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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.
Relentless (Ace, 2009.)
Lost Fleet #5.
After performing a rescue mission, a fleet has to evade a pursuing force.
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.
CAPPS, CARROLL (See also C.C. MacApp.)
Secret of the Sunless World, Dell, 1969.)
An Earthman is enlisted by an alien race to visit a pirate planet and find a kidnapped scientist, but while he's there, he encounters relics of an ancient alien civilization's superscience.
CARAKER, MARY (Also writes Fantasy.)
Faces of Ceti, The (Houghton Mifflin, 1991.)
Colonists on a new world confront a unique problem. The only lifeforms on the planet that are edible for humans are apparently sentient creatures.
I Remember, I Remember (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Short story in pamphlet form about a young woman who finds herself on a starship with no memory of how she got there.
Seven Worlds (Signet, 1986.)
Space #1.
Although labeled a novel, this is a collection of adventures of a space travelling spy on alien planets.
Snows of Jaspre, The (Houghton Mifflin, 1989.)
Space #2.
Adventures on a snow covered world where a religious cult vies with offworld scientists for control of the world's destiny.
Water Song (Questar, 1987.)
An intelligent alien species that spends most of its life in the water is thrown into turmoil when a change in their star alters the climate.
CARAS, ROGER (See Roger Sarac.)
CARBURY, A.B.
Girl with the Glorious Genes, The (Bantam, 1968.)
Spoof of the spy thriller genre of marginal interest because it involves a woman whose genetic structure has mutated.
CARD, ORSON SCOTT (See also collaborations which follow. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Abyss, The (Pocket, 1989, Legend, 1989, from the screenplay by James Cameron.)
Novelization of the film. An undersea research station investigates a series of mysterious events and stumbles across an alien civilization lying concealed on the floor of the ocean.
Call of Earth, The (Tor, 1993, Legend, 1993, Orbit, 2000.)
Homecoming #2.
Human civilization has been stable for generations thanks to computerized management, but now an upstart general has precipitated a power struggle that might change things forever. Part of a multi-generation saga with strong religious overtones.
Capitol (Ace, 1979, Baronet, 1979.)
Worthing series.
A collection of stories all set on the same world, related to the Worthing series.
Cardography (Hypatia Press, 1987.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Changed Man, The (Tor, 1992.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Children of the Mind (Tor, 1996, Orbit, 1999.)
Ender #4.
Ender and his artificial intelligence companion try to save the population of their adopted world when the rest of the galaxy becomes fearful of her powers and tries to destroy what they've built.
Cruel Miracles (Tor, 1992.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Earthborn (Tor, 1995, Orbit, 2000.)
Homecoming #5.
A sentient computer has brought a group of colonists back to ancient Earth where they and their descendants hope to make a new life. But its greater mission, finding another and greater artificial intelligence, seems fated to fail.
Earthfall (Tor, 1995, Orbit, 2000.)
Homecoming #4.
The tribe of humans chosen by an artificial intelligence to travel to Earth is torn by internal factions even as the mission is about to commence.
Empire (Tor, 2006.)
Empire #1.
Political divisions in the US erupt into open warfare between two minorities, while the majority seeks a way to stop the violence.
Ender in Exile (Tor, 2008.)
Ender #9.
The savior of Earth goes into exile.
Ender's Game (Tor, 1985, Unwin, 1985. Tor, 1991, Starscape, 2002, revised.)
Ender #1.
Earth is reeling from the effects of a series of attacks by an alien race. In order to stay prepared for the next assault, selected children are enrolled in a training program that is made more enticing by being structured as a series of games. Ultimately one game causes the complete eradication of the enemy's species.
Ender's Shadow (Tor, 1999, Millennium, 2000, Starscape, 2002.)
Ender #5.
This novel actually runs parallel to the first in the series. It tells the story of Ender's young friend Bean, his unhappy childhood in Rotterdam, his eventual recruitment into the organization of children who will ultimately form the primary defense of Earth against invaders from the stars.
Ender's War (Doubleday, 1986.)
Omnibus of Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.
Eye for Eye (Tor, 1990, bound with The Tunesmith by Lloyd Biggle.)
Novelet from 1987 about a man who involuntarily kills people through psi when he becomes angry.
First Meetings in the Enderverse (Tor, 2003, Starscape, 2004.)
Collection of related stories.
Flux (Tor, 1995.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Folk of the Fringe, The (Tor, 1989, Phantasia Press, 1989, Legend, 1990, Orb, 2001.)
A limited nuclear war and other disasters destroys most of the present civilization. In the southwestern part of New America, a new nation rises, based on individualism and self reliance.
Hidden Empire (Tor, 2009.)
Empire #2.
The new President is quietly installing a dictatorship.
Homecoming: Earth (Guild America, 1995.)
Omnibus of the last two Homecoming novels.
Homecoming: Harmony (Guild America, 1994.)
Omnibus of the first three Homecoming novels.
Hot Sleep: The Worthing Chronicle (Ace, 1979, Baronet, 1979, Futura, 1980.)
Worthing series.
A telepath becomes the leader of an interstellar expedition to find a colony world after his unpopularity as a member of the government of Earth forces him to flee his home world.
Keeper of Dreams (Tor, 2010.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Maps in a Mirror (Tor, 1990, Easton, 1990, Legend, 1991, Orb, 2004.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Memory of Earth, The (Tor, 1992, Legend, 1992, Orbit, 2000.)
Homecoming #1.
The planet Harmony is ruled by an orbiting computer that protects humankind from war and other ills. But when its internal programming begins to fail, the computer must choose from among its charges a group who can arrange to transport it back to Earth for refurbishing.
Monkey Sonatas (Tor, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Pastwatch (Tor, 1996.)
A device that allows researches to study the past without influencing it has a flaw that allows a woman to make subtle changes in the life of Christopher Columbus. And the results are an entirely different world history.
Planet Called Treason, A (St Martins, 1979, Dell, 1980, Pan, 1981. St Martins, 1988 revised. Orb, 2006, expanded as Treason.)
Treason is a prison planet whose climate forces the involuntary colonists to mutate in bizarre, unpredictable ways. To escape they try to build a spaceship, but that's difficult on a planet that has almost no metal.
Shadow of the Giant (Tor, 2005.)
Ender #8.
Associates of Ender must travel to the stars to escape their enemies on Earth.
Shadow of the Hegemon (Tor, 2001, Orbit, 2001.
Ender #6.
After the alien menace was defeated, the population of Earth lost its sense of unity. One of Ender’s friends returns to Earth and becomes the mastermind who helps reshape civilization into a new whole under the leadership of a single man.
Shadow Puppets (Orbit, 2002, Tor, 2002.)
Ender #7.
An ambitious man tries to take advantage of the power vacuum following the war against the aliens to reshape the world.
Ships of Earth, The (Tor, 1994, Legend, 1994, Orbit, 2000.)
Homecoming #3.
War has broken out on the planet guarded by the Oversoul, an artificial intelligence, just when it needs human help to preserve its mission. A handful of chosen ones set out on a dangerous journey to an abandoned starport.
Songmaster (Dial, 1980, Dell, 1981, Futura, 1981, Tor, 1987, Gollancz, 2002.)
The protagonist is a young boy trained to have a perfect singing voice. He is the prized companion of a repressive dictator whose many enemies are willing to strike through innocent bystanders. But his songs have a power of their own, because they sense and amplify human emotions.
Speaker for the Dead (Tor, 1986, Arrow, 1987. Revised Tor edition in 1991.)
Ender #2.
After defeating the aliens who were thought ot menace the Earth, Ender Wiggins disappeared, only to reappear when a new alien species poses a fresh threat. But this time the emphasis is on the manner in which the two races interact with one another, and Ender's role in resolving the inevitable conflicts.
Treason (See A Planet Called Treason.)
Unaccompanied Sonata (Dial Press, 1981.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Unaccompanied Sonata (Pulphouse, 1992.)
Reprint of the 1979 short story in pamphlet form about a musician in a repressive society who is outlawed when he hears Bach.
War of Gifts, A (Tor, 2007.)
Ender #9.
Conflict at a training school for interplanetary soldiers.
Worthing Chronicle, The (Ace, 1983.)
Worthing series.
Novel patched together from stories in other collections.
Worthing Saga, The (Tor, 1990, Legend, 1991.)
Worthing series.
Collection of related stories about a family of immortals.
Wyrms (Arbor House, 1987, Legend, 1988, Tor, 1988.)
A planet whose government has been seized by an usurper has a legend that miraculous events will occur during a particular reign. The rightful ruler is a woman who must decide whether or not an open rebellion is in the best interests of her people.
Xenocide (Legend, 1991, Tor, 1991.)
Ender #3.
Humans and aliens are living in harmony on a remote world until the virus that allows the latter to survive is deadly to humans. A massive human warfleet is on the way to sterilize the entire planet, but it disappears enroute.
CARD, ORSON SCOTT & JOHNSTON, AARON
Invasive Procedures (Tor, 2007.)
A brilliant geneticist decides to breed a master race.
CARD, ORSON SCOTT & KIDD, KATHRYN H.
Lovelock (Tor, 1994.)
Mayflower #1.
An uplifted monkey has been programmed and surgically altered to act as a living recording device accompanying a famous scientist on her trip to the stars. But along the way, Lovelock starts to have ambitions about his own life.
CAREY, DIANE (See also collaboration which follows.)
Ancient Blood (Pocket, 1997.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel.
Worf and his son face twin challenges when Worf goes undercover on his home world to discover the leaders of a crime syndicate.
Battlestation! (Pocket, 1986.)
A Star Trek novel.
Captain Kirk is arrested in connection with the disappearance of an experimental star drive, and Spock and friends must prove his innocence by finding the guilty parties.
Best Destiny (Pocket, 1993.)
A Star Trek novel.
Captain Kirk is featured both as he prepares to retire from Starfleet, and as a young man yet to decide the course of his future in this paired adventure story involving a mysterious planet and its deadly trap.
Broken Bow (Pocket, 2001, based on the screenplay by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga.)
A Star Trek Enterprise novel.
Novelization of the season opener for the fifth incarnation of Star Trek. The first starship from Earth sets out to the stars, and promptly runs into the hostile Klingons.
Cadet Kirk (Minstrel, 1997.)
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy #3.
A young Kirk foils space pirates preying on a prominent scientist.
Call to Arms (Pocket, 1998.)
A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel.
The story of the war with the Dominion, based on seven episodes of the television series.
Cauldron (Dark Horse, 2007.)
An Aliens novel.
A group of cadets unwillingly unleash a nest of aliens.
Chainmail (Pocket, 2001.)
A Star Trek novel.
A Federation starship must deal with a horde of aliens who erupt from a gateway in space claiming to be masters of an ancient technology.
Challenger (Pocket, 2000.)
A Star Trek New Earth novel.
Kirk and his crew are about to transfer protection of a new colony to a replacement ship when it is destroyed. He is forced to remain on post and protect the colony from a spaceborn alien intruder.
Descent (Pocket, 1993, based on the screenplay by Jeri Taylor & Ronald D. Moore, and a second screenplay by Rene Echevarria.
A Star Trek: The Next Generation novel.
Because of Picard's generous gesture to a captured Borg in the past, they have become self aware as individuals and deadlier than ever, determined to destroy the Federation. Data feels his first human emotions when he realizes the leader of the Borg is his own "brother".
DNA War (Dark Horse, 2006.)
An Aliens novel.
A scientist is convinced that she can negotiate with a colony of aliens.
Dreadnought! (Pocket, 1986.)
A Star Trek novel.
A super battleship is stolen by apparent terrorists who demand a rendezvous with the Enterprise and its crew. But everything is not as it seems, and the theft might be the only way to save the Federation.
Endgame (Pocket, 2001, based on the screenplay by Kenneth Biller, Robert Doherty, Rick Berman, and Brannon Braga.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
After yet another series of adventures, the crew finally find their way home and return to the Federation.
Final Frontier (Pocket, 1988.)
A Star Trek novel.
Kirk and company travel back through time to the early days of the Federation, before Starfleet even existed, and Kirk confronts one of his own ancestors.
Fire Ship (Pocket, 1998.)
A Star Trek: Next Voyager novel.
Captain Janeway is taken aboard an alien ship where she finds herself in the middle of an interstellar war, until she gains enough influence to bring it to an end.
First Frontier (Pocket, 1995.)
A Star Trek novel.
