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Avatar (Dolphin, 1999.)
A Web novel.
A disabled teenager explores the virtual reality world of the Web in an effort to discover why one of his online acquaintances is suddenly acting very strangely.
Dervish Is Digital (Tor, 2001.)
Dore Konstantin #2.
A detective investigates whether or not a man has exchanged personalities with an AI in order to harass his wife in virtual reality.
Dirty Work (Mark Ziesing, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Fools (Bantam, 1992, Harper, 1994.)
Brain Police #2.
An aspiring actress wakes up from a blackout in which she appears to have assumed a new identity. Her efforts to discover what happened are complicated by a team of assassins hot on her trail and others interested in finding out what is concealed in her hidden memories.
Home By the Sea (WSFA, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Mindplayers (Bantam, 1987, Gollancz, 1988.)
Brain Police #1.
Technology has allowed society to tinker with the inner workings of the human mind, but some of this activity is illegal. The protagonist agrees to perform community service when she's caught experimenting with artificial psychosis, but finds herself in even greater danger just doing her new job. Based on several shorter pieces.
My Brother's Keeper (Pulphouse, 1992.)
Reprint in pamphlet format of the 1988 story about a woman searching for her missing brother.
Parasite (HarperCollins, 1996.)
A young girl kills her mother after she realizes that both parents are possessed by mind controlling parasites. She then flees the scene, pursued by the authorities and the creatures whose existence she threatens to reveal.
Patterns (Ursus Imprints, 1989, Grafton, 1991, Tor, 1999.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Promised Land (Harper, 1999.)
A Lost in Space novel.
The Robinsons encounter a giant wandering planetoid that is actually a spaceship carrying a variety of alien races and cultures. They have a series of adventures before returning to their own ship and leaving.
Synners (Bantam, 1991, Harper, 1991, Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2001.)
Virtual reality has become a playground where you can abandon your physical body and become anyone you please. But someone has unleashed a virus and it's hunting down prey inside the virtual worlds.
Tea from an Empty Cup (HarperCollins, 1998.)
Dore Konstantin #1.
In the years following the sinking of Japan, a police detective gets involved with a series of virtual reality related murders which leads her to a secret organization which is dedicated to creating a new Japan in place of the lost one.
Upgrade & Sensuous Cindy (Black Flame, 2004.)
Two unrelated stories.
CADY, JACK (Also writes Horror.)
Man Who Could Make Things Vanish, The (Arbor House, 1982.)
Right wing dictatorship takes control of the US and a man with supernormal powers battles them.
CAIDIN, MARTIN (Also writes Fantasy.)
Almost Midnight (Morrow, 1971, Bantam, 1974.)
Criminals steal several nuclear weapons and threaten to detonate them in American cities unless the government pays an enormous ransom.
Aquarius Mission (Bantam, 1978, Corgi, 1978)
An experimental submarine discovers an alien race living in the depths of the ocean. They are subsequently fitted with devices that allow them to breathe underwater and interact with their new friends.
Beamriders! (Baen, 1989.)
Laser technology leads to the development of a working (though implausible) matter transmitter. There follows a series of adventures involving Soviet agents and a visit to the far side of the moon.
Cyborg (Paperback Library, 1972, Arbor House, 1972, W.H. Allen, 1973, Del Rey, 1978.
Basis for the television series, The Six Million Dollar Man. Steve Austin loses most of the functions of his body in an accident, but the government secretly rebuilds him as a cyborg, part machine, faster and stronger than ordinary people.
Cyborg IV (Arbor House, 1975, Warner, 1976, W.H. Allen, 1977)
Part of the multi-author Six Million Dollar Man series.
Steve Austin's cyborg abilities make him perfect to interface with the controls of an experimental spaceship on its first orbital run.
Dark Messiah (Baen, 1990.)
Messiah #2.
An amulet that has the power to amplify human will allows its owner to influence masses of people. Its new owner has decided not only to conquer the world, but to overcome death itself.
Devil Take All (Dutton, 1966.)
A story about a kidnapping in the near future, using high tech gadgetry not yet invented.
