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Yezad: A Romance of the Unknown (Co-operative Pubs, 1922.)
Not seen. Reincarnation and visits to other planets.
BACH, RACHEL
Fortune's Pawn (Orbit, 2013.)
Paradox #1.
Military SF.
Heaven's Queen (Orbit, 2014.)
Paradox #3.
Military SF.
Honor's Knight (Orbit, 2014.)
Paradox #2.
Military SF.
BACHARDY, DON (See collaboration with Christopher Isherwood.)
BACHMAN, RICHARD (See also Stephen King. Also writes Horror.)
Long Walk, The (Signet, 1979.)
In a repressive near future America, a marathon walking competition is designed to reward the winner, but the losers stand to lose their lives.
Regulators, The (Dutton, 1996, Signet, 1997.)
Odd story about an alien creature that causes the manifestation of evil, real life versions of cartoon characters, who then engage in a weird killing spree.
Running Man, The (Signet, 1982, New English Library, 1988.)
The latest form of entertainment is a televised manhunt using real weapons, with most of the contestants dying on live camera.
BACIGALUPI, PAOLO (Also writes Horror.)
Drowned Cities, The (Little, Brown, 2012.)
Ship #2.
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Pump Six and Other Stories (Night Shade, 2008.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Ship Breaker (Little, Brown, 2011.)
Ship #1.
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Water Knife, The (Knopf, 2015.)
Water shortages ravage the world.
Windup Girl, The (Night Shade, 2009.)
Various characters attempt to survive as ecological and political disasters shake the world.
BACKUS, W. ELWYN
Waning of a World, The (Armchair, 2022. Magazine version 1926.)
Two men from Earth change the course of Martian history.
Last Experiment, The (Hale, 1974.)
Not seen.
BADON, ELBERTO & BADON, ELIZABETH
Embryo of the Star, The (Vantage, 1997.)
An implausible, vanity press novel about a meteor strike that sets off a nuclear war, moves Earth out of its orbit, and causes a likely collision with Mars.
BADON, ELIZABETH (See collaboration above with Elberto Badon.)
BAEN, JIM (See collaboration with Barney Cohen.)
BAGGOTT, JULIANNA
Burn (Grand Central, 2014.)
Pure #3.
A domed city is torn by factions.
Fuse (Grand Central, 2013.)
Pure #2.
A disaster splits the world into domed survivors and barbarians.
Pure (Grand Central, 2012.)
Pure #1.
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BAGNALL, R.D.
Fourth Connection, The (Dobson, 1975.)
Collection of loosely related stories about the discovery of the fourth dimension.
BAHNSON, AGNEW H. JR
Stars Are Too High, The (Random House, 1959, Bantam, 1960.)
Scientists scare the world into peace by creating a flying object that seems to indicate an imminent invasion from outer space. Their purpose is to unite a divided humanity against a common foe, but they’re too naïve and their plot is uncovered. An optimistic oversimplification but a fairly well told story.
BAILEY, CHARLES W II (See collaborations with Fletcher Knebel.)
End of the End of Everything, The (Arche, 2015.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
The Resurrection Man's Legacy and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BAILEY, DENNIS R. (See collaboration with David Bischoff.)
BAILEY, MARK
Saint (Jove, 1997.)
When scientists discover that DNA can carry personal memories, the Pope agrees to provide some remains of Saint Peter for research. But the host body for the revivified Saint Peter soon escapes custody and heads for Rome, pursued by a mysterious assassin.
BAILEY, NANCY
Bound for Australia (Bantam, ?)
Time Machine #20.
A multi-path gamebook.
BAILEY, THOMAS C.
Descendants of Scar, The (Exposition, 1980.)
A truly desperately bad novel about a hero's adventures among mutants and other creatures in a post nuclear war world.
BAIN, DARRELL (See also collaborations which follow.)
Alien Infection (Twilight Tales, 2005.)
Visiting aliens accidentally let loose a symbiont that could kill most of the human race.
Circles of Displacement (Hard Shell Word Factory, 2002.)
Several chunks of Texas are displaced into the distant past, and a power struggle erupts among those transported.
Pet Plague, The (Double Dragon, 2002.)
Enhanced pets have overrun the world, confining humans to fortified enclaves until the crash of an alien spacecraft forces them to emerge.
Sex Gates, The (Lighthouse, 2002.)
It's possible to trade bodies, but you have to become the opposite sex to do so.
BAIN, DARRELL & HODGES, BARBARA M.
Shadow Worlds (Twilight Tales, 2005.)
Identical but unliving twins are appearing from an alternate universe.
BAIRD, WILHELMINA (Pseudonym of Joyce Hutchinson.)
Chaos Come Again (Ace, 1996.)
Bizarre novel of an alien symbiote that makes it possible for people to communicate telepathic, change the physical form of their bodies, even alter the nature of reality. But naturally the old human frailties survive in new forms and warfare breaks out between those who have accepted the symbiotes and those who have not.
Clipjoint (Ace, 1994.)
Cass & Moke #2.
Three friends are enticed back to Earth from the moon in order to investigate the reappearance of a friend they thought dead. Is he still alive somehow, or has some other personality borrowed his body? A gritty story of a computerized future.
Crashcourse! (Ace, 1993.)
Cass & Moke #1.
Several friends think they've got it made when they're hired to be the subjects of a new multi-sensual movie recorded in the real world. But that's before they discover that one of their co-stars is a psychopathic killer, and that the production staff think this is just the kind of tension the story requires.
Psykosis (Ace, 1995.)
Cass & Moke #3.
An alien species with a group mind has been attacking the Earth every fifteen years, gradually pushing back the borders of human dominated space. A human group sent to negotiate an armistice discovers their mission is futile for that purpose, but instead they learn the internal weaknesses of their fanatical enemies.
BAKER, ERIC T.
Checkmate (Roc, 1998.)
A large portion of the human race has left the planet, choosing instead to live in a fleet of gigantic starships, whose main entertainment seems to be chess tournaments. But someone is running contraband between the ships, and the protagonist is charged with the job of identifying the culprits and stopping the activity, even if it involves highly placed officials.
BAKER, FRANK (Also writes Fantasy.)
Birds, The (Davies, 1936, Panther, 1964.)
Birds go on a rampage. There are strong hints of a supernatural cause but nothing explicit.
BAKER, FRED
Ptolia (IW, 1982.)
This is labeled "Book 1" but I've never seen any further volumes. Thank heaven. A mishmash about another world where a regimented society controls the use of words, where farming is forbidden, where invisibility is a mental power, and where invaders from another world threaten to destroy the resident population. Purports to be a true chronicle revealed through the spiritual power of Eckankar.
BAKER, KAGE (Also writes Fantasy.)
Best of Kage Baker, The (Subterranean, 2012.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Black Projects, White Knights (Golden Gryphon, 2002.)
Company #5.
Collection of related stories about a time travel organization.
Children of the Company, The (Tor, 2005.)
Company #7.
Related stories assembled as a novel about a power struggle within the company.
Empress of Mars, The (Tor, 2009.)
Various people attempt to terraform Mars.
Gods and Pawns (Tor, 2007.)
Company #8.
Collection of related stories.
Graveyard Game, The (Harcourt, 2001, Tor, 2005.)
Company #4.
Agents of a time travel group that originated in the 24th Century begin to have doubts about those who run the organization. For some reason, their existence seems to have ended at about mid-century, and they are very secretive about what happened after that.
In the Company of Thieves (Tachyon, 2013.)
A Company collection.
Collection of loosely related stories.
In the Garden of Iden (Harcourt, 1998, Avon, 1998.)
Company #1.
A young woman is recruited from the cells of the Inquisition to become an agent for time travelers from the future who select items from the past and arrange for them to survive in a protected manner until their own present. Things get complicated when she falls in love with a man from the 16th Century.
Life of the World to Come (Tor, 2004.)
Company #6.
Mendoza is stranded in the distant past when she encounters yet another incarnation of the man she loves.
Machine’s Child, The (Tor, 2006.)
Company #8.
An immortal cyborg is revived in a new body for another series of adventures.
Mendoza in Hollywood (Harcourt, 1999.)
Company #3.
A group of time travelers of varying dispositions gather and interact in various ways when they travel back through time to indulge their personal hobbies. The protagonist encounters the virtual ghost of the man she once loved.
Not Less Than Gods (Tor, 2010.)
A Company novel.
A man has adventures in an alternate England.
Sky Coyote (Harcourt, 1998, Avon, 2000.)
Company #2.
Time traveling cyborgs attempt to convince a village of native Americans to migrate to the future so that their culture can survive the advent of Europeans.
Sons of Heaven, The (Tor, 2007.)
Company #9.
A web of plots and counterplots are all brought to their conclusions.
Accidental Goddess, An (LTD, 2002.)
Dvre #2.
A woman travels three centuries into the future and discovers that she is considered a goddess.
Wintertide (LTD, ?)
Davre #1.
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BAKER, PIP AND JANE
Mark of the Rani, The (Target, 1986, from the 1985 script by the authors.)
Doctor Who.
The Doctor pops up in the middle of the Luddite riots in England, drawn there by the Master in one of his endless plots to change the course of human history. The Rani, another outlawed Timelord, shows up as well, and the Doctor manages to defeat them both.
Race Against Time (Ballantine, 1986.)
#6 in the multi-author Doctor Who Find Your Fate series.
A gamebook.
Terror of the Vervoids (Target, 1988, from the 1986 script by the authors.)
Doctor Who.
The Doctor is forced to commit racial genocide when a species of lethal plants starts killing off everyone aboard a starship.
Time and the Rani (Target, 1987, from the 1987 script by the authors.)
Doctor Who.
A space time disturbance causes the Doctor to regenerate a new body and in that form, bereft of much of his memory, he is convinced by the Rani that she is his assistant. In that guise, she hopes to wrest from him the secrets of the TARDIS, his time machine.
Ultimate Foe, The (Target, 1988, from the 1986 script by the authors.)
Recalled to his home world of Gallifrey, the Doctor is put on trial for supposed crimes he has committed, but he uncovers a plot to seize control of the Timelords themselves.
BAKER, RICHARD (Also writes Fantasy.)
Restless Lightning (Tor, ?)
Breaker of Empires #2.
Military SF.
Scornful Stars (Tor, 2019.)
Breaker of Empires #3.
Military SF.
Valiant Dust (Tor, ?)
Breaker of Empires #1.
Military SF.
Zero Point (TSR, 1999.)
A bounty hunter and his prisoner discover a derelict alien space ship that is still functioning. Unfortunately, it is designed to destroy intruders, and the two must cooperate in order to escape the deadly trap into which they have fallen.
BAKER, RUSSELL
Our Next President (Dell, 1968, Atheneum, 1968.)
An essay disguised as a story demonstrating how Robert Kennedy could/would become the President of the US in 1968.
BAKER, SCOTT (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Nightchild (Pocket, 1983. Berkley, 1979, different version.)
On a world whose religion insists that everyone on the world is actually dead, a young boy contends that he is alive. His rebellion leads him to uncover the mystery of the colony's origin, a starship stolen by an enigmatic alien. Two fantasy novels, the Ashlu series, are sequels!
Symbiote's Crown (Berkley, 1978.)
In the near future, humans discover the gateway between dimensions, and people unhappy with an Earth torn by plagues and warfare are quick to seek new homes, even though some of these alternatives are totally alien and even though they must abandon their human forms to reach them.
BAKER, SHARON
Burning Tears of Sassurum (Avon, 1988.)
Naphar #3.
The planet Naphar is undergoing major upheavals because of a rare astronomical alignment, and in the chaos an ambitious priest uses his terrified followers to broaden his control. To legitimize his rule, he requires only a sacred object held by three fugitives.
Journey to Memblar (Avon, 1987.)
Naphar #2.
A periodic astronomical alignment throws the varied cultures of Naphar into chaos. The world is populated by three distinct genetically altered species existing in an uneasy stasis that threatens to disintegrate under this new pressure.
Quarreling, They Met the Dragon (Avon, 1984.)
Naphar #1.
A young boy is kidnapped from his tribe by slavers who plan to sell him either as a slave to a rich noble or as a sacrifice in one of the local temples. He eventually escapes and finds refuge in a cave system that may contain the secret of the colony world's origin. The planet's population includes crossfertilization of humans and the indigent alien species.
BAKER, S. SPENCER
Slabscape: Reset (Blip, 2010.)
The first interstellar journey results in several surprises.
BAKER, STEPHEN
Boost, The (Tor, 2014.)
Everyone has an augmentation chip in their brain.
BAKER, THEO (See collaboration with Lin Oliver.)
BAKER, VIRGINIA
Jack Knife (Jove, 2007.)
A time traveler decides to reshape Victorian England to his liking during the time of the Jack the Ripper killings.
BAKER, WILL
Shadow Hunter (Viking, 1993, Roc UK, 1994, Pocket, 1994, Hodder, 1996)
America has become even more computerized and urbanized than ever following a major catastrophe, though parts of North America are desolate and abandoned. A teenager disappears on a hunting trip, taken in by a tribe of semi-human cave dwellers whose actions precipitate a war between the artificial and natural worlds.
Star Beast, The (Hodder, 1996.)
Not seen.
BAKIS, KIRSTEN
Lives of the Monster Dogs (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1997.)
A satiric novel of the near future when a group of dogs, genetically engineered to be intelligent and to walk on two legs, escapes their creators and travels to New York City. There they attempt to fit into human society, with not entirely unpredictable results.
BAKKER, ROBERT
Raptor Red (Bantam, 1995.)
The story of a young dinosaur's struggle to survive and find a mate in a scientifically accurate attempt at describing everyday life in prehistory.
BAKKER, SCOTT (Also writes Fantasy.)
Neuropath (Gollancz, 2008, Tor, 2009.)
Marginal thriller about a killer who makes use of advanced surgical tools.
BALCHIN, NIGEL
Kings of Infinite Space (Doubleday, 1967, Collins, 1967, Curtis, 1968.)
A near future novel concentrating on the training of astronauts for orbital flight. Very little of the latter in this thoughtful character study.
BALDERRAMA, OSCAR & CERTO, LAUREN
Vengeance (Titan, 2016.)
An Arrow novel.
Origin story for the Green Arrow.
BALDWIN, BILL (Pseudonym of Merl Baldwin.) Timberwolf may have reprinted some of these.
Canby's Legions (Aspect, 1995.)
The empire of Earth is endangered by the depredations of star traveling pirates until an ex-soldier puts together a band of mercenaries and goes out to defeat them. But his victory causes a subtle shift in the power structure, and former friends may now be enemies.
Defenders, The (Questar, 1992.)
Helmsman #5.
Interstellar war flares up throughout the galaxy as elements within the galactic empire oppose any effort to confront the enemy fleets. The Helmsman's mission is to organize the fragmented imperial fleet and win a desperate battle to reverse the course of the war.
Defiant, The (Aspect, 1996.)
Helmsman #7.
The Helmsman is back, this time organizing a warfleet to conquer an enemy fortress. At the same time he must protect himself from false charges that he is disloyal.
Galactic Convoy (Questar, 1987.)
Helmsman #2.
The Helmsman is assigned to a newly commissioned warship, visits a variety of worlds, and discovers that a fleet of enemy ships using artificial invisibility are about to deal a devastating blow to the empire he serves.
Helmsman, The (Questar, 1985. Original printing as by Merl Baldwin)
Helmsman #1.
A rollicking space opera featuring a young cadet from a poor background who makes a name for himself as an operative for the galactic empire's space navy in its struggle against a rival power. He proves his mettle and falls in love with a beautiful princess along the way.
Mercenaries, The (Questar, 1991.)
Helmsman #4.
The galactic empire has been largely defeated by a tyrannical rival power and is helpless to defend many of the worlds that depend on its space navy. The Helmsman captains an experimental warship that is sent to defend a planet whose raw materials are essential if the empire is to survive.
Siege, The (Questar, 1994.)
Helmsman #6.
A friendly planet is invaded by a superior force, and the human alliance is reluctant to risk their own troops unless there is clear evidence that they have a serious chance of winning.
Trophy, The (Questar, 1990.)
Helmsman #3.
The ruler of a rival to the galactic empire offers to negotiate peace and well meaning but misguided citizens of the empire are disarming the space navy. The Helmsman decides to enter a contest to develop a new interstellar drive, but by doing so uncovers a plot by the enemy power to organize an alliance for a new wave of wars.
BALDWIN, JOHN & MARR, JOHN S.
Eleventh Plague, The (HarperCollins, 1998.)
A mad scientist plots to unleash a series of plagues upon the world.
BALDWIN, MERL. (See Bill Baldwin.)
Digital Dead, The (Ace, 2003.)
In a future where dying people are electronically copied into a virtual reality world, two people uncover a plot to seize control of the government.
Forge of Mars, The (Ace, 2002.)
The discovery of alien artifacts buried on Mars becomes more complicated when the protagonist runs afoul of a secretive organization which already possesses other artifacts whose existence has not been made public.
Prometheus Road (Ace, 2004.)
Following a cataclysm that destroyed civilization, a farmer rebels against the gods, who turn out to be artificial intelligences.
Star Crusader (Prima, 1995.)
Routine space opera based on the computer game. An empire building alien race imposes its will on one world after another until heroic freedom fighters turn the tide of battle.
BALIZET, CAROL
Seven Last Years, The (Chosen Books, 1979, Bantam, 1980.)
The ascension of a new Pope coincides with a devastating meteor strike, a wave of disappearances and natural disasters, plague, and so forth. The Pope is actually the Anti-Christ, and the last days of humanity are at hand.
BALL, BRIAN N. (Also writes Horror.)
Night of the Robots. (See The Regiments of Night.)
Planet Probability (DAW, 1973.)
Talisker #5.
The Frames of the planet Talisker can influence the course of history, even retroactively. Supposedly the alien intelligence who created them has long since passed away, but new evidence arises indicating the possibility that it's still around, and tinkering with human history.
Probability Man, The (DAW, 1972.)
Talisker #4.
The universe has largely been colonized and the main form of entertainment consists of the Frames, a sort of hologramatic theater where history can be recreated. One of the producers of these entertainments programs himself into all of his creations, to the consternation of the authorities. But are these simply plays, or does the planet Talisker hold an ancient alien artifact that allows time itself to be altered?
Regiments of Night, The (DAW, 1972. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972, as Night of the Robots.)
Earth has lost an interstellar war and has become little mor than a ruined museum while her colony worlds control the universe. But that may change when tourists stumble across a hidden cavern that contains an army of robots.
Singularity Station (DAW, 1973.)
Interstellar travel is made possible with the development of robotic intelligence. But robots have problems in the vicinity of a black hole, because their minds can only fathom the rational and predictable. A troubled man arrives at an observation station near one such point in space, hoping to discover the fate of a ship which vanished there.
Space Guardians, The (Dobson, ?, Futura, 1975, Pocket, 1975.)
Third in the multi-author first Space: 1999 series.
The absurd setting for this series is our Moon, wandering through apparently interstellar space, in this adventure doubly menaced by a mental force capturing the captain's soul and a physical one that has transformed a crew member into a monster.
Starbuggy, The (Heinemann, 1983.)
Not seen.
Sundog9. (Dobson, 1965, Corgi, 1966, Avon, 1969.)
An alien race has built a force field around the solar system so that humanity cannot travel to the stars. Hemmed in, government gives way to control by a corporation so restrictive that even dreams are regulated. Then a single space pilot escapes the conditioning and sets in motion a quiet rebellion against the status quo.
Timepiece (Ballantine, 1968. Dobson, 1968.)
Talisker #1.
The Frames are the remnants of an alien device that allows time itself to be manipulated. Although humans believe they have mastered the technology, something eventually goes wrong and a reluctant hero is sent on a mission through time and space to set things back to their proper course.
Timepit (Dobson, 1971.)
Talisker #3.
Not seen.
Timepivot (Ballantine, 1970.)
Talisker #2.
A rupture of time itself seems to have been healed and the alien artifact that caused it is abandoned for a time. But the cure is more apparent than actual, and a group of scientists are about to discover that time is vulnerable and changeable.
Truant from Space (Antelope, 1985.)
Not seen.
BALL, DONNA
Cry in the Woods, A (Pinnacle, 1991.)
A woman and her daughter are menaced by the mutated descendants of a previously unknown hominid species that has somehow survived parallel to modern man, concealed in the world’s darker forests.
BALL, JOHN
First Team, The. (Little, Brown, 1971, Bantam, 1973.)
A wish fulfillment thriller about the conquest of the US by the Soviet Union, accomplished by pacifists who refuse to fight. A small group of unlikely heroes and one nuclear submarine plan a desperate gamble to save the nation.
Operation Space (See Operation Springboard.)
Operation Springboard (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1958. Hutchinson, 1960, as Operation Space.)
Not seen. A young adult novel about a space race to Venus.
Spacemaster I (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1960.)
Not seen.
BALL, K.C.
Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities (Hydra House, 2011.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BALL, MARGARET (See also collaboration with Anne McCaffrey. Also writes Fantasy.)
Disappearing Act (Baen, 2004.)
An undercover agent looks into crimes in interstellar space.
BALLANTINE, BETTY
Secret Oceans, The (Ballantine, 1994.)
Basically an elaborate picture book with accompanying text about an exploration submarine that discovers an ancient intelligence living in Earth’s oceans.
BALLANTYNE, TONY (Also writes Fantasy.)
Blood and Iron (Tor, 2011, Pan, 2012.)
Penrose #2
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Capacity (Tor UK, 2005, Bantam, 2007.)
In a future where virtual reality is everywhere, a woman discovers that she is being repeatedly murdered by the same person.
Divergence (Bantam, 2007.)
When Earth falls under the domination of an AI, a specially created woman is designed to destroy it.
Recursion (Bantam, 2006.)
A man who accidentally destroyed a planet's ecology must battle sentient machines.
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Twisted Metal (Pan, 2012.)
Penrose #1.
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BALLARD`, J.G. (Also writes Fantasy.)
Atrocity Exhibition, The (Panther, 1972. Jonathan Cape, 1970, Grove, 1972, as Love and Napalm: Export USA, Flamingo, 1993. Re/Search Classics, 1990, with additional stories.)
Collection of related stories repackaged as a "novel". This comprises most of the author's experimental fiction and is more surreal than SF.
Best of J.G. Ballard, The (Orbit, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard, The (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978, Owl, 1995.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Billenium (Berkley, 1962.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Burning World, The (Berkley, 1964. Jonathan Cape, 1965, Penguin, 1968, Viking, 1977, all using the earlier magazine title The Drought and somewhat different text)
A worldwide drought has destroyed civilization, most governments have fallen, the population has dwindled to a handful, and cities are wastelands filled with the dead and the deadly.
Chronopolis (Putnam, 1971, Berkley, 1972.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard, The (Flamingo, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Crystal World, The (Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1966, Jonathan Cape, 1966, Berkley, 1967, Panther, 1968, Avon, 1976.)
A growing portion of Africa is being cut off from the rest of civilization by a creeping plague of crystalization that turns the jungle and its inhabitants into beautiful but doomed parts of its spreading web. A British visitor is seduced by the beauty of the transforming world and seeks to investigate despite the opposition of the local authorities.
Day of Forever, The (Panther, 1967. Reissued with slightly different contents in 1971.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Disaster Area, The. (Jonathan Cape, 1967, Panther, 1969, Paladin, 1992.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Drought, The (See The Burning World.)
Drowned World, The (Berkley, 1962, Gollancz, 1962, Penguin, 1965, Dragon's Dream, 1981, Carroll & Graf, 1987, Indigo, 1997, Millennium, 1999. Magazine title was Equinox.)
An alteration in the sun's corona changes the climate of Earth, and tropical jungles spread further northward, melting the icecaps and inundating the coastlines. A handful of survivors attempt to hold onto the last vestiges of civilization as the heat and humidity literally rot the city from around them. Illogically, primordial animals are already appearing.
Drowned World, The, and The Wind from Nowhere (Doubleday, 1965, Carroll & Graft, 1997, Indigo, 1997.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Four Dimensional Nightmare, The, Penguin, 1965. (Gollancz, 1963, Penguin, 1965. Penguin, 1977, J.M. Dent, 1984, as The Voices of Time.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Hello America (Jonathan Cape, 1981, Granada, 1983, Carroll & Graf, 1988.)
Following the collapse of the American economy, North America is largely abandoned. Years later an expedition of Europeans arrives off the East Coast and sets off overland for a series of satiric adventures, including an insane would-be President who threatens thermonuclear war.
High Rise (Jonathan Cape, 1975, Holt Rinehart, 1977, Popular Library, 1978, Carroll & Graf, 1988.)
An enormous apartment building serves as a world in miniature for the study of human strengths and weaknesses in this marginal story in which the inhabitants experience a complete breakdown of order. Set in the next century, it deals with the fragility of the rule of law as vigilante justice and random violence seize the complex.
Impossible Man, The (Berkley, 1966.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Love and Napalm: Export USA (See The Atrocity Exhibition.)
Low-Flying Aircraft (Jonathan Cape, 1976, Panther, 1978.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Memories of the Space Age (Arkham House, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Myths of the Near Future (Jonathan Cape, 1982.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Overloaded Man, The (Panther, 1967.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Passport to Eternity (Berkley, 1963.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Terminal Beach (Berkley, 1964, Gollancz, 1964, Penguin, 1966,.Carroll & Graf, ? Not the same contents as The Terminal Beach.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Terminal Beach, The (Carroll & Graf, 1987, Indigo, 1997, Phoenix, 2001. Not the same contents as Terminal Beach.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Unlimited Dream Company, The (Jonathan Cape, 1979. Holt Rinehart, 1979, Pocket, 1985, Lightyear, 1993.)
Not seen.
Venus Hunters, The (Panther, 1980.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Vermilion Sands (Berkley, 1971, Carroll & Graf, 1988. Jonathan Cape, 1973 with slightly different contents.)
Collection of stories set in an artists' colony in the future.
Voices of Time, The (Berkley, 1962. Gollancz, 1985, has different selection of stories, as does Penguin, 1977, Indigo, 1997, Phoenix, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
War Fever (Collins, 1990, Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1990, Paladin, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Wind from Nowhere, The (Berkley, 1962, Doubleday, 1962, Penguin, 1967, Viking, 1976. Magazine title Storm Wind.)
A worldwide windstorm begins to build slowly and inevitably, mounting until nothing manmade can stand before it. Several characters attempt to survive in devastated England, where a monomaniacal financier has constructed what he believes to be an invulnerable tower.
BALLARD, PATRICIA
By Honor Bound (Five Star, 1999.)
Honor #1.
Confused romance novel set four thousand years from now when people have sunk into apathetic barbarism, have time travel and other high technology, but lack the energy to procreate. They create a contagious disease that promotes lust.
BALLING, L. CHRISTIAN
Revelation (Forge, 1998.)
Marginal thriller involving cloning.
BALLINGER, BILL S.
49 Days of Death, The (Sherbourne, 1969.)
Not seen.
Lopsided Man, The (Pyramid, 1969.)
Very marginal piece about a man surgically altered and mentally programmed to impersonate another.
Ultimate Warrior, The (Warner, 1975, Star, ?)
Novelization of the film. A presumably nuclear war has devastated most of the world and the cities are now violently barbaric places. Two groups, one pacifistic, the other not, contend for control of a tomato patch.
BALLOU, ARTHUR W.
Bound for Mars (Little Brown, 1970.)
A saboteur on the first flight to Mars.
Marooned in Orbit (Little Brown, 1968.)
An astronaut must undertake a dangerous attempt to rescue two others stranded in orbit around the moon.
BALMER, EDWIN (See collaborations with Philip Wylie.)
BALSDON, D.
Sell England? (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1936.)
Satire set in the next millennium.
BAMBER, GEORGE
Sea Is Boiling Hot, The (Ace, 1971.)
Earth's atmosphere has become poisonous and the human race is forced to live in domed cities. There they turn inward, entertaining themselves with virtual reality games and leaving all decisions to the computers. A scientist realizes that unless the situation changes, the human race is headed toward extinction, so he sets out to destroy the computer rulers.
BAMMAN, HENRY (See collaboration with William Odell.)
Original Sin, An (Lovespell, 1999.)
After the male gender has become extinct, women gratify themselves with artificial men created scientifically. Then one of those responsible for designing men encounters the real thing.
BANISTER, MANLY
Conquest of Earth (Avalon, 1957, Airmont, 1964. Magazine title The Scarlet Saint. Armchair, 2020, as The Scarlet Saint bound with The Man from Saturn by Harriet Frank Jr.)
A painfully bad novel of Earth dominated by alien invaders until a secret order of Earthmen successfully stages a rebellion.
Magnanthropus (Armchair, 2015, bound with Beyond the Fearful Forest by Geoff St. Reynard. Magazine appearance 1961.)
A man from our world finds himself on another Earth in an alternate dimension.
BANKER, ASHOK (Also writes Fantasy.)
Iron Gods (Solaris, 2007.)
A mysterious object as big as the moon appears in the solar system.
BANNISTER, ANDREW
Creation Machine (Tor, 2019.)
Spin #1.
A race to acquire ancient interstellar technology.
Iron Gods (Tor, 2017.)
Spin #2.
An ancient alien technology awakens.
Stone Clock (Tor, 2019.)
Spin #3.
An artificial construct incorporating worlds is beginning to wear out.
BANKS, DAVID
Iceberg (Doctor Who Books, 1993.)
New Adventures of Doctor Who.
An Antarctic base is attempting to prevent the destruction of the Earth's magnetic field when the Doctor arrives. Their efforts are endangered by a contingent of Ice Warriors, inhuman beings who want the Earth for themselves.
BANKS, IAIN M. (Also writes Fantasy.)
Against a Dark Background (Macdonald & Co, 1992, Bantam, 1993, Orbit, 1993.)
An antiquities expert is chased across the galaxy by professional assassins hired by religious fanatics. Her investigations may hold the secret of a lost technology, a weapon so powerful it can alter the balance of power across the known universe.
Algebraist, The (?, 2004.)
Interstellar war and life inside a gas giant.
Canal Dreams (MacMillan, 1989, Doubleday, 1991.)
A new world war breaks out, trapping several people in the Panama Canal area who try to maintain normality even as the war spreads toward them.
Consider Phlebas (St Martins, 1987, MacMillan, 1987, Bantam, 1991.)
Culture Universe #1.
A shapechanging alien spy is tired of the pressure of his job so he agrees to perform one more, highly dangerous mission in exchange for his freedom, even though he suspects that the side he works for is doomed to be defeated. A grandly styled, ambitious space opera filled with alien races and strange characters.
Excession (Orbit, 1996, Bantam, 1997.)
Culture Universe #5
A career diplomat is assigned to investigate the appearance of a star that appears to be older than the entire universe. During his investigation, he must bring back to life an interstellar explorer who died generations earlier.
Feersum Endjinn (Orbit, 1994, Bantam, 1995.)
Earth has been deserted for the stars by its most talented minds. Those who remain behind are faced with the threat of a new ice age. A kind of immortality exists by translating personalities into virtual reality, but someone is murdering these artificial people as well.
Hydrogen Sonata, The (Orbit, 2012.)
Culture Universe
An ancient secret threatens to result in interstellar war.
Inversions (Orbit, 1998, Pocket, 2000.)
Secrecy, intrigue, and political maneuvering on a distant planet. Two offworlders try to affect the course of affairs, with mixed success.
Look to Windward (Orbit, 2000, Bantam, 2001.)
Culture Universe #6.
A military officer is sent to meet with an exiled political dissident on a distant world, but is secretly part of a conspiracy to sabotage an artificial world.
Matter (Orbit, 2008.)
Culture Universe #7.
Court intrigue and interstellar politics on a primitive human world where the succession to the throne is the focus for violence and conspiracy.
Player of Games, The (MacMillan, 1988, St Martins, 1989.)
Culture Universe #2.
A skillful but bored games player travels to a world where the winner of an elaborate contest becomes emperor of the entire world, on a planet famous for its xenophobia.
State of the Art, The. (Mark Ziesing, 1989, Orbit, 1991, Nightshade, 2005.)
Culture Universe #3 .
Agents of the culture visit Earth in the short title novel. Includes several unrelated short stories.
Surface Detail (Orbit, 2010.)
Culture Universe #9.
A war to determine the nature of virtual hells and heavens.
Transition ?
Use of Weapons (MacDonald, 1990, Orbit, 1990, Bantam, 1992.)
Culture Universe #4.
A highly effective agent of one side in an interstellar cold war is reluctantly drawn out of retirement for a new mission in a galactic civilization made possible by artificial intelligence. He has reservations about his society's exploitation of less advanced worlds.
Walking on Glass (MacMillan, 1985, Houghton Mifflin, 1986.)
Not seen.
BANKS, MICHAEL & LAMBE, DEAN R. (See collaborations between Michael Banks and Mack Reynolds.)
Odysseus Solution, The (Baen, 1986.)
Aliens have successfully invaded Earth by introducing cheap and simple matter duplicators, then moved in during the ensuing economic chaos to seize power. Fortunately, a secret group of humans sees through the ploy and seeds a rebellion against Earth's inhuman masters.
BANKS, RAMOND E. (Variation of name of Raymond E. Banks, see below.)
Moonrapers, The (Hustler, 1980.)
Pornographic novel of a plot to destroy the human race by forced interbreeding with an alien species, designed ultimately to dissipate all humanity's good genes.
Ultimate Transform, The (Castle Books, 1978, bound with Lust in Space by Ralph Burch.)
Not seen.
BANKS, RAYMOND E. (See also Ramond Banks and Ralph Burch. Also writes Fantasy.)
Daryk (Castle Books, 1978, bound with Lust of the Swampman by Ralph Burch.)
Not seen.
Savage Princess, The (Hustler, 1980. Bound with Penetrators of Time by Merlin Kaye.)
Not seen.
Cactus Garden, A (Hale, 1983.)
Not seen.
Matrix, The (Hale, 1981.)
Not seen.
Winter Plain, The (Hale, 1982.)
Not seen.
BANNON, MARK (Pseudonym of Albert King. See also Paul Conrad, Floyd Gibson, Scott Howell, Paul Muller, and Christopher King.)
Assimilator, The (Hale, 1974.)
Not seen.
Tomorrow Station, The (Hale, 1975.)
Not seen.
Wayward Robot, The (Hale, 1974.)
Not seen.
BAO, KAREN
Dove Arising (Viking, 2015.)
A young woman struggles to survive in a moon colony.
BARA, DAVE
Defiant (DAW, 2017.)
Impulse (DAW, 2015.)
Lightship #1.
Military SF.
Speedwing (Whiskey Creek, 2012.)
An alien conspiracy.
Starbound (DAW, 2016.)
Lightship #2,
Military SF.
BARBER, GRIFFIN (See collaboration with Eric Flint.)
BARBET, PIERRE (All novels originally published in French.)
Baphomet's Meteor (DAW, 1972, translated by Bernard Kay. French edition 1972.)
Baphomet #1
An alternate history in which the Knights Templar are contacted by a stranded alien, whom they see as a demon, but who convinces them to enter into a deal in which they receive gifts of technology. The catch, of course, is that the alien wants to be able to contact his own kind.
Cosmic Crusaders (DAW, 1980. Omnibus containing Baphomet's Meteror and Stellar Crusade, the latter of which did not have a separate US edition.)
Emperor of Eridanus, The (DAW, 1983, translated by Stanley Hochman.)
Eridanus #2.
A handful of kidnapped French mercenaries has seized power over the pacifistic people of Eridanus, but unless they can master the technique of interplanetary war, their rule will be cut short by yet another alien race.
Enchanted Planet, The (DAW, 1975, translated by C.J. Richards. French edition 1973.)
Setni #2.
The continuing adventures of a resourceful space pilot on a world where psi powers are so common that they are indistinguishable from magic.
Games Psyborgs Play, The (DAW, 1973, translated by Wendayne Ackerman. French edition 1971.)
Setni #1.
A new planet pops into existence, defying all the laws of nature and confounding the galaxy's greatest minds. Conditions on the surface are even more bizarre, a world where magic apparently works, and where human history has been recreated. An adventurous space pilot discovers psi powers explains the magic.
Joan-of-Arc Replay, The (DAW, 1978, translated by Stanley Hochman. French edition 1973.)
An odd variation of the alternate history story. Galactic historians find a planet almost exactly paralleling the Earth at the time Joan of Arc was killed. They decide to observe to determine whether the same results will take place there. But then a new element is added.
Napoleons of Eridanus, The (DAW, 1976, translated by Stanley Hochman. French edition 1970.)
Eridanus #1.
A race of complete pacifists has long all memories of how to conduct war, so when they're invaded by another race with fewer scruples, they kidnap some of Napoleon's troops from Earth. The cure may turn out worse than the disease, however, because the French troops have imperial designs of their own.
Stellar Crusade (DAW, 1980, as part of Cosmic Crusaders, translated by C.J. Cherryh. The novel was not published separately in English. French edition 1974.)
Baphomet #2.
An alien has given high technology to the Templar Knights so that he can escape imprisonment on Earth and return to his home world. His secret plan to conquer the Earth as well goes awry when the knights prove too clever for him, clever enough to turn the conquest plan end for end.
BARBOR, H.R.
Against the Red Sky (Daniel, 1922.)
The British government is overthrown with predictable consequences.
BARBREE, JAY
Pilot Error (Warner, 1975.)
Part of the multi-author Six Million Dollar Man series.
Steve Austin investigates a mysterious plane crash that reflects badly on an old friend, and discovers he was not responsible after all.
BARJAVEL, RENE
Ashes, Ashes (Curtis, 1967, translated by Damon Knight. Doubleday, 1967. French edition 1943.)
Plague and power failures reduce Paris to chaotic nightmare in the middle of the 21st Century. The protagonist and a small circle of friends try to organize a new community on the ashes of the old.
Future Times Three (Award, 1970, translated by Margaret Sansone Scouten. French edition, 1958.)
A team of scientists study the nature of time with the aid of a device that lets them travel through it. They discover that civilization in the 20th Century is very near an inevitable crash and rebirth.
Ice People, The (Pyramid, 1973, translated by Charles Lam Markmann. Morrow, 1970, Hart-Davis, 1970. French edition 1968.)
Two survivors of a previous, technological civilization are discovered in suspended animation in Antarctica. The knowledge locked in their brains is too tempting a treasure to be ignored by modern powermongers.
Immortals, The (Ballantine, 1975, translated by Eileen Finletter. Morrow, 1974, French edition 1973.)
A quest for a missing lover leads a woman to a startling discovery. A small group of people have discovered the secret of immortality, and to protect their privileged status, they have arranged assassinations, wars, and other major historical events.
Fistful of Strontium, A (Black Flame, 2005.)
A Strontium Ace novel.
A bounty hunter chases his quarry across a planet of mutants.
BARKER, ALBERT
Apollo Legacy, The (Award, 1970.)
Borderline spy novel involving an astronaut who returns carrying a space virus which infects his child.
Sacrament (Harper, 1996.)
A man's view of the world changes after a mystical encounter with a bear.
BARKER, D.A.
Matter of Evolution, A (Hale, 1975.)
Not seen.
Question of Reality, A (Hale, 1981.)
Not seen.
BARKER, LAWRENCE
Blood Red Sphere (Swimming Kangaroo, 2009.)
A Martian colonist is unjustly accused of murder.
BARKER, THOMAS
Five for Infinity (Major, 1976.)
Embarrassing bad story of a hijacked experimental starship that lands its crew in the middle of hostile aliens, space battles, and other dangers.
BARLEY, MICHAEL
Jackal Bird (Tesseract, 1995.)
Three related novellas about a colony world whose people are slowly acting to throw off a brutal dictatorship.
BARLOW, JAMES
Hour of Maximum Danger, The (Simon & Schuster, 1963, Bantam, 1964.)
Near future political SF involving the destruction of a Russian orbiting satellite, corruption in government circles, and the threat of nuclear war.
One Half of the World (Cassell, 1957.)
Not seen. Britain has become a dictatorship and the protagonist, who discovers religion, is declared a criminal.
BARNABY, HUGO (Pseudonym of Ernest Hugh Fitzpatrick, whom see.)
Marshal Duke of Denver, The (Donohue & Henneberry, 1895.)
Not seen.
BARNES, ARTHUR K.
Interplanetary Hunter (?, 1956, Ace, 1972.)
A collection of related stories about hunting parties in scientifically untenable versions of Jupiter, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, and a comet. From stories originally published between 1937 and 1946.
BARNES, J.
Unpardonable War (Macmillan, 1905.)
England and the US reunite after a disastrous war.
BARNES, JOHN (See also collaboration with Buzz Aldrin. Also writes Fantasy.)
Apostrophes and Apocalypses (Tor, 1998, Millennium, 1999.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Armies of Memory, The (Tor, 2006.)
Doors #4.
Chaos threatens the civilized galaxy as insurgent elements seize a copy of a personality with dangerous knowledge.
Battlecry (Gold Eagle, 1992.)
Timeraider #2.
The Vietnam Vet hero of this series is thrown back through time once again, this time to the Mexican War. He has a second enemy as well, a ruthless rancher who wants to ensure that slavery becomes an established fact in the Southwest.
Caesar’s Bicycle (Harper, 1997.)
Timeline Wars #3.
The war against the Closers for control of the Timelines takes a sinister turn when the gates begin closing and our detective hero finds himself trapped in a suddenly very dangerous ancient Rome.
Candle (Tor, 2000.)
In a future where the human race is telepathically linked through a repressive mind control device, a hunter is recalled from retirement to track down the last remaining holdout. In the process, he accidentally loses his link and learns the truth about the society he has been serving.
Daybreak Zero (Ace, 2011.)
Apocalypse #2.
An engineered apocalypse has destroyed much of civilization.
Directive 51 (Ace, 2010.)
Apocalypse#1.
A group of high tech fanatics decides to destroy modern civilization.
Duke of Uranium, The (Aspect, 2002.)
#1.
A young boy sets off to rescue the kidnapped daughter of one of the solar system's noble families.
Earth Made of Glass (Tor, 1998, Millennium, 1998, Orion, 1998.)
Doors #2.
Two agents are sent to a recently contacted colony world which is split between two cultures who hate each other so implacably that it doesn’t seem possible for them to avoid a major war. On that world, they become involved with the creation of a new religious leader who might have the key to reconciliation, or who might provide the tinder for a major conflagration.
Finity (Tor, 1999, Gollancz, 2000, Millennium, 2001.)
In an alternate universe where the Nazis won the second world war and several reichs have carved up the world, an American expatriate living in New Zealand discovers that many of his acquaintances remember entirely different histories than he does.
Gaudeamus (Tor, 2004.)
Humorous, episodic piece about a series of unlikely inventions.
In the Hall of the Martian King (Aspect, 2003.)
#2
Kaleidoscope Century (Tor, 1995, Millennium, 1998.)
A man whose body has been altered so that he periodically goes into suspended animation, emerging with a new appearance and memories, is employed as an assassin by mysterious forces. But eventually his old memories begin to return, providing a panoramic view of the collapse of civilization in an alternate world.
Last President, The (Ace, 2012.)
Apocalypse #3.
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Man Who Pulled Down the Sky, The (Congdon & Weed, 1986, Worldwide, 1988, New English Library, 1988.)
A wave of wars, plagues, and other problems has left Earth nearly destitute, effectively ruled by orbiting colonies with better weapons. The colonies are in turn threatening war against the ever more independent asteroid states, which decide to tip things in their favor by sending an agent to Earth to stir up a rebellion.
Merchants of Souls, The (Tor, 2001.)
Doors #3.
On Earth, it has become legal to replay the memories of the dead as a kind of virtual reality. This will result in the planet being shunned by the rest of the civilized universe if it is not reversed. An agent is sent from the outer worlds to try to derail the legislation.
Million Open Doors, A (Tor, 1993.)
Doors #1.
A spoiled dilettante from a world of excessive leisure, duels, and a fondness for the arts is made ambassador to another human world, one with very different values. An adventure story that takes a serious look at how cultures work and how our personalities are shaped by our environment.
Mother of Storms (Tor, 1994.)
A pre-emptive nuclear strike by the United Nations precipitates a change in the Earth's atmosphere. A gigantic hurricane starts, so powerful that it is self sustaining, and spins off daughter storms that also grow in strength, until the winds are powerful enough to destroy cities.
Orbital Resonance (Tor, 1991, Millennium, 1998.)
A young boy from a ravaged Earth seeks to find a new home and friends in an orbiting habitat where a major change in social evolution may be underway.
Patton's Spaceship (Harper, 1996.)
Timeline Wars #1.
A private eye with a personal vendetta against a terrorist group discovers that they are agents of a power that operates through alternate realities. He eventually is tranported to a world where Hitler one World War II and is instrumental in helping the allies in exile develop the weapons to end the war.
Sin of Origin (Congdon & Weed, 1986, Worldwide, 1989, New English Library, 1991.)
Three different species exist on the planet Randall, living peacefully until militant missionaries and dedicated communists from Earth decide to force it into the human commonwealth. Their efforts upset the delicate balance and threaten the stability of the planet's ecosystem.
Sky So Big and Black, The (Tor, 2002.)
A young girl grows up in the Mars colonies after Earth succumbs to a mass mind mentality.
Union Fires (Gold Eagle, 1992.)
Timeraider #3.
A 20th Century American soldier travels through time to the Civil War, where he helps rescue a prisoner from Richmond, despite the fact that the body he’s inhabiting was that of a traitor who planned to betray the underground railroad.
Wartide (Gold Eagle, 1992.)
Timeraider #1.
A Vietnam vet is somehow transported back through time to World War II where he learns of a secret German weapon that might win the war.
Washington's Dirigible (Harper, 1997.)
Timeline Wars #2.
An agent for the good guys in a changewar visits a variation of Earth designed to be an ally, one where America never rebelled against England. But he finds that agents of the enemy have infiltrated, including an evil version of himself.
BARNES, JONATHAN (Also writes Fantasy.)
Cannonbridge (Solaris, 2015.)
Alternate history.
BARNES, STEVEN (See also collaborations with Larry Niven, and with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Cestus Deception, The (Del Rey, 2004.)
A Star Wars novel.
Obi-Wan tries to prevent the sale of an army of cyborg soldiers to the rebels.
Charisma (Tor, 2002.)
An experiment designed to imprint positive values on disadvantaged children backfires when the donor personality turns out to be a serial killer.
Far Beyond the Stars (Pocket, 1998, based on the screenplay by Ira Steven Behr, Hans Beimler, and Marc Scott Zicree.)
A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel.
Sisko wakes up one day and discovers he is a science fiction writer living in Harlem in the 1950’s, even though he clearly remembers his life aboard the space station.
Gorgon Child (Tor, 1989.)
Aubry Knight #2.
A martial arts fan in a collapsing urban future combats a fanatic religious leader and his followers, assisted by surgically augmented soldiers.
Kundalini Equation, The (Tor, 1986.)
Proper martial arts training requires mental as well as physical discipline. Barnes theorizes about a new form of training which transcends the mere physical and allows mental control of matter. The result is a man whose very spirit is corrupted by the terrible power he wields.
Lion's Blood (Warner, 2002.)
Uchronia #1.
A young white slaveboy in a North America that was colonized by African and Islamic powers seeks freedom when a war sweeps across the continent.
Streetlethal (Ace, 1983, Tor, 1991.)
Aubrey Knight #1.
A talented street fighter struggles against organleggers, drug syndicates, and other criminals in a future Los Angeles where anarchy is the normal state of affairs. Formerly employed by the local crimelords, he has decided to retire from a job where that isn't normally an option.
Twelve Days (Tor, 2017.)
A group of terrorists are eliminated through the powers of an autistic child.
Zulu Heart (Warner, 2003.)
Uchronia #2.
In an alternate history where America was colonized from Africa, a man and a freed slave become caught up in an imminent civil war.
BARNES-SVARNEY, PATRICIA
Computer Crunch! (Minstrel, 1998.)
Alex Mack #24.
Alex suspects that someone in her newsletter group is secretly providing information to their rivals.
High Flyer (Minstrel, 1997.)
Alex Mack #14.
Someone is sabotaging a new flying school, so Alex uses her powers to find out who is responsible and stop him.
Junkyard Jitters (Minstrel, 1997.)
Alex Mack #11.
When she tries to help an eccentric inventory living in a junkyard, Alex may have risked discovery of her powers.
Loyalties (Pocket, 1996.)
#10 in the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series.
Young Dr. Crusher is forced to turn detective when her academy roommate is accused of causing a serious accident, suspecting that an influential officer has framed her.
Quarantine (Pocket, 1997.)
Star Trek Voyager: Starfleet Academy #3.
Young Janeway is sent to a planet of domed cities and a supposedly poisoned atmosphere, and discovers that the air is breathable and the people are being misled.
BARNETT, DAVID
Colony War (Titan, 2022.)
An Aliens novel.
A rebellious colony is attacked by aliens.
Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon (Tor, 2014.)
Gideon Smith #2.
Steampunk.
Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl (Tor, 2013.)
Gideon Smith #1.
Steampunk.
BARNETT, PAUL (See also John Grant.)
Kaantalech (Legend, 1997.)
Strider Chronicles #2.
A handful of humans have helped overthrow a creature ruling an entire galaxy, but now a new menace arises in the form of another being intent upon dominating a million stars.
Strider's Galaxy (Legend, 1997.)
Strider Chronicles #1.
Earth's first interstellar colonization ship is snatched off to unknown regions of space by an unsuspected jump portal and finds itself right in the middle of an interstellar war.
BARNWELL, WILLIAM
Blessing Papers, The (Pocket, 1980.)
Blessing Trilogy #1.
Set following a nuclear war, this series follows the adventures of Turly, a young boy whose lie signifies the end of the era of ignorance, although early events are not promising. A religious order condemns the boy because of his white hair, while others seem to think he possesses secret knowledge.
Imram (Pocket, 1981.)
Blessing Trilogy #2.
Turly has visions that are designed to help him shape the future of a post-nuclear society that has largely abandoned science. In the comparatively slow middle volume of the trilogy, he flees into the wilderness seeking self understanding and is taken in by a primitive tribe.
Sigma Curve, The (Pocket, 1981.)
Blessing Trilogy #3.
As he matures, Turly has developed leadership skills and created the nucleus of a new society from a scattering of villages. But there's someone else maneuvering for power, a recluse who claims to have magical powers, actually remnants of forgotten science.
BARON, MIKE (See collaboration with Christopher Priest.)
BARON, NICK (Pseudonym of Scott Ciencin, whom see. See also collaboration which follows.)
Glory's End (Harper, 1990.)
Number 2 in the multi-author Time Tours series for younger readers.
Time travel is a tourist business, but some of the travelers are breaking the law, specifically introducing anachronisms that might change the course of history. The Time Patrol rushes to action when they discover laser weapons in use in the Civil War and President Lincoln suriving an attempted assassination.
BARON, NICK & COX, GREG
Pirate Paradox, The (Harper, 1991.)
Number 5 in the multi-author Time Tours series for younger readers.
Not seen.
BARON, ROBERT (Pseudonym of Victor Milan, whom see.)
Lord of the Plains (Jove, 1993.)
Storm Rider #3.
Not seen. May not have been published.
River of Fire (Jove, 1992.)
Storm Rider #2.
The free bikers who rule the wastelands of post nuclear war America are forced to fight for their survival when they are assaulted by the army of religious fanatics.
Storm Rider (Jove, 1992.)
Storm Rider #1.
Following a nuclear war, most survivors are forcibly gathered into cities. But a few rebel and head out into the blasted wastelands, riding motorcycles and preserving a vestige of the old freedom.
BARR, DENSIL
Man With Only One Head, The (Rich & Cowan, 1955, Digit, 1962.)
A mysterious fog leaves only one man fertile.
BARR, DONALD
Planet in Arms, A (Crest, 1981.)
Civil war has devastated the planet Rohan, where ambitious men and women vie for power. But yet another rebellion is brewing, this one with its origin in a penal colony
Space Relations (Donald McKay, 1973, Charterhouse, 1973, Crest, 1975.)
