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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is Philip K. Dick's 1968 science fiction novel about bounty hunter Rick Deckard, the Voigt-Kampff empathy test, Mercerism, and electric animals, adapted as Blade Runner in 1982.
Dogs of War (2017 novel)
Dogs of War (2017) is a science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, published by Head of Zeus, about Rex, a bioengineered dog soldier in Mexico, and his squad Honey, Dragon, and Bees; first of a trilogy with Bear Head and Bee Speaker.
Dreamcatcher (novel)
Dreamcatcher is Stephen King's 2001 Scribner novel, his first after his 1999 accident, written in longhand and originally titled Cancer. Four Derry, Maine friends with telepathic bonds fight an alien invasion; adapted to film by Lawrence Kasdan in 2003.
Dune (novel)
Dune (1965) is Frank Herbert's best-selling science fiction novel about Paul Atreides, the desert planet Arrakis, the spice melange, the Fremen, and sandworms; serialized in Analog, rejected 20 times, published by Chilton, winner of the Nebula and a shared Hugo.
Dune Messiah
Dune Messiah (1969) is Frank Herbert's sequel to Dune, showing Paul Atreides twelve years later as emperor facing a conspiracy; it deconstructs the messiah hero and is being adapted as Dune: Part Three (December 2026).
Earth Abides
Earth Abides is George R. Stewart's 1949 Random House post-apocalyptic novel about Isherwood Williams surviving a pandemic in Berkeley, California; it won the first International Fantasy Award (1951) and shaped later post-apocalyptic fiction.
En Iniya Iyanthira
En Iniya Iyanthira is a Tamil science fiction novel by Sujatha, serialized in the 1980s, set in a future dictatorial India and starring the robotic dog Jeeno.
Ender's Game
Ender's Game is Orson Scott Card's 1985 military science fiction novel about child genius Ender Wiggin, expanded from his 1977 Analog novelette; it won the 1985 Nebula and 1986 Hugo Awards and was filmed in 2013.
Ender's Game (novel series)
Ender's Game (novel series) is a science fiction series by Orson Scott Card, which follows Andrew Wiggin as he navigates humanity's conflict with aliens and explores themes of empathy.
Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
Exodus: The Archimedes Engine is Peter F. Hamilton's 2024 space opera, first of a duology set 40,000 years after humanity's exodus from Earth, in the Centauri Cluster of the Exodus RPG universe, following Finn's bid to become a Traveler.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel of a future US where firemen burn books; follows Guy Montag's rebellion, expanded from the novella "The Fireman," adapted by Truffaut in 1966 and HBO in 2018.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell is Neal Stephenson's 2019, 880-page sequel to Reamde, in which Richard Dodge Forthrast's scanned brain awakens as the deity Egdod in the digital afterlife Bitworld, set against a post-truth Ameristan.
Feminist science fiction
Feminist science fiction is an SF subgenre using speculative narratives to challenge gender roles, patriarchy, and bodily norms. Also called feminist SF or femspec, it spans Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the 1970s boom of Russ, Le Guin, Charnas, and Piercy, and contemporary film and art.
Firestarter (novel)
Firestarter (神秘火焰) is Stephen King's 1980 Viking Press novel about Charlie McGee, a pyrokinetic girl hunted by the secret agency The Shop after her parents took the drug Lot Six; adapted to film in 1984 and 2022.
Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes's 1959 short story expanded into a 1966 Hugo- and Nebula-winning novel, follows Charlie Gordon, whose IQ is tripled by experimental surgery before he regresses; adapted as Charly (1968).
Forever Free (novel)
Forever Free (1999) by Joe Haldeman, Ace Books, is the direct sequel to The Forever War, following William Mandella and Marygay on Middle Finger as they hijack the Time Warp starship, meet the Omnis, and reach a deus ex machina ending.
Foundation (Asimov novel)
Foundation is a 1951 science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov and the first in his Foundation series, introducing the mathematician Hari Seldon and the science of psychohistory.
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Four Ways to Forgiveness is Ursula K. Le Guin's 1995 HarperPrism collection of four linked Hainish novellas set on Werel and Yeowe, reissued in 2017 as Five Ways to Forgiveness.
Frederik Pohl bibliography
Frederik Pohl bibliography (1919–2013): catalog of the American SF writer's novels, stories, series, and anthologies, including The Space Merchants, Gateway, the Heechee books, pseudonyms, and standard bibliography sources.
Gaal Dornick
Gaal Dornick, a character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, is a young mathematician from Synnax who joins Hari Seldon on Trantor; a minor book character, gender-flipped and expanded to protagonist in Apple TV+'s Foundation, played by Lou Llobell.
Galápagos (novel)
Galápagos is Kurt Vonnegut's 1985 satirical novel (Delacorte Press, 295 pages) in which apocalypse survivors on the Galápagos Islands, narrated by ghost Leon Trout, become ancestors of seal-like future humans.
Geffen Award
The Geffen Award (פרס גפן) is an annual Israeli literary prize for the best science fiction and fantasy books and stories published in Hebrew, first awarded in 1999.
Genocidal Organ (虐殺器官)
Genocidal Organ (虐殺器官, Gyakusatsu kikan) is Project Itoh's 2007 debut SF novel about a linguist seeding genocide; finalist for the 7th Komatsu Sakyo Award, adapted as a 2017 anime film by Shukou Murase.
German dystopian fiction
German dystopian fiction is dystopian literature written in German, a tradition including works by Thomas Mann, Günter Grass, and Juli Zeh, though German writing never developed dystopia as a genre.
God Emperor of Dune
God Emperor of Dune is Frank Herbert's 1981 fourth Dune Chronicles novel, following Leto II Atreides, a sandworm-human hybrid God Emperor enforcing his Golden Path across 3,500 years on the transformed planet Rakis.
Gor
Gor is the Counter-Earth setting of John Norman's sword-and-planet series begun with Tarnsman of Gor (1966), reaching 38 novels by 2024, known for its Priest-Kings, Kurii, slavery themes, and Gorean subculture.
Greg Bear bibliography
Greg Bear bibliography: works of American SF writer Greg Bear (1951–2022), author of Eon, Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, and the Halo Forerunner Saga; over thirty novels, five story collections, five Nebulas, two Hugos.
Hainish Cycle
The Hainish Cycle, also called the Ekumen cycle, is Ursula K. Le Guin's shared-universe science fiction series (1964-2000), including The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, set among human worlds seeded by the planet Hain.
Hao Jingfang
Hao Jingfang (郝景芳, born 1984) is a Chinese science fiction writer and economist in Beijing whose novelette Folding Beijing won the Hugo Award in 2016.
Hard science fiction
Hard science fiction (hard SF) is a science fiction subgenre, term coined by P. Schuyler Miller in 1957, defined by Allen Steele as fiction using established or carefully extrapolated science as its backbone, opposed to soft SF.