Encounter Three (See The Mendelov Conspiracy.)
Exit Earth (Baen, 1987.)
A cosmic catastrophe will render the Earth temporarily uninhabitable, so there's a frantic race to save the human race by sending a few off into space to wait out the solar flare. The usual battle for the coveted seats of safety ensues, complicated by international politics.
Final Countdown, The (Bantam, 1980, based on the screenplay by David Ambrose & Gerry Davis & Thomas Hunter & Peter Powell)
A modern aircraft carrier goes back through time to the early days of World War II, where its captain tries to decide whether or not he is justified in attacking the Japanese squadron prior to their attack on Pearl Harbor.
Four Came Back (Donald McKay, 1968, Bantam, 1970, Baen, 1988.)
Inhabitants of a multi-national space station begin dying of a mysterious disease after the station passes through a mysterious cloud in space.
God Machine, The. (Dutton, 1968, Bantam, 1969, Baen, 1989.)
A supercomputer becomes self aware and decides to seize control of the world for its uses, threatening to trigger a nuclear war unless its demands are met.
High Crystal (Arbor House, 1974, Warner, 1975, W.H. Allen, 1975.)
A Six Million Dollar Man novel.
Austin leads an expedition into the inaccessible mountains of South America to investigate a lost city which is also the location of an alien artifact promising unlimited power.
Killer Station (Baen, 1985.)
An orbiting station designed to protect America becomes an instrument of imminent doom when sabotage threatens to drop it directly onto a major US city.
Last Fathom, The (Hawthorn, 1967, Michael Joseph, 1967, Pinnacle, 1974.)
A Russian sub is preparing to set off a gigantic thermonuclear bomb on the ocean floor in this marginal thriller featuring a super submarine with a highly advanced computer aboard.
Life in the Future, A (TSR, 1995.)
A Buck Rogers novel.
Buck Rogers' body is stored as data following his death, and re-corporated centuries in the future. There he helps the government of a much diminished America to battle two rival world powers, the Mongols, and Chile, which has recovered technology from Atlantis.
Long Night, The (Dodd Mead, 1956.)
Not seen. Story of a nuclear war.
Manfac (Arbor House, 1979, Dell, 1981, Baen, 1988)
Caidin's virtual rewrite of his own novel Cyborg, which was the basis for the Six Million Dollar Man series. A man whose body is nearly destroyed in a nuclear reactor finds new hope when he is provided with an experimental artificial one with superhuman powers.
Marooned (Dutton, 1964, Hodder, 1964, Corgi, 1965, Bantam, 1965.)
A crippled orbiting spaceship threatens to be a deathtrap for its crew unless the authorities on Earth can ignore their personal differences and come up with a plan to rescue them. Made into the film of the same name.
Mendelov Conspiracy, The (Hawthorn, 1969, Pinnacle, 1974. Pinnacle, 1978, as Encounter Three.)
The sighting of a flying saucer is covered up by the government, but an inquisitive reporter refuses to let the issue die and discovers that aliens are about to invade the Earth.
Messiah Stone, The (Baen, 1986.)
Messiah #1.
A mercenary searches for a crystal which embues its possessor with the power to sway masses of people through mental domination. Former owners include Christ, Mohammed, and Adolf Hitler.
No Man's World (Dutton, 1967.)
US and Soviet astronauts battle for control of the moon.
Operation Nuke (Arbor House, 1973, W.H. Allen, 1974, Warner, 1976.)
A Six Million Dollar Man novel.
A patriotic cyborg takes on an international criminal syndicate that is using stolen nuclear weapons as instruments of blackmail.
Planetfall (Putnam, 1974.)
Not seen.
Prison Ship (Baen, 1989.)
Alien criminals reach the solar system and team up with unsavory human characters in a plot to take control of the world. The publisher put visual warnings in places to warn readers of graphic violence in the paragraphs that followed.
Star Bright (Bantam, 1980, Golden Apple, 1984, Baen, 1990)
A nuclear experiment gets out of control and sets of a chain reaction that threatens to destroy the entire planet. A team of scientists struggles to find a way to reverse the process before it is too late.