The Enterprise crosses into an alternate timeline where the Klingons and Romulans are at war, but where the Federation doesn't exist because the human race never evolved. Earth, in fact, is still inhabited by dinosaurs.
First Strike (Pocket, 1996.)
A Star Trek novel.
An alien invasion fleet is poised to conquer the Klingon, Romulan, and Confederation worlds, which were a part of their sphere of influence before the rise of the current civilizations.
Flashback (Pocket, 1996, based on the screenplay by Brannon Braga.)
A Star Trek: Voyager novel.
An early adventure of Tuvok and Captain Janeway aboard another ship, one captained by Sulu from the original series. .
Ghost Ship (Pocket, 1988.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation novel.
A mysterious alien creature that absorbs the souls of people it kills is in the vicinity of the Enterprise, sensed by Deanna Troi. The crew must find a way to communicate with the creature or lose their own souls.
Great Starship Race, The (Pocket, 1993.)
A Star Trek novel.
The Enterprise is taking part in what is supposed to be a friendly sporting event, but a Romulan warship shows up and makes things much more serious.
Red Sector (Pocket, 1999.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel.
The ruling clan of Romulus has contracted an interstellar plague, and Spock and McCoy must come out of retirement to save the day and prevent the incident from destabilizing the galaxy.
Sacrifice of Angels (Pocket, ?, based on the screenplay by ?)
A Star Trek Deep Space Nine novel.
Novel based on seven episodes of the television sequence about the war with the Dominion.
Search, The (Pocket, 1994, based on the screenplay by Ira Steven Behr, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and Ronald D. Moore.)
A Deep Space Nine novel.
Sisko takes an experimental starship through the wormhole to confront the Dominion, a powerful and aggressive race from another part of the universe that is threatening an interstellar war.
Ship of the Line (Pocket, 1997.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel.
After the destruction of his ship, Picard is on a diplomatic mission when he learns that its replacement has been stolen by a Klingon warlord intent upon launching an attack against Cardassia.
Starfleet Academy (Pocket, 1997, based on the game written in collaboration with Sandy Fries and Dan Greenberg.)
A Star Trek novel.
A young cadet teams up with the original crew of the Enterprise to unmask a plot to destroy Starfleet Academy's reputation. Based on a computer game.
Station Rage (Pocket, 1995.)
A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel.
A group of Cardassian soldiers wakens from suspended animation and, unwilling to accept their defeat, attempts to seize control of the station.
Trials and Tribble-Ations (Pocket, 1996, from the screenplays by Ronald D. Moore, Rene Echevarria, Steven Behr, Hans Beimler, and Robert Hewitt Wolfe.)
A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel.
Sisko and friends go back through time to the infestation of the Enterprise by tribbles, in order to prevent Kirk's assassination by a Klingon disguised as a human.
Wagon Train to the Stars (Pocket, 2000.)
A Star Trek New Earth novel.
Kirk and his crew are given a new assignment, escorting a large contingent of colonists to a new planet and making sure that their settlement is viable and safe from alien threat.
Way of the Warrior, The (Pocket, 1995, based on the screenplay by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe.)
A Deep Space Nine novel.
Novelization of a season opener. The shapeshifting soldiers of the Dominion have used the wormhole to attack Federation space, and the Klingon Empire is about to secede and launch a war as well.
What You Leave Behind (Pocket, 1999, based on the screenplay by Ira Stephen Behr and Hans Beimler.)
A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel.
Novelization of the final episode of the television series.
Belle Terre (Pocket, 2000.)
A Star Trek New Earth novel.
A new human colony world seems to be thriving, but then Spock discovers that one of the planet's moons is unstable and is about to self destruct, taking with it all life on the planet below.
CAREY, JACQUELINE (Also writes Fantasy.)
Santa Olivia (Grand Central, 2009.)
A genetically enhanced man makes a difference in a mildly repressive future.
CARLILE, CLANCY
Spore 7 (Morrow, 1979, Avon, 1980.)
A new plague has begun to spread through a remote town, undetectible, altering the personalities of those it infects. Is it a disease, an alien invasion, or a supernatural curse? The protagonist races to find a cure before the government uses nuclear weapons to destroy the entire area.
CARLSON, DALE (Also writes Horror.)
Mystery of the Galaxy Games (Golden Press, 1984.)
A James Budd mystery.
Not seen.
Mystery of the Hidden Trap, The (Price Stern Sloan, 1983.)
A Jenny Dean mystery.
Not seen.
Mystery of the Shining Children, The (Price Stern Sloan, 1983.)
A Jenny Dean mystery.
Not seen.
Plant People, The (Franklin Watts, 1977, Dell, 1979.)
Very short tale about a town that is being mysteriously transformed into hybrids between humans and plants. Not very plausible. Meant for younger readers.
Secret of the Third Eye, The (Price Stern Sloan, 1983.)
A Jenny Dean mystery.
Not seen.
Space Plaque Mystery, The (Golden Press, 1986.)
A James Budd mystery.
Not seen.
CARLSON, JEFF
Plague War (Ace, 2008.)
Plague #2.
Politics interferes with efforts to distribute a vaccine against a nanotech plague.
Plague Year (Ace, 2007.)
Plague #1.
A nanotech device intended to cure cancer becomes a plague itself.
Plague Zone (Ace, 2009)
Plague #3.
A future ravished world is engulfed by war and nanotechnology.
CARLSON, WILLIAM K.
Elysium (Doubleday, 1982.)
A botanist serving what he thinks is the goddess of his world is sent on a mission to the wilderness. There he experiences his first taste of freedom and begins to realize the tight grip held over his people.
Sunrise West (Doubleday, 1981.)
The story of the struggles of a band of people in the far future following of the collapse of modern civilization. They must ensure an adequate food supply and protect their property from roving gangs of thieves and barbarians.
CARLTON, ROGER (Pseudonym of Donald Rowland, whom see.)
Beyond Tomorrow (Hale, 1975.)
Not seen.
Star Arrow (Hale, 1975.)
Not seen.
CARMAN, PATRICK (Also writes Fantasy.)
Dark Planet, The (Little, Brown, 2009.)
Atherton #3.
An artificial world is saved from destruction.
House of Power, The (Little, Brown, 2007.)
Atherton #1.
An artificial world consisting of three tiers begins to collapse.
Rivers of Fire (Little, Brown, 2008.)
Atherton #2.
Different cultures begin to fight when their artificial world begins to collapse.
Worldwarp (?)
A young boy with the power to change reality through mental exertion attracts the attention of scientists.
CARMODY, ISOBELLE (Also writes Fantasy.)
Ashling (Tor, 2001, Starscape, 2003.)
Obernewtyn #3.
A woman goes on a perilous journey as part of her effort to reconcile the differences between the government of her post apocalyptic society and an organized corps of rebels.
Farseekers, The (Tor, 2000.)
Obernewtyn #2.
A variety of psychic powers helps a group of rebels hold onto their liberty in the face of aggression by the totalitarian government that arose following a worldwide disaster.
Obernewtyn (Penguin, 1987, Tor, 1999, Starscape, 2003.)
Obernewtyn #1.
In a world still struggling to recover from a holocaust, a woman with proscribed mental powers is sent to a remote region meant to be her prison. There she makes enemies as well as friends, and eventually discovers that her powers are critical to the survival of her people.
CARNELLE, INGE
Girl from B.U.S.T., The (Bee-Line, 1966.)
Jane Blonde #1.
Not seen.
Joy Ride (Bee-Line, 1967.)
Jane Blonde #2.
Not seen.
CARO, DENNIS
Devine War (Arbor House, 1986.)
A woman on a colony world investigates the death of her husband, with the sometimes assistance of an artificial intelligence.
Man in the Darksuit, The (Pocket, 1980.)
A blend of mystery, SF, and humor. A reporter and some times detective gets involved with sexy aliens, an invisibility device, and other oddballs after he rescues a rich woman.
CARPENTER, ELMER J.
Moonspin (Flagship, 1967.)
Candidate for the worst SF novel of all time. A group of Americans discover that the Russians are colonizing the moon using Abominable Snowmen, since the creatures are used to living in rarified atmospheres. Right. And they're plotting to change the rotation of the moon to give themselves control of Earth. More absurdities thanI could possibly list here.
CARPENTIER, CHARLES
Flight One (Simon & Schuster, 1972, Methuen, 1973, Spehre, 1975.)
Very marginal piece about tensions aboard an experimental passenger aircraft's maiden flight.
CARPOZI, GEORGE JR.
Sunstrike (Pinnacle, 1978.)
A remarkably scientifically inept novel about a scientist who creates an artificial eclipse of the sun, causing the beginning of a new Ice Age, in order to become ruler of the entire world.
Killing Time (Random House, 2000.)
In the middle of the next century, a psychologist receives evidence that the assassination of the President in 2018 did not happen the way it is believed to have, and that someone is using technology to manipulate the truth. He falls into the clutches of a group of conspirators who believe the governments of the world are using the Internet to delude people.
CARR, CHARLES
Colonists of Space (Ward Lock, 1954, Digit, 1962.)
Bel #1.
Routine story of a ship searching for worlds suitable for human colonization and their conflict with an alien species when they finally find one.
Salamander War (Ward Lock, 1955, Digit, 1962.)
Bel #2.
Not seen. More conflict between humans and aliens on the planet Bel.
CARR, JAYGE
Leviathan's Deep (Playboy, 1980, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980.)
A human military officer is infatuated with a prominent official of a primitive female world, but she is determined to expel humans entirely, because she feels they are destroying her race's culture.
Navigator's Sindrome (Doubleday, 1983.)
Navigator #1.
A star navigator whose job should protect her from the idiosyncrasies of planetary rulers finds herself trapped on an evil world whose ruler uses a web of complex and repressive laws to inflict his will on others.
Rabelaisian Reprise (Doubleday, 1988.)
Navigator #3.
The recurring protagonists return to the anarchic planet Rabelais for the final confrontation with a local ruler who has tried to enslave or kill them in their previous adventures.
Treasure in the Heart of the Maze, The (Doubleday, 1985.)
Navigator #2.
A starship's crew goes off on a search for a fabled treasure while the planetary ruler they thwarted in the first volume of the series sends a team of clone assassins after them.
CARR, JOHN F. (See also collaboration with Roland Green.)
Carnifax Mardi Gras (Pequod, 1982.)
A holotape producer in a decadent, hedonistic 21st Century America tries to recoup his lost reputation by finding a new gimmick, but the one he discovers amidst a secretive cult might cost him his life.
Kalvan Kingmaker (Pequod, 2000.)
Lord Kalvan #1.
A sequel to Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper. Although the theocracy has been defeated by the forces led by a police officer from another time stream, they are regrouping their armies in preparation for a new military campaign.
Ophidian Conspiracy, The (Major, 1976.)
A bellicose alien race has been defeated by humans, but years later internal bickering and a lack of purpose has split humanity into factions apparently unable to maintain their control of the Ophidians. Which is exactly what the latter are hoping for.
Pain Gain (Major, 1977.)
Mutated humans wage war on the rest of the human race, using orbiting fortresses to assist as they seize control of South America. With telepathy, robot guardians, and other devices.
CARR, KIRBY (Pseudonym of Kin Platt.)
Impossible Spy, The (Major, 1976.)
A government agent is sent to track down a man who can will machines to stop working, and whose very existence endangers the future of technological civilization.
They're Coming to Kill You, Jane (Canyon, 1975.)
A Hitman adventure.
A recurring detective series moves into SF with this story of a syndicate using a new drug that turns users into mindless creatures controlled by their pushers.
CARR, MIKE
Robbers and Robots (TSR, 1983.)
A multi-path gamebook in which the reader tries to outwit spies trying to steal secrets from a robot factory.
CARR, ROBERT SPENCER (Also writes Fantasy.)
Beyond Infinity (Fantasy Press, 1951, Dell, 1954.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
CARR, TERRY (See also Norman Edwards.)
Cirque (Bobbs Merrill, 1977, Crest, ?, Dobson, 1979)
Earth has become an economically depressed and mostly forgotten planet whose brightest star is a single city. But in the bowels of that city there exists a monstrous creature.
Light at the End of the Universe, The (Pyramid, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Warlord of Kor (Ace, 1963, bound with The Star Wasps by Robert Moore Williams.)
A small group of humans attempts to bring knowledge to the reptilian natives of a newly discovered world, but their arrival may be causing more problems than it solves, and the natives might be better off if they just destroyed the human invaders.
