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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), George Orwell's dystopian novel published by Secker & Warburg on 8 June 1949, depicts Winston Smith, Big Brother, doublethink, Newspeak, and the Ministry of Truth in Oceania.
Ninja Slayer (ニンジャスレイヤー)
Ninja Slayer (ニンジャスレイヤー) is a cyberpunk ninja action novel series credited to Bradley Bond and Philip N. Morzez, serialized in Japanese on Twitter since 2010, set in Neo-Saitama, with TRIGGER anime, manga, a 2024 game, and a TRPG.
Old Man's War
Old Man's War is John Scalzi's 2005 Tor Books military SF debut about 75-year-old John Perry, who joins the Colonial Defense Force, gets a cloned young body, and fights aliens; first of a seven-novel, Hugo-winning series.
Omon Ra
Omon Ra (Омон Ра) is a satirical novel by the Russian writer Victor Pelevin, first published in 1992, in which a Soviet youth trains as a cosmonaut in a fraudulent moon program.
On the Beach (novel)
On the Beach, 1957 post-apocalyptic novel by Nevil Shute (also filmed in 1959): survivors in southern Australia await radiation after nuclear war; a bestseller never out of print, distinct from other 'beach' books.
One Second After
One Second After is a 2009 post-apocalyptic thriller novel by William R. Forstchen, following one man's fight to save his family and small North Carolina town after an EMP attack.
Operation Bounce House
Operation Bounce House: standalone 2026 sci-fi novel by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl author), Ace/Penguin Random House, Feb 10 2026, 448 pp. New Sonoran colonists fight pay-to-play Earth gamers remotely piloting war machines.
Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake is Margaret Atwood's 2003 dystopian novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and first of the MaddAddam trilogy with The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam; it follows Snowman after an engineered plague and features transgenic creatures like pigoons.
Otherland
Otherland is Tad Williams' four-volume cyberpunk-fantasy series (1996-2001) about a secret full-immersion virtual reality network, the Grail Brotherhood, Renie Sulaweyo, and victims trapped comatose on the Net; adapted as a German radio drama and a 2015 MMO.
Out of the Silent Planet
Out of the Silent Planet (1938) is C. S. Lewis's first science fiction novel and the opening book of the Space Trilogy, following the kidnapped philologist Elwin Ransom to Mars (Malacandra), where Earth is revealed as Thulcandra, the silent planet.
Overgeared (템빨)
Overgeared (템빨, Temppal) is a South Korean VRMMO web novel by Park Saenal, serialized 2014–2024 at 2,059 chapters, in which Shin Youngwoo (Grid) gains the legendary blacksmith class Pagma's Successor in the game Satisfy. Adapted into a manhwa (2020), an October 2026 J.C.Staff anime, and a Nexon/GrayGames MMORPG.
Parable of the Sower (novel)
Parable of the Sower is Octavia E. Butler's 1993 dystopian novel set in 2020s California, where Lauren Olamina founds the Earthseed religion built on God is Change; sequel Parable of the Talents, awards, and adaptations distinguish it.
Persepolis Rising
Persepolis Rising is the 2017 seventh Expanse novel by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), opening the final trilogy: thirty years after Babylon's Ashes, the Laconian empire seizes Medina Station with protomolecule warships.
Philip K. Dick Award
The Philip K. Dick Award, founded in 1983 by admirers of Philip K. Dick, honors distinguished science fiction first published in the United States as a paperback original.
Prey (novel)
Prey (2002) is Michael Crichton's techno-thriller novel, published by HarperCollins, about a predatory swarm of self-replicating nanoparticles that escapes a Nevada desert lab; distinct from John Sandford's Prey series and the Alien vs. Predator novel Prey.
Primitive War: Opiate Undertow
Primitive War: Opiate Undertow is Ethan Pettus's 2017 self-published debut novel, first of the Primitive War series, set in 1968 Vietnam where Vulture Squad finds dinosaurs; adapted into Luke Sparke's 2025 film.
