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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 Reality Dysfunction
The Reality Dysfunction (1996) by Peter F. Hamilton, first book of the Night's Dawn trilogy, a space opera set in AD 2600 where the dead possess the living, beginning on the colony world Lalonde.
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 Shattering Peace
The Shattering Peace is John Scalzi's 2025 seventh Old Man's War novel (Tor Books), following diplomat Gretchen Trujillo investigating the vanished 50,000-person Unity Colony amid a looming Consu civil war.
The Shockwave Rider
The Shockwave Rider (1975) is John Brunner's proto-cyberpunk novel about fugitive hacker Nick Haflinger and the Tarnover think tank; it coined the computer term "worm" and anticipated the Internet, surveillance, and identity hacking.
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 Slynx
The Slynx (Кысь, Kys') is a dystopian novel by Tatyana Tolstaya, published in Russia in 2000 and translated into English by Jamey Gambrell in 2003.
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.
The Waves Extinguish the Wind
The Waves Extinguish the Wind (Волны гасят ветер) is a 1984 science fiction novella by the Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, concluding their Noon Universe cycle.
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.
Time Out of Joint
Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick's 1959 Lippincott novel, his first U.S. hardcover, in which puzzle-contest winner Ragle Gumm discovers his 1959 world is a 1998 wartime illusion.
Tor Books
Tor Books, founded 1980 in New York by Tom Doherty as Tom Doherty Associates, is the flagship Macmillan SFF imprint; Locus best-publisher winner 1988–2024, home of Ender's Game and The Wheel of Time.
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.
Turkish science fiction
Turkish science fiction, known in Turkish as bilimkurgu, is the body of science fiction literature, film, and television produced in Turkish, expanding sharply after 2000.
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.
Utopian and dystopian fiction
Utopian and dystopian fiction: related speculative traditions imagining ideal or magnified-worse societies, founded by Thomas More's Utopia (1516), which coined "utopia"; dystopia emerged in the mid-late 1800s, spanning Bellamy, Orwell, Atwood, and YA hits like The Hunger Games.