Three Corners to Nowhere (Bantam, 1975, Corgi, 1975, Baen, 1988)
An investigation into yet another disappearance into the Bermuda Triangle uncovers the startling news that the area is prone to sudden time jumps.
Zoboa (Baen, 1986.)
Terrorists steal several atomic weapons and plan to use them to destroy a new space shuttle, killing everyone in it as well as the numerous foreign dignitaries assembled for its launch.
CAIN, ROBERT (House pseudonym but most or all of these were probably by William Keith, whom see.)
Capo’s Revenge (HarperCollins, 1992.)
Cybernarc #4.
Not seen.
Cybernarc (HarperCollins, 1991.)
Cybernarc #1.
A robot narcotics officer who can pass for human has his first assignment in this fast paced men's adventure series.
End Game (HarperCollins, 1993.)
Cybernarc #6
The robot protagonist disobeys orders and sets out to break up an international drug ring.
Gold Dragon (HarperCollins, 1991.)
Cybernarc #2.
The robot drug agent protagonist of this series is nearly destroyed in the process of killing yet another large group of drug dealers.
Island Kill (HarperCollins, 1992.)
Cybernarc #3.
A robot government agent has to rescue a kidnapped senator from an island totally controlled by druglords.
Shark Bait (HarperCollins, 1992.)
Cybernarc #5.
Not seen.
CAINE, H.
Eternal City, The (Heinemann, 1901.)
Near future political satire.
CAINE, PETER
Virus (Onyx, 1989.)
Megalomaniacs unleash a killer virus hoping to evolve a new, superior race of humans from among the survivors. Ultimately we discover that the plague has actually been engineered by an alien species that communicates telepathically with their pawns on Earth.
CAIRNES, CAPTAIN
Coming Waterloo, The (Constable, 1901.)
Future war.
Vacation Stories (University of Illnois Press, 2001, translated from the Spanish by Laura Otis.)
Collection of unrelated stories, originally published in the 19th Century.
CALDE, MARK A.
Shadowboxer (Putnam, 1976, Ballantine, 1977.)
Marginal thriller about a man whose mind has been totally reprogrammed.
CALDECOTT, MOYRA (Also writes Fantasy.)
Child of the Dark Star (Bran's Head, 1984.)
A colony world is dominated by astrologers.
CALDER, RICHARD (Also writes Fantasy.)
Cythera (St Martins, 1998, Orbit, 1998.)
“Ghosts”, manifestations of artificial personalities existing in the internet, begin to escape into the real world in this highly stylistic, surreal look at the future.
Dead Boys (HarperCollins, 1994.)
Cyborg #2.
Humans have found a way to interbreed with cyborgs, creating a new species halfway between the two. On colonized Mars, the various strains of humanity create a bizarre new society in an unwelcoming environment.
Dead Girls (St Martins, 1994, HarperCollins, ?)
Cyborg #1.
High tech cyberfiction about a genetically redesigned woman whose would-be lover risks life and limb to free her from the connivery of powerful people in a world where nanotechnology threatens to replace the human genotype with deadly substitutes.
Dead Girls/Dead Boys/Dead Things (St Martins, 1998.)
Omnibus of the three novels.
Dead Things (St Martins, 1996, HarperCollins, ?)
Cyborg #3.
An attempt to save the universe by ending a plague that threatens the entire species turns into a potentially even greater disaster.
Frenzetta (Orbit, 1998, Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2002.)
In a far future Earth, the remnants of fallen soldiers are reassembled into new warriors.
Lord Soho (Earthlight, 2002.)
Malignos #2.
Episodic family novel detailing the future of the human race.
Malignos (Earthlight, 2000.)
Malignos #1.
Bleed over from a parallel universe causes many humans to become half something-else. The protagonist is in love with one of these individuals and is banished because of it. When she is mysterious stricken, he ventures into the underground realm of the transformees to find a cure.
Twist, The (Earthlight, 1999, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004.)
