Last updated 8/27/08
Yezad: A Romance of the Unknown (Co-operative Pubs, 1922.)
Not seen. Reincarnation and visits to other planets.
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.
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.
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 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.
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.
?
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.)
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, 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.)
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.
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, 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
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.
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 Earth, 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.
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.)
A painfully bad novel of Earth dominated by alien invaders until a secret order of Earthmen successfully stages a rebellion.
BANKER, ASHOK (Also writes Fantasy.)
Iron Gods (Solaris, 2007.)
A mysterious object as big as the moon appears in the solar system.
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.
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.
?
Player of Games, The (MacMillan, 1988, St Martins, 1989.)