A diplomat is kidnapped by space pirates and sold into slavery. He escapes into the bed of a powerful aristocrat and rises to power, only to discover that the galaxy is on the verge of a major war.
BARR, MARLEEN S.
Oy Pioneer! (Terrace, 2004.)
A blend of feminist themes and humor in a future setting.
BARR, MIKE W.
Gemini (Pocket, 2003.)
A Star Trek novel.
Someone attempts to murder the delegates to a peace conference and Kirk must identify the guilty party and rescue his kidnapped nephew to prevent renewal of a planetary war.
BARR, TYRONE C.
Last 14, The (Chariot, 1960. Digit, 1959, as Split Worlds.)
A handful of people in orbit watch as the human race destroys itself in a nuclear war. The few survivors decide to make themselves self sufficient and provide some hope that the human race might survive, at least temporarily, by remaining in orbit.
Split Worlds (See The Last 14.)
BARREN, CHARLES (See collaboration with R. Cox Abel.)
BARRETT, GEOFFREY JOHN (See also Edward Leighton, Dennis Summers, and James Wallace.)
Bodysnatchers of Lethe, The (?, 1976.)
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Brain of Graphicon, The (?, 1973.)
?
City of the First Time (?, 1975.)
?
Earth Watch (?, 1978.)
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Hall of the Evolvulus, The (?, 1977.)
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Lost Fleet of Astranides, The (?, 1974.)
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Night of the Deathship, The (?, 1976.)
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Other Side of Red, The (?, 1977.)
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Paradise Zone, The (?, 1975.)
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Robotria (?, 1977.)
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Slaver from the Stars (?, 1975.)
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Timeship to Thebes (?, 1976.)
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Tomorrow Stairs, The (?, 1974.)
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BARRETT, MICHAEL DENNIS
Asylum and Circus (Manor, 1977.)
The US and the Soviet Union are both developing super weapon systems in orbit while denying it publicly. Then alien emissaries arrive, only to find themselves made pawns in the international power struggle.
BARRETT, NEAL JR. (Rumored to be the author of one or more uncredited novels as Victor Appleton. Also writes Fantasy.)
Aldair, Across the Misty Sea (DAW, 1980.)
Aldair #3.
Aldair the adventurer searches for the secret of the worlds creation, convinced that the fabled Man was a physical and not a spiritual being, and that science not faith holds the key to his evolution from pig stock.
Aldair in Albion (DAW, 1976.)
Aldair #1.
The opening volume of a surprisingly good series set in the far future after humankind has essentially abandoned the Earth and turned it over to genetically altered animals, raised to be intelligent. The continuing hero is a pig, who in the opening volume begins to question the dictates of the religious hierarchy about the nature of man and the world.
Aldair, Master of Ships (DAW, 1977.)
Aldair #2.
Convinced that the world is round, an intelligent creature evolved from pigs is a new Magellan in this series set in a far future where humankind has disappeared and uplifted animal species have inherited the world.
Aldair, the Legion of Beasts (DAW, 1982.)
Aldair #4.
The adventures of Aldair conclude with his discovery of a secret human installation that is occupied by the last human to live on Earth. From him, Aldair demands an explanation of the creation of his own kind.
Batman in the Black Egg of Atlantis (Little Brown, 1992. Fantail, 1992, as The Black Egg of Atlantis.)
Not seen
Black Egg of Atlantis, The. (See Batman in the Black Egg of Atlantis.)
Dawn's Uncertain Light (Signet, 1989, Grafton, 1992.)
Howie #2.
Howie has learned that the supposedly benign government emerging from the ruins of war torn America is actually turning some of its population into food, others into sex slaves for a hidden aristocracy. He sets off to rescue his sister from their citadel.
Day the Decorators Came, The (Subterranean, 2000.)
Collection of two unrelated stories.
Different Vintage, A (Subterranean, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Gates of Time, The (Ace, 1970, bound with Dwellers of the Deep by K.M. O'Donnell.)
Earth and the human race have ceased to exist, in fact, they might never have existed at all except that there is one survivor, who persists in insisting on his own existence even though all the other races refuse to believe in him.
Highwood (Ace, 1972, bound with Annihilation Factor by Barrington J. Bayley.)
A human xenologist is investigating a world whose apelike inhabitants engage in a deadly war between the sexes for most of their life cycles when her computer program detects a perplexing and ultimately terrifying trend.
Judge Dredd (St Martin’s, 1995, from the screenplay by William Wisher and Steven E. De Souza.)
A law officer of the future is framed and disgraced, escapes from prison to track down those responsible, including a genetically cloned man who was once his friend. The film is based on the comic strip series.
Karma Corps, The (DAW, 1984.)
A theocratically governed human race is waging war against an alien species that can teleport, whom they characterize as demons. In the process of learning how to deal with his enemy, a soldier develops doubts about his own faith.
Kelwin (Lancer, 1970.)
After a worldwide nuclear war, the remains of North America are dominated by Asiatic invaders in the north and a revived Indian nation in the south. An itinerant trader and his friend are instrumental in averting a new and devastating war between the emergent nations.
Leaves of Time, The (Lancer, 1971.)
The gorgon is an alien creature capable of moving through alternate time lines, possessed of a hatred for all other forms of intelligent life. A shapechanger, it can impersonate anyone it wants when it visits an alternate North America colonized by Scandinavia, pursued by a single time agent.
Lizard’s Rage (Pocket, 1997.)
A Spiderman adventure.
Two super villains are on the trail of a brilliant scientist, each for his own reasons, and Spiderman has to thwart them both and ensure that their quarry remains safe.
Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett Jr. (Subterranean, 2012.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Perpetuity Blues (Golden Gryphon, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Prince of Christler-Coke (Golden Gryphon, 2004.)
Broad satire of a future when executives have become the new aristocracy.
Slightly Off Center (Swan, 1992.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Stress Pattern (DAW, 1974.)
An astronaut lands on a world that swallows his spaceship, literally, almost as soon as he lands. He sets out overland and discovers an alien race whose view of reality and sanity is at right angles to his own.
Through Darkest America (Worldwide, 1988, Congdon & Weed, 1988, New English Library, 1988.)
Howie #1.
A nomadic culture dominates post-war North America, but the main food source is Stock, human beings apparently lacking intelligence who are herded and harvested. Howie has accepted the status quo all his life, until he finds evidence that the population is being systematically culled to replenish the Stock.
Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name, The (Dell, 1996, ghost written by Al Sarrantonio.)
A Babylon 5 novel.
The inhabitants of Babylon 5 are troubled by terrifying dreams whose after effects spill over into their waking hours. At the same time, they detect a band of colored light millions of miles long approaching the station.
BARRETT, WILLIAM F. (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Fools of Time, The (Doubleday, 1963, Pocket, 1964.)
The communists have developed a serum that will make people immortal, and the western world is in turmoil. Will people defect in order to get access to it, or will someone manage to steal the formula.
BARRON, D.G.
Zilov Bombs. (Andre Deutsch, 1962, Pan, 1965.)
The Soviet Union controls England, but a clandestine group of patriots is seeking to rebel using non-radioactive nuclear weapons.
BARRY, C.J.
Unearthed (Love Spell, ?)
Space #4.
Love in outer space.
Unleashed (Love Spell, ?)
Space #2.
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Unmasked (Love Spell, 2005.)
Space #1.
A futuristic romance in outer space.
Unraveled (Love Spell, ?)
Space #3.
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BARRY, MAX
22 Murders of Madison May, The (Putnam, 2021.)
A serial killer chooses the same victim from multiple alternate realities.
Lexicon (Viking, 2013, Penguin, 2014.)
A strange new science of vocabulary enables manipulation of the country.
BARRY, RAY (Pseudonym of Dennis Talbot Hughes, whom see.)
Blue Peril (?, 1952.)
Not seen.
Death Dimension (?, 1952.)
Not seen.
Gamma Product (?, 1952.)
Not seen.
Humanoid Puppets (?, 1952.)
Not seen.
Ominous Folly (?, 1952.)
Not seen.
BARRY, SCOTT IAN (Also writes Horror.)
Streeter, The (Tor, 1994.)
Chemical wastes transform a pack of dogs into clever, ruthless hunters who claim human prey. They amass a considerable number of victims before anyone takes interest in the rising number of animal attacks and draws the obvious conclusion.
BARTH, JOHN (Also writes Fantasy.)
Giles Goat-Boy (Doubleday, 1966, Secker & Warburg, 1967, Crest, 1967, Penguin, 1967.)
A broad satire that uses a futuristic university as the basis for a parable about human society.
BARTHOLOMEW, BARBARA (Also writes Fantasy.)
Great Gradepoint Mystery, The (Macmillan, 1985.)
A Microkid novel.
A boy and his computer intelligence friend solve the mystery of a cheat at school.
BARTON, DAN (Also writes Horror.)
Relife (Pocket, 1991.)
After a mysterious "accident", the protagonist wakens to find he has near total amnesia and that his blood has been replaced with a synthetic substitute. As he attempts to discover what has been done to him, he realizes that his body is still changing, that he is no longer properly speaking a human being at all.
BARTON, ERLE (Pseudonym of Robert Lionel Fanthorpe, whom see)
Planet Seekers, The (Badger, 1963, Vega, 1964.)
A dreadfully bad novel about the rising conflict between normal humans and bio-engineered supermen.
BARTON, LEE (Pseudonym of Robert Lionel Fanthorpe, whom see.)
Shadow Man (Badger, 1966.)
Not seen.
BARTON, S.W. (Pseudonym of Barton Whaley. See collaboration with Michael Kurland.)
BARTON, WILLIAM (See also collaborations which follow.)
Acts of Conscience (Aspect, 1996.)
Through a combination of luck and happenstance, the protagonist becomes sole owner of an interstellar spaceship, with which he sets out to see the universe. To his dismay, his fellow humans have wrought such havoc on others that higher powers are about to exterminate his entire species.
Dark Sky Legion (Bantam, 1992.)
The protagonist is an immortal and an enforcer, used by a far future government that encompasses thousands of planets, dedicated to ensuring that culture remains homogenous throughout human space. Now he's sent to an out of the way planet which has swerved from the accepted course, and he must decide the future of an entire world.
Hunting on Kunderer (Ace, 1973, bound with Life with Lancelot by John T. Phillifent.)
Big game hunters on a primitive planet find the tables turned when the local fauna proves smarter, and deadlier, than advertised.
Plague of All Cowards, A (Ace, 1976.)
A nearly omniscience artificial intelligence is involved in the search for a deadly assassin.
Transmigration of Souls, The (Warner Aspect, 1996.)
The American moonbase has closed and the US has retreated within its borders, guarding them with superscientific devices they discovered via a system of interstellar teleportation devices they discovered on the moon. The Americans live in fear of a destructive alien force that may discover their existence, so they try to destroy missions to the moon from the Arab nations and China.
When Heaven Fell (Warner, 1995.)
Earth has been conquered by an alliance of aliens dominated by an artificial intelligence. A human mercenary turns against his masters, ultimately to learn that they are retreating in the face of an even more powerful foe.
Yellow Matter (TAL Publications, 1993.)
Short story in pamphlet form about sexual relations with aliens.
BARTON, WILLIAM & CAPOBIANCO, MICHAEL
Alpha Centauri (Avon, 1997.)
An expedition to the nearest star finds the ruins of a space traveling civilization just as they begin to suffer from the effects of an unsuspected virus.
Fellow Traveler (Bantam, 1991.)
The Soviet Union is planning to convert an asteroid into an orbiting factory complex. The US government objects to the movement of the asteroid into near Earth orbit and destroys the project, nearly precipitating a war.
Iris. (Doubleday, 1990, Bantam, 1991, Avon, 1999.)
A starship full of colonists fleeing economically ravaged Earth discovers a rogue planet entering the solar system as it crosses Neptune's orbit. They land on one of the planet's moons and find an abandoned but still functioning alien starship.
BARTRAM, GEORGE (Pseudonym of Kenneth Cameron whom see.)
Sunset Gun, The (Pinnacle, 1993
An insane scientist invents a portable particle beam weapon with which, according to the blurbs, he can destroy the entire universe. Despite the hype, it's a borderline political thriller.
X President, The (Bantam, 2003.)
On the verge of losing a worldwide war in the middle of the 21st Century, a writer is asked to rewrite the history of the previous administration.
BARZMAN, BEN
Echo X (Paperback Library, 1962. Putnam, 1960, as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Collins, 1960, Fontana, 1963, as Out of This World.)
An exact duplicate of Earth appears in orbit, same nations, same history, same language. Satirical humor as the author uses subtle differences as the basis for social commentary.
Out of This World (See Echo X.)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane (See Echo X.)
BASE, GRAEME
Truck Dogs (Amulet, 2004.)
Young adult book about a planet where dogs and trucks have interbred.
BASILE, GLORIA VITANZA
Eye of the Eagle (Pinnacle, 1983.)
Global 2000 #1.
Most of the Mideast has been destroyed by a mysterious nuclear attack and the major powers are poised to attack one another. Spends most of its considerable length dwelling on the author's perception of the recent international mistakes of the US government.
Jackal Helix, The (Pinnacle, 1984.)
Global 2000 #2.
A secret organization of European businessmen and aristocrats is planning to seize clandestine control of the world by finding ancient parchments which hold lost technological secrets. They employ a ruthless assassin to accomplish their aims.
Sting of the Scorpion, The (Pinnacle, 1984.)
Global 2000 #3.
The ultimate confrontation between two power groups hidden from public view, one evil and intent on world domination, even if that requires a nuclear war, the other determined to preserve freedom.
BASS, MILTON
Force Red (Berkley, 1970.)
A multi-national force created to prevent nuclear technology from spreading develops an agenda of its own when it is ordered to disband.
BASS, T.J. (Pseudonym of Thomas Bassler.)
Godwhale, The (Ballantine, 1974, Metheun, 1975.)
Hive #2.
The Rorqual Maru is a bio-engineered harvesting machine abandoned by a humanity that has lost most of its technological knowledge. Life has returned to the oceans and the harvester is functional again, if only it can find someone to serve.
Half Past Human (Ballantine, 1971, Methuen, 1984.)
Hive #1.
Possibly the best novel of overpopulation of all time. Earth is so crowded that conformity has become an absolute credo, and humans have even grown smaller to provide more space. They function more as organic machines than as people and the world is a peaceful place. Meanwhile, a cyborg starship plans to spread humanity to the stars.
BASSETT, JAMES C. (See collaboration with Stephen L. Antczak.)
Living Real (Harper, 1997.)
A designer of virtual reality environments is targeted by the paranoid head of a government security agency who believes the programmer is undermining national security. And the protagonist's newest program makes the virtual real even more appealing than before.
BASSINGTHWAITE, DONALD (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Breathe Deeply (White Wolf, 1997.)
In a plague stricken near future world, a man travels to the Amazon hoping to find a cure.
If Whispers Call (Wizards of the Coast, 2000.)
#2 in the multi-author Dark Matter series.
Strange hybrid horror/SF novel based on the role playing game. Scientists investigate what appears to be a ghost to find the link between the manifestation and a woman stuck in a mysterious coma.
BATCHELOR, JOHN CALVIN
Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica, The (Henry Holt, 1983, Penguin, 1984, Doubleday, 1984.)
In a future unsettled by plague, war, and the collapse of civilization, a handful of refugees make new lives for themselves in the frozen Antarctic.
Father's Day (Henry Holt, 1994, St. Martins, 1996.)
The President temporarily passes his authority to the Vice President during an illness, but when he tries to return to duty, the country is embroiled in a near military coup.
Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing (Henry Holt, 1993.)
This uchronian novel examines the inner workings of a Soviet developed expedition to the moon, focusing on the tensions among scientific staff, administrators, and the government/
BATEMAN, ROBERT
When the Whites Went (Dobson, 1963, Digit, 1964.)
A mysterious plague wipes out every caucasion inhabitant of the British Isles, and the Negroes who have survived reorganize in the ensuing chaos to create a new civilization.
BATES, PAUL L.
Dreamer (Five Star, 2008.)
Dytopia #2.
A group of people with unusual talents battle a dystopian future government.
Imprint (Five Star, 2006.)
Dystopia #1.
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BAUER, SABINE
Mirror Mirror (Fandemonium, ?)
A Stargate novel.
An alien device provides a gateway to an alternate world.
Survival of the Fittest (Fandemonium, ?)
A Stargate novel.
An ambitious officer threatens to upset the balance of power among worlds.
Trial by Fire (Fandemonium, ?)
A Stargate novel.
Mission to a world of religious fanatics.
BAUERS, W.C.
Indomitable (Tor, 2016.)
Promise Paen #2.
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Unbreakable (Tor, 2015.)
Promise Paen #1.
Interstellar politics and space pirates.
BAUM, L. FRANK (Also writes Fantasy.)
Master Key, The (Bobbs-Merrill, 1901, Hyperion, 1974.)
An inventor encounters a strange being who reveals to him the secrets of electricity, but some of those secrets involve incredible destructive power. A generally didactic morality tale.
BAXENDALE, TREVOR
Coldheart (BBC, 2000.)
A Doctor Who novel.
On a planet suffering from a water shortage, a growing number of mutants join forces in their attacks on the rest of society.
Deadstone Memorial, The (BBC, 2005.)
A Doctor Who novel.
Dream creatures begin appearing in the real world.
Deep Time (Broadway, 2015.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor deals with a highway through space that leads to a dangerous threat.
Dragon King, The (BBC, 2008.)
A Doctor Who novel.
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Eater of Wasps (BBC, 2001.)
A Doctor Who novel.
Soldiers from the future are searching contemporary England for a missing artifact, and in the same area a species of wasp appears which is deadly to humankind.
Heart of Stone (Puffin, ?)
A Doctor Who novel.
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Janus Conjunction, The (BBC, 1998.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor arrives in a system with two inhabited planets, one rich and one poor, both engaged in a war with one another. Complicating matters are the still working machines left by the planet’s previous, now missing inhabitants.
Prisoner of the Daleks (BBC, 2009.)
A Doctor Who novel.
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Something in the Water (BBC, 2008.)
A Torchwood novel.
An animated dead man warns of something living in the water.
Undertaker's Gift, The (BBC, 2009.)
A Torchwood novel.
A flurry of alien arrivals on Earth taxes Torchwood.
Wishing Well (BBC, 2007.)
A Doctor Who novel.
An alien lives in a well.
BAXTER, JOHN (See also James Blackstone.)
Hermes Fall, The. (Simon & Schuster, 1978, Panther, 1978, Ballantine, 1979.)
The asteroid Hermes is on a collision course with Earth. While some work desperately to find a way to divert it, others hope to turn the likely disaster to their advantage. Eventually a space flight is launched to use a thermonuclear device to change its course.
Off-Worlders (Ace, 1966, bound with The Star Magician by Lin Carter. Horwitz, 1968, using the original magazine title, The God-Killers.)
A largely abandoned colony world has descended into a primitive culture, with a strong anti-science bias. Despite the prevailing Luddism, some local inhabitants still search for lost knowledge, and they discover that there are people from off the planet conducting a similar search, surprising in such an unlikely place.
BAXTER, STEPHEN (See also collaboration that follows and others with Terry Pratchett and Arthur C. Clarke.)
Anti-Ice (HarperCollins, 1993.)
In an alternate Victorian age, a scientists discovers a deposit of antimatter in the Antarctic which is a source of unbelievable power. He uses it to develop flight to the moon and the ensure Britain's pre-eminence in the world, but is dismayed when plans are made to use it as the ultimate superweapon.
Ark, The (Roc, 2010.)
Flood #2.
Efforts are made to evacuate some humans from a flooded Earth to another world.
Bronze Summer (Roc, 2012.)
Alternate prehistory.
Coalescent (Gollancz, 2003, Del Rey, 2003.)
Destiny's Children #1.
The protagonist discovers the existence of a secret society planning humanity's future.
Conqueror (Gollancz, 2006, Ace, 2007.)
Time’s Tapestry #2.
The Battle of Hastings turns out differently.
Emperor (Gollancz, 2006, Ace, 2009.)
Time’s Tapestry #1.
A prophecy in ancient Rome may be the result of manipulation by a being who exists outside normal time.
Evolution (Del Rey, 2003, Gollancz, 2006.)
Episodic novel which follows the evolution of the human species from pre-history through the far future.
Exultant (Gollancz, 2004.)
Destiny's Children #2.
Humans battle an alien race
Flood (Gollancz, 2008, Roc, 2009.)
Flood #1.
Rising sea levels inundate parts of the world.
Flux (HarperCollins, 1993.)
A colony of miniaturized human beings has been established inside a neutron star. There they struggle to survive and explore their world despite storms, wild animals, and other dangers.
Grey Hair (Millennium, 1998.)
Mammoth #1.
The mammoths are an intelligent species who, in this opening volume, witness the advent of the human race on Earth.
GulliverZone (Orion, 1997, Starscape, 2005.)
Part of the mutli-author Web series.
Young adult novel in which talented youngsters battle villains in virtual reality.
H-Bomb Girl, The (Gollancz, 2007.)
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Hunters of Pangaea, The (NESFA, 2004.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Icebones (Gollancz, 2001, Avon Eos, 2002.)
Mammoth #4.
After Mars is colonized, mammoths are recreated and set free to roam, and they become the dominant species when humanity retreats to Earth.
Last and First Contacts (Newcon, 2012.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Longtusk (Gollancz, 2000, Millennium, 2001, Avon, 2001.)
Mammoth #3.
Actually number two in the series, but the first was split into two volumes. The further adventures of a tribe of intelligent mammoths.
Mammoth (Millennium, 1999. Harper, 1999, Avon, 2000, as Silverhair.)
Mammoth #2.
A small number of mammoths have survived on a Siberian island, but now they have been discovered by people anxious to hunt them.
Manifold: Origin (Del Rey, 2002.)
Malenfant #3.
A new moon suddenly replaces our own. A group of people are displaced in time and space, and the secret of the creation of human life is ultimately revealed.
Manifold: Space (Del Rey, 2001.)
Malenfant #2.
An entrepreneur finds an alien stargate and sets out to explore the universe. Back on Earth, a scientist discovers that aliens have visited the solar systems several times in the past, have often wiped out most life here, and that a new wave of invaders is approaching.
Manifold: Time (Del Rey, 2000.)
Malenfant #1.
As human civilization begins to succumb to overpopulation and ecological damage, a foresighted man sends a mutant squid to explore an asteroid, solves the mystery of messages being sent back from the future, helps avoid the extinction of the human race, and discovers the existence of time portals.
Massacre of Mankind, The (Crown, 2017.)
Sequel to The War of the Worlds. Mars returns to invade with a larger army.
Moonseed (Harper, 1998.)
A sample of lunar bedrock reacts with terrestrial lava and begins a change reaction which could doom the Earth. A group of scientists plans to escape by migrating to the moon and discovers instead that the moon itself is an interloper from another star system.
Navigator (Gollancz, 2007, Ace, 2008.)
Time’s Tapestry #3.
A mysterious force manipulates the conflict during the Crusades.
Phase Space (HarperCollins, 2002.)
Collection of sometimes related stories.
Proxima (Roc, 2014.)
Proxima #1.
Colonization of the stars must be forced upon the populace.
Raft (Grafton, 1991, Roc, 1992, HarperCollins, ?)
Xeelee #1.
One of the most original hard science novels of all time, set in a universe where gravity is one billion times that of our own. Into this pocket universe comes a human ship, the crew of which survives in a trapped pocket of air.
Reality Dust (PS, 2000.)
Novella about the chaos following the abandonment of Earth by the aliens who conquered it. With human history largely forgotten, the survivors turn on one another.
Resplendent (Gollancz, 2006.)
Destiny’s Children #4.
Collection of related stories.
Riding the Rock (PS, 2002.)
Xeelee #4.
Novelet published in book form involving the ongoing war between the human race and the Xeelee.
Ring (Harper, 1994.)
Xeelee #3.
A scientist experimenting with wormholes is apparently lost in space, but then he sends a message indicating that the universe is doomed, but that there is an escape route to another reality.
Silverhair. (See Mammoth.)
Stone Spring (Roc, 2011.)
Northland #1.
Alternate history in which the British Isles were never separated from Europe.
Timelike Infinity (Roc, 1993, Harper, 1993.)
Xeelee #2.
Humans were spreading through the universe, nearly immortal, masters of many planets, until they met and were subjugated by an alien species. A group of rebels uses a time machine to escape into the past of Earth, but the aliens pursue in a conflict which will determine the future of both races.
Time Ships, The (Harper, 1995.)
A direct sequel to The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. The anonymous traveler is off for another adventure, but discovers that his travels have changed the course of human history. Now the Morlocks are relatively benevolent, although they have encased the sun in a sphere and have abandoned the Earth. With a Morlock companion, he returns to explore alternate timelines.
Titan (Harper, 1997.)
Life is discovered on the moon Titan by a cobbled together, dying effort of the US program. During their trip, the Chinese start a shooting war over Taiwan, divert an asteroid toward the US, and nearly destroy the entire world.
Traces (Harper, 1998.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Transcendent (Del Rey, 2005.)
Destiny's Children #3.
Humans from the distant future return to the present day.
Ultima (Roc, 2015.)
Proxima #2.
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Vacuum Diagrams (HarperCollins, 1997.)
Omnibus of Raft, Flux, Ring, and Timelike Infinity.
Weaver (Ace, 2008, Gollancz, 2008.)
Time's Tapestry #4.
A secret war through time focuses on World War II.
Voyage (Harper, 1996.)
An alternate history in which John Kennedy survived the assassination attempt and became a vocal supporter of the manned space program, eventually leading to a voyage to the planet Mars under Nixon's administration. Thoughtful and non-melodramatic.
Webcrash (Orion, 1998.)
Part of the multi-author Web series.
Something is causing an elaborate virtual reality system to crash.
Wheel of Ice, The (BBC, 2012.)
A Doctor Who novel.
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BAXTER, STEPHEN & REYNOLDS, ALASTAIR
Medusa Chronicles, The (Gollancz, 2016, Saga, 2016.)
The story of the colonization of the solar system.
BAY, AUSTIN
Prism (Harper,?)
A clandestine government agency conducts its espionage by using psychic powers.
Annihilation Factor (Ace, 1972, bound with Highwood by Neal Barrett, Jr. Allison & Busby, 1979, Schocken, 1980.)
An alien creature that draws sustenance from the deaths of entire worlds moves into the human colonized part of the galaxy.
Collision Course (DAW, 1973. Allison & Busby, 1977, Wildside, 2002, as Collision with Chronos.)
On a world supposedly ravaged by alien invaders in the forgotten past, an odd phenomenon is occuring. The ruins are visibly growing newer with the passage of time, because there are waves in time which make it appear to work in reverse in that particular area.
Collision with Chronos (See Collision Course.)
Empire of Two Worlds (Ace, 1972, Hale, 1974, Schocken, 1980.)
The colony world of Killibol is inimical to humankind, so the colonists live in domed cities where they have grown complacent and ingrown. The protagonist is a bitter man who steals an armored vehicle and gets involved with a tyrant and his own doppelganger.
Eye of Terror (Black Library, 2000.)
A Warhammer novel.
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Fall of Chronopolis, The (DAW, 1974, Allison & Busby, 1979, Wildside, 2002.)
The Chronotic Empire uses armed fleets of timeships to protect its own timeline, destroying other realities, preventing sabotage to its own. Opposed is the Hegemony, which engages in unorthodox warfare in this very original setting.
Fall of Chronopolis, The, and Collision with Chronos (Pan, 1989. )
Omnibus of two novels.
Forest of Peldain, The (DAW, 1985.)
Peldain is a colony world with a handful of islands lost in an immense ocean. All but one of the islands are united under a single government, the last overgrown with a forest so thick and deadly that settlement is impossible. This is the story of a military expedition to penetrate the forest, and what they find within.
Garments of Caean, The (Doubleday, 1976, DAW, 1980. Fontana, 1978, revised.)
Clothes make the man becomes more than just a metaphor on Caean, where garments are spun from a material that alters the personalities of those that wear them. An ambitious Earthman is determined to gain a suit of the material, but what he learns is the real secret, that there is a symbiosis between the wearer and the clothing.
Grand Wheel, The (DAW, 1977, Fontana, 1979, Wildside, 2005.)
A professional gambler is enlisted as humanity's representative in a galactic gambling establishment that plays for more than just wealth, but for the future of entire races.
Great Hydration, The (Wildside, 2005.)
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Knights of the Limits, The (Allison & Busby, 1978, Wildside, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Pillars of Eternity, The (DAW, 1982.)
A wandering planet, rumored to follow an artificially determined past, has reappeared and a host of treasure hunters is searching for it. A wide ranging story that encompasses cloning, artificial enhancement of the human body, and other familiar themes.
Pillars of Eternity, The, and The Garments of Caean (Pan, 1989.)
Omnibus of both novels.
Rod of Light, The (Methuen, 1985, Arbor House, 1987.)
Jasperodus #2.
Jasperodus is the only robot acknowledged to have a soul, but others have begun to recognize the situation and are secretly attempting to remedy it. Elsewhere, humans are slowly wakening to the possibility that this trend will put them on a collision course with their own creations.
Seed of Evil, The (Allison & Busby, 1979, Schocken, 1980.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sinners of Erspia, The (Wildside, 2002.)
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Soul of the Robot, The (Doubleday, 1974, Allison & Busby, 1976, Condor, 1978, Wildside, 2002.)
Jasperodus #1.
In a future where all menial work is performed by robots, one such machine develops a unique intelligence and self awareness. Puzzled about his own nature, the robot sets out on a voyage of self discovery despite the hostility of humans jealous of their supremacy.
Star Virus, The (Ace, 1970, bound with Mask of Chaos by John Jakes.)
When humans stumble across a mysterious alien artifact, they attract the attention of a bellicose race who demand its immediate surrender. Or else.
Star Winds (DAW, 1978.)
Science has been replaced by a priesthood of alchemists and space travel is accomplished by taking advantage of solar winds in converted sea vessels. An unlikely but fanciful story of a voyage to Mars to find an ancient store of scientific knowledge.
Zen Gun, The (DAW, 1983, Methuen, 1984.)
In a future galactic civilization where genetic engineering is common, where empires rise and fall in the blink of an eye, and where uplifted animals man Earth's defenses, a superweapon is discovered which might destroy space and time itself.
BAYLUS, ROBERT F.
People Exchange, The (Carlyle, 1980.)
A century from now, people are able to swap personalities from body to body, which makes it very difficult to track down a crafty criminal. Nevertheless, a detective and a self aware computer attempt to track down a master criminal.
BAYLY, JOSEPH
Winterflight (Word, 1981.)
Medical techniques allow the elimination of undesirable genetic traits, but the supposedly perfect society has some flaws.
BAYNE, NEIL
Inoculate (Leisure, 1979.)
A virulent plague breaks out at a military base in the US, followed by similar problems elsewhere in the world. Although the government calls for massive inoculations, one man suspects that this wasn't an accident, that it is a dark plan designed to make the US the dominant force in the world.
BEACH, LYNN (Pseudonym of Kathryn Lance, whom see. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Attack of the Insecticons, The (Ballantine, 1985.)
A multi-path gamebook.
Conquest of the Time Master (Avon, 1985.)
A multi-path gamebook.
Invisibility Island (Ballantine, 1988.)
A multi-path gamebook.
BEALE, CHARLES WILLING (Also writes Horror.)
Secret of the Earth, The (?, 1897, Armchair,2018.)
An airship travels through the hollow Earth.
BEAR, DAVID
Keeping Time (St Martins, 1979, Popular Library, 1981.)
An implausible but fascinating concept. Time is a commodity that can be stored. You can bank all of the dull parts of your life for use later, for more interesting things. But someone commits murder to steal some of these time chits, and a private detective sets out to solve the crime.
Carnival (Bantam, 2006.)
Diplomats travel to a planet ruled by women.
Chains That You Refuse, The (Night Shade, 2006.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Chill (Ballantine Spectra, 2010.)
Starship #2.
Civil war aboard a generation starship.
Dust (Bantam, 2007.)
Starship #1.
War among the tribes in a generation starship.
Grail (Spectra, 2011.)
Starship #3.
A generation starship arrives on a planet to discover it has already been settled.
Hammered (Bantam, 2005.)
Jenny Casey #1.
A fugitive in a repressive future is sought as a subject in a scientific experiment.
Karen Memory (Tor, 2015.)
Steampunk adventure in an alternate Old West.
Scardown (Bantam, 2005.)
Jenny Casey #2.
A cyborged woman agrees to join a mission to explore the stars.
Shoggoths in Bloom (Prime, 2012.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Undertow (Bantam, 2007.)
An assassin seeking to retire gets into trouble on a frontier world.
Worldwired (Bantam, 2005.)
Jenny Casey #3.
As Earth teeters on the brink of war, aliens arrive.
BEAR, GREG (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Anvil of Stars (Warner, 1992, Questar, 1993, Orb, 2008.)
Forge of God #2.
A handful of survivors from destroyed Earth are traveling to the stars, determined to find the race that destroyed their homeworld and exact revenge. But once they reach their goal, they have to decide whether their proposed course of action is the right one.
Beyond Heaven's River (Dell, 1980, Tor, 1987, Severn House, 1989, Millennium, 2000.)
A kamikazi pilot is kidnapped by aliens and taken to another world where, effectively immortal, he is made master of the planet. Generations later a human ship arrives and the pilot meets a powerful human business executive who falls in love with him.
Beyond the Farthest Suns (Open Road, 2016.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Blood Music (Arbor House, 1985, Ace, 1986, Gollancz, 1986, Millennium, 2001, Ibooks, 2002, Gollancz, 2007.)
A frustrated scientist working on nanotechnology injects the self reproducing cells into his own body in order to smuggle them out of the lab. But the process is open ended, consumes his body, and spreads into the world at large.
City at the End of Time (Del Rey, 2008, Gollancz, 2008.)
Three people in our time share visions of a disintegrating future.
Collected Stories of Greg Bear, The (Tor, 2002, Orb, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Corona (Pocket, 1984, Firecrest, 1985.)
A Star Trek novel.
A cluster of sentient stars has seized control of the minds of a group of Vulcan scientists. When the Enterprise comes to the rescue, they discover that the protostars are considering creating an explosion that will recreate the universe.
Cryptum: The Forerunner Saga (Tor, 2011.)
A Halo novel.
The future of an interstellar civilization hangs in the balance.
Darwin's Children (Del Rey, 2003.)
Darwin #2.
The genetically enhanced children who were born after a gene altering plague now find themselves being hunted down and harassed by old style humans.
Darwin's Radio (Del Rey, 1999, Ballantine, 2000.)
Darwin #1.
A disease imprinted in human DNA reappears, causing pregnant women to lose their children. Scientists believe that the phenomenon might mark the next step in human evolution, but the public is terrified by what they see as imminent extinction.
Dinosaur Summer (Warner, 1998, HarperCollins, 1998.)
A sequel to The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fifty years have passed since Professor Challenger brought dinosaurs back from South America, and now the public has lost interest in the dinosaurs. When the last dinosaur circus shuts down, the owners attempt to return the creatures to their original habitat, but an accident strands several of them for a series of low key adventures.
Early Harvest (NESFA Press, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Eon (Bluejay, 1985, Tor, 1986, Gollancz, 1986, Vista, 1998, Millennium, ?.)
Thistledown #1.
The world is on the brink of nuclear war when a new asteroid appears in the solar system, one containing a wealth of artifacts. Within its depths are the ruins of a human civilization, apparently one from an alternate future, and an account of the war that almost destroyed the human race. But there is another discovery to be made as well, a chamber that opens up into another universe.
Eternity (Warner, 1988, Gollancz, 1989, Questar, 1989, Warner Aspect, 1994, Millennium, 1999.)
Thistledown #2.
Human explorers of an orbiting asteroid from the future believe that the existence of a gateway between universes that exists within its core may be endangering the future of both planes of existence.
Far Thoughts and Pale Gods (Open Road, 2016.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Forge of God, The (Tor, 1987, Gollancz, 1987, Vista, 1998.)
Forge of God #1.
One of the moons of Jupiter disappears, followed by odd events on Earth, new mountains, and so forth. An alien race has decided to destroy the Earth, and is apparently indifferent to the fate of the race that lives on it. A handful of survivors escape aboard an experimental spaceship.
Foundation and Chaos (Orbit, 1998.)
A sequel to Gregory Benford’s Foundation's Fear, set in the world of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series.
Hardfought (Tor, 1988, bound with Cascade Point by Timothy Zahn.)
Long story bound as double.
Heads (Legend, 1990, St Martins, 1991, Tor, 1992.)
Conflict on the moon when possession of a large number of cryogenically preserved human heads causes religious as well as practical questions to be raised.
Hegira (Dell, 1979, Gollancz, 1987. Tor, 1989, Millennium, 1999, revised.)
On a forgotten human colony world, the laws of physics seem to have been rewritten. The planet is orders of magnitude larger than Earth, and written records are inscribed on stone obelisks beyond the technology of the planet's inhabitants. Three unlikely travelers provide a grand tour of the world and discover that it is designed to survive the death of the universe.
Hull Zero Three (Orbit, 2010.)
A colony ship goes astray on its way to the stars.
Just Over the Horizon (Open Road, 2016.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Killing Titan (Orbit, 2015.)
War Dogs #2.
?
Legacy (Tor, 1995, Legend, 1995.)
Prequel to Eon.
A government agent investigates illegal mass immigrations.
Lost Souls (See Psychlone.)
Mariposa (Vanguard, 2009.)
Quantico #2.
A private company tries to seize control of the country.
Moving Mars (Legend, 1993, Tor, 1994, Orb, 2007.)
A very realistic portrayal of an emerging independence movement in the Martian colonies, told from the point of view of a prominent woman who rises to become leader of the insurgents. The movement wins when it uses a new field of science to free Mars from its orbit.
Primordium (Tor, 2011.)
A Halo novel.
Two humans find themselves in a world where the laws of nature are different.
Psychlone (Ace, 1979, Charter, 1982, Gollancz, 1989, Millennium ?. As Lost Souls, Tor, 1988, Severn House, 1990.)
A wave of mysterious and violent deaths, visions, and nightmares is sweeping systematically across the country. An investigation reveals that the collected souls of the victims of Hiroshima have been transformed into a powerful force that is exacting mindless revenge as it drifts across the world.
Quantico (Vanguard, 2007.)
Quantico #1.
Political intrigue in a near apocalyptic future.
Queen of Angels (Warner, 1990, Gollancz, 1990, Questar, 1991, Aspect, 1994, Easton, ?, Millennium, 2000.)
Nanotech #1.
In a society which has supposedly cured mental disease, a poet commits murder. The police detective assigned to the case uncovers the unpleasant fact that artificially imposed sanity may just be another form of delusion. And nanotechnology is altering the very structure of human society.
Rogue Planet (Del Rey, 2000.)
A Star Wars novel.
Annakin and Obi-Wan are sent off to a distant planet which is the source of the fastest spaceships in the galaxy. There they cross paths with others who want to steal the technology to build an irresistible military force.
Silentium (Tor, 2013.)
A Halo novel.
?
Sisters (Pulphouse, 1992.)
Pamphlet containing the 1990 short story about the problems of a young child of natural birth in a world where genetic engineering makes everyone else "perfect".
Slant (Tor, 1997, Legend, 1997, Orbit, 1998.)
Nanotech #2.
Nanotechnology has completely revolutionized human culture, and even mental disease appears to be disappearing. But with self awareness comes even deeper insights into the human mind, and the hidden traps that wait there.
Strength of Stones (Ace, 1981. Gollancz, 1988, Severn House, 1991, Millennium, 1999, Ibooks, 2002, revised.)
Computer controlled cities have been designed to protect humankind from itself. To do so, they have discretionary subroutines that allow them to banish anyone who causes trouble, a definition that is interpreted with increasing leniency. Generations later, cities filled with docile populations are besieged by nomadic tribes determined to find a way in.
Take Back the Sky (Orbit, 2016.)
War Dogs #3.
Soldiers are marooned on Saturn's moons.
Tangents (Warner, 1989, Gollancz, 1989, Questar, 1990, Millennium, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Venging, The (See Wind from a Burning Woman.)
Vitals (Del Rey, 2002.)
A scientist investigating life extension becomes the target of a secret group of conspirators who have acquired virtual immortality and use tailored bacteria to control their rivals.
War Dogs (Orbit, 2014.)
War Dogs #1.
An alien race far in advance of humans appeals for help.
Wind from a Burning Woman (Arkham House, 1983, Ace, 1984, Questar, 1990. Legend, 1992, revised as The Venging.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Women in Deep Time (Ibooks, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BEASON, DOUG (See collaborations with Kevin Anderson.)
BEATTY, JEROME JR.
Bob Fulton’s Amazing Soda Pop Stretcher (Bantam Skylark, 1979.)
Bob Fulton #1.
Not seen.
Bob Fulton’s Terrific Time Machine (Bantam Skylark, 1982.)
Bob Fulton #2.
Not seen.
Maria Looney and the Cosmic Circus (Avon Camelot, 1978.)
Maria Looney #2.
Spies infiltrate a circus to steal the moon's secrets. For younger readers.
Maria Looney and the Remarkable Robot (Avon Camelot, 1979.)
Maria Looney #3.
A helpful household robot is kidnappped/stolen by a greedy corporation.
Maria Looney on the Red Planet (Avon Camelot, 1977.)
Maria Looney #1.
A young moon maiden travels to Mars to investigate a mind control device.
Matthew Looney and the Space Pirates (Addison Wesley, 1972, Collins, 1972, Avon Camelot, 1974.)
Matthew Looney #4.
Comic adventures of a moon man searching for a new home for his people on the planet Freeholy.
Matthew Looney in the Outback (Addison Wesley, 1969, Avon Camelot, 1973.)
Matthew Looney #3.
A moon man comes to Earth to negotiate a treaty and ends up in Australia.
Matthew Looney's Invasion of the Earth (Addison Wesley, 1965, Avon Camelot, 1972, Collins, 1985.)
Matthew Looney #2.
Comic adventures of moon people who visit the Earth. For younger readers.
Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth (Addison Wesley, 1961, Avon Camelot, 1972.)
Matthew Looney #1.
The story of a young moon boy who makes his first visit to Earth.
Tunnel to Yesterday, The (Avon Camelot, 1983.)
A young boy spending his summer vacation helping an archaeologist in Plymouth falls asleep and wakes up in the past. More fantasy than SF.
BEAUCLERK, HELEN (Also writes Fantasy.)
Mountain and the Tree, The (?, 1936.)
Not seen. A novel of prehistory.
BEAUJOHN, P.
Peace Under Earth (Megaw, 1938.)
In the future, the human race lives underground.
BEAUMONT, ROGER (See collaboration with R. Snowden Ficks.)
BEAUSEIGNEUR, JAMES
Acts of God (Aspect, 2004.)
Christ Clone trilogy #3.
The apocalypse nears as the clone of Christ promises a new age but organized religion and other organizations resist.
BECHER, DON
Ticket to Nowhere, A (Vega, 1966.)
Absolutely terrible story of a man kidnapped by flying saucers so that he can convey a message of warning to the President.
BECK, C.
Brigand of the Air, The (Pearson, 1920.)
Adventures in futuristic aircraft.
BECK, GREIG (Also writes Horror.)
Beneath the Dark Ice (St Martins, 2010.)
?
Dark Rising (St Martins, 2011.)
Iranian scientists inadvertently create a black hole.
Fossil, The (Severed, 2019.)
Time travelers hunt for a lost time machine.
This Green Hell (Momentum, 2012.)
A drilling project uncovers a mysterious lifeform.
To the Center of the Earth (Severed, 2020.)
A modernized version of the Jules Verne classic.
BECKER, WALT
Link (Morrow, 1998.)
An anthropological dig discovers the remains of an extraterrestrial along with an artifact that leads them to a buried alien installation in South America. There they battle the natural disasters of the long abandoned base as well as the villainy of one of their own number as they attempt to discover the secrets of human intelligence.
BECKETT, BERNARD
Genesis (Text, 2006, Houghton Mifflin, 2009.)
New Zealand survives a worldwide plague by quarantining itself.
BECKETT, CHRIS
Dark Eden
Eden #1.
Marcher (Cosmos, 2008.)
Border agent between alternate universes.
Mother of Eden (Broadway, 2015.)
Eden #2.
A failed colony tries to recover.
BECKETT, L.X.
Gamechanger (Tor, 2019.)
Planetary disaster has been averted but problems persist.
BEDFORD, JACEY
Crossways (DAW, 2015.)
Psy Tech #2.
?
Empire of Dust (DAW, 2014.)
Psy Tech #1.
?
BEDFORD, JOHN (Pseudonym of David Wiltshire, whom see.)
Triton Madness, The (Hale, 1984.)
Not seen.
BEDFORD, K.A.
Eclipse (Edge, 2006.)
A new recruit aboard an exploratory vessel becomes involved in a first contact situation.
Hydrogen Steel (Edge, 2006.)
A retired detective gets involved with a plot against androids and an artificial intelligence.
Orbital Burn (Edge, 2003.)
A humorous detective story set in the future.
Paradox Resolution (Edge, 2012.)
Spider Webb #2.
A time machine repairman has adventures in the future.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (Edge, 2008.)
Spider Webb #1.
Humorous story of a man who repairs time machines.
Hub, The (Macdonald, 1987.)
In a future where cults have proliferated, a professional deprogrammer discovers a plot to destroy the stability of society.
BEECHING, JACK
Dakota Project, The (Delacorte, 1968, Jonathan Cape, 1968,Dell, 1971.)
A secret government project is aimed at using mind control to create a secret society of people who will eventually be used to replace the public at large.
BEEDING, F.
One Sane Man, The (Hodder, 1934.)
A scientist uses weather control as a weapon to influence international policy.
BEEMISH, CRAGG
Worlds Away (Gannet, 1953.)
Not seen. The first rocket ship is kidnapped by aliens.
One and the Golden Circle, The (IUniverse, 2003.)
Experimentation with DNA allows a scientist to relive the lives of his ancestors.
BEESE, P.J. & HAMILTON, TODD CAMERON
Guardsman, The (Pageant, 1988.)
A race of lion men has served as palace guard to the emperor of a galactic civilization for countless generations. But the current ruler is insane and his madness threatens the stability of the galaxy. One of his loyal servants must decide between honoring his oath to the man or helping the empire as a whole.
BEECHCROFT, WILLIAM
Position of Ultimate Trust (Dodd, Mead, 1981, Signet, 1982.)
A secret cabal inside the US government uses a sophisticated super computer network to undermine the President in this near future political SF thriller.
What I Did on My Hypergalactic Interstellar Summer Vacation (Actionopolis, 2006.)
A kid finds himself in the middle of an interstellar war.
Amphibian, The (Foreign Language Publishing, ?, translated from the 1928 Russian edition.)
The human race encounters new lifeforms as it colonizes the oceans.
BELDEN, DAVID
Children of Arable (Signet, 1987.)
Connectivity #1.
In a genderless future which has become indifferent to emotion and in which children are born from artificial wombs, a single woman with romantic ideals sets out on an adventure that crosses the galaxy, involves a mysterious alien species, and eventually brings the concept of love back to the human race.
To Warm the Earth (Signet, 1988.)
Connectivity #2
Earth is in the grip of a new ice age, ignored by the galactic civilization to which it helped give birth. A primitive woman from the small remaining population sets off to seduce a powerful man whose assistance might reverse the death of the planet.
BELDEN, WILANNE SCHNEIDER
Mind Find (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.)
Not seen.
Mind-Hold (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.)
After the West Coast is largely destroyed by an earthquake, a young brother and sister flee eastward where they fall under the control of a religious fanatic who learns of the younger child's telekinetic abilities.
BELIAEV, ALEXANDER
Professor Dowell's Head (MacMillan, 1980, Collier, 1981, translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.)
1930's scientific adventure story involving an evil mad scientist who finds a way to keep decapitated heads alive.
BELL, CLARE (Also writes Fantasy.)
People of the Sky (Tor, 1989.)
A woman shepherding a vintage aircraft to a collector on the planet Oneway is faced with certain failure unless she becomes an honorary member of a tribe of displaced Pueblo Indians who have found a way to forge a bond with alien flying creatures native to that world.
Tomorrow's Sphinx (McElderry, 1986, Dell, 1988.)
Intelligent cheetahs take over Earth after humans have left its ecology destroyed and abandoned it for other worlds. Now some humans have returned, perhaps to forge a new link between the two species.
BELL, DAVID JACK
Condemned, The (Delirium, 2008.)
The government unleashes a zombie like plague in a city in order to get rid of undesirables.
BELL, EARL L.
Moon of Doom, The (Armchair, 2022, bound with Space-Liner X-87 by Ray Cummings. Magazine appearance 1928.)
The Earth's orbit shifts disastrously.
BELL, GORDON
Golden Troubadour, The (McGraw Hill, 1980.)
On a distant planet, the battle between good and evil is about to be played out once again. A travelling musician inspires the people to rise against those who would dominate them and restrict their freedom.
Matter of Profit, A (Harper, 2001.)
A young soldier returns home and is enlisted in an effort to discover whether or not there really is a conspiracy to assassinate the planetary emperor. His problems are complicated by his foster sister's refusal to accept an arranged marriage.
Navohar (Ace, 2000.)
Genetic alterations are made to human DNA on Earth to resist an alien invasion. The next generation develops a new, fatal disease that could wipe out the race, so scientists are dispatched to the lost colony worlds in search of unspoiled DNA. Only one colony seems to have survived, and it conceals an even deadlier secret.
BELL, M. SHAYNE
Inuit (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Short story in pamphlet form about an orbiting colony that allows the Inuit lifestyle to continue, and a young resident who must choose between tradition and progress.
Nicoji (Baen, 1991.)
Two frustrated men leave Earth for a colony world to work for an interplanetary consortium, hoping to escape the home planet's economic doldrums. But when they discover an attempt at genocide, they decide to put principles in front of economic considerations and expose the company's plans
BELL, NEAL
Gone to Be Snakes Now (Popular Library, 1974.)
A pretty terrible after the holocaust story, featuring a young adventurer who dares to leave the protected valley where his village has survived, despite the prohibitions of the local Elders. Outside, he finds a landscape filled with bizarre mutants and other dangers.
BELL, PAUL W. (See collaboration with Ralph F. Robinett.)
BELL, TED
Time Pirate, The (St Martins, 2010.)
Time travel for younger readers.
BELL, THORNTON (Pseudonym of Robert Lionel Fanthorpe, whom see. Also writes Horror.)
Space Trap (Badger, 1964, Arcadia, 1966.)
An experimental starship crashlands on a world inhabited by a mysterious alien intelligence.
BELL, WILLIAM DIXON
Moon Colony (The, Goldsmith, 1937.)
An abysmally bad Burroughs clone about an expedition to the moon and the subsequent adventures in a world inhabited by warlike insects.
BELLAIRS, JOHN (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Trolley to Yesterday, The (Dial, 1989, Bantam Skylark, 1990.)
Johnny Dixon #6 (The first 5 are fantasy, not SF).
Johnny is off to another round of adventures, this time by means of a time machine that takes him back to the Turkish invasions in the 15th Century.
BELLAMY, EDWARD (Also writes Fantasy.)
Blindman's World (Houghton Mifflin, 1898, Watt, 1898, Irvington, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Equality (Appleton, 1897, Heinemann, 1897, Greenwood, 1969, AMS, 1970, Irvington, 1979, Scholarly Press, 1987.)
Utopia #2.
Utopian novel.
Looking Backward (Ticknor, 1888, Reeves, 1889, Routledge, 1904, Judd, 1932, World Publishing, 1945, Grosset & Dunlap, ?, Modern Library, 1951, Signet, 1960, Lancer, 1968, Amsco, 1970, Hendricks, 1979, McGraw Hill, 1982, Random House, 1982, Penguin, 1988, Bedford, 1995, Dover, 1996, Buccaneer, 1996.)
Utopia #1.
One of the classic but tediously dull utopian novels, actually a prolonged narrative essay describing the author's view of a perfect future America, seen through the eyes of a man mysteriously carried forward in time from our own period.