Convoluted novel about Venusians visiting Earth to harvest our souls, during which they create a kind of technology free limbo that mirrors the Old West.
CALDWELL, TAYLOR (Also writes Fantasy.)
Devil's Advocate, The (Crown, 1952, MacFadden, 1964, Amereon, 1978, Jove, 1984.)
Communists have seized control of America and a true patriot becomes an ardent enforcer for the oppressors in order to annoy people enough to stage a revolt against their masters.
Your Sins and Mine (Popular Library, 1955, Amereon, ?, Muller, 1956, Warner, 1984.)
A drought threatens to bring down the US government and destroy its people, but it is averted at last when the country as a whole gets down on its knees and prays.
CALDWELL, TAYLOR & JESS STEARN
Romance of Atlantis, The (Morrow, 1975, Crest, 1976, Amereon, ?)
The Queen of Atlantis plots to save her nation by forging a political alliance to stave off an anticipated invasion. Ends with the usual earthquakes and flooding destroying the entire civilization.
CALIF, R.C.
Rust (Manor, 1980.)
A cabal of egotists uses missiles to cover the world with a strange dust that kills most people, supposedly to renew the world. But their plans for the survivors is just as exploitive and cruel as everything that went before.
CALISHER, HORTENSE
Journey from Ellipsia (Little, Brown, 1965, S. Warburg, 1966.)
A human and an alien exchange visits and we see each world through a different perspective. The aliens have no singular pronouns.
Armored Corps (Jove, 2005.)
Korea #1.
North Korea invades the South.
Attack by Fire (Jove, 2006.)
Korea #3.
The US finally launches a counterattack against invading North Koreans.
Engage and Destroy (Jove, 2005.)
Korea #2.
The war for control of South Korea grows more intense.
CALLAHAN, WILLIAM (Pseudonym of Raymond Z. Gallun, whom see)
Machine That Thought, The (Columbia, 1942.)
Short story in pamphlet form concerning a malevolent computer.
CALLENBACH, ERNEST
Ecotopia (Banyan Tree, 1975, Banam, 1977, Pluto Press, 1978.)
Ecotopia #1.
A reporter visits the secessionist Northwest US and finds a society that challenges old standards of gender roles, ecological awareness, capitalism, and other truisms of modern society. Not much plot to hang the discussions on.
Ecotopia Emerging (Banyan Tree, 1981, Bantam, 1982.)
Ecotopia #2.
A prequel, a history of how the Northwest seceded from the US and evolved its radically different form of government. The turning point is the suppression of a cheap new form of solar energy.
CALLIN, GRANT
Lion on Tharthee, A (Baen, 1987.)
Hexie #2.
The discovery of alien technology on the moon Iapetus leads to the arrival of an alien starship willing to take a select number of humans to one of their own worlds. As expected, human politics almost fouls the whole deal up before they've even left the solar system.
Saturnalia (Baen, 1986.)
Hexie #1.
A genius trapped in a deformed body and a university professor suffering from ennui both add excitement to their lives when they learn of the existence of an alien artifact on the moon Iapetus and set out to find it.
CALLINAN, DAVID
Fortress Manhattan (Gollancz, 1995.)
This is a kind of reverse Escape from New York. Rich people live in Manhattan and guard it against the mutants who roam in the Badlands surrounding it. A tv program which plans to broadcast actual executions and suicides reveals that the combined unconscious of humanity is creating a demonic force.
CALNAN, T.D.
Reluctant Spy, The (Curtis, 1973.)
Marginal spy thriller about a defector who holds the secret of a new kind of aircraft that could give the Soviets mastery of all of Europe in a matter of hours.
CALVINO, ITALO (Also writes Fantasy.)
Cosmicomics (Jonathan Cape, 1968, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968, Collier, 1970, translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Italian edition 1965.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Mr. Palomar (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985, translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Italian version, 1983.)
Collection of related stories about a scientist with an odd view of the universe.
Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories (Pantheon, 1995.)
Collection of unrelated stories not all of which are SF.
