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HAAS, CHARLES
Adel Hitro (Vantage, 1962.)
A future dictator launches a campaign against redheads.
HAAS, DOROTHY
Secret Life of Dilly McBean, The (Bradbury, 1986.)
The young protagonist has an unusual psychic power, a kind of literal personal magnetism. He thought he had kept it secret, but there are a lot of strangers in the area, all showing interest in his activities, including a sinister scientist with a diabolical plan.
HABER, KAREN (See also collaboration which follows.)
Bless the Beasts (Pocket, 1996.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
The wanderers find an apparently friendly planet willing to allow them to rest and make repairs to their ship, but as it turns out they actually plan to make use of the lost Federation ship in their war with a neighboring world.
Crossing Infinity (Ibooks, 2005.)
Young adult novel about an alien who can change from male to female and the teenaged human he meets.
Mutant Legacy (Bantam, 1993.)
Mutant #4.
It appears that mutants and normal humans have finally found a way to live with one another, when a series of strange phenomena indicate that new strains of mutation may be appearing. If so, this new element of instability threatens to bring a new wave of tension and distrust.
Mutant Prime, The (Doubleday, 1990, Bantam, 1991.)
Mutant #2.
As mutants attempt to blend into human society, one of their number emerges with powers far beyond those of his fellows. Is he a messiah who will lead them to their proper place in the world, or a madman who will bring destruction to them all?
Mutant Star (Bantam, 1992.)
Mutant #3.
The situation is deteriorating as human resentment of mutant powers grows more obvious, and internal schisms prevent the mutant community from developing a united plan to ensure their collective future.
Sister Blood (DAW, 1996.)
Kayla #3.
Although the villains have been removed from power, they still live and threaten to re-establish the old order, or at least eliminate many of their enemies. Kayla must offer herself personally in order to prevent disaster.
Thieves’ Carnival (Tor, 1990, bound with The Jewel of Bas by Leigh Brackett.)
A novelette which is a prequel to the Brackett story, in which two fledgling thieves prove themselves capable of stealing a precious item.
War Minstrels, The (DAW, 1995.)
Kayla #2.
An empath helps the crew of a starship maintain its independence as rival commercial interests try to eliminate free traders from interstellar trade. Before she’s done, open revolution will break out.
Woman Without a Shadow (DAW, 1995.)
Kayla #1.
A young woman with empathic powers flees enemies on a mining colony by joining the crew of a starship that skirts the edges of the law. Unfortunately, she finds herself in an even more dangerous situation, caught between two powerful forces prepared to use murder to get what they want.
HABER, KAREN & SILVERBERG, ROBERT
Mutant Season, The (Doubleday, 1989, Bantam, 1990.)
Mutant #1.
Mutants with various psi powers have been living closely confined lives for years, but a charismatic leader emerges planning to integrate his kind with normal humanity. Unfortunately, he is assassinated, and some of his followers organize to track down the killer and save his program.
HACKETT, GENERAL SIR JOHN
Third World War: August 1985, The (Macmillan, 1978, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978.)
Written as an historical record of the gradual escalation of conflict between the Soviet Union and NATO, eventually leading to a limited nuclear exchange and all out conventional warfare.
Third World War: The Untold Story, The (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1982, Macmillan, 1982, Bantam, 1983.)
A non-narrative description of the details of World War III, based on the author’s analysis of the state of modern weaponry and troop placements at the time he wrote it.
HADDIX, MARGARET PETERSON
Among the Betrayed (Simon & Schuster, 2002.)
Future #3.
A young girl is threatened with imprisonment if she doesn't reveal the names of others who have illegally had more than two children. For young adults.
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Among the Imposters (Simon & Schuster, ?)
Future #?
Running Out of Time (Simon & Schuster, 1995.)
An entire community is maintained in the semblance of life in 1840, with few of the residents aware of the truth. When a disease threatens the lives of several of the local children, one of those who does know tells a youngster and sends her on a secret mission to the outside world to find medicine with which to save them.
Skyrocket, The (Macmillan, 1946.)
Marginal story about a round the world airship.
HADFIELD, R.L. (See collaboration with Frank Farncombe.)
HADLEY, ARTHUR T.
Joy Wagon, The (Viking, 1958, Berkley, 1960.)
