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Leviathan Wakes
Leviathan Wakes (2011), first Expanse novel by James S.A. Corey, pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, published by Orbit; Holden and Miller investigate the derelict Scopuli, driving the solar system toward war; Hugo and Locus nominee, basis of The Expanse TV series.
Light Bringer (novel)
Light Bringer is the 2023 sixth novel of Pierce Brown's Red Rising Saga, sequel to Dark Age. Published by Del Rey on July 25, 2023, a NYT and Sunday Times bestseller following Darrow after his defeat on Mercury; penultimate book before Red God. Not Brent Weeks's Lightbringer fantasy series.
List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction: catalog of works depicting civilization's end and aftermath, from Shelley's The Last Man (1826) to contemporary novels, films, and games, distinguished from dystopian fiction by its catastrophic setting.
List of cyberpunk works
Cyberpunk works: novels, films, anime, and games of the high-tech/low-life SF subgenre, centered on Gibson's Neuromancer (1984), Blade Runner (1982), Mirrorshades, Pondsmith's Cyberpunk RPG, Snow Crash, The Matrix, and postcyberpunk works like Gattaca.
List of science fiction tropes
Science fiction tropes: recurring genre devices such as space travel, alien contact, AI, dystopia, and first contact; how they form via the trope-spiral and SF mega-text, with examples from Clarke, Atwood, and Liu Cixin.
List of Sword Art Online light novels
List of Sword Art Online light novels (ソードアート・オンライン): Reki Kawahara's Dengeki Bunko series since April 2009, 29 main volumes across Aincrad, Alicization, and Unital Ring arcs, plus the Progressive floor-by-floor retelling; Yen Press translates in English.
Livesuit
Livesuit is a 2024 science fiction novella by James S.A. Corey, pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, set in their Captive's War series.
Lost Universe (ロスト・ユニバース)
Lost Universe (ロスト・ユニバース) is a comedic space-opera franchise by Slayers creator Hajime Kanzaka: five light novels (1992–1999), a Shoko Yoshinaka manga, and a 26-episode 1998 TV Tokyo anime infamous for the 'Yashigani' episode-4 animation collapse.
Lucifer's Hammer
Lucifer's Hammer (1977), a post-apocalyptic disaster novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, follows the comet Hamner-Brown, "The Hammer," whose fragments strike Earth (Hammerfall) and destroy civilization; California survivors around Senator Jellison's ranch battle a cannibal army. Hugo nominee.
Make Room! Make Room!
Make Room! Make Room! is Harry Harrison's 1966 dystopian science fiction novel, also published as Soylent Green tie-in editions, set in overpopulated 1999 New York City with 35 million residents and detective Andy Rusch; it inspired the 1973 film Soylent Green, whose cannibalism twist is absent from the book.
Marathi science fiction
Marathi science fiction (विज्ञानकथा, vidnyankatha) is science fiction written in the Marathi language, principally in Maharashtra, India, which took off in the 1970s through the Marathi Vidnyan Parishad and astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar.
Mars in fiction
Mars in fiction is the body of novels, films, and radio works set on the planet. It dates to 17th-century speculation and later the late 19th century.
Mars trilogy
The Mars trilogy is a sequence of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, covering the colonization and terraforming of Mars.
Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror
Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror is Steve Alten's 1997 debut thriller about megalodons surviving in the Mariana Trench, haunting Jonas Taylor; it hit #19 on the NYT list and inspired the 2018 film The Meg.
Memory's Legion
Memory's Legion (2022) is James S.A. Corey's complete Expanse short-story collection, gathering eight novellas and stories from Drive to the new coda The Sins of Our Fathers, with author's notes; it excludes the RPG-only Last Flight of the Cassandra.
Metro 2035 (Метро 2035)
Metro 2035 (Метро 2035) is a 2015 post-apocalyptic novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky, third and final book of the Metro trilogy, concluding Artyom's story. Published by AST June 2015, 384 pages; a political spy-thriller dystopia, unlike the horror-tinged Metro 2033, with Polish and Italian translations.
Mickey7
Mickey7, Edward Ashton's 2022 St. Martin's Press sci-fi novel about Expendable clone colonist Mickey Barnes on the ice planet Niflheim, teletransportation-paradox themes, Mickey8 duplicate, NPR Best Book, basis of Bong Joon Ho's 2025 film Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson.
Military science fiction
Military science fiction is a science fiction subgenre focused on military technology, soldiers, and conflicts, descended from 1870s future war stories and space opera; key works include Starship Troopers, The Forever War, and Hammer's Slammers.
Mind transfer (biological)
Mind transfer (biological), or identity transfer, is a science fiction trope in which consciousness moves into another body via brain transplant, RNA transfer, or possession; no real-world method exists.
Monday Begins on Saturday
Monday Begins on Saturday (Понедельник начинается в субботу) is a 1965 satirical science-fantasy novella by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, subtitled "a fairy tale for junior research workers."
Morning Star (Brown novel)
Morning Star (2016) by Pierce Brown is the third Red Rising Saga novel, concluding Darrow's revolt against Gold rule; published by Del Rey, followed by Iron Gold, Dark Age, and Light Bringer.
Mortal Engines
Mortal Engines, also known as the first Hungry City Chronicles book, is Philip Reeve's 2001 YA steampunk dystopia about traction cities devouring each other after the Sixty Minute War; it won the Smarties Gold and Blue Peter awards and was filmed in 2018 by Peter Jackson's protege Christian Rivers.
Mortal Engines Quartet
The Mortal Engines Quartet (Hungry City Chronicles, Predator Cities) is Philip Reeve's four-novel post-apocalyptic YA series, 2001-2006, about mobile traction cities practicing Municipal Darwinism after the Sixty Minute War; Mortal Engines won the Smarties and Blue Peter prizes, A Darkling Plain the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
Nebula Award
Nebula Awards: annual SFWA-voted prizes for science fiction and fantasy, first given for 1965 works (Dune won Best Novel); four length-based categories plus Bradbury, Norton, game, comic, and poem awards.
Nebula Award for Best Novel
Nebula Award for Best Novel: SFWA's peer-voted annual prize for the best English-language speculative-fiction novel of the year, first given for 1965 (Dune). Elected in two rounds by Full, Associate, and Senior SFWA members; 2025 winner The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
Neuromancer
Neuromancer is William Gibson's 1984 debut novel about hacker Case and the AI Wintermute, which won the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick awards, popularized cyberspace, and became cyberpunk's defining text; an Apple TV series premieres January 22, 2027.
New Wave (science fiction)
New Wave science fiction: 1960s-1970s experimental literary movement in SF, term borrowed from the French nouvelle vague; centered on Moorcock's New Worlds (1964), inner space, soft sciences, and writers like Ballard, Aldiss, and Ellison.
New Worlds
New Worlds was a British science fiction magazine, published from 1946 to 1997 and known as the hub of the experimental New Wave under editor Michael Moorcock.
Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel)
Nightfall: Isaac Asimov's 1941 Astounding novelette about a six-sun planet plunged into darkness and madness every 2,049 years, voted best pre-1965 SF story; expanded into a 1990 Robert Silverberg novel set on Kalgash.
Nightflyers
Nightflyers is a 1980 science fiction horror novella by George R. R. Martin, part of his Thousand Worlds future history, adapted as a 1987 film and a 2018 Syfy series.