Time and the Hunter (See T Zero)
T Zero (. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969, Collier, 1970, translated from the Italian by William Weaver Jonathan Cape, 1969, as Time and the Hunter. Italian edition 1967)
Collection of unrelated stories.
CAMERON, BERL (House pseudonym.)
Black Infinity (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (David O'Brien.)
I.R.C. #2
Not seen. Story of a galactic war.
Cosmic Echelon (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (John Glasby & Arthur Roberts.)
Not seen. Rebellion against a tyrannical Terran empire.
Destination Alpha (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (Brian Holloway.)
Not seen. War between Mars and Earth.
Lost Aeons (Curtis Warren, 1953.) (Dennis Talbot Hughes.)
Space station deals with a derelict alien ship.
Maid of Thuro (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (Dennis Talbot Hughes.)
Not seen.
Photomesis (Curtis Warren, 1952. (David O'Brien.)
I.R.C. #1.
Not seen. Matter transmitters are used to attack Mars and pre-empt an invasion of Earth.
Solar Gravita (Curtis Warren, 1953.) (Author unknown.)
A war between humans and aliens.
Sphero Nova (Curtis Warren, 1953.) (John Glasby & Arthur Roberts.)
Another interplanetary war, this time pitting a supposedly invincible fleet of alien starships against the Federation of Worlds. Two humans travel to the planet of the aliens to figure out how to destroy them.
CAMERON, ELEANOR (Also writes Fantasy.)
Mr. Bass' Planetoid (Little, Brown, 1958.)
Mushroom Planet #3.
A dangerous invention threatens the world and its inventor has disappeared, so two young boys travel to Lepton, a previously unknown moon of the Earth, to find out what happened to him.
Mystery for Mr. Bass (Little, Brown, 1960.)
Mushroom Planet #4.
?
Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (Little, Brown, 1956.)
Mushroom Planet #2.
The two protagonists return to the Mushroom Planet, determined to keep its existence a secret despite the nosiness of a newcomer.
Terrible Churnadryne, The (Little, Brown, 1959, Archway, 1972.)
Two children see what they think is a monster one foggy night, but naturally no one believes them. Eventually a seagoing dinosaur turns up, but it's a gentle rather than terrifying one. For younger readers.
Time and Mr. Bass (Little, Brown, 1967.)
Mushroom Planet #5.
?
Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, The (Little, Brown, 1954, Scholastic, 1966)
Mushroom Planet #1.
Two young boys are given a tour of the mushroom planet, meet its inhabitants, have various low key adventures, and are eventually returned to Earth.
CAMERON, IAN (Pseudonym of Donald G. Payne. See also collaborations with George Erskine.)
Devil Country (See The Mountains at the Bottom of the World)
Island on the Top of the World, The (See The Lost Ones)
Lost Ones, The (Hutchinson, 1961, Morrow, 1968, Avon, 1970. Avon, 1985, as The Island at the Top of the World)
An expedition to the Arctic stumbles across a lost tribe of Viking survivors existing in a sheltered valley within the ice while searching for a lost explorer. Factions among the Vikings sharply differ about whether or not the intruders should be allowed to leave, or live.
Mountains at the Bottom of the World, The. (Morrow, 1972, Avon, 1974. Pan, 1976, as Devil Country)
Within the narrowly confined limits of the Chilean ice fields, primitive versions of humanity still survive, undiscovered until a group of scientists stumble across them completely by accident. The apemen instinctively fear that discovery will destroy their way of life, so they try to destroy the interlopers.
White Ship, The (Scribner, 1975, Hodder, 1975, Avon, 1977.)
A group of researchers are exploring an island near Antarctica searching for a rare breed of seal when they find a ship left from another age and get a glimpse of another world.
CAMERON, J.D. (House Pseudonym.)
Blood Tide (Avon, 1991.) (David Robbins.)
Omega Sub #4.
One of the surviving military organizations following a nuclear war uses its base in the South Pacific to launch attacks against other islands of civilization in a bid to dominate the world.
City of Fear (Avon, 1991.) (Michael Jahn.)