CARRADINE, FRANK
Cretaceous Paradox, The (Royal Fireworks, 1997.)
Complex nonsense for young adults about a virus that causes a newer, more virulent form of cancer, and the attempts to find a cure by travelling both backward and forward in time.
CARREL, MARK (Pseudonym of Lauran Paine, whom see.)
Another View (Hale, 1972.)
Not seen.
Bannister's Z-Matter (Hale, 1973.)
Not seen.
Crack in Time, A (Hale, 1971.)
Not seen.
Underground Men, The (Hale, 1975.)
Not seen.
Undine, The (Hale, 1972.)
Not seen.
No Power on Earth (Medalion, 1986.)
The Earth is dominated by a ruthless corporation. The protagonist is resigned to her fate until she is kidnapped by outlaws and discovers there is yet hope.
CARRIGAN, RICHARD AND NANCY
Siren Stars, The (Pyramid, 1971.)
Scientists searching for life on other worlds receive a coded message from the stars. Unfortunately, the message comes from a species so advanced that simply reading what they have sent may have fatal consequences for the world.
CARRINGTON, GRANT
Time's Fool (Doubleday, 1981.)
A talented musician chafes at the caustic reviews he receives from a critic. Caught up in his ensuing personal problems, he defers the operation that will make him immortal and ultimately discovers that art and mortality are linked.
CARROLL, GLADYS HASTY
Man on the Mountain (Little, Brown, 1969, Popular Library, ?)
Implausible near future satire about a world in which four generations have split into separate cultures with little intercourse among them until the two protagonists set out on a voyage of discovery.
CARROLL, TED
White Pills (Crown, 1964.)
A novel unfortunately still relevant thirty years later. Scientists discover a pill that will turn skin color white, and it becomes impossible to know for sure who is from what race based on casual observation. A group of racists tries to develop an accurate test, and discover to their horror that some of them no longer qualify as white.
CARSON, JOHN F.
Boys Who Vanished, The (Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1959.)
Two boys become the size of insects.
CARSON, MICHAEL
Experiment, The (Signet, 1984.)
One of many borderline medical thrillers. A major hospital is part of a plot to alter the way children are born.
CARSON, ROBIN
Pawn of Time (Holt, 1957.)
Not seen. A modern man is transported to 16th Century Venice.
CARTER, ANGELA (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Heroes and Villains (Heinemann, 1969, Simon & Schuster, 1970, Pocket, 1972, Penguin, 1994.)
A community of scientists surviving despite a nuclear war is plagued by the attacks of barbaric tribes surrounding them. A young woman from their town is kidnapped by a nomadic warrior, held prisoner by mutants, and becomes the bridge between two different cultures.
CARTER, BRUCE (Pseudonym of Richard A. Hough. Also writes Horror.)
Buzzbugs (J.M. Dent, 1977, Avon Camelot, 1979.)
Monster story for younger readers, as giant insects begin attacking livestock and then people in a remote English village.
Into a Strange New World (See Perilous Descent.)
Perilous Descent (Puffin, 1958. Bodley Head, 1952, Crowell, 1953, as Into a Strange New World. 1969 Puffin edition is revised.)
Two British aviators crashland while returning from a bombing mission and fall into a cavern that leads them deep into the Earth. There they discover a lost civilization and become embroiled in the battle between two primitive tribes despite their efforts to remain neutral.
CARTER, CARMEN (See also collaboration which follows.)
Children of Hamlin, The (Pocket, 1988.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation novel.
A mysterious alien race attacked a defenseless installation and kidnapped all of its children, and now they've shown up again. Picard takes the Enterprise to confront them, and demand the return of their prisoners.
Devil's Heart, The (Pocket, 1994.)
A Star Trek: The Next Generation novel.
Picard answers a distress call and discovers that a scientific group has found an ancient alien artifact that makes its owner nearly omnipotent, power so great it corrupts the mind of its owner. With the artifact, Picard can control minds, raise the dead, even change the course of time.
Dreams of the Raven (Pocket, 1987.)
A Star Trek novel.
While answering a distress call, the Enterprise is damaged by a mysterious alien warship and Dr. McCoy suffers almost total amnesia. Kirk must find a way to defuse the situation or destroy the enemy without the assistance of one of his most valuable aides.
CARTER, CARMEN & FRIEDMAN, MICHAEL JAN & GREENBERGER, ROBERT & DAVID, PETER
Doomsday World (Pocket, 1990.)
A Star Trek: The Next Generation novel.
An artificial world is a treasure trove of ancient alien artifacts, but the crew of the Enterprise is accused of helping a terrorist group just as an alien science wakens from a sleep of eons.
CARTER, CHRIS
Millenium: 2000 (HarperCollins, 1996.)
Millenium #1.
Not seen.
Millenium: TBC (HarperCollins, 1996.)
Millenium #3.
Not seen.
X Files, The (Harper, 1998, from the screenplay by ?)
Not seen.
CARTER, DEAN VINCENT
Hand of the Devil, The (Bodley Head, 2006.)
Mutated mosquitos become deadly.
CARTER, DEE (Pseudonym of Dennis Talbot Hughes, whom see.)
Blue Cordon (Curtis Warren, 1952.)
The discovery of a frozen corpse leads to a clash with immortals.
Chloroplasm (Curtis Warren, 1952.)
Not seen.
Purple Islands (Curtis Warren, 1953.)
Not seen.
CARTER, DIANA (Also writes Horror.)
Zozu the Robot (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974.)
?
CARTER, J.L.J.
Peggy the Aeronaut (Everett, 1910.)
An adventure involving rival air fleets.
CARTER, JOHN FRANKLIN (See Jay Franklin.)
CARTER, LIN (See also collaborations with L. Sprague de Camp and Robert Howard, and collaboration with Donald A. Wollheim as David Grinnell. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
As the Green Star Rises (DAW, 1975.)
Green Star #4.
This time the protagonist sets out to explore the boundaries of an enormous ocean, and runs into the usual cast of villains.
Barbarian of World's End, The (DAW, 1977.)
Gondwane #5.
We discover that not only is the protagonist of this series an android rather than a true human, but also that he is a superior creature destined to shape the final days of humanity.
Beyond the Gates of Dream (Belmont, 1969, Five Star, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Black Legion of Callisto (Dell, 1972, Futura, 1975.)
Callisto #2.
Jandar decides to pose as one of the enemy and infiltrate the ranks of the army that holds a Callistan city hostage. He attracts the favorable attention of an aristocrat, but never loses sight of his original mission.
By the Light of the Green Star (DAW, 1974.)
Green Star #3.
An Earthman wearing the body of an alien warrior finds himself hired as an assassin, while his friends are in danger of having their entire tribe destroyed or sold into slavery.
City Outside the World, The (Berkley, 1977.)
Mars #3.
A reclusive Earthman has various adventures on the dying planet Mars on his quest to find a lost city where the old Martian science might still be found.
Darya of the Bronze Age (DAW, 1981.)
Zanthodon #4.
An enemy of Eric Carstairs kidnaps the two cave people he loves the most, hoping to use them to apply leverage to the man from the surface world. The mix of characters from different periods of world history, all surviving in an underground kingdom, gives rise to some interesting combinations.
Down to a Sunless Sea (DAW, 1984.)
Mars #4.
An ex-convict on Mars runs afoul of the law again and is forced to flee into the unexplored Martian wastelands. There he discovers that ancient Martian science hasn't vanished entirely.
Enchantress of World's End, The (DAW, 1975.)
Gondwane #3.
An oversized warrior wanders through the twilight of the world, where cities migrate, dragons live again, and the moon is falling.
Eric of Zanthodon (DAW, 1982.)
Zanthodon #5.
Eric Carstairs helps the good cave people win a war against their various enemies in this concluding volume of a series set in an underground world.
Found Wanting (DAW, 1985.)
One of this author's more ambitious works, a far future super city in which the protagonist struggles to regain his own sense of identity after a mysterious bout of amnesia.
Giant of World's End (Belmont, 1969.)
Gondwane #1.
A wizard and a warrior team up in the last days of the planet Earth as the moon threatens to fall from the sky, the human race has slid back into barbarism, magic works, and an unwary traveler might well end up in the arena.
Hurok of the Stone Age (DAW, 1981.)
Zanthodon #3.
Eric Carstairs is held captive so his caveman friend Hurok organizes a rescue party. Some of the inhabitants of the subterranean world have domesticated dinosaurs and use them as mounts on which to ride to battle.
Immortal of World's End, The (DAW, 1976.)
Gondwane #4.
The last human hero, more or less since he's genetically engineered, attempts to thwart a horde of barbarians and a group of evil scientists in search of the secret of immortality.
In the Green Star's Glow (DAW, 1976.)
Green Star #5.
In the concluding volume, Karn - an Earthman in an alien body -- rallies the flagging forces of his adopted land and repels the many foes who assail them for the final time.
Jandar of Callisto (Dell, 1972, Futura, 1974.)
Callisto #1.
An adventurer from Earth is stranded on the moon Callisto, a jungle world filled with various inhuman creatures and beautiful women in this Burroughsian pastiche. Jandar is enslaved, captured by pirates, and falls in love, all without working up a sweat.
Journey to the Underground World (DAW, 1979.)
Zanthodon #1.
A thinly disguised imitation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar books. An adventurer and a scientist investigate rumors of a lost civilization and find the entrance to an underground world filled with cavemen, dinosaurs, and other dangers.
Lankar of Callisto (Dell, 1975.)
Callisto #6.
Carter puts himself in this adventure, transported from Earth to the jungle moon where he battles a variety of villains and monsters on his quest to save his hero, Jandar, from a fate worse than death.
Mad Empress of Callisto (Dell, 1975.)
Callisto #4.
After rescuing the woman he loves, Jandar sets off for home, only to be captured by yet another barbaric ruler. And this time there are intelligent insects and a man with almost magical mental powers to make escape even less likely.
Man Who Loved Mars, The (Gold Medal, 1973, White Lion, 1973.)
Mars #1.
An expedition uncovers an ancient Martian city, but it also stumbles across surviving technological devices that still function well enough to put them all in deadly peril.
Man Without a Planet, The (Ace, 1966, bound with Time to Live by John Rackham.)
Imperium #1.
A military hero retires from service, disenchanted with the galactic empire he serves because the woman he loves has been deprived of her throne. Dogging his footsteps is a malevolent spy who believes him to be a traitor, even before the protagonist actually becomes one.
Mind Wizards of Callisto (Dell, 1975.)
Callisto #5.
Jandar attempts to lead an attack against a remote city filled with villains cultivating coercive mental powers, but once again his plans go awry and he is left wandering the surface while monstrous reptilian creatures try to have him for lunch.
Outworlder (Lancer, 1971.)
Imperium #3.
An official from the galactic empire is stuck on a primitive world where magic appears to work, and where swords are more effective weapons than modern guns.
Pirate of World's End, The (DAW, 1978.)
Gondwane #6.
War, piracy, and the imminent end of the world are the backdrop for the story of a genetically engineered superman and his quest to discover his purpose.
Purloined Planet, The (Belmont, 1969, bound with The Evil That Men Do by John Brunner.)
Quicksilver #1.
An adventurer travels to a planet where crime is supposed to be non-existent, just in time to discover the entire world has been stolen.
Renegade of Callisto (Dell, 1978.)
Callisto #8.
One of the more personable insectmen of Callisto, Koja sets off with a young human to explore the jungle world. But the twosome, predictably enough, get into trouble almost from the outset, are enslaved, fight battles, and ultimately defeat the villains.
Sky Pirates of Callisto (Dell, 1973, Futura, 1975.)
Callisto #3.
The woman Jandar loves has been kidnapped by the sky pirates of Callisto so he sets out to rescue her, but ends up being enslaved again, and later sent to the gladiatorial games to fight to the death.
Star Magicians (Ace, 1966. bound with The Off-Worlders by John Baxter.)
One heroic planet stands against the barbarians when the old galactic empire collapses, preserving freedom for those who can rally under its leadership.
Star Rogue ( Lancer, 1970.)
Imperium #2.
A secret organization known as the Citadel exists within an interstellar society. Its purpose is to intervene whenever tyranny rears its ugly head, and its agents overthrow dictators and other villains while concealing the secret of their own origin.
Thief of Thoth, The (Belmont, 1968, bound with And Others Shall Be Born by Frank Belknap Long. Reissued in 1972 bound with Doomsman by Harlan Ellison.)
