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Tamil science fiction
Tamil science fiction (அறிவியல் புனைவு, ariviyal punaivu) is Tamil-language fiction built on science, technology, or their imagined consequences, with early works from 1919 and a modern scene led by Sujatha.
TekWar
TekWar is a science fiction franchise created by William Shatner, comprising nine novels from 1989 to 1997, four TV movies, a series, and a video game.
Tender Is the Flesh
Tender Is the Flesh (Cadáver exquisito) is Agustina Bazterrica's 2017 Argentine dystopian novel, Premio Clarín winner, in which a virus makes animal meat poisonous and legalized industrial cannibalism follows; English translation by Sarah Moses, Scribner 2020.
The Algebraist
The Algebraist is a 2004 standalone space opera by Iain M. Banks, not a Culture novel. Set in 4034 AD, it follows Slow Seer Fassin Taak among the gas-giant Dwellers of Nasqueron, seeking a secret wormhole network; Hugo-nominated in 2005.
The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain is Michael Crichton's 1969 techno-thriller novel (Knopf) about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism from a crashed satellite and Project Wildfire; adapted by Robert Wise in 1971 and A&E in 2008, with sequel The Andromeda Evolution (2019).
The Beetle in the Anthill
The Beetle in the Anthill (Zhuk v muraveinike) is a 1979 science fiction novella by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, set in the Noon Universe, following investigator Maxim Kammerer.
The Blazing World
The Blazing World is a 1666 prose fiction work by Margaret Cavendish, following a kidnapped noblewoman made Empress of a parallel world, and regarded as the first science-fiction novel by a woman.
The Calcutta Chromosome
The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1995 novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, winner of the 1997 Arthur C. Clarke Award, reimagining Ronald Ross's malaria research.
The Captive's War
The Captive's War: science fiction series by James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), planned trilogy plus two novellas beginning with The Mercy of Gods (2024), about humans captured by the alien Carryx empire, with an Amazon MGM adaptation announced.
The Chrysalids
The Chrysalids (US title Re-Birth) is John Wyndham's 1955 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel about telepathic children fleeing Waknuk, a religious Labrador community that sterilizes and banishes anyone born mutated.
The Circle (Eggers novel)
The Circle is Dave Eggers's 2013 dystopian novel about Mae Holland, who joins a tech monopoly founded on TruYou that pursues total transparency; slogans include "Privacy is theft"; filmed in 2017; sequel The Every (2021).
The City of Ember
The City of Ember is Jeanne DuPrau's 2003 debut dystopian novel (Book of Ember #1), set in an underground city past its 220-year lifespan, following Lina and Doon; adapted as the 2008 film with Saoirse Ronan.
The Coming Race
The Coming Race, later titled Vril, the Power of the Coming Race, is an 1871 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton about an underground race called the Vril-ya and their energy, vril.
The Compound (Rawle novel)
The Compound is Aisling Rawle's 2025 debut novel, a dystopian satire in which contestant Lily competes on a desert-set reality TV show, blending Love Island-style dating-show mechanics with Lord of the Flies survivalism and consumerist critique.
The Crystal World
The Crystal World is J.G. Ballard's fourth novel (1966, Jonathan Cape), in which Dr. Edward Sanders journeys upriver in Cameroon toward a forest that crystallizes everything, part of his early transformation-story trilogy with The Drowned World and The Drought.
The Dark Tower (Lewis novel)
The Dark Tower (Lewis novel): unfinished C.S. Lewis science fiction fragment, apparent sequel to Out of the Silent Planet, published posthumously 1977 by Walter Hooper; features Ransom, MacPhee, a Chronoscope, and a disputed authorship controversy.
The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham's 1951 post-apocalyptic novel (first serialized as Revolt of the Triffids), follows sighted biologist Bill Masen after a blinding catastrophe, with carnivorous mobile plants and adaptations including the 1962 film and 1981 BBC serial.
The Dead Zone (novel)
The Dead Zone is Stephen King's August 1979 Viking Press novel about Johnny Smith, who gains precognitive touch after a coma and foresees politician Greg Stillson causing nuclear war. King's first #1 New York Times bestseller, it introduced Castle Rock and was filmed by David Cronenberg in 1983.
The Diamond Age
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a 1995 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson set in a future Shanghai, winner of the Hugo and Locus Awards.
The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, Ursula K. Le Guin's 1974 Hainish novel about the physicist Shevek, who travels from the anarchist moon Anarres to the state-ridden planet Urras; winner of the 1975 Hugo and Nebula Awards.
The Doomed City
The Doomed City (Grad obrechenny) is a philosophical dystopian novel by Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, completed in 1972 but published only in 1988 during perestroika.
The End of Everything (Harrison novel)
M. John Harrison's 13th novel (Serpent's Tail, 18 June 2026), a near-future story set on the Kent coast after "the crisis", when alien entities called the iGhetti have taken London; shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2026.
The Expanse (novel series)
The Expanse is a nine-novel space opera series (2011–2021) by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck writing as James S.A. Corey, set in a 24th-century colonized solar system, Hugo Award-winning, over 10 million copies sold, adapted into a six-season TV series.
The Faith of Beasts
The Faith of Beasts (2026) by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), book two of The Captive's War space opera trilogy, continues humanity's enslavement under the Carryx empire after its conquest of Anjiin.
The Fall of Hyperion (novel)
The Fall of Hyperion is Dan Simmons's 1990 science fiction novel, second in the Hyperion Cantos after Hyperion. It depicts galactic war between the Hegemony, Ousters, and TechnoCore, the Fall of the Farcasters, and the pilgrims' confrontation with the Shrike; Locus Award winner and Nebula nominee.
The Fatal Eggs
The Fatal Eggs (Роковые яйца) is a satirical science-fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1924 and published in Nedra in 1925, his only major work issued complete in his lifetime.
The Fireman (novel)
The Fireman (novel) is Joe Hill's 2016 apocalyptic horror novel, also his fourth, about the Dragonscale fungal pandemic causing spontaneous combustion; pregnant nurse Harper Grayson and the Fireman seek survival, published by William Morrow.
The Fountains of Paradise
The Fountains of Paradise is Arthur C. Clarke's 1979 Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction novel about building a space elevator on the fictional island Taprobane, modeled on Sri Lanka; its elevator rises 36,000 km from the mountain Sri Kanda, with engineer Vannevar Morgan as protagonist.
The Garden of Rama
The Garden of Rama (1991) by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee is the third Rama novel, continuing Rama II with three trapped cosmonauts voyaging to the Node, then a 2000-colonist human habitat and the New Eden colony.
The Girl Who Was Plugged In
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" is a 1973 science fiction novella by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon), published in New Dimensions 3 and winner of the 1974 Hugo for Best Novella, about P. Burke remotely controlling the celebrity body Delphi in a future where advertising is banned.