Omega Sub #3.
A sub crew visits war ravaged Central America and discovers that radiation sick people and crazed animals are attacking the local population.
Command Decision (Avon, 1991.) (David Robbins.)
Omega Sub #2.
Not seen.
Death Dive (Avon, 1992.) (David Robbins.)
Omega Sub #5.
The crew of a surviving submarine attempt to rescue a few unaffected survivors from New York City, while hordes of people dying of radiation sickness go on a rampage of destruction and murder.
Omega Sub (Avon, 1991). (Michael Jahn.)
Omega Sub #1.
Not seen. Following a nuclear war, a submarine crew maintains their ship and have various adventures around the world.
Raven Rising (Avon, 1992.)
Omega Sub #6.
The President has survived a nuclear war, but he has gone insane. Now from a secret base, he plans to conquer the entire world under his control, a policy which does not set well with the crew of one of the few surviving submarines.
CAMERON, KENNETH M. (See also George Bartram.)
Power Play (Popular Library, 1979.)
Various disturbing trends in the US draw to a climax as a massive power failure throws the country into darkness, and long pent up anger and fear erupts in nation wide rioting and the beginning of a revolution against the power structure.
CAMERON, LOU (See also Dagmar. Also writes as Julie Cameron.)
Cybernia (Gold Medal, 1972.)
An artificially managed community directed by a computer is the scene of several mysterious deaths, which are eventually linked to the computer itself.
CAMPBELL, D.
Last Millionaire, The (Cranton, 1923.)
A philanthropist transforms the world.
CAMPBELL, H.J. (See also Roy Sheldon.)
Another Space, Another Time (Panther, 1953.)
Not seen. Alien shapechangers from a parallel universe menace Earth.
Beyond the Visible (Hamilton, 1952.)
Invisible creatures living among us.
Brain Ultimate (Panther, 1953.)
A scientist kidnaps people and uses their disembodied, dreaming brains to build a power base against a repressive government.
Chaos in Miniature (Hamilton, 1952.)
Satire about human artifacts mysteriously disappearing.
Last Mutation, The (Hamilton, 1951.)
Not seen. Mutants plot to overthrow their human masters.
Mice - Or Machines (Hamilton, 1952.)
Not seen. A matter transmitter and duplicator destabilizes a dictatorship.
Moon Is Heaven, The (Hamilton, 1951.)
Not seen. The first trip to the moon.
Once Upon a Space (Panther, 1954.)
Not seen. Revolution against a repressive dictatorship.
Red Planet, The (Panther, 1953.)
Not seen. A scientist struggles to survive on a poisonous world.
Tomorrow's Universe (Panther, 1953.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
World in a Test Tube (Hamilton, 1951.)
Mutants nearly destroy the world by moving it from its normal orbit.
CAMPBELL, HOPE (See G. MacDonald Wallis.)
Courageous (Ace, 2008.)
Lost Fleet #3.
A battle fleet maneuvers to buy time in their struggle with a repressive government.
Dauntless (Ace, 2006.)
Lost Fleet #1.
A man comes out of retirement to direct an interstellar war.
Fearless (Ace, 2007.)
Lost Fleet #2.
A space fleet goes on the offensive in order to avoid being trapped and destroyed.
Valiant (Ace, 2008.)
Lost Fleet #4.
More battles in interstellar space.
CAMPBELL, JEFF
Terminator 2 (Chronicle, 1998, based on the screenplay by James Cameron and William Wisher.)
Young reader’s book based on the movie. Time traveling humans and robots battle it out in the 20th Century in a bid to control the future.
CAMPBELL, JOHN W.
Best of John W. Campbell (Del Rey, 1976, Doubleday, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Black Star Passes, The (Fantasy Press, 1953, Ace, 1965.)
Arcot, Morey & Wade #1.
Three early space adventures about three heroes who are instrumental in keeping Earth free of alien domination.
Cloak of Aesir, The (Shasta, 1952, Lancer, 1972.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Incredible Planet, The (Fantasy Press, 1949.)