Quicksilver #1.
Interstellar intrigue involving mysterious aliens who can read human minds telepathically.
Thongor Against the Gods (Paperback Library, 1967, Warner, 1979.)
Thongor #3.
A primitive warrior has become the ruler of all Lemuria, but Thongor's new wife is kidnapped by his enemies and he risks his throne and his life to get her back.
Thongor and the Dragon City (See Thongor of Lemuria.)
Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria (See The Wizard of Lemuria.)
Thongor at the End of Time (Paperback Libary, 1968, Tandem, 1970.)
Thongor #5.
The last of a tribe of evil magicians strikes Thongor dead, but he escapes from the world of death and returns to defeat his enemies and reclaim his kingdom.
Thongor Fights the Pirates of Tarakus (Berkley, 1970, Tandem, 1971.)
Thongor #6.
Just as a combined army of bloodthirsty pirates and evil magicians is about to attack the city where Thongor rules, that worthy mysteriously disappears and his friends fear he has deserted them in their hour of need.
Thongor in the City of Magicians (Paperback Library, 1968, Warner, 1979.)
Thongor #4.
The series drifted from SF into more obvious fantasy in this volume. An evil magician plots to imprison the hero's soul and torment it forever.
Thongor of Lemuria (Ace, 1966. Berkley, 1970, revised as Thongor and the Dragon City.)
Thongor #2.
A barbarian hero living in the time when the human race took the world from the intelligent reptiles who preceded them has various adventures involving apemen, superscience, and even a human villain.
Time War (Dell, 1974.)
The protagonist is the only man alive who can teleport himself from one place to another, and his ability has made him the target of forces from the far future who want to use him as a tool to preserve their own power.
Tower at the Edge of Time (Belmont, 1968.)
Although this has much the feel of a fantasy novel, it's essentially SF. A swordsman travels through time and space, locates a fabulous treasure, and acquires unusual powers that make him the target of ambitious government officials.
Tower of the Medusa (Ace, 1969. bound with Kar Kaballa by George H. Smith.)
A thief is sent to a distant world to steal a fabled jewel that may be the key to extraordinary powers.
Under the Green Star (DAW, 1972.)
Green Star #1.
An Earthman's personality is transplanted into the body of a legendary hero on another planet, a world of immense forests and apparently endless danger. In the opening volume of this Burroughsian adventure, the protagonist adjusts to his new body and his new surroundings, dispatching a handful of bad guys in the process.
Valley Where Time Stood Still, The (Doubleday, 1974, Popular Library, 1976.)
Mars #2.
Various humans from Earth set out to discover a fabled Martian city where, it is said, the gods of that planet still hold sway.
Warrior of World's End, The (DAW, 1974.)
Gondwane #2 (DAW numbered their series but ignored the first title from another publisher.)
A doughty warrior wanders the dying Earth and has various adventures involving floating cities that nevertheless hold primitive societies aloft.
When the Green Star Calls (DAW, 1973.)
Green Star #2.
In his new body, the protagonist discovers the last surviving member of the alien race that once dominated the world of the green star. He also runs afoul of a scientist of sorts, a man determined to find the secret of immortality.
Wizard of Lemuria, The (Ace, 1965. Berkley, 1969, revised as Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria. Note that this series moved from SF to fantasy as it progressed, but for ease of reference, all titles are listed here.)
Thongor #1.
A mighty thewed barbarian warrior learns to use the superscience of a reptilian race against them as they seek to prevent the human race from supplanting them on Earth.
Ylana of Callisto (Dell, 1977.)
Callisto #7.
An Earthman and a Callistan woman battle the last of the evil Mind Wizards, dodging the odd dinosaur or other grisly monster along the way.
Zanthodon (DAW, 1980.)
Zanthodon #2.
Eric Carstairs continues his explorations of the underground world of cavemen and monsters, searching for a kidnapped girl and finding creatures never known on the Earth's surface.
CARTER, LIN & GRINNELL, DAVID
Destination: Saturn (Ace, ?, bound with Invader on My Back by Philip High.)
?
Turning, The (Writer's Club, 2000.)
A group of scientists see the world through a great spiritual upheaval.
CARTER, NICK (House pseudonym. There have been several series renumberings, and most titles are not remotely SF, so no effort has been made to number these, although they all feature the same protagonist.)
Assassination Brigade, The (Award, 1973, Tandem, 1973.)
A sinister plot involving worldwide power outages, suicidal sabotage attacks, leaking of confidential material, and a series of murders and disappearances is defeated by special agent Nick Carter.
Death Strain, The (Award, 1970, Tandem, 1970.) (John Messman.)
One of several in this series concerning a super-plague that could destroy the entire human race, this one disseminated by a radical group.
Doomsday Formula, The (Award, 1969.) (Tandem, 1969.)
A band of Japanese communists plans to stir up geological faults and sink Hawaii.
Doomsday Spore, The (Charter, 1979.) (George Warren.)
Once again a killer plague menaces the entire human race.
Ice Trap Terror (Award, 1974.)
A crazed colonel has machines which have altered the Earth's climate. Unless Nick Carter can stop him in time, a new ice age will cover the Earth for generations to come.
Omega Terror, The (Award, 1972, Tandem, 1972.)
Nick Carter is in pursuit of a traitor who has developed a new virus that could destroy most of the human race in a matter of days.
Operation Moon Rocket (Award, 1968, Tandem, 1968.) (Lee Louderback.)
A Red Chinese agent is arranging the murder of American astronauts.
Operation Starvation (Award, 1966.)
An evil genius has developed a virus that will destroy most of the world's food supply.
Solar Menace, The (Charter, 1981.) (Robert E. Vardeman.)
?
Sea Trap, The (Award, 1970, Tandem, 1969.) (John Messman.)
A brilliant but insane scientist has a device that can destroy nuclear submarines at will, and he will strike at every American vessel unless his demands are met.
Weapon of Night, The (Award, 1967.)
A secretive group of criminals is planning to sabotage the electricity grid for North America and go on a crime rampage under the cover of darkness.
CARTER, PAUL (See collaboration with Gregory Benford.)
CARTER, RAPHAEL
Fortunate Fall, The (Tor, 1996.)
A woman biomechanically enhanced to be a news gatherer is doing a feature on a massacre when she finds a witness whose version differs from the official one. Before long, the authorities are on her trail as well.
CARTER, R.M.H.
Dream Killers, The (Hale, 1981.)
Not seen.
Attack of the Intergalactic Soul Hunters (Llewellyn, 2005.)
Two teenagers discover that their dreams of aliens have a basis in reality.
CARTMEL, ANDREW
Atom Bomb Blues (BBC, 2005.)
A Doctor Who novel.
?
Cat's Cradle: Warhead (Doctor Who Books, 1992.)
The New Doctor Who Adventures.
A near future Earth is heavily polluted because of the rapaciousness of a number of super corporations, the top officials of which are about to secure the secret of immortality for themselves.
Swine Fever (Black Flame, 2005.)
A Judge Dredd novel.
Super-intelligent pigs force pork off the market, but someone has developed a black market.
Warchild (Doctor Who Books, 1996.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure
The Doctor becomes involved with a family on Earth which is developed psi powers. Warhead, Warlock, and Warchild form a trilogy within the context of the entire New Adventures series.
Warlock (Doctor Who Books, 1995.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure.
A direct sequel to the earlier Warhead, part of the Cat's Cradle sequence. A powerful new drug has appeared, dangerous in its own rightm, but also harbinger of a secret plot against the entire human race.
CARTMILL, CLEVE
Space Scavengers,The (Major, 1975.)
Collection of related stories about a space salvage crew.
CARUSO, DEE & GARDNER, GERALD
World's Greatest Athlete, The (Gold Medal, 1973, based on their own screenplay.)
Novelization of the film. A college athletic coach returns from Africa with a boy raised in the jungle who has extraordinary physical abilities. Played mostly for laughs.
CARVER, JEFFREY A.
Battlestar Galactica (Tor, 2006, Gollancz, 2007, based on the screenplay by Ronald A. Moore, Christopher Eric James, and Glen A Larson.)
A Battlestar Galactica novel.
A race of humanoids created by humans threaten to wipe out their creators.
Clypsis (Bantam, 1987.)
Part of the multi-author Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway series.
Opening volume of a series about a solar system that has been redesigned as a racetrack for space pilots in a dangerous test of their skills.
Down the Stream of Stars (Bantam, 1990.)
Dragon #2.
An earthman dies in the cataclysmic supernova of Betelgeuse, which opens a gateway into the heart of the galaxy. Unfortunately, the doorway works both ways and a horde of inimical aliens begins attacking the human settled part of the galaxy.
Dragon Rigger (Tor, 1993.)
Dragon #4.
A human star pilot forges an alliance with one of the intelligent dragons dwelling among the stars against an evil enemy whose plans could spell danger for humans as well as the dragons.
Dragons in the Stars (Tor, 1992.)
Dragon #3.
A frustrated star pilot takes a chance in navigating through a kind of unreal space time where her ship encounters star travelling dragons.
Eternity’s End (Tor, 2000.)
Starrigger?
From a Changeling Star (Bantam, 1988.)
Dragon #1.
In a galaxy torn by two contending factions, a group of scientists gather to observe a supernova. Elsewhere, a human has been infected by microscopic computers that are changing him into some thing other than a human.
Infinite Sea, The (Tor, 1996.)
Chaos Chronicles #3.
John Bandicut and friends find themselves on a water world where they must save the indigenous race from the destruction threatened by a mysterious force, the Maw of the Abyss.
Infinity Link, The (Bluejay, 1984, Tor, 1985, Orbit, 1986.)
A secret scientific project uses computers and telepathy to communicate with an alien race, and uses human trickery and cleverness to avoid the political maneuvering to control whatever knowledge is gained.
Neptune Crossing (Tor, 1994.)
Chaos Chronicles #1.
An explorer on a Neptunian moon stumbles on a sentient alien device, or perhaps a lifeform, that invades his body. Although benevolent, the alien has lapses of memory. It does, however, have knowledge of an imminent catastrophe that could wipe out the human race unless the protagonist takes immediate steps.
Panglor (Dell, 1980, Arrow, 1981, Tor, 1996.)
A starship captain is trapped into performing a cruel act in order to salvage his own life, but at the last moment he reneges and he and his charges are off on a series of adventures.
Rapture Effect, The (Tor, 1987, Orbit, 1988.)
A corporation dominated human culture is engaged in a secret war with an alien race, augmented by computers sophisticated beyond contemporary imagination.
Seas of Ernathe (Laser, 1976.)
A starship approaching a world where human colonists have lived in peace with the water dwelling natives is attacked, and its captain kidnapped. In the hands of his sudden enemies, he discovers the truth about their world.
Star Rigger's Way (Dell, 1978, Arrow, 1980, Tor, 1994.)
Star Rigger #1.
When all the other members of his crew die, Carlyle is incapable of maintaining the psychic link that makes possible interstellar travel. But there's a lost alien creature who might possibly be able to fill in the gaps.
Strange Attractors (Tor, 1995.)
Chaos Chronicles #2.
After saving the Earth from destruction, John Bandicut, two sentient robots, and an alien living inside his body find themselves on an artificial world outside the galaxy. There they have various adventures in an environment where even inanimate objects can get angry as they try to figure out where they are and how to survive.
Sunborn (Tor, 2008.)
Chaos Chronicles #4.
An investigator looks into a force that is causing stars to go prematurely nova.
Dreaming Pigs (Paint Rock River Press, 2002.)
Experiments involving mixing pig and human DNA are supposed to make organ transplants easier, but they are actually raising the intelligence of the pigs.
CASCONE, A.G. (Pseudonym of Annette and Gina Cascone. Also writes Horror.)
It Came from the Deep (Troll, 1996.)
A sea resort secretly run by gilled mutants is embroiled in a feud with the local normal human inhabitants.
Nightmare on Planet X (Troll, 1997.)
A youngster and his family are kidnapped to another planet.
Brotherly Love and Other Tales of Trust and Knowledge (Pumpkin, 1999.)
Collection of unrelated stories not all of which are science fiction.
CASE, JOHN
Genesis Code, The (Century, 1997.)
Not seen. Thriller involving an earthshaking scientific secret that affects the perceived history of Christianity.
CASEWIT, CURTIS W.