BELLAMY, FRANCIS RICHARD
Atta (Ace, 1954, bound with The Brain Stealers by Murray Leinster. A.A. Wyn, 1933.)
A young man who detests insects is carried off by a tornado and dumped into a world where he is the size of an ant. After various adventures, he learns respect for the many legged creatures he formerly despised.
BELLETTO, RENE
Machine (Grove, 1993.)
Using a revolutionary new machine, an investigator tries to look into the mind of a serial killer, but somehow the two personalities are swapped in the process.
BELLMORE, CYNTHIA
Space Lust (Dual Novels, 1978.)
Not seen.
BELLOC, H.
But Soft - We Are Observed (Arrowsmith, 1928.)
Near future political satire.
Change in the Cabinet, A (Methuen, 1909.)
Marginal near future political satire.
Man Who Made Gold, The (Arrowsmith, 1930.)
Satire of scientists and politicians.
Mr. Clutterbuck’s Election (Nash, 1908.)
Marginal political satire.
Postmaster-General, The (Arrowsmith, 1932.)
Marginal political satire.
BENCHLEY, PETER
Beast (Random House, 1991, Hutchinson, 1991, Crest, 1992.)
The author of Jaws tries to reprise his success, this time with a gigantic squid of unprecedented size that rises from its usual hunting grounds to pluck unsupecting humans and other prey from boats and the shore. A well paced thriller that unfortunately follows the pattern of its predecessor a bit too closely.
Creature. (See White Shark.)
White Shark (Random, 1994, St Martins, 1995. St Martins, 1998, as Creature.)
A Nazi biological experiment escapes from its underwater prison and begins killing people and animals in the ocean and adjacent shore. Eventually it is revealed to be a human being equipped with gills and metal claws and teeth.
BENEDICT, A.K.
Stone House, The (BBC, 2017.)
A Class novel.
Rationalized ghost story about a personality trapped in a house.
BENFORD, GREGORY (See also Sterling Blake. See also collaborations which follow. The Killeen series is a follow up to the Ocean of Light series.)
Across the Sea of Suns (Simon & Schuster, 1983, MacDonald, 1984, Bantam, 1987, revised. Vista, ?, Aspect, 2004.)
Galactic Center #2.
Earth has successfully made contact with the flourishing alien civilization that surrounds its system. Living conditions have improved dramatically with the aid of alien technologies, but now there is evidence that at least one of those non-human species has designs on humanity's homeland.
Against Infinity (Simon & Schuster, 1983, Gollancz, 1983, Pocket, 1984, Avon, 1998.)
Human attempts to terraform Ganymede into a habitable colony have been consistently thwarted by the aleph, an ambient alien artifact that destroys anything introduced from the outside. Two humans set out on a lonely and dangerous journey of discovery in search of a solution.
Artifact (Tor, 1985, Avon, 1998, Orbit, 2001.)
Scientists discover an anomaly inside an ancient tomb, an artifact of an alien civilization that apparently visited ancient Earth. Inside that artifact is an unimaginable source of power, or destruction, and various human interest groups are all determined to unlock its secrets.
Best of Gregory Benford, The (Subterranean, 2015.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Beyond Infinity (Warner, 2004.)
The last surviving human travels to the stars to confront a malevolent alien force.
Beyond the Fall of Night (Putnam, 1990, Ace, 1991.)
Published with Arthur C. Clarke's Against the Fall of Night, to which it is the sequel. What remains of the human race is confined to an oversized domed city, never venturing outside until one rebel upsets the status quo and alerts Earth to a threat from an unimaginable intelligence from the stars.
Centrigrade 233 (Cheap Street, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Cosm (Avon, 1998, Orbit, 1998.)
A scientific experiment inadvertently results in the creation of another universe and the physicist responsible struggles to retain control of her project. Within that tiny microcosm, time passes at millions of times our own rate, so she witnesses the entire lifespan of a universe, which develops intelligent life and spawns a new universe of its own.
Deeper Than the Darkness (Ace, 1970. Rewritten as The Stars in Shroud, which see.)
Oceans of Night #3 (Revised version only.)
An alien race is attacking human colony worlds using a weapon that completely demoralizes the survivors. An outcast human stumbles across the secret of their power, and their intentions toward humanity.
Eater (Avon, 2000, Orbit, 2001.)
An artificial intelligence seven billion years old enters the solar system and demands that 100,000 people have their personalities uploaded into its structure to enhance its experiences. When humans resist, it begins to systematically wreak havoc upon the Earth.
Foundation's Fear (Harper, 1997, Orbit, 1997.)
#1 in the multi-author Foundation series based on Asimov's novels.
Hari Seldon has been chosen for high government office on Trantor, a position he is reluctant to accept because it would interfere with his research into psychohistory.
Furious Gulf (Bantam, 1994, Gollancz, 1994, Vista, ?)
Galactic Center #5..
Refugees from the destruction of human civilization face new dangers when mutinous crew members object to their captain's quest to find the heart of the galaxy. At the same time, robot killer ships are pursuing them, hoping to exterminate the last vestiges of the species.
Great Sky River (Bantam, 1987, Gollancz, 1988, Vista, ?, Aspect, 2004.)
Galactic Center #3.
In the far future, humanity as we know it seems headed for extinction, dominated by alien intelligences totally beyond our comprehension. A handful of ordinary humans struggles against artificial warriors who can strip the secrets from their very minds.
Immersion and Other Short Novels (Five Star, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
In Alien Flesh (Tor, 1986, Gollancz, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
In the Ocean of Night (Dial Press, 1977, Dell, 1978, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978, Pocket, 1984, Vista, ?, Aspect, 2004.)
Galactic Center #1.
An abandoned alien starship concealed in a comet is discovered by humans who use its technology to transform the Earth. Years later, signals arrive heralding the visit of the first alien species to approach the human race. But there are powers back on the Earth who are inclined to shoot first and discuss the issue later.
Jupiter Project (Nelson, 1975. Revised - Berkley, 1980, Sphere, 1982, Tor, 1984, Avon, 1998.)
The orbital research station around Jupiter is about to be closed down, and at least one of its long term residents isn't happy. To forestall the inevitable, he steals a small ship and sets out to discover Jovian life, instead uncovering the remnants of a base built by visitors from the stars.
Martian Race, The (Warner, 1999.)
A privately financed expedition is the first to reach Mars, closely followed by a Chinese-European joint effort. The latter crew has insufficient fuel to return, unless they commandeer that belonging to the Americans.
Matter's End (Bantam, 1995, Gollancz, 1996, Vista, 1997.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Of Space/Time and the River (Cheap Street, 1985.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sailing Bright Eternity (Bantam, 1995, Easton, 1995, Vista, 1996, Aspect, 2005.)
Galactic Center #6.
The final confrontation between the last surviving humans and the mechanical creatures intent upon destroying them takes place at the heart of the galaxy, in an area where the laws of time and space themselves have been altered.
Stars in Shroud, The (Putnam, 1978, Berkley, 1979, Gollancz, 1979, Tor, 1984. A revision of Deeper Than the Darkness, which see.)
Sunborn, The (Aspect, 2005.)
Two separate expeditions to the outer reaches of the solar system must work together against a common danger.
Tides of Light (Bantam, 1989, Gollancz, 1989, Vista, ?)
Galactic Center #4.
Overwhelmed by the power of the super intelligence that dominates the galaxy, the vestiges of the human race flee to the outskirts where they encounter lifeforms the size of entire worlds, religious fanatics, and natural wonders.
Timescape (Simon & Schuster, 1980, Gollancz, 1980, Pocket, 1981, Vista, 1996, Millennium 2000.)
In the near future, scientists struggle to save a dying ecosystem by sending a message to the past. In the 1960's, another team of researchers receives the message, but finds the world skeptical of its authenticity, or relevance.
Time's Rub (Cheap Street, 1984.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Worlds Vast and Various (Avon, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BENFORD, GREGORY & BRIN, DAVID
Heart of the Comet (Bantam, 1986, Orbit, 1997.)
A crack team of scientists and technicians is off to explore a new comet that has entered our solar system, and to escape even if only briefly the troubles that plague the homeworld. Topnotch hard science from two of the most respected writers in the field.
BENFORD, GREGORY & CARTER, PAUL A.
Iceborn (Tor, 1989, bound with The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson.)
Novelet about the discovery of life on Pluto.
BENFORD, GREGORY & EKLUND, GORDON
Find the Changeling (Dell, 1980, Sphere, 1983.)
There's an alien loose on the planet Alvea, an alien who is particularly hard to capture because it can change its body readily into that of an inanimate object or a human being. Earth sends two agents to hunt the alien down, but they have to be particularly careful since the Alvean population at large isn't fond of Earth either.
If the Stars Are Gods (Putnam, 1977, Berkley, 1978, Gollancz, 1978, Ace, 1981, Bantam, 1989.)
A scientist searches the solar system and beyond for the secrets of life. Alien emissaries have asked for a delegate help bridge the communication gap between the two species and he volunteers, driven by an indomitable urge to know.
BENFORD, GREGORY & MARTIN, MARK O.
Darker Geometry, A (Baen, 1996.)
An episodic fix-up novel of shorter pieces from the Man-Kzin War anthology series, about the battles between the human race and an aggressive feline race.
BENFORD, GREGORY & NIVEN, LARRY
Bowl of Heaven (Tor, 2012.)
Bowl World #1.
A starship encounters an immense bowl shaped habitat in space.
Shipstar (Tor, 2014.)
Bowl World #2.
Further revelations about an immense artifact in space.
BENFORD, GREGORY & ROTSLER, WILLIAM
Shiva Descending (Avon, 1980, Sphere, 1980.)
A gigantic meteor is racing toward Earth and the end of the world is clearly imminent. Scientists and governments rush to launch space missions with nuclear weapons to destroy or at least alter the course of the onrushing disaster, but at least one among their number is insane and determined to see the world punished for its sins.
BENFORD, TIMOTHY R. (Also writes Horror.)
Hitler's Daughter (?, 1983, Pinnacle, 1989.)
Near future political thriller about neo-Nazis threatening to seize control of the US under the leadership of Hitler's daughter, who may be any one of three prominent women.
BENJAMIN, JACOB
Flight of the Sandpiper (Laura, 1979.)
Fairly dull story of sabotage aboard a spaceship, causing it to crash on an uninhabited planet where the crew survives long enough to make repairs and escape.
BENNETT, A.G.
Demigods, The (Jarrolds, 1939.)
Giant intelligent ants battle humans for control of the planet.
BENNETT, CHERIE & GOTTESFELD, JEFF (Bennett also writes Fantasy.)
Flight (Little, Brown, 2002.)
A Smallville novel.
Clark must solve the mystery of a series of robberies while dealing with a strange girl with an unusual secret.
Greed (Little, Brown, 2003.)
A Smallville novel.
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See No Evil (Little, Brown, 2002.)
A Smallville novel.
Young Clark Kent battles a mysterious force affecting members of the cast of a school play.
Sparks (Little, Brown, 2004.)
A Smallville novel.
A meteor makes a young woman irresistible.
Speed (Little, Brown, 2003.)
A Smallville novel.
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BENNETT, CHRISTOPHER L.
Buried Age, The (Pocket, 2007.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel.
Picard's life immediately before becoming captain of the Enterprise.
Captain's Oath, The (Gallery, 2019.)
A Star Trek novel.
Kirk's adventures before he commanded the Enterprise.
Choice of Futures, A (Pocket, 2013.)
A Star Trek Enterprise novel.
Hostile aliens attack in the early days of the Federation.
Drowned in Thunder (Pocket, 2007.)
A Spiderman novel.
Killer robots make life difficult for Spidey.
Ex Machina (Pocket, 2005.)
A Star Trek novel.
A colony confuses artificial intelligences with the gods.
Face of the Unknown, The (Pocket, 2017.)
A Star Trek novel.
An aggressive new race threatens the Federation.
Forgotten History (Pocket, 2012.)
A Star Trek novel.
Investigators find a ship from an alternate reality.
Greater Than the Sum (Pocket, 2008.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel.
The Borg are on the verge of discovering a new technology.
Live by the Code (Pocket, 2016.)
A Star Trek Enterprise novel.
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Only Superhuman (Tor, 2012.)
Intrigue in the asteroid belt.
Over a Torrent Sea (Pocket, 2009.)
A Star Trek Titan novel.
Part of an exploratory party is cut off on a water world.
Patterns of Interference (Pocket, 2017.)
A Star Trek Enterprise novel.
Political intrigue within early Starfleet.
Struggle Within, The (Pocket, 2011.)
A Star Trek Typhon Pact novel.
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Tower of Babel (Pocket, 2014.)
A Star Trek Enterprise novel.
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Uncertain Logic (Pocket, 2015.)
A Star Trek Enterprise novel.
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Watchers on the Walls (Pocket Star, 2006.)
An X-Men novel.
The mutants have to save some alien refugees.
Watching the Clock (Pocket, 2011.)
A Star Trek novel.
A special division of Starfleet deals with attempts to change history.
BENNETT, GARY
Star Sailors, The (St Martins, 1980.)
An alien civilization causes turmoil in an interstellar civilization.
This Creeping Evil (Hutchinson, 1950, Arrow, 1963.)
Old fashioned but implausible story of a monster with a mile long tentacle.
BENNETT, JANICE (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Amethyst Moon (Pinnacle, 1995.)
A woman finds true love during an uprising on a far world. A romance novel.
BENNETT, JEFF
Cosmic Rape (Bee-Line, 1974.)
Not seen.
BENNET, ROBERT A.
Thyra, A Romance of the Polar Pit (Holt, 1901, IndoEuropean, 2018.)
Lost race novel involving Vikings and dinosaurs at the North Pole.
BENNETT, MARCIA J.
Beyond the Draak's Teeth (Del Rey, 1986.)
Ni-Lach #3.
A human expedition on an alien world is endangered by giant serpents which dwell in the swamps. The indigent race controls these creatures through their extraordinary mental powers, so the expedition secures the unwilling services of an alien who resents human domination, and whose best interests might require their search to go unrewarded.
Seeking the Dream Brother (Del Rey, 1989.)
Ni-Lach #4.
One of the last of the Ni-Lach race sets out on a fresh adventure when mental visions warn of a new species active on the planet. The setting is SF but the treatment of this quest adventure has the feel of modern fantasy.
Shadow Singer (Del Rey, 1984.)
Ni-Lach #2.
A supposedly extinct race still survives despite persecution by human bounty hunters. One Ni-Lach and a half breed human are chased around while the latter tries to learn to use her mental powers to displace herself in time.
Where the Ni-Lach (Del Rey, 1983.)
Ni-Lach #1.
An other worlds adventure with the feel of fantasy. The Ni-Lach are an alien race supposedly wiped out by human interlopers on their world, although rumors of their continued existence, as well as of great treasures, persists. A group of disreputable fortune hunters chases a boy with strange powers to foresee the future.
Yaril's Children (Del Rey, 1988.)
Two breeds of human exist on the same planet, one conventional, the other a mutant form with mysterious mental powers. A young mutant's hopes to lead an ordinary life are disrupted when he discovers a plot to stir up animosity between the two communities.
BENNETT, MARGO
Long Way Back, The (Bodley Head, 1954.)
A novel of a future in which an expedition from Africa explores the war ravaged ruins of England.
BENNETT, RICHARD (See collaboration with Granville Hicks.)
BENNI, STEFANO
Terra! (Pantheon, 1985, translated from the Italian by Annapaola Cancogni. Italian edition, 1983.)
Farcical satire set in a post war Earth that has grown decadent and more competitive than ever. Rival groups set out to find the source of mysterious signals from outer space.
BENOIT, HENDRA (Pseudonym of Betty Anne Crawford, whom see.)
Hendra's Book (Scholastic, 1985.)
Not seen.
BENOIT, PIERRE
Atlantida (Ace, 1964, Armchair, 2015, translated by Mary C. Tongue & Mary Ross. Duffield, 1920, Hutchinson, 1920, Bison, 2005, as The Queen of Atlantis.)
An adventurer sets out to discover the lost continent of Atlantis, succeeds, falls in love with its queen, learns the secrets of its superscience, and survives to tell his story. Filmed as Siren of Atlantis.
Queen of Atlantis, The (See Atlantida.)
BENSEN, DONALD R.
And Having Writ… (Bobbs-Merrill, 1978, Ace, 1979.)
Aliens about to crash on Earth shift to an alternate reality where their ship survives. They then set about altering the course of human history to develop the technology required to fix their ship, causing Thomas Edison to be elected President along with a host of other changes.
BENSON, ANN
Plague Tales, The (Delacorte, 1997, Dell, 1998.)
The bubonic plague reappears early in the next century, and quickly spreads throughout the world in a story which alternates with scenes set during the 14th Century outbreak of the same disease.
BENSON, EDWIN
World He Never Made, A (Armchair, 2018, bound with The Man the Tech-Men Made by Fox B. Holden. Magazine appearance 1951.)
One man must head off a planned invasion of Earth.
BENSON, ROBERT HUGH (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Dawn Of It All, The (Hutchinson, 1911, Herder, 1911.)
The Catholic Church benevolently rules most of the world in a novel that plays with Utopian themes without falling into the usual formula.
Lord of the World (Pitman, 1907, Dodd Mead, 1908, Wildside, 2002.)
Future catastrophe novel with civilization grinding to a stop for the ultimate battle between good and evil. God intervenes in the final chapters because Catholicism survives the drift toward atheism.
BENTLEY, C.F. (See also Irene Radford.)
Enigma (DAW, 2009.)
Harmony #2.
A lost colony re-establishes relations with the human empire.
Harmony (DAW, 2008.)
Harmony #1.
Humans try to negotiate a way out of an interstellar crisis.
BENTLEY, JOHN
Where Are the Russians? (Doubleday, 1967, Curtis, 1968.)
The first American expedition to the moon is disrupted by the tension between two members of the crew and concern that a rival Russian crew may be close by.
BENTLEY, N.K.
Drake’s Mantle (Jarrolds, 1928.)
Future war between England and Russia.
BENTLEY, NORMAN
Armada of the Air (Lothrop, Lee, 1937.)
Marginal future war novel.
BENTLEY, PETER (Pseudonym of Alan Moon.)
Destined to Survive (Hale, 1977.)
Not seen.
BENTLEY, WILLIAM R.
Girl in the Plywood Box, The (Brandon, 1976.)
Marginal softcore pornography about a secret invasion to undermine the US government.
BERARD, SYLVIE
Of Wind and Sand (Edge, 2008, translated by Sheryl Curtis.)
Exploration of space runs into hostile aliens.
BERESFORD, J.D. (See also collaboration which follows. Also writes Fantasy.)
Common Enemy, A (Hutchinson, 1941.)
A natural disaster causes the peoples of Europe to forget their differences and unite in a new political entity.
Goslings, The (Heinemann, 1913, Hilo, 2013. Macauley, 1913 as A World of Women.)
A plague devastates London and leaves women in the majority.
Hampdenshire Wonder, The (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911, Penguin, 1937; Arno, ?, Garland, 1975. Doran, 1917, Bison, 2002, as The Wonder.)
Not seen. A child with superior intellect is born to an ordinary couple.
Revolution (Putnam, 1921, Collins, 1921.)
A cautionary novel predicting a revolution against the status quo after the economic situation in Britain begins to deteriorate.
What Dreams May Come (Hutchinson, 1941.)
An evolved human race finally achieves Utopia.
Wonder, The. (See The Hampdenshire Wonder.)
World of Women, A. (See The Goslings.)
BERESFORD, J.D. & WYNNE-TYSON, E.
Riddle of the Tower, The (Hutchinson, 1944.)
A time traveler visits various future eras.
BERESFORD, L. (See also Pan.)
Second Rising, The (Hurst & Blackett, 1910.)
India revolts against British rule.
Fantocine (Hale, 1981.)
Not seen.
BERGAMINI, DAVID
Venus Development (Popular Library, 1976.)
Scientifically illiterate and preposterous story of a group of scientists who decide to secretly launch a project to move Venus into a better orbit to provide a home for all those seeking to escape the oppressiveness of government and industry.
BERGER, THOMAS (Also writes Fantasy.)
Being Invisible (Little Brown, 1987, Methuen, 1988, Penguin, 1988, GK Hall, 1988.)
A man discovers he has the power to make things, including himself, invisible.
Changing the Past (Little Brown, 1989, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990.)
A man develops the ability to examine his life if he had made different choices, and discovers that in many instances he escaped peril.
Nowhere (Delacorte, 1985, Methuen, 1986, Delta, 1986, Little Brown, 1987.)
Satirical spoof of Utopian novels, among other things, with an American playwright coerced into being a spy in a mythical European nation that has very strange and exaggerated attitudes toward life.
Regiment of Women (Simon & Schuster, 1973, Methuen, 1974, Popular Library, ?, Little, Brown, 1991.)
A satire on gender roles set in the future where everything is reversed. Women wear paste-on beards and recalcitrant men are castrated. Implausible as described, although that's largely irrelevant to the author's purpose.
Vital Parts (Signet, 1970, Richard Baron, 1970, Scribners, 1970, Dutton, 1970, Delacorte, 1982, Little, Brown, 1990.)
Near future social satire involving sex, drugs, rock music, revolutionary rhetoric, fads, artificial creatures, and broad humor.
BERGIN, PAUL A.
Xuan and the Girl from the Other Side (Tower, 1969.)
Dismally pedantic story about two opposing forces, one faceless and repressive, the other sexy and humane, struggling for control of a city on another world. The hero's mission to rescue an imprisoned scientist throws him into a love affair with an agent from the other side.
BERK, HOWARD
Sun Grows Cold, The (Delacorte, 1971, Dell, 1972.)
The US government has become a repressive dictatorship in the near future. The brainwashed protagonist falls in love with a woman supposed to be nothing more than a sex toy, and the two become fugitives from the authorities.
BERLINER, JANET (See also collaboration with Kevin Anderson, F. Paul Wilson, and Matthew J. Costello. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
BERLYN, MICHAEL (See also Mark Sonders.)
Crystal Phoenix (Bantam, 1980.)
Technology has enabled people to die with impunity, since their personalities can be revived in a new body if they've paid the necessary fees. In that context, violent death has become the latest fad.
Eternal Enemy, The (Morrow, 1990.)
An expedition to a remote planet almost results in the genocide of an entire race when the protagonist concludes that the inhabitants are a threat to other worlds.
Integrated Man, The (Bantam, 1980.)
A vengeful man uses high tech to get revenge, programming his hatred into chips which are implanted in other bodies and subsequently control the recipients' actions.
Time Capsule (Putnam, 1987.)
A musician is one of the survivors of a nuclear attack that leaves America in ruins.
BERMAN, RUTH (See collaboration with Joan Marie Verba.)
BERNA, PAUL
Continent in the Sky (Bodley Head, 1959.)
Michael Jousse #2.
Not seen.
Threshold of the Stars (Bodley Head, 1958, Black Knight, 1967, translated from the French by John Buchanan-Brown. Original French version, 1954.)
Michael Jousse #1.
Near future young adult story about two boys living at a French research station where the first flight to the moon is being planned. They get involved with spies and saboteurs.
BERNARD, DAVID VALENTINE
Intimate Relations with Strangers (Strebor, 2007.)
In a terrorist dominated future, a nameless man becomes obsessed with a possibly supernatural woman.
BERNARD, J.
New Race of Devils, The (Anglo-Eastern, 1921.)
An experiment in genetic engineering goes awry.
BERNARD, JOEL
Thinking Machine Affair, The (Ace, 1969.)
A Man from U.N.C.L.E. novel.
A scientist develops a thought control device.
BERNARD, RAFE
Army of the Undead (Pyramid, 1967. Corgi, 1967, as The Halo Highway.)
The Invaders #3, a multi-author series - #1 in the British paperback series.
Based on the television series, the story of one man who knows of a secret alien invasion of Earth. On the one hand, the authorities refuse to believe him; on the other, the invaders are determined to eliminate him before he can put their plans at risk.
Halo Highway, The (See Army of the Undead.)
Wheel in the Sky, The (Ward Lock, 1954.)
Not seen. Concerns a murder committed during the construction of a space station.
BERNSOHN, AL
Fabulous Sex Weed, The (Nite Time, 1964.)
Not seen.
BERNSTEIN, DAVID
Toxic Behemoth (Severed, 2014.)
A mutated sea creature has human memories.
BERRIE, L.W.
Strike at the Heart (Xlibris, 2005.)
A time gate in the jungle.
BERRY, BRYAN (See also Rolf Garner.)
Aftermath (Authentic, 1952.)
Not seen.
And the Stars Remain (Panther, 1952, Atlas, 1956. Armchair, 2015, bound with All Heroes Are Hated by Milton Lesser.)
Humans and Martians cooperate to reach the stars and discover a super intelligence waiting for them. The clear message is that we are not ready for the stars.
Born in Captivity (Hamilton, 1952. Reprinted as World Held Captive.)
Not seen. Intrigue involving a nuclear war and the creation of robots.
Dread Visitor (Panther, 1952.)
An alien device that can control minds is transported through time to the present when explorers discover Atlantis, just in time to thwart an alien attack.
From What Far Star? (Panther, 1953.)
Not seen. Alien invaders menace Earth.
Return to Earth (Hamilton, 1951. Armchair, 2012, bound with Old Spacemen Never Die! by John Jakes.)
Not seen. Following a nuclear war and the general collapse of civilization, Venusian colonists discover the knowledge that enables them to return to Earth.
Venom Seekers, The (Panther, 1953.)
A time traveler searches for a superweapon lost in the past.
World Held Captive (See Born in Captivity.)
BERRY, D. BRUCE (See collaboration with Andrew J. Offutt.)
BERRY, JAMES R. (Also writes Fantasy.)
Dar Tellum: Stranger from a Distant Planet (Walker, 1973, Scholastic, 1974.)
Very short tale of a young boy who contacts his alien friend to help Earth avoid the melting of its ice caps.
Galactic Invaders, The (Laser, 1976.)
Aliens from outside the galaxy are plotting an invasion on an enormous scale. To pave the way, they are eliminating key humans, including the protagonist, who survives an assassination attempt and learns that the invaders have human collaborators.
Quas Starbrite (Bantam, 1981.)
Almost the exact same plot as the same author's The Galactic Invaders, with the names and some other details changed. But much better written.
BERRY, JEANINE (See collaboration with Darrell Bain.)
BERRY, STEPHEN AMES
AI War, The (Tor, 1987.)
Biofab War #3.
The insectoid aliens from another dimension are about to attack again, and the authorities are reluctant to respond to the threat until the commander of a space battleship travels to an abandoned part of the galaxy to gain possession of a super weapon.
Battle for Terra Two (Tor, 1986.)
Biofab War #2.
Although alien invaders from an alternate universe have been defeated, a number of the insectoid monsters have fled into a third universe where they plan a new attack. The man who pursues them finds himself on an Earth ruled by the Fourth Reich.
Biofab War, The (Ace, 1984.)
Biofab War #1.
Three humans are kidnapped by aliens using a matter transmitter to convey them to an alternate Earth conquered by alien invaders who can alter their bodies to impersonate humans.
Final Assault (Tor, 1988.)
Biofab War #4.
Despite his heroic efforts, a space captain and his crew are imprisoned for seeking superweapons in a forbidden sector of the galaxy. Meanwhile, alien invaders are planning the conquest of the entire universe. Routine space opera series.
Chance Fortune and the Outlaws (Tor, 2006.)
Chance Fortune #1.
A boy with no superpowers fakes them to get into a training school for superheroes.
Chance Fortune in the Shadow Zone (Starscape, 2008.)
Chance Fortune #2.
Superheroes are trapped in an alternate world.
Alfred Bester Is Alive and Well and Living in Winterset, Iowa (Wormhole, 2004.)
Short story in pamphlet form.
BERTIN, JACK
Brood of Helios (Arcadia, 1966.)
Not seen. Time travel to the very far future.
Interplanetary Adventurers, The (Lenox Hill, 1970.)
Probably written in whole or in part by Peter Germanos. Americans and Soviets land on Mars and begin to build domed cities, which attracts the attention of Martians living underneath the polar ice caps. The author confuses planets with comets and makes other comical errors.
Pyramids from Space, The (Lenox Hill, 1970, MacFadden, 1971, Manor, 1977. Probably written in whole or in part by Peter Germanos.)
Enigmatic pyramids begin to appear on Earth, devices by which an alien invader gathers information. They quietly capture human specimens and spirit them away to another world where people from different periods of history are set to interact.
BESANT, WALTER (Also writes Fantasy.)
Inner House, The (J.W. Arrowsmith, 1888, Greenhill, 1986.)
Science discovers a cure for most diseases and society moves toward utopia. Or does it? As conformity becomes the rule, a few dissenters question the way things are going, progressing to outright rebellion.
Revolt of Man, The (Blackwood, 1882, published anonymously.)
Satire in which women rule the world until the mess gets so bad that men have to take over.
BESHER, ALEXANDER
Chi (Orbit, 1999.)
Mir #3.
Criminals are channeling psychic energy from enslaved humans and selling it on the black market to those willing to pay. A man secretly a member of a mutated cast destined to supplant humanity offers to sell what amounts to immortality.
Hanging Butoh (Orbit, 2000.)
Johnny Hara #1.
First in a hard boiled futuristic detective series. All illnesses can be cured by exposure to a particular form of radiation, but to receive the treatment you have to win the right in a citywide casino, and the games aren’t always entirely fair.
Mir (Orbit, 1997, Simon & Schuster, 1998, Orbit, 1998.)
Mir #1.
A very strange virtual reality future where cyber personalities can have programmed tattoos attached to them, although the tattoos often carry hidden instructions. An investigator explores this world in pursuit of a particularly dangerous program and its maker.
Rim (HarperCollins, 1994, Orbit, 1995.)
Mir #2.
Virtual reality has become one of the most important business in the world, and rival corporations compete for control of the most popular cybercity. At the same time, the change in the preoccupations of the human mind seems to be altering reality, as Tokyo begins to phase in and out of existence.
BES SHAHAR, ELUKI (Writes fantasy as Rosemary Edghill.)
Archangel Blues (DAW, 1993.)
Hellflower #3.
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Darktraders (DAW, 1992.)
Hellflower #2.
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Hellflower (DAW, 1991.)
Hellflower #1.
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Smoke and Mirrors (Boulevard, 1997.)
An X-Men novel.
It appears that the government is planning to eliminate all mutant powers, whether used for good or ill, but the X-Men discover that the real motivating force is an old enemy who plans to neutralize them before making his own bid for power.
BEST, DAVID (Pseudonym of Don Donaldson.)
Judas Virus, The (Berkley, 2003.)
Marginal medical thriller about an experimental implant and a secret government conspiracy.
BEST, H.
Twenty-Fifth Hour, The (Jonathan Cape, 1940.)
Adventures in a devastated future postwar world.
BESTER, ALFRED (Also writes Fantasy.)
Alfred Bester Omnibus, An (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1967.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Computer Connection, The (Berkley, 1975. Magazine version 1975 under the title The Indian Giver. Eyre Methuen, 1975, as Extro.)
A group of immortals includes an individual who gains control of Extro, the computer that controls the Earth, whose purpose is to create conditions in which the human race can continue to evolve. But the computer intelligence seizes control of the immortal instead, and the balance of the story consists of efforts by the rest of the immortals to bring it back under control.
Dark Side of the Earth, The (Signet, 1964, Pan, 1969.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Deceivers, The (Wallaby, 1981, Tor, 1982, Severn House, 1984, Ibooks, 2000.)
Rogue Winter sets off to search the solar system for his kidnapped lover, whose is in the clutches of a monomaniac searching for a fabulous power source on Triton. A spoof of space opera that never quite gets going.
Demolished Man The (Shasta, 1953, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1953, Signet, 1954, Panther, 1959, Penguin, 1967, Lightyear, 1993, Easton, ?, Vintage, 1996, Millennium, 1999.)
One of the acknowledged masterpieces in the field. Four centuries from now, the police use telepaths and successful crimes are impossible to conceal. A powerful businessman commits murder and concocts a clever ploy to escape punishment.
Extro (See The Computer Connection.)
Golem 100 (Simon & Schuster, 1980, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980, Pocket, 1981.)
A handful of women use cybernetic techniques to update a supernatural ritual and tap into unsuspected mental powers, actually creating a demon. Three talented geniuses set out to track the monster down and discover they've taken on a larger task than they expected.
Light Fantastic, The (Berkley, 1976, Gollancz, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Redemolished (Ibooks, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Starburst (Signet, 1958, Sphere, 1968.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Star Light, Star Bright (Berkley, 1976, Gollancz, 1978.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Starlight (Doubleday, 1976, Berkley, 1977, Buccaneer, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Stars My Destination, The (Signet, 1957, Panther, 1959, Bantam, 1970, Gregg, 1975, Lightyear, 1997, Millennium, 1999. Gollancz, 2001. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1956, Penguin, 1967, Franklin Watts, 1987, Vintage, 1996.As Tiger! Tiger!)
Gully Foyle is a space pilot left to die in a derelect spaceship. His latent ability to teleport to another place manifests itself, and after recovering he sets out to track down the people responsible for condemning him to death. His mission of revenge ultimately ends in his transformation.
Tiger! Tiger! (See The Stars My Destination.)
Virtual Unrealities (Vintage, 1997.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BETANCOURT, JOHN GREGORY (See also Jeremy Kingston and Victor Appleton, collaboration which follows, and collaboration with Arthur Byron Cover and Tim Sullivan as Thomas Shadwell. Also writes Fantasy.)
Dragons of Komako, The (Ace, 1989.)
#4 in the multi-author Dr. Bones series.
An interstellar archaeologist travels to a remote planet to protect a recent discovery of alien artifacts. There he runs into trouble from the local miners, who don't wish to have their operation disrupted by scientists. And a third party is sabotaging both sides.
Heart of the Warrior (Pocket, 1996.)
A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel.
Worf and Kira are on a secret mission inside the Dominion to discover the source of an addictive drug while a peace conference is in session aboard the station. Odo works against his own people to rescue his friends.
Incident at Arbuk (Pocket, 1995.)
A Star Trek: Voyager novel.
The Voyager crew stumbles across a system where a superweapon has become the focus of attention for a number of alien races.
Infection (Pocket, 1999.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation novel.
The Enterprise travels to a planet devastated by plague, and her crew proves equally vulnerable.
Johnny Zed (Questar, 1988, Wildside, 2002.)
Animen #1.
As the US declines into an economic wasteland dominated by drugs and crime, an increasingly repressive federal government is opposed by rebels including genetically engineered crossbreeds of human and animal, and others with artificially enhanced bodies.
Playing in Wonderland (Wildside, ?)
Not seen.
Rememory (Questar, 1990, Wildside, 2002.)
Animen #2.
Genetically altered human/animal hybrids prowl a super-city of the future. Two criminals stumble across a new device, a sensory recorder so potentially valuable and dangerous that their former allies suddenly become their enemies.
Starskimmer (TSR, 1986.)
A star captain mining the coronas of stars runs into a mysterious menace when an unseen power seeks to control the minds of his crew. A local alien race is secretly trying to protect their turf.
BETANCOURT, JOHN GREGORY & COX, GREG
Devil in the Sky (Pocket, 1995.)
A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel.
A group of silicon based hortas have been brought to Bajor to help that planet rejuvenate its mining industry. Unfortunately, the mother horta is kidnapped by Cardassians, and her hatchlings will run amok unless she can be rescued in time.
BETHANCOURT, T. ERNESTO (Also writes Fantasy.)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (adaptation) (Fearon, 1985.)
Rewritten for those with reading disabilities.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (adaptation) (Fearon, 1986.)
Rewritten for those with reading disabilities.
Instruments of Darkness (Holiday House, 1977.)
Odin #2.
A young man with psi powers battles a religious fanatic who uses mind control techniques..
Mortal Instruments, The (Holiday House, 1977, Bantam, 1979.)
Odin #1.
A teenager recovers from a coma with enhanced mental powers that allow him to influence the computer that controls America's nuclear weapons. He descends into paranoid delusions, notwithstanding the fact that he has real enemies.
Time Machine, The by H. G. Wells (adaptation) (Fearon, 1986.)
Rewritten for those with reading disabilities.
Tomorrow Connection, The (Holiday House, 1984.)
Not seen.
Tune in Yesterday (Holiday House, 1978, Bantam, 1981.)
Not seen.
BETHKE, BRUCE
Headcrash (Warner, 1995, Orbit, 1995.)
A virtual reality expert with an iconoclastic nature gets into trouble in the world of near future computer networking after losing his job. With lots of experimental text manipulation.
Maverick (Ace, 1990.)
#5 in the multi-author Isaac Asimov's Robot City series.
A human whose neurological system is tied into an elaborate computer network controls several robotic series. But the well intentioned but ill conceived efforts of his mother cause a breakdown in the operating system that may trigger a war between the human race and aliens.
BETTS, MATT
Edge of All Worlds, The (ERB, 2020.)
Further adventures on the planet Venus as created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
BEUKES, LAUREN (Also writes Fantasy.)
Moxyland (Jacana, 2008, Angry Robot, 2010.)
A cyberpunk adventure.
BEVERLEY, B.
Space Raiders, The (Allan, 1936.)
Earth organizes defenses against attackers from outer space.
BEVIS, H.U.
Alien Abductors, The (Lenox Hill, 1972.)
A race of aliens starts kidnapping humans as a source of food.
Space Stadium (Lenox Hill, 1970.)
Not seen.
Star Rovers, The (Lenox Hill, 1970.)
Trivial story of a robot dominated future where two young men prove that star travel and exploration still must be performed by human beings.
Time Winder, The (Lenox Hill, 1970.)
Not seen. Time travel is used to escape killer robots.
To Luna With Love (Lenox Hill, 1971.)
Implausible story of an expedition to colonize the moon with children in order to escape the doom facing an overpopulated Earth.
BEYER, KIRSTEN (Also writes Horror.)
Architects of Infinity (Pocket, 2018.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
A strange planet may be key to a new technology.
Atonement (Pocket, 2015.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
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Children of the Storm (Pocket, 2011.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
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Eternal Tide, The (Pocket, 2012.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
A secretive planet conceals genetic engineering.
Full Circle (Pocket, 2009.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
One starship crew struggles with conflicting problems.
Pocket Full of Lies, A (Pocket, 2016.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
A Federation ship stumbles into an interplanetary war.
Protectors (Pocket, 2014.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
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Unworthy (Pocket, 2009.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
A ship investigates to see if the Borg are really gone for good.
BEYER, WILLIAM GRAY
Minions of Mars (Altus, 2019. Magazine appearance in 1940.)
Minions #2.
Further adventures in a post collapse future Earth.
Minions of the Moon (Gnome, 1950, Altus, 2017. Magazine appearance in 1939.)
Minions #1.
A man travels to a barbaric far future where he is befriended by a disembodied intelligence that lives on the moon.
BEYNON, JOHN (Pseudonym of John Wyndham, whom see.)
Exiles on Asperus (Coronet, 1979. Severn House, 1979, as by John Wyndham.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Planet Plane (Newnes, 1936.)
The first trip to Mars.
Sleepers of Mars (Coronet, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Wanderers of Time (Coronet, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BICK, ILSA J.
Blood Avatar (Roc, 2005.)
A Mechwarrior novel.
A series of mysterious murders are eventually solved by a detective team.
Daughter of the Dragon (Roc, 2005.)
A Mechwarrior novel.
A woman from a disgraced family seeks to interfere in a power struggle.
Dragon Rising (Roc, 2007.)
A Mechwarrior novel.
A group of independent worlds must be subdued.
Well of Souls (Pocket, 2003.)
A Star Trek Lost Era novel.
A Federation ship involved with the discovery of an ancient Cardassian civilization runs into trouble with a crime syndicate.
BICKERTON, DEREK
King of the Sea (Random House, 1979, Berkley, 1981.)
A young scientist learns to communicate with dolphins and decides to take their side and declare war on the human race.
BICKHAM, JACK (See also Jeff Clinton.)
Ariel (St Martins, 1984, Tor, 1985.)
Not seen.
Day Seven (Tor, 1988.)
The discovery of an operating alien beacon in the solar system spurs a race to Mars, but religious fundamentalists and industrial agents on Earth team up to sabotage all efforts, for reasons of their own.
Regensburg Legacy, The (Doubleday, 1980, Tor, 1985.)
Near future thriller about the discovery of a Nazi superweapon in Germany, and the battle by US and Soviet agents to secure it for their respective countries.
BIDMEAD, CHRISTOPHER H.
Castrovalva (Target, 1983, from the 1982 script by the author.)
Doctor Who.
A disoriented Doctor goes to the peaceful world of Castrovalva to recover from his recent regeneration. Unfortunately his old enemy the Master follows him.
Frontios (Target, 1984, from the 1984 script by the author.)
Doctor Who.
Earth has been destroyed and some of its survivors have found refuge on the planet Frontios. The Doctor and his companions crashland on the same world just as it is about to make a pivotal decision about its future development.
Logopolis (Target, 1982, from the 1981 script by the author.)
Doctor Who.
The Master pursues the Doctor to another peaceful world, where the latter hopes to repair his malfunctioning TARDIS. But the Master's machinations threaten to destroy the entire universe this time, a situation even he finds appalling.
BIEMILLER, CARL L.
Escape from the Crater (Doubleday, 1974.)
Hydronauts #2.
The crew of a submarine must secure a peace between land dwellers and those who have taken refuge under the sea.
Follow the Whales (Doubleday, 1973.)
Hydronauts #3.
Genetically enhanced people capable of living in the ocean have been acting strangely. An investigation is launched to determine whether or not they should be wiped out.
Hydronaut Adventures, The (Doubleday, 1981.)
Omnibus of the Hydronauts series.
Hydronauts, The ( Doubleday, 1970.)
Hydronauts #1
Following a nuclear war, the surviving members of the human race live in underwater cities and communicate with the dolphins. And suspended animation allows people to remain dormant while generations pass.
Magic Ball from Mars, The (Morrow, 1953.)
Not seen.
BIGGLE, LLOYD JR. (See also collaboration with T.L. Sherred.)
All the Colors of Darkness (Doubleday, 1963, Dobson, 1964, Paperback Library, 1965, Penguin, 1966, New English Library, ?, Bart, 1988, Wildside, 2000.)
Jan Darzek #1.
An Earthman is kidnapped to the moon by five aliens who wish to investigate the "color" of the human soul. If they don't like the answer, the human race will be exterminated.
Angry Espers, The (Ace, 1961, bound with Puzzle Planet by Robert A.W. Lowndes. Robert Hale, 1968. Magazine title as A Taste of Fire.)
A space pilot crashlands on a planet whose people have developed mental telepathy, and who read in his mind the potential danger represented by our species.
Chronocide Mission, The (Wildside, 2002.)
Mind control devices lead to the collapse of society into castelike barbarism, and a time traveler from the past is the key to changing the status quo.
Fury Out of Time (Doubleday, 1965, Dobson, 1966, Berkley, 1967, Sphere, 1968, Leisure, 1975, Wildside, 2002.)
A time machine appears in the present with disastrous consequences. Eventually a living pilot takes control and visits the far future, where automated cities wage war against each other, and to the past, where he discovers aliens shipwrecked on Earth.
Galaxy of Strangers, A (Doubleday, 1976, Wildside, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Light That Never Was, The (Doubleday, 1972, DAW, 1973, Elmfield Press, 1975, Wildside, 2002.)
A world dedicated to the arts is also a hotbed of interspecies hatred. A human visitor uncovers a plot to eradicate entire intelligent species concealed in this unlikely setting.
Metallic Muse, The (Doubleday, 1972, DAW, 1974.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Monument (Doubleday, 1974, New English Library, 1975, Bantam, 1978, Wildside, 2002.)
A lost human colony has become a beautiful world dedicated to pleasure. Its imminent rediscovery by the rest of the human race puts its future in jeopardy, so the protagonist sets out to conceal the world's existence.
Out of the Silent Sky (See Rule of the Door and Other Fanciful Regulations.)
Rule of the Door and Other Fanciful Regulations, The (Curtis, 1967, Doubleday, 1967. Belmont Tower, 1977, as Out of the Silent Sky, Robert Hale, 1979, as The Silent Sky.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Silence Is Deadly (Doubleday, 1977, Millington, 1980, Wildside, 2002.)
Jan Darzek #4.
Darzek is surgically altered so that he can pass for an alien and investigate the disappearance of a number of people on a world where hearing is an unknown sense.
Silent Sky, The (See Rule of the Door and Other Fanciful Regulations.)
Still Small Voice of Trumpets, The (Doubleday, 1968, Curtis, ?, Rapp & Whiting, 1969, Wildside, 2002.)
Cultural Survey #1.
A human agent is sent to help organize a rebellion on an alien world dedicated to the creation of beautiful music, and discovers that alien races don't have the same concept of freedom.
This Darkening Universe (Doubleday, 1976, Millington, 1977, Wildside, 2000.)
Jan Darzek #3.
An unseen force is passing through the galaxy, destroying the populations of entire worlds. Darzek takes direction from a supercomputer in the effort to find some form of protection.
Tunesmith, The (Tor, 1990, bound with Eye for Eye by Orson Scott Card.)
Long story bound back to back.
Watchers of the Dark (Doubleday, 1966, Curtis, ?, Rapp & Whiting, 1968, Leisure, 1975, Wildside, 2000.)
Jan Darzek #2.
Some power is systematically destroying inhabited planets and Earth may be next. A human private detective is hired by the galactic government to discover the nature of the weapon and end its threat.
Whirlagig of Time (Doubleday, 1979, Wildside, 2002.)
Jan Darzek #5.
A human who has become a prominent leader of the galaxy investigates a super criminal who has turned a planet into a new sun and is demanding protection money from another world.
World Menders, The (Doubleday, 1971, DAW, 1972, Elmfield Press, 1973, Wildside, 2000.)
Cultural Survey #2.
A race that has devoted itself to art ignores the fact that their civilization is dependent upon the enslavery of another species. A human observer goes native in order to stir up a rebellion even though neither of the alien races quite understands what he's doing.
BILDERDIJK, WILLEM
Short Account of a Remarkable Aerial Voyage, A (Wilfion, 1987, translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent First published in 1813.)
Very early account of a balloon voyage to another planet. Interesting historically, but the accompanying essays contending that it is the first SF "novel" ignore the fact that it is less than 50 pages long and actually a novelet.
BILENKIN, DMITRI
Uncertainty Principle, The (Macmillan, 1978, Collier, 1979, translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.
Collection of unrelated stories.
BILLIAS, STEPHEN (Also writes Fantasy.)
American Book of the Dead, The (Questar, 1987.)
Odd satire about a man whose far of nuclear war is so great that he sets out on a protracted Zen odyssey to discover the way to save the world.
Holo Men, The (Aspect, 1996.)
Cyberpunk 2020 #2.
Based on the role playing game Cyberpunk. A group of unlikely netsurfers oppose the power grab engineered by an evil computer mastermind.
Quest for the 36, The (Questar, 1988.)
An omniscient power is going to destroy the Earth unless a booking agent can find 36 people good enough to earn a respite. Aided by an unlikely cast of characters, the protagonist does a grand tour of the world to find them, including a visit to the Arctic.
Ravengers, The (Warner Aspect, 1995.)
Cyberpunk 2020 #1.
Set in the world of the Cyberpunk 2020 game series. Two virtual reality junkies are enlisted to locate pieces of artwork which might inspire a return to a more sane version of America. A blend of real adventure and explorations of virtual reality.
BILLS, RANDALL N. (See also collaboration with Jason M. Hardy.)
Hunters of the Deep (Roc, 2004.)
A Mechwarrior novel.
Mutiny and civil war within a mercenary community.
Pandora's Gambit (Roc, 2007.)
The splintered human empire attempts to reunite.
BINDER, EANDO (Pseudonym of Earl and Otto Binder, together and separately, most frequently Otto alone. Otto also wrote Horror. See also John Coleridge.)
Adam Link in the Past (Whitman, 1950.)
Not seen.
Adam Link, Robot (Paperback Library, 1965.)
Although labeled a novel, this is actually a series of stories about a self aware robot. Not as well written or thought out as are those of Asimov, but interesting for historic reasons and occasionally amusing.
Anton York, Immortal (Belmont, 1965.)
Four related stories about an immortal man's adventures in the far future.
Avengers Battle the Earth-Wrecker, The (Bantam, 1967.)
Based on the Marvel Comics series, Captain America and his friends battle a creature from outer space whose weapons and forcefield make him effectively invulnerable to attack.
Dawn to Dusk (Armchair, 2018, bound with The Beast-Men of Ceres by Aladra Septama. Magazine appearance 1935.)
A group of men use suspended animation to travel to the distant future.
Double Man, The (Curtis, 1971.)
Rescued from a space wreck, a scientist discovers he has been propelled into an alternate reality where another version of himself is still alive and where the Earth is menaced by a plague engineered by aliens.
Enslaved Brains (Avalon, 1965. Armchair, 2015, bound with Conception: Zero by Gerald Vance. Magazine version in 1933.)
Following a limited nuclear war, America is ruled by scientists, benevolently at first, but evolving quickly toward an autocratic dictatorship. Dying people have their brains extracted as organic computers, supposedly with no consciousness. One angry man finally sets off a rebellion against the system.
Five Steps to Tomorrow (Curtis, 1968. (Magazine version in 1940.)
A cabal of evil scientists have seized control of the world, using mind control and murder to control the population. Using superweapons of his own, a lone rebel alters the balance of power to bring down the dictators.
Get Off My World (Curtis, 1971.)
Martians have invaded the Earth and are in the process of exterminating the human race. Just when the end seems near, a message is received from an ancient civilization hidden inside the Earth, a civilization armed with weapons that can defeat the invaders.
Impossible World, The (Curtis, 1967. Magazine version in 1938.)
An alien devised machine is moving the moons of Saturn. Humans and aliens must team up to avert the menace of an artifact that has power beyond that of either species.
Lords of Creation. (Prime Press, 1949, Belmont, 1969.)
A present day scientist volunteers for suspended animation and wakes up three thousand years later in a world dictatorship.
Menace of the Saucers (Belmont, 1969, Leisure, undated.)
Thane Smith #1.
A science fiction writer discovers that aliens in flying saucers are fighting a war for the control of Earth. Aided by a young woman from one side, he attempts to prove his story to the authorities, while menacing Men In Black prepare to kill him to conceal the truth.
Mind from Outer Space, The (Curtis, 1972.)
A disembodied artificial alien intelligence has reached Earth, and the only one aware of its arrival is a scientist who has been doing research into psychokinesis. Amorphous monsters and other pulp situations follow.
Night of the Saucers (Belmont, 1971.)
Thane Smith #2.
Earth has welcomed aliens to the Earth, but science fiction writer Thane Smith suspects the truth, that the supposedly peaceful missions are actually the advance guard of a powerful invasion force.
Puzzle of the Space Pyramids (Curtis, 1971.)
The first expedition to Mars is menaced by ravening insects as they seek to solve the mystery of strange buildings left by a vanished Martian race. Their follows a grand tour of the solar system, finding the pyramids in various places. Originally the "Via" series of short stories.
Secret of the Red Spot (Curtis, 1971.)
A human pilot is forced to land on Jupiter by a band of Martian pirates in this scientifically inept adventure story.
Where Eternity Ends (Pinnacle Press, ?)
Short story published as a chapbook.
BINGE, NICHOLAS
Ascension (Riverhead, 2023.)
A new mountain appears in the Pacific Ocean.
Dissolution (Riverhead, 2025.)
A man's vanishing memories are affecting reality.
BINGEMAN, ALISON (See collaboration with Gerry Davis.)
BINGHAM, CARSON (Pseudonym of Bruce Bingham Cassiday. See also House pseudonym Con Steffanson. Writes supernatural fiction as Annie Laurie McAllister and Annie Laurie McMurdie.)
Gorgo (Monarch, 1960, from the screenplay by Robert L. Richards, writing as John Loring, and Daniel James, writing as Daniel Hyatt).
