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Scrapiron Blues

Scrapiron Blues is a 1994 posthumous collection of the last writings of the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, edited by Flora Veit-Wild and published in Harare.

Scrapped Princess (スクラップド・プリンセス)

Scrapped Princess (スクラップド・プリンセス) is a 13-volume light novel by Ichiro Sakaki and its 2003 BONES anime about Pacifica Casull, prophesied to destroy the world at 16, protected by siblings Shannon and Raquel.

Scrisoarea a III-a

Scrisoarea a III-a is a long poem by Mihai Eminescu, first published in 1881, contrasting a heroic past with a satirical portrait of his own day.

Scrisoarea I

Scrisoarea I ("The First Epistle") is an 1881 philosophical poem by Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, the first of his five Epistles and a central text of Romanian literature.

Scrisoarea V

Scrisoarea V, subtitled Dalila, is a satirical poem by Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, closing his cycle of five Scrisori epistles with a satire of vanity and profaned love.

Scum of the Brave (勇者のクズ)

Scum of the Brave (勇者のクズ) is a Japanese action fantasy by Rocket Shokai about ether-enhanced mafia Demon Kings and drug-fueled bounty-hunter Heroes in future Tokyo; it won the first Kakuyomu contest, became a hit self-published manga, and aired as a 24-episode OLM anime in 2026.

Scum's Wish

Scum's Wish (Kuzu no Honkai, クズの本懐) is a romance manga by Mengo Yokoyari, serialized in Monthly Big Gangan 2012–2017, about substitute lovers Hanabi and Mugi; adapted into a 2017 noitamina anime by Lerche and a Fuji TV drama, with sequel Décor as volume 9.

Scythe (novel)

Scythe (2016) by Neal Shusterman opens the Arc of a Scythe YA dystopian trilogy: in a deathless world run by the Thunderhead AI, teen apprentices Citra and Rowan train under scythes Faraday, Curie, and Goddard.

Sea of Poppies

Sea of Poppies is a 2008 historical novel by Amitav Ghosh, set in 1838 on the eve of the First Opium War and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Search for My Tongue

"Search for My Tongue" is a 1988 poem by Indian poet Sujata Bhatt, written in English with Gujarati, in which a speaker dreams her lost mother tongue grows back.

Searching for Dreams of West Lake

Searching for Dreams of West Lake (《西湖夢尋》) is a five-volume topographical miscellany by the late-Ming writer Zhang Dai, recording West Lake's sites and completed in 1671 after the dynasty's fall.

Seascraper (novel)

Seascraper is Benjamin Wood's fifth novel (Scribner, November 4, 2025; 176 pages), about 20-year-old shrimper Thomas Flett in fictional Longferry, early 1960s England. Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, it won the Nero Book Award for fiction.

Season of Crimson Blossoms

Season of Crimson Blossoms is a 2015 debut novel by Nigerian writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim about a widow's romance with a young drug peddler in northern Nigeria.

Season of Storms

Season of Storms (Sezon burz) is Andrzej Sapkowski's standalone 2013 Witcher novel from SuperNOWA, set in 1245, where Geralt loses both swords in the kingdom of Kerack; translated by David French, Gollancz, 2018. Not the Susanna Kearsley novel of the same title.

Season of the Shadow

Season of the Shadow (La saison de l'ombre) is a 2013 novel by Cameroonian-born French writer Léonora Miano, dramatizing the slave trade's arrival in an African village.

Second Farewell to Cambridge

Second Farewell to Cambridge (再别康桥) is a 1928 lyric poem by Xu Zhimo, the best-known work of the Crescent Moon School of modern Chinese poetry.

Second-Class Citizen

Second-Class Citizen is a 1974 novel by Nigerian-born writer Buchi Emecheta, following Adah, an Igbo woman who moves to 1960s London and faces racism and sexism.

Secret Avengers

Secret Avengers: three Marvel Comics series (2010–2015) about Steve Rogers' covert Avengers unit blending espionage and superhero action, written successively by Ed Brubaker, Warren Ellis, Rick Remender, Nick Spencer, and Ales Kot.

Secret Invasion

Secret Invasion: 2008 Marvel Comics crossover event by Brian Michael Bendis and Leinil Francis Yu, an eight-issue Skrull infiltration story between Civil War and Dark Reign, later adapted loosely as a 2023 Disney+ Nick Fury series.

Secret Six (comics)

Secret Six is a DC Comics team name: a 1968 group of blackmailed specialists led by Mockingbird, and Gail Simone's 2005 villain-mercenary team (Catman, Deadshot, Scandal Savage), revived by Nicole Maines in 2025.

Secret Society of Super Villains

Secret Society of Super Villains: DC Comics supervillain team created by Gerry Conway and Pablo Marcos, debuting 1976; secretly founded by Darkseid with Manhunter as front man; series ran 15 issues to 1978.

Secret Wars

Secret Wars names two Marvel Comics crossovers, the 1984 twelve-issue Beyonder Battleworld series by Jim Shooter and Mike Zeck, the 2015 Hickman/Ribic multiverse-destroying event with God Emperor Doom, and the Russo-directed MCU film set for December 17, 2027.

Secret Wars (2015 comic book)

Secret Wars (2015) is Marvel's Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić nine-issue crossover in which Earth-616 and the Ultimate Universe collide, leaving Battleworld ruled by God Emperor Doctor Doom; a basis for Avengers: Secret Wars.

Secrets of the Silent Witch

Secrets of the Silent Witch (サイレント・ウィッチ 沈黙の魔女の隠しごと) is a Japanese light novel series by Matsuri Isora about Monica Everett, a shy chantless mage among the Seven Sages guarding a prince; adapted into manga and a 2025 anime.

See Under: Love

See Under: Love (Hebrew: עיין ערך: אהבה) is a 1986 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman about the Holocaust's afterlife among survivors and their children.

Seeds of Yesterday

Seeds of Yesterday is V.C. Andrews' 1984 Gothic novel, the fourth Dollanganger book, narrated by Cathy from age 52 until her death; adapted as a 2015 Lifetime film directed by Shawn Ku.

Seeds of Yesterday (film)

Seeds of Yesterday is a 2015 American made-for-television thriller directed by Shawn Ku, starring Rachael Carpani, Jason Lewis, and James Maslow, the final film in Lifetime's Dollanganger series, based on V.C. Andrews' 1984 novel.

Seerapuranam

Seerapuranam (சீறாப்புராணம்) is a Tamil Muslim epic poem on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, composed by Umaru Pulavar in 5,028 stanzas and considered the greatest Tamil Islamic epic.

Sefer HaMinhagim

Sefer HaMinhagim (ספר המנהגים, "Book of Customs") is the shared title of several Hebrew and Yiddish works on Jewish customs, including Isaac Tyrnau's late medieval Ashkenazi customs book and a modern Chabad manual.

Sefer Hasidim

Sefer Hasidim (ספר חסידים, "Book of the Pious") is a Hebrew book of ethics and piety from the Rhineland, attributed to Judah he-Hasid of Regensburg, who died in 1217.