Peacemakers, The. (Digit, 1963, Avalon, 1960, MacFadden, 1968.)
Earth has evolved to a point where only two nations remain. One is ruled by a ruthless dictator with a new superweapon. An attempt to alter the bellicose nature of the nation through the use of a drug fails and armageddon is at hand. More metaphor than story.
CASEY, MERVIN
Mutilators, The (Major, 1976.)
A story about the investigation of mysterious cattle mutilations in the Southwest. It turns out that the parties responsible are misguided cultists rather than flying saucers, but there's a man with psychic visions involved in the case.
Imago (Wildside, 2002.)
A rash of mutations leads to a repressive government and concentration camps where the mutants are kept away from normal humanity.
Without Absolution (Wildside, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
CASPIAN, JONATHAN ARIADNE
Nightmare Dream, The (West End, 1990.)
Possibility Wars #3.
The Storm Knights defeat the invaders from another time space continuum.
CASSANDRA
Channel Tunnel, The (Clowes, 1876.)
Germans invade England using a tunnel under the English Channel.
Metal Sky (Roc, 2004.)
Jack Stein #2.
A psychic investigator searches for missing artifacts on distant worlds.
Star Tablet, The (Roc, 2005.)
Jack Stein #3.
A mysterious alien artifact attracts the attention of a psychic.
Wyrmhole (Roc, 2003.)
Jack Stein #1.
A man with psychic powers is hired to find a group of miners who disappeared on a distant planet, but he begins to suspect that his employers want him to fail.
CASSELL, STEPHEN
Strike of the China Falcon (Pinnacle, 1992.)
A new Chinese satellite system is in position for a major strike against the continental US and an advance army corps has already been staged in Mexico. Elsewhere, a terrorist carries a portable atomic bomb aimed at destroying a major city in this borderline SF novel.
CASSIDAY, BRUCE (See Carson Bingham.)
CASSON, MILES
Time Drug (Curtis Warren, 1954.)
Not seen. Marginal bit about a new drug that distorts time.
CASSUTT, MICHAEL (Also writes Fantasy.)
Star Country, The (Doubleday, 1986.)
North America has collapsed into myriad feudal states, each of which is interested in securing control of the technology brought to Earth by the first ship of aliens from another civilization, one of whom has his own plans for the Earth's future.
Tango Midnight (Forge, 2003.)
A group of astronauts are trapped in a spaceship with a deadly virus.
CASTLE, DAMON (Pseudonym or Richard Reinsmith, also writes as Richard R. Smith.)
Starbright (Leisure, 1983.)
Unlikely story of the first expedition to another star, numbering among its crew spies, celebrities, millionaires, and politicians. There's a malfunction along the way, as well as inimical aliens, and telepathic communication.
CASTLE, JAYNE (Pseudonym of Jayne Krentz. Also writes Fantasy.)
After Dark (Jove, 2000.)
Harmony #1.
An archaeologist in the far future finds her life complicated by romance, a mysterious body, and possible supernormal events.
After Glow (Jove, 2004.)
Harmony #2.
Romance on a distant planet.
Amaryllis (Pocket, 1996.)
St Helens #1.
A psychic detective solves a murder on a remote Earth colony.
Ghost Hunter (Jove, 2006.)
Harmony #3.
Futuristic romance about aliens living beneath human cities.
Harmony (Berkley, 2002.)
Collection of three unrelated short novels.
Orchid (Pocket, 1998.)
St Helens #3..
A psychic detective on a far planet searches for the culprit in a murder case and finds a man to love in the process.
Silver Master (Jove, 2007.)
Futuristic romance.
Zinnia (Pocket, 1997.)
St Helens #2.
A psychic falls in love with a casino owner and eventually causes him to feel the same way about her. The casino is set on a remote colony world.
CASTLE, JEFFREY LLOYD
Satellite E One (Dodd, Mead, 1954, Eyre Spottiswoode, 1954, Bantam, 1958, Consul, 1963.)
A now implausible story of the construction and staffing of the first orbital space station, but despite the dated technology, the story does a good job of evoking the awe inspiring adventure of working in space.
Vanguard to Venus (Dodd, Mead, 1957, Doubleday, 1957.)
Nonsense about flying saucers from Venus, which was somehow colonized by the Egyptians six thousand years ago.
CASTLE, MORT (Also writes Horror.)
Deadly Election, The (Major, 1976.)
Marginal piece about a plot to seize the Presidency for organized crime.
CASTO, JACKIE
New Frontier, The (Leisure, 1992.)
A woman is sent to a remote planet under orders to choose a husband from among its unruly population. She chooses an unlikely one, hoping he'll back out, but the two are trapped and ultimately fall in love.
CASTRO, ADAM-TROY (See also collaboration with Tom DeFalco. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Alien Darkness, An (Wildside, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Desperate, Decaying Darkness, A (Wildside, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Emissaries of the Dead (Eos, 2008.)
Andrea Cort #1.
A woman has to solve a tricky murder in an artificial world run by very powerful aliens.
Gathering of the Sinister Six, The (Boulevard, 1999.)
A Spiderman novel.
A group of super villains teams up not only to destroy Spiderman, but also to claim the life of his wife.
Revenge of the Sinister Six (BP, 2002.)
A Spiderman novel.
Spiderman battles an alliance of super villains including his own brainwashed sister.
Secret of the Sinister Six (BP, 2002.)
A Spiderman novel.
The evil Sinister Six are back, and they know Spiderman's secret identity.
Tangled Strings (Five Star, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Third Claw of God, The (Eos, 2009.)
Andrea Cort #2.
An agent investigates a murder on a strange alien world.
Vossoff and Nimmitz (Wildside, 2002.)
Collection of related stories about two spacefaring crooks.
CAT, IVAN (See also collaboration which follows.)
Burning Heart of Night, The (DAW, 2002.)
A human colony is threatened by a fatal plague, the antidote to which can only be obtained by killing members of the indigenous intelligent species. When a space traveler crashlands on their world, his presence is the catalyst for a change.
Eyes of Light and Darkness, The (DAW, 1996.)
Explorers from a newly colonized world find a derelict ship and discover an alien menace hidden aboard.
CATLING, PATRICK SKENE (Also writes Fantasy.)
Exterminator, The (Trident, 1969, Pocket, 1970, Bodley Head, ?)
Whimsical satire about a New York City exterminator who discovers that the common rat is mutating into a much more dangerous creature in response to the deterioration of the environment.
Kitsune (Telos, 2004.)
A Time Hunter novel.
Unusual mix of SF and fantasy as a future city is troubled by what are apparently ancient Japanese spirits.
CAUSEY, WILLIAM (Pseudonym of Errol Collins, whom see)
Pirates in Space (Baker, 1953.)
Not seen. Pirates seek to steal precious elements.
CAVALLARO, MICHAEL J.
Cybernetica (Arcanum, 2006.)
Mind control in a cyberpunk style future.
CAVANAUGH, SARA
Woman in Space, A (Tiara, 1981.)
A young and attractive girl is sent on a mission to find four male astronauts who were supposed to land on the moon, and instead is abducted by aliens curious about Earth. Mild romance, even milder adventure.
CAVE, HUGH B. (Also writes Horror.)
Dawning, The (Leisure, 2000.)
A group of people flee into the wilderness when ecological disaster threatens to destroy civilization. There they are attacked by various mutated animals who have collectively decides to eliminate the scourge of humanity.
CAVE, PETER
Fire Flood (Futura, 1980.)
Political intrigue and disaster novel mix as unprecedented floods threaten all of London and a business executive with dangerous knowledge struggles to avoid assassination.
Foxbat (?, 1978, Jove, 1979.)
A plot to steal the secret of an advanced Soviet aircraft backfires when the agents involved find themselves targeted for termination by their own superiors. Marginal.
Last Echo, The (TV Books, 1999.)
Based on the Invasion Earth television series. A man journeys to the stars and returns to Earth with great knowledge.
CAVELOS, JEANNE
Casting Shadows (Del Rey, 2001.)
A Babylon 5 novel.
The technomages use science so advanced that it is indistinguishable from magic. But an interstellar war hovers on the horizon, and it is uncertain whether they will be able to prevent it from destroying civilization, or whether its onset will destroy their kind.
Invoking Darkness (Del Rey, 2001.)
A Babylon 5 novel.
One of the technomages emerges from hiding to eliminate key members of the Shadow race and tilt the war against them.
Shadow Within, The (Dell, 1997, Boxtree, 1997.)
Babylon 5 #7.
Anna Sheridan enthusiastically joins an expedition to a world filled with alien artifacts, unaware that she is about to descend into a warren of the still living Shadows.
Summoning Light (Del Rey, 2001.)
A Babylon 5 novel.
?
CEBULASH, MEL (Also writes Fantasy.)
Strongest Man in the World, The (Scholastic, 1975, from the screenplay by Herman Groves and Joseph L. McEveety.)
Novelization of the Disney film about a college coach who uses an experimental chemical formula to enhance one of his students into the strongest man in the world.
CEPTION, JOHN V.
Earth Sex in the 21st Century (Impact Library, 1970.)
A series of short stories (although they claim to be non-fiction) about sexual encounters with machines, aliens, and so forth.
CERASINI, MARK
Anakin: Apprentice (Random House, 2002.)
A Star Wars book.
Young readers' story about Annakin Skywalker's apprenticeship.
Godzilla and the Lost Continent (Random House, 1998.)
A Godzilla novel.
?
Godzilla at World’s End (Random House, 1998.)
A Godzilla novel.
A race of crystalline beings wakens from a long sleep under the Earth and sets loose a host of gigantic monsters to wipe out the human race. Fortunately, Godzilla arrives to save the day.
Godzilla Returns (Random House, 1996.)
A Godzilla novel.
The legendary giant dinosaur is believed dead, but a scientist discovers that he was only sleeping and has now reawakened. Is he a menace to the world, or it’s only hope?
Godzilla 2000 (Random House, 1997.)
A Godzilla novel.
A rain of asteroids threatens Earth, bringing with it a space monster who awakens other slumbering giants on Earth, all of whom are subsequently bested by Godzilla.
Godzilla vs the Robot Monsters (Random House, 1998.)
A Godzilla novel.
Godzilla and various giant creatures are ravaging the world again, so the great powers activate Mechagodzilla and other devices in an attempt to destroy them.
Violent Tendencies (Pocket, 2007.)
A Marvel Wolverine novel.
A mutant seeks to escape the government that experimented on him.
Weapon X (Pocket Star, 2006.)
An X-Men novel.
Wolverine is captured by an organization and experimented on.
CHADWICK, PAUL (See Brant House.)
CHADWICK, PHILIP GEORGE
Death Guard, The (?, 1939.)
Android servants are created to do most of the toil of humanity, but the fascist dictators of England plan to use them as soldiers and the rest of the world becomes so disturbed that a world war follows.
Destiny's Forge (Baen, 2006.)
A Man-Kzin novel.
Humans and an alien race become embroiled in an interstellar war.
Exodus (Baen, 2009.)
Ark #2.
A generation starship develops its own culture.
Genesis (Baen, 2007.)
Ark #1.
Tensions surrounding the launching and early progress of a generation starship.
CHALKER, JACK L. (See also collaboration which follows. Also writes Fantasy.)
Balshazzar's Serpent (Baen, 2000.)
Three Kings #1.
A missionary ship stops to visit a lost colony whose primitive civilization has secretly been taken over by a gang of shipwrecked pirates. When they kidnap part of the missionary company and demand to be transported offworld, the remainder of the crew shows that they aren't willing to turn the other cheek.
Birth of Flux and Anchor, The (Tor, 1985, Roc UK, 1991.)
Soul Rider #4.
Fourth written but actually a predecessor to the earlier three volumes, this is the story of the creation of the universe of Flux, constant change, and Anchor, islands of stability. A scientist discovers a pocket universe where mental powers control physical matter, and he leads an expedition to plant a colony there.
Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold (Del Rey, 1982, Roc UK, 1991)
Four Lords of the Diamond #2.
Prominent humans are being replaced by robots manufactured by an alien race. A criminal is reprogrammed with the personality of a government assassin and sent to a closed colony world whose human ruler is suspected to be collaborating with the aliens.
Charon: A Dragon at the Gate (Del Rey, 1982, Roc UK, 1991.)
Four Lords of the Diamond #3.
As with the previous volumes, a transplanted personality is sent to a closed world, this one covered by jungle, to investigate the situation. He discovers that on Charon magic actually works.