Professor Dowell's Head
Professor Dowell's Head (Голова профессора Доуэля) is a science fiction work by Soviet writer Aleksandr Beliaev, first published in 1925 and expanded into a novel in 1937.
Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary is a 2021 Andy Weir science fiction novel and its 2026 Phil Lord and Christopher Miller film starring Ryan Gosling: amnesiac teacher Ryland Grace, the Astrophage microbe, the alien Rocky, and a mission to Tau Ceti.
Prometheus Award
The Prometheus Award, presented by the Libertarian Futurist Society since 1982 (founded 1979 by L. Neil Smith), honors libertarian/pro-freedom science fiction with Best Novel and Hall of Fame categories and a gold-coin trophy.
Radio Free Albemuth
Radio Free Albemuth (originally VALISYSTEM A) is Philip K. Dick's posthumously published 1985 dystopian novel, written in 1976, about Nicholas Brady, President Ferris F. Fremont, and the Valis satellite, later reworked into VALIS.
Ray Garraty
Ray Garraty (Raymond Davis Garraty) is the teenage protagonist of Stephen King's 1979 dystopian novel The Long Walk, written as Richard Bachman, and of the 2025 film adaptation, in which Cooper Hoffman plays him.
Ready Player One
Ready Player One is Ernest Cline's 2011 debut science fiction novel about Wade Watts hunting an Easter egg in the virtual OASIS for James Halliday's fortune; adapted by Spielberg in 2018, with a Ready Player Two sequel film in development.
Reborn as a Space Mercenary
Reborn as a Space Mercenary (Mezametara Saikyou...) is a Japanese sci-fi isekai light novel by Ryuto, illustrated by Tetsuhiro Nabeshima, serialized from February 2019 on Shōsetsuka ni Narō and in print from July 2019 under Kadokawa Books, with a Seven Seas English release, a Shunichi Matsui manga, and a 2026 A-CAT anime.
Recursion (Crouch novel)
Recursion (2019) is a science fiction thriller by Blake Crouch, published by Crown, about NYPD detective Barry Sutton and neuroscientist Helena Smith confronting False Memory Syndrome and memory-editing technology; Netflix rights held by Shondaland and Matt Reeves.
Red Rising
Red Rising (2014) is Pierce Brown's debut dystopian sci-fi novel, first of the Red Rising Saga, in which Red miner Darrow infiltrates the Gold caste on Mars; six books published, Red God announced, Paramount film in development.
Redemption Ark
Redemption Ark (2002) is Alastair Reynolds's hard SF space opera, second in the Revelation Space/Inhibitor sequence between Revelation Space and Absolution Gap; it follows Clavain and the Nostalgia for Infinity crew racing for hell-class weapons against the awakened Inhibitors.
Remembrance of Earth's Past (地球往事)
Remembrance of Earth's Past (地球往事), by Liu Cixin, is the Three-Body trilogy: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End (2006–2010). Hard SF first-contact series, Hugo 2015, 8 million+ copies, adapted by Tencent and Netflix.
Rendezvous with Rama
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke's 1973 hard science fiction novel (Hugo and Nebula winner), follows the ship Endeavour exploring a 54-km alien cylinder; it founded the Big Dumb Object tradition and has sequels with Gentry Lee and a planned Denis Villeneuve film.
Revelation Space
Revelation Space (2000) is Alastair Reynolds's debut novel, a gothic hard science fiction space opera about Dan Sylveste, the extinct Amarantin, and the Ultras, set near Yellowstone around Epsilon Eridani with no faster-than-light travel.
Ringworld
Ringworld (1970) is Larry Niven's Known Space novel about Louis Wu, Nessus, Teela Brown, and Speaker-to-Animals exploring a vast artificial ring around a star; it won the 1970 Nebula and 1971 Hugo Awards.