Machine #2.
Three related short stories.
Invaders from the Infinite (Gnome, 1961, Ace, 1966. Magazine version, 1932.)
Arcot, Morey & Wade #3.
Men from Earth help an alien race resist an invasion by an implacable enemy.
Islands of Space (Fantasy Press, 1956, Ace, 1966. Magazine version 1930.)
Arcot, Morey & Wade #2.
A human team uses their supercomputer to build a ship capable of travelling to the stars and have various adventures thereon.
John W. Campbell Anthology, A (?, 1973).
Omnibus of the Arcot, Morey, & Wade series.
Mightiest Machine, The (Hadley, 1947, Ace, 1965. Magazine version, 1935.)
Machine #1.
The first human to travel from one star system to another has various adventures among alien empires that use entire worlds as weapons of war.
Moon Is Hell, The (Magazine version, 1951. Fantasy Press, 1960, Ace, 1973, New English Library, 1975, Carroll & Graf, 1990)
Realistic, gripping novel about the first colony on the Moon and its struggle to survive a series of disasters. Bound with a short fantasy novel, "The Elder Gods".
New Dawn, A (NESFA, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Planeteers, The (Ace, 1966, bound with The Ultimate Weapon by the same author.)
Five related space adventures of Penton & Blake, originally published in the 1930's.
Space Beyond, The (Pyramid, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Thing and Other Stories, The (See Who Goes There?)
Thing from Outer Space, The (See Who Goes There?)
Ultimate Weapon, The (Ace, 1966, bound with The Planeteers by the same author. Magazine publication in 1936 as Uncertainty. Ace later published it singly.)
An alien race is invading the solar system with spaceships of enormous size, determined to wrest control of Earth from humans. All seems lost until one man stumbles across a weapon that may turn the tide of battle.
Who Goes There? (Shasta, 1948, Kemsley, 1948, Cherry Tree, 1952, as The Thing and Other Stories, Tandem, 1966, as The Thing from Outer Space)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Who Goes There? and Other Stories (Dell, 1955.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
CAMPBELL, MARILYN
Pyramid of Dreams (Leisure, 1994.)
A man is romantically drawn to a woman who is an outcast in a future society which is rigidly controlled by the government.
Stardust Dreams (Topaz, 1993.)
A space pirate kidnaps a beautiful crime witness and the two of them fall in love.
Stolen Dreams (Topaz, 1994.)
Time travelers from the future come back to save Earth from a sinister plot, overcome their initial dislike of one another, and fall in love.
Topaz Dreams. (Leisure, 1992, Pinnacle, 1997.)
A woman teams up with an empath to track down a missing scientist and a legendary ring that controls the future of an entire planet.
Worlds Apart (Topaz, 1994.)
One hundred people are kidnapped to the stars to a planet ruled by a matriarchy where both sides learn something about the nature of love.
CAMRA, ROY
Assault. (See Space Sex.)
Sex Machine. (See Space Sex.)
Space Sex (Heart, 1964. pic, 1962, as Assault. Ram, 1963, as Sex Machine.)
Pornography in space.
CANE, NANCY (Pseudonym of Nancy Cohen.)
Circle of Light (Leisure, 1994.)
An attorney in the near future finds true love at last.
Keeper of the Rings (Lovespell, 1996.)
A woman travels to a remote world in search of a fabled artifact, hiring one of the locals as her guide and bodyguard. Their relationship quickly becomes a romantic one.
Moonlight Rhapsody (Leisure, 1994.)
A heroic young man falls prey to interstellar slavers and finds himself owned by a beautiful woman whom he teaches the true value of love.
Starlight Child (Leisure, 1995.)
Extrasensory powers and true love among the stars.
CANNING, VICTOR (Also writes Fantasy.)
Doomsday Carrier, The (Morrow, 1977, Ace, 1978, Heinemann, ?, Ulversoft, 1992.)
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Lovecraft Chronicles, The (Mythos, 2005.)
Alternate history of Lovecraft's life.