Children of Flux and Anchor (Tor, 1986, Roc UK, 1992.)
Soul Rider #5.
Although the evil alliance that threatened to seize all of the world of Anchor has been destroyed, the gates between universes are guarded, not closed. And now comes a fresh menace, even more powerful than all that went before.
Cybernetic Walrus, The (Del Rey, 1995.)
The Wonderland Gambit #1.
A topnotch programmer loses his job and takes a new one trying to reconstruct the work of a brilliant man who reportedly died during a virtual reality experiment. But the protagonist discovers that his predecessor isn't dead, and that the virtual worlds he visited are real.
Dance Band on the Titanic (Del Rey, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dancers in the Afterglow (Del Rey, 1978.)
A vacation planet falls under the control of an alien race that re-educates all of its conquered peoples into mindless slaves. Opposed to them is a cyborg with a state of the art spaceship, who is helped and hampered by his lingering human emotions.
Dancers in the Dark (Five Star, 2002.)
The novel Dancers in the Afterglow combined with two unrelated stories.
Demons at Rainbow Ridge, The (Ace, 1989, Baen, 1998.)
Quintara Marathon #1.
The universe is dominated by three alien empires. One has blurred the distinction between living beings and robots, one has achieved virtual immortality and has become a religious dictatorship, and the third consists of intelligent parasites who can take over the bodies of others. The future of all three may be determined by the discovery of a legendary creature from yet a fourth species.
Downtiming the Night Side (Tor, 1985, Baen, 1998.)
Time travel is possible by jumping into the bodies of people alive in the target period and controlling them. Two rival organizations use these puppets in their effort to alter the course of time for their own purposes.
Echoes of the Well of Souls (Del Rey, 1993.)
Well of Souls #6.
Immortal or not, Nathan Brazil is still vulnerable to violent death, and when an evil alien being reaches the Well World, determined to use its control of physical reality to upset the universe, Brazil seems to be just one expendable obstacle to be brushed aside.
Empires of Flux and Anchor (Tor, 1984, Roc UK, 1991.)
Soul Rider #2.
A universe whose rules are constantly changing faces a new threat when a secret cabal of powerful beings plots to conquer the world of Anchor.
Exiles at the Well of Souls (Del Rey, 1978, Penguin, 1982.)
Well of Souls #2.
A criminal with a super computer and a bounty hunter determined to capture him are both stranded on the Well World, where alien technology alters the bodies of visitors and provides an unending variety of tiny societies to explore. In new bodies, both find themselves faced with unexpected problems.
Ghost of the Well of Souls (Del Rey, 2000.)
Well of Souls #7.
A new band of adventurers arrives on the Well of Souls, and just in time to prevent an evil tyrant from gaining control of a series of artifacts which, once assembled, would give him the power to move at will through all of time and space.
Hot-Wired Dodo, The (Del Rey, 1997.)
Wonderland Gambit #3.
A cast of characters are set loose in a universe where they are constantly reincarnated in bizarre virtual reality worlds. The protagonist tries to track down the programmer who is probably responsible for their condition.
Identity Matrix, The (Baen, 1982.)
Aliens are secretly battling for the control of Earth and a select few human beings find their personalities involuntary switched from body to body as part of that conflict.
Jungle of Stars, A (Ballantine, 1976.)
A dying soldier is offered immortality by an alien if he agrees to serve as an agent in a battle against another alien species. Since the alternative is death, he accepts, but with reservations concerning which side he should actually be assisting.
Kaspar's Box (Baen, 2003.)
Three Kings #3.
Three young women with the power to mentally communicate with artificial intelligences give the crew of a military warship a difficult voyage.
Labyrinth of Dreams, The (Tor, 1987, New English Library, 1989.)
G.O.D. Inc #1.
A husband and wife detective team take a job to track down a man who absconded with a large amount of mob cash. There investigation takes them to a secretive corporation, where they find three different versions of their quarry, and a shadowy organization that moves from one parallel universe to another.
Legacy of Nathan Brazil, The (Announced but ultimately appeared as Twilight at the Well of Souls, which see.)
Lilith: A Snake in the Grass (Del Rey, 1981, Roc UK, 1990)
Four Lords of the Diamond #1.
A cluster of four human colony worlds is faced with a unique problem. A local virus makes it impossible for any visitor to live elsewhere, and it also destroys all machinery. These two problems make it impossible to report back about an imminent alien attack. In each book of the series, a mentally modified agent seeks to overthrow the alien dominated ruler of one of these worlds.
Lords of the Middle Dark (Del Rey, 1986, New English Library, 1988.)
Rings of the Master #1.
The computers have taken over the world, exterminating most of the human race, confining the survivors to isolated ethnic communities. Now an Amerindian and a Chinese girl are threatening their rule by searching for five microchips that together provide the means of destroying the mechanical dictators of Earth.
March Hare Network, The (Del Rey, 1996.)
The Wonderland Gambit #2.
The protagonist is repeatedly brought to life in a succession of strange virtual reality worlds. Eventually he begins to understand the mechanism of his resurrection, and tries to find a way to regain control of his fate.
Masks of the Martyrs (Del Rey, 1988, New English Library, 1989.)
Rings of the Master #4.
A band of pirates and rebels have seized the key to overthrowing a computer dictatorship, but they don't know how to use it, and their shapeshifting associate is lost on a dangerous planet and out of reach.
Masters of Flux and Anchor (Tor, 1985, Roc UK, 1991.)
Soul Rider #3.
Two groups of powerful men battle for control of a universe whose very nature is subject to constant change. Survivors of earlier adventures return to help the good side resist the evil, but sometimes they have trouble distinguishing one from the other.
Maze in the Mirror, The (Tor, 1989, New English Library, 1990.)
G.O.D. Inc. #3.
A group of criminals plots to destroy the Labyrinth, a system of roadways passing from one alternate Earth to another. The detective protagonist is caught in a double bind, because he stands to lose no matter which side wins.
Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail (Del Rey, 1983, Roc UK, 1991.)
Four Lords of the Diamond #4.
The fourth transplanted assassin arrives on the last of the closed worlds, this time to help foment a rebellion that could be shaped to carry out the wishes of his superiors and expose the truth about an alien menace.
Melchior's Fire (Baen, 2001.)
Three Kings #2.
Episodic adventures of an interstellar salvage ship which narrowly escapes a giant intelligent amoeba on an abandoned colony world and then gets involved in a treasure hunt.
Messiah Choice, The (Bluejay, 1985, Tor, 1986.)
SF and supernatural horror combine as an island devoted to scientific research comes under the control of the Anti-Christ. With the power to restore youth, alter the course of time, and destroy matter, the minions of Hell seem poised to conquer the world.
Midnight at the Well of Souls (Del Rey, 1977, Penguin, 1981, Baen, 2002.)
Well of Souls #1.
Nathan Brazil explores a gigantic world shaped by a vanished alien species which is designed to change visitors into various different forms, including a number from human mythology, centaurs, mermaids, and the like. Although the memory of his previous life is fragmentary at first, he recalls clues which drive him to seek the hidden center of the Well World.
Moreau Factor, The (Del Rey, 2000.)
A reporter stumbles into a conspiracy to seize control of the government by developing hybrid humans with animal characteristics that make them powerful soldiers and assassins. His efforts to reveal their existence makes him their primary target.
Ninety Trillion Fausts (Ace, 1991, Baen, 1999.)
Quintara Marathon #3.
Three rival empires with very different cultures are forced to cooperate to oppose creatures with the ability to steal their very souls. Rousing climax as the demonic invaders from a different reality are finally destroyed.
Pirates of the Thunder (Del Rey, 1987, New English Library, 1988.)
Rings of the Master #2.
A new player seems to have entered the game as the protagonist escapes from a prison world and is forced by circumstances to take up the quest to find the microchips that are key to freeing humanity from its mechanical masters.
Priam's Lens (Del Rey, 1999.)
The Titans are seizing human colony worlds and transforming them into their own habitats, apparently unaware or unconcerned about the existence of the settlers. A military mission is launched to one such planet to recover the only weapon that might prove capable of stopping them.
Quest for the Well of Souls (Del Rey, 1978, Penguin, 1982, Baen, 2003.)
Well of Souls #3.
A woman stranded and transformed into an alien creature on the Well World races her enemies to a remote region where a starship exists that could allow her to leave the planet. Orbiting above is a super computer that might even be able to restore her original body.
Return of Nathan Brazil, The (Del Rey, 1980, Penguin, 1984, Baen, 2005.)
Well of Souls #4.
During a war with an alien species, humanity uses a weapon that affects the Well World, which controls the nature of reality throughout the universe. A woman who escaped that planet sets out to track down Nathan Brazil, who may be the only one with the ability to set things right.
Run to Chaos Keep, The (Ace, 1991, Baen, 1999.)
Quintara Marathon #2.
Galactic disaster threatens as a pair of supposedly dead creatures recover from suspended animation and escape, their very existence threatening three contending empires. And are they living creatures, or demons from Hell itself?
Sea Is Full of Stars, The (Del Rey, 1999.)
Well of Souls #8.
An entirely new cast of characters visits the Well of Souls, this time involving the eventual meeting of sworn enemies in a world where computers have become nearly godlike.
Shadow Dancers, The (Tor, 1987, New English Library, 1989.)
G.O.D. Inc #2.
Two detectives working for an organization that secretly monitors traffic across parallel worlds. When a new "disease" begins to affect our Earth, each victim becoming a puppet controlled by an alien parasite, they cross into a Nazi dominated world to find out who's responsible.
Shadow of the Well of Souls (Del Rey, 1994.)
Well of Souls #7.
Nathan Brazil and his assistant quarrel and become rivals in their quest to control the Well World. But there's another player in the game, a force that has somehow undermined the programming of that artificial planet, endangering the entire orderly universe.
Spirits of Flux and Anchor (Tor, 1984, Roc UK, 1991.)
Soul Rider #1.
A series that hovers on the border of SF and fantasy, set in a strange reality where magic may or may not work because reality itself is in constant flux. A young woman discovers the truth about the magical underpinning of her world, and that knowledge makes her an outcast.
Twilight at the Well of Souls (Del Rey, 1980, Penguin, 1984, Baen, 2005.)
Well of Souls #5.
Two adventurers arrive on the Well World, determined to correct a problem in its functioning that endangers the entire universe. Unfortunately, a war is brewing on that planet, and there are powerful people more interested in capturing Nathan Brazil than in saving the universe.
War of Shadows, A (Ace, 1979.)
Terrorists use germ warfare to destroy entire towns. The government eventually reacts by suspending portions of the Constitution and imposing martial law. An investigator stumbles across an even greater threat when he finds a link between the attacks and the highest offices in the nation.
Warriors of the Storm (Del Rey, 1987, New English Library, 1989.)
Rings of the Master #3.
With the aid of a band of pirates, a rebel is positioned to seize the microchips that could cause the downfall of a computer dictatorship. They are assisted by Vulture, a shapechanging alien with the ability to absorb the knowledge of others, and by a shadowy other whose purposes remain obscure.
Watchers at the Well, The (Guild America, 1994.)
A Well of Souls omnibus.
Web of the Chozen, The (Del Rey, 1978.)
An explorer seeking habitable worlds finds an abandoned generation starship orbiting an apparently perfect world. But there's a catch. There is a force on that planet which physically transforms the bodies of anyone who lands there, turning each into a bizarre and entirely new creature.
CHALKER, JACK & MIKE RESNICK & GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER
Red Tape War, The (Tor, 1991.)
Spoof of space operas featuring a human bureaucrat who gets captured by belligerent aliens bent on universal conquest. Another alien is so tiny that their assaults are generally not even noticed. Some good laughs in this one.
Homo Hetero (Hale, 1980.)
Not seen.
Legend in His Own Deathtime, A (Hale, 1978.)
Not seen.
CHAMBERLAIN, WILLIAM
China Strike (Gold Medal, 1967.)
Action thriller severely dated by the passage of time. When published, the idea that China might build advanced nuclear weapons was way out. This is about a US military strike to destroy one such installation.
Red January (Paperback Library, 1964.)
Nuclear brinksmanship in Cuba as a US invasion is launched to end nuclear blackmail.
Survival Instinct (Black Library, 2005.)
A Necromunda novel.
A possibly deranged thug turns out to have hidden talents in this novel set in a decadent urban future.
Hope’s End (Tor, 2001.)