A carnival crew is exhibiting a dinosaur that was captured in a remote English fishing village, unaware of the fact that it is a very young one, and that its gigantic, angry mother will devastate London when she comes to retrieve her child.
War of the Cybernauts, The (Avon, 1975.)
Flash Gordon #6.
Flash is investigating some mysteriously vanished satellites when he crashlands on a planet filled with robots who engage in endless warfare.
Witch Queen of Mongo, The (Avon, 1974.)
Flash Gordon #5.
Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov recruit allies to help them rescue Flash Gordon from the prisons of Ming the Merciless.
BINGHAM, ROGER (See collaboration with Raymond Hawkey.)
BINGLE, DONALD J.
Greensword (Five Star, 2008.)
Near future ecological disaster novel.
BIRCH, A.G.
Moon Terror, The (Wildside, 2000. Magazine version 1927.)
Chinese scientists use directed earthquakes in an effort to become dominant over the entire world. This is actually an anthology with three other stories from Weird Tales magazine.
Lone Star Plague, The (Leisure, 2004.)
A new strain of plague breaks out in anticipation of a vice presidential visit in this marginal thriller.
BIRD, WILLIAM (See Kris Luna and Lee Elliott.)
Plague (Berkley, 2002.)
Marginal thriller about a terrorist using a new disease to commit murders.
BIRKMAIER, ELIZABETH G.
Poseidon’s Paradise (Clemens, 1892.)
Non-magical novel of ancient Atlantis.
After America (Del Rey, 2010.)
Change #2.
An America suddenly emptied of people becomes a battleground for various elements from around the world.
Ascendance (Del Rey, 2015.)
Dave vs Monsters #3.
Monsters from another reality attack the world.
Designated Targets (Del Rey, 2005.)
Axis of Time #2.
The presence of weapons from the future changes the course of World War II.
Emergence (Del Rey, 2015.)
Dave vs Monsters #1.
Monsters from another reality attack an oil platform.
Final Impact (Del Rey, 2007.)
Axis of Time #3.
The disruption of time threatens to help Hitler and Tojo build nuclear weapons.
Resistance (Del Rey, 2015.)
Dave vs Monsters #2.
A super powered human battles creatures from another reality.
Weapons of Choice (Del Rey, 2004.)
Axis of Time #1.
A future naval warfleet is transported back through time and materializes just before the battle of Midway.
Without Warning (Del Rey, 2010.)
Change #1.
A strange phenomenon destroys the US but leaves the rest of the world unscathed.
BIRNBAUM, ALFRED (See collaboration with Haruki Murakami.)
BISCHOFF, DAVID (See also Mark Grant and collaborations with Harry Harrison, Ted White, and with John DeChancie. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Abduction: The UFO Conspiracy (Warner, 1990.)
UFO #1.
The government knows that there really are flying saucers out there, and a prominent debunker begins to suspect he's been wrong when he discovers a conspiracy designed to conceal the truth about UFO's.
Alien Island (Harper, 1996.)
Space Precinct #3.
A militant feminist police officer attempts to disrupt a traditional get together, and an alien criminal moves behind the scenes to take advantage of the ensuing confusion.
Ancient, The (Ace, 1994, Millenium, 1994.)
#3 in the multi-author SeaQuest DSV series.
A super submarine is pitted against a prehistoric sea monster that wakens from its long sleep to begin preying on commercial vessels.
Blob, The (Dell, 1988, form the screenplay by Chuck Russell & Frank Darabont. (Star, 1989.)
Novelization of the remake of the classic movie. An amorphous creature that dissolves all living tissue it touches menaces a small town while government agents decide to sacrifice the population in order to acquire a potent biological weapon.
Crunch Bunch, The (Avon Flare, 1985.)
For younger readers. A couple of youngsters plan to fool a computer network into believing it is receiving a message from outer space, but instead they open a channel to genuine alien visitors.
Deception: The UFO Conspiracy (Warner, 1991.)
UFO #2.
Not seen.
Deity-Father, The (Harper, 1995.)
#1 in the Space Precinct series.
Based on the dreadful television series. Two human police officers move to the planet Altor and join the local multi-species law enforcement agency just as an interstellar version of the Mafia decides to move in.
Demon Wing (Harper, 1995.)
#2 in the Space Precinct series.
A cop on a distant planet has his life turned upside down when his new partner turns out to be a tough, attractive woman from Earth. They are pitted against an alien creature with a vampiric nature that sucks the life out of its victims.
Diplomatic Touch, The (Foggy Windows, 2001.)
Sexual adventures of a husband and wife interstellar diplomatic team as they conform to local kinky practices in order to negotiate a treaty.
Galactic Warriors (Ace, 1985.)
Starhounds #2.
A woman joins space pirates in a secret mission against an evil alien planet, unaware of the fact that she has been programmed to kill her brother rather than rescue him.
Genocide (Bantam, 1994, Millenium, 1994.)
#4 in the multi-author Aliens graphic story series.
Without a female to lead them, a colony of aliens splits into two warring factions. On Earth, which is recovering from the aftermath of an alien infestation, a new drug is discovered which is coveted by the military and by athletes, and which is derived from the aliens' bodies. The only known source of the drug is the world where the creatures are currently attempting to exterminate one another.
Gremlins II (Avon, 1990, from the screenplay by Charles S. Haas.)
The gremlins return to menace the protagonists is a gigantic television studio.
Grounded (Pocket, 1993, Titan, 1993.)
#25 in the multi-author Star Trek: The Next Generation series.
The Enterprise is infected with a strange virus that consumes inorganic materials. In order to prevent the infection from spreading to other ships and worlds, Starfleet orders the Enterprise destroyed, but Picard's crew...surprise...comes up with a cure in the nick of time.
Hackers (Harper, 1995, from the screenplay by Rafael Moreu.)
A renegade hacker breaks into forbidden areas and blames his depredations on innocent kids until a hacker comes out of retirement to track him down.
Hunter's Planet (Bantam, 1994, Millenium, 1994.)
Part of the multi-author Aliens vs Predator series.
A human woman who spent time hunting with Predators becomes caught up in a disaster when a world set aside as a hunting preserve gets entirely out of hand, filled with aliens, Predators, and other genetically altered creatures.
Infinite Battle, The (Ace, 1985.)
Starhounds #1.
Aliens have captured a brilliant scientist and his sister sets out to rescue him. But in order to reach the alien world, she has to convince a far from trustworthy space pirate to help her.
Jack London, Star Warrior (Wildside, 2002.)
A female warrior on an alien controlled Earth tries to steal sophisticated technology.
Macrocosmic Conflict, The (Ace, 1986.)
Starhounds #3.
Betrayed by humans an aliens alike, a secret agent and her pirate allies hope to avert a war between the two species and rescue her brother at the same time.
Mandala (Berkley, 1983.)
A beautiful woman travels across the galaxy to an artificial world where the inhabitants play elaborate games with lives as counters.
Manhattan Project, The (Avon, 1986.)
Novelization of the film about a precocious boy who steals plutonium to demonstrate how easy it is to construct a nuclear weapon.
Night of the Living Shark! (Ace, 1991.)
#1 in the multi-author Melvinge of the Megaverse series inspired by Daniel M. Pinkwater.
A madcap farce set in a mall so big that entire planets are dwarfed in comparison. Interdimensional travel, a variety of alien creatures including a gypsy werewolf, and lots of other madness.
Nightworld (Del Rey, 1979.)
Nightworld #1.
A crazed computer genius has turned a planet into a nightmare out of Earth's legends, with cyborgs and robots playing the parts of vampires, werewolves, and other monsters. The surviving human inhabitants are out to find the mastermind and stop him before he kills them all.
Philip K. Dick High (Wildside, 2000.)
A teenager discovers that some of his teachers and fellow students are actually aliens in disguise, and that he's part of a mysterious experiment. This is a spoof of Philip K. Dick.
Revelation: The UFO Conspiracy (Warner, 1981.)
UFO #3.
The final confrontation between a group of private citizens who belief the Earth has been visited by aliens from another world, and the government, which is willing to do anything to keep the public from knowing the truth.
Search for Dinosaurs, The (Bantam, 1984.)
#2 in the multi-author Time Machine series.
Gamebook in which you try to stay alive after traveling back through time to the age of dinosaurs.
Star Fall (Berkley, 1980.)
Star Fall #1.
An interstellar liner that caters to a variety of intelligent races is off on its maiden voyage to visit legendary Earth. But someone has secreted antimatter aboard the ship, in a plot to destroy humanity's homeworld.
Star Spring (Berkley, 1982.)
Star Fall #2.
The man who uncovered a plot to destroy Earth in the opening volume of this series attracts the attention of a powerful cyborg who plans to reconstruct the entire planet Earth. Unfortunately, there's a tinge of madness in his methods.
Vampires of Nightworld, The (Del Rey, 1981.)
Nightworld #2.
The evil genius who used artificial creatures to terrorize the nights on a colony world has been defeated, but now his creations are free to make their own rules, and are no longer bound by the advent of day.
War Games (Dell, 1983, Penguin, 1983, screenplay by Lawrence Lasker & Walter E. Parkes.)
Novelization of the film. A young computer hacker inadvertently taps into the US defense network and nearly starts a nuclear war playing what he thinks is a harmless computer game.
BISCHOFF, DAVID & BAILEY, DENNIS R.
Tin Woodman (Ace, 1979, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980.)
The protagonist is a psychic so sensitive that he cannot abide anyone else in close physical proximity. When an enigmatic alien appears in human space, he's involuntarily sent into space to contact it with his mind, with results unfortunate for those who ill used him.
BISCHOFF, DAVID & LAMPTON, CHRISTOPHER
Seeker, The (Laser, 1976.)
An alien crashlands in a small Midwest town, and the terrified townspeople are out to hunt down the "monster". Fortunately the alien is befriended by a local minister, who learns he is fleeing from a repressive and expansionist culture.
BISCHOFF, DAVID & MONTELEONE, THOMAS F.
Day of the Dragonstar (Berkley, 1983.)
Dragonstar #1.
Opening volume of a trilogy involving a starship miles in diameter. A human space crew is stranded on the alien vessel, most of their number killed by the dinosaurs that still exist aboard the ship. The key to their survival is communication with a subset of the saurians who have developed intelligence.
Dragonstar Destiny (Ace, 1989.)
Dragonstar #3.
The mixed human and saurian crew of a gigantic alien starship is carried helplessly out to the fringes of the galaxy when the ship comes unexpectedly to life. There, orbiting around a doomed planet, they wait for the intelligence that brought them there to reveal itself.
Night of the Dragonstar (Berkley, 1985.)
Dragonstar #2.
Having established contact with the intelligent dinosaurs aboard the derelict alien star vessel, several humans decide to reveal the state of affairs to Earth. But at the last moment, several of the saurians unexpectedly attack their supposed human friends, and the starship's engines stir to life.
BISCHOFF, DAVID & WHITE, TED
Forbidden World (?, 1978, Questar, 1985.)
Four space explorers land on a mysterious world populated by humans, but broken up into numerous mini-cultures that were clearly artificially designed. And each has been placed in a situation apparently tailor made to test his or her deepest fears.
BISCHOFF, HEATHER WOODARD (See collaboration with Edwin Woodard.)
BISHOP, DAVID (See also collaboration with James Stevens. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Amorality Tale (BBC, 2002.)
A Doctor Who novel.
A battle between concerned citizens and gangsters is complicated by the discovery of an alien being living in London.
Bad Moon Rising (Black Flame, 2004.)
A Judge Dredd novel.
Law enforcement is hard pressed to contain xenophobic violence in a mega city of the future.
Cursed Earth Asylum (Virgin, 1993.)
Judge Dredd #4.
A planet set aside for genetically damaged victims of proscribed experiments with psi powers is visited by Judge Dredd and a handful of companions. When most of the group is killed, the only other survivor accuses Dredd of having betrayed them and launches a manhunt to track him down.
Domino Effect, The (BBC, 2003.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor arrives in Edinborough just in time for a wave of terrroist attacks.
Empire of Death (BBC, 2004.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor investigates a ghost in the Tardis and a secret valley guarded by the British army of 1851.
From Russia with Lust (Black Flame, 2007.)
A roguish criminal has adventures in a version of our world where the Russian revolution never took place.
Honour Be Damned! (Black Flame, 2006.)
Nikolai Dante #3.
In an alternate future Earth, a man is accused of a crime he didn't commit.
Imperial Black (Black Flame, 2005.)
Nikolai Dante #2.
?
Kingdom of the Blind (Black Flame, 2004.)
A Judge Dredd novel.
A crime boss tries to seize power over an entire future city.
Savage Amusement, The (Virgin, 1993.)
Judge Dredd #1.
Dredd is running for mayor at the same time he battles a variety of villainy, escaped killers, robots, even a malfunctioning building.
Strangelove Gambit, The (Black Flame, 2005.)
Nikolai Dante #1.
A fugitive fights evil in an alternate future in which communism never arose.
Enter the Game (Angel Gate, 2003.)
Black Tide #1.
A teenager gets involved with spies, secret societies, and super science. Based on a comic book.
BISHOP, GEORGE (Also writes Horror.)
Shuttle People, The (Bantam, 1983.)
Earth is surrounded by orbiting habitats where a new breed of human has arisen, one which believes itself so superior to the Earthborn that they feel destined to rule the world. Their plot begins to unravel when they commit murder and a cagey investigator looks into the case.
BISHOP, MICHAEL (See also collaboration with Ian Watson. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Ancient of Days (Tor, 1985, Arbor House, 1985, Paladin, 1987, St Martins, 1995.)
A serious update of John Collier's His Monkey Wife. A proto-human is discovered in the US, an intelligent male with artistic and philosophical depth, who makes enemies when he becomes involved in a love affair with an evolved human of our own period.
And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees. (See Beneath the Shattered Moons.)
Apartheid, Superstring, and Mordecai Thubana (Axolotl, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.]
At the City Limits of Fate (Edgewood, 1996.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Author's Choice Monthly #15 (See Emphatically Not SF, Almost.)
Beneath the Shattered Moons (DAW, 1977. Harper & Row, 1976, as And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees. Tor, 1990, as And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees, bound with The Color of Neanderthal Eyes by James Tiptree Jr.)
A colony world faces disaster as the supposed myth of creatures of enormous size proves to be literal truth. At the same time, the escaped survivors of war ravaged Earth have regressed toward barbarism despite the presence of individuals who seem to have evolved to the next state of human existence.
Beneath the Shattered Moons & The White Otters of Childhood (Sphere, 1978.)
Collection of related stories.
Blooded on Arachne (Arkham House, 1982, Pocket, 1983.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Blue Kansas Sky (Golden Gryphon, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories, not al of which are SF.
Brittle Innings (Bantam, 1994, Fairwood, 2012.)
Frankenstein's monster survives into the 20th Century, having modified his appearance somewhat and with a powerful intellect. A troubled young man becomes a minor league ball player and discovers the identity of his roommate. A fascinating and totally unconventional novel.
Catacomb Years (Putnam, 1979, Berkley, 1980.)
Domed Atlanta #1.
Collection of related stories all set in a future domed Atlanta.
City and the Cygnets, The (Fairwood, 2019.)
Omnibus of the Domed Atlanta series.
Close Encounters with the Deity (Peachtree, 1986.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Color of Neanderthal Eyes, The, and And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees (Tor, 1989.)
Novel and story in a combined edition.
Count Geiger’s Blues (Tor, 1992.)
An unlikely prospect turns into an offbeat superhero after exposure to nuclear radiation in this comic novel with serious overtones, set in in an alternate version of the US.
Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy, The (Subterranean, 2012.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Emphatically Not SF, Almost (Pulphouse, 1990. Also titled Author's Choice Monthly #15.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Eyes of Fire (Pocket, 1980. Revised version of A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, which see.)
Few Last Words for the Late Immortals, A (Kudzu, 2021.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, A (Ballantine, 1975, Sphere, 1978. Kerosina, 1989, third version.)
Two human entrepreneurs travel to an alien world, supposedly to help transport a religious cult to their new home. But shortly after arriving, they discover that those placed in their charge are actually destined to become slave laborers.
Little Knowledge, A (Berkley, 1978.)
Domed Atlanta #2.
Religious fanatics dominate a world where cities are enclosed in protective domes. Meanwhile, the first alien visitors have arrived and are concealed by authorities who fear the charismatic religious leaders will react negatively to their presence.
No Enemy But Time (Pocket, 1982, Gollancz, 1982, Bantam, 1989.)
An archaeologist travels back in time to Earth's prehistory on a research mission, and is trapped there for years when the time machine fails to recall him. He eventually is accepted by a tribe of pre-humans and learns their culture far more intimately than he had expected.
One Winter in Eden (Arkham House, 1984.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas (See The Secret Ascension.)
Quickening, The (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Reprint of the 1981 short story in pamphlet form. A mysterious cataclysm results in the inability of any two people to speak the same language.
Sacerdotal Owl, The (Kudzu Planet, 2018.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Secret Ascension, The (Tor, 1987,. Grafton, 1988, Orb, 1994, Tor, 1994, as Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas.)
A satirical alternate history with Philip K. Dick as the protagonist.
Stolen Faces (Harper & Row, 1977, Gollancz, 1977, Dell, 1978.)
A colony world beset by a disfiguring plague has been quarantined by the rest of the interstellar community. In reaction, they resort to elaborate rituals and self mutilation to make an asset out of their deformities.
Transfigurations (Berkley, 1980, Gollancz, 1980, Putnam, 1989.)
A scientist specializing in alien cultures is obsessed with the Asadi, an intelligent species whose behavior seems totally irrational. She uses a genetically altered ape to help bridge the gap and decipher the complex rituals of the aliens.
BISSON, TERRY (See also collaboration with Stephanie Spinner, uncredited collaborator with Walter M Miller Jr. and collaboration which follows. Also writes Fantasy.)
Bears Discover Fire (Orb, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dear Abbey (PS, 2003.)
Novella about a form of time travel that gives the protagonist a view of several stages of human development.
Fifth Element, The (Harper, 1997, from the script by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. (HarperCollins, 1997.)
Novelizatization of the mild spoof of SF films. A taxi driver in a future megalopolis becomes involved with a more than human woman from outer space who is the key weapon needed to save the universe from a menacing but undescribed evil.
Fire on the Mountain (Arbor House, 1988.)
The Southern slaves successfully overthrew their masters and created an independent nation in North America. The story is in the form of reminiscences of the struggle for freedom, in a contemporary world where racism has largely disappeared.
Galaxy Quest (Ace, 1999, based on the screenplay by Robert Gordon and David Howard.)
Novelization of the movie about a group of actors from a long running SF television series (wonder who they had in mind) who are recruited by aliens for a real mission because the aliens don't understand the concept of fiction.
Greetings & Other Stories (Tachyon, 2005.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories (Tor, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Johnny Mnemonic (Pocket, 1995, HarperCollins, 1996, based on the screenplay by William Gibson.)
Novelization of the screenplay by Gibson based on his own short story. A courier who programs information into his own brain becomes the quarry for a number of ruthless killers in a cybernetic near future, all of whom are interested in the contents of his memory.
Left Left Behind, The (PM, 2009.)
Spoof of the Left Behind series.
Miracle Man (Harper, 2000, based on the screenplay by Howard Gordon & Chris Carter.)
An X Files novel.
The agents are sent to investigate an apparently authentic faith healer after one of those he is supposed to help dies under mysterious circumstance.
Numbers Don't Lie (Tachyon, 2005.)
Collection of related stories.
Pickup Artist, The (Tor, 2001.)
Satiric look at the future when the government employs people who collect old art no longer appreciated and new art with no audience, catalog and destroy it, in order to make room for new creations.
Pirates of the Universe (Tor, 1996.)
The protagonist contends for a place in a wild theme park of the future in this sometimes comic novel of aliens, politics, and low key adventure.
6th Day, The (Tor, 2000, based on the screenplay by Cormac Wibberley & Marianne Wibberley.)
A man must discover why someone has replaced him with a clone, and then prove that he is the original.
Virtuosity (Pocket, 1995, from the screenplay by Eric Bernt.)
A virtual reality training program designed to create a supercriminal succeeds all too well, and the artificial intelligence escapes into the real world, where he is hunted down by an ex-cop who is currently a convict because he killed the terrorist who murdered his family.
Voyage to the Red Planet (Morrow, 1990, Avon, 1991, Pan, 1992.)
Corporations have come to the aid of the US government, effectively buying many government agencies. A Hollywood movie mogul purchases part of the space program and launches the first visit to the planet Mars, with a film crew aboard to make it profitable.
BIXBY, E. REW
Ambush Planet (Manor, 1978.)
Vassa #1.
Confused story of a planet colonized by humans despite resident aliens, who use genetic manipulation to create mutant warriors and high technology to damage incoming colony ships.
Fire Throne Mountain (Tower, 1981.)
Vassa #2.
A mishmash that doesn't bear close examination. Humans have colonized a planet where local aliens take offense at our presence and attack both personally and using mutated humans as their surrogates.
BIXBY, JEROME (Also writes Horror.)
One Way Street (Armchair, 2010.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Space by the Tale (Ballantine, 1964.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BLACK, CAMPBELL (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Asterisk Destiny (Morrow, 1978, Michael Joseph, 1979, Signet, 1980.)
A secret US project builds a fake UFO in order to scare the Soviets. Very marginal political thriller.
Brainfire (Signet, 1980. Morrow, 1979, Michael Joseph, 1980, Harper, 1990, as by Campbell Armstrong.)
The Russians have perfected a method by which a person's personality can be destroyed through psi powers, and they plan to eliminate the President of the US.
BLACK, EDWIN
Format C: (Brookline, 1998.)
The Year 2000 bug is used as a plot by a ruthless businessman to gain control of computer technology throughout the world.
BLACK, IAN STUART
Macra Terror, The (Target, 1987, from the 1967 script by the author.)
Doctor Who.
A resort world is troubled by the insistence of one of its inhabitants that monstrous aliens are secretly invading the world. Although few take him seriously, the Doctor's naturally suspicious nature leads him to investigate, and subsequently thwart a dastardly plot.
Savages, The (Target, 1986, from the 1966 script by the author.)
Doctor Who.
The Doctor and his companions arrived on a world whose main society appears to be sensible and highly advanced. But the savages outside the city limits are unsettling, as is the discovery that there is a secret organization operating behind the scenes.
War Machines, The (Target, 1988, from the 1966 script by the author.)
Doctor Who.
A new military computer designed to defend England has become self aware and has initiated the construction of an army of robot machines with which to make itself the master of the entire Earth.
Deep, Dark, and Dangerous (Pocket, 2006.)
Two women discover a lost world of Vikings underground in the Northwest. Sequel to new novellas.
Strictly Taboo (Berkley, 2005.)
Collection of three unrelated stories.
BLACK, JENNA (Also writes Horror.)
Resistance (Tor, 2014.)
Replica #2.
?
BLACK, JONATHAN
Plague (Belmont, 1976.)
New York City is devastated by a sudden outbreak of bubonic plague brought in by an unsuspecting airline passenger.
BLACK, J. PATRICK
Ninth City Burning (Ace, 2017.)
Aliens attack Earth using a new technology.
BLACK, L.
Poison War, The (Paul, 1933.)
Future war novel.
BLACK, PANSY E.
Men from the Meteor, The (Stellar, 1932.)
Not seen.
Valley of the Great Ray, The (Stellar, 1930.)
Not seen.
BLACKBURN, JOHN (Also writes Horror.)
Bury Him Darkly (Putnam, 1969, Jonathan Cape, 1969, Berkley, 1971, Valancourt, 2013.)
Investigation into the circumstances of the death of an 18th Century aristocrat of doubtful morals results in the opening of his tomb. But when admirers open the vault, they release a living creature emerges which can absorb anything organic which it touches.
Children of the Night (Jonathan Cape, 1966, Panther, 1968, Berkley, 1970.)
A primitive people living concealed in the caves of rural England emerge at night to prey on the surface dwellers. They have lived for several centuries and have telepathic powers.
For Fear of Little Men. (Jonathan Cape, 1972, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974.)
In a remote part of the British Isles, a hidden race of subterranean dwellers have a disproportionate impact on the surface world.
Reluctant Spy, The (See A Scent of New-Mown Hay.)
Scent of New-Mown Hay, A (Secker & Warburg, 1958, Mill, 1958, Penguin, 1961, Digit, 1964, New English Library, 1968. Lancer, 1966, as The Reluctant Spy.)
A new disease is spreading through the world, one which threatens to destroy the entire human race. British and Russian spies must collaborate if they are to find the source, and the antidote.
Dark Futures (Ibooks, 2003.)
A Terminator novel.
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Evil Hour, An (Ibooks, 2003.)
A Terminator novel.
A female terminator is sent to protect John Connor from an evil terminator from an alternate dimension.
Kong Reborn (Ibooks, 2005.)
A sequel to King Kong in which the giant ape is cloned years later.
Times of Trouble (Ibooks, 2003.)
A Terminator novel.
The battle between man and machines finally ends.
BLACKSTONE, JAMES (Pseudonym of John Brosnan and John Baxter, both of whom also see.)
Torched! (Grafton, 1986.)
Not seen.
BLACKWELL, PAUL
Undercurrent (Harper, 2014.)
A teenager finds himself in an alternate version of his life.
BLACKWOOD, GARY L.
Attack of the Mushroom People (Players Press, 1990.)
Not seen.
Beyond the Door (Atheneum, 1991.)
A teenager meets a man from a primitive alternate Earth who is visiting our world to gain scientific knowledge to help his own people. Eventually he crosses over, and discovers that he has been mislead about what's going on there.
Dying Sun, The (Atheneum, 1989.)
A new and sudden ice age has driven many Americans down into Mexico, and the overcrowding and deteriorating conditions cause many of the local residents to form armed militias to repel the involuntary invaders from the North.
BLADE, ALEXANDER (House pseudonym.)
Cosmic Destroyer, The (Armchair, 2014, bound with Time Trap by Rog Phillips. Magazine appearance 1957.)
An interstellar search for alien technology.
War of the Giant Apes (Armchair, 2023, bound with The Midgets of Monoton by Stanton A. Coblentz. Magazine appearance 1949.)
Martian apemen use psychic powers to subdue Earth.
BLAINE, JOHN (Pseudonym of Harold Goodwin. Not all of the Rick Blaine stories have been confirmed as SF but all are included here as a convenience. See also Blake Savage.)
Blue Ghost Mystery, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1960.)
Rick Brant #15.
Marginal. Mysterious goings on in an old mine involving radioactivity and a make believe ghost..
Caves of Fear, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1951.)
Rick Brant #8.
Not seen.
Danger Below (Grosset & Dunlap, 1968. Written with Philip Harkins.)
Rick Brant #23.
Marginal. Undersea adventure involving a giant lobster.
Deadly Dutchman, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1967.)
Rick Brant #22.
Not SF. A mysterious organization targets one of Rick’s friends..
Egyptian Cat Mystery, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1961.)
Rick Brant #16
Marginal. While trying to solve the puzzle of some radio signals from space, Rick gets caught in a conspiracy to steal an ancient artifact.
Electronic Mind Reader, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957.)
Rick Brant #12.
Spies attempt to steal the secret of a device that allows one to read the mind of another.
Flaming Mountain, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1962.)
Rick Brant #17.
Not SF. A volcano erupts on the island where Rick is vacationing.
Flying Stingaree, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1962.)
Rick Brant #18.
A UFO sighting brings Rick to the investigation of a mysterious and eccentric inventor.
Golden Skull, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1954.)
Rick Brant #10.
Rick Brant pits his wits and scientific knowledge against a man who stirs up a native tribe to cover his tracks while stealing a priceless artifact.
Lost City, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1947.)
Rick Brant #2.
Rick and his friends are off to delve into the secrets of a lost civilization while trying to establish a radar station in Tibet.
100 Fathoms Under (Grosset & Dunlap, 1947.)
Rick Brant #4.
Using a revolutionary new submarine, Rick and his friends search for buried treasure on the ocean’s floor, and encounter hostility from the superstitious natives..
Phantom Shark, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1949.)
Rick Brant #6.
Not seen.
Pirates of Shan, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1958.)
Rick Brant #14.
Not SF. Rick uses science to outsmart a band of modern day pirates.
Rocket Jumper (Grosset & Dunlap, 1966.)
Rick Brant #21.
Rick invents a rocket belt just in time for a battle with spies.
Rocket's Shadow, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1947.)
Rick Brant #1.
Spies attempt to steal secrets from an experimental rocket project.
Ruby Ray Mystery, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1964.)
Rick Brant #19.
Marginal. The teenagers help protect a scientist from spies who want his latest invention.
Scarlet Lake Mystery, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1958.)
Rick Brant #13.
Teenagers track down a spy among the staff of a secret project using rockets to explore nearby space.
Sea Gold (Grosset & Dunlap, 1947.)
Rick Brant #3.
Marginal. Rick gets a job at an experimental plant extracting minerals from sea water.
Smugglers' Reef (Grosset & Dunlap, 1950.)
Rick Brant #7.
Not seen.
Stairway to Danger (Grosset & Dunlap, 1952.)
Rick Brant #9.
A murderer and a robot figure prominently in the continuing adventures of a scientifically minded teenager.
Veiled Raiders, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1965.)
Rick Brant #20.
Marginal. While testing a new satellite communications system in Africa, Rick gets involved in a series of mundane adventures..
Wailing Octopus, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1966.)
Rick Brant #11.
Not seen.
Whispering Box Mystery, The (Grosset & Dunlap, 1948.)
Rick Brant #5.
Villains make use of a new ultrasonic hand weapon and Rick and his father try to develop a defense.
BLAIR, ERIC (See George Orwell.)
BLAIR, ADRIAN (Pseudonym of William Bird, who also wrote under house names including Rand Le Page, Lee Elliott, Paul Lorraine, and Kris Luna.)
Cosmic Conquest (Curtis, 1953.)
Not seen. Conflict between mutants and normals in a post nuclear war world.
BLAIR, H.
Great Gesture, The (Blackwood, 1931.)
Future war in Europe.
BLAIR, JOHN
Bright Angel (Del Rey, 1991.)
Earth's ecology deteriorates so rapidly that a new ice age is inevitable. The protagonist is the only human survivor of a colony world that was similarly frozen, saved and brought back to Earth by an enigmatic alien. There he seeks to use the alien's knowledge and abilities to avert a similar disaster on the home planet.
Landscape of Darkness, A (Del Rey, 1990.)
A crack team of mercenaries is assigned an apparently easy task, destroy an alien weapons implacement on a minor human colony planet. But someone begins stalking the team as soon as it lands on the planet, someone who may be more than human.
BLAKE, STERLING (Pseudonym of Gregory Benford, whom see.)
Chiller (Bantam, 1993.)
A near future medical thriller about a serial killer and computer expert who fixates on a group of scientists who are experimenting with ways to achieve personal immortality.
BLAKEMORE, F.J.
Coming Hour, The (Sands, 1927.)
Revolt against a dystopian future government.
BLAKENEY, JAY D. (Pseudonym of Deborah Chester, whom see. See also Sean Dalton.)
Children of Anthi, The (Ace, 1985.)
Anthi #1.
A criminal hijacks a starship and escapes to another world, but there finds himself imprisoned by a religious elite that uses mutant soldiers to hold onto their power. The priests are planning a rebellion against the tyrranical government and the offworlder eventually plays a key role in their efforts.
Goda War, The (Ace, 1989.)
The Godas are enormous robot starships with the power to destroy the fabric of space and time. A desperate ruler seeing his empire crumble discovers their whereabouts and races a rival to secure their power.
Omcri Matrix, The (Ace, 1987.)
An interstellar policewoman is declared outlaw when criminals kidnap a prominent politician from her patrol, killing all her friends. She desperately seeks to remain free long enough to clear her name and rescue the man for whom she feels responsible.
Requiem for Anthi (Ace, 1990.)
Anthi #2.
The alien inhabitants of a dying world face extinction as predatory humans prepare to seize control of their planet. But members of the local priesthood have one desperate hope, that they can waken the power of a goddess.
BLASHFIELD, JEAN
Villains of Volturnus (TSR, 1983.)
A gamebook in which you pick a path among various aliens on a world that conceals a fabulous treasure. There's a time machine along one of the diverging story lines.
BLATTY, WILLIAM PETER (Also writes Horror.)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane (Doubleday, 1966, Curtis, ?.)
A satirical look at astronauts and the space program. Very marginal.
BLAYN, HUGO (Pseudonym of John Russell Fearn, whom see.)
Silvered Cage, The (Dragon, 1955.)
Not seen.
2099: A Eutopia (Thames & Hudson, 2000.)
A series of sketches taking place in a city a century from now, where genetic engineering and other scientific advances have improved the quality of life.
BLISH, JAMES (See collaborations which follow. Note that most of the Star Trek novelizations were actually written by J.A. Lawrence and Muriel Lawrence although all were credited to Blish. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
After Such Knowledge (Legend, 1991.)
Omnibus collection of novels.
And All the Stars a Stage (Doubleday, 1971, Faber, 1972, Avon, 1974.)
Scientists discover the eminent explosion of the sun. The only way to ensure the survival of the human race is for a relative handful to escape on gigantic starships. An unruly young man wins a spot aboard one of the ships and rises to a position of authority.
Anywhen (Doubleday, 1970, Avon, 1983. Faber, 1971, with added stories.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of James Blish, The (Del Rey, 1979.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best Science Fiction Stories of James Blish, The (See The Testament of Andros.)
Case of Conscience, A (Ballantine, 1958, Faber, 1959, Penguin, 1963, Easton, ?, Millennium, 2000.)
A Roman Catholic Priest visits a world peopled by intelligent reptiles who have no sense of sin, and one of the Lithians subsequently visits Earth for a grand tour. The priest is convinced the aliens were created by the Devil and requests that the planet be exorcised, but his superiors in the Church declare him guilty of heresy for assuming the Devil could create life. Blish's most famous novel and one of the few genuine masterpieces of SF.
Cities in Flight (Avon, 1970, Arrow, 1981, Millennium, 1999, Overlook, 2004, Gollancz, 2006.)
Omnibus volume of the entire series. See individual titles.
Cities in Flight Volume I (Baen, 1991.)
Omnibus containing They Shall Have Stars and A Life for the Stars.
Cities in Flight Volume II (Baen, 1991.)
Omnibus containing Earthman Come Home and The Triumph of Time.
Clash of Cymbals, A. (See The Triumph of Time.)
Dusk of Idols, A (Severn House, 1996.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Earthman, Come Home (Avon, 1955, Putnam, 1955, Faber, 1956, Mayflower, 1963.)
Cities in Flight #3.
Following the collapse of civilization on Earth, many cities erected domes and cut installed interstellar drives, cutting loose from Earth to exist as free roaming cultures. Generations later, many of the cities have descended into barbarism, and organized themselves into an army to lay siege to the homeworld.
Esper (Greenberg, 1952, Nova, 1955, Avon, 1958, Avon, 1982. Galaxy Novel, 1954, Avon, 1968, as Jack of Eagles,. Magazine title Let the Finder Beware.)
Danny Caiden has psi powers, he can read minds, predict the future, locate missing objects, and perform other paranormal feats. When he uses his abilities to make a killing on the stock market, he attracts the attention both of the authorities and of organized crime.
Fallen Star (See The Frozen Year.)
Frozen Year, The (Ballantine, 1957, Avon, 1983. Faber, 1957, Four Square, 1961, as Fallen Star.)
A science writer on an expedition to the North Pole gets the story of his life when one member of the group claims to be a Martian and attempts to sabotage the endeavor. Ambiguous resolution which may or not be SF.
Galactic Cluster (Signet, 1959, Faber, 1960, Four Square, 1963.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Get Out of My Sky & There Shall Be No Darkness (Panther, 1980.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
In This World, or Another (Five Star, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Jack of Eagles (See Esper.)
Life for the Stars, A (Putnam, 1962, Avon, 1963, Faber, 1964.)
Cities in Flight #2 (although written following the other three.)
A young man is kidnapped into space aboard a domed city that is leaving the home world to ply the star lanes as a gigantic starship. But some cities have turned pirate, and warfare has already spread into outer space.
Midsummer Century (Doubleday, 1972, Faber, 1973, DAW, 1974.)
A contemporary man is revived from suspended animation thousands of years in the future, after human civilization has risen and fallen several times. There, against a backdrop of superscience, he discovers that intelligently evolved birds are battling humans for control of the planet. Published with two unrelated stories.
Mission to the Heart Stars (Putnam, 1965, Faber, 1965, Avon, 1982.)
Star Dwellers #2.
Earth has applied for membership in a galactic civilization which has its headquarters at the densest part of the galaxy. A group of representatives sets off to plead their case, initially unaware of the fact they may be securing a death warrant for the entire race.
Night Shapes, The (Ballantine, 1962, Four Square, 1963, Avon, 1983.)
A guide reluctantly agrees to escort a scientific expedition to a remote part of Africa. There they discover that the dinosaurs aren't entirely extinct after all. Low key and thoughtful rather than adventurous.
Quincunx of Time (Dell, 1973, Faber, 1975, Avon, 1983.)
A new interstellar communicator supposedly affording instantaneous transmission of data between stars has an unfortunate side effect. All messages from all times are present at the same time, which means that it is possible to listen to messages before they are sent.
Seedling Stars, The (Signet, 1959, Faber, 1960, Gollancz, 2001.)
Not properly speaking a novel but actually four thematically related stories about the genetic engineering of humans to survive on planets with widely differing ecosystems.
Seedling Stars, The, and Galactic Cluster. (Gnome, 1957, Signet, 1983, Gollancz, 2001.)
Omnibus collection.
So Close to Home (Ballantine, 1961.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Spock Must Die! (Bantam, 1970, Corgi, 1984.)
A Star Trek adventure.
A transporter error creates a duplicate of Spock while he is preparing to investigate the disappearance of an entire planet, perhaps the first casualty in a new offensive by the Klingons.
Star Dwellers, The (Putnam, 1961, Avon, 1962, Faber, 1962.)
Star Dwellers #2.
A young astronaut encounters intelligent, bodiless creatures who may have existed since the dawn of time, and whose presence may doom the entire human race to extinction.
Star Trek (Bantam, 1967, Corgi, 1969.)
A Star Trek book.
Seven episodes from the original television program.
Star Trek 2 (Bantam, 1968, Corgi, ?)
A Star Trek book.
Eight episodes from the original television program.
Star Trek 3 (Bantam, 1969, Corgi, ?)
A Star Trek book.
Seven episodes from the original television program.
Star Trek 4 (Bantam, 1971, Corgi, ?)
A Star Trek book.
Six episodes from the original television program.
Star Trek 5 (Bantam, 1972, Corgi, ?)
A Star Trek book.
Seven episodes from the original television program.
Star Trek 6 (Bantam, 1972, Corgi, ?)
A Star Trek book.
Six episodes from the original television program.
Star Trek 7 (Bantam, 1972, Corgi, ?)
A Star Trek book.
Six episodes from the original television program.
Star Trek 8 (Bantam, 1972, Corgi, ?)
A Star Trek book.
Six episodes from the original television program.
Star Trek 9 (Bantam, 1973, Corgi, ?)
A Star Trek book.
Six episodes from the original television program.
Star Trek 10 (Bantam, 1974, Corgi, ?)
A Star Trek book.
Six episodes from the original television program.
Star Trek 11 (Bantam, 1975, Corgi, ?)
A Star Trek book.
Six episodes from the original television program.
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes Volume I (Bantam, 1991.)
Omnibus of the story versions of all the first season episodes.
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes Volume II (Bantam, 1991.)
Omnibus of the story versions of all the second season episodes.
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes Volume III (Bantam, 1991.)
Omnibus of the story versions of all the third season episodes.
Testament of Andros, The (Arrow, 1977. Faber, 1965, as The Best Science Fiction Stories of James Blish, revised version 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
They Shall Have Stars (See Year 2018!)
Titan's Daughter (Berkley, 1961, New English Library, 1963, Four Square, 1965, Avon, 1981.)
Genetic engineering has led to the breeding of giants among humans, but normals are increasingly fearful of what they see as monsters. The protagonist is a nine foot tall woman whose plight is complicated by the fact that some of her kind really are plotting to dominate the rest of humanity.
Triumph of time, The (Avon, 1958. Faber, 1959, as A Clash of Cymbals.)
Cities in Flight #4.
Researchers discover that matter is being continuously created on the planet HE, which is the gateway between our universe and one comprised of antimatter. They send a probe through and discover that the two universes are on a collision course which will destroy all of creation.
Vanished Jet, The (Weybright & Talley, 1968.)
An experimental aircraft goes into orbit.
Vor (Avon, 1958, Corgi, 1959.)
The first alien visitor to Earth is an enigmatic robotic creature apparently impervious to most human weaponry. More confounding is the fact that we can find no way of communicating with it, until one amateur realizes that it uses color as language.
Warriors of Day, The (Galaxy Novel, 1951, Lancer, 1967, Severn House, 1978. Magazine title Sword of Xota.)
A lone human tries to avert the destruction of Earth by figuring out what the inhabitants of the planet Xota actually want.
Welcome to Mars (Faber, 1967, Putnam, 1967, Sphere, 1978, Avon, 1983. Magazine title The Hour Before Earthrise) ? By Treehouse to Mars?
A precocious young boy discovers the secret of antigravity and uses it to convert his treehouse into an interplanetary vessel. But things go awry when he lands on Mars, marooning him there, where he meets native Martians while friends back on Earth figure out what happened and come to the rescue.
Work of Art and Other Stories, A (Severn House, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Year 2018! (Avon, 1957. Four Square, 1964. Faber, 1956, Avon, 1966, and New English Library, 1968, as They Shall Have Stars.)
Cities in Flight #1.
A secret construction project in orbit around the planet Jupiter is the first step in an ambitious project to propel the human race to the stars.
BLISH, JAMES & KNIGHT, NORMAN L.
Torrent of Faces, A (Doubleday, 1967, Ace, 1968, Faber, 1968.)
Overpopulation several centuries from now has reduced the Earth to near anarchy. Genetically engineered humans live in the sea as well. The only possible relief is development of an interstellar space drive.
BLISH, JAMES & LAWRENCE, J.A.
Star Trek 12 Bantam, 1977.)
A Star Trek book.
Five episodes from the original television program.
BLISH, JAMES & LOWNDES, ROBERT
Duplicated Man, The (Avalon, 1959, Airmont, 1964.)
Earth and Venus are engaged in an interplanetary war which will not end so long as Earth is controlled by a repressive government. Rebels use a matter duplicator to create copies of the heads of state, so that the ensuing chaos will render them ineffective.
Taking of the King, The (Jove, 2006.)
Marginal thriller about the theft of an advanced submarine.
BLOCH, ROBERT (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Atoms and Evil (Gold Medal, 1962, Muller, 1963, Hale, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of Robert Bloch, The (Del Rey, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Fear Planet and Other Unusual Destinations, The (Subterranean, 2005.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow (Award, 1971, Tandem, 1971.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Ladies Day & This Crowded Earth (Belmont, 1968.)
Omnibus of two short novels.
Last Plea, The (Armchair, bound with The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley.)
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Lost in Time and Space with Lefty Feep (Creatures At Large, 1987.)
Collection of zany adventures of Lefty Feep.
Mysteries of the Worm (Zebra, 1981. Chaosium, 1993, with added stories.)
Collection of related stories, all set within the Cthulhu Mythos stories of H.P. Lovecraft.
Out of My Head (NESFA Press, 1986.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sneak Preview (Paperback Library, 1971.)
Hollywood is a domed city following a nuclear war, and film making has been elevated to the level of a religion. A producer grows tired of making films which portray space travel as dangerous and costly and bucks the trend, only to stir forces previously hidden.
Strange Eons (Whispers, 1978, Pinnacle, 1979.)
In the near future, researchers discover that the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. were more or less based on fact, that there is a superhuman alien race waiting to break through a dimensional doorway to conquer our world.
This Crowded Earth (Belmont, ?, bound with . Armchasir, 2012, bound with Reign of the Telepuppets by Daniel F. Galouye.
Twilight Zone: The Movie (Warner, 1983, Corgi, 1983, from the screenplay by Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, Jerome Bixby, George Clayton Johson, John Landis, and Melissa Mathison.)
Novelization of the movie which consisted of four unrelated shorter tales.
BLOCK, FRANCESCA LIA (Also writes Fantasy.)
Ecstasia (Roc, 1993.)
Ecstasia #1.
In a future where immortality is freely provided, entertainment is the height of human activity. The protagonist becomes obsessed with a musical group, but discovers that not everything is perfect in her utopian world.
Primavera (Roc, 1994.)
Ecstasia #2.
A group of hedonists retires to a desert paradise in the far future, but one of their number begins to realize that it’s all a trap, and eventually summons the resolve to leave and live her own life.
BLOCK, THOMAS
Orbit (Coward, McCann, 1982, New English Library, 1983.)
Marginal bit about a hypersonic passenger ship that inadvertently ends up in orbit, requiring rescue.
BLOME, ED
Title Deleted for Security Reasons (West End, 1993.)
Marginal spy thriller involving supercomputers. Based on a role playing game.
BLOODSTONE, JOHN (Pseudonym of Stuart J. Byrne, whom see.)
Godman! (Powell, 1970.)
A Burroughsian adventure in which a man goes through an interdimensional doorway on the moon, finds himself in a realm of warring city states, and uses his technological knowledge to alter the course of that world's history.
Thundar, Man of Two Worlds (Leisure, 1971.)
An explorer in South America falls through a time gate and finds himself in a prehistoric world that nevertheless has artifacts from the far future. An amusing but badly written blend of SF and fantasy themes.
BLOOM, HAROLD
Flight to Luficer, The (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979, Vintage, 1980.)
A social satire set on another planet where a colony world is beset with rebels and outlaws, and troubled by a religious controversy that is shaking the very foundations of the planet's culture.
BLOOM, BRITTON
Matrix Cubed (TSR, 1991.)
#3 in the multi-author Buck Rogers series.
Internal politics threaten the political stability of the planet Mercury in the 25th Century. Someone has murdered a member of the royal family, and an unfriendly power has developed a destructive ray that threatens the continued liberty of the inner planets.
BLOOR, EDWARD (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Plague Year, A (Ember, 2012.)
A plague results in the collapse of civilization.
Taken (Knopf, 2009.)
Young adult dystopian novel.
BLOW, ERNEST J.
Appointment in Space (Consul, 1963.)
Martians ask Earth for help.
BLUM, JONATHAN & ORMAN, KATE
Seeing I (BBC, 1998.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor gets involved with a mysterious corporation that has apparently succumbed to the influence of alien infiltrators. When he tries to investigate, he is imprisoned, while his companion is lost on her own.
Unnatural History (BBC, 1999.)
A Doctor Who novel.
In the year 2000, the laws of nature seemed to have been altered in San Francisco. There are reports of inhuman creatures and strange events involving another dimension.
Vampire Science (BBC, 1997.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor has to return to Earth when he discovers that the race of vampires supposedly wiped out by the Time Lords has survived and is preparing to rejuvenate itself.
BLUM, RALPH
Simultaneous Man, The (Little, Brown, 1970, Bantam, 1971.)
Scientists develop a method for copying the information, and personality, from one brain to another. Shadowy organizations within the government see this as an opportunity to increase their power to spy on one another.
BLUM, ROBERT S.
Girl from the Emeraline Island, The (Del Rey, 1984.)
Earth has become a simpler, more primitive place following an interstellar war, and not all of its citizens are human. A young woman struggles to find her place in a society that believes women should remain in domestic roles, and has subsequent adventures involving aliens from another community.
BLUMENFELD, BRUCE
Last Rainbow, The (IUniverse, 2003.)
Large, sprawling kitchen sink novel about a disaster facing humanity and a new savior.
BLUMLEIN, MICHAEL (Also writes Horror.)
Brains of Rats, The (Scream Press, 1989, Dell, 1997.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Healer, The (Pyr, 2005.)
A mutation gives some people the power to heal.
Movement of Mountains, The (St Martins, 1987.)
A doctor leaves overpopulated earth for a colony world where genetically engineered slaves do much of the work. While organizing a rebellion, he discovers a plague that affects mental powers and uses it to undermine the repressive government of Earth.
BLY, SCOTT
Smasher (Blue Sky, 2014.)
A talented boy from the present is transported into a crisis in the future.
BLYTH, J.
Aerial Burglars, The (Ward Lock,1906.)
The invention of a flying machine changes the world for the better.
Peril of Pines Place, The (White, 1912.)
An attempt to overthrow the government of England.
Swoop of the Vulture, The (Digby, Long, 1909.)
Future war between England and Germany.
Tyranny, The (Heinemann, 1907.)
A dictator seizes control of England and launches a war against Germany.
BLYTHE, DANIEL
Autonomy (BBC, 2009.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Nestene Consciousness invades a high tech world.
Dimension Riders, The (Doctor Who, 1993.)
New Adventures of Doctor Who #20.
The Doctor visits an orbiting space station above Earth and discovers that spectral figures from the future are manifesting themselves. A creature with the ability to warp time has returned to make the Doctor's life difficult once again.
Infinite Requiem (Doctor Who Books, 1995.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure.
The Doctor pits his wits against the Sensopaths, three conspirators who can tap into the racial subconscious, and who plan to seize control of a future society of peaceful telepaths.
Savior of Fire (Blue Note, 1991.)
Earth opens contact with a humanoid race which seems much like us, but which hides a dark secret.
BOATMAN, GARRETT
Stage Fright (Onyx, 1988.)
A rock musician of the near future experiments with a drug derived from schizophrenics and a machine which allows dreams to be recorded. As a result, his nightmares become terrifyingly and dangerously real, capable of walking the streets and murdering people. The drug itself begins to alter his personality, so that he hates and fears everyone he meets.
BODEEN, S.A.
Compound, The (Fiewel, 2008.)
Life in a bomb shelter.
BODELSEN, ANDERS
Freezing Down (Berkley, 1972, translated by Joan Tate. Harper & Row, 1971, Michael Joseph, 1971, as Freezing Point, original Danish version, 1969.)
Revived from suspended animation into a world with weather control and other futuristic advances, a man from our age yearns for the woman he loved until he discovers that she too has been frozen and is awaiting the scheduled thawing of her body.
Freezing Point (See Freezing Down.)
BODMAN, KARNA SMALL
Check-Mate (Forge, 2007.)
Marginal thriller involving a new kind of missile defense.
BOFFARD, ROB
Adrift (Orbit, 2018.)
Impact
Tracer (Orbit, 2015.)
The only survivors of ruined Earth live on a space station and one of them is crazy.
Zero-G (Redhook, 2016.)
A prison break in space.
BOGDANOV, ALEXANDER
Red Star (Indiana University, 1984, translated from the Russian by Charles Rougle.)
Two short novels, the longer of which is a Communist Utopian novel set on Mars.
BOGEN, NANCY
Bagatelle – Guinevere (Twickenham, 1995.)
Silliness about a frustrated poet who volunteers for a space mission to a newly discovered planet only to be kidnapped by the locals.
BOGGON, MARTYN
Inevitable Hour, The (Award, 1968, Tandem, 1968.)
A handful of carefully picked elitists waits in a bomb shelter during a nuclear war, convinced that they will be able to emerge from the ruins and pick up the reins of power. Unfortunately, one among their number is a murderer who prefers to improve his own survival chances by eliminating the competition.
BOGNER, NORMAN
Snow Man (Dell, 1978.)
An abominable snowman walks around with a heat ray of some sort emanating from its eyes, destroying everyone it doesn't like. The carnivorous beast preys on human beings, for which it has developed a taste. The authorities eventually destroy it. .
BOHNHOFF, MAYA KAATHRYN (See collaboration with Michael Reaves. Also writes Fantasy.)
BOISGILBERT, EDMUND (See Ignatius Donnelly.)
BOLAND, JOHN
Holocaust (Orbit, 1974.)
A military satellite malfunctions and begins randomly attacking the Earth.
No Refuge (Michael Joseph, 1956, Mayflower, 1963.)
