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Robert A. Heinlein bibliography
The Robert A. Heinlein bibliography, also known as the Bibliography of Robert A. Heinlein, catalogs works by the American science fiction writer, from short fiction in 1939 to over thirty novels.
Robert Silverberg bibliography
The Robert Silverberg bibliography catalogs the work of science fiction author Robert Silverberg, born 1935, spanning more than one hundred science fiction books and about two hundred pseudonymous erotic novels.
Sandworms of Dune
Sandworms of Dune (2007), by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Tor, August 21, 2007), is the eighth Dune Chronicles novel and part two of the Hunters of Dune finale based on Frank Herbert's Dune 7 outline, resolving the human-machine war, the Honored Matres' origin, and the final Kwisatz Haderach at Kralizec.
Saturation Point (novella)
Saturation Point is a 2024 climate-fiction novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris, Terrible Worlds: Transformations), following biologist Jasmine Marks into the deadly equatorial Zone; it won the 2024 BSFA Award and is being adapted by Universal.
Science fiction
Science fiction (sci-fi): genre fiction depicting imagined scientific or technological advances and their social impact. Key names: Gernsback's scientifiction, Suvin's novum, Shelley, Verne, Wells, cyberpunk; distinct from fantasy by material plausibility.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association
SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, is a 501(c)(3) professional writers' organization founded by Damon Knight in 1965 as Science Fiction Writers of America; it hosts the Nebula Awards, runs Writer Beware, and has over 2,500 members.
Science fiction magazine
Science fiction magazine: periodical devoted to SF short fiction, from Gernsback's Amazing Stories (1926) and Campbell's Astounding through digests to webzines like Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and Lightspeed; pro rates, Hugo award tiers, declining print circulation.
Serpent's Walk
Serpent's Walk, also Serpent's Walk (Calverhall), is a 1991 neo-Nazi dystopian science fiction novel by M.A.R. Barker under the pseudonym Randolph D. Calverhall, published by National Vanguard Books; it imagines surviving SS leaders seizing power in 2041 America.
Service Model
Service Model is Adrian Tchaikovsky's 2024 standalone satirical science fiction novel (Tordotcom) about the robot valet Charles, renamed Uncharles, who kills his master and searches a post-apocalyptic world; a 2025 Hugo, Clarke, and Locus finalist.
Seveneves
Seveneves is Neal Stephenson's 2015 hard science fiction novel in which the Moon shatters, the Hard Rain dooms Earth within two years, and seven Eves rebuild humanity in orbit; 5,000 years later their seven races return to Earth. Hugo-nominated, Prometheus Award winner, in TV development at Legendary.
Shroud (Tchaikovsky novel)
Shroud is a 2025 standalone science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK, Orbit US) about two humans stranded on a dark, high-gravity moon inhabited by a hive-mind alien species called the Shrouded; a 2026 Hugo Best Novel finalist.
Silo (series)
Silo is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction series on Apple TV+, created by Graham Yost and directed by Morten Tyldum, featuring Rebecca Ferguson in a mile-deep underground silo.
Slan
Slan is A. E. van Vogt's science fiction novel about telepathic mutant superhumans, serialized in Astounding 1940, published by Arkham House 1946, Retro-Hugo winner, source of the slogan "fans are slans."
Social fantasy
Social fantasy (социальная фантастика) is a branch of speculative fiction in which invented societies and technologies analyze social structures, politics, and power rather than showcase novelty.
Solar System in fiction
Solar System in fiction: real planets, moons, and asteroids as science-fiction settings, from Kircher's 1656 Grand Tour and Verne's 1865 Moon cannon through Heinlein's golden-age future history and the post-probe shift to interstellar settings.
Soviet science fiction
Soviet science fiction, known in Russian as nauchnaia fantastika (научная фантастика), was a popular genre combining science education with socialist ideology, peaking with Efremov and the Strugatsky brothers.
Space Odyssey
Space Odyssey is a science fiction novel series by British author Arthur C. Clarke. It consists of four books, following black monolith artifacts that intervene in human evolution.
Space opera
Space opera: science fiction subgenre of romantic, large-scale interstellar adventure and conflict. Term coined pejoratively by Wilson Tucker in 1941; founded by E. E. "Doc" Smith's 1928 Skylark; revived from the 1980s as sophisticated new space opera.
Speaker for the Dead
Speaker for the Dead (1986) by Orson Scott Card, sequel to Ender's Game and second Ender Quintet volume; Ender as the Xenocide Speakers for the dead among the piggies on Lusitania; won the 1986 Nebula and 1987 Hugo for Best Novel.
Sphere (novel)
Sphere is a 1987 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, published by Knopf, in which scientists investigate a huge, apparently undamaged spacecraft on the Pacific ocean floor.
Sprawl trilogy
The Sprawl trilogy, also called the Neuromancer, Cyberspace, or Matrix trilogy, is William Gibson's first novel sequence: Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), set in the Sprawl and foundational to cyberpunk.
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers: Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 Hugo-winning military SF novel about Johnny Rico and the Mobile Infantry, and Paul Verhoeven's 1997 satirical film adaptation that recast its militarism as fascism; sequels, games, and a 2025 Neill Blomkamp reboot followed.
Station Eleven
Station Eleven (2014) is Emily St. John Mandel's fourth novel, a literary post-apocalyptic story set 20 years after a flu kills 99% of humanity; Traveling Symphony, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, HBO adaptation.
Story of Your Life
Story of Your Life is Ted Chiang's 1998 Nebula- and Sturgeon-winning science fiction novella about linguist Louise Banks, whose study of the aliens' written language Heptapod B gives her a nonlinear view of time; adapted into Arrival (2016).
Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land is Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 Hugo-winning science fiction novel about Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised by Martians; known for the word "grok," its uncut edition, and mainstream bestseller status.
Sturgeon's law
Sturgeon's law, also called Sturgeon's Revelation, is Theodore Sturgeon's 1950s aphorism that ninety percent of everything is crud, coined in defense of science fiction; his original 'Law' was 'Nothing is always absolutely so'.
Sundiver
Sundiver is David Brin's 1980 debut novel, published by Bantam Books, and the first book of the Uplift saga, describing a human expedition from Mercury into the Sun and the 'wolfling' mystery of who uplifted humanity.
Sunrise on the Reaping
Sunrise on the Reaping, also called The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping for the film, is Suzanne Collins's 2025 fifth Hunger Games novel, a prequel about 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy in the 50th Games (Second Quarter Quell), 24 years before the original, with a Francis Lawrence film due November 20, 2026.
Swallowed Star (吞噬星空)
Swallowed Star (吞噬星空, The Legend of Spacewalker) is I Eat Tomatoes' 2010-2012 Qidian sci-fi web novel, 1,544 chapters, about Luo Feng in virus-ravaged Earth, with a Tencent donghua, films, games, and sequel Origin Continent.
Takeshi Kovacs
Takeshi Kovacs (Takeshi Lev Kovacs, Tak) is the fictional ex-Envoy soldier-detective protagonist of Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon trilogy (2002–2005) and its Netflix series, a Harlan's World native whose consciousness moves between bodies via cortical stacks and sleeves.