Hope #1.
Inhabitants of another world sink toward barbarism as a plague spreads through the population. To make matters worse, a hostile alien race has recently arrived on the planet.
Hope's War (Tor, 2002.)
Hope #2.
A reluctant king discovers that there is a time link on the planet he is trying to rule.
CHAMBERS, ROBERT W. (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
In Search of the Unknown (Harper & Brothers, 1904, Constable, 1905, Hyperion, 1974, Wildside, 2002.)
Collection of related stories.
Police!!! (Appleton, 1915.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
CHAMBERS, ROBIN
Fight of Neither Century, The (Granada, 1981.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
CHAMBERS, WHITMAN
Invasion (Dutton, 1943, Novel, 1950.)
Future war novel about the Japanese invasion of Australia, written during World War II.
CHAMPETIER, JOEL
Dragon's Eye, The (Tor, 1999.)
An agent of Earth is sent to a distant planet to bring back a spy, or at least the information he gathered. He finds the job more difficult than expected because of the hostile attitude of the local residents, who are preparing to declare their independence from Earth.
CHANCE, JONATHAN (See also John Lymington.)
Light Benders, The (Hale, 1968.)
Not seen.
CHANDLER, A. BERTRAM (Note that the Rim series is not numbered. Most but not all include John Grimes, but they jump around in time a great deal.)
Alternate Martians, The (Ace, 1965, bound with Empress of Outer Space, also by Chandler.)
Christopher Wilkinson #2.
A group of scientists pass through a gateway to an alternate world where the Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H.G. Wells are both real and contemporaneous.
Alternate Orbits (Ace, 1971, bound with The Dark Dimensions. Ace, 1979, as The Commodore at Sea bound with Spartan Planet, also by Chandler.)
Rim series
Collection of related stories.
Anarch Lords, The (DAW, 1981.)
Rim series
Grimes becomes governor of a world settled by anarchists, certainly one of the more interesting challenges of his colorful career. As if that wasn't bad enough, an influx of refugees has made the local situation even less stable than its usual near chaos.
Beyond the Galactic Rim (Ace, 1963, bound with The Ship from Outside, also by Chandler. Allison & Busby, 1982)
Rim series.
Collection of related stories.
Big Black Mark, The (DAW, 1975.)
Rim series.
Another retrospective, this time chronicling the key events that led to Grimes leaving the Federation navy during a voyage that has interesting parallels to that of Fletcher Christian and Captain Bligh.
Bitter Pill, The (Wren, 1974, Bolinda, 1991.)
Earth and Mars are both subject to a dystopian dictatorship until rebels manage to successfully overthrow the control of Mars.
Bring Back Yesterday (Ace, 1961, bound with The Trouble with Tycho by Clifford D. Simak. Allison & Busby, 1981.)
A malfunctioning interstellar drive causes the ship to go adrift in time.
Broken Cycle, The 1975, DAW, 1979.)
Rim series.
Grimes is off to another parallel universe, this time one whose very nature is controlled by a gigantic alien spacecraft. Imprisoned with one companion inside this ship, Grimes must find a way to thwart the plans of the alien masters who consider humans fertile ground for experimentation.
Catch the Star Winds (Lancer, 1969.)
Rim series.
Out on the rim of the galaxy, John Grimes becomes involved with the maiden voyage of a ship equipped with a revolutionary new star drive.
Coils of Time, The (Ace, 1964, bound with Into the Alternate Universe, also by Chandler. Priory, undated.)
Christopher Wilkinson #1.
An experimental time machine actually transports people to an alternate universe somewhat similar to our own, but one in which Venus is inhabited. A test subject eventually convinces people that he's not crazy and gets involved in a series of melodramatic incidents.
Commodore at Sea, The (See Alternate Orbits.)
Contraband from Otherspace (Ace, 1967, bound with Reality Forbidden by Philip E. High. (Ace, 1979, bound with Into the Alternate Universe. Magazine title was The Edge of Night.)
Rim series.
Grimes encounters a derelict ship that has drifted into our universe from a parallel one where ratlike aliens have enslaved the human race. Even worse, the aliens are aware of our continuum and are making plans to invade.
Dark Dimensions (Ace, 1971, bound with Alternate Orbits, also by Chandler. Ace, 1979, bound with The Rim Gods.)
Rim series.
Grimes sets out beyond the rim of the galaxy again, this time searching for a legendary derelict alien ship from another universe, one filled with scientific knowledge as yet undiscovered in his own continuum. Includes a guest appearance by Poul Anderson's Dominic Flandry.
Deep Reaches of Space, The (Herbert Jenkins, 1964, Mayflower, 1967.)
A science fiction writer takes an hallucinogenic drug and finds himself aboard a starship.
Empress of Outer Space (Ace, 1965, bound with The Alternate Martians, also by Chandler.)
Empress #1.
The empress of a galactic empire decides to intervene personally when an upstart declares himself dictator over part of her realm, but she falls into a trap involving space pirates, endangering the future of the entire empire.
False Fatherland (See Spartan Planet.)
Far Traveler, The (Hale, 1977, DAW, 1979.)
Rim series.
A rich woman's custom designed starship, controlled by a super computer, is John Grimes' new assignment. After a series of minor conflicts between him and his employer, and with the computer itself, he stumbles across a dangerous lost colony world.
From Sea to Shining Star (Dreamstone, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Frontier of the Dark (Ace, 1984.)
Use of a new interstellar drive has an unusual side effect. Those who undergo the faster than light shifts are physically altered into shapechanging creatures reminiscent of werewolves.
Gateway to Never, The (Ace, 1972, bound with The Inheritors, also by Chandler.).
Rim series.
This time Grimes is visiting a colony world that erupts into violence when a religious cult uses advanced technology to try to open a gateway between universes.
Glory Planet (Avalon, 1964.)
Battles among factions in a Venusian colony.
Hamelin Plague, The (Monarch, 1963.)
Mutated rats as intelligent as humans begin preying on pets, domestic animals, and eventually people, emerging in due course to slaughter or enslave the human race. A handful of survivors struggle to remain free and find an effective weapon.
Hard Way Up, The (Ace, 1972, bound with The Veiled World by Robert Lory. Ace, 1979, bound with The Road to the Rim.)
Rim series.
Collection of related stories.
Inheritors, The (Ace, 1972, bound with The Gateway to Never, also by Chandler.).
Rim series.
Grimes and company battle interplanetary slave traders using lost colony worlds as breeding grounds for their illicit business.
Into the Alternate Universe (Ace, 1964, bound with The Coils of Time Ace, 1979, bound with Contraband from Otherspace)
Rim series.
John Grimes and company conduct a scientific mission on the rim of the galaxy, investigating ghost sightings, ships from unknown civilizations that appears and disappear almost at random. They discover that there are peculiarities in space there and that these sometimes open doors into alternate universes.
John Grimes: Lieutenant of the Survey Service (Science Fiction Book Club, ?)
Omnibus of The Road to the Rim, To Prime the Pump, The Hard Way Up, and Spartan Planet.
John Grimes: Survey Captain (Science Fiction Book Club, ?)
Omnibus.
Kelly Country (Penguin, 1983, DAW, 1985.)
An alternate history novel that examines the possibilities if Australia had declared its independence from England shortly after the American Revolution. John Grimes, on loan from the Rim series, goes back through time and finds a very different version of the 20th Century.
Last Amazon, The (DAW, 1984.)
Rim series.
Grimes returns to the world of Spartan Planet to investigate the transformation of that formerly exclusively male society. Although there are women living on Sparta now, there appears to be a rebellion brewing, and it's not clear who's responsible.
Matilda's Stepchildren (Hale, 1979, DAW, 1983.)
Rim series.
On a visit to a pleasure planet, Grimes gets into his usual variety of trouble, this time involving an old enemy with a grudge, the local government's objection to the prying done by one of his passengers, all complicated by a pair of exotic dancers.
Nebula Alert (Ace, 1967, bound with The Rival Rigellians by Mack Reynolds.)
Empress #3.
An organization committed to opposing slavery attempts to protect a group of aliens who have unique abilities and are pursued across space by slavers and pirates.
Rendezvous on a Lost World (Ace, 1961, bound with The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Allison & Busby, 1981, as When the Dream Dies)
Rim series.
An entrepreneur and his friends scrape together the funds to buy a worn out space freighter and try to establish a commercial route in the Rim Worlds, but instead they run into two separate adventures on lost colonies, one overrun by robots, the other a haven for pirates.
Rim Gods, The (Ace, 1968, bound with The High Hex by Laurence M. Janifer & S.J. Treibach. Ace, 1979, bound with Dark Dimensions.)
Rim series.
Collection of related adventures of John Grimes, cobbled together into a "novel".
Rim of Space, The (Ace, 1962, bound with Secret Agent of Terra by John Brunner. Priory, undated, Avalon, 1961, Allison & Busby, ?. Ace, 1979, bound with The Ship from Outside. 1958 magazine title To Run the Rim.)
Rim series.
Opening volume of a series about the widely separated worlds at the very edge of the galaxy and the ships that ply the tradelanes among them. Derek Calver was the protagonist although the series later concentrated on John Grimes. The opener consisted of an episodic series of adventures in much the style of C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series.
Road to the Rim, The (Ace, 1967, bound with The Lost Millenium by Walt & Leigh Richmond. (Ace, 1979, bound with The Hard Way Up.)
Rim series.
A chronologically early story of John Grimes, serving in the Federation navy until a series of events leads him to switch allegiance to the secessionist Rim Worlds.
Sea Beasts, The (Curtis, 1971.)
Alien creatures based on the floor of Earth's oceans wage warfare against ships passing overhead, then extend their depredations along the shoreline.
Ship from Outside, The (Ace, 1963, bound with Beyond the Galactic Rim. Ace, 1979, bound with The Rim of Space. Allison & Busby, 1982.)
Rim series.
The only man ever to pilot a ship into the gulf beyond the galaxies became mentally unstable in the process. Derek Calver decides to investigate himself, particularly when legends of the Outsiders begin to proliferate.
Space Mercenaries (Ace, 1965, bound with The Caves of Mars by Emil Petaja.)
Empress #2.
The dethroned empress of a galactic empire teams up with an organization dedicated to abolishing slavery. They accept a mission to provide supplies to a human colony world besieged by aliens, carefully avoiding any activity that might result in their being declared outlaws.
Spartan Planet (Dell, 1969. Ace, 1979, bound with The Commodore at Sea. Horwitz, 1968, as False Fatherland.)
Rim series.
A lost colony world inhabited solely by men, who reproduce artificially and are governed by a religious caste, is shaken to the core when a wandering starship arrives, with women among its crew.
Star Courier (DAW, 1977, Hale, 1977.)
Rim series.
Shortly after moving from the Federation to the Rim, Grimes supported himself as a star courier, a kind of interplanetary mailman. Unfortunately, some of the planets where he touched down were reluctant to let him leave.
Star Loot (DAW, 1980, Hale, 1981.)
Rim series.
Through a strange twist of circumstance, John Grimes is forced to give up his legitimate trade temporarily and turn pirate to survive.
To Keep the Ship (DAW, 1978, Hale, 1978.)
Rim series.
While working a small time interplanetary run, Grimes is taking captive by terrorists and his ship infested by homunculi, diminutive humanoid organisms with limited intelligence but unlimited viciousness.
To Prime the Pump (Curtis, 1971.)
Rim series.
Grimes and crew arrive on a world whose inhabitants have achieved virtual immortality. Unfortunately, a side effect is sterility and a wave of cult violence and other instability is threatening the future of the colony.
Up to the Sky in Ships (NESFA, 1982.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Way Back, The (Robert Hale, 1976, DAW, 1978.)
Rim series.
After exploring extra-galactic space, Grimes and his crew discover that they have moved in time as well as space. They have also passed into an alternate universe that seems to contain no passageways back to their home continuum.
When the Dream Dies (See Rendezvous on a Lost World..)
Wild Ones, The (Paul Collins, 1984, DAW, 1985.)
Rim series.
Someone gives an experimental robot to Grimes just prior to his visit to a world dominated by religious fanatics. His uninhibited traveling companions have already caused trouble when an old enemy shows up to stir the pot more actively.
CHANDLER, BRYN
Eve's Rib (Pageant, 1989.)
A colony world founded on high principles begins to falter when unexpected resources are discovered which could make those who exploit them rich beyond their wildest dreams. Pecuniary concerns begin to undermine the stability of the colonization effort.