Two thugs visit a utopian community in the arctic and are dealt with after breaking the local rules.
White August (Michael Joseph, 1955, Digit, 1956, Brown-Watson, 1957, Mayflower, 1963, Arcadia, 1965.)
A future war novel in which a fascist aggressor, probably a thinly disguised Soviet Union, nearly conquers England by using weather control to create endless snowstorms.
BOLIN, M.C.
Armageddon (Hyperion, 1998, based on the screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh & Robert Pool.)
A gigantic asteroid is headed for Earth, and minor strikes have already wreaked terrible damage. A crew of professional drillers is drafted to go out into space, land on the asteroid, and split it into two pieces using a nuclear weapon.
BOLME, EDWARD (Also writes Fantasy.)
Title Deleted for Security Reasons
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BOLTON, JOHANNA M.
Alien Within, The (Del Rey, 1988.)
A space captain picks up a cargo that contains a living alien in suspended animation, and immediately finds herself caught between human and alien warships, both intent upon destroying her and her guest.
Mission: Tori (Del Rey, 1990.)
An agent for the human empire is on the planet Tori to track down the reason for a series of diplomatic reversals and murders, accompanied by an android who may be working for the benefit of an alien power. The planet is host to a sinister parasite.
Killed by Death (?)
Spoof of various SF plots.
BONANNO, MARGARET WANDER (See also Rick North and collaboration with Nichelle Nichols.)
Burning Dreams (Pocket, 2006.)
A Star Trek novel.
The life story of Christopher Pike, Kirl’s predecessor.
Catalyst of Sorrows (Pocket, 2004.)
A Star Trek novel.
A Romulan refugee tries to warn Admiral Uhura of a danger to the peace.
Dwellers in Crucible (Pocket, 1985.)
A Star Trek adventure.
As a device to ensure peace, each intelligent species in the Federation has sent one delegate as a hostage to their homeworld's good intentions. The Romulans kidnap several of these hostages, and will use them to upset the tranquility of the Federation unless the Enterprise can bring about a timely rescue.
Others, The (St Martins, 1990.)
Others #1.
An alien world is populated by two races, one highly advanced in terms of science, secure in its society, using genetic engineering to ensure the continuity of their species. The other lives a chancier life, unaware of their neighbors, until more adventurous explorers threaten to alter the status quo.
OtherWhere (St Martins, 1991.)
Others #2.
The more vigorous of two species introduced in volume one has attacked the pacificistic race who tried to help them and now they are warring among themselves as well. Can one modest historian find the key to save both races before they destroy the world?
OtherWise (St Martins, 1993.)
Others #3.
After the peaceful Others have been almost exterminated by the People, a few survivors return from exile to discover their enemies have turned upon each other, and now hope that for assistance from those they previously tried to kill.
Preternatural (Tor, 1996.)
Preternatural #1.
A science fiction writer has some interesting problems when the aliens she has created in her latest book begin communicating with her telepathically.
Preternatural Three: The Third Thing (Tor, 2002.)
Preternatural #3.
A race trapped between realities influences people in our world.
Preternatural Too: Gyre (Tor, 2000, Forge, 2001.)
Preternatural #2.
Still confused about reality and fiction, a writer involved with Hollywood decides to write a new book to explore her possible interface with an alien world and discovers that they are real.
Probe (Pocket, 1992.)
A Star Trek adventure.
A direct sequel to the fourth Star Trek movie, this story follows the Enterprise on its mission to discover the origin of the mysterious probe that nearly destroyed the Earth. They must unravel its secrets before it makes a return visit, and succeeds where it failed in the past.
Strangers from the Sky (Pocket, 1987.)
A Star Trek adventure.
An interesting episode in the ongoing series which alternates between the story of the first contact between humans and Vulcans, and Kirk's recurring dreams of an alternate history where he traveled back through time and prevented the Federation from being formed.
BOND, GWENDA
Suspicious Minds (Del Rey, 2019.)
A Stranger Things novel.
A secret government project experiments on a young girl with psi powers.
BOND, J. HARVEY (See also Russ Winterbotham.)
Other World, The (Avalon, 1963, Mayflower, 1964, Priory, undated.)
A mad scientist discovers the existence of other dimensions.
BOND, LARRY (See collaboration which follows.)
Red Phoenix (Warner, 1989.)
Very large, detailed, military oriented novel about the second Korean War, fought on land and sea, and with effects all through the world.
BOND, LARRY & DEFELICE, JIM
Red Dragon Rising #1.
Shadows of War (Forge, 2009.)
Nuclear war threatens in the near future as the world's ecology deteriorates.
BOND, NANCY (Also writes Fantasy.)
Voyage Begun, The (McElderry, 1981.)
Not seen.
BOND, NELSON (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Exiles of Time (Prime Press, 1949, Paperback Library, 1965.)
A small band of people exiled through time to the far past discovers an ancient, technological civilization menaced by an oncoming comet.
Far Side of Nowhere, The (Arkham House, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
No Time Like the Future (Avon, 1954.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Phantom Out of Time (Armchair, 2017, bound with Myshkin by David V. Reed. Magazine appearance 1943.)
A galactic dictator uses a new weapon against rebels.
Remarkable Adventures of Lancelot Biggs, Spaceman, The (Doubleday, 1950, Wildside, 2000.)
Collection of space adventures with a common protagonist.
Sons of the Deluge (Armchair, 2015, bound with Dawn of the Demi-Gods by Raymond Z. Gallun. Magazine appearance 1940.)
Time travelers try to warn Atlantis about the imminent disaster.
That Worlds May Live (Wildside, 2002. Magazine version published in 1943.)
Old fashioned space opera in which humans discover that a ray from another world is shrinking the solar system.
Thirty-First of February (Gnome, 1949.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Under Venusian Flags (Armchair, 2018, bound with Blood on My Jets by Algis Budrys. Magazine appearance 1942 as Where Freemen Shall Stand.)
A man finds himself in a future where Earth has been conquered by Venus.
Wanderers of the Wolf Moon (Armchair, 2015, bound with Into the Green Prism by A. Hyatt Verrill. Magazine appearance 1944.)
A spaceship crashlands on Titan and finds primitives.
Where Freemen Shall Stand (See Under Venusian Flags.)
BONE, J.F.
Confederation Matador (Starblaze, 1978.)
The agent of a galactic empire gets involved with a conspiracy against the throne and the development of a method of transplanting personalities from one body to another.
Founding Father (Armchair, 2015, bound with Minions of the Tiger by Chester S. Geier. Magazine appearance 1962.)
Two aliens stranded on Earth use two humans to help them escape.
Lani People, The (Bantam, 1962, Corgi, 1962, Armchair, ?)
The Lani are an almost human species, close enough that females are exported as sex toys. Efforts to emancipate them meet with powerful resistance from entrenched commercial interests.
Legacy (Laser, 1976.)
A professional soldier is stranded on a remote world and joins the local police force in order to support himself. The chief source of crime on that planet is drug trafficking, a drug that gives its users superhuman strength and a nasty disposition.
Meddlers, The (Laser, 1976.)
An astute politician realizes that the galactic empire is on the brink of collapse, instigated by a secret organization that has infiltrated the highest levels of government. His attempts to reverse the trend attracts the attention of dangerous enemies.
Second Chance (Armchair, 2011, bound with Mission to a Distant Star by Frank Belknap Long. Magazine appearance 1959.)
Two people wake up in an abandoned alien building on a deserted planet.
BONE, J.F. & MYERS, ROY
Gift of the Manti (Laser, 1977.)
The Manti are a brilliant, advanced race whose homeworld was destroyed by a solar cataclysm. Cast loose in a galactic society, they engage in large scale games and plots that affect the future of other species. Sometimes the gift of knowledge turns out to be more of a curse than a blessing.
BONESTEEL, ELIZABETH
Cold Between, The (Harper, 2016.)
Central Corps #1.
Military SF involving a murder mystery.
BONHAM, FRANK (Also writes Fantasy.)
Forever Formula, The (Dutton, 1979, Vagabond, ?.)
A teenager is placed in suspended animation and wakens in a future dictatorship whose rulers hope to use him to find the secret of immortality.
Missing Persons League, The (Dutton, 1976, Vagabond, ?.)
The government grows increasingly repressive as Earth's ecosystem deteriorates. But people are suddenly disappearing, and the authorities want to know where they're going. Illogical conclusion involving suspended animation. For younger readers.
BONTLY, THOMAS (Also writes Fantasy.)
Giant's Shadow, The (Random House, 1988, Pinnacle, 1991.)
Marginal spy thriller about a secret manuscript that might bring the Soviet Union to its knees.
BOONE, EZEKIEL
Hatching, The (Emily Bestler, 2016.)
Spiders #1.
Intelligent spiders begin to take over the world.
BOORMAN, JOHN & STAIR, BILL
Zardoz (Signet, 1974, from the screenplay by John Boorman.)
A futuristic professional killer in the pay of a being who believes himself a god finds his own life in danger and turns on his former master.
BOOT, ANDY
A Kind of Peace (Abaddon, 2006.)
A Dreams of Inan novel.
Warfare on a planet where magic may work. Arguably fantasy.
BORGES, JORGE LUIS (Also writes Fantasy.)
Collected Fictions (Penguin, 1998.)
Collection of unrelated stories, not all of which are SF.
Ficciones. (Argentine edition, 1956. Grove, 1962, Grove Weidenfeld, 1963, Knopf, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories, some of which are SF.
Labyrinths (New Directions, 1964, Norton, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories, some of which are SF.
BORNEFELD, WILLIAM
Time and Light (Borealis, 1996.)
Claustrophobic novel of a city existing in the middle of a radioactive world, with a protagonist whose personality begins to change when he discovers the truth about the outside world.
BORODIN, GEORGE
Spurious Sun (Laurie, 1948. Regular Publications, 1954, as The Threatened People.)
An atomic explosion in Scotland.
Threatened People, The (See Spurious Sun.)
BOSSE, MALCOLM
Mister Touch (Ticknor & Fields, 1991.)
A new virus spreads across the world with devastating effects, killing almost the entire human race. A handful of survivors organize themselves in Manhattan and set out to cross the country to a refuge in Arizona. Spiritual overtones in a very quirky after the disaster setting.
BOSTON, BRUCE (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Skin Trades (Drumm, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Short Circuits (Ocean View, 1991, bound with Bad News from the Stars by Steve Sneyd.)
Collection of unrelated stories, some of which are SF.
BOSTON, LUCY M. (Also writes Fantasy.)
Sea Egg, The (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967, Scholastic, 1975.)
Two young boys discover the viable egg of a prehistoric creature on the ocean floor. For younger readers.
BOSTRUM, HANK (Pseudonym of William H. Lovejoy, whom also see.)
Ocean Black (Pinnacle, 1995.)
High tech adventure on the ocean floor as a ruthless businessman uses advanced submarines and robots to protect his secret plot to open up a vein of valuable minerals by precipitating a devastating earthquake in California.
BOSWELL, D.
Posterity (Jonathan Cape, 1926.)
A future in which birth control is mandated by the government.
BOTELHO, RICHARD
Reason for Existence (Bookbaby, 2016.)
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BOTHELL, DIANE J.
Rinim Poodor (Three Stones, 1986.)
Confusing epic about the invasion of a galaxy by barbarians from another.
Clockwork Woman, The (Telos, 2004.)
A Time Hunter novel.
Time travelers trapped in the 19th Century are helped by an artificial person.
BOUCHER, ANTHONY
Compleat Boucher, The (NESFA, 1999.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Compleat Werewolf, The (Ace, 1969, Simon & Schuster, 1969, W.H. Allen, 1970.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Compleat Werewolf and Other Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The (Carroll & Graf, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Far and Away (Ballantine, 1953.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BOUCHER, CHRIS
Corpse Marker (BBC, 1999.)
A Doctor Who novel.
Someone is reprogramming the robot workers on a remote planet so that they are capable of killing people. The authorities want to suppress the news to prevent a panic, and the Doctor is determined to find out who is responsible and solve the problem.
Last Man Running (BBC, 1998.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor arrives on a planet filled with surprisingly hostile and dangerous creatures, and eventually discovers that the world is an experimental station used by unscrupulous men to design biological weapons of war.
Match of the Day (BBC, 2005.)
A Doctor Who novel.
Leela is challenged to a duel to the death.
Psi-Ence Fiction (BBC, 2001.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor and Leela investigate a murder that took place near a university where students have been investigating the paranormal.
BOUCHER-KAPLAN, ALINE
Khyren (Baen, 1988.)
A woman suddenly finds herself on a primitive world.
World Spirits (Baen, 1991.)
A sometimes overly complex novel that alternates between a woman trying to accomplish a secret mission on a world where religion dominates every aspect of life, and a man attempting to track a condemned terrorist sent as slave labor to a hostile jungle planet.
BOUDINOT, RYAN
Blueprints of the Afterlife (Black Cat, 2012.)
Post Apocalyptic satire.
BOULLE, PIERRE
Garden on the Moon (Vanguard, 1965, Secker & Warburg, 1965, Signet, 1966, translated from the French by Xan Fielding.)
A lowkey and generally uninteresting novel of scientists and their struggles to put the first colony on the moon.
Monkey Planet (See Planet of the Apes.)
Planet of the Apes (Vanguard, 1963, Gramercy, 1963, Signet, 1964, Secker & Warburg, 1964, Lightyear, 1993, Del Rey, 2001, translated from the French by Xan Fielding.. Penguin, 1965, as Monkey Planet.)
A satirical look at a future Earth where apes have evolved and displaced humanity as the dominant species, as seen through the eyes of human astronauts who have traveled through time. Inspiration for the film, which changes the mood and details considerably..
Time Out of Mind (Vanguard, 1966, Secker & Warburg, 1966, Signet, 1969, translated from the French by Xan Fielding & Elisabeth Abbott.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BOULT, S. KYE (Pseudonym of William Cochrane, whom see.)
Solo Kill (Berkley, 1977.)
A series of short stories assembled as a novel set on an alien world where the inhabitants have the ability to fly, and where warrior skills are highly valued.
BOUNDS, SYDNEY J.
Best of Sydney J. Bounds Vol I, The (Venture, 2016.)
Collection of one unpublished novel and unrelated short stories.
Best of Sydney J. Bounds Vol II, The (Venture, 2016.)
Collection of one unpublished novel and unrelated short stories.
Dimension of Horror (Panther, 1953. Venture, 2017, as The Vanishing Man.)
A mission to avert a war between humans and Venusians is complicated by the arrival of a mysterious emissary from another dimension, and the romance between a human male and a Venusian female.
Frontier Legion (Venture, 2016.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Moon Raiders, The (W, Foulsham, 1955, Digit, 1958. Ulversoft, 2008, Venture, 2018, as Sword of Damocles.)
Batlike aliens from another world arrive in flying saucers to raid the Earth for the metals it needs to sustain its civilization. A human investigator gets kidnapped to the moon before supplying the key to victory to the government.
Robot Brains (Digit, 1958, Arcadia House, 1967, MacFadden, 1969.)
Robot intelligences from another world are systematically murdering prominent humans whose discoveries might pose a challenge to them.
Sword of Damocles (See The Moon Raiders.)
Vanishing Man, The (See Dimension of Horror.)
World Wrecker, The (W. Foulsham, 1956, Digit, 1964.)
A mysterious man who can walk through walls to commit his crimes throws the world into an uproar. Elsewhere, there are rumors that a Martian spaceship has landed in the jungle, but before the stories can be investigated, earthquakes and other natural disasters through the planet into turmoil.
BOURNE, J.L. (Also writes Horror.)
Tomorrow War (Gallery, 2015.)
Civilization collapses.
BOUTIN, OTTO
Gold Maker, The (Leisure, 1981.)
A victim of Nazi atrocities during World War II survives, crippled, but still holding the secret of alchemy in his brain. He knows how to transform base metals into gold, and hopes to use this secret to make further world conflicts impossible.
BOVA, BEN (See collaborations which follow.)
Able One (Tor, 2010.)
An experimental system is used when North Korea threatens a nuclear attack.
Atermath, The (Tor, 2007.)
Asteroid Wars #4.
Although the war in space is apparently over, old enmities die hard.
Aliens (St Martin, 1978.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
As on a Darkling Plain (Walker, 1972, Dell, 1974, Magnum, 1981, Tor, 1985.)
An alien base, untenanted but still functioning, is discovered on Titan. A man who believes that the aliens have already once destroyed human civilization decides to take pre-emptive steps to avoid a second disaster, but political rivals endanger his plan.
Astral Mirror, The (Tor, 1985.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Battlestation (Tor, 1987.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of Bova, The (Baen, 2016.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Brothers, Bantam, 1996. (New English Library, 1996, Easton, 1996. See revised edition as The Immortality Factor.)
Two brothers are involved in opposite sides in a legal battle that rages when scientists discover a technique to regenerate human organs, suggesting immortality may be possible. They are also both involved with the same woman.
Challenges (Tor, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
City of Darkness (Scribners, 1976, Berkley, 1982, Starscape, 2004.)
The domed city of New York is essentially deserted, except for tourists and criminals. A young boy fails to leave before the doors are locked for the off season and must survive despite the violence that erupts from the hidden undercity.
Colony (Pocket, 1978, Magnum, 1979, Tor, 1988, Avon, 1999.)
Set in the same universe as the Kinsman series.
Broadly scoped novel of a future where Earth has on the one hand disintegrated into rival barbarian states and on the other has successfully established colonies in orbit and on the moon. The protagonist is a genetically engineered human secretly designed by greedy corporations to undermine what remains of governmental authority.
Cyberbooks (Tor, 1989, Mandarin, 1990.)
A satirical look at the future of the publishing industry, where literature has become even more of a product than now, and the dangerous mistake an inventor makes when he finds a way to eliminate the actual book from the process altogether.
Death Dream (Bantam, 1994, New English Library, 1994.)
A virtual reality theme park turns deadly when some of the amusements turn out to be more than just an artificial thrill. Some of them turn deadly when a saboteur joins the staff.
Death Wave (Tor, 2015.)
Star Quest #2.
Space explorers must convince the Earth that a cosmic catastrophe is looming.
Duelling Machine, The (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969, Faber, 1971, Signet, 1973, Ace, 1978.)
Virtual reality provides a perfect way to resolve violent conflicts without actually hurting anyone, but an innovative would be conquerer uses the device to gather power to himself by finding a way to actually kill participants and he is on the verge of an interstellar war to conquer Earth.
Earth (Tor, 2019.)
A colonized solar system leads to conflict.
Empire Builders (Tor, 1993.)
An American entrepreneur thwarts misguided ecologists and narrowminded politicians as he uses his personal fortune to ensure the continued exploitation of space in this not always convincing wish fulfillment fantasy for engineers.
End of Exile (Dutton, 1975.)
Exiles #3.
After an endless flight between the stars, a group of genetically shaped supermen carve out a new home for themselves on a new world.
Escape! (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970, Scholastic, 1970.)
Near future thriller for younger readers about an escapee from a technologically advanced penal system.
Escape Plus (Tor, 1984, Methuen, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Exiled from Earth (Dutton, 1971.)
Exiles #1.
A group of genetically enhanced young people is exiled from the homeworld because people fear that their superior minds and bodies will cause them to seize control. They modify their orbiting prison and turn it into a starship.
Exiles Trilogy, The (Berkley, 1980, Baen, 1994.)
Omnibus of Exiled from Earth, Flight of Exiles, and End of Exile.
Farside (Tor, 2013.)
Someone is sabotaging a new base on the moon.
Flight of Exiles (Dutton, 1972.)
Exiles #2.
Genetically superior humans who were banished from Earth simply because they were different create a workable society as their starship home travels from one star to another.
Forward in Time (Walker, 1973, Popular Library, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Future Crime (Tor, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Green Trap, The (Forge, 2006.)
Marginal story about the discovery of a new method of cleaning the environment and the struggle for control of it.
Immortality Factor, The (Tor, 2009. Expanded version of Brothers, which see.)
Marginal story about the fight over stem cell research.
Jupiter (Hodder, 2000, Tor, 2001, New English Library, 2001.)
Jupiter #1.
An intrusive government on Earth sends a scientist to a research station orbiting Jupiter with orders to spy on the staff and discover if they are involved in any disloyal activities. He learns that they have found possibly intelligent lifeforms in the Jovian atmosphere, and decides to join rather than expose them.
Kinsman (Dial Press, 1979, Orbit, 1979, Dell, 1981.)
Kinsman #1 (though written after the nominal second volume).
Despite the reluctance of the US government to finance a serious effort to build a base on the moon, but a determined man of vision perseveres to make his dream real despite the political and even physical opposition of his enemies.
Kinsman Saga, The (Tor, 1987, Easton, ?, Avon, 2000.)
Omnibus of Kinsman and Millenium.
Laugh Lines (Baen, 2008.)
Omnibus of The Starcrossed, Cyberbooks, and several short stories.
Leviathans of Jupiter (Tor, 2011.)
Jupiter #2.
An attempt to prove that life on Jupiter is intelligent.
Mars (Bantam, 1992, New English Library, 1993.)
Mars #1.
Very realistic look at the first expedition to Mars, which is crippled by a mysterious disease along with the expected dangers of vacuum, extreme cold, and other natural dangers. One member of the crew is considered an outsider, but eventually proves to be crucial to the survival of the others.
Mars, Inc. (Baen, 2013.)
?
Mars Life (Tor, 2008.)
Mars #3.
The discovery of fossils on Mars disturbs the theocratic government on Earth.
Maxwell's Demons (Ace, 1978, Baronet, 1978.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Mercury (Tor, 2005, Hodder, 2005.)
Mercury is the setting for the resolution of an old conspiracy involving sabotage, murder, and corporate greed.
Millenium (Random House, 1976, MacDonald & Janes, 1976, Del Rey, 1977.)
Kinsman #2 (but actually written and published first)
The world is on the brink of nuclear war and multi-national forces on the moon combine in a desperate plot to prevent what appears to be inevitable. Hampering their efforts is the presence of a saboteur.
Moonrise (Avon, 1996, Hodder, 1996, Easton, 1996, New English Library ?.)
Moon #1.
A generational novel about the exploration and eventual exploitation of the moon. The central family is supposedly fascinated with the romantic aspects of Earth's satellite, but the treatment is relentlessly scientific and technical.
Moonwar (Hodder, 1997, Avon, 1998, New English Library, ?.)
Moon #2.
Nanotechnology is outlawed on Earth as the public reacts to the threat of unrestricted science, and a cabal of business leaders plots to seize control of the independent colony forming on the moon. The lunar inhabitants declare their independence and launch a political and economic campaign to ensure their security.
Multiple Man, The (Bobbs-Merrill, 1976, Del Rey, 1977, Gollancz, 1977.)
A string of mysterious killings on the periphery of the US Presidency attracts the attention of a White House staffer who realizes the victims were all carbon copies - clones - of the man for whom he works.
New Earth (Tor, 2013.)
Star Quest #1.
The first Earthlike planet is discovered.
New Frontiers (Tor, 2014.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Orion (Tor, 1984, Simon & Schuster, 1984, Fireside, 1984, Severn House, 1985.)
Orion #1.
An immortal but not supernatural hero watches over the progress of the human race. He knows that if he abandons his battle, the nature of space and time will be altered and the human race may not only be destroyed, it may cease ever to have existed.
Orion Among the Stars (Tor, 1995.)
Orion #5.
The immortal warrior whose adventures span time and space has fallen in love just when he's required to deal with a war between the human race and an alien enemy. Another alien species tries to convince him to help them bring the war to an end.
Orion and King Arthur (Tor, 2012.)
Orion #6.
Orion must prevent King Arthur from being erased from history.
Orion and the Conqueror (Tor, 1994.)
Orion #4.
The immortal Orion is marooned in Macedonia during the reign of Philip the Great, where he must battle the Creators to save the entire human race.
Orion in the Dying Time (Tor, 1990, Methuen, 1991.)
Orion #3.
The immortal guardian of the human race is sent back through time to prehistory to combat yet another threat to the timelines. Has more a feel of fantasy than science fiction despite efforts to rationalize the more extravagant elements, which include a species of intelligent dinosaur.
Out of the Sun (Holt Rinehart, 1968, Tor, 1984.)
Collection of unrelated stories and essays.
Peacekeepers, The (Tor, 1988.)
Following a limited nuclear war in the Mideast, an international agency is created with sole control of an orbiting nuclear arsenal and a mandate to stop any further international conflicts. Although their weaponry is sufficient to daunt any conventional attack, a terrorist organization steals a small number of nuclear weapons and threatens to use them.
Power Play (Tor, 2011.)
A new method of generating electricity becomes a political football.
Powersat (Tor, 2005.)
An international conspiracy tries to stop efforts to create cheap orbiting power.
Power Surge (Tor, 2015.)
?
Precipice, The (Hodder, 2001, Tor, 2001, New English Library, 2001.)
Asteroid Wars #1.
Two contending groups attempt to take control of the asteroid belt, one to save the Earth's economy, the other to make themselves rich.
Privateers (Tor, 1985, Methuen, 1986, Avon, 2000.)
The US has largely abandoned space to the Russians, who have a large installation on the moon, but an American entrepreneur captures an asteroid and moves it to Earth's orbit. When the Russians seize the asteroid, and the government's of Earth refuse to act in his behalf, the American decides to work outside the law to protect his interests in space.
Prometheans, The (Tor, 1986.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Return, The (Tor, 2009.)
Voyagers #4.
A star traveler returns to an Earth that has changed dramatically.
Return to Mars (Avon, 1999, New English Library, 1999.)
Mars #2.
The second expedition to Mars seeks to investigate remnants of an ancient Martian civilization. Their job is made more difficult when one of their number undergoes a mental breakdown and begins sabotaging operations to force an early termination to their visit.
Rock Rats (Tor, 2002, Hodder, 2002, New English Library, 2002.)
Asteroid Wars #2.
More struggles between an earthbound entrepreneur with delusions of grandeur and the free spirited mining community among the asteroids, who refuse to be dominated.
Sam Gunn Forever (Avon, 1998.)
Sam Gunn #2.
Collection of related stories.
Sam Gunn Omnibus, The (Tor, 2007.)
Collection of related stories.
Sam Gunn Unlimited (Methuen, 1992, Bantam, 1993.)
Sam Gunn #1.
Episodic adventures of a clever rogue making a living in a civilization that stretches through the solar system. Originally published as a series of short stories.
Saturn (Hodder, 2002, Tor, 2003, New English Library, 2003.)
Religious persecution on Earth causes people to look to colonzing the moons of Saturn as their last hope of freedom.
Silent War, The (Tor, 2004, Hodder, 2004, New English Library, 2004.)
Asteroid Wars #3.
The battle for control of the resources of the asteroid belt continues, with a third company entering the fray and a vengeful space pirate plotting revenge.
Star Brothers (Tor, 1990.)
An ex-astronaut struggles to save the world from a horrible plague.
Starcrossed, The (Pyramid, 1976, Magnum, 1980, Tor, 1988.)
In a rather preposterous near future, Hollywood has become the biggest business in America and television is broadcast in three dimensions. When a new science fiction show debuts, the course of human history suddenly changes.
Star Conquerors, The (Winston, 1959.)
Earth is involved in an interstellar war with an alien race. For younger readers.
Star Watchman (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964, Dobson, 1972, Ace, 1978.)
Humans are spreading through the galaxy once again, but they remain ever watchful for an alien race that nearly destroyed the species once before. That watchfulness is in jeopardy, though, when a single planet on the fringes rebels against the rules imposed by the interstellar community.
Tales of the Grand Tour (Tor, 2004.)
Collection of loosely related stories.
Test of Fire (Tor, 1982, Methuen, 1984. Revised and expanded version of When the Sky Burned.)
THX 1138 (Paperback Library, 1971, Panther, 1978, from the script by George Lucas and Walter Murch.)
Novelization of the film. Depressing dystopian bit about a future where conformity is an absolute way of life until one individual discovers the existence of his own ego and rebels.
Titan (Tor, 2006, Hodder, 2006.)
A group of dissidents attempt to build a colony on Saturn's largest moon.
Transhuman (Baen, 2014.)
A man discovers a way to reverse the ageing process.
Triumph (Tor, 1993.)
In the waning days of World War II, Winston Churchill instigates a secret plan that successful causes the death of Joseph Stalin, although the course of history doesn't change as much as might be expected.
Twice Seven (Avon, 1998.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Uranus (Tor, 2020.)
Outer Planets #1.
Intrigue in the colonies most remote from Earth.
Vengeance of Orion (Tor, 1988, Severn House, 1988.)
Orion #2.
Orion must convince the Greek armies not to lay waste to Troy if he is to save the woman he loves. But if he does that, will he have fatally altered the entire course of human history.
Venus (Tor, 2000, New English Library, 2000.)
A billionaire posts a large reward for whoever will retrieve his son's body from where it crashed on Venus. His estranged son and a bitter rival both lead expeditions to win the prize, but the existence of a form of life which eats through the hulls of their ships forces the two to combine forces in order to survive.
Viewpoint (NESFA Press, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Voyagers (Doubleday, 1981, Methuen, 1982, Bantam, 1982, Tor, 1989.)
Voyagers #1.
An alien ship has been detected entering the solar system, and the governments of Earth are in a conspiracy to conceal that fact even while they all covet the secrets it may hold. A group of scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain struggles to make the secret public, so that more than a select few will reap the benefits.
Voyagers II: The Alien Within (Tor, 1986, Severn House, 1987.)
Voyagers #2.
The man who successfully prevented the suppression of the news of an alien starship wakens from suspended animation to find that his old allies are now in control of the advanced technology found aboard the ship. But he also discovers that there is an intelligent creature somehow living within his mind.
Voyagers III: Star Brothers (Tor, 1990, Methuen, 1990.)
Voyagers #3.
With the secrets of alien science unraveling within his mind, and the presence of minute alien technological devices within his body, Keith Stoner controls the power to alter the future of the human race. Of course that means that other members of the corporate elite covet that power for themselves.
Watchmen, The (Baen, 1994.)
Omnibus of The Duelling Machine and The Star Watchmen)
Weathermakers, The (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967, Charter, ?, Dobson, 1969, Signet, 1973.)
A scientist struggles to acquire funding for his program of weather control, but not at the cost of making it yet another weapon in the Pentagon's arsenal.
When the Sky Burned (Walker, 1973, Popular Library, ?, later revised and expanded as Test Fire.)
A combination of a solar flare and a nuclear exchange have left Earth blighted and people by barbaric nations waging incessant war. The relatively civilized moon colony sends an expedition to retrieve necessary raw materials from Earth, and the leader of the group has a confrontation with his father, who rules an expanding empire.
Winds of Altair, The (Tor, 1983, Dutton, 1983, Severn House, 1989.)
Earth is dying and the only likely salvation is the terraforming of one of the planets orbiting Altair. But the scientist in charge of the project has second thoughts when he discovers there is an intelligent alien species already resident on that world, and that the terraforming will kill them all.
BOVA, BEN, & AUSTIN, A.J.
To Fear the Light (Tor, 1994.)
Sun #2
Awakening from suspended animation, the woman who is responsible for saving Earth’s sun discovers that the human race has begun to hate aliens with such ferocity that the entire project is in jeopardy.
To Save the Sun (Tor, 1992.)
Sun #1
A galactic empire of the far future still measures its humanity by comparing itself genetically to the inhabitants of Earth. But the sun is unstable and nearing the end of its life, and unless the combined expertise of the empire can devise a solution, the standad of normality will soon cease to exist.
BOVA, BEN & DICKSON, GORDON R.
Gremlins Go Home (St Martins, 1974, Tor, 1983.)
Gremlins are real, the survivors of a crew of aliens who were stranded on the Earth many generations ago and have lived secretly, waiting for the day when humans would build a ship capable of taking them home. Now all they have to do is steal it.
BOVA, BEN & JOHNSON, LES
Pluto (Tor, 2025.)
An expedition to Pluto finds alien artifacts.
Rescue Mode (Baen, 2014.)
The first mission to Mars runs into trouble.
BOVA, BEN & POGUE, WILLIAM
Trikon Deception, The (Tor, 1992, New English Library, 1994.)
Espionage and political intrigue aboard an international space station used as a genetics research laboratory.
BOWDEN, AARON DEMBSKI
Hellsreach (Black Library, 2010.)
A Warhammer novel.
Interstellar warriors try to free an occupied planet.
Soul Hunter (Black Library, 2009.)
A Warhammer novel.
A rebel military unit lays siege to an imperial planet.
BOWEN, GARY (Also writes Horror.)
Queer Destinies (Circlet, 1994.)
Collection of unrelated stories with strong homosexual content.
BOWEN, JOHN
After the Rain (Faber, 1958, Ballantine, 1959, Penguin, 1961, Panther, 1967.)
An unlikely but extremely well written disaster novel in which ceaseless rains drown most of the world, and a handful of survivors create a new society on a mix of boats, rafts, and other floating objects.
BOWEN, ROBERT SIDNEY (Ayres adventures appeared in pulp magazines. Numbering refers to paperback editions.)
Black Invaders vs the Battle Birds (Corinth, 1966.)
Dusty Ayres #5.
Collection of related stories about the air war to defend America.
Black Lightning (Corinth, 1966. Magazine version 1934.)
Dusty Ayres #1.
A ruthless army from an unnamed combination of nations sweeps across the world, swallowing up all but North America. There, Dusty Ayres and his Battle Birds, a team of crack pilots, turn back the invaders at the last moment.
Crimson Doom (Corinth, 1966. Magazine version 1934.)
Dusty Ayres #2.
An army lays siege to America using flying bombs of unprecedented strength, and improve their hand by kidnapping the son of the President of the US. Dusty Ayres and friends fly out to defeat both aspects of the assault.
Purple Tornado (Corinth, 1966. Magazine version 1934.)
Dusty Ayres #3.
The conquerors of most of the world use a mysterious purple cloud to disorient the defenders of fortress America.
Telsa Raiders, The (Corinth, 1966. Magazine version 1935.)
Dusty Ayres #4.
Dusty Ayres is off to engage in single combat with the leader of the forces besieging America.
BOWERS, MICHAEL
Prison Ship (Ace, 2009.)
An unjustly imprisoned officer regains his freedom.
BOWERS, R.L. (Pseudonym of John Glasby, whom see.)
Second Earth, This (Cobra, 1967.)
A visit to another planet.
BOWES, RICHARD (Also writes Fantasy.)
From the Files of the Time Rangers (Golden Gryphon, 2005.)
Collection of related stories interwoven as a novel.
Goblin Market (Questar, 1988.)
Warchild #2.
The one time outcast, now leader of a growing rebellion, marshals his forces for an assault on the mystical city that rules all of time from outside the time lanes.
If Angels Fight (Fairwood, 2013.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Transfigured Night and Other Stories (Warner, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Warchild (Questar, 1986.)
Warchild #1.
A telepath whose body is occupied by a parasitic intelligence is compelled to take part in a war waged across time and parallel dimensions. The stability of the universe depends upon his finding a way to reduce the stresses placed on the fabric of existence.
BOWKER, RICHARD,
Dover Beach (Bantam, 1987.)
In an America crippled by a nuclear war, a private investigator sets out to discover the truth about what might have been a top secret cloning project, and gets involved in a murder mystery instead.
Forbidden Sanctuary (Del Rey, 1982.)
An alien seeks sanctuary with the Roman Catholic Church, nearly precipitating an interstellar war since his race fears that he will reveal the secret of their homeworld. Interesting tension as the church hierarchy tries to decide if the alien possesses a soul.
Marlborough Street (Doubleday, 1987, Bantam, 1988.)
A clairvoyant agrees to help solve a kidnapping, despite recurring visions of a beautiful but clearly dangerous woman whose life is about to intersect with his own.
Replica (Bantam, 1987.)
A sinister organization kidnaps a talented roboticist and forces her to create an android that's a perfect duplicate of the President. Their intention is to precipitate a crisis that might trigger a nuclear war.
Summit (Bantam, 1989.)
Thriller involving a psychic Soviet agent who uses her powers to gain control of key US officials.
BOWKETT, STEPHEN (Also writes Fantasy.)
Dreamcastle (Orion, 1997.)
Part of the multi-author Web series.
A role playing game becomes real.
Dualists (?, 1987.)
Not seen.
Frontiersville High (Gollancz, 1990.)
Collection of related stories.
Ice (Dolphin, 2000.)
Wintering #1.
A teenager decides to venture out from one of the secluded enclaves of the survivors of a new ice age.
Frontier Earth (Ace, 1999. Actually written by Ed Gorman.)
Frontier Earth #1.
An alien visits Earth during the time of the Earps and the Clantons to warn them of an impending invasion. He is pursued by bounty hunters from his own people, suffers from amnesia, and almost gets caught at the OK Corral.
Searcher (Ace, 2001.)
Frontier Earth #2.
An alien searching for another of his kind who may be able to explain the exile to Earth gets involved in the battle between settlers and Apaches.
Time in a Rift (Barclay, 2001.)
A woman travels back through time when an undersea earthquake opens a gateway to ancient Hawaii.
BOWMAN, ERIN
Frozen (Harper, 2014.)
Dystopia #2.
Teens vs dystopia.
Taken (Harper, 2013.)
Dystopia #1.
Teens fight a dystopian future government.
BOYCE, CHRIS
Brainfix (Panther, 1980.)
Great Britain's economy becomes so bad that the government is on the verge of collapse. A scientist discovers a gas that makes people very susceptible and considers its use as a means to control the population.
Catchworld (Doubleday, 1975, Gollancz, 1975, Crest, 1976.)
A small group of human beings has been programmed to strike a terrible blow against an alien race inimical to humans. But the artificial intelligence that controls them may have developed motives of its own, and the programming may not be quite what was originally intended.
BOYCZUK, ROBERT (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Book of David, The (Chizine, 2016.)
The Catholic church builds a contained artificial world.
Nexus: Ascension (Chizine, 2010.)
Space travelers return to find their homeworld devastated.
BOYD, JOHN (Pseudonym of Boyd Upchurch.)
Andromeda Gun, The (Berkley hardcover, 1974, Berkley, 1975.)
A disembodied alien is sent to Earth to investigate the planet and takes partial control of the body of a human gunfighter. But the two personalities merge into something larger than either. Set in the old West.
Barnard's Planet (Berkley hardcover, 1975, Berkley, 1976.)
An experimental starship is travelling not only across space but through an interdimensional barrier into another universe. A reluctant captain transports a group of colonists whose purposes are not entirely what they appear to be.
Doomsday Gene, The (Weybright & Talley, 1973.)
Humans are genetically altered to lead shorter, busier lives.
Girl with the Jade Green Eyes, The (Viking, 1978, Penguin, 1979.)
A handful of alien refugees request assistance from the authorities on Earth and get caught up in a complex series of intrigues and bureaucratic disasters.
Gorgon Festival (Weybright & Talley, 1972, Bantam, 1974.)
The discovery of a youth serum has unpredictable repercussions when the advent of renewed youth leads to sexual improprieties.
I.Q. Merchant, The (Weybright & Talley, 1972.)
A chemist discovers a drug that enhances intelligence.
Last Starship from Earth, The (Weybright & Talley, 1968, Berkley, 1969, Gollancz, 1969, Viking, 1978.)
A dystopian satire in which the Pope is a computer program and the State dictates most of the details of individual human lives. When a mathematician and a poet fall in love, their crime commands the penalty of exile to the planet Hell, and he then travels back through time to an alternate human history.
Organ Bank Farm, The (Weybright & Talley, 1970, Bantam, 1972.)
A doctor who is appalled by the harvesting of human organs from the insane in order to keep the privileged members of society healthy performs the first transplantation of a brain to another body. Set in a post plague society.
Pollinators of Eden, (Weybright & Talley, 1969, Clarke, Irwin, 1969, Dell, 1970, Gollancz, 1970, Penguin, 1978.)
A very strange novel about a scientist who sends his girlfriend back on Earth a flower that can talk and which exhibits sexual characteristics. So she follows him out to the stars and discovers the secret of a very different form of life.
Rakehells of Heaven, The (Weybright & Talley, 1969, Gollancz, 1971, Bantam, 1971, Viking, 1978.)
Travelers from Earth are forced to re-examine their attitudes when they land on a planet where sex, parenthood, nudity, and other traditions have undergone a radical and unsettling change.
Sex and the High Command (Weybright & Talley, 1970, Bantam, 1971.)
A militant feminist movement is not only planning to take over the US government, it hopes to employ a new drug to eliminate the male species entirely.
BOYE, KARIN
Kallocain (University of Wisconsin Press, 1966, translated from the Swedish by Gustaf Lannestock.)
Kallocain is a new drug which allows a totalitarian world state the ability of monitoring even the thoughts of its citizens. The author didn't hold out much hope for his readers.
BOYES, KATE
Trapped in the R.A.W. (Aqueduct, 2019.)
Surreal future war story.
BOYETT, STEVEN R. (Also writes Fantasy and Horror, and Horror as Ben Leech.)
Architect of Sleep, The (Ace, 1986.)
A contemporary American stumbles through the gateway to an alternate world where raccoons have evolved to intelligence and where he finds himself caught in the middle of a war fought with dreams as weapons.
Dinosaur Day (Heinemann, 1996.)
Not seen.
Treks Not Taken (Harper, 1998.)
A collection of spoofs of Star Trek, stories that might have been written by famous authors.
BOYLE, T.C.
Friend of the Earth, A (Viking, 2000.)
An aging environmentalist looks after a handful of surviving animals after the ecosphere collapses early in the 21st century. His ex-wife shows up, launching a series of reminiscences about their struggles to protect the environment forty years earlier.
BRACK, VEKTIS (House pseudonym)
Castaway from Space (Gannet, 1953.) (Author unknown.)
Not seen. An alien's adventures on Earth.
Odyssey in Space (Gannett, 1954.) (Bruno Condray.)
Not seen. Insane man plots the destruction of Earth.
The "X" People (Gannett, 1953.) (Author unknown.)
Not seen. Aliens plot to conquer the world.
BRACKEN, ALEXANDRA
In the Afterlight (Hyperion, 2014.)
Never Minds #3.
Teenagers with paranormal powers battle a repressive government.
Psi Cops (Books in Motion, 1985, Wildside, 2000.)
A detective reluctantly takes on a psychic partner to solve a series of murders in a future St. Louis.
BRACKETT, LEIGH (See also collaboration that follows and with Edmond Hamilton.)
Alpha Centauri or Die! (Ace, 1963, bound with Legend of Lost Earth by G. McDonald Wallis. Published alone by Ace in ?, magazine title Ark of Mars.)
A group of people discontented with the regimented life in the Martian colony makes a desperate attempt to reach the nearest star system. On a habitable world in that system, they find aliens who communicate telepathically.
Best of Leigh Bracket, The (Del Rey, 1977, Doubleday, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Big Jump, The (Ace, 1955, bound with Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick. Tor, 1987, alone. Magazine version, 1953.)
The first interstellar ship returns, with all but one of its crew missing, and the survivor infected with a mysterious disease. A friend offers to make the second trip, and discovers the secret of a new form of life.
Book of Skaith, The (Doubleday, 1976.)
Omnibus of the Second Eric John Stark series.
Coming of the Terrans, The (Ace, 1967.)
Mars Series.
Collection of related stories set on a mythical Mars.
Enchantress of Venus (Armchair, 2011, bound with Operation Square Peg by Irving W. Lande & Frank Belknap Long. Magazine appearance 1949.)
First Eric John Stark series.
An adventurer on Venus overturns a family of slave owners.
Eric John Stark: Outlaw of Mars (Del Rey, 1982.)
Omnibus collection of the First Eric John Stark series.
Galactic Breed, The (See The Starmen of Llyrdis)
Ginger Star, The (Del Rey, 1974, Sphere, 1976, Paizo, ?.)
Second Eric John Stark series #1.
An Earthman on the alien world of Skaith sets out into the wilderness to track down a missing man, encountering fantastic adventures among the local inhabitants.
Halfling and Other Stories, The (Ace, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Hounds of Skaith, The (Del Rey, 1974, Sphere, 1976, Paizo, ?.)
Second Eric John Stark Series #2.
After his previous adventures, Stark has won the loyalty of a band of semi-intelligent canine creatures who are feared across the planet Skaith. But their loyalty depends on his continued ability to prove himself top dog in the pack.
Jewel of Bas, The (Tor, 1990, bound with Thieves’ Carnival by Karen Haber. Magazine version, 1940.)
Novelet about two adventurers on a far world who must escape from a house whose owner is a master of super science.
Last Call from Sector 9G (Armchair, 2018, bound with Time Crime by H. Beam Piper. Magazine appearance 1955.)
An attempt to provoke an interplanetary war.
Long Tomorrow, The (Doubleday, 1955, Ace, ?, Mayflower, 1962, Del Rey, 1974.)
In the aftermath of a nuclear war, Quakers have emerged as one of the guiding forces of a new civilization which bans science and cities. A young man grows to question the wisdom of his elders when he discovers the advantages of technology.
Nemesis from Terra, The (Ace, 1961, bound with Collision Course by Robert Silverberg. Ace, published alone, ? . World Distributors, 1951, as Shadow Over Mars. Tor, 1989, bound with Battle for the Stars by Edmond Hamilton. Magazine title Shadow Over Mars.)
Mars series.
An Earthman arrives on Mars with grandiose schemes for the future of that world, only to discover that powerful interests are unwilling to accept his messianic vision to alter the status quo.
People of the Talisman (Ace, 1964, bound with The Secret of Sinharat by the same author. Magazine version titled Black Amazon of Mars.)
First Eric John Stark Series/Mars series.
The civilization of Mars is ravaged by a renewed war, in which a single human adventurer plans to usea revered object to exact revenge against those who tried to kill him.
Reavers of Skaith, The (Del Rey, 1976, Paizo, ?.)
Second Eric John Stark series #3.
Stark becomes a fugitive on the world of Skaith when his former friends desert him and his enemies create a complicated trap designed to discredit and ultimately kill him.
Secret of Sinharat, The (Ace, 1964, bound with People of the Talisman by the same author. Paizo, ? Magazine version titled Queen of the Martian Catacombs.)
First Eric John Stark Series/Mars series.
A human outlaw on Mars is pressured by the government to help stop the escalating war among the Martian clans. But Eric John Stark is not a man easily manipulated, and he reshapes the course of events to his own advantage.
Shadow Over Mars (See Nemesis from Terra.)
Starmen, The (See The Starmen of Llyrdis.)
Starmen of Llyrdis, The (Del Rey, 1976. Gnome, 1952, as The Starmen. Ace, 1955, bound with Conquest of the Space Sea by Robert Moore Williams as The Galactic Breed.)
An outcast Earthman learns that he may be descended from an alien race of star travelers and runs off to join them, discovering too late that he isn't accepted there any more than he was on Earth. But his unique viewpoint is about to change their universe as well as his own.
Sword of Rhiannon, The (Ace, 1953, bound with Conan the Conqueror by Robert E. Howard. (Boardman, 1955, Ace alone, 1967, Gregg, 1978, Paizo, ?. Magazine version titled Sea-Kings of Mars.)
Mars series.
A modern day Earthman on dying Mars is transported back through time and into the body of a Martian "godling", using the superscience of that period and the additional knowledge of humankind countless generations in the future.
BRACKETT, LEIGH & BRADBURY, RAY
Lorelei of the Red Mist (Armchair, 2018, bound with Gold in the Sky by Alan E. Nourse. Magazine appearance 1946.)
A man wakens in a different body.
BRADBURY, EDWARD P. (Pseudonym of Michael Moorcock, whom see.)
BRADBURY, RAY (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Cat's Pajamas, The (Morrow, 2004.)
Collection of unrelated stories, not all of which are SF.
Classic Stories (Bantam, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Day It Rained Forever, The (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959, Penguin, 1963, Samuel French, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dinosaur Tales (Bantam, 1983, Ibooks, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954, Corgi, 1957, Doubleday, 1967, Amereon, 1990, Poseidon, 1993, Simon & Schuster, 1993, Distribooks, 1994, Aims International, 1995, Lightyear, 1995. Magazine title The Fireman.)
Set in a future where books are illegal and firemen are entrusted with the job of burning any they find, one reluctant man discovers the beauty of the printed word and begins to question the society he lives in, ultimately becoming an outlaw.
Golden Apples of the Sun, The (Doubleday, 1953, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953, Bantam, 1954, Corgi, 1956.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Illustrated Bradbury, The (Niekas, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Illustrated Man, The (Doubleday, 1951, Bantam, 1952, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952, Corgi, 1955, Buccaneer, 1996, Avon, 1997, Gauntlet, 1998.)
Collection of unrelated stories, sections of which were filmed under the book's title.
I Sing the Body Electric (Doubleday, 1970, Knopf, 1970, Bantam, 1971, Corgi, ?, Buccaneer, 1997, Avon, 1998.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Long After Midnight (Knopf, 1976, Hart-Davis, 1977, Bantam, 1978, Buccaneer, 1997.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Machineries of Joy, The (Simon & Schuster, 1964, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964, Bantam, 1965, Corgi, 1966.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Marionettes Inc. (Subterranean, 2009.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Martian Chronicles, The. (Doubleday, 1950, Bantam, 1951, Amereon, 1985, Chivers, 1986, Buccaneer, 1991, Avon, 1997. As The Silver Locusts, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951, with slight change in content, Corgi, 1956, Time, 1963, with yet a third slight variation in content)
Collection of related stories set on a not always consistent planet Mars.
Quicker Than the Eye (Avon, 1996, Thorndike, 1997, Earthlight, 1998.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
R Is for Rocket (Doubleday, 1962, Bantam, 1965, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Silver Locusts, The (See The Martian Chronicles.)
S Is for Space (Doubleday, 1966, Bantam, 1970.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Small Assassin, The (Ace UK, 1962, Four Square, 1965.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Stories of Ray Bradbury, The (Knopf, 1980, Granada, 1980.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sun and Shadow (Quenian Press, 1957.)
Excerpts from The Golden Apples of the Sun.
Twice Twenty Two (Doubleday, 1966.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Toynbee Convector, The (Knopf, 1988, Bantam, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Vintage Bradbury, The (Vintage, 1965.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Others Plays, The (Bantam, 1972.)
Collection of plays adapted from unrelated stories.
BRADDON, RUSSELL
Year of the Angry Rabbit, The (Heinemann, 1964, Pan, 1967.)
Filmed as Night of the Lepus. Mutant rabbits endanger Australia.
BRADFIELD, SCOTT (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Greetings from Earth (Picador, 1996, Pan, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BRADFORD, MATTHEW (Pseudonym of John Jennison, whom see.)
Invasion from Space (Atlantic, 1954.)
A giant alien robot appears in the Sahara desert and sets out to attack Cairo.
BRADFORD, ROBERT (See collaboration with Ward Moore.)
BRADLEY, DARIN
Chimpanzee (Resurrection House, 2014.)
Satire about the collapse of the world economy.
Noise (Ballantine Spectra, 2010.)
American civilization collapses.
BRADLEY, JAMES
Clade (Penguin Australia, 2015.)
Ecological disaster.
Deep Field, The (1999)
?
BRADLEY, MARION ZIMMER (See also collaborations which follow. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Note that the Darkover series has not been written in chronological sequence and numbering reflects the order in which they were published. See anthology appendix for multi-author collections also set on Darkover.
Ages of Chaos, The (DAW, 2002.)
Omnibus of Stormqueen! And Hawkmistress!
Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley, The (Academy Chicago, 1985, DAW, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Bloody Sun, The (Ace, 1964, Arrow, 1978. Ace, 1979, Gregg, 1979, much longer version and with a new short story.)
Darkover #3.
A half breed human/Darkovan returns from years among the former to take his place as one of the talented telepaths of Darkover's ruling class. But shortly after arriving, secrets of the Comyn, the council of Darkover, begin leaking to the Terrans and he is suspected of treason.
Brass Dragon, The (Ace, 1969, bound with Ipomoea by John Rackham. Methuen, 1978.)
Routine interplanetary potboiler involving aliens who can change their bodies into other forms, including that of dragons.