Amusing satire about a computer that is programmed to be the perfect Presidential candidate, and subsequently runs for office.
HADLEY, FRANKLIN (Pseudonym of Russ Winterbotham, whom see.)
Planet Big Zero (Monarch, 1964.)
A lone human is taken prisoner when an alien empire begins destroying human ships in preparation for a planned war of interstellar conquest. He sabotages their efforts from within.
HAGBERG, DAVID (Also writes Horror. Note that no author was credited for the Flash Gordon books. See also David James.)
Allah's Scorpion (Tor, 2007.)
Terrorists have hijacked two Russian submarines armed with nuclear weapons.
By Dawn's Early Light (Tor, 2003.)
Marginal story of nuclear brinksmanship.
Capsule, The (Dell, 1976.)
Spies and assassins maneuver for possession of a small capsule that is the key to world domination. It contains an encyclopedia of scientific knowledge from another planet.
Citadels on Earth (Tempo, 1981.)
Flash Gordon #6.
Flash is arrested when he returns to Earth to help defend his homeworld against an alien invader. Ultimately he proves himself innocent, saves the world, and brings an interstellar war to its conclusion.
Citadels Under Attack (Tempo, 1981.)
Flash Gordon #5.
Still branded as outlaws on Earth, Flash and his companions travel to a distant world to reorganize, but are pursued by their alien enemies.
Crisis on Citadel II (Tempo, 1980.)
Flash Gordon #3.
An interstellar war threatens to spread throughout the entire universe, and Flash Gordon may be the only one with the will to bring it to an end.
Dance with the Dragon (Forge, 2007.)
Marginal spy thriller involving a plot against the US.
Forces from the Federation (Tempo, 1981.)
Flash Gordon #4.
Flash returns to Earth to warn them of an imminent alien attack, but he and his friends have been unjustly accused of treason and must flee the people they are trying to save.
Heartland (Tor, 1983.)
The Russians have developed a secret plan to destroy the wheat crop in North America and tip the balance of international power in their favor.
Joshua’s Hammer (Forge, 2000, Tor, 2001.)
Marginal thriller about a terrorist with a suitcase sized atomic bomb and a plan to set it off in Washington.
Massacre in the 22nd Century (Tempo, 1980.)
Flash Gordon #1.
While investigating the reappearance of a lost starship, Flash and his friends find themselves caught in the middle of an endless interstellar war.
Terminator 3 (Tor, 2003, based on the screenplay by Jonathan Mostow, John Brancato, and Michael Ferris.)
A Terminator novel.
The time traveling terminators are back, this time including a female version.
War of the Citadels (Tempo, 1980.)
Flash Gordon #2.
Flash attempts to mediate an end to an interplanetary war, but discovers that he is trusted by neither side in the conflict.
White House (Forge, 1999.)
Marginal thriller about North Korea getting nuclear weapons and a plot to blow up the White House.
HAGGARD, H. RIDER (Note that the Allan Quartermain novels are often classified as fantasies rather than SF. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Allan Quartermain (Longmans, 1887, Harper, 1887, Lovell, 1887, Macdonald, 1949, Pilot, 1950, Hodder, 1951, Collins, 1955, Nelson, 1956, Universal, ?, Ballantine, ? Arrow, 1986, as Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold.)
An Allan Quartermain novel.
Another expedition is launched into darkest Africa, this time in search of a legendary tribe of white people rumored to have maintained a high civilization somewhere in the interior.
Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold. (See Allan Quartermain.)
Allan Quartermain/King Solomon’s Mines (Royal, ?)
Omnibus edition.
Allan Quatermain's Wife (See Allan's Wife.)
Allan’s Wife (Munro, 1887, Blackett, 1889, Macdonald, 1951, Newcastle, 1980. Wildside, 2002, as Allan Quatermain's Wife.)
Collection of marginal stories about Allan Quartermain.
Best Short Stories of H. Rider Haggard, The (Joseph, 1981.)
Collection of mostly unrelated stories.
Collected Novels (Castle, 1987.)
Omnibus of King Solomon’s Mines, Cleopatra, She, and Maiwa’s Revenge.
Five Adventure Novels (Dover, 1951.)
