Last updated 5/11/09
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.
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 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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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, 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.
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, 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.)
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City of the First Time (?, 1975.)
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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.
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.
Unmasked (Love Spell, 2005.)
A futuristic romance in outer space.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Wishing Well (BBC, 2007.)
A Doctor Who novel.
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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 with 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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
All the Windwracked Stars (Tor, 2008.)
In a far distant future, an immortal searches for another of her kind.
Carnival (Bantam, 2006.)
Diplomats travel to a planet ruled by women.
Chains That You Refuse, The (Night Shade, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dust (Bantam, 2007.)
War among the tribes in a generation starship.
Hammered (Bantam, 2005.)
Jenny Casey #1.
A fugitive in a repressive future is sought as a subject in a scientific experiment.
Scardown (Bantam, 2005.)
Jenny Casey #2.
A cyborged woman agrees to join a mission to explore the stars.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Legacy (Tor, 1995, Legend, 1995.)
Prequel to Eon.
A government agent investigates illegal mass immigrations.
Lost Souls (See Psychlone.)
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.
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.)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (Edge, 2008.)
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, 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, 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.
Not seen.
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.
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.
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 & 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.
?
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.
?
BENNETT, CHRISTOPHER L.
Buried Age, The (Pocket, 2007.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel.
Picard's life immediately before becoming captain of the Enterprise.
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.
Greater Than the Sum (Pocket, 2008.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel.
The Borg are on the verge of discovering a new technology.
Over a Torrent Sea (Pocket, 2009.)
A Star Trek Titan novel.
Part of an exploratory party is cut off on a water world.
Watchers on the Walls (Pocket Star, 2006.)
An X-Men novel.
The mutants have to save some alien refugees.
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.
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.)
BENNETT, ROBERT A.
Thyra, A Romance of the Polar Pit (Holt, 1901.)
Lost race novel involving Vikings and dinosaurs at the North Pole.
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, 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, 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, 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. 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.)