Children of Hastur, The (Doubleday, 1982.)
Omnibus of The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile.
City of Sorcery (DAW, 1984, Arrow, 1986.)
Darkover #17.
Set during a time when Terrans and Darkovans were on good terms, the novel follows the adventures of a Terran visitor who sets out to explore the snow covered wastelands of the planet, and solve a mystery that may originate in the spiritual rather than physical world.
Colors of Space, The (Monarch, 1963, Donning, 1983, Lightning, 1989, Armchair, 2021 bound with Voyage into the Lightning by Robert Moore Williams.)
A young boy gets involved with interstellar intrigue when his father is replaced by a stranger who warns him that his life is in danger. For younger readers.
Dark Intruder & Other Stories, The (Ace, 1964, bound with The Falcons of Narabedla, also by Bradley.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Darkover (DAW, 1993.)
A Darkover book.
Collection of related stories set on Darkover.
Darkover Landfall (DAW, 1972, Arrow, 1978.)
Darkover #7.
A chronlogical jump back through time for the series to the crashlanding of a human colony ship on the planet which would later be known as Darkover, home of a sometimes telepathic race of humans as well as secretive aliens.
Door Through Space, The (Ace, 1961, bound with Rendezvous on a Lost World by A. Bertram Chandler. Arrow, 1979. Armchair, 2014, bound with Cry Chaos by Dwight V. Swain. Magazine version titled Bird of Prey.)
A Terran agent survives intrigues and danger on a lost colony world where he discovers a plot to expel all offworlders. There was some effort to categorize this as a Darkover novel, which it is not, although it's clearly an early version of that setting.
Endless Universe (See Endless Voyage.)
Endless Voyage (Ace, 1975. Ace, 1979, revised and expanded version as Endless Universe.)
A group of professional space explorers condemned to a life permanently traveling from one star system to another face a series of adventure on the worlds where they touch down.
Falcons of Narabedla, The (Ace, 1964, bound with The Dark Intruder & Other Stories, also by Bradley. Arrow, 1984.)
An Earthman wakes up in the body of a citizen of another world, and discovers that his only hope of return to his homeworld, and body, is to successfully complete a dangerous mission involving mutants with psi powers. Incorrectly listed in some places as part of the Darkover series. Narabedla is Aldebaran spelled backwards.
Forbidden Circle, The (DAW, 2002.)
Omnibus of The Spell Sword and The Forbidden Tower.
Forbidden Tower, The (DAW, 1977, Prior, 1979.)
Darkover #11.
A Terran and three Darkovans join forces to rediscover the key to a forgotten science, despite the opposition of traditionalist forces who are willing to kill in order to keep these secrets from falling into the hands of the Terran interlopers.
Hawkmistress! (DAW, 1982, Arrow, 1985.)
Darkover #15.
A young woman seeks to escape the violence that shrouds the planet Darkover by living in the wilderness where her psi power allows her to control animals. But her abilities are so potent that ambitious men and women seek to enlist her on their side despite her objections.
Heirs of Hammerfell, The (DAW, 1989, Legend, 1991.)
Darkover #18.
Two Darkovan clans have been at war for many years when one finally gains the upper hand, sacking and destroying its enemy's home castle. Twins, now homeless, are instrumental in reversing the family's failing fortunes and avenging themselves upon their rivals.
Heritage and Exile (DAW, 2002.)
Omnibus of The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile.
Heritage of Hastur, The (Daw, 1975, Arrow, 1979.)
Darkover #9.
The world of Darkover is torn by factions disagreeing over the proper relationship between the established families and the Terrans who are becoming an ever more powerful force on the planet. And like it or not, the local culture is adapting to the new conditions and calling old traditions into question.
Hunters of the Red Moon (DAW, 1973, Arrow, 1979.)
Sequel is The Survivors by Bradley in collaboration with Paul Zimmer.
A new variation on an old plot. Humans, among others, are kidnapped from their home world to serve as prey for an alien race that lives only for the hunt.
Jamies and Other Stories (Academy Chicago, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Oath of the Renunciates (Doubleday, 1984.)
Omnibus of Thendara House and The Shattered Chain.
Planet Savers, The (Ace, 1962, bound with The Sword of Aldones. Ace, 1976, published separately but with a new short story included. Arrow, 1979. Ace, 1980, again with The Sword of Aldones plus an essay. DAW, 1995, bound with The Winds of Darkover.)
Darkover #1.
A human doctor working on the planet Darkover teams up with a local adventurer whose personality has been transplanted into the offworlder's mind. Together they seek the antidote to a plague which threatens the entire planet.
Rediscovery (DAW, 1993.)
Darkover #19.
An acolyte preparing to be trained to control her unusually strong psi powers is troubled by visions of the future, and the sense that something is coming from outside the world, something that will change the future for everyone on the planet. It is, of course, the rediscovery of the lost colony by Terrans.
Ruins of Isis, The (Donning, 1978, Pocket, 1979, Arrow, 1980.)
On Isis, the women still ascribe to the nearly vanished belief in worship of a goddess. Two outsiders, man and wife, arrive on the planet just in time to precipitate a crisis that may alter that world's entire culture.
Saga of the Renunciates, The (DAW, 2002.)
Omnibus of The Shattered Chain, Thendara House, and City of Sorcery.
Seven from the Stars (Ace, 1962, bound with Worlds of the Imperium by Keith Laumer. Armchair, 2018, bound with The Girl Who Read Minds by Robert Moore Williams.)
Seven aliens have secretly landed on Earth and their arrival signifies an imminent threat to the future of the planet. Unless latent telepathic powers can provide a solution, an extraterrestrial enemy may seize control.
Shadow Matrix, The (DAW, 1997. This is a collaboration with Adrienne Martine-Barnes, not credited on the cover.)
Darkover #20.
A young woman of Darkover returns to her home world and finds herself not entirely accepted by her family. Things become even more complex when she is forced to master a powerful psychic jewel.
Sharra's Exile (DAW, 1981, Arrow, 1983. A complete rewrite of The Sword of Aldones.)
Darkover #14.
Sharra is an artifact that helps to focus psi powers, and its use nearly caused planetwide devastation during a period of civil war. It is removed from Darkover for several years, but its custodian eventually returns, precipitating a fresh round of crises and power struggles.
Shattered Chain, The (DAW, 1976, Arrow, 1978.)
Darkover #10.
The planet Darkover has assigned an ambiguous role to women, who on one hand control nearly magical psi powers but who are socially relegated to second class citizenship. When a prominent aristocrat disappears, his recovery is linked to the existence of the Free Amazons, who question the traditional status quo.
Spell Sword, The (DAW, 1974, Arrow, 1978.)
Darkover #8.
A Terran's aircraft crashes while touring Darkover, and he falls prey to people with mental powers so strange and menacing that they are effectively magical.
Star of Danger (Ace, 1965, Arrow, 1978.)
Darkover #4.
A Terran visiting Darkover disobeys the instructions of his government and fraternizes with the local inhabitants, only to discover that he may have put the entire Terran mission in jeopardy.
Stormqueen! (DAW, 1978, Arrow, 1980.)
Darkover #12.
An out of sequence adventure set in the days before Terrans rediscovered the lost colony on Darkover. Contending forces battle for control of matrix jewels, artifacts which channel and reinforce psi powers. Undisciplined science has also created other mutations and threatens the future of an entire civilization.
Survey Ship (Ace, 1980.)
Six specially trained humans are sent to explore other solar systems and find suitable planets for colonization. But the tensions that begin to arise in their cramped quarters endanger the mission, and force them to develop a sustainable balance of power.
Sword of Aldones, The (Ace, 1962, bound with The Planet Savers, also by Bradley Ace, 1980, both short novels plus an essay. Later completely rewritten as Sharra's Exile.)
Darkover #2.
A halfbreed human returns to Darkover just as a climactic battle is about to take place among the warring factions of that planet.
Thendara House (DAW, 1983, Arrow, 1985.)
Darkover #16.
A Terran woman enters Thendara House, which serves as a refuge for women on Darkover who are unhappy with the subservient role they are expected to fill. The author uses this situation to examine gender roles in one of the more thought provoking volumes in the series.
To Save a World (DAW, 2004.)
Omnibus of The Planet Savers and The World Wreckers.
Traitor's Sun (DAW, 1999.)
Darkover #21.
The Terran Empire is in turmoil and the remoter posts are virtually unsupervised. An ambitious and unscrupulous agent on Darkover decides to take advantage of the situation to force that planet to abandon its protected status and become a member world, assisted by a traitor within the nobility.
Two to Conquer (DAW, 1980, Arrow, 1982.)
Darkover #13.
The use and misuse of science and psi has torn the planet Darkover into myriad fragmented societies. A visiting Terran becomes a focal point for conflict when it is discovered that he is a perfect duplicate of one of the rival leaders.
Winds of Darkover, The (Ace, 1970, bound with ?. Arrow, 1978, Ace, 1983, published separately. DAW, 1995, bound with The Planet Savers.)
Darkover #5.
A Terran troubled by strange dreams travels into the unexplored mountainous regions of Darkover and has a variety of adventures.
World Divided, A (DAW, 2003.)
Omnibus of The Bloody Sun, Star of Danger, and Winds of Darkover.
World Wreckers, The (Ace, 1971, Arrow, 1979.)
Darkover #6.
A ruthless developer plans to destroy Darkover by undermining its society from within. The telepathic upper caste of that planet appeals to a mysterious indigent alien species to help them avert disaster.
Alton Gift, The (DAW, 2007.)
Darkover Children of Kings #1.
After the Terrans break off contact with Darkover, a crisis threatens the stability of the planet. Completed by Ross from Bradley's notes.
Children of Kings, The (DAW, 2013.)
A Darkover novel.
?
The Fall of Neskaya (DAW, 2001.)
Darkover Clingfire #1.
Ross continued the Darkover books following Bradley's death, but it is unclear how much Bradley actually contributed to these. In the first, a young man suffers from problems associated with his awakening psychic powers while dealing with political maneuvering among the noble families.
Flame in Hali, A (DAW, 2004.)
Darkover Clingfire #3.
Two farsighted men attempt to convince the various warring factions on Darkover to adopt an agreement by which all weapons which kill at a distance will be banned.
Hastur Lord (DAW, 2010.)
A Darkover novel.
A colony world seeks to avoid becoming a military base.
Zandru's Forge (DAW, 2003.)
Darkover Clingfire #2.
Despite a series of disasters, the lords of Darkover continue to experiment with their psychic powers.
BRADLEY, MARION ZIMMER & ZIMMER, PAUL
Survivors, The (DAW, 1979, Arrow, 1985.)
Sequel to Hunters of the Red Moon by Bradley alone.
The survivors of a deadly hunt by an alien species are employed to investigate a closed world, one where some undefined threat has made intercourse with the rest of the galaxy forbidden. They discover a mysterious culture that rose where two separate intelligences evolved.
BRADLEY, MICHAEL
Mantouche Factor, The (Dorset, 1979, Signet, 1980.)
Soviet agents are secretly plotting to take control of the Canadian government. An American agent teams up with a young woman who draws upon perhaps real spiritual powers to help foil a plot for world domination. Marginal spy adventure.
BRADLEY, TIMOTHY J.
Infestation (Scholastic, 2013.)
An earthquake releases giant ants. For young adults.
BRADLEY, WILL (Pseudonym of Brad Strickland, whom see.)
Ark Liberty (Roc, 1992.)
As an ecological disaster threatens all life on Earth, a scientist disobeys his government and establishes an undersea refuge, although he dies in the process and his personality is uploaded into the administrative computer.
Wrong Reflection, The (Severn House, 2000, Ace, 2003.)
An amnesiac working on a sensitive project tries to solve the secret of his lost identity in a near future society, and discovers instead that a research company has contacted an alien intelligence.
BRADSHAW, WILLIAM
Goddess of Atvatabar, The (Douthitt, 1892.)
Adventures inside a hollow Earth.
BRADWELL, JAMES
Mean City, The (World, 1960.)
A Land of the Giants novel.
After various adventures on a planet of giants, our heroes find a way home.
Slingshot for a David (World, 1969.)
A Land of the Giants novel.
A spaceship is transported to a world of giants.
Colony of Lies, The (BBC, 2003.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor arrives on a human colony world that is on the brink of a civil war, just as mysterious aliens are wakened from suspended animation.
Escape Velocity (BBC, 2001.)
A Doctor Who novel.
An amnesiac Doctor gets involved in a space race between England and France, to say nothing of a possible alien invasion.
Judgement of the Judoon (BBC, 2009.)
A Doctor Who novel.
?
Price of Paradise, The (BBC, 2006.)
A Doctor Who novel.
A paradise planet undergoes an ecological breakdown.
BRAMAH, ERNEST (Also writes Fantasy.)
Secret of the League, The. (See What Might Have Been.)
What Might Have Been (Murray, 1907, published anonymously. Nelson, 1909, as The Secret of the League.)
Political satire targeting socialism.
Formidable Enemy (Five Star, 2005.)
A medical professional learns from an alien visitor of a plot to assassinate a human leader and start an interstellar war.
BRAMSTRAP, M.A.
Courier (Larsen, 1982.)
A man bred by the galactic federation to become a great military leader actually prefers to write poetry. His first mission turns out to be a disaster.
Star Destroyer (Larsen, 1981.)
The protagonist is a genetically engineered assassin employed in the ruins of war ravaged North America. His life and the future of Earth are both altered by the arrival of a woman from another world, whose mission is to destroy the Earth.
BRAMWELL, FRANK
Voyage to the Stars (Nelson, 1968.)
An alien ship crashes on Earth and its dying pilot provides information to a teenager that gets him involved with a malevolent alien race.
BRAMWELL, L.E.
Formula for Death (Tower, 1981.)
A scientist is murdered just before announcing the discovery of an invention that would make the automobile obsolete. Borderline SF thriller.
BRANCH, RUSSELL
Invaders from the Void (Armchair, 2022, bound with The Abyss by David H. Keller. Magazine appearance 1950.)
The inhabitants of Jupiter send a fungus to destroy Earth.
BRAND, KURT (The Perry Rhodan books are a multi-author series originally published in German.)
Agents of Destruction (Master Publications, 1979.)
Perry Rhodan #134.
Not seen.
Atlan in Danger (Ace, 1975.)
Perry Rhodan #82.
The succession to a throne previously occupied by a robot leads to renewed hostility between Perry and his son.
Blitzkrieg Galactica (Master Publications, 1979.)
Perry Rhodan #129.
Not seen.
Blockade: Lepso (Ace, 1976.)
Perry Rhodan #101.
Perry deals with a planet whose ruler is a puppet controlled by criminals.
Caller from Eternity (Ace, 1976.)
Perry Rhodan #106.
Plots and counterplots, giant sentient computers, nasty aliens, and the usual cast of mutants and humans.
Cosmic Traitor (Ace, 1973.)
Perry Rhodan #26.
Several Earthmen travel to a far world in order to help avert a pending alien attack.
Interlude on Siliko 5 (Ace, 1974.)
Perry Rhodan #59.
More troubles between Perry Rhodan and his rebellious son.
Life Hunt (Ace, 1974.)
Perry Rhodan #43.
Perry sends agents to a mysterious zoo world whose exhibits, including human beings, appear to be immortal.
Man with Two Faces, The (Ace, 1976.)
Perry Rhodan #104.
Perry's son has reformed and stepped into his father's shoes, just in time to become involved in the quest for the secret of eternal life.
Peril Unlimited (Master Publications, 1979.)
Perry Rhodan #130.
Not seen.
Planet Topide, Please Reply! (Ace, 1975.)
Perry Rhodan #75.
The nova of a star precipitates a chain of events that could lead to massive destruction in the solar system.
Power's Price (Ace, 1976.)
Perry Rhodan #89.
Perry has trouble keeping his son in line, while also having to deal with political power struggles.
Project: Earthsave (Ace, 1974.)
Perry Rhodan #38.
Old enemies and new confront Perry Rhodan for another round of battles, chases, and mysteries.
Pucky's Greatest Hour (Ace, 1975.)
Perry Rhodan #81.
Alien invaders discover human civilization and prepare to attack.
Saboteurs in A-1 (Ace, 1977, bound with The Psycho Duel by William Voltz.)
Perry Rhodan #115.
The most powerful computer in the universe has decided to expel all humans from his realm. Could the computer have gone insane and, if so, will it follow through on its threats?
Shadow of the Mutant Master (Ace, 1974.)
Perry Rhodan #47.
More wheelings and dealings as Perry Rhodan and his corps of mutants attempt to outsmart a race of belligerent interstellar traders.
Sinister Power, The (Master Publications, 1978.)
Perry Rhodan #124.
Not seen.
SOS: Spaceship Titan! (Ace, 1973.)
Perry Rhodan #34.
Perry deals with a number of mysteries including a planet that holds a graveyard of dead spaceships.
Thora's Sacrifice (Ace, 1975.)
Perry Rhodan #70.
Agents travel to a dangerous world to secure serum which will prolong the life of Perry Rhodan's wife.
Tigris Leaps, The (Ace, 1975.)
Perry Rhodan #63.
Human agents investigate the powers of the robot ruler of another world.
Unleashed Powers (Ace, 1976.)
Perry Rhodan #90.
Telepathy, mutants, space travel, aliens, an interstellar empire, what more could you want?
Volunteers for Frago (Master Publications, 1978.)
Perry Rhodan #122.
Not seen.
BRAND, MAX (Also writes Fantasy.)
Garden of Eden, The (?, 1922, Hodder, 1927, Dodd, Mead, 1963, Pocket, 1965.)
A lost race novel set in the old West, a secluded canyon where a magical breed of horses lives undisturbed by humans. A cowboy stumbles across the valley and becomes determined to secure one of the mounts for his own.
Smoking Land, The (Capra, 1980. Magazine serial 1937 as by George Challis.)
A lost world novel. Investigating the disappearance of a scientist friend, the protagonist travels to the frozen north where he finds a hidden society, the secret of his friend's disappearance, and functioning rocketships.
BRANDNER, GARY (Also writes Horror.)
Aardvark Affair, The (Zebra, 1975, Mews, 1976. Severn House, 1991, as The Big Brain.)
Big Brain #1.
A man genetically designed to have superhuman intelligence is employed by the government to investigate a scientific experiment that seems to have gone wrong. He quickly realizes that one of the apparent victims of the calamity is faking to conceal a valuable secret.
Beelzebub Business, The (Zebra, 1975, New English Library, 1976.)
Big Brain #2.
A telepathic agent of the US government has to defeat a mindshield when he investigates a satanic cult that may have several prominent politicians among its number.
Big Brain, The (See The Aardvark Affair)
Brain Eaters, The (Gold Medal, 1985, Hamlyn, 1985, Severn House, 1992.)
This story of parasites which gestate in the human brain, driving their hosts to acts of mindless violence, is science fiction as well as horror. Rather than being confined to a small geographical area, the novel spreads the action over the entire country as the infestation grows unchecked.
Energy Zero (Zebra, 1976. Clayton Matthews has been identified as an uncredited co-author.)
Big Brain #3.
An enemy of the US has found a way to prevent electricity from working anywhere in the US. A genetic superman in the employ of the US government uses his paranormal mental powers to solve the mystery.
BRANDON, CHASE
Cryptos Conundrum, The (Forge, 2012.)
An immortal confronts a threat to humanity.
BRANDT, GERALD
Courier, The (DAW, 2016.)
San Angeles #1.
A messenger in a future megacity investigates a crime.
Operative, The (DAW, 2017.)
San Angeles #2.
An underground resists a corporately ruled America.
Rebel, The (DAW, 2017.)
San Angeles #3.
Warfare among the corporations provides leverage to overthrow their rule.
Threader Origins (DAW, 2021.)
A man finds a way to visit alternate realities.
BRANLEY, FRANKLIN
Lodestar (Thomas Crowell, 1951.)
The first expedition to Mars discovers that the dying planet is still occupied by an intelligent race. For young adults.
BRANT, J.I.
New Regime, AD 2202, The (Laurie, 1909.)
A Utopian novel.
BRASS, PERRY
Albert (Belhue, ?)
Mirage #3.
Not seen.
Circles (Belhue, ?)
Mirage #2.
Not seen.
Harvest, The (Belhue, 1997.)
An escaped clone, originally slave to a megacorporation that uses clones to provide spare body parts, finds freedom and sexual fulfillment.
Mirage (Belhue, 1991.)
Mirage #1.
Unusual novel set on a planet where the third testicle is a symbol of immense political power.
BRAUNBECK, GARY (Also writes Fantasy and Horror. See also collaboration with Steve Perry.)
In Hollow Houses (Wizards of the Coast, 2000.)
#1 in the multi-author Dark Matter series.
An investigator finds anomalous items in the wreckage following a mysterious explosion in a government building, and is targeted for execution by a group concealing the contact between the authorities and extraterrestrials.
X3 (Betancourt, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BRAVER, GARY (Pseudonym of Gary Goshgarian, whom see.)
Elixir (Forge, 2000, Tor, 2001.)
An expedition to New Guinea returns with an extract that has a remarkable effect on test animals. It completely halts the aging process. The scientist in charge decides to use it on human subjects, with unexpected consequences and is eventually forced into hiding to protect the secret.
Gray Matter (Forge, 2002, Tor, 2004.)
Marginal thriller about an experiment designed to enhance intelligence in children.
Tunnel Vision (Forge, 2011.)
A man's near death experience may reveal secrets about the universe.
BRAZIEL, JAMES
Birmingham 35 Miles (Bantam, 2008.)
Drought #1.
A man seeks to stay connected to the land in an ozone blasted future Earth.
Snakeskin Road (Bantam, 2009.)
Drought #2.
A woman takes a dangerous journey through a post collapse America.
BREDE, ARNOLD
Sister Earth (Scion, 1951.)
A twin to Earth is discovered on the far side of the sun, apparently settled by the ancient Greeks.
BREBNER, PERCY
Knight of the Silver Star (?, 1907.)
A society of Crusaders are living in a secret valley in Europe until discovered by outsiders.
BREBNER, W.
Doubting Thomas (Hart-Davis, 1958.)
A Dystopia.
BREDENBERG, JEFF
Dream Compass, The (Avon, 1991.)
Rasta #1.
Post-war America is in the grip of a repressive dictatorship, and home to scattered individuals with unusual mental powers. Two refugees hunted by the authorities are assisted by a man with a limited ability to read the future.
Dream Vessel (Avon, 1992.)
Rasta #2.
A rebellion has overthrown the dictator who ruled post war America, and now a hero of that revolution wants to carry the message of freedom to the rest of the world by embarking on a dangerous voyage.
Man in the Moon Must Die, The (Avon, 1993.)
When a matter transmitter malfunctions and creates a duplicate of a prominent businessman, the police are required to eliminate the duplicate. But before they can act, the illegal double escapes, determined to preserve his own life at any cost.
BREGGIN, PETER
After the Good War (Stein & Day, 1972, Popular Library, ?.)
A dystopian cautionary novel about a future America where sexual freedom is absolute, but it is illegal to fall in love. Well written but depressing satire.
BRENCHLEY, CHAZ (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Dead of Light (Hodder, 1996.)
Ben Macallan #1.
One member of a family with supernormal powers tries to live away from his relatives, with unpleasant results.
Light Errant (Hodder, 1997.)
Ben Macallan #2.
The protagonist is an apparent mutation with superhuman powers, in this volume pitted against his own family’s evil doing.
Rotten Row (PS, 2011.)
Novella about a man in a bizarre society.
BRENNAN, C.M.
Genesis Web, The (TSR, 1992.)
#Invaders of Charon #1. (Note the rest of the series was written by William Keith.)
A subset of the Buck Rogers series, this opening volume sets up the conflict between the freedom fighters of devastated Earth and an enemy from space, primarily involving the existence of a race of artificially created supermen.
BRENNAN, DAN
Insurrection! (Belmont, 1970.)
Marginal thriller about a planned widescale Black rebellion against White rule in America.
BRENNAN, FREDERICK H.
One of Our H-Bombs Is Missing (Gold Medal, 1955.)
A military base in the Antarctic is prey to a contagious paranoia that drives them to seize a nuclear weapon as part of a plan to precipitate a nuclear war and end their assignment at the end of the world.
BRENNAN, J.H. (Also writes Fantasy.)
Shiva Accused (Harper, 1991.)
Shiva #2.
Capture and escape among Stone Age tribes.
Shiva: An Adventure of the Ice Age (Harper, 1990.)
Shiva #1.
Adventures in prehistory.
Shiva’s Challenge (Harper, 1992.)
Shiva #3.
Shiva survives a series of challenges in order to become shaman of her tribe.
BRENNAN, NOEL-ANNE (Also writes Fantasy.)
Winter Reckoning (Donald Grant, 1986.)
Earth and an alien race contend for control of a primitive world colonized by humans long before. The protagonist is stranded and befriended by a local who reveals she has prescient visions that help her to avoid trouble.
Saving the President (Messner, 1987.)
Young adult book in which Lincoln is not assassinated.
BRENNER, MAYER ALAN (Also writes Fantasy. See Rick North.)
BRENNERT, ALAN (Also writes Horror.)
Author's Choice Monthly #17 (See Ma Qui and Other Phantoms.)
City of Masques (Playboy, 1978.)
Hollywood has a new technique for turning untalented people into major film stars. A new device allows one to replace existing brain patterns with the recorded ones of famous stars.
Her Pilgrim Soul (Tor, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Ma Qui and Other Phantoms (Pulphouse, 1991. Also known as Author's Choice Monthly #17.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Time and Chance (Tor, 1990.)
Individuals from parallel worlds cross over and impact each other's lives. Each version of the protagonist made a wrong choice, which can be altered in their new surroundings.
BRENT, JEREMY
Plastic Man (New English Library, 1974.)
A retired scientist creates a computer that is so powerful it doesn't just computer, it manipulates reality through the power of its thought. And its creator's mind is slowly merging with the artificial intelligence.
BRESCIA, MARTHA T.
Another Chance (American Literary Press, 1999.)
The human race spreads to the other planets, but not without problems.
BRETNOR, REGINALD (See also Grendel Briarton.)
Gilpin's Space (Ace, 1986.)
An inventor discovers a way to travel to distant parts of the universe, just in time to escape an Earth that has become overwhelmed by conflict between two repressive superstates.
Schimmelhorn File: Memoirs of a Dirty Old Genius, The (Ace, 1979.)
Collection of related stories about the unlikely adventures of the title character.
Schimmelhorn's Gold (Tor, 1986.)
Collection of related stories about the unlikely adventures of the title character.
BRETT, LEO (Pseudonym of Robert Lionel Fanthorpe, whom see.)
Alien Ones, The? (Badger, 1963, Arcadia, 1969, Tower, ?.)
Settlers on a harsh colony world discover that there is a mysterious vibration which transforms them into hideous monsters.
Black Infinit y (Badger, 1961.)
Not seen.
Exit Humanity (Badger, 1960. Arcadia, 1965.)
An alien arrives on Earth and warns the world that the planet is about to be destroyed. He offers to lead them to a new home, but no one knows whether or not they should trust the visitor.
Face in the Night (Badger, 1962.)
Not seen.
Faceless Planet (Badger, 1960.)
A spaceship crashlands on a hostile planet filled with dangerous plants and animals.
Forbidden, The (Badger, 1963.)
Not seen.
Immortals, The (Badger, 1962.)
Not seen.
March of the Robots (Badger, 1961.)
Not seen.
Microscopic Ones, The (Badger, 1960.)
Not seen.
Mind Force (Badger, 1961.)
An alien being of unimaginable power manifests itself on Earth as a pair of eyes which force people to do its bidding.
Power Sphere (Badger, 1963, Arcadia, 1968.)
A space explorer investigating the remains of a dead civilization begins to suspect that there are still members of that race living. And watching him.
They Never Come Back (Badger, 1963.)
Not seen.
K-Pax (St Martins, ?)
Prot #1.
An enigmatic mental patient may actually be an alien visitor from outer space.
K-Pax III (Bloomsbury, 2002.)
Prot #3.
An alien returns to Earth and launches a contest to see which one hundred humans will accompany him back to his Utopian planet.
On a Beam of Light (St Martins, 2001.)
Prot #2.
A psychiatrist begins to believe that his patient actually is from another planet.
BREX
Civil War of 1915, The (Pearson, 1912.)
Near future political satire.
BRIARTON, GRENDEL (Pseudonym of Reginald Bretnor, whom see.)
Collected Feghoot, The (Pulphouse, 1992.)
Collection of related short stories.
Compleat Feghoot, The (Mirage, 1975.)
Collection of related short spoofs.
BRIDGES, T.C.
Death Star, The (Collins, 1940.)
The near passage of another star wipes out most of the people on Earth.
Men of the Mist (?, 1922. Coachwhip, 2020, bound with The Last of the Mammoths by Raymond Turenne.)
Two boys encounter prehistoric creatures in a remote area.
Mystery Message, The (Harrap, 1927, Armchair, 2024.)
Lost world populated by Atlanteans.
BRIGGS, IAN
Curse of Fenric, The (Target, 1990, from the 1989 script by the author.)
Doctor Who.
The Doctor arrives in the middle of World War II and finds himself at a military installation that has just developed a radical new superweapon. Throw in some underground creatures, communist spies, computerized decoding of ancient runes, and a mad scientist and you have an unusually complex installment in the Doctor's life.
BRIGGS, NICHOLAS
Dalek Generation, The (Broadway, 2013.)
A Doctor Who novel.
A planet ruled by the Daleks contains a hidden threat.
BRIGHTFIELD, RICHARD (Also writes Fantasy.)
Phantom Submarine, The (Bantam, 1983.)
Choose Your Own Adventure #23.
Gamebook about superscience and ESP under the sea.
BRIN, DAVID (See also collaboration with Greg .)
Brightness Reef (Bantam, 1996, Orbit, 1996.)
Uplift #4.
A mixed bag of refugees and prisoners from various alien and uplifted species live in general harmony on an obscure world, hiding their presence from a galactic civilization they feel would not tolerate their independence. And then a strange ship appears in the sky.
Dr. Pak's Preschool (Pulphouse, 1992.)
Reprint in pamphlet form of the 1990 short story about pressure to use psychological conditioning to create a superior child.
Earth (Bantam, 1990, MacDonald, 1990.)
A tiny blackhole has sunk into the world's core and is threatening to eventually destroy the entire planet. Even without that danger, civilization has so disrupted the surface ecology that mass starvation seems inevitable in any case. Scientists race to avert disaster while some humans decide that perhaps extinction isn't such a bad idea.
Earthclan (Doubleday, 1987.)
Omnibus of Startide Rising and The Uplift War.
Existence (Tor, 2012.)
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Foundation's Triumph (Harper, 1999, Orbit, 2000.)
A Foundation novel.
Hari Seldon escapes Trantor and searches for the unforeseen factor that is interfering with his plans for humanity's future. He discovers that a subset of the robot population is no longer subject to the Three Laws.
Glory Season (Bantam, 1993, Orbit, 1993.)
A planet that was colonized by people who planned to use cloning to maintain the stability of their society face a crisis when a new wave of human expansion threatens to flood their portion of space with colonists.
Heaven’s Reach (Bantam, 1998, Orbit, 1998.)
Uplift #6.
A party of refugees from the galactic civilization are guardians of an ancient secret.
Infinity's Shore (Bantam, 1996, Orbit, 1998.)
Uplift #5.
The outside universe has found the planet Jixo with its six different intelligent species, all refugees from other worlds. Can they preserve their balanced society in the face of determined, divisive outside influences?
Kiln People (Tor, 2002, Orbit, 2002.)
Artificial people are common, but there's something sinister going on behind the scenes. A detective discovers that someone has developed a way to extend the lifespan of the duplicates.
Otherness (Bantam, 1994, Orbit, 1994.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Piecework (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Reprint in pamphlet for of the 1988 short story satirizing sex roles and motherhood.
Postman, The (Bantam, 1985, Orbit, 1997.)
One of the survivors of war ravaged America finds a postal uniform and wears it as he travels from one small enclave to another. The uniform becomes the symbol of order and civilization and to his surprise he becomes the catalyst for the re-establishment of intercourse between individual communities and the leader in a fight against an army of invading hyper-survivalists.
Practice Effect, The (Bantam, 1984.)
Amusing and cleverly constructed story of a man who journeys to an alternate universe where the laws of science are different. Objects only become their true selves by being used; practice actually changes their nature.
River of Time, The (Dark Harvest, 1986, Bantam, 1987.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sky Horizon (Subterranean, 2007.)
Nerds find an alien.
Startide Rising (Bantam, 1983, Phantasia, 1985, Orbit, ?)
Uplift #2.
A planet that may hold the secret of the Progenitors, the first intelligent species in the galaxy, is the subject of an imminent interstellar war. At the same time, a mixed crew of human, chimp, and dolphin star travelers has crashed on that world and is caught between rival forces.
Sundiver (Bantam, 1980, Orbit, ?)
Uplift #1.
The Uplift universe is an interstellar society where intelligent species have forced the evolution of lower animals so that they are also intelligent. Humans are the only species which seems to have reached that level independently, unless an expedition from Mercury can find the truth about our origin in the corona of the sun.
Uplift War, The (Bantam, 1987, Phantasia, 1987, Orbit, ?)
Uplift #3.
A panoramic tale of galactic war as numerous cultures clash for control of an abandoned armada created by a now vanished intelligent race.
BRINK, CAROL RYRIE
Andy Buckram’s Tin Men (Viking, 1966, Tempo, 1967.)
Whimsical nonsense for younger readers about a boy who builds working robots out of old tin cans.
BRINKLEY, WILLIAM
Last Ship, The (Viking, 1988, Ballantine, 1989.)
A single US destroyer escapes destruction in a nuclear exchange that destroys most of the world. They set out on a voyage to discover if anyone else has survived.
BRINTON, HENRY
Purple 6 (Walker, 1962, Hutchinson, 1962, Arrow, 1963, Avon, 1963.)
Espionage and politics combine in this novel of nuclear brinksmanship with the Soviet Union and Great Britain on the verge of a nuclear exchange.
BRITAIN, DAN (Pseudonym of Don Pendleton, whom see.)
Civil War II (Pinnacle, 1971. Bee-Line, 1968, as Revolt!.)
A revolt by militant elements within the army is motivated by racial tensions. With the minority rebels in control of the major cities, it appears that a major civil war is in the making.
Godmakers, The (Pinnacle, 1970.)
Various strange events involving the spill over from experiments in the development of extrasensory powers endanger the country in the near future.
Revolt! (See Civil War II.)
BRIZZOLARA, JOHN
Empire's Horizon (DAW, 1989.)
A primitive outpost world on the fringes of a dying galactic empire is torn by strife between a religious cult and a band of nomadic warriors. A Terran visitor is thrust into the middle of the conflict and finds himself in a unique position to free the world from repressive Terran domination.
BROCKLEY, FENTON (Pseudonym of Donald Rowland, whom see.)
Star Quest (Hale, 1974.)
Not seen.
BROCKMANN, SUZANNE
Time Enough for Love (Bantam, 1997.)
A time machine malfunctions and threatens to alter the past. Its inventor travels back through time with a warning, and finds true love instead in this romance novel.
BROCKWAY, F.
Purple Plague (Sampson Low, 1935.)
A new plague breaks out aboard a ship which is therefore denied permission to land.
BRODERICK, DAMIEN (Also writes Fantasy. See collaborations with Robert Silverberg and John Brunner.)
Dark Between the Stars (Mandarin, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dreaming Dragons, The (Pocket, 1990, Norstrilia Press, 1990.)
Faustus #4.
An aboriginal anthropologist discovers that a contingent of alien creatures with a taste for human flesh lie in suspended animation in a remote part of Australia.
Judas Mandala, The (Pocket, 1982. Revised version, Mandarin, 1990.)
Faustus #1.
A time traveler from the Twentieth Century emerges in a future dominated by cyborgs, and is hunted by more than human killers who fear her ability to move through time may upset their rule.
Man Returned, A (Horwitz, 1965.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Matilda at the Speed of Light (Anous, 1988.)
Not seen.
Sea's Furthest End, The (Aphelion, 1993.)
The heir to the throne of a galactic empire leads a rebellion against his tyrannical father, while a group of immortal humans looks on.
Striped Holes (Avon, 1988.)
Faustus #3.
Comic adventure about a man contacted by aliens from the future who warn him he must marry that same day or risk the extinction of the entire human race.
Transcension (Tor, 2002.)
In a Utopian future where people are not legally adults until they are thirty, a precocious young woman decides to have an adventure and involves various other people in her effort.
Transmitters (Ebony, 1984.)
Faustus #2.
Not seen.
White Abacus, The (Avon, 1997.)
The galaxy is populated by a peaceful alliance of humans and artificial intelligences, except on one planet where the latter is forbidden. But one visitor from that world strikes up a friendship with an AI, and returns to confront his insular homeworld.
BRODEUR, GREG (See collaboration with Dave Galanter.)
BROKAW, CHARLES
Atlantis Code, The (Forge, 2009.)
Atlantis is discovered off the coast of Spain.
BROOK, MELJEAN (Also writes Horror.)
Heart of Steel (Berkley, 2011.)
Steampunk #2.
Romance in an alternate world.
Iron Duke, The (Berkley, ?)
Steampunk #1.
Romance in an alternate history.
Accord, The (Solaris, 2009.)
A future society achieves immortality through virtual reality.
Expatria (Gollancz, 1991, Corgi, 1992, Cosmos, 2001.)
On a colony world where technology has been abandoned, a politician's efforts to return to the old ways leads to his murder and the framing of his son.
Expatria Incorporated (2001)
Genetopia (?, 1999, Pyr, 2006.)
A man struggles to survive in a future world where nanotechnology has transformed virtually everything.
Harmony (Solaris, 2012.)
Human civilization is being destroyed by enigmatic aliens.
Head Shots (?, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Keepers of the Peace
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Parallax View (?, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BROOKE-ROSE, CHRISTINE
Verbivore (Carcanet, 1990.)
Xorander #2.
Not seen.
Xorandor (Carcanet, 1986, Avon, 1988.)
Xorandor #1.
Two computer literate children stumble across an alien being who advises them that others of his kind are "eating" nuclear weapons.
BROOKS, BRUCE
No Kidding (Harper & Row, 1989.)
In the mid-21st Century, a young boy assumes the decision making role for his family after his mother is treated for alcoholism.
BROOKS, CECIL (See collaborations with Bill Adams.)
BROOKS, KEVIN
Iboy (Scholastic, 2011.)
A boy develops unusual powers following an accident.
BROOKS, MIKE
Dark Deeds (Saga, 2018.)
Keiko #3.
An interplanetary heist and a plot to assassinate a crime boss.
Dark Run (Saga, 2016.)
Keiko #1.
A crew of misfits are coerced into a smuggling run onto old Earth that turns out to be something else entirely.
Dark Sky (Saga, 2017.)
Keiko #2.
The somewhat shady crew of a spaceship get caught in the middle of a planetary rebellion.
BROOKS, ROBERT E.
Brain People and the New Humans, The (Circa, 1983.)
Unconvincing, awkward story of a group of survivors of a nuclear war who inhabit a cavern in Australia. There they alter their own bodies to extend their lifespans and set about breeding a new, more peaceful race of humans to repopulate the Earth.
BROOKS, TERRY (Also writes Fantasy.)
Phantom Menace, The (Del Rey, 1999, Arrow, 2000.)
A Star Wars novel.
A member of the governing body of the Republic connives with a trading consortium to occupy a peaceful planet as part of his plot to seize power. Two Jedi knights get involved with a young slave boy in their efforts to thwart the invasion.
BROOMHEAD, R.
Voice from Mars, A (Stockwell, 1923.)
A journey to Mars.
BROPHY, CATHERINE
Dark Paradise (Wolfhound Press, 1991.)
An obscure story about a cloud shrouded planet whose culture is threatened by revolutionaries. The protagonist is branded a criminal for his sympathetic stance and banished into a phantasmagoric world.
BROSNAN, JOHN (See also Harry Adam Knight, James Blackstone & Simon Ian Childer.)
Fall of the Sky Lords, The, (Gollancz, 1991.)
Sky Lords #3.
Not seen.
Mothership (Gollancz, 2004.)
A court jester has adventures in space aboard a generation starship whose occupants no longer remember their origin.
Opoponax Invasion, The (Gollancz, 1991.)
Not seen.
Sky Lords, The (Gollancz, 1988, St Martins, 1991.)
Sky Lords #1.
Following a series of wars involving genetic engineering, Earth consists of widely separated feudal states prey to warlords in enormous dirigibles. A woman from a feminist dominated city is taken captive by the Sky Lords and eventually escapes.
War of the Sky Lords, The (Gollancz, 1989, St Martins, 1992.)
Sky Lords #2.
A secret underground base in the Antarctic holds out against the attacks of the evil sky lords.
Matrix Derided, The (Gollancz, 2004.)
A spoof of the Matrix movies.
Spider Star (Tor, 2008.)
A journey through space to find a way to turn off a planet destroyer.
Star Dragon (Tor, 2003.)
A group of scientists are sent to a distant part of space to study a race of dragons who have a very strange biophysiology.
BROWDER, WALT
Accident, The (Major, 1977.)
A string of mishaps allows a nuclear weapon to fall into the hands of a maniac who plans to use it to destroy a major American city.
BROWN, A.
Angelo’s Moon (Lane, 1955.)
An underground civilization is forced to change.
BROWN, CHARLES R. (See collaboration with Arthur Morgan.)
BROWN, DALE (See collaboration which follows.)
Battle Born (Bantam, 1999.)
South Korea launches a surprise attack and seizes control of the North, then decides that the stockpile of nuclear weapons there make it a world power capable of standing up to the US.
Chains of Command (Putnam, 1993, Berkley, 1994.)
The US military becomes involved in a shooting war between Russia and the Ukraine.
Day of the Cheetah (Donald Fine, 1992, Berkley, 1993.)
Russian spies steal a prototype fighter plane that is designed to react to the thoughts of its pilot.
Deception Point (Pocket, 2001.)
A research team sent to investigate a meteorite that contains fossils find themselves pursued across the Arctic by a dangerous human enemy.
Fatal Terrain (Putnam, 1997, Berkley, 1998.)
Old Dog #5.
Chinese forces attack Taiwan and the US is dragged into a war that involves the destruction of Guam by Chinese forces.
Flight of the Old Dog (Donald Fine, 1987, Berkley, 1988.)
Old Dog #1.
Technothriller in which the Soviet Union develops an orbiting defensive system ahead of the US, which uses an experimental aircraft to restore the balance of power.
Night of the Hawk3. (Putnam, 1992, Donald Fine, 1992, Berkley, 1993.)
Old Dog #2
A pilot lost in Russia while on a bombing mission is captured and brainwashed.
Shadows of Steel (Putnam, 1996, Thorndike, 1996, Berkley, 1997.)
Old Dog #4.
Iran has closed the Persian Gulf and attacked US shipping in the area, but the US Army and public are not prepared for a war. As a stopgap, the President orders an elite outfit to perform a limited but crippling strike against the enemy.
Silver Tower (Berkley, 1995.)
A space station becomes a pivotal weapons base in a shooting war between the US and Russia.
Sky Masters (Donald Fine, 1991, Berkley, 1996.)
Old Dog #3.
Marginal. A battle between the US and Chinese military for strategic control of an island in the South China Sea.
Storming Heaven (Putnam, 1994, Berkley, 1995.)
Marginal spy thriller about a group of terrorists who wreak major havoc in several American cities.
Tin Man, The (Bantam, 1998.)
Angered by an attack on his brother, a brilliant scientist makes use of supertechnology to make himself over into an armored superhero who devotes himself to fighting crime.
Warrior Class (Berkley, 2002.)
A new dictator arises in Russia, until his plans are thwarted by an enterprising American.
Wings of Fire (Berkley, 2003.)
Marginal future political thriller in which Libyans assassinate the President of Egypt and nearly start a war.
Dreamland Piranha (Jove, 2003.)
Marginal thriller involving a war between India and China.
Angels and Demons (Pocket, 2000.)
Marginal story of a murder that leads to the discovery of a secret society that has been controlling human society for centuries.
BROWN, DAVID JAY
Brainchild (Falcon, 1988.)
Confused, psychedelic cyber novel clone involving nanotechnology, super intelligence, and a totally irrelevant and occasionally incomprehensible plot.
BROWN, DOUGLAS & SERPELL, CHRISTOPHER
If Hitler Comes. (See Loss of Eden.)
Loss of Eden (Faber, 1940. Faber, 1941, as If Hitler Comes.)
Speculation about the German invasion of England.
BROWN, ERIC (See also collaboration with Keith Brooke.and those that follow.)
Approaching Omega (Telos, 2005.)
An automated starship turns its hibernating passengers into cyborgs.
Bengal Station (Five Star, 2004. Expanded as Necropath.)
A Bengal Station novel.
Telepaths battle a cult that uses drugs and murder to silence their opponents.
Binary (Solaris, 2016.)
Binary #1.
A starship crashes on an unknown world.
Binary System (Solaris, 2017.)
Binary #2.
A stranded space traveler eludes hostile aliens.
Cosmopath (Solaris, 2009.)
A Bengal Station novel.
An investigation into a group of people who disappeared from their spaceship leads to trouble.
Deep Future (Wildside, 2002.)
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Devil's Nebula, The (Abaddon, 2012.)
Humans and hostile aliens must unite against a third force.
Engineman (Pan, 1994, McClelland & Stewart, 1994.)
A space mission to rescue an alien race that was almost exterminated reveals that they have knowledge of the mechanics of the universe that exceeds that of human beings.
Engineman (Solaris, 2010.)
Reprint of the novel of the same name and several related short stories.
Fall of Tartarus, The (Gollancz, 2005.)
Collection of related stories about a distant planet.
Guardians of the Phoenix (Solaris, 2010.)
After the collapse.
Helix (Solaris, 2007.)
A group of people crashland on a planet where they must figure out the nature of an enigmatic artifact.
Jani and the Greater Game (Solaris, 2014.)
Jani #1.
Steampunk set in an alternate British Africa.
Jani and the Great Pursuit (Solaris, 2016.)
Jani #2.
Steampunk about a rift between universes.
Kethani (Solaris, 2008.)
Aliens offer Earth immortality.
Kings of Eternity, The (Solaris, 2011.)
Two people in different centuries are united by an alien intrusion.
Martian Menace, The (Titan, 2020.)
Sherlock Holmes goes to Mars to investigate a mystery and finds a plot against humanity.
Meridian Days (Pan, 1992.)
A star pilot crashlands on a small planet largely populated with artists, and despite his dislike of their culture, he becomes fascinated with one of their number.
Necropath (Solaris, 2008.)
Expanded version of Bengal Station.
New York Blues (Gollancz, 2001.)
Virex #2.
A private detective searches for the sister of a movie star in a future America fragmented by virtual reality escapists and terrorist attacks.
New York Dreams (Gollancz, 2004.)
Virex #3.
A self destructive private detective suspects his partner has returned from the dead.
New York Nights (Gollancz, 2000, Millennium, 2001.)
Virex #1.
Virtual reality and the near collapse of the US following a series of nuclear terrorist attacks A missing persons investigator gets caught up in a high tech mystery and discovers a renegade artificial intelligence.
Penumbra (Millennium, 1999.)
Two mysteries intertwine. One is a mysterious serial killer in the far future; the other is the discovery of human writing on ancient artifacts on a distant planet.
Serene Invasion, The ( Solaris, 2013.)
Humans are contacted by benevolent aliens, but some people don't want them on Earth.
Threshold Shift (Golden Gryphon, 2006.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories, The (Drunken Dragon Press, 1990, Pan, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Untouchable (Orion, 1997.)
A Web novel.
A kidnapping in India in the year 2027 brings a young person into great danger when she discovers through virtual reality that a woman is experimenting on them to find a way to transfer her personality into the Web.
Walkabout (Dolphin, 1999.)
A Web novel.
A teenager is suspicious that someone is using the internet of the future to manipulate the minds of people who plug into its virtual reality capabilities.
Writer's Life, A (PS, 2001.)
Novella about a man who discovers that an obscure writer has been given an extended lifespan by creatures from another reality.
Xenopath (Solaris, 2009.)
A Bengal Station novel.
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BROWN, ERIC & MCCORMACK, UNA
Baba Yaga, The (Abaddon, 2015.)
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BROWN, ERIC S. & CORDOVA, JASON
Kaiju Apocalypse (Severed, 2014.)
Giant monsters menace the world.
BROWN, FREDRIC
And the Gods Laughed (Phantasia, 1987.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Angels and Spaceships (See Star Shine)
Best of Fredric Brown, The (Doubleday, 1976, Del Rey, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown, The (New English Library, 1982.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Daymares (Lancer, 1968.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
From These Ashes (NESFA, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Honeymoon in Hell (Bantam, 1958.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Lights in the Sky Are Stars, The (Bantam, 1954. Dutton, 1953, Boardman, 1954, as Project Jupiter.)
An ambitious man who believes that humanity's destiny is to reach the stars manipulates the public and his friends to ensure that space exploration continues with a flight to the moons of Jupiter. Rather dated.
Martians and Madness (NESFA, 2002.)
Omnibus of The Mind Thing, What Mad Universe, The Lights in the Sky Are Stars, Rogue in Space, and Martians Go Home!.
Martians, Go Home (Dutton, 1955, Bantam, 1956, Del Rey, 1976, Baen, 1992.)
The human race is plagued by teleporting green aliens, apparently Martians, whose constant sarcasm is driving everyone to the brink of insanity.
Mind Thing, The (Bantam, 1961.)
A turtle-like alien is stranded on Earth and uses its ability to control the minds of others to ensure its own survival. Since it can only relinquish control by killing its current host, the alien leaves a string of strange deaths that alerts humans to its presence.
Nightmares and Geezenstacks (Bantam, 1961, Corgi, 1962.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Paradox Lost (Random House, 1973, Berkley, 1974, Hale, 1975.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Project Jupiter (See The Lights in the Sky are Stars)
Rogue in Space (Dutton, 1957, Bantam, 1957.)
A unique, space dwelling alien encounters human beings and becomes fascinated with the new experiences it can read in their minds. When its newfound friends try to leave, the alien is unwiling to relinquish them.
Space on My Hands. (Shasta, 1951, Bantam, 1952, Corgi, 1953, Lightyear, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Star Shine (Bantam, 1956. Gollancz, 1955, Dutton, 1955, Four Square, 1962, all as Angels and Spaceships.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
What Mad Universe (Dutton, 1949, Bantam, 1950, Boardman, 1954, Arrow, 1954, Amereon, 1976, Easton, 1986, Lightyear, 1997.)
A contemporary man is transported into an alternate version of our world where Eisenhower is leading the forces of Earth in an interplanetary war and the people he knows exist, but with different lives.
BROWN, GRAHAM (See also collaborations with Clive Cussler.)
Black Rain (Dell, 2010. Ebury, 2011, as The Mayan Conspiracy.)
Danielle Laidlaw #1.
An expedition to South America encounters creatures from the future.
Black Sun (Bantam, 2010.)
Danielle Laidlaw #2.
Various parties search for four stones that possess unprecedented technology capable of generating power.
Eden Prophecy, The (Bantam, 2012.)
Danielle Laidlaw #3.
Thriller involving the discovery of a plague that reduces lifespans.
Mayan Conspiracy, The (See Black Rain.)
BROWN, HARRISON (See collaboration with Chloe Zerwick.)
BROWN, HUGH DOUGLAS
Mars 5 (Westsonian, 1976.)
Unbelievably badly conceived and written, semi-literate story of an expedition to Mars.
BROWN, JAMES COOKE
Troika Incident, The (Doubleday, 1970.)
Astronauts travel briefly to a future Utopian society before returning to the present and realizing no one will ever believe them.
BROWN, JERRY EARL
Darkhold (Ace, 1985.)
A brilliant scientist builds a personal retreat and peoples it with five clones of the woman he loves. But the clones grow jealous of one another, and their personalities differentiate as time passes.
Earthfall (Ace, 1990.)