Omnibus of King Solomon’s Mines, Allan Quartermain, She, Allan’s Wife, and Maiwa’s Revenge.
Heart of the World (Longmans, 1895, Hodder, 1920, Harrap, 1926, Macdonald, 1954, Newcastle, 1976.)
Adventurers discover a lost Mayan civilization still thriving in the middle of the jungle.
Heu-Heu or the Monster (Hutchinson, 1924, Doubleday, 1924, Grosset, 1926, Wildside, 2000.)
An Allan Quartermain novel.
Allan is off to rescue another prospective sacrifice, during which process he unmasks a fake monster and encounters a race of missing link apemen.
King Solomon’s Mines (Cassell, 1885, Lovell, 1886, Harper, 1887, Longmans, 1901, Dell, 1950, Pan, 1951, Ward Lock, 1951, Collins, 1955, Macdonald, 1956, Nelson, 1956, Chatto & Windus, 1956, Puffin, 1958, Dell, 1961, Magnum, 1968, Street & Smith Select Library, ?.)
An Allan Quartermain novel.
Probably the best Lost World novel of all time, this is an African adventure story that ends up with the discovery of an unsuspected civilization in the heart of that continent.
King Solomon’s Mines/Allan Quartermain (Royal, 1953.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
King Solomon’s Mines/She/Allan Quartermain (Octopus, 1979.)
Omnibus of the three novels.
Nada the Lily (Longmans Green, 1927, Newcastle, 1979, Wildside, 2000.)
Marginal adventure about the early life of Umsloppagas, who appears in King Solomon’s Mines.
People of the Mist, The (Longmans, 1894, Hodder, 1921, Macdonald, 1951, Ballantine, ?, Pulp Fictions, 1998.)
Explorers discover a lost race with a relatively high civilization living concealed in the heart of Africa.
Stella Fregelius (Longmans, 1903, Hodder, 1923.)
Odd love story about the inventor of a communications device that he later attempts unsuccessfully to use to communicate with the dead.
When the World Shook. (Paget, 1918, Cassell, 1919, Longmans, 1919, Del Rey, 1978, Pulp Fictions, 1998.)
Explorers enter an underground vault on a remote island and discover a sleeping woman who has lived there for 250,000 years waiting for the right moment to waken. Within the ruins of her long lost civilization is a device which maintains the Earth’s rotation, and which a villain plans to use with devastating results.
HAGGARD, WILLIAM (Pseudonym of Richard Clayton.)
Slow Burner (Cassell, 1958, Corgi, 1959.)
Marginal thriller about nuclear power and England’s sudden breakthrough.
Unquiet Sleep, The (Washburn, 1962, Avon, ?.)
Marginal thriller about a new drug that spreads through the British government.
Venetian Blind (?, 1959.)
Marginal thriller involving antigravity.
HAHN, STEVE (Pseudonym of Stephen Robinett.)
Mindwipe! (Laser, 1976. Magazine version 1969 as by Tak Hallus.)
A man with an uncontrollable and lethal telepathic power flees custody to a distant planet where he tries to master the forces manipulating him.
HAIBLUM, ISIDORE
Crystalworld, Avon, 1992.)
Tom Dunjer #4.
The boundaries between various dimensions are threatened by the destabilizer, a radical new discovery that has fallen into the hands of a criminal. Tom Dunjer and his robot allies have to steal it before he destroys the universes.
Hand of Ganz, The (Signet, 1984.)
Ross Block #2.
In order to prevent a rapacious alien bureaucrat from incorporating the Earth into his private empire, two Earthmen must master the politics and science of other worlds and foil his nefarious plot.
Identity Plunderers, The (Signet, 1984.)
Ross Block #1.
A human in New York City and a brainwiped prisoner on an alien world find themselves drawn together in an intricate plot that will change the course of history for more than one race.
Interworld (Dell, 1977, Penguin, 1980.)
Tom Dunjer #1.
A security expert and his team of robots have to track down the parties responsible for a series of break ins that employ technology unheard of on earth.
Mutants Are Coming, The (Del Rey, 1984, Doubleday, 1984.)
James Morgan #1.
The mutant population on Earth is increasingly chafing at the barriers they face, so they kidnap a politician from the lunar base as part of a plan to upset the current government and force recognition of their plight. A trouble shooter from the lunar colony arrives on Earth to rescue his compatriot.
