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Heretics of Dune
Heretics of Dune, the fifth Dune novel, is Frank Herbert's 1984 science fiction book set 1,500 years after God Emperor of Dune, following the Bene Gesserit, Sheeana, a Duncan Idaho ghola, and the Honored Matres, ending with Rakis's destruction.
High-Rise (novel)
High-Rise, J.G. Ballard's 1975 Jonathan Cape novel, follows 2,000 affluent residents of a 40-storey London tower block descending into tribal violence; final book of his urban disaster sequence, adapted by Ben Wheatley in 2015.
Hindi science fiction
Hindi science fiction (हिन्दी विज्ञान कथा, vijñān kathā) is science fiction written in Hindi, a tradition dating to Ambika Datta Vyas's Aashcharya Vrittant, serialized between 1884 and 1888.
History of science fiction
History of science fiction: scholarly account of the genre's origins, naming by Hugo Gernsback, Suvin's cognitive estrangement, Golden Age, and global development including Chinese SF.
How High We Go in the Dark
How High We Go in the Dark is Sequoia Nagamatsu's 2022 debut novel-in-stories about the Arctic Plague, released from melting Siberian permafrost in 2030, following linked characters across centuries. Also a NYT bestseller and Le Guin Prize finalist.
Hugo Award
Hugo Award, originally the Science Fiction Achievement Award, honors excellence in science fiction and fantasy. Voted by Worldcon/WSFS members since 1953, annual since 1955, using instant-runoff final voting and E Pluribus Hugo nominations.
Hugo Award for Best Novel
Hugo Award for Best Novel: annual science fiction and fantasy novel prize voted by Worldcon members, first awarded 1953, skipped 1954 and 1957, trophy not money, with ties in 1966, 1993, and 2010.
Hunters of Dune
Hunters of Dune is a 2006 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the first part of the two-volume conclusion to Frank Herbert's Dune series.
Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia
Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia (魔装学園H×H, Masō Gakuen H×H) is Masamune Kuji's ecchi light novel series, Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko 2014–2022, 14 volumes, with manga by Riku Ayakawa and a 2016 Production IMS anime.
Hyperion (Simmons novel)
Hyperion (1989) is Dan Simmons's Hugo Award-winning space opera, first of the four-book Hyperion Cantos. Seven pilgrims travel to the Time Tombs to face the Shrike, in a Canterbury Tales-style frame narrative.
Hyperion Cantos
Hyperion Cantos: Dan Simmons's four-novel science fiction series (Hyperion 1989, The Fall of Hyperion 1990, Endymion 1995, The Rise of Endymion 1997), a Canterbury Tales-style space opera featuring the Hegemony, TechnoCore, Shrike, and Hugo-winning first volume.
Hyperspace
Hyperspace is a fictional dimension where normal rules of space and time are altered, allowing travel faster than light. It is conceived as a parallel realm.
I Am Legend (novel)
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson's 1954 science fiction horror novel (also issued as The Omega Man), follows Robert Neville, sole human survivor of a bacterial vampire plague in 1976 Los Angeles, whose ending reverses hero and monster.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is Harlan Ellison's 1967 post-apocalyptic short story, Hugo winner in 1968, about the sentient computer AM torturing five survivors; adapted into a 1995 point-and-click game co-designed by Ellison and remastered by Nightdive in 2025.
I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter
Short story by Isabel Fall, published in Clarkesworld January 1, 2020; reclaims the transphobic attack-helicopter meme through a pilot reassigned as a helicopter; withdrawn after backlash, retitled Helicopter Story, reprinted in The Big Book of Cyberpunk.
I, Robot
I, Robot is Isaac Asimov's 1950 Gnome Press collection of nine robot short stories from 1940-1950, framed as Susan Calvin's recollections, that introduced the Three Laws of Robotics; distinct from the 2004 film and Eando Binder's story of the same name.
Instrumentality of Mankind
The Instrumentality of Mankind is Cordwainer Smith's (Paul Linebarger's) future history of a ruling galactic body, and a 1979 Ballantine collection of 14 of his short stories.
Iron Gold
Iron Gold (2018) by Pierce Brown is the fourth Red Rising saga novel, set ten years after Morning Star, told through four narrators, Darrow, Lyria, Ephraim, and Lysander, during the Solar Republic's war against the Ash Lord's Gold remnants.
John Crowley (author)
John Crowley (1942–2026) was an American fantasy and science fiction author best known for Little, Big and the four-volume Ægypt cycle, and a documentary screenwriter.
Johnny Mnemonic
Johnny Mnemonic: cyberpunk short story by William Gibson, first published in Omni, May 1981, collected in Burning Chrome (1986); first Sprawl story, Nebula-nominated, root of Neuromancer, filmed by Robert Longo in 1995.
José García Villa
José García Villa, who wrote as Doveglion, was a Filipino modernist poet in New York known for the comma poem and named National Artist of the Philippines in 1973.
Juice (novel)
Juice is a 2024 climate fiction (cli-fi) novel by Australian author Tim Winton, his first dystopian novel, published by Hamish Hamilton and Picador. Set centuries ahead, it follows a captured narrator telling his life story, including service in a resistance group fighting billionaire descendants.
Jurassic Park (novel)
Jurassic Park is Michael Crichton's 1990 Knopf science fiction thriller, also called the Jurassic Park novel, about John Hammond's dinosaur theme park built from cloned ancient DNA. Chaos theorist Ian Malcolm predicts its collapse; the darker novel differs from Spielberg's 1993 film, which made Hammond kindly and left Malcolm alive.
Kim Stanley Robinson bibliography
Kim Stanley Robinson bibliography: the published works of the American SF writer born 1952, author of the Mars trilogy, 2312, and The Ministry for the Future, with 21 novels and 8 story collections as of 2025.
Known Space
Known Space is Larry Niven's future history series of about 40 stories and novels set within 60 light-years of Earth, spanning the 1970s to 3101, from "The Coldest Place" (1964) through Ringworld and the Man-Kzin Wars.
Krakatit
Krakatit is a utopian science-fiction novel by the Czech writer Karel Čapek, first published in 1924, about engineer Prokop, who invents a terribly powerful explosive named after Krakatoa.
Kurd Laßwitz Award
The Kurd Laßwitz Award (Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis) is an annual literary award for German-language science fiction, created in 1980 and named after Kurd Laßwitz, the father of German science fiction.
Lady Jessica
Lady Jessica Atreides is a fictional character in Frank Herbert's Dune (1965): a Bene Gesserit whose disobedience, bearing Paul instead of a daughter, drives the plot.
Last and First Men
Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon is a future-history science fiction novel narrated telepathically by the Last Man, spanning two billion years and eighteen human species across Earth, Venus, and Neptune.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (銀河英雄伝説, Ginga Eiyū Densetsu) is Yoshiki Tanaka's ten-volume Japanese space-opera novel series (1982–1989) about the Galactic Empire versus the Free Planets Alliance, led by Reinhard von Lohengramm and Yang Wen-li, with 15 million copies sold and a landmark OVA adaptation.