CANTER, MARK
Down to Heaven (Hodder, 1997, New English Library, 1997.)
Scientists crashland in the Venezuelan jungle and stumble onto an entirely new ecology and the remains of a Chinese colony from the far past.
Ember from the Sun (Hodder, 1995.)
Strange story about the discovery of a frozen Neanderthal embryo which is used to bring the ancient race back to life, after a fashion.
CAPEK, KAREL (Also writes Fantasy.)
Absolute at Large, The (MacMillan, 1927, Allen & Unwin, 1944, Hyperion, 1974, Garland, 1975, Bison, 2005.)
A scientist discovers a device which absolutely destroys matter, leaving behind the essence of a non-specific god. This essence causes an increasing number of miraculous events to take place.
Krakatit: An Atomic Fantasy (MacMillan, 1925, Ayer, 1940, Arno, ?Allen & Unwin, 1948, Weiss, 1959.).
Not seen. A new explosive destroys the world.
Makropoulos Secret, The (Luce, 1925.)
Not seen. A woman discovers the secret of immortality.
Meteor (Allen & Unwin, 1935.)
Not seen.
R.U.R. (Oxford University Press, 1923, Doubleday, 1923, Washington Square Press, 1969, translated from the Czech by P. Selver.)
A play about a future in which humans build artificial servants to make their lives easier, and are then faced with a revolution by their creations. Originated the term "robot". Filmed in Italy.
R.U.R. and The Insect Play (Oxford, 1961.)
Omnibus of the two plays.
Tales from Two Pockets (Faber, 1932, MacMillan, 1943, Catbird, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories, not all of which are SF.
Three Novels (Catbird Press, 1990.)
Omnibus of Meteor, Hordubal, and An Ordinary Life. Only the first is SF.
Toward the Radical Center (Catbird Press, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories, not all of which are SF.
War with the Newts (Unwin, 1937, Putnam, 1937, Bantam, 1955, Berkley, 1967, Gregg, 1975, Berkley, 1976, Northwestern University, 1985, translated from the Czech by M. & R. Weatherall. Catbird Press, 1990, translated from the Czech by Ewald Osers. Czech edition, 1936.)
Metaphorical novel about the discovery of a seagoing race of intelligent creatures that become servants of humankind until they realize their own power and conduct war against the land dwellers.
CAPOBIANCO, MICHAEL (see collaborations with William Barton.)
Burster (Bantam, 1990.)
A starship whose purpose is to find suitable colony worlds among the stars loses contact with Earth after a mysterious burst of interference. They subsequently discover that they may be the last surviving members of the species.
CAPON, PAUL
Down to Earth (Heinemann, 1954, Digit, 1964.)
Antigeos #3.
The opening of communication between Earth and another planet sets off a series of conflicting activities on Earth, corporations hoping to exploit the situation, others fearing that discovery will upset a stable way of life.
Flight of Time (Heinemann, 1960.)
Not seen.
Into the Tenth Millennium5. (Heinemann, 1956, Digit, 1965, Brown Watson, 1965.)
Two people make use of a novel form of time travel to explore the future and find themselves increasingly unable to understand the people they encounter who have evolved a perfect society.
Lost: A Moon (See Phobos, the Robot Planet.)
Other Half of the Planet, The (Heinemann, 1952.)
Antigeos #2.
Not seen.
Other Side of the Sun, The (Heinemann, 1950.)
Antigeos #1.
A newly discovered planet on the other side of the sun has developed a Utopian society.
Phobos, the Robot Planet (Digit, 1964. William Heinemann, 1955, Bobbs Merrill, 1956, as Lost: A Moon.)
A group of humans are kidnapped by a robot to Phobos, the Martian moon, which they discover is inhabited by the machines created by an alien race.
Wonderbolt, The (Ward Lock, 1955.)
Not seen. Spies battle for control of a mysterious meteorite
World at Bay, The (William Heinemann, 1953, Winston, 1954, Digit, 1964.)
Aliens plan to replace their dying world with Earth, but their invasion is thwarted by a handful of humans who sabotage their early efforts.