Nightmare Express (Gold Medal, 1979.)
Mark Craig travels through time and alternate realities pursuing and pursued by mysterious figures, not all of which are human, or even living beings.
Outerworld (Dell, 1979, bound with Dr. Scofflaw by Ron Goulart.)
Tom Dunjer #2.
Dunjer is framed and made to look like a thief, but he avoids being imprisoned and eventually uncovers the real culprits.
Out of Sync (Del Rey, 1990.)
James Morgan #2.
Morgan has become part owner of several casinos, and he’s understandably upset when each of his sites is robbed. He’s even more perplexed when it appears that the robbers were quite literally invisible.
Return, The (Dell, 1970.)
Someone is killing prominent people, and turning others into vicious killing machines. The protagonist knows that he is a programmed assassin, but he’s no longer certain who is issuing the orders.
Specterworld (Avon, 1991.)
Tom Dunjer #3.
Criminals from another space time continuum have stolen part of a city and are preparing to loot the rest, but Dunjer and his robot sidekicks travel through time and space to bring them to justice.
Transfer to Yesterday (Ballantine, 1973, Doubleday, 1973.)
An academic finds himself unstuck in realities, traveling through parallel worlds in search of his lost family.
Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders, The (Ballantine, 1971, Doubleday, 1981.)
Time travelers from different ages meet in this comic novel.
Wilk Are Among Us, The (Doubleday, 1975, Dell, 1979.)
One human and a bunch of aggressive aliens are inadvertently dropped on an alien world, where the former has to figure out a way to prevent the latter from taking over the planet, a task made easier by the fact that they look exactly like the local inhabitants.
HAIGH, RICHARD (Also writes Horror.)
Golden Astronauts, The (Hale, 1980.)
Not seen.
HAILE, TERENCE
Claw, The. (See The Space Train.)
Galaxies Ahead (Digit, 1963.)
Not seen.
Space Train, The (Digit, 1962. Ewington, 1973, as The Claw.)
Not seen.
HAILEY, ARTHUR
In High Places (Doubleday, 1962, Bantam, 1962, Literary Guild, 1962.)
The world totters on the brink of nuclear war while troubled diplomats try to prevent open conflict from breaking out in this near future thriller.
HAILS, IAN
Back Door Man (Aphelion, ?)
A future Australia is troubled by resurgent religious fundamentalism and readily attainable drugs.
HAINES, D.H.
Clearing the Seas (Harper, 1915.)
Future war between the US and an alliance of nations.
HALACY JR., D.S.
Return from Luna (Grosset & Dunlap, 1969.)
Not seen.
Rocket Rescue (Norton, 1968.)
A pair of twins stationed in different parts of the solar system are called upon to use their telepathic bond in order to avert a major disaster in this young adult novel.
HALAM, ANN (Also writes Fantasy and Horror. Pseudonym of Gwyneth Jones, whom see.)
Dr. Franklin's Island (Dolphin, 2001, Wendy Lamb, 2002, Dell, 2003.)
Three youngsters are stranded on an island with a mad doctor who transforms them into other animals forms.
Taylor Five (Dell Laurel, 2005.)
A cloned teenager runs from terrorists.
HALBERSTAM, MICHAEL
Wanting of Levine, The (Lippincott, 1978.)
The United States is a declining power in the near future, with border wars being fought among various states. To save the day comes a Bronx Jew who decides to run for President in this broad satire on the American political process.
HALDANE, CHARLOTTE (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Man’s World (Chatto & Windus, 1926.)
Dystopian novel set in a future where blacks are completely subjugated, and women are confined to narrowly defined roles by a repressive government.
HALDANE, J.B.S.
Man With Two Memories, The (Merlin, 1976.)
A mental link to another world.
HALDEMAN, JACK C. (See also collaboration Harry Harrison, and with Andrew Offutt as John Cleve, and collaborations which follow.)
Fall of Winter, The (Baen, 1985.)
An expert is called in to find out why the terraforming project on a distant planet is going so badly, and shortly after arriving discovers that someone, or something, is trying to kill him as well.
Perry's Planet (Bantam, 1980, Titan, 1994.)
A Star Trek novel.
