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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction: literary genre depicting the end or aftermath of civilization. Began secularly with Grainville (1805) and Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826); became an SF staple after Hiroshima; now spans nuclear, pandemic, and climate themes.
Armada (novel)
Armada, Ernest Cline's 2015 science fiction novel from Crown, follows gamer Zack Lightman, whose favorite game is a secret military sim preparing Earth for a real alien invasion. His second novel after Ready Player One; film rights at Universal.
Artemis (novel)
Artemis (2017) is Andy Weir's second novel, a lunar heist caper set in Artemis, the first Moon city, following smuggler Jazz Bashara; reviews were mixed, praising world-building but criticizing character writing, and the film adaptation remains unmade.
At the Mountains of Madness
At the Mountains of Madness is H. P. Lovecraft's 1931 cosmic horror novella, serialized in Astounding Stories in 1936, narrated by Dr. William Dyer of the 1930 Miskatonic Antarctic expedition that finds an Elder Thing city and shoggoths; distinct from The Thing films and del Toro's unmade adaptation.
Aurealis
Aurealis is an Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine founded in Melbourne in 1990, the country's longest-running, and publisher of the Aurealis Awards since 1995.
Australian science fiction
Australian science fiction is science fiction written by Australians or set in Australia, a tradition dating from mid-nineteenth-century utopian writing and honored by the Ditmar Awards.
Babylon's Ashes
Babylon's Ashes (2016) is the sixth Expanse novel by James S.A. Corey, pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, published by Orbit. It follows the Rocinante crew against Marco Inaros's Free Navy after Earth's asteroid bombardment, uses about 15-17 POV characters, won the 2017 Dragon Award, and was adapted as the TV series' sixth and final season.
Battlefield Earth (novel)
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000, L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 science fiction novel, depicts Psychlo-occupied Earth and Jonnie Goodboy Tyler's rebellion; a New York Times bestseller of over 4 million copies, later adapted into the notoriously panned 2000 film.
Blindsight (Watts novel)
Blindsight (2006) by Peter Watts, first of the Firefall series with Echopraxia: hard SF first-contact novel in which the crew of Theseus meets the non-conscious Scramblers at Oort object Rorschach; Hugo-nominated, Creative Commons full text online.
Brave New World
Brave New World (Vidunderlige nye verden) is Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel of a World State that controls people through engineered happiness, the Bokanovsky Process, castes, conditioning, and soma, with the ironic Shakespearean title from The Tempest.
Broken Angels (novel)
Broken Angels (2003) by Richard K. Morgan is the second Takeshi Kovacs science fiction novel, a military SF war-and-salvage story set on Sanction IV, where Kovacs joins a covert team hunting an intact Martian spacecraft, published by Gollancz and Del Rey.
Caliban's War
Caliban's War (2012) is the second Expanse novel by James S. A. Corey, published by Orbit; a protomolecule monster on Ganymede pushes Earth, Mars, and the Belt back toward war.
Cat Country
Cat Country (Maocheng ji) is a 1932 satirical dystopian novel by Chinese writer Lao She, in which a narrator visits a Mars country of cat people mirroring China's ills.
Chapterhouse: Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune is Frank Herbert's 1985 sixth and final Dune novel, published by Putnam, following the Bene Gesserit under Darwi Odrade against the Honored Matres; it ends on a cliffhanger after Herbert's 1986 death.
Childhood's End
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by British author Arthur C. Clarke in which alien Overlords end war and bring a near-utopia to Earth.
Children of Dune
Children of Dune is Frank Herbert's 1976 third Dune novel, serialized in Analog, about the twins Leto II and Ghanima, Alia's possession, the Preacher, and Leto's Golden Path; a mainstream bestseller adapted as a 2003 Sci Fi Channel miniseries.
Children of Time (novel)
Children of Time (2015) is Adrian Tchaikovsky's hard SF novel in which spiders uplifted by a nanovirus inherit a terraformed planet from arriving human refugees; it won the 2016 Arthur C Clarke Award, and its series won the 2023 Hugo for Best Series.
Cibola Burn
Cibola Burn, fourth Expanse novel by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), published 2014 by Orbit; Holden mediates the Ilus/New Terra settler-corporate conflict as protomolecule remnants wake; adapted as The Expanse season 4.
City (novel)
City (1952) is Clifford D. Simak's fix-up science fiction novel, eight Astounding stories framed as tales told by intelligent dogs after humanity abandons cities, Earth, and life itself; it won the 1953 International Fantasy Award.
Clockwork Planet (クロックワーク・プラネット)
Clockwork Planet (クロックワーク・プラネット) is a completed 10-volume clockpunk light novel by Yuu Kamiya and Tsubaki Himana, illustrated by Shino (Kodansha Lanove Bunko, 2013–2018), set on a clockwork-rebuilt Earth, with a Kuro manga and a 2017 Xebec anime.
Commonwealth Saga
The Commonwealth Saga is a science-fiction duology by British author Peter F. Hamilton, consisting of Pandora's Star (2004) and Judas Unchained (2005), set in the Intersolar Commonwealth.
Consider Phlebas
Consider Phlebas (1987) is Iain M. Banks's first Culture novel, following shape-shifter Bora Horza Gobuchul, who fights for the Idirans against the Culture's Minds during the Idiran-Culture War of 1327-1375.
Contact (novel)
Contact (Carl Sagan, Simon and Schuster, 1985) is the astronomer's only novel, about radio astronomer Ellie Arroway decoding an alien message; it inspired the 1997 film and modern wormhole research.
Crash (Ballard novel)
Crash is J.G. Ballard's 1973 novel, published by Jonathan Cape, about characters sexually obsessed with car crashes, narrated by James Ballard. Jean Baudrillard called it the first great novel of simulation; David Cronenberg filmed it in 1996.
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a 1980s science fiction subgenre of "high tech, low life" dystopias, coined by Bruce Bethke (1983), shaped by Gibson's Neuromancer and Sterling's Mirrorshades, later spawning postcyberpunk.
Cyberpunk derivatives
Cyberpunk derivatives: science fiction subgenres named after cyberpunk, from steampunk, dieselpunk, and biopunk to solarpunk and postcyberpunk, distinguished by technology, era, and tone.
Dark Matter (Crouch novel)
Dark Matter (2016) is Blake Crouch's science fiction thriller about physicist Jason Dessen, abducted into an alternate life via the many-worlds interpretation; a NYT bestseller adapted by Crouch himself into Apple TV+'s series with Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly.
Death of the Author (novel)
Death of the Author is Nnedi Okorafor's 2025 metafiction novel (William Morrow) about Zelu, a disabled Nigerian American writer whose hit sci-fi novel Rusted Robots escapes her control; Locus, NAACP Image Award winner, Hugo finalist.
Digital Devil Story (デジタル・デビル物語)
Digital Devil Story (デジタル・デビル物語), Aya Nishitani's 1986–1993 demon-summoning novel series from Tokuma Shoten, source of the Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei, and Persona game franchises.
Ditmar Awards
The Ditmar Awards, formally the Australian SF Awards, are fan-voted awards for Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror, presented annually since 1969 and named for Melbourne fan Ditmar Jenssen.