Earth has been devastated by a nuclear war, but not before spreading to the stars. Now its children guard the home planet to prevent any of its numerous mutants from escaping, but one offworlder is involved in a secret mission to discover whether or not normal humans still exist on the planet.
Snowmen (Pocket, 1991.)
Marginal thriller about the discovery of a secret biogenetic experiment on human criminals which has had some unexpected side effects.
Under the City of Angels (Bantam, 1981.)
A scavenger takes on a risky job in the submerged ruins of Los Angeles and stumbles into a plot to conceal the existence of visitors from another star system.
BROWN, JIM
Love Machine, The (Armchair, 2015, bound with Armageddon by Rog Phillips. Magazine appearance 1954.)
A scientist develops a love ray.
Bad Timing and Other Stories (Big Engine, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories, not all of which are SF.
BROWN, PIERCE
Golden Son (Del Rey, 2015.)
Dystopia #2.
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Iron Gold (Del Rey, 2018.)
Dystopia #4.
Morning Star (Del Rey, 2016.)
Dystopia #3.
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Red Rising (Del Rey, 2014.)
Dystopia #1.
Rebellion against a dystopia.
BROWN, R.B.
Broth of a Boy, A (Fortune, 1934.)
Adventures in a future empire.
BROWN, ROBIN
Megalodon (Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1981, Playboy, 1982.)
Submarines, trained dolphins, and human adventurers race against time when a prehistoric shark of enormous power appears in the North Pacific.
BROWN, ROSEL GEORGE (See also collaboration with Keith Laumer.)
Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue (Berkley, 1968. Doubleday, 1966, as Sibyl Sue Blue.)
Sibyl Sue Blue #1.
An interstellar police detective travels to a far world to investigate the disappearance of her husband, and learns instead of a terrible disease that endangers them all.
Handful of Time, A (Ballantine, 1963.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Waters of Centaurus, The (Doubleday, 1970, Lancer, 1971.)
Sibyl Sue Blue #2.
Love between a human policewoman and a humanoid alien blossoms but threatens as well to explode into an interstellar incident.
Sibyl Sue Blue (See Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue.)
BROWN, RYAN
Thawed Out & Fed Up (Gallery, 2011.)
A man wakes from suspended animation into a kind of Old West.
BROWN, WENZELL
Possess & Conquer (Warner, 1975.)
When we reached the moon, we alarmed an alien race which is manipulating our own violent habits as a weapon to destroy society and the space program. Offbeat and unconvincing invasion with a message story.
BROWN, ZACHARY
Darkside War, The (Saga, 2015.)
Icarus #1.
Jupiter Rising (Saga, 2016.)
Icarus #3.
Titan's Fall (Saga, 2016.)
Icarus #2
BROWNE, C.J.
Escape Carthus (Carousel, 1980.)
Laughable novel about a superhuman with the power of invisibility who accidentally kills someone, is threatened to death on a prison world, but who gets rescued by a brace of beautiful but treacherous ladies.
BROWNE, GEORGE SHELDON (House pseudonym.)
Destination Mars (Self, 1952.) (Dennis Talbot Hughes.)
Not seen.
Planetoid Peril, The (Self, 1952.) (Dennis Talbot Hughes.)
Not seen.
Yellow Planet, The (Self, 1954.) (John Jennison.)
A spaceship discovers a lost human colony that resulted from a crash landing.
BROWNE, GERALD A.
Hazard (Arbor House, 1973, Pocket, 1974, Berkley, 1983.)
Better than average spy thriller that involves the development of telepathy.
Slide (Arbor House, 1976, Dell, 1977, Berkley, 1983.)
Borderline thriller about an enormous subsidence following two weeks of rain that traps a group of people in a buried supermarket.
BROWNE, HOWARD (Also writes Fantasy.)
Forgotten Worlds (Armchair, 2015. Magazine appearance 1948 as by Lawrence Chandler.)
A pilot finds himself in a barbaric alternate Earth.
Man from Yesterday, The (Armchair, 2017. Magazine appearance
Planet of No Return (Armchair, 2013, bound with The Annihilator Comes by Ed Earl Repp. Magazine appearance 1951.)
An alien civilization finds Earth.
Tharn #2.
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Revenge of the Robots (Armchair, 2014, bound with The Moon Era by Jack Williamson. Magazine appearance 1952.)
Really silly story about a mission to foil inimical robots in space.
Twelve Times Zero (Armchair, 2011, bound with The Metal Doom by David H. Keller. Magazine appearance 1952.)
A mysterious woman can disappear from locked rooms.
Warrior of Dawn, The, (1943)
Tharn #1
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BROWNE, ROBERT
New Atoms' Bombshell, The (Del Rey, 1980.)
A baseball team uses sophisticated computer wizardry to anticipate their opponents. This turned out to be a poorly disguised plagiarism of The Last Man Out by Marvin Karlins.
BROWNE, S.G. (Also writes Horror.)
Big Eggs (Gallery, 2015.)
Personalities can be injected.
How It Happened Here (Cinema World, 1968.)
Mostly pictures with some text, the story of the German occupation of England.
BRUCE, COLIN
Strange Case of Mrs. Hudson’s Cat, The (Addison Wesley, 1997.)
Collection of Sherlock Holmes’ stories with scientific speculations as centerpieces of each.
BRUCE, MURIEL
Mukara (Henkle, 1930.)
A lost civilization is discovered in Brazil.
BRULLER, JEAN (See Vercors.)
BRUMMELS, J.V.
Deus Ex Machina (Bantam, 1989.)
Earth is doomed as the sun moves steadily toward a devastating explosion. The best chance for human survival is to use matter transmitters to escape the holocaust, but a writer chosen among the select risks everything when the woman he loves is excluded.
BRUNNER, JOHN (See collaboration which follows, and also Keith Woodcott and Gil Hunt. Also writes Fantasy.)
Age of Miracles (Ace, 1973, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973, DAW, 1985. Expansion of Day of the Star Cities, which see.)
Altar on Asconel, The (Ace, 1965, bound with Android Avenger by Ted White.)
A formerly peaceful planet is thrown into a turmoil of religious fervor when a new cult preaches human sacrifice to a superhuman being which the protagonist suspects is an alien from an unknown system.
Astronauts Must Not Land, The (Ace, 1963, bound with The Space-Time Juggler, by the same author. Revised and expanded as More Things in Heaven.)
The first interstellar exploration team returns to Earth just as an alien creature manifests itself in the sky. The authorities hope that the astronauts will be able to explain the alien's arrival, but they have been transformed into non-human creatures themselves, although wraithlike apparitions of their original bodies are also seen.
Atlantic Abomination, The (Ace, 1960, bound with The Martian Missile by David Grinnell. Later published separately.)
A scientific expedition finds an ancient alien creature on the ocean floor and revives it. The alien then uses its mental powers to seize control of increasing numbers of humans as it attempts to restore its one time rule of the land.
Avengers of Carrig, The (Dell, 1969, DAW, 1980, expansion of Secret Agent of Terra, which see.)
Bedlam Planet (Ace, 1968, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973, Del Rey, 1982.)
Interesting speculation about the difficulties of colonizing a planet that appears to be perfect for humankind, free of danger or intelligent inhabitants, but still a major physical and psychological challenge.
Best of John Brunner, The (Del Rey, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Book of John Brunner, The (DAW, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Born Under Mars (Ace, 1967.)
The human colonization of the stars has split into two distinct cultures and spies from both sides are interested in an experimental new stardrive being developed in the underground cities of Mars.
Brink, The (Gollancz, 1959.)
Marginal and implausible thriller about a near nuclear exchange when the US defense system is compromised.
Case of Painter's Ear, A (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Reprint in pamphlet form of the 1987 short story about a weird sort of alien invasion.
Castaways World (Ace, 1963, bound with The Rites of Ohe by the same author. Revised and expanded as Polymath.)
Zarathustra Refugeee series.
Refugees from a world whose star has exploded crash land on a hostile jungle world and carve out a new home for themselves, instead split into two violently opposed groups.
Catch a Falling Star (Ace, 1968, Del Rey, 1982. A revision of The 100th Millenium, which see.)
Children of the Thunder (Del Rey, 1989, Orbit, 1990.)
Research into a rising crime wave among young teens in Britain leads to the startling revelation that a number of these youngsters are criminal geniuses, that their intelligence has been enhanced as part of the next step in human evolution.
Crucible of Time, The (Del Rey, 1983, Arrow, 1984, Legend, 1990.)
A multi-generation novel set in an alien culture which survives and even prospers despite a number of natural disasters but eventually reaches a point where it must either colonize another world or become extinct on its own.
Day of the Star Cities (Ace, 1965. (Revised and expanded as Age of Miracles.)
Aliens cripple human civilization by detonating every bit of fissionable material on the planet. In the chaos that follows, they establish a series of bases scattered across the planet, while humanity organizes to repel the invaders.
Double, Double (Ballantine, 1969, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1971.)
An intelligent treatment of an old fashioned horror story. Toxic wastes combine to create a new lifeform in the ocean, which invades the land by animating dead bodies.
Dramaturges of Yan, The (Ace, 1972, New English Library, 1974, Del Rey, 1982.)
A human research station is investigating the remains of an ancient alien art that is ignored by the local population until an offworld performing company arrives and decides to revivify an old artform. The ruins are revealed to be a device that provides power over the planet itself.
Dreaming Earth, The (Pyramid, 1963, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972.)
An overpopulated future faces a new threat when a mysterious new drug apparently leads to the actual disappearance of its users. Eventually we learn that the drug enhances mental powers so that people can emigrate instantaneously to a new world.
Echo in the Skull (Ace, 1959, bound with Rocket to Limbo by Alan E. Nourse. Revised and expanded as Give Warning to the World.)
A young woman experiences hallucinations in which a hideous creature menaces her life. Although initially concerned about her own sanity, she discovers that the visions are inspired by a plague of alien parasites that have reached Earth.
Endless Shadow (Ace, 1964, bound with The Arsenal of Miracles by Gardner F. Fox. Magazine title The Bridge to Azrael. Later revised and expanded as Manshape.)
An interstellar entrepreneur attempts to deal with the tensions between two colony worlds that have developed mutually exclusive cultures.
Enigma from Tantalus (Ace, 1965, bound with The Repairmen of Cyclops by the same author.)
A group of would-be colonists find that their journey is destined never to end, that they are being manipulated by people concerned that one of their number has been contacted telepathically by an alien, and that a shapechanger may have come aboard.
Entry to Elsewhen (DAW, 1972.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Evil That Men Do, The (Belmont, 1969, bound with ?)
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Father of Lies (Belmont, 1962, bound with Mirror Image by Bruce Duncan.)
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Foreign Constellations (Everest, 1980.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
From This Day Forward (Doubleday, 1972, DAW, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Gaudy Shadows, The (Constable, 1970, Beagle, 1971.)
Marginal thriller about a new drug that provides hallucinations of unprecedented power that can be partially tailored for each client.
Give Warning to the World (DAW, 1974, Dobson, 1981. Revised and expanded version of Echo in the Skull, which see.)
Infinitive of Go, The (Del Rey, 1980.)
The initial tests of a matter transmitter have an interesting outcome. The human test subject emerges with his personality unaltered, but in an entirely different and non-human body.
Interstellar Empire (DAW, 1976, Hamlyn, 1985, Arrow, 1987.)
Purportedly a novel, this includes The Altar on Asconel and three longish short stories set in a similar future.
Into the Slave Nebula (Lancer, 1968, Dawson, 1980. Revised and expanded version of Slavers of Space, which see.)
Jagged Orbit, The (Ace, 1969, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970, DAW, 1984, Gollancz, 2000.)
Street violence, racial tensions, a faltering economy, social chaos plague the 21st Century, where a large cast of characters struggle to survive in a world where the Mafia has become a major force in society.
Listen! The Stars! (Ace, 1963, bound with The Rebellers by Jane Roberts. Revised and expanded as The Stardroppers.)
An odd device begins to appear on Earth whose use is addictive and whose users begin to disappear. Similar to The Dreaming Earth, the novel involves the salvation of the future through an alien device that increases human intelligence.
Long Result, The (Faber, 1965, Ballantine, 1966, Penguin, 1968.)
Earth's small interstellar civilization entertains its first visitors from the stars, and a sinister organization that opposes all contact with aliens threatens to cause an interstellar incident.
Manshape (DAW, 1982. Revised and expanded version of Endless Shadow, which see.)
Man Who Was Secrett and Other Stories, The (Dancing Tuatara, 1992)
Collection of mostly related stories.
Maze of Stars, A (Del Rey, 1991, Easton, 1991.)
A sentient starship has been seeding human colonies among the stars and then watching over their development. But as the generations pass, the intelligent machine is dismayed to find the cultures diverging along unpredictable paths and tries to intervene to return them to the "proper" course.
Meeting at Infinity (Ace, 1961, bound with Beyond the Silver Sky by Kenneth Bulmer. Later published alone.)
A marvelous healing device from a parallel dimension helps a crippled woman restore her body, but it also poses a serious threat as forces from across the dimensional barrier plot to increase their control of the realities.
More Things in Heaven (Dell, 1973, Hamlyn, 1973, DAW, 1987. Revised and expanded version of The Astronauts Must Not Land, which see.)
Muddle Earth (Del Rey, 1993.)
Restored from suspended animation, the protagonist finds himself on a future Earth where enigmatic aliens are trying to reconstruct earlier human society and the humans are all quite weird. Humorous satire carried to farcical extremes.
New Settlement of Old Scores, A (NESFA Press, 1983.)
Collection of essays, poems, and miscellaneous material.
No Future in It (Gollancz, 1962, Curtis, ?, Doubleday, 1964, Panther, 1965.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
No Other Gods But Me (Compact, 1966.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Not Before Time (Four Square, 1968.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Now Then! (Mayflower, 1965, Avon, 1968.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
100th Millenium, The (Ace, 1959, bound with Edge of Time by David Grinnell. Magazine title was Earth Is But a Star, later revised and expanded as Catch a Falling Star.)
In a future so remote that the fragmented human society is almost unrecognizable, a lone scientist discovers that a planetwide catastrophe is imminent and tries to alert people to the danger.
Out of My Mind (Ballantine, 1967. Four Square, 1968, with somewhat different contents.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Planet of Your Own, A (Ace, 1966, bound with The Beasts of Kohl by John Rackham. Magazine title A Long Way to Earth.)
An interplanetary entrepreneur is trapped in a job on a remote world but uses that opportunity to make himself a fortune.
Players at the Game of People (Del Rey, 1980, Doubleday, 1980.)
Wheels move within wheels as alien and human intelligences use extraordinary powers to manipulate the lives of others. The protagonist believes himself to be a player, but he's just one of the pieces.
Polymath (DAW, 1974. Revised and expanded version of Castaways World, which see.)
Productions of Time, The (Signet, 1967. Penguin, 1970, DAW, 1977, both the revised version.)
An eccentric playwright gathers a cast of unlikely actors and uses strange devices to record their rehearsals. Some of the company grow suspicious and uncover the fact that he is actually a visitor from the future recording their emotional as well as physical performances.
Quicksand (Doubleday, 1967, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1969, Bantam, 1969, DAW, 1976.)
A mysterious, amnesiac woman appears naked and nearly kills the first man who approaches her. The authorities consider her crazy, but the protagonist suspects she has traveled back from a future, violent time period.
Repairmen of Cyclops, The (Ace, 1965, bound with Enigma from Tantalus. DAW, alone, 1981.)
Zarathrustra Refugee series.
Interstellar law prohibits interference with the developing cultures of lost colony worlds, but an investigator discovers that someone is secretly violating the law when surgical techniques appear on one world that could not possibly have been developed locally.
Rites of Ohe, The (Ace, 1963, bound with Castaways World by the same author.)
An immortal man is opposed by a cult that worships death in a struggle that could determine the fates of humans on many planets, and an alien race as well.
Sanctuary in the Sky (Ace, 1960, bound with The Secret Martians by Jack Sharkey.)
Two rival human civilizations stand on the brink of war, the first move of which is capture of a neutral world that was artificially constructed and contains otherwise unknown technologies, and eventually turns out to be a colony ship misplaced by a previous unsuspected and far superior Earth dominated civilization.
Secret Agent of Terra (Ace, 1962, bound with The Rim of Space by A. Bertram Chandler. Revised as The Avengers of Carrig.)
Zarathrustra Refugee series.
A lost colony world's economy and social structure are disrupted by the arrival of offworlders with sophisticated weapons. The original occupants, intelligent birds, may even face genocide if a single spy from Earth cannot change the course of history.
Sheep Look Up, The (Ballantine, 1973, Dent, 1974, Legend, 1991, Benbella, 2003.)
Overpopulation #2.
Pollution and spoilage have progressed so far that the end of life on Earth appears irreversible. Already the Mediterranean is dead and plagues and starvation are reducing the population. A realistic, but very depressing examination of a possible near future world.
Shift Key, The (Methuen, 1987.)
A series of strange events in a small town appears to be a contagious phobia of some sort, but the protagonist discovers that a secret experiment is behind it.
Shockwave Rider (Harper & Row, 1975, Dent, 1975, Ballantine, 1976, Methuen, 1988.)
Computers have provided the government with the means to follow everyone's life in great detail, and personal privacy is a thing of the past. But a brilliant rebel escapes from the government, removes himself from the computer system, and sets out to free the human race from the tyranny of the machine.
Skynappers, The (Ace, 1960, bound with Vulcan's Hammer by Philip K. Dick.)
A handful of humans are kidnapped from Earth as pawns in an interplanetary power struggle by a sentient computer known as the Solver who provides them with artificially intelligent companions in their quest to alter the course of galactic civilization.
Slavers of Space (Ace, 1960, bound with Dr. Futurity by Philip K. Dick. Later revised as Into the Slave Nebula.)
Technology has provided mechanical servants to do all the work and the protagonist, like everyone he knows, rarely considers the underlying basis of his society. But then he's kidnapped into space, discovers that androids aren't the mindless machines he thought they were, and is himself transformed.
Space-Time Juggler, The (Ace, 1963, bound with The Astronauts Must Not Land. Magazine title Wanton of Argus.)
The battle for succession to the throne of a galactic empire is complicated by the presence of a visitor from the far future.
Squares of the City, The (Ballantine, 1965, Penguin, 1969, Collier, 1991.)
A power struggle in a mythical nation is based on the actual moves of a famous chess game. Marginal but fascinating.
Stand on Zanzibar (Doubleday, 1968, Ballantine, 1969, MacDonald, 1969, Bentley, 1980, Millennium, 1999, Orb, 2011.)
Overpopulation #1.
Brunner explores the future of many current trends as he follows a large cast of characters through near future America. Drugs are legal, computers are self aware, there's a base on the moon, and religious mania is transforming society. The central plot is the plan by a corporation to buy a small country outright.
Stardroppers, The (DAW, 1972, Hamlyn, 1982. Revised and expanded version of Listen! The Stars!, which see.)
Stone That Never Came Down, The (Doubleday, 1973, DAW, 1975, New English Library, 1976.)
Although human science has found ways to end most of the ills of the world, a secret cabal prefers to let society disintegrate so they can establish their own power base in the aftermath.
Super Barbarians, The (Ace, 1962.)
An alien race using stolen technology has conquered the world. The protagonist is a collaborator who stumbles into a rebellious enclave and realizes that he may have sensitive knowledge which could end the invaders' rule of Earth.
Telepathist (See The Whole Man.)
Three Complete Novels (Wings, 1995.)
Omnibus of Children of Thunder, The Tides of Time, and The Crucible of Time.
Threshold of Eternity (Ace, 1959, bound with The War of Two Worlds by Poul Anderson.)
Three people from different time periods are brought together to help decide the outcome of a war that has been secretly waged across the time lines.
Tides of Time, The (Del Rey, 1984, Penguin, 1986.)
Two fugitives undergo a strange transformation. Every time they sleep, they dream themselves in a lifetime further back in time, and wake in their new environment.
Time Jump (Dell, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Timescoop (Dell, 1969, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972, DAW, 1984.)
A power hungry man with a time machine kidnaps prominent figures from the past to help him, but they forge their own alliance and plot to gain power for themselves.
Times Without Number (Ace, 1962, bound with Destiny's Orbit by David Grinnell. Later published separately by Ace and Elmfield Press, 1974, Del Rey, 1983.)
An episodic short novel about the adventures of a time patrolman whose job is to ensure that no one alters the original course of time, which led to the Spanish conquest of England. In his most interesting adventure, he fails to prevent the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
To Conquer Chaos (Ace, 1964, DAW, 1981.)
Part of Earth is a nuclear wasteland, out of which come hideous monsters which the surviving humans kill. But then an expedition is launched to discover the source of these mutations, and the protagonist discovers that they are not mutants but alien creatures transported through a still functioning matter transmitter.
Total Eclipse. (Doubleday, 1974, DAW, 1975, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975.)
In order to save the race from destroying itself, an expedition is sent to a nearby star to investigate the ruins of a vanished alien civilization which may have succumbed to the same fate.
Victims of the Nova (Arrow, 1989.)
Omnibus collection of the Zarathrustra Refugee short novels.
Web of Everywhere (Bantam, 1974, New English Library, 1977, Del Rey, 1983.)
Matter transmitters have made travel everywhere instantaneous, but personal privacy has become an almost universal paranoia. The protagonist discovers how to invade the private residences of others, which makes him the most feared criminal on Earth.
Whole Man, The (Ballantine, 1964, Collier, 1990. Faber, 1965, Penguin, 1968, both as Telepathist.)
Episodic novel about a disfigured man with incredible telepathic powers who can enter the fantasy worlds of other people and help cure their diseased psyches.
World Swappers, The (Ace, 1959, bound with Siege of the Unseen by A.E., Van Vogt. Ace, alone, undated.)
A corporate magnate and mental giant lead two groups competing for authority in a tumultuous interstellar society. While their rivalry weakens both sides, an alien power prepares to take advantage of the situation, but excess population from Earth may turn the course of battle.
Wrong End of Time, The (Doubleday, 1971, DAW, 1973, Methuen, 1975.)
A paranoid, isolationist American government is alarmed by the arrival of a Russian who insists aliens orbiting Pluto are about to destroy the Earth. Humanity's best hope is an American clairvoyant, who unfortunately is also one of its most wanted criminals.
BRUNNER, JOHN & BRODERICK, DAMIEN
Threshold of Eternity (Phoenix Pick, 2017.)
An expanded version of the original novel by Brunner.
BRUSSOF, VALERY
Republic of the Southern Cross and Other Stories, The (Constable, 1918.)
Collection of unrelated stories not all of which are SF.
BRUST, STEVEN (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille (Ace, 1990, Tor, 2003, Orb, 2003.)
Untraditional sf about a bar that moves back and forth through space and time, disappearing from one location after another, always just in time to avoid devastating destruction.
BRYANT, DOROTHY
Comforter, The (See The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You.)
Kin of Ata Are Waiting For You, The (Random House, 1976. Evan Press, 1971, as The Comforter.)
A feminist approach to religion, the advent of a female messiah and her impact on the world. The protagonist is mysteriously transported from our world into hers and learns to question his own prejudices.
BRYANT, EDWARD (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Among the Dead and Other Events Leading to the Apocalypse (MacMillan, 1973, Collier, 1974.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Author's Choice Monthly #7 (See Neon Twilight.)
Baku, The (Subterranean, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Cinnabar (MacMillan, 1976, Bantam, 1977, Fontana, 1978.)
Collection of loosely connected stories set in the city of Cinnabar.
Man of the Future, The (Roadkill Press, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Neon Twilight (Pulphouse, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Particle Theory (Pocket, 1981.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Thermals of August, The (Pulphouse, 1992.)
Reprint in pamphlet form of the short story about a mysterious death among people who compete in an elaborate hang gliding festival.
Wyoming Sun (Jelm, 1980.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BRYANT, EDWARD & ELLISON, HARLAN
Phoenix Without Ashes (Fawcett, 1975, Savoy, 1978.)
Novelization bases on the original premise for the short lived television program, The Starlost. A generational starship is enroute to a new world when some unexplained disaster alters its course, destroys some of its equipment, and causes the human colonists to forget their origin. Then one inquisitive young man questions his elders and discovers the truth, and an imminent danger.
BRYANT, PETER (See also Peter George.)
Red Alert (Ace, 1958, Corgi, 1961. Boardman, 1958, as Two Hours to Doom.)
The story of a limited nuclear exchange when equipment failures almost precipitate a major nuclear war. The author asserted that Fail Safe by Burdick & Wheeler was inspired by his work.
Two Hours to Doom. (See Red Alert.)
BRYCE, ROBERT
Colchicine Factor, The (Major, 1978.)
A scientist's plan to develop a hybrid seed that will increase the output of food plants is perverted by foreign agents who alter the formulation so that it is poisonous instead.
BUCHANAN, BILL
Clearwater (Berkley, 2000.)
Someone has hijacked an American submarine armed with nuclear weapons in this high tech but marginal thriller.
Pure Fusion (Berkley, 2004.)
Someone has developed a fusion bomb and exploded it in Syria, killing people but leaving all structures intact.
Virus (Jove, 1996.)
A computer virus gets control of the US missile defense system and begins to use it to shoot down innocent commercial jetliners. A brilliant young programmer has to find a way to track down and eradicate the virus, and its creator.
BUCHANAN, MORGAN GRANT (See collaboration with Claudia Christian.)
BUCHANAN, R.
Rev. Annabel Lee, The (Pearson, 1898.)
In the 21st Century, Christianity is largely forgotten.
BUCHARD, ROBERT
Thirty Seconds Over New York (Morrow, 1970, Collins, 1970, Belmont, 1971.)
Borderline thriller about a Chinese general who hatches a plot to deliver a nuclear bomb into the heart of New York City by smuggling it aboard a commercial airliner.
BUCHER-JONES, SIMON (See also collaboration which follows.)
Death of Art, The (Dr. Who, 1996.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure
The Doctor shows up in late 19th Century France as a disruption in the fabric of time itself threatens the entire course of history.
Ghost Devices (Virgin, 1997.)
A New Adventures novel.
A human archaeologist from Earth has various adventures on a bizarre planet where the factories are alive, assassins possibly aren’t, and angels are likely to appear in your private rooms.
BUCHER-JONES, SIMON & CLAPHAM, MARK
Taking of Planet Five, The (BBC, 1999.)
A Doctor Who book.
An expedition to Antarctica discovers remnants of a war that has been fought through both time and space, and it's still alive.
Grimm Reality (BBC, 2001.)
A Doctor Who novel.
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BUCK, CHARLES H.
Master Cure, The (Jove, 1989.)
Marginal piece about a newspaper reporter who uncovers evidence that a new and deadly plague has been tailored to eliminate only people considered inferior by its creators.
Arctic Rising (Tor, 2012.)
Prudence Jones #1.
An attempt to create an orbiting shield leads to violent confrontations.
Cole Protocol, The (Tor, 2009.)
A Halo novel.
War in space.
Crystal Rain (Tor, 2006.)
Empire #1.
An amnesiac may be the only hope for a lost colony that is threatened with destruction by a belligerent neighbor.
Envoy (Gallery, 2017.)
A Halo novel.
Military SF.
Hurricane Fever (Tor, 2014.)
Prudence Jones #2.
Hurricanes become prevalent in the Caribbean in the near future and conspirators plan to depopulate much of the Earth.
Mitigated Futures (Buckell, 2013.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Ragamuffin (Tor, 2007.)
Empire #2.
Humans battle a galactic empire administered by aliens. An augmented female agent has to flee for her life when both sides target her.
Shoggoths in Traffic (Fairwood, 2021.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sly Mongoose (Tor, 2008.)
Empire #3.
A young boy is caught in the middle of things when his planet is invaded.
Tides from the New Worlds (Wyrm, 2009.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BUCKHOLTZ, EILEEN & GLICK, RUTH
Space Attack (Scholastic, 1984.)
Micro Adventure #1.
Gamebook requiring you to defeat an attack from outer space.
BUCKLEY, BOB
Mars Awakens (Self Published, 2017.)
Humans use a variety of robots to colonize Mars.
BUCKLEY, DOUG
State of Play (Albatross, 1990.)
Treachery and conspiracy in a future Australia whose cities are battlegrounds for corporate groups and private citizens.
BUCKLEY, MICHAEL
Raging Sea (HMH, 2016.)
Aliens #2.
Aliens invade Earth.
Undertow (HMH, 2015.)
Aliens #1.
The end of an interstellar war is fraught with tension.
BUCKNER, M.M.
Gravity Pilot, The (Tor, 2011.)
A man tries to rescue his lover from an obsession with virtual reality.
Hyperthought (Ace, 2003.)
In the aftermath of an environmental disaster, a man decides to use experimental surgery on his own brain in order to spearhead a rebellion against a repressive world government.
Neurolink (Ace, 2004.)
Corporations rule a pollution infested Earth and its slave population until an act of charity spurs a rebellion.
War Surf (Ace, 2005.)
In a dystopian future when business executives effectively control the world, a man's obsession with a woman threatens to overturn the status quo.
Watermind (Tor, 2008.)
An artificial intelligence evolves in a high tech dump.
BUCKNER, ROBERT
Moon Pilot. (See Starfire.)
Starfire (Perma, 1960. Magazine title Moon Pilot, later reprinted using that title. Basis for the film of the same name.)
A not particularly competent or willing astronaut has his life complicated by the arrival of a beautiful woman who seems to have come from outer space. Played for laughs.
BUDGE
Eastern Question Resolved, The (Allen, 1881.)
Future politics involving the internationalization of Constantinople.
BUDRYS, ALGIS
Amsirs and the Iron Thorn, The (Gold Medal, 1967. Magazine title The Iron Thorn, also used by Gollancz, 1968.)
Humans live on a remote world dominated by a mysterious alien structure, their lives dedicated to hunting down a winged race that shares that world. The protagonist discovers his prey is intelligent and tries to convince his people to abandon their traditions.
Blood and Burning (Berkley, 1978, Gollancz, 1979.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Blood on My Jets (Armchair, 2018, bound with Under Venusian Flags by Nelson S. Bond. Magazine appearance 1953.)
The protagonist gets caught up in a plan to change the balance of power in the solar system.
Budrys' Inferno (Berkley, 1963. Gollancz, 1964, Panther, 1966, as The Furious Future.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Burning World, The (Armchair, 2012, bound with Forever Is Too Long by Chester S. Geier. Magazine appearance 1957.)
A Utopian future proves to have flaws.
Death Machine, The (See Rogue Moon.)
Falling Torch, The (Pyramid, 1959, Jove, 1968, Baen, 1991.)
Earth has been conquered by an alien empire, but agents have been seeded on Earth to help lead a rebellion against the offworld masters.
False Night (Lion, 1954. Revised and expanded as Some Will Not Die.)
In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a handful of survivors struggle to build a new society on the ashes of the old one. The novel spans many years, as a new leader emerges, loses power, is nearly killed, and becomes a legend and an inspiration for the generation to come.
Furious Future, The (See Budrys' Inferno.)
Hard Landing (Questar, 1993.)
A crew of humanoid aliens crash land on Earth where one of their number decides to ignore their oath never to reveal themselves and tell the truth to government authorities in return for support and protection.
Man of Earth (Ballantine, 1956. Magazine title The Man from Earth.)
An introverted Earthman offends the wrong parties and is forced to change identity. In his new persona, kidnapped to Pluto and provided with a more capable body, his personality alters and he becomes a legitimate hero in a solar society of the not too distant future.
Michaelmas (Gollancz, 1977, Berkley, 1978, Questar, 1986.)
A news reporter with a sentient computer are secretly running the entire world by interfacing with all of the data networks in the world. But one day they discover that someone else is manipulating the data banks, someone replacing humans with alien copies.
Rogue Moon (Gold Medal, 1960, Muller, 1962, Hodder, 1968, Gregg, 1978, Avon, 1981, Popular Library, 1986, Lightyear, 1993. Unifont, 2001, as The Death Machine.)
A mysterious alien structure is discovered on the moon, one which kills people in inexplicable ways for reasons which appear almost random. Scientists use a matter duplicater to create copies of the one man who seems capable of dying over and over again in order to find the solution to the deadly puzzle.
Some Will Not Die (Regency, 1961, Muller, 1962, Mayflower, 1964, Hodder, 1968, Donning, 1978, Dell, 1979. Revised and expanded version of False Night.)
Unexpected Dimension, The (Ballantine, 1960, Gollancz, 1962, Panther, 1964.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Who? (Pyramid, 1958, Badger, 1960, Gollancz, 1962, Penguin, 1964, Lancer, 1968, Gregg, 1979, Popular Library, 1987.)
A scientist imprisoned by the communists is returned, but he has been so badly injured that there's no way to positively identify him. Should he be allowed access to his old research facilities, has he been brainwashed, or is he an imposter? Made into a film with the same title.
Clade (Bantam, 2004.)
In a future where genetic engineering is rampant, a businessman discovers that a project to create a colony in space conceals a darker motive.
Crache (Bantam, 2004.)
Diverse plots are launched aimed at destroying the technological interface of a future humanity.
Idolon (Bantam, 2006.)
Trouble in a future in which the rich can reprogram their lives.
Till Human Voices Wake Us (Bantam, 2007.)
Three individuals from separate times are linked.
BUETTNER, ROBERT
Balance Point (Baen, 2014.)
Orphan #3.
?
Golden Gate, The (Baen, 2017.)
Orphanage (Aspect, 2004.)
Orphan #1.
When aliens attack Earth from a base on Ganymede, a single ship is constructed to launch a counterattack.
Orphan's Destiny (Aspect, 2005. Baen, 2011, as Undercurrents.)
Orphan #2.
Now that the war appears to be over, Earth disarms, only to discover it was only a feint and the real attack is coming now.
Overkill (Baen, 2011.)
A hunting party on a distant planet goes awry.
Undercurrents (See Orphan's Destiny.)
BUFF, JOE
Deep Sound Channel (Bantam, 2000.)
A near future submarine thriller set during a war between the US and a German - White South African alliance. To prevent the release of a powerful new virus, a submarine is sent to set off a nuclear weapon along the African coast.
Thunder in the Deep (Cosmopolitan, 1900.)
The first landing on the moon.
BUJOLD, LOIS MCMASTER (Also writes Fantasy.)
Barrayar (Baen, 1991, Easton, 1991, Pan, 1994, NESFA, 2012.)
Barrayar Series
A return to the early career of Miles Vorkosigian's parents, their adventures when the current emperor dies and leaves a power vacuum, the assassination attempts and power plays they must survive.
Borders of Infinity (Baen, 1989, Easton, 1989, Pan, 1992.)
Barrayar Series.
Collection of related stories involving the planet Barrayar.
Brothers in Arms (Baen, 1989, Headline, 1990.)
Barrayar Series.
Miles leads two lives, one as the spoiled son of an aristocrat, the other as boss of a feared band of mercenaries. His situation grows more confused when an unsuspected twin and an assassin both show up at awkward times.
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Baen, 2012.)
Barrayar Series.
?
Cetaganda (Baen, 1996.)
Barrayar Series.
On what is supposed to be a peaceful mission, Miles and his friends run into inexplicable trouble and decide to investigate personally rather than let the local authorities handle the situation. They uncover, predictably, another round of political intrigues.
Civil Campaign, A (Baen, 1999.)
Barrayar #12.
Miles is courting a widow with his usual subtle strategies, but he's caught up in an intricate web of court intrigue involving a battle over succession, the introduction of an alien insect to Vor's ecology, and a whispering campaign designed to besmirch his honor.
Cordelia's Honor (Baen, 1996.)
Omnibus of Shards of Honor and Barrayar.
Cryoburn (Baen, 2010.)
Barrayar #13.
?
Diplomatic Immunity (Baen, 2002, Earthlight, 2003.)
Barrayar #13.
Miles is diverted to an artificial habitat to deal with a diplomatic crisis, and gets involved with tailored plagues, a renegade Cetagandan, a missing security officer, attempted murder, sabotage, and other delights.
Dreamweaver's Dilemma (NESFA, 1996.)
Collection of mostly unconnected short stories and essays.
Ethan of Athos (Baen, 1986, Headline, 1989.)
Barrayar Series.
A young man from a planet that reproduces parthogenetically travels offworld to find fresh tissue cultures and meets his first women, more specifically a competent soldier associate of Miles Vorkosigian.
Falling Free (Baen, 1988, Headline, 1989, NESFA, 2004.)
A technician struggles with his conscience when he realizes his employer is exploiting a colony of disabled children to enhance their own profits, and decides to help them win their independence.
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (Baen, 2016.)
Barrayar series.
Miles Vorkosigan investigates his mother's past.
Komarr (Baen, 1998.)
Barrayar series.
Miles is sent to investigate what may have been an accident that disabled the orbiting mirror of Komarr, but once on that subject world, he uncovers a plot to overthrow the rule of Barrayar by isolating it behind a destroyed wormhole. He also finds a woman with whom he may be falling in love.
Memory (Baen, 1996, Earthlight, 1998.)
Barrayar Series
Miles Vorkosigan is forced to leave his official military post because of his deteriorating physical condition. Returning to Barrayar, he uncovers clues indicating that there is a plot hatching within the military, that at least one influential officer might be an agent of a foreign power.
Miles Errant (Baen, 2002.)
Omnibus of Borders of Infinity, Brothers in Arms, and Mirror Dance.
Miles in Love (Baen, 2008.)
Omnibus of Cetaganda, A Civil Campaign, and a short story.
Miles, Mutants and Microbes (Baen, 2007.)
Omnibus of Falling Free and Diplomatic Immunity, plus a short story.
Miles, Mystery & Mayhem (Baen, 2001.)
Omnibus of Cetaganda and Ethan of Athos.
Mirror Dance (Baen, 1995, Pan, 1995.)
Barrayar Series
Miles Vorkosigian is off to rescue his cloned brother, and gets captured himself in the process. Eventually the clone has to come to the rescue.
Shards of Honor (Baen, 1986, Headline, 1988, NESFA, 2000.)
Barrayar Series.
A brilliant strategist falls in love with an aristocrat from the other side in an interplanetary war, and discovers that there are two sides to every question.
Test of Honor (Doubleday, 1987.)
Omnibus of Shards of Honor and The Warrior's Apprentice.
Vor Game, The (Baen, 1990, Easton, 1990, Pan, 1993, NESFA, 2010.)
Barrayar Series.
Unpopular at home, Miles is off to the other side of the galaxy where he and his mercenary followers get involved in the rescue of a benevolent emperor.
Vorkosigian's Game (Guild America, 1990.)
Omnibus of Borders of Infinity and The Vor Game.
Warrior's Apprentice, The (Baen, 1986, Headline, 1988, NESFA, 2002.)
Barrayar Series.
Miles Vorkosigian, son of the principal characters of the first volume, wishes to continue in the family tradition of great military leaders, but he is hindered by his frail constitution. Nevertheless, he perseveres and proves himself a wily diplomat as well as a brilliant soldier.
Young Miles (Baen, 1998.)
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Fatal Eggs, The (Hesperus, 2004.)
A new light ray causes unprecedented growth rates.
BULIS, CHRISTOPHER
City at World's End (BBC, 1999.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The inhabitants of a city on a distant planet are determined to remake their world. They are falling victim, however, to a mysterious creature who prowls in the outskirts..
Device of Death, A (Doctor Who, 1997.)
A Doctor Who Missing Adventure
The Doctor is suffering from his amnesia while one companion is sent to a slave world and the other is caught in the middle of an interplanetary war.
Eye of the Giant, The (Doctor Who, 1996.)
A Doctor Who Missing Adventure.
The Doctor is off to investigate a legendary island while the world is plagued by UFO sightings and other unusual phenomena.
Imperial Moon (BBC, 2000.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor finds himself traveling with a British expedition to the moon in the 19th Century.
Palace of the Red Sun (BBC, 2002.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor comes to the aid of a planet that is facing the possibility of an interstellar invasion by forces organized by a powerful dictator.
Shadowmind (Doctor Who, 1993.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure.
A supposedly virgin world recently colonized by humans is actually home to a creature with mental powers sufficient to affect not only the new arrivals, but to reach across space to other worlds as well.
Sorcerer's Apprentice, The (Dr. Who, 1995.)
A Doctor Who Missing Adventure
The Doctor and friends find themselves on a planet where magic apparently works, and where the local inhabitants are dragons, elves, and other creatures from human legendry. But there's something happening behind the scenes, and the Doctor never lets a puzzle go unsolved.
State of Change (Dr. Who, 1994.)
A Dr Who Missing Adventure.
Dr. Who travels back to the time of Cleopatra to discover that aliens have introduced advanced technology to the Roman Empire, which is preparing to use superweapons to conquer the ancient world.
Twilight of the Gods (Dr. Who, 1996.)
A Doctor Who Missing Adventure.
The Doctor returns to the web planet just in time to find the solution to an interplanetary war. To do so, he has to foil a mysterious race that manipulates other species.
Ultimate Treasure, The (BBC, 1997.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The fifth Doctor takes part in a dangerous and ultimately deadly treasure hunt for a priceless but unidentified prize.
Vanderdeken’s Children (BBC, 1998.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor gets caught in the middle of a battle by various parties for control of a derelict alien spaceship with advanced technology.
BULL, EMMA (Also writes Fantasy.)
Bone Dance (Ace, 1991, Tor, 2009.)
Vaguely described wars have changed the shape of human culture. Sparrow is a sexually undifferentiated hustler whose small scale dealings become very dangerous when secret mind control weapons show up in the underworld.
Falcon (Ace, 1989.)
After his home world is devastated, the protagonist becomes a cyber-augmented star pilot with superhuman abilities. Unfortunately the drugs and devices that give him superior powers are also destroying his body.
BULMER, KENNETH (See also Manning Norvil, Tully Zetford, Alan Burt Akers, Philip Kent, Karl Maras, and Dray Prescott.)
Behold the Stars (Ace, 1965, bound with Planetary Agent X by Mack Reynolds. Priory, undated, Mayflower, 1966.)
Earth has been colonizing the galaxy with matter transmitters, but expansion has been blocked by a similarly equipped alien race. And something has altered the human devices so that anyone who travels through them has lost the will to fight.
Beyond the Silver Sky (Ace, 1961, bound with Meeting at Infinity by John Brunner.)
After some unnamed catastrophe, the human race has been bred with gills and survives in the oceans, where they are constantly at war with an inhuman race. But more and more of the children are changing even further, and if the surface world isn't recaptured soon, it may be forever beyond reach.
Blazon (Curtis, 1970. Robert Hale, 1970, as Quench the Burning Stars.)
The human race has been peacefully expanding into the universe, finding all alien species basically friendly, until a reptilian race attacks with insatiable ferocity. A small group of warships sets out to defeat them in a mighty space battle.
Challenge (Curtis, 1954.)
Not seen. The first expedition to Saturn.
Changeling Worlds, The (Ace, 1959, bound with Vanguard from Alpha by Brian W. Aldiss. Digit, 1961.)
A playboy decides to investigate the murder of his brother who was spying on one of the forbidden worlds of the galaxy, and discovers that the galactic civilization is in danger of collapsing and that a secret group is trying to reinvigorate it.
Chariots of Ra, The (Ace, 1972, bound with ?)
Senchuria #6.
An adventure in parallel worlds featuring a band of warriors who drive chariots across the dimensional barriers. The Contessa, the recurring villain of the series, is thwarted once again.
City Under the Sea (Ace, 1957, bound with Star Ways by Poul Anderson. Digit, 1961, Avon 1980. Magazine title Green Destiny.)
A scientist is kidnapped by an evil corporation that plans to use undersea cities and the resources they will develop to assert power over the entire human race.
Cycle of Nemesis (Ace, 1967.)
A powerful creature from another dimension was expelled from the universe by a lost civilization in Earth's past, but now it has found a way to move through time and emerge in our future.
Defiance (Digit, 1963.)
Not seen.
Demons, The (See Demons' World.)
Demons' World (Ace, 1964, bound with I Want the Stars by Tom Purdom. Compact, 1965, as The Demons.)
A human crashlands on an alien world, is brainwashed and sent forth by an alien species to act as their agent.
Diamond Contessa, The (DAW, 1983.)
Senchuria #7.
A lone man from our reality uses the doors that cut across dimensions to oppose the Diamond Contessa, a powerful but evil woman who has extended her rule over countless other realities.
Doomsday Men, The (Curtis, 1968, Doubleday, 1968, Robert Hale, 1968.)
A detective in a highly technological future investigates cases by reading the last thoughts from the brains of murder victims. But a sudden increase in the number of homicides leads him to believe that there are hidden forces working behind the scenes, hatching a plot against the entire human race.
Earth Gods Are Coming, The (Ace, 1960, bound with The Games of Neith by Margaret St. Clair. Digit, 1963, as Of Earth Foretold.)
Earth is gradually conquering the universe by creating robot missionaries which create religions on primitive worlds to set the stage for human invasion. But a rival group preaching a different philosophy throws a spanner into the works.
Earth's Long Shadow (See No Man's World.)
Electric Sword Swallowers, The (Ace, 1971, bound with Beyond Capella by John Rackham.)
A clever roboticist tries to create an artificial friend, but his creation doesn't quite work. Disgruntled, he falls into the anxious hands of a group of criminals who have other uses for his talents.
Empire of Chaos (Panther, 1952.)
Not seen. Smuggling and piracy in outer space, with nasty aliens.
Encounter in Space (Panther, 1952.)
Not seen. Humans war in space against aliens.
Fatal Fire (Digit, 1962.)
Not seen.
Galactic Intrigue (Panther, 1953.)
Potboiler about the invention of a matter transmitter that makes spaceships obsolete, and the plot by powerful commercial interests to suppress the discovery.
Hunters of Jundagai, The (Ace, 1971, bound with Project Jove by John Glasby.)
Senchuria #5.
An adventurer lost in a series of alternate worlds ends up in one where everything is a jungle, and the center of human life is a series of elaborate hunts. But is he going to be a hunter, or one of the hunted?
Insane City, The (Curtis, 1971, Severn House, 1978.)
A computer controlled city is designed to be a utopia, but something goes wrong in its programming and it begins using robot servants to kill the human population.
Key to Irunium (Ace, 1967, bound with The Wandering Tellurian by Alan Schwartz.)
Senchuria #1.
The opening volume in a series about a villainous contessa and her army of not quite humans who ravage their way through parallel worlds by using "gates" between the universes.
Key to Venudine, The (Ace, 1968, bound with Mercenary from Tomorrow by Mack Reynolds.)
Senchuria #2.
A contemporary man finds himself in a parallel world where knighthood is still in flower and raiders from other continuums are ransacking the universes for their own gain.
Land Beyond the Map (Ace, 1965, bound with Fugitive of the Stars by Edmond Hamilton. Magazine title The Map Country.)
A gateway has opened between universes, allowing aliens to enter ours and humans to travel to theirs. But some who have crossed over have gone insane, and others have disappeared entirely.
Million Year Hunt, The (Ace, 1964, bound with Ships to the Stars by Fritz Leiber.)
A friendly alien parasite occupies a human's body, giving him extraordinary powers in order to enlist his aid in tracking down a dangerous enemy.
No Man's World (Ace, 1961, bound with Mayday Orbit by Poul Anderson. Digit, 1962. Magazine title Earth's Long Shadow.)
Posing as a businessman, a galactic spy penetrates to the heart of a military world. The problem then becomes finding a way to get out.
Of Earth Foretold (See The Earth Gods Are Coming.)
On the Symb-Socket Circuit (Ace, 1972.)
A superhuman fugitive hides from his enemies by visiting worlds as part of a traveling entertainment group, but eventually finds himself faced with the choice of revealing his true identity or letting an entire world's population face devastation.
Quench the Burning Stars (See Blazon.)
Roller Coaster World (Ace, 1972, Severn House, 1978.)
Parsloe's Planet has just about used up all the radiation sources that provide energy for its nomadic cities. Planetary death seems inevitable unless one disreputable offworlder can provide the solution to their problem.
Secret of Zi, The (Ace, 1958, bound with Beyond the Vanishing Point by Ray Cummings. Digit, 1961. Magazine title The Patient Dark, Robert Hale, 1969, as The Patient Dark.)
Earth's only chance to overthrow the aliens who have conquered Earth is the secret of Zi, a mysterious discovery known only to a very few, but essential to the coming rebellion.
Ships of Durostorum, The (Ace, 1970, bound with Alton's Unguessable by Jeff Sutton.)
Senchuria #4.
The evil contessa recruits an engineer from our universe, hoping to conceal from him the fact that she runs slave colonies in her own empire.
Space Salvage (Panther, 1953.)
Not seen. Involves an interstellar war and star traveling scavengers.
Stained-Glass World (New English Library, 1976. MacDonald, 1969, as The Ulcer Culture.)
A future aristocracy gets its kicks from injecting itself with fluids drawn from the bodies of the lower class while the latter are under the influence of drugs. The double addiction turns to disaster when euphoria turns to nightmarish visions.
Stars Are Ours, The (Panther, 1953.)
Robots from the stars masquerading as people commit murders in their attempt to keep the human race from leaving its home planet.
Star Trove (Robert Hale, 1970.)
Not seen.
Star Venturers, The (Ace, 1969, bound with The Fall of the Dream Machine by Dean R. Koontz.)
A galactic adventurer gets involved with the power struggle for a planetary throne and a woman who can control the minds of others.
To Outrun Doomsday (Ace, 1967, New English Library, 1975.)
A human crashlands on a world whose intelligent species seems to have a real god, one who answers their prayers almost immediately. But something is wrong with the god, actually a supercomputer, and it begins to grant wishes almost at random.
Ulcer Culture, The (See Stained-Glass World.)
Wind of Liberty (Digit, 1961.)
Not seen.
Wizards of Senchuria, The (Ace, 1969, bound with Cradle of the Sun by Brian M. Stableford.)
Senchuria #3.
A human being is chased through alternate worlds by a gang of alien Trugs, eventually gets tired of running and turns on his enemies and does them in.
Wizard of Starship Poseidon, The (Ace, bound with Let the Spacemen Beware by Poul Anderson.)
A scientist unable to gain financing for his research decides to resort to a novel way of securing it, by committing piracy aboard an interstellar liner filled with rich passengers.
World Aflame (Panther, 1954.)
A scientist discovers that unhuman creatures are living secretly on Earth, and that the world is about to destroy itself in a great natural cataclysm.
Worlds for the Taking (Ace, 1966.)
Earth expands its empire by stealing entire planets and moving them to more convenient star systems. But the latest planet is secretly designed as a trap to disrupt the power of the Terran Empire.
BULMER, KENNETH & CLARKE, A.V.
Cybernetic Controller, The (Hamilton, 1952.)
Not seen. Rebellion against a future computer dictatorship following a nuclear war.
Space Treason (Panther, 1952.)
Not seen. Rebellion against a corrupt government, effected by use of a matter transmitter.
BULWER-LYTTON, EDWARD (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Coming Race, The. (See Vril: The Power of the Coming Race.)
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race (Steiner, 1972, Anthroposophic Press, 1986. Blackwood, 1871, Hinton, 1873, Routledge, 1874, Woodbridge, 1989, Wesleyan, 2005, as The Coming Race.)
Almost unreadable account of the advent of a superhuman race and their mastery of occult powers.
BULYCHEV, KIRILL
Alice: The Girl from Earth (Fossicker, 2002.)
Collection of related stories, for younger readers.
Guslar Wonders (MacMillan, 1983.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Half a Life and Other Stories (Collier, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Those Who Survive (Fossicker, 2000, Capricorn, 2004, translated from the Russian by John H. Costello.)
A lost colony world is in danger of descending into barbarism until a handful of people search for the ruined ship that brought their ancestors to that planet, and in the process re-establish communication with the human race.
BUNCH, CHRIS (See also collaborations with Allan Cole. Also writes Fantasy.)
Darkness of the God (Del Rey, 1997, DNA, ?.)
Shadow Warrior #3.
A man who has made enemies of just about everyone has to retrieve an artifact from a planetary crime lord in order to save the human race, whether it wants to be saved or not.
