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The Girl with All the Gifts
The Girl with All the Gifts is a 2014 science-fiction horror novel by M. R. Carey (Mike Carey) and the first book of the Hungry Plague series, about a fungal apocalypse.
The High Crusade
The High Crusade is a 1960 comic science fiction novel by Poul Anderson, serialized in Astounding and published by Doubleday, in which 1345 English crusaders under Sir Roger de Tourneville capture a Wersgorix starship and conquer an alien empire; Hugo nominee, 1994 film.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel), by Douglas Adams, published 12 October 1979, adapts his 1978 six-episode BBC radio serial into the first of five books, selling about 14 million copies.
The Host (novel)
The Host is Stephenie Meyer's 2008 adult science fiction romance (Little, Brown), set after alien 'souls' conquer Earth, featuring Melanie Stryder, Wanderer, and a two-body love triangle; a #1 NYT bestseller filmed in 2013.
The House of the Scorpion
The House of the Scorpion (2002) is Nancy Farmer's National Book Award-winning young adult science fiction novel about Matt, a clone of the drug lord El Patrón, raised in the opium country of Opium between the US and Mexico; sequel The Lord of Opium.
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (Гиперболоид инженера Гарина), also translated as The Garin Death Ray, is a 1927 science fiction novel by the Russian writer Aleksey Tolstoy.
The Illustrated Man
The Illustrated Man is Ray Bradbury's 1951 Doubleday collection of eighteen science fiction short stories framed by a tattooed wanderer whose living tattoos predict the future; famous stories include The Veldt, Kaleidoscope, and The Rocket Man.
The Invention of Morel
The Invention of Morel (La invención de Morel) is a 1940 novella by the Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, considered a classic of Argentine science fiction.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance is H. G. Wells's 1897 scientific romance about Griffin, an optics scientist who renders himself invisible by lowering his refractive index, cannot reverse it, and is killed by a mob; first adapted by James Whale in 1933 and distinct from Ralph Ellison's 1952 Invisible Man.
The Iron Heel
The Iron Heel (Die eiserne Ferse), Jack London's 1908 dystopian socialist novel from Macmillan: Avis Everhard's manuscript of Ernest Everhard's failed revolt against an oligarchic corporate dictatorship, edited from 2632, an early dystopia influencing Orwell.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau is H. G. Wells's 1896 science fiction novel in which shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds Doctor Moreau creating human-animal hybrids by vivisection, a landmark of bioethics-themed fiction.
The Jesus Incident
The Jesus Incident is a 1979 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, sequel to Destination: Void and first Pandora Sequence book, set on planet Pandora where the sentient AI Ship demands human worship.
The Last Man
The Last Man (1826) by Mary Shelley, also called Le Dernier Homme in French scholarship, is the first major post-apocalyptic pandemic novel: Lionel Verney narrates humanity's extinction by plague in the late 21st century, as a roman à clef of Shelley, Byron, and their circle.
The Last Question
The Last Question is a 1956 Isaac Asimov short story, first published in Science Fiction Quarterly, in which humanity repeatedly asks the supercomputer Multivac and its successors whether entropy can be reversed; Asimov's own favorite story, ending with "Let there be light."
The Last Teacher
The Last Teacher is a 2015 dystopian short story by American writer Chris Dietzel, part of his Great De-evolution series, about a teacher of teenagers facing humanity's end.
The Lathe of Heaven
The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin's 1971 Locus Award-winning SF novel (serialized in Amazing Stories, published by Scribner), about George Orr, whose dreams alter reality, and Dr. Haber, who exploits them; adapted for TV in 1980 and 2002.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness is Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 science fiction novel about envoy Genly Ai on the ambisexual ice planet Gethen, with its monthly kemmer cycle; it won both the 1970 Hugo and Nebula Awards.
The Lost Fleet
The Lost Fleet is a military science fiction series by Jack Campbell, pen name of John G. Hemry, following Captain "Black Jack" Geary commanding a fleet stranded behind enemy lines.
The Lost World (Crichton novel)
The Lost World (1995) is Michael Crichton's only sequel to Jurassic Park, published by Knopf; Ian Malcolm returns to a second Costa Rican dinosaur island, and the 1997 Spielberg film adapted it very loosely.
The Lost World (Doyle novel)
The Lost World (1912) is Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure and science fiction novel introducing Professor Challenger, who leads Malone, Summerlee, and Roxton to a South American plateau where dinosaurs and ape-men survive; it founded the lost-world genre.
The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops is E. M. Forster's 1909 dystopian science fiction short story, first published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review, about Vashti and Kuno in an underground society dependent on the Machine, which anticipates the internet and video calls.
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle is Philip K. Dick's 1962 alternate history novel, published by Putnam, in which the Axis won World War II and rules partitioned America; it won the 1963 Hugo Award and inspired the 2015 Amazon series.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles (1950), Ray Bradbury's Doubleday fix-up also published as The Silver Locusts, links short stories about expeditions to and colonization of Mars, mirroring the colonization of North America.
The Mercy of Gods
The Mercy of Gods is a 2024 space opera novel by James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck of The Expanse), first of the Captive's War trilogy, in which the alien Carryx conquer the human planet Anjiin and abduct scientists including Dafyd Alkhor.
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos, also published in the US as Village of the Damned, is John Wyndham's 1957 science fiction novel about an English village whose women are mysteriously impregnated and bear identical telepathic alien children, filmed in 1960, 1995, and adapted for Sky in 2022.
The Ministry of Time (novel)
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley's 2024 debut novel (Sceptre, Avid Reader Press), blends time travel, spy thriller, and romance: a Cambodian-English civil servant guides Franklin expedition officer Graham Gore, extracted from 1847 by a secret British ministry.
The Minority Report
The Minority Report is Philip K. Dick's 1956 science fiction novelette, first published in Fantastic Universe, about Precrime director John Anderton, predicted by three precogs to murder, and the source of Spielberg's 2002 film.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel (Putnam; serialized in Worlds of If), depicts a 2075 lunar penal colony revolt led by Mannie, Wyoh, Professor de la Paz, and the sentient computer Mike; it won the 1967 Hugo Award and coined TANSTAAFL.
The Murderbot Diaries
The Murderbot Diaries is Martha Wells' Hugo, Nebula, and Locus-winning science fiction series about a rogue SecUnit that hacked its governor module, published by Tor.com from 2017 and adapted into an Apple TV+ series starring Alexander Skarsgård.
The Night's Dawn Trilogy
The Night's Dawn Trilogy is a science fiction trilogy by the British author Peter F. Hamilton, comprising The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God.