City Trilogy, The (Columbia University Press, 2003, translated from the Chinese by John Balcom.)
Three related novels, not published individually in English, about the revolt against a repressive future government and other political struggles in a future China. The individual titles are Five Jade Disks, Defenders of the Dragon City, and Tales of a Feather.
CHAPDELAINE, PERRY A.
Laughing Terran, The (Robert Hale, 1977.)
Not seen
Spork of the Ayor (Robert Hale, 1978.)
Not seen
Swampworld West (Elmfield Press, 1974, Coronet, 1976.)
Earth is exporting excess population to a variety of colony worlds, including one covered by unending swamps. Indigent to that planet is an alien species who appear gentle. But the Splurgs have a secret; they are subject to epidemics of insane violence in which they slaughter every living thing in sight.
CHAPMAN, D.D. (See collaboration with Deloris Lehman Tarzan.)
CHAPMAN, STEPAN (Also writes Fantasy.)
Danger Music (The Ministry of Whimsy, 1996.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
CHARBONNEAU, LOUIS (Also writes westerns as Carter Travis Young,)
Antic Earth (See Down to Earth)
Barrier World (Lancer, 1970.)
A future world dictatorship has the trappings of love and generosity but is actually a rigidly controlled anti-utopia, where even physical attributes are a matter of law. A technician stumbles across the concept of difference, and finds himself an outlaw.
Alien Mind, The (Prepublication title of Corpus Earthling.)
Corpus Earthling (Zenith, 1960, Digit, 1963.)
Filmed as an episode of The Outer Limits. Cameron hears telepathic voices in his head, voices of alien creatures plotting the invasion of Earth. Eventually the Martians become aware of his mental eavesdropping, and decide to eliminate him as a safety precaution, even though no one believes him.
Down to Earth (Bantam, 1967. Herbert Jenkins, 1967. as Antic Earth.)
A sparsely populated colony world tries to forget the separation from Earth by using holographic machinery to populate its streets with throngs of phantom people. Everything seems to be going well until some of the machinery seems to be projecting things not in the original programming.
Embryo (Warner, 1976, based on the screenplay by Anita Dobham and Jack W. Thomas. The film was retitled Created to Kill in some releases.)
An experiment to create the first human conceived outside a woman's body results in a beautiful but dangerous woman. Her body becomes to age prematurely, and she begins killing people in a desperate effort to save her own life.
Intruder (Doubleday, 1979, Berkley, 1982.)
A town administered by a super computer is the scene of death and violence when the artificial intelligence program starts using the human inhabitants as pawns in some strange internal chain of logic.
No Place on Earth 1959. (Doubleday, 1958, Crest, 1959, Herbert Jenkins, 1966.)
Advanced techniques of mind control are used on the population of the Earth to keep it subject to a brutal totalitarian government. A complaisant citizen becomes involved with a group of rebels when he falls in love with one of their number.
Pschedelic-40 (Bantam, 1965. Herbert Jenkins, 1965, as The Specials.)
The title refers to a drug that allows a small group of people with advanced intellects to dominate others, even control their minds. The protagonist is even more powerful, requires no drugs to achieve the same thing, and he's gone over to the rebels.
Sensitives, The (Bantam, 1968, based on the screenplay by Deane Romano.)
Ten people with psychokinetic powers are sought by various world powers who hope to use their abilities as weapons of war. The Chinese have already captured three, and a western agent desperately to seeks the others before they fall prey to the same fate.
Sentinel Stars, The (Bantam, 1963, Corgi, 1964.)
The entire world is controlled by a government dominated by a kind of super version of the IRS. Only the most industrious pay off their predetermined debts and survive long enough to enjoy limited freedom in their declining years. Eventually a single citizen performs a minor act of rebellion and upsets the entire applecart.
Specials, The (See Psychedelic-40.)
CHARETTE, BEVERLY (See collaboration with Mario Macari.)
CHARKIN, PAUL
Light of Mars (Badger, 1959)
Not seen.
Living Gem, The (Digit, 1963.)
A future world dictatorship is challenged by the discovery of a living jewel from another world. The gem has the power to cure illness and compel honesty and its use would spell the end of the power structure.
Other Side of Night, The (Badger, 1960.)
Not seen
CHARLES, NEIL (House pseudonym. Also used for Fantasy.)
Beyond Zoaster (Curtis Warren, 1953.) (Dennis Talbot Hughes.)
An invasion of Earth is thwarted through the use of supermen.
Para Robot (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (John W. Jennison.)
Not seen. Madman uses a giant robot to threaten the world.
Planet Tha (Curtis Warren, 1953.) (Brian Holloway.)
A wandering spaceship lands on a planet whose inhabitants are about to abandon their home world and seek a new home by invading another planet. The newcomers team up to find a less disagreeable solution to their problems.
Pre Gargantua (Curtis Warren, 1953.) (Dennis Talbot Hughes.)
A remote colony world is the battleground for a conflict between humanity and a mysterious master intelligence that uses malevolent plants as its soldiers.
Research Opta (Curtis Warren, 1953.) (Dennis Talbot Hughes.)
A scientist creates a race of microscopic intelligent beings, but they have intellects beyond that of their creator and an infinite capacity for evil. When another device increases their size so greatly that they can interact with people, the end of the world seems near.
Titan's Moon (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (Brian Holloway.)
A wandering planet on a collision course with earth, inhabited by apparently friendly aliens.
Twenty Four Hours (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (Dennis Talbot Hughes.)
Not seen. An alien invasion of Earth is thwarted.
CHARLES, ROBERT (Pseudonym of Robert Charles Smith.)
Comet, The (Tor, 1985. Corgi, 1984, as Nightworld.)
Astronomers discover that Halley's Comet has altered its course and is on a course that will cause it to cast Earth into an endless winter, forever blocked from the sun.
Flowers of Evil (Futura, 1981, Bantam, 1982.)
A mutated plant gains nourishment by absorbing blood from insects, then small animals, and eventually human beings when a group of unsuspecting people lands on their island.
Nightworld (See The Comet.)
Scream of the Dove, The (Pinnacle, 1975, Linford, 1996.)
Marginal thriller about a group of terrorists armed with a nuclear weapon, third in a series not otherwise SF.
CHARLES, STEVEN (Pseudonym of Charles L. Grant, whom see.)
Academy of Terror (Archway, 1986, Lightning, 1990.)
Private School #2.
Although they thought the sinister presence had been banished from their school, two teens have to gather their resources once again as people begin acting strangely, and mysterious, inhuman shapes are seen on campus after the fall of night.
Enemy Within, The (Archway, 1987, Lightning, 1991.)
Private School #5.
When some of her friends are kidnapped by the alien invaders, Jennifer finally summons the courage to penetrate their secret base on a rescue mission, during which she discovers the true nature of the plans these creatures have for the human race.
Last Alien, The (Archway, 1987, Lightning, 1991.)
Private School #6.
Although she destroyed the alien invasion plan, Jennifer discovers that the danger isn’t over. One of the creatures escaped the destruction, and is plotting revenge against her and her closest friends.
Nightmare Session (Archway, 1986, Lightnin, 1990.)
Private School #1.
Students at an exclusive private school begin to suspect that something strange is happening on their campus after one of their fellows is killed by a creature that isn’t human. Ultimately they discover that at least one faculty member is an alien from another world.
Skeleton Key (Archway, 1986, Lightning, 1990.)
Private School #4.
The alien invaders who have infiltrated a private school spread their influence to include the nearby police force and elsewhere. Two students who know the truth begin to feel increasingly isolated and powerless as they try to make the public aware of the danger.
Witch’s Eye (Archway, 1986, Lightning, 1990.)
Private School #3.
The ongoing protagonists discover that the wolflike alien invaders who are preying on faculty and students actually have a secret base under the waters of a nearby lake.
Road to Shamballah, The (Dancing Ground, 2002.)
Episodic grand tour of the universe.
CHARNAS, SUZY MCKEE (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Conqueror's Child, The (Tor, 1999.)
Holdfast #4.
Although the slave empire of the men of Holdfast has been overthrown, elements among that population still seek to regain power. The daughter of the leader of the free Fems seeks a new life among her mother's people.
Furies, The (Tor, 1994, Women's Press, 1995, Orb, 2001.)
Holdfast #3.
A woman who escaped slavery to males in a primitive future Earth leads a band of female warriors back to conquer the men responsible for their subjugation. But now that they've won, there are new problems, internal schisms, and the ever present problem of how to deal with their former masters.
Listening to Brahms (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Reprint in pamphlet for of the 1986 short story about alien visitors to Earth who try to adapt music for their own purposes.
Motherlines (Putnam, 1978, Berkley, 1979, Gollancz, 1980.)
Holdfast #2.
A woman escapes from a male dominated enclave in a post nuclear world, searching for a rumored band of free women living concealed in the wilderness.
Slave and the Free, The (Tor, 1999.)
Omnibus of Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines.
Walk to the End of the World (Ballantine, 1974, Gollancz, 1979.)
Holdfast #1.
Following a nuclear conflagration, the barbaric societies that dominate Earth generally treat women as slaves or even lower animals. A young man born in this world seeks to discover the truth about his parentage.
Walk to the End of the World/Motherlines (Trafalgar, 1994.)
Two novels in one volume.
CHARRETTE, ROBERT N. (Also writes Fantasy.)
Heir to the Dragon (FASA, 1989.)
Part of the multi-author Battletech series.
Rivalry among corporations frequently results in violence in this game based series. Interstellar criminal organizations, political assassinations, and other means are employed by ambitious executives seeking greater personal influence.
Initiation to War (Roc, 2001.)
A Mech Warrior novel.
A young recruit becomes educated about the realities of war when he dons his robot armor and goes out after interplanetary raiders.
Wolf Pack (Roc UK, 1992, FASA, 1992.)
Part of the multi-author Battletech series.
The leader of a group of mercenaries who go to battle in oversized robotic combat suits has to deal with a mutiny among his own men.
Wolves on the Border (FASA, 1988, Roc, 1996.)
Part of the multi-author Battletech series.
Honor and betrayal among mercenaries who conduct interstellar war armored in robotic fighting suits.
CHARTERIS, LESLIE
Fantastic Saint, The (Doubleday, 1982.)
Collection of related stories of the Saint with fantastic themes.
The Saint and the Last Hero (Doubleday, 1930, Avon, ?)
An adventure of the Saint, a gentleman rogue, opposing a criminal mastermind armed with a death ray.
CHASE, ADAM (Pseudonym of Milton Lesser, sometimes with Paul Fairman.)
Golden Ape, The (Avalon, 1959. Magazine version, 1956, as Quest of the Golden Ape.)
A man attempting to fulfill the obligations of his family stumbles across a dead planet and the secret of intervention on Earth by people from other worlds.
CHASE, ROBERT R.
Crucible (Del Rey, 1991.)
Gene Wars #2.
The conflict between normal and artificially mutated humans has come to an uneasy pause, and the man who engineered the peace sets out to find new worlds for the two strains of humanity to colonize jointly. But the old animosities are simmering under the surface, and threaten to bring the mission to an abrupt end.
Game of Fox and Lion, The (Del Rey, 1986.)
Gene Wars #1.
A corporate executive struggles to remain in authority in the Centaurus system, where genetic engineering has blurred the definition of what it means to be human. He is assisted by a genetically enhanced man who has his own agenda, one which may trigger an interstellar war.
Shapers (Del Rey, 1989.)
A small number of humans have been taken by aliens from the dying Earth to another world where they are kept essentially as breeding stock for experimentation. But some of the alterations they have made provide their victims with weapons against their masters.
CHAVEZ, RAY
They Are All Around Us (Decade, 1980.)
Pretty routine story of aliens living secretly among us, plotting to take over the world. The protagonist discovers the truth and, big surprise, can't convince anyone else.
CHAYEFSKY, PADDY
Altered States (Harper & Row, 1978, Bantam, 1979.)
A brilliant scientist uses sensory deprivation and drugs to alter his perceptions of the world, and his mind and body physically regress to a primitive state. From there he artifically speeds up his own evolution, and almost dies in the process. Made into a pretty good movie.
CHEEVER, JOHN
The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (Funk & Wagnalls, 1953, Gollancz, 1953, Berkley, 1968.)
Collection of unrelated stories, some of which are SF.
CHEPAITIS, B.A.
Fear of God, The (Ace, 1999.)