyaging, also collected as Los viajes de Tuf, is George R. R. Martin's 1986 Baen fix-up novel of seven linked stories about ecological engineer Haviland Tuf and the 30-kilometer seedship Ark, reissued by Bantam in 2013.
Ubik
Ubik is Philip K. Dick's 1969 science fiction novel. It explores themes of half-life and reality regression, and was included in Time's All-Time 100 Novels.
Under the Dome (novel)
Under the Dome is a 2009 science-fiction novel by Stephen King in which an invisible dome seals off the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, trapping its 2,000 residents.
Vampire Hunter D
Vampire Hunter D (吸血鬼ハンター"D"), Japanese light novel series by Hideyuki Kikuchi with Yoshitaka Amano art, begun 1983; dhampir hunter D fights the Nobility in 12,090 A.D.; 17 million copies, two anime films.
Vorkosigan Saga
The Vorkosigan Saga is a science fiction series by Lois McMaster Bujold, published 1986–2018. It is set on Barrayar and explores themes of disability, gender, and space opera.
War with the Newts
War with the Newts (Válka s mloky) is Karel Čapek's 1936 satirical science fiction novel about intelligent giant salamanders exploited as labor, told through newspaper reports and documents, ending with newts reshaping the world's coastlines.