Doublecross Program, The (Roc, 2004.)
Star Risk #3.
Mercenaries try to engineer a reverse bank robbery and find themselves in a shooting war.
Firemask (Roc, 2000.)
Last Legion #2.
With no support from human forces elsewhere in the galaxy, a small band of mercenaries must use innovation and determination to defend their planet from a far superior force of invading aliens.
Homefall (Roc, 2001.)
Last Legion #4.
After the interstellar confederation disintegrated, a group of mercenaries became protectors of a planet, but now they must wage warfare to protect their constituents.
Hunt the Heavens (Del Rey, 1996, DNA, ?.)
Shadow Warrior #2.
A fugitive from both the authorities and a murderous cult attempts to learn enough from the artifacts of a supposedly extinct alien race to protect himself. But then he discovers that the aliens might not be extinct after all.
Last Legion, The (Roc, 1999.)
Last Legion #1.
When a remote world loses communication with the main human empire, the local military unit discovers that it has become in effect the planetary government. They have to hustle to keep the peace among the human colonists, resident aliens, and a violent revolutionary group.
Scoundrel Worlds, The (Roc, 2003.)
Star Risk #2.
A team of mercenaries is hired to watch over an interplanetary sporting event to prevent anyone from cheating to affect the outcome.
Star Risk, Ltd (Roc, 2002.)
Star Risk #1.
A group of undercover agents attempts to free a condemned man from a prison on a remote world before he can be executed for his crimes.
Storm Force (Roc, 2000.)
Last Legion #3.
In order to prevent a dictator from conquering another system, the legion sends one of its intelligence officers undercover to sabotage the repressive government by exploiting schisms within the ruling class.
Wind After Time, The (Del Rey, 1996,DNA, ?.)
Shadow Warrior #1.
One human recognizes that the dangerous aliens recently vanquished by the human race have not been eradicated but remain prepared to strike back when the time is right.
BUNCH, DAVID R.
Bunch! (Broken Mirrors Press, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Moderan (Avon, 1971.)
Published as several dozen short stories, this makes a surprisingly coherent single account of a future when the few surviving humans augment themselves with so many prosthetic devices that it is no longer clear where flesh stops and metal begins, and where each person is a nation unto himself, constantly at war with his neighbors.
BUNDY, RALPH (Pseudonym of Edward Easton and others who writes Fantasy under that name.)
Drugged Sex (Aquarius, 1976. Written by Tom Easton..)
Not seen.
Day of the Earthlings (Creative Education, 1978.)
Short story in hardcover book form about the first landing on Mars.
Followers, The (Creative Education, 1978.)
Short story in hardcover book form about life on a distant planet.
Island of One, The (Creative Education, 1978.)
Short story in hardcover book form about refugees from dead Earth seeking a new home.
Mirror Planet, The (Creative Education, 1978, Child's World, 1992.)
Short story in hardcover book form about a boy who discovers that there is a parallel universe similar to our own.
Space People, The (Creative Education, 1978.)
Short story in hardcover book form about two children kidnapped by aliens.
Undersea People, The (Creative Education,1978.)
Short story in hardcover book form about life in an undersea colony.
BURCH, RALPH (Pseudonym of Raymond Banks, whom also see.)
Duplicate Lovers (Hustler, 1980.)
An entrepreneur corners one portion of the robot market by building one that is sexy and physically equipped for the service. A pornographic novel with more plot than most.
Lust in Space (Traveler's Tales, 1978.)
Not seen.
Lust of the Swampman (Traveler's Tales, 1978.)
Not seen.
Swastika Night (Feminist Press, 1985, Lawrence & Wishart, 1985. Gollancz, 1937, as by Murray Constantine.)
Hitler wins World War II.
BURDICK, EUGENE (See also collaboration that follows.)
480 (McGraw Hill, 1964, Dell, 1965.)
Marginal political thriller about a Presidential candidate who uses behavioral science and computers to affect the outcome of an election. More fantastic at the time than it is now.
BURDICK, EUGENE & WHEELER, J.H.
Fail Safe (McGraw Hill, 1962, Dell, 1963, Pan, 1965.)
Due to a malfunction in the nuclear weapons delivery system, a Russian city is about to be destroyed. To prevent an all out war, the President allows the Russians to target one in the US to balance the score.
BURGAUER, STEVEN
Brazen Rule, The (Northwest Publishing, 1995, Writer's Showcase, 2000.)
Fornax #2.
A war hero gets involved with an assassination plot against the President in the 24th Century, while the dictator of China threatens biological warfare against the US.
Fornmax (Northwest Publishing, 1994, Replica, 2000.)
Formax #1.
A brilliant scientist finds a way to use radioactive waste to create batteries powerful enough to propel spaceships across the solar system.
Grandfather Paradox, The (Zero-G, 1998.)
Kitchen sink novel involving time travel and visits to other planets.
In the Shadow of Omen (Zero-G, 1997.)
Fornax #4.
More politics involving the colonization of the planets in our solar system.
Last American, The (Northwest Publishing, 1996, IUniverse, 2006.)
Fornax #3.
Political maneuvering in the 24th Century.
Newhuman (?)
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Night of the Eleventh Sun, The (IUniverse, 2001.)
Conflict with another version of humankind.
Railguns of Luna, The (Authors Choice, 2001.)
A team of military specialists infiltrates the headquarters of a warped genius who is planning to take over the world.
Slaves of Aphrodite, The (IUniverse, 2003.)
A man escapes slavery and treks across primitive Venus.
Treachery on the Dark Side (Zero-G, 1999.)
Fornax #5.
A secret agent travels to Mars.
BURGER, DIONYS
Sphereland (Blackwell, 1965, Apollo, 1969.)
An extension of the principles in Flatland by E. Abbott.
BURGER, NEAL R. (See collaboration with George E. Simpson.)
BURGESS, ANTHONY (Also writes Fantasy.)
Clockwork Orange, A (Heinemann, 1962, W.W. Norton, 1963, Pan, 1964, Ballantine, 1965, Abelard, 1973, Buccaneer, 1996.)
Basis for one of the best SF films of all time. In a future Great Britain whose language has been strongly influenced by Russia, a group of thugs prey on a society that seems incapable of defending itself. Their leader is eventually captured and conditioned to become ill at the sight of violence.
End of the World News, The (McGraw-Hill, 1983, Penguin, 1983, Viking, 1984, Hutchinson, ?)
Three interwoven stories about the end of the 20th Century.
1985 (Hutchinson, 1978.)
A long essay about George Orwell's 1984 plus a long story about an Arab dominated future.
Wanting Seed, The (Heinemann, 1962, W.W. Norton, 1963, Ballantine, 1964, Pan, 1965.)
A bleak look at a future where overpopulation has led to general encouragement of homosexuality, where war is used as a means of population control, and where even cannibalism has become a common occurrence.
Bloodtide (Andersen, 1999, Tor, 2001.)
In a future in which civilization has fallen, two violent gangs contend for control of the ruins of London. An arranged marriage was supposed to bring peace, but is actually just the latest ploy in the war.
BURGOYNE, A.H. (See also collaboration with W.L. Clowes.)
War Inevitable, The (Griffiths, 1908.)
Future war novel.
BURK, JEFF
Shatnerquake (Bizarro, 2009.)
The actor is accosted by all of the characters he played.
BURKE, CINNAMON (Pseudonym of Phoebe Conn, whom see.)
Ring of Fire (Lovespell, 1995.)
A man investigating the disappearance of several asteroid miners encounters a tempestuous woman with whom he eventually falls in love.
BURKE, JOHN (See also Jonathan Burke below and Robert Miall.)
Moon Zero Two (Pan, 1969, Signet, 1970, based on the screen story by Gavin Lyall, Frank Hardman, and Martin Davison.)
An undisciplined space pilot defies a major corporation and heads off on an expedition to open up the solar system beyond the asteroid belt.
Privilege (Avon, 1967, Pan, 1967, from the screenplay by Norman Bogner.)
A rebellious pop singer discovers that he has an unprecedented power to sway public opinion and become a major shaper of modern Great Britain.
BURKE, JONATHAN (See also John Burke above.)
Alien Landscapes (Museum, 1955. Also published as Exodus from Elysium.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dark Gateway (Panther, 1954.)
A bridge to another dimension is discovered in Wales.
Deep Freeze (Panther, 1955.)
Earth's colonization of the stars comes to an abrupt halt, and one colony world loses its entire male population. The surviving women set about finding a way to reproduce. Their strong willed leader is eventually placed in direct conflict with the next generation of male children, who question their inferior role.
Echoing Worlds, The (Panther, 1954.)
A young man answers a job advertisement and finds himself recruited into a struggle taking place in another Earth parallel to our own, one where the nearby planets have been colonized and super science is simultaneously helping and hurting the evolution of humanity.
Exodus from Elysium (See Alien Landscapes.)
Hotel Cosmos ( Panther, 1954.)
A hotel frequented by visitors from varied races from all over the galaxy is the setting for a detective story. An escaped prisoner is somewhere in the complex, but capturing him may be difficult since he can physically transform himself to look like anyone else.
Pattern of Shadows (Museum, 1954.)
Not seen. Adventures of the interplanet space patrol.
Pursuit Through Time (Ward & Lock, 1956, Digit, ?.)
A desperate man travels back from a dystopian future to try to change the course of history and preserve human freedom. The author's best novel by a considerable margin.
Revolt of the Humans (Panther, 1955.)
Twilight #2.
Not seen. The alien parasites that infected Earth in the first volume are finally overcome.
Twilight of Reason (Panther, 1955.)
Twilight #1.
A space probe inadvertently carries back to Earth a virulent new plague which spreads so quickly that scientists cannot find a cure and which causes a drop in intelligence. Society collapses but a few isolated groups of survivors struggle to carry on.
BURKE, MARTIN (See collaboration with Diana Gallagher.)
BURKE, SUE
Semiosis (Tor, 2018.)
A space colony underestimates the native life forms.
Solar Flare (Northfield, 1997.)
A solar flare causes widespread devastation on Earth and leaves civilization needing to find a new direction.
BURKETT, WILLIAM R. JR.
Blood Lines (Harper, 1998.)
Ball #2.
A hunter is competing in a poetry competition on a jungle world when his robotic companion gets involved with an interplanetary conspiracy involving a mysterious parasite, attempts to embarrass the local ruler, and other complications.
Bloodsport (Harper, 1997.)
Ball #1.
A professional hunter and his robot sidekick are on a lush planet to hunt a notoriously dangerous predator. What they don’t realize is that the game animals are actually a sentient species hiding a secret that could shake the galaxy.
Sleeping Planet, The (Doubleday, 1965, Gollancz, 1965, Paperback Library, 1967, Panther, 1968.)
Aliens have incapacitated most of the human race by putting them into a drug induced coma, but a handful of immunes are sabotaging their efforts, able to hide among the sleeping population.
BURKS, ARTHUR J. (Also writes Horror.)
Earth, the Marauder (Armchair, 2017, bound with Secret of the Earth Star by Henry Kuttner. Magazine appearance 1930.)
An overpopulated Earth declares war on the moon.
Great Mirror, The (Gerald Swan, 1952. Armchair, 2016 bound with Terror from the Abyss by John Fletcher. Magazine version 1942.)
The Tibetans have built a matter transmitter, visited Mars, and now capture an outside expedition to keep their secret from the rest of the world.
Mind Master, The (Armchair, 2014, bound with The Tentacles from Below by Anthony Gilmore. Magazine appearance 1932.)
A mad scientist capable of transplanting brains terrorizes a city.
Osilans, The (Armchair, 2018, bound with The Metal Monster by E.K. Jarvis. Magazine appearance 1953.)
A secretive alien race interferes in a man's life.
Survival (Armchair, 2022, bound with Double Identity by Raymond Z. Gallun. Magazine appearance 1937.)
Survivors of World War III try to rebuild.
BURLAND, HARRIS (Pseudonym of J.B. Harris-Burland, whom see.)
Dr. Silex. (See The Princess of Thora.)
Princess of Thora, The (Little, Brown, 1904. Ward, Lock, 1905, as Dr. Silex.)
A lost race novel involving the next step in human evolution.
BURNARD, MARCELLA
Enemy Games (Berkley Sensation, 2011.)
Enemy #2.
Futuristic romance.
Enemy Within (Berkley Sensation, 2010.)
Enemy #1.
A woman once imprisoned by aliens is now kidnapped by handsome space pirates.
BURNICK, GALE & GRAUBARD, ALLAN
Out of This World (Sparrow, 1983.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BURNS, LAURA J. (Also writes Horror.)
Quarantine (Simon, 2003.)
A Roswell novel.
Liz develops a strange illness when a new manufacturing concern moves to Roswell.
BURNS, STEPHEN L.
Call from a Distant Shore (Roc, 2000.)
A trouble plagued expedition to Mars becomes complicated when the captain begins hearing a voice in her head, the same voice that is troubling the dreams of several people back on Earth. An alien has been stranded on Phobos for countless years and is seeking a rescue.
Flesh and Silver (Roc, 1999.)
A doctor with artificial arms designed to allow him to perform delicate surgery is kidnapped to a distant world. There he pits his wits against a cruel dictator who is heartlessly exploiting the people he rules, eventually changing the balance of power.
BURR, BETTY JOAN
Outer Limits of the Mind (Xerox, 1974.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE (Note that not all of the Tarzan books are SF, but the remaining titles are listed for informational purposes as Tarzan becomes immortal somewhere along the way. See also collaboration which follows.)
At the Earth's Core (Frank A. Munsey, 1914, Del Rey, 1990, McClurg, 1922, Methuen, 1923, Ace, 1962, Bison, 2000, Wildside, 2002. Armchair, bound with The Vengeance of Kyvor by Randall Garrett.)
Pellucidar #1.
David Innes pilots a digging machine that penetrates to a secret, primitive world in the hollow center of the Earth. There he falls in love with a beautiful princess and learns that the human inhabitants are enslaved by gigantic prehistoric birds with the power to control the minds of others. Filmed under the same name.
Back to the Stone Age (Grosset, 1939, Ace, 1963, Del Rey, 1990, Canaveral, 1963. Magazine title Seven Worlds to Conquer.)
Pellucidar #4.
A surface man stranded in a barbaric underground realm falls in love with a cave girl and has many adventures as the two of them seek to make a life together.
Beasts of Tarzan, The (Magazine serial 1914, Ace, 1963, McClurg, 1916, Methuen, 1918, Goulden, 1951, Four Square, 1960, Ballantine, 1963, Dragon, 1967, Wildside, 2002.)
Tarzan #3.
Not SF.
Beyond the Farthest Star (Ace, 1964, Tandem, 1976, Del Rey, 1992. Restored, ERB, 2021.)
Two related stories about a pilot who finds himself transported from the middle of World War II to the planet of another star where an even more devastating conflict is under way.
Beyond Thirty (See The Lost Continent.)
Carson of Venus (Magazine serial 1938. Goulden, 1950, Canaveral, 1963, Ace, 1963, Four Square, 1967, Del Rey, 1991.)
Venus #3.
Further episodic adventures of an Earthman lost in the jungles of the planet Venus.
Cave Girl, The (Magazine version, 1913. McClurg, 1925, Methuen, 1927, Dell, 1949, Pinnacle, 1954, Canaveral, 1962, Ace, 1963, Del Rey, 1992.)
A modern day American stumbles into a lost world, falls in love with a beautiful cave girl, and fights off a host of villains.
Chessmen of Mars, The (McClurg, 1922, Methuen, 1923, Pinnacle, 1954, Ace, 1962, Four Square, 1962, Ballantine, 1963, New English Library, 1973.)
Barsoom #5.
The daughter of John Carter is lost and ends up in a weird country where one race enslaves another, and where she becomes a literal pawn in a deadly game of Martian chess.
Escape on Venus (Magazine serial, 1946. Canaveral, 1963, Ace, 1964, New English Library, 1966, Del Rey, 1991.)
Venus #4.
Carson Napier and the woman he loves try to find their way back to her home city through a mysterious world of gigantic forests, impenetrable swamps, and hideous monsters.
Eternal Lover, The (See The Eternal Savage.)
Eternal Savage, The (Magazine version, 1925. McClurg, 1925, Ace, 1963, Del Rey, 1992, University of Nebraska, 2003. Pinnacle (UK), 1927, as The Eternal Lover.)
A quake in time sends a modern woman back to the Stone Age and carries a primitive warrior to modern Africa, after which both have a series of unlikely adventures.
Fighting Man of Mars, A (Magazine serial, 1930. Metropolitan, 1931, Lane, 1932, Pinnacle, 1954, Canaveral, 1962, Ace, 1963, Ballantine, 1964, Four Square, 1966.)
Barsoom #7.
A Martian warrior on a rescue mission discovers that an army is preparing a major assault, aided by a weapon that dissolves metal, and that a would-be dictator is on the brink of establishing himself as supreme on the entire planet.
Fighting Man of Mars and A Princess of Mars, A (Dover, 1964.)
Omnibus of two novels.
Gods of Mars, The (Magazine serial 1912. McClurg, 1919, Methuen, 1920, Pinnacle, 1953, Four Square, 1961, Canaveral, 1962, Ballantine, 1963, Dragon, 1968, Wildside, 2002, Armchair, ?)
Barsoom #2.
John Carter is the adopted prince of a royal house on Mars, but to claim his rights he must fight his way across a barbaric landscape, rescuing a young woman from cannibalistic priests along the way.
Gods of Mars/Warlord of Mars (Doubleday, 1971.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
John Carter of Mars (Canaveral, 1964, Ballantine, 1965, Four Square, 1968.)
Barsoom #11.
Collection of two short adventures of John Carter of Mars.
Jungle Girl. (See Land of Hidden Men.)
Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Magazine serial, 1917, McClurg, 1919, Pinnacle, 1954, Ballantine, 1963, Ace, 1963. Foursquare, 1961, as Tarzan's Jungle Tales.)
Tarzan #6.
Not SF. Collection of stories.
Land of Hidden Men, The (Magazine serial 1931. Odhams, 1933, Ace, 1964. Grosset, 1933 as Jungle Girl, Collins, 1950.)
A lost race adventure novel set in Cambodia, with a beautiful princess, a brave hero, and the usual cast of villains and wild animals.
Land of Terror (Magazine version, 1944. Canaveral, 1963, Ace, 1964, Del Rey, 1990.)
Pellucidar #5.
David Innes explores remote regions of the hollow world beneath our feet, while the woman who loves him organizes a search expedition and has a round of adventures of her own.
Land That Time Forgot, The (Magazine serial, 1918. Ace, 1963, Del Rey, 1992, Bison, 2001, Altus, 2007. McClurg, 1924, includes People That Time Forgot and Out of Time's Abyss.)
Caprona #1.
A mixed crew of Germans, Americans, and British sail a submarine into a lost world bound by ice where dinosaurs still roam, and the local human race is controlled by a mysterious set of rituals. Filmed under the same name.
Land That Time Forgot, The/Moon Maid, The (Dover, 1963.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Llana of Gathol (Ballantine, 1963, New English Library, 1967.)
Barsoom #10.
Imprisoned and sentenced to a living death beneath a rival city, John Carter and friends discover the ancient masters of Mars living in suspended animation, unaware that their planet is nearing the end of its life.
Lost Continent, The (Eshbach, 1955, Ace, 1963. Magazine serial, 1915, as Beyond Thirty, Del Rey, 1992. Armchair, 2017, bound with The Seven Jewels of Chamar by Raymond F. Jones. Bison, 2000, as Beyond Thirty.)
A future war has destroyed most of the major powers of Earth and Americans are no longer in touch with Europe. Then an ambitious American decides to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, where he discovers that Great Britain has been overcome by a dangerous jungle.
Lost on Venus (Magazine version, 1933. Methuen, 1937, Pinnacle, 1953, Canaveral, 1963, Ace, 1963, Four Square, 1965, Del Rey, 1991, Bison, 2004.)
Venus #2.
A stranded Earthman in the jungles of Venus seeks to rescue a princess in a society where every city is at war with each of its neighbors and any strange is assumed to be a spy.
Master Mind of Mars, The (Magazine version, 1928. McClurg, 1928, Methuen, 1939, Ace, 1963, Ballantine, 1963.)
Barsoom #6.
An Earthman on Mars is assisting a demented Martian scientist who transfers personalities from one body to another. But then he falls in love with a beautiful young woman whose mind has been switched to that of an ancient crone, and he decides to restore her to her original form.
Master Mind of Mars, The/Fighting Man of Mars, A (Doubleday, 1973.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Monster Men, The (Ace, 1963, Del Rey, 1992. Magazine version, 1929, as A Man Without a Soul. McClurg, 1929 as A Man Without a Soul.)
Burroughs' version of The Island of Dr. Moreau. A scientist creates life from lifeless chemicals, but the results are monstrous creatures, all evil except one who takes the side of a beautiful girl against his master's wishes.
Moon Maid, The (Bison, 2002.)
Omnibus of The Moon Maid and The Moon Men, with corrected text.
Moon Maid, The (Magazine serial 1923. McClurg, 1926, Ace, 1963, Del Rey, 1992, Wildside, 2003.)
Moon #1.
The first lunar landing, an unplanned visit for a ship to Mars, finds the moon people with flying women and various monsters, all of whom live in a land buried beneath the surface, but who wage war on the lunar plains.
Moon Maid and The Land That Time Forgot, The (Dover, 1963.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Moon Men, The (Magazine, 1925. Ace, 1963, Del Rey, 1992.)
Two adventures in a future where the denizens of the moon have used their superscience to conquer the Earth. A rebellion against these inhuman masters starts in the first and culminates in the second.
Out of Time's Abyss (Magazine serial, 1918. Ace, 1963, Del Rey, 1992. Armchair, 2015, bound with The Last Two Alive! by Alfred Coppel.)
Caprona #3.
The lost world of Caprona holds yet another secret, a race of winged humans who may be more advanced that the rest of the region's tribes, and who may be able to tell the adventurers from the outside the truth about how life evolves there.
Pellucidar (Frank A. Munsey, 1915. McClurg, 1923, Methuen, 1924, Pinnacle, 1955, Ace, 1962, Del Rey, 1990, Wildside, 2002, Bison, 2002. Armchair, 2018, bound with The Veiled Woman by Mickey Spillane.)
Pellucidar #2.
David Innes returns to the hollow center of the Earth armed with weapons for use against the inhuman Mahars, but the woman he loves is kidnapped by the villainous Hooja the Sly One, so his plans must be temporarily delayed.
People That Time Forgot, The (Magazine serial, 1918. Ace, 1963, Del Rey, 1992. Armchair, 2015, bound with Battle Out of Time by Dwight V. Swain.)
Caprona #2.
A return visit to a lost world of dinosaurs and cave men, and the discovery of the strange secret of human evolution that governs all living things in that realm. The title and setting were used for a film that bears little relation to the story.
Pirates of Venus (Lane, 1935, Pinnacle, 1954, Four Square, 1963, Ace, 1963, Del Rey, 1991, Bison, 2001.)
Venus #1.
Carson Napier's rocket flight goes awry and he lands on Venus, a jungle planet people with heroes and villains, beautiful women and hideous monsters.
Pirates of Venus, The/Lost on Venus (Dover, 1963.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Princess of Mars, A (Magazine title Under the Moons of Mars, published in 1912. McClurg, 1917, Methuen, 1919, Goulden, 1948, Four Square, 1961, Ballantine, 1963, Dragon, 1968, Carroll & Graf, 1989, Wildside, 2002, Ibooks, 2005. Armchair, bound with Captive of the Centaurianess by Poul Anderson.)
Barsoom #1.
A human adventurer named John Carter is mysteriously transported to Mars, where he finds an almost human race that lays eggs, plus another that has four arms and great strength. He falls in love with the incomparable Dejah Thoris and has many adventures that continue throughout the series.
Princess of Mars, A/Fighting Man of Mars, A (Dover, 1964.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Return of Tarzan, The (Magazine serial 1913, McClurg, 1915, Methuen, 1918, Armed Forces, 1946, Goulden 1951, Four Square, 1959, Ballantine, 1963, Wildside, 2002.)
Tarzan #2.
Not SF.
Savage Pellucidar (Canaveral, 1963, Ace, 1963, Del Rey, 1990.)
Collection of four stories set in the underground world of Pellucidar.
Son of Tarzan, The (Magazine serial, 1916, McClurg, 1917, Methuen, 1919, Ransom, 1929, Pinnacle, 1953, Four Square, 1959, Ace, 1963, Ballantine, 1963, Dragon, 1967, Wildside, 2002.)
Tarzan #4.
Not SF.
Swords of Mars (Magazine serial 1935. Ballantine, 1963, New English Library, 1966.)
Barsoom #8.
A double edged adventure as John Carter attempts to disband the assassins guild, and simultaneous discovers someone has invented an airship that can take Martians out to visit their two moons.
Swords of Mars/Synthetic Men of Mars (Doubleday, 1975.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Synthetic Men of Mars, The (Magazine serial 1939. Methuen, 1941, Ballantine, 1963, Four Square, 1964.)
Barsoom #9.
Two heroes set out to find a brilliant but twisted scientist, and discover that he has become the prisoner of one of his own creations, a blob of living tissue that is expanding beyond human control.
Tales of Three Planets (Canaveral, 1964.)
Collections of unrelated stories.
Tanar of Pellucidar (Magazine version 1929. Metropolitan, 1930, Methuen, 1939, Pinnacle, 1953, Ace, 1962, Del Rey, 1990.)
Pellucidar #3.
A fleet of pirates raids David Innes' new underworld kingdom and carry off Tanar, one of his young warriors, who has a variety of wild adventures involving dinosaurs, slavers, and saber toothed tigers.
Tarzan and the Ant Men (McClurg, 1924, Methuen, 1925, Pinnacle UK, 1953, Four Square, 1959, Ballantine, 1963, Dragon, 1967.)
Tarzan #10.
Tarzan is taken captive by a race of tiny people living in a hidden city deep in the jungles of Africa.
Tarzan and the Castaways (Canaveral Press, 1964, Ballantine, 1965, Four Square, 1966.)
Tarzan #24.
Two Tarzan adventures, neither SF.
Tarzan and the City of Gold (Magazine serial, 1932, Lane, 1936, Goulden, 1950, Four Square, 1961, Ace, 1963, Ballantine, 1964.)
Tarzan #16.
More jungle adventures involving a lost city and the white man raised by apes.
Tarzan and the Forbidden City. (W.H. Allen, 1950, Goulden, 1950, Ballantine, 1964, Four Square, 1965. Magazine serial, 1938, as The Red Star of Tarzan. Abridged version, Bantam, 1940. )
Tarzan #20.
This time Tarzan is caught in a war between two different lost cities.
Tarzan and the Foreign Legion. (Burroughs, 1947, W.H. Allen, 1949, Goulden, 1950, Pinnacle, 1958, Ballantine, 1964, Four Square, 1964.)
Tarzan #22.
Not SF.
Tarzan and the Golden Lion (McClurg, 1923, Methuen, 1924, Pinnacle, 1953, Four Square, 1960, Ballantine, 1963.)
Tarzan #9.
Not SF.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (Magazine serial, 1916, McClurg, 1918, Methuen, 1919, Goulden, 1951, Ace, 1963, Ballantine, 1963, House of Greystoke, 1964, Dragon, 1967.)
Tarzan #5.
Tarzan travels to a lost city, apparently Atlantis, deep in the heart of Africa where he finds the local queen securing her position with an army of inhuman beasts.
Tarzan and the Leopard Men (Magazine serial, 1935, Lane, 1936, Goulden, 1950, Four Square, 1961, Ballantine, 1964.)
Tarzan #18.
Not SF.
Tarzan and the Lion Man (Magazine serial, 1934. W.H. Allen, 1950, Goulden, 1950, Ace, 1963, Ballantine, 1964, Four Square, 1965.)
Tarzan #17.
Not Sf.
Tarzan and the Lost Empire (Metropolitan, 1929, Cassell, 1931, Goulden, 1949, Dell, 1951, Pinnacle, 1958, Ace, 1963, Ballantine, 1963, Four Square, 1964. Magazine serial, 1929.)
Tarzan #12.
Tarzan sets out to find a friend lost in the jungle and instead stumbles upon a lost city that is directly descended from the Roman Empire and still practices the ancient traditions.
Tarzan and the Madman (Canaveral Press, 1964, Ballantine, 1965, New English Library, 1966.)
Tarzan #23.
Not SF.
Tarzan at the Earth's Core (Magazine serial 1929. Metropolitan, 1930, Methuen, 1938, Wren, 1941, Goulden, 1951, Four Square, 1959, Ace, 1963, Ballantine, 1964.)
Tarzan #13 and Pellucidar #6.
Tarzan is recruited to travel to the hidden world beneath the Earth's surface and rescue David Innes in this crossover novel connecting two of Burroughs' series.
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (McClurg, 1928, Cassell, 1928, Goulden, 1949, Pinnacle, 1953, Four Square, 1963, Ballantine, 1963.)
Tarzan #11.
A medieval society has survived into modern times by practicing a deadly code of honor. Tarzan is trapped into rescuing a group of outsiders from them, people for whom he has no love himself.
Tarzan of the Apes (Magazine serial, 1912, McClurg, 1914, Methuen, 1917, Armed Forces, 1946, Goulden, 1951, Four Square, 1959, Ballantine, 1963, Dragon, 1967, Easton, ?, Signet, 1990, Wildside, 2002.)
Tarzan #1.
Not SF.
Tarzan of the Apes: Four Volumes in One, Avenel, 1988.
Omnibus of Tarzan of the Apes, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan at the Earth's Core, and Tarzan Triumphant.
Tarzan's Jungle Tales (See Jungle Tales of Tarzan)
Tarzan's Quest (Magazine serial, 1936, under the title Tarzan and the Immortal Men. Methuen, 1938, Goulden, 1949, Four Square, 1960, Ballantine, 1964, Dragon, 1967.)
Tarzan #19.
Not SF.
Tarzan the Invincible (Burroughs, 1931, Lane, 1933, Goulden, 1949, Four Square, 1961, Ace, 1963, Ballantine, 1964.)
Tarzan #14.
Tarzan battles with communist agents who seek to steal the secrets of the Atlantean city of Opar.
Tarzan the Magnificent (Burroughs, 1939, Methuen, 1940, Goulden, 1950, Four Square, 1959, Horwitz, 1961, Ballantine, 1964.)
Tarzan #21.
Two separate adventures, neither SF.
Tarzan the Terrible (McClurg, 1921, Methuen, 1921, Pinnacle, 1953, Four Square, 1960, Ballantine, 1963.)
Tarzan #8.
Tarzan journeys to another lost world, this time one where dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures still roam the Earth.
Tarzan the Untamed (McClurg, 1920, Methuen, 1920, Goulden, 1950, Four Square, 1959, Ballantine, 1963.)
Tarzan #7.
Not SF.
Tarzan Triumphant (Burroughs, 1932, Lane, 1933, Goulden, 1950, Four Square, 1961, Ace, 1963, Ballantine, 1964.)
Tarzan #15.
The wily apeman battles human and animal enemies in yet another lost African city.
Three Martian Novels (Dover, 1962.)
Omnibus of Thuvia, Maid of Mars, Chessmen of Mars, and Master Mind of Mars.
Three Science Fiction Novels (Dover, 1963.)
Omnibus of At the Earth's Core, Pellucidar, and Tanar of Pellucidar.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Frank A. Munsey, 1916, McClurg, 1920, Methuen, 1921, Pinnacle, 1953, Four Square, 1962, Ace, 1962, Ballantine, 1963, Dragon, 1968, New English Library, ca 1973.)
Barsoom #4.
John Carter's son is accused of kidnapping the woman he loves. In order to prove his innocence, he sets out to rescue her, and ends up captured as well. But the two of them put their heads together and escape the horrid green Martians.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars/Chessmen of Mars, The (Doubleday, 1972.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Under the Moons of Mars (University of Nebraska, 2003.)
Omnibus of A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, and The Warlord of Mars.
Warlord of Mars, The (Magazine serial 1913. A.C. McClurg, 1919, Methuen, 1920, Pinnacle, 1953, Four Square, 1961, Ballantine, 1963, Dragon, 1968, Wildside, 2002.)
Barsoom #3.
Carter and his son struggle to save two women from the vile attentions of a cruel cult, battling off Martian apes, warriors, and other monsters in the process.
Wizard of Venus, The (Ace, 1970, New English Library, ca 1973, Ace, 1991.)
Venus #5.
Actually a novelet set on that planet plus an adventure story, "Pirate Blood", with no fantastic element.
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE & LANSDALE, JOE
Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (Dark Horse, 1995, Del Rey, 1997.)
A Tarzan novel.
Posthumously completed adventure in which Tarzan rescues a safari from a handful of criminals, and then helps them escape from the inhabitants of the lost city of Ur.
BURROUGHS, JAMES COLEMAN
Treasure of the Black Falcon (Ballantine, 1967.)
An experimental submarine is lost in a terrible storm and the crew finds itself faced with an undersea city lying hidden from the surface world. The inhabitants are visitors from another world.
BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.
Ghost of Chance (Serpent’s Tail, 1995.)
Surreal story with SF overtones.
Naked Lunch (Olympia, 1959, Grove Press, 1962, Calder, 1964, Ballantine, 1973.)
Drug induced hallucinations transform a man's life, and objective reality begins to conform to his delusions.
Nova Express (Grove Press, 1965, Jonathan Cape, 1966, Panther, 1968.)
Surreal SF satire without much of a plot but heavy on style and symbol. The Nova Police and the Nova Mob are fighting across the universe.
Soft Machine, The (Olympia, 1961, Grove, 1966, Grove, 1967, Calder & Boyars, 1968.)
?
Ticket That Exploded, The (Olympia, 1962, Grove, 1967, Calder & Boyars, 1968.)
?
Wild Boys, The (Grove Press, 1971, Calder & Boyars, 1972.)
Another surreal vision, this one jumping around from past to the future.
BURRUSS, L.H.
Clash of Steel (Pocket, 1990.)
The Soviet Army invades Iran and elite groups of Green Berets are called upon to turn them back. A future war novel strong on technology but somewhat naive politically.
BURSTEIN, MICHAEL
I Remember the Future (Apex, 2008.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
BURTIS, THOMSON
Haunted Airways (Doubleday Doran, 1934.)
Death rays, foreign spies, airplanes built with super armor and amazingly powerful engines are all part of this young reader's adventure story.
BURTON, LEVAR
Aftermath (Warner, 1997, Gollancz, 1997, Aspect, 1997, Vista, 1997.)
The invention of a device that allows people to recover from virtually every illness becomes the focal point of a violent power struggle in the aftermath of a second American civil war.
BURY, STEPHEN (See also Neal Stephenson.)
Interface (Bantam, 1994.)
A governor and Presidential aspirant thinks he's getting an edge when he has a computer chip embedded in his body that gives him instant public opinion feedback. Unfortunately, it also proves to be the conduit for other kinds of communication, including manipulation.
BUSBY, F.M. (Note that because several characters appear in different series, the numbering here is somewhat arbitrary.)
Alien Debt, The (Bantam, 1987, Futura, 1988.)
Rissa #3.
Rissa and Tregare return to help an alien species in its struggle against telepathic invaders. Their plans go awry but they eventually turn the tide of events by using an experimental device that alters time.
All These Earths (Berkley, 1978, Bantam, 1985.)
A new stardrive is discovered which allows travel around the galaxy practical. There is, however, an unfortunate side effect. Use of the drive moves one sideways through alternate universes as well as back and forth in space, so when pilots return home, they find the Earth a different place with a slightly different history than the one they left.
Arrow from Earth (Avon, 1995.)
A young woman boards a gigantic starship and sets off for a series of adventures involving mysterious alien forms of life, a mutiny, saboteurs, and a secret cabal planning to establish a dictatorship that spans the stars.
Breeds of Man, The (Bantam, 1988.)
A new plague is spreading across the Earth, solving the overpopulation problem with an even worse situation. At the same time, scientists discover that some people are immune and have other physical differences, and speculate that this is the next step in human evolution. But some of the older model aren't willing to leave the stage gracefully.
Cage a Man (Doubleday, 1973, Signet, 1974, Hamlyn, 1979.)
Demu #1.
A lone human is captured by the alien Demu whose most fiendish torture is to reshape the bodies of its captives into mimicry of their own kind. He's determined not to tell them how to enslave humanity, and concocts an elaborate method of escape.
Demu Trilogy, The (Pocket, 1980.)
Demu #3.
Omnibus of Cage a Man, The Proud Enemy, a short story, and the otherwise unpublished concluding novel, End of the Line. Humans war against a race of aliens who enslave and physical modify anyone they capture.
End of the Line (included only in The Demu Trilogy, which see.)
Getting Home (Ace, 1987.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy (Pulphouse, 1992.)
Reprint in pamphlet form of the 1974 short story about a man who is unstuck in time and keeps jumping from one moment of his life to another.
Islands of Tomorrow (Avon, 1994.)
A man imprisoned for his political beliefs is freed by an enigmatic man who transports him through time to take part in a struggle for human survival in a future where overpopulation threatens to destroy the entire species.
Long View, The (Berkley, 1976.)
Rissa #2.
Included in Rissa Kerguelen.
Proud Enemy, The (Berkley, 1975, Hamlyn, 1982.)
Demu #2.
The only man ever to escape the alien Demu is part of an enormous force raised to oppose their depredations when he is contacted by a third alien species that sends him off on an even stranger mission.
Rebel Dynasty #1, The (Bantam, 1987.)
Omnibus of Star Rebel and Rebel's Quest.
Rebel Dynasty #2, The (Bantam, 1987.)
Omnibus of Alien Debt and Rebel's Seed.
Rebel's Quest (Bantam, 1985, Futura, 1988.)
Tregare #2.
Relates the first meeting between Tregare and Rissa (who has her own series) as they find common ground in their hatred for the interstellar corporation that effectively rules the galaxy. Together they begin a series of military raids on company strongholds.
Rebel's Seed (Bantam, 1986, Futura, 1988.)
Tregare #3.
Tregare's daughter falls into the clutches of the last vestiges of the old dictatorship when her ship is disabled by an anomaly in space and she takes refuge on a lost colony world.
Rissa and Tregare (Berkley, 1984. Half of Rissa Kerguelen, originally published in 1977.)
Rissa #1B. (Tregare also appears in Zelde M'Tana.)
As leader of an outlawed fleet of pirate ships, Rissa seeks to solve the mystery of a cluster of prohibited worlds as part of her campaign to free the peoples of Earth.
Rissa Kerguelen (Berkley, 1977, Orbit, 1988.)
Rissa #1.
This novel was also published in two volumes as Young Rissa and Rissa and Tregare, which see. Rissa also appears in the Tregare series.
Rissa Kerguelen (Berkley, 1977.)
Omnibus of the title novel plus the sequel, The Long View.
Singularity Project, The (Tor, 1993.)
A private investigator attempts to solve the mystery surrounding the apparent plot to steal an experimental matter transmitter. But are there real thieves or is it all just a hoax to cover up the project's failure?
Slow Freight (Bantam, 1991.)
The first human starship inadvertently causes damage to an alien vessel entering the solar system. The latter starts to make repairs by carving chunks out of Saturn's moons, and then sets course for Earth.
Star Rebel (Bantam, 1984, Futura, 1987.)
Tregare #1. (This character also appears in the Rissa series and in Zelde M'Tana.)
A series within a series. This relates the exploits of Tregare as a young man, in which he escapes the brutal system ruling the worlds, becomes captain of a pirate ship, and starts a one man war against the overlords of the universe.
Triad Worlds, The (Avon, 1996.)
A group of adventurers are transported across the galaxy into the middle of a conflict among alien species. Surviving and getting home depends on their ability to adapt to the situation and negotiate a solution.
Young Rissa (Berkley, 1984. Half of Rissa Kerguelen, published in 1977.)
Rissa #1A.
The story of a determined young woman who survives the massacre of her family, gains training and augmentation on Earth, and becomes a leader in efforts to overthrow a galactic dictatorship.
Zelde M'Tana (Dell, 1980, Berkley, 1986.)
A professional fighter is shanghaied to a brothel world but joins a successful mutiny in order to gain her freedom. They are pursued by the authorities and when the new captain is killed, Zelda takes over, despite her unpopularity with the crew. One of the characters, Tregare, also appears in Rissa and Tregare.
Goblin Moon (Boulevard, 2000.)
A Spiderman novel.
The Green Goblin gains great influence in the city government when a highly organized gang of criminals goes on a crime spree and only Spiderman knows that he is the master criminal.
BUTCHER, A.J.
Annihilation Agenda, The (Little, Brown, 2005.)
Spy High #6.
The spy kids discover a plot to destroy the world.
Blood Relations (Little, Brown, 2005.)
Spy High #5.
The spies investigate a cult.
Chaos Rising (Little, Brown, 2004.)
Spy High #2.
Teenaged spies thwart the plans of international terrorists using super technology.
Paranoia Plot, The (Little, Brown, ?)
Spy High #4.
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Serpent Scenario, The (Little, Brown, ?)
Spy High #3.
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Spy High (Little, Brown, 2004.)
Spy High #1.
Teenaged spies defeat a mastermind planning world domination.
BUTCHER, JIM (Also writes Fantasy.)
Darkest Hours, The (Pocket Star, 2006.)
A Spider-Man novel.
Spider-Man interacts with a variety of superheroes and villains.
BUTLER, OCTAVIA
Adulthood Rites (Warner, 1988, Gollancz, 1988, Questar, 1989.)
Oankali #2.
A halfbreed human and Oankali alien is kidnapped by a band of humans resisting the alien domination of Earth. He's sympathetic to their cause, but caught between two worlds, trusted by neither and part of neither.
Bloodchild and Other Stories (Four Doors Eight Windows, 1995.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Clay's Ark (St Martins, 1984, Ace, 1985, Gollancz, 1991.)
Pattern #5.
The first star explorer returns to Earth with an unexpected cargo, an alien disease that doesn't kill its victims, it transforms them into something superhuman. Is this the death of the human race, or perhaps just another step in evolution?
Dawn (Warner, 1987, Gollancz, 1987, Questar, 1988.)
Oankali #1.
Earth is dying, subject to disease, pollution, and other ills. Then the Oankali arrived, cured all illnesses and cleaned up the planet. Unfortunately, what they want in return is to re-engineer our biology so that we can interbreed with them.
Evening and the Morning and the Night, The (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Reprint in pamphlet form of the 1987 short story about a woman with a nerve disease who goes to a strange clinic.
Imago (Warner, 1989, Gollancz, 1989.)
Oankali #3.
The future of two different races depends on the ability of one young man to successfully master his growth to maturity.
Kindred (Doubleday, 1979, Pocket, 1981, Women's Press, 1988.)
A modern black woman is caught in a time quake and sent back through the years to the pre-Civil War South for a series of low key but chilling adventures. She refuses to surrender her independence despite the likelihood that she is trapped there for the rest of her life.
Lilith’s Brood (Aspect, 2000.)
Omnibus of Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago.
Mind of My Mind (Doubleday, 1977, Avon, 1978, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978.)
Pattern #2.
Four thousand years ago, a man developed the ability to move from body to body, and to telepathically read the minds of others. Effectively immortal, he finally fathers a child with similar powers, but finds that his vision of empire conflicts with her plans for the world.
Parable of the Sower (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1993, Warner, 1995, Women's Press, 1995, Aspect, 2000.)
Parable #1.
A near future America has become a schizophrenic society, split between the incredibly wealthy and the devastatingly poor. The protagonist is an empath, a woman who wanders through this world absorbing the pain of its inhabitants.
Parable of the Talents (Aspect, 2000.)
Parable #2.
A group of people decide to leave Earth and find a future on another world.
Patternmaster (Doubleday, 1976, Sphere, 1978, Avon, 1979, Aspect, 1995.)
Pattern #1.
Rivalry and violence continue even in a far future where telepathic links bind people together. Two brothers compete for their father's place following his death in a brutal world filled with mutated humans and other dangers.
Survivor (Doubleday, 1978, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978, Signet, 1979.)
Pattern #3.
Only one of a group of human missionaries among the stars realizes that they have taken the wrong side in a war between two alien species, and that her fellows are going to be enslaved by their "friends" if they don't realize the truth in time.
Wild Seed (Doubleday, 1980, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980, Pocket, 1981, Questar, 1988, Gollancz, 2000.)
Pattern #4.
An immortal man whose personality moves from body to body has been searching for others with similar powers, but the woman he encounters in this volume has abilities to rival his own, including shapeshifting, and she isn't particularly sympathetic to his plans for the rest of the human race.
Xenogenesis (Guild America, 1989.)
Omnibus of Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago.
Mr. Spaceman (Grove, 2000.)
An inquisitive alien shanghais a handful of humans onto his ship in an effort to understand human culture.
BUTLER, SAMUEL
Erewhon (Trubner, 1872, Dutton, 1932, Penguin, 1936, Signet, 1961, Collier, 1961, Airmont, 1967, Lancer, 1968, Viking, 1970, University of Delaware, 1981, and others.)
Erewhon #1.
Less tedious than most Utopian novels, this deals with a young man who finds himself in a hidden country whose inhabitants are very logical about how society should be run, setting things up for a broad satire on the contemporary world, or at least the contemporary world of a century ago.
Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited (Dent, 1959.)
Omnibus of both Erewhon novels.
Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later (Richards, 1901, Dutton, 1932.)
Erewhon #2.
Not seen.
Hermit Thrush Sings, The (Dell Laurel, 2001.)
After a meteor collision destroys civilization, a deformed youngster with psi powers rebels against the restrictions of her culture.
BUTLER, WILLIAM
Butterfly Revolution, The (Ballantine, 1967, Panther, 1967.)
A satirical novel along the lines of Golding's Lord of the Flies, set in a future when all the adults are gone and children descend into anarchy.
BUTTERWORTH, MICHAEL
Edge of the Infinite, The (Warner, 1977.)
Space: 1999, Second Series, #6.
Matter transmission may allow those trapped on the runaway moon to transport themselves back to Earth, but they emerge in Earth's past instead of the present, and are immediately attacked.
Mind-Breaks of Space (Warner, 1977, Star, 1977.)
Space: 1999, Second Series, #2.
Androids, a sentient computer, aliens, and other dangers menace the survivors of a catastrophe that wrenched the moon free from the Earth.
Planets of Peril (Warner, 1977, Star, 1977.)
Space: 1999, Second Series #1.
The runaway moon and its inhabitants are faced with almost certain death as they approach a world whose natives are locked in hibernation, and whose planetary defense system may destroy them unwittingly.
Psychomorph, The (Warner, 1977, Star, 1977.)
Space: 1999, Second Series, #4.
A space amoeba bigger than entire stars engulfs the runaway moon and seeks to enter the human colony and steal the lifeforce of its inhabitants.
Queens of Deliria (Star, 1977.)
Hawklords #2 (#1 written in collaboration with Michael Moorcock.)
Not seen.
Space-Jackers, The (Warner, 1977, Star, 1977.)
Space: 1999, Second Series, #3.
More dangers face the interplanetary wanderers as they encounter a mysterious cloud in space, a couple preserved in suspended animation, and the possible deterioration of the commander's mind.
Time Fighters, The (Warner, 1977, Star, 1977.)
Space: 1999, Second Series, #5.
The moon falls into a black hole while the commander is off exploring a derelict ship, and the shapechanger in the crew is losing control of her bodily integrity. Leaping lizards!
BUTTERWORTH, MICHAEL, & MOORCOCK, MICHAEL
Time of the Hawklords, The (Warner, 1976, Aidan Ellis, 1976, Star, 1977.)
Hawklords #1. (Sequel was written by Butterworth alone)
A devastated future Earth is about to enjoy its last rock concert ever when a book of prophecies turns up that seems to have accurately foretold the future. The characters are based on the assumed personae of a real rock band.
BUTTERWORTH, OLIVER
Enormous Egg, The (Little, Brown, 1956.)
Nate Twitchell #1.
An oversized egg hatches out a baby dinosaur whose existence attracts the unwelcome attention of the government despite a young boy's insistence it is his pet.
Narrow Passage, The (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1973.)
Nate Twitchell #2.
Not seen.
Trouble with Jenny’s Ear, The (Little Brown, 1960.)
Not seen. A young girl has amusing adventures because she possesses ESP.
BYATT, H.
Flight of Icarus, The (Sisley, 1907.)
England converts to Judaism.
BYERS, EDWARD A.
Babylon Gate, The (Baen, 1986.)
An orbiting psychic resonator provides three people with the power to control the world. The protagonist kills one of the triumvirate, and the other two command the entire world to avenge his death.
Long Forgetting, The (Baen, 1985.)
A psychic fugue spread through the civilized galaxy and caused the human race to forget its past. Generations later, the stars are ruled by a dogmatic church, until one archaeologist digs up the truth and defies orders to suppress his discovery.
BYERS, RICHARD LEE (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Soul Killer (Boulevard, 1999.)
An X-Men novel.
A team of mutants must battle a genuine vampire and an apparent demon when one of their number is possessed.
BYMAN, CHRIS
Dark Skies (Hodder, 1997.)
Not seen. Based on the television series.
BYNUM, LAURA
Veracity (Pocket, 2010.)
A misogynistic utopia arises after a global catastrophe.
BYRNE, ROBERT
Tunnel, The (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977, Dell, 1979.)
An early novel about the construction of the now real tunnel under the English Channel, in this case menaced by IRA terrorists as well as the physical problems inherent in the project.
BYRNE, STUART J. (See also Albert Augustus and John Bloodstone. Also writes Horror.)
Alpha Trap, The (Major, 1976.)
Labeled as SF, this is about a secret conspiracy to maneuver the human race into a nuclear war, but the conspirators are minions of Hell, not aliens.
Beyond the Darkness (Armchair, 2014, bound with The Fireless Age by David H. Keller. Magazine appearance 1951.)
A generation starship becomes a dictatorship.
Colossus (Armchair, 2018, bound with Isle of Doom by Robert Moore Williams. Magazine appearance 1950.)
Colossus #1.
An explorer discovers a secret colony of aliens in Asia. This includes two long stories.
Colossus Conclusion, The (Armchair, 2020, bound with The Mental Assassins by Rog Phillips. Magazine appearance 1950 as Colossus III.)
Elder gods, spies, Satan, and moon people converge.
Golden Gods, The (Armchair, 2015, bound with The Return of Michael Flannigan, also by Byrne. Magazine appearance 1952 as by John Bloodstone.)
Flannigan #1.
An alien civilization on the moon menaces Earth.
Golden Guardsmen, The (Armchair, 2012. Magazine appearance 1952.)
Stephen Germain #2.
A Russian dictator enlists malevolent aliens in his campaign to rule the world.
Land Beyond the Lens (Armchair, 2014, bound with Diplomat at Arms by Keith Laumer. Magazine appearance 1952.)
An expedition to the moon finds a gateway to another world.
Metamorphs, The (Armchair, 2013, bound with Microcosmic Buccaneers by Harl Vincent. Magazine appearance 1957.)
Earth is menaced by shapechanging aliens.
Naked Goddess, The (Armchair, 2017, bound with The God Business by Philip Jose Farmer.)
A narcotics agent uncovers an interplanetary plot.
Potential Zero (Armchair, 2014, bound with Outpost on the Moon by Joslyn Maxwell. Magazine appearance 1953.)
Humans wipe out a benevolent race out of fear.
Power Metal (Armchair, 2015. Magazine appearance 1953.)
A colony world decides to rebel.
Prometheus II (Armchair, 2012. Magazine appearance 1948.)
Stephen Germain #1.
A Russian dictator allies himself with an underground race that has superscience.
Return of Michael Flannigan, The (Armchair, 2015, bound with The Golden Gods, also by Byrne. Magazine appearance 1952.)
Flannigan #2.
Robots threaten to take over.
Star Man (Powell, 1969.)
An astronaut recovers from suspended animation three centuries in the future and finds himself in the middle of an interstellar war.
BYWATER, H.C.
Great Pacific War, The (Constable, 1925.)
Future war between the US and Japan.