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Utopian literature in German
Utopian literature in German, or deutsche Utopieliteratur, is German-language writing about ideal or deliberately bad societies, beginning with More's Utopia in translation in 1524 and spanning utopias and dystopias to today.
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.
Wasp (novel)
Wasp is a 1957 science fiction novel by Eric Frank Russell (The Wasp Factory is a different book by Iain Banks). It follows James Mowry, a human saboteur waging a one-man terror campaign on a Sirian planet during an interstellar war, first published by Avalon Books.
Waste Tide
Waste Tide (荒潮, Huangchao) is a 2013 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Chen Qiufan, set on a fictional island that recycles the world's electronic waste.
We (Мы) (novel)
We (Мы) is Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1920–1921 dystopian novel about the One State and mathematician D-503; first published in English in 1924, banned in the USSR until 1988, and a forerunner of Huxley and Orwell.
When the Moon Hits Your Eye
When the Moon Hits Your Eye is John Scalzi's 2025 Tor satirical science fiction novel in which the Moon turns into same-mass cheese; day-by-day vignettes follow reactions, then a fragment threatens Earth.
When Worlds Collide
When Worlds Collide (1933) by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer is a rogue-planet apocalypse novel, sequel After Worlds Collide, adapted in George Pal's 1951 Oscar-winning film.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm's 1976 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel (Harper & Row), follows the Sumner family's cloning-based survival in Virginia; it won the 1977 Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel.
Who Goes There?
Who Goes There? is John W. Campbell Jr.'s 1938 science fiction horror novella, published in Astounding under the pseudonym Don A. Stuart, about a shapeshifting alien at an Antarctic station; basis of the 1951 and 1982 Thing films, with the longer Frozen Hell version published in 2018.
Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole
Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole is a 2024 science fiction short story by Isabel J. Kim, published in Clarkesworld. A response to Le Guin's Omelas, it follows repeated killings of the suffering child and won the Nebula, Locus, and BSFA awards.
Woken Furies
Woken Furies is Richard K. Morgan's 2005 science fiction novel, third in the Takeshi Kovacs series after Altered Carbon and Broken Angels, set on Harlan's World where Kovacs hunts a misogynist cult while a younger copy of himself hunts him.
Worldcon
Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Convention, is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society, first held in New York in 1939 and annual since 1946. Members vote on sites two years ahead and on the Hugo Awards; each Worldcon is independent.
Worm (web serial)
Worm is a completed superhero web serial by the Canadian author John C. McCrae, who writes as Wildbow, running from 2011 to 2013 at about 1,680,000 words.
Xenocide
Xenocide (1991) is Orson Scott Card's third Ender Saga novel, set on Lusitania and Path, where Starways Congress orders a second xenocide over the descolada virus; published by Tor, Hugo-nominated, split from Children of the Mind.
You and Me and Her: A Love Story
You and Me and Her: A Love Story, also known as Totono, is a 2013 Nitroplus visual novel famous for its metafictional story about a character aware she is in a game.
Z for Zachariah
Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O'Brien's 1974 posthumous post-apocalyptic YA novel (completed by Sally and Jane Conly), told as Ann Burden's diary of surviving nuclear war with John Loomis; Edgar Award winner, adapted for BBC TV in 1984 and film in 2015.