The Enterprise contends with Klingons on a planet whose ruler has found a way to conquer death and rule from beyond the grave. He has also created a highly contagious virus which makes it impossible to commit even the slightest act of violence, which complicates matters when dealing with a Klingon warship.
Vector Analysis (Berkley, 1978.)
A biologist struggles to find the cure for an interstellar plague that could wipe out the entire human race.
Echoes of Thunder (Tor, 1881, bound with Run for the Stars by Harlan Ellison.)
Novelet published as a double.
High Steel (Tor, 1993.)
International corporations have supplanted the governments of Earth, and they are battling over control of the knowledge contained in a message from the stars. In orbit, an American Indian is virtually an indentured servant of one of the companies, employed in the construction of an orbiting habitat. But he is about to play a pivotal part in the resolution of issues which he was never meant to know about.
HALDEMAN, JACK & HALDEMAN, JOE
There Is No Darkness (Ace, 1983, Futura, 1985.)
Episodic novel about the adventures of a number of young space cadets as they set out for an advanced training mission on a ship dedicated to that purpose.
HALDEMAN, JOE (See also Robert Graham, and collaboration above with Jack Haldeman. Also writes Fantasy.)
Accidental Time Machine, The (Ace, 2007.)
An experiment inadvertently reveals the secret of time travel and its discoverer travels into increasingly remote futures.
All My Sins Remembered (St Martins, 1977, Macdonald, 1978, Avon, 1978, Gollancz, 2003.)
Collection of related stories about a man whose job is to travel from planet to planet, ensuring that human exploiters don’t take unfair advantage of alien races.
Buying Time (Morrow, 1989, Easton, 1989, Avon, 1990. New English Library, 1989, as The Long Habit of Living.)
One of the rich minority capable of affording immortality treatment refuses to join the ruling elite, and discovers that he is the target of professional killers who want to eliminate him from the equation.
Camouflage (Ace, 2004.)
Two immortal aliens with shape changing abilities finally cross paths after thousands of years of concealment on Earth.
Coming, The (Ace, 2000.)
A message from space seems to indicate that aliens are about to visit Earth for the first time. As a major war rages in Europe and the situation deteriorates throughout the world, some begin to wonder if the message is a hoax, although the truth is even stranger.
Dealing in Futures (Viking, 1985, Orbit, 1986, Ace, 1986.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Forever Free (Ace, 1999, Millennium, 2000.)
Forever #3.
A group of people flee Earth to remain independent of the mass mind that has taken over humanity. Through mischance, they return to that planet after generations have passed in suspended animation, and discover what happened to the species.
Forever Peace (Ace, 1997, Millennium, 1999.)
Forever #2.
A limited nuclear exchange is part of a high tech war fought primarily by remote robotic units linked to operators back behind the lines. One soldier and his girlfriend make a startling discovery about the nature of the war, and decide to change the world.
Forever War, The (St Martins, 1974, Macmillan, 1974, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1975, Ballantine, 1976, Avon, 1991, Millennium, 1999, Gollancz, 2001.)
Forever #1.
A professional soldier of the far future battles aliens on various worlds, while the culture on Earth changes because of the time differential to something totally alien to him and his fellows.
Hemingway Hoax, The (Morrow, 1990, Avon, 1991, New English Library, 1997.)
A clever plot to create a fake Hemingway manuscript gets a con man into trouble when he discovers that he is being pursued by a hitman from a parallel universe.
Infinite Dreams (St Martins, 1978, Avon, 1979.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Long Habit of Living, The (See Buying Time.)
Marsbound (Ace, 2008.)
Carmen Dula #1.
Colonists on Mars discover the planet is not uninhabited.
Mindbridge (St Martins, 1976, Macdonald, 1977, Avon, 1978, Gollancz, 2000.)
A psychic sensitive from Earth contacts an alien race that is able to change the shape of their bodies and which possesses the implacable desire to destroy the human race.
More Than the Sum of His Parts (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Short story in pamphlet form about a man seeking a prosthetic solution to his maimed body.
None So Blind (Morrow, 1996, Avon, 1997.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Old Twentieth (Ace, 2005.)
A far future time machine becomes self aware and begins operating on its own.
Peace and War (Gollancz, 2006.)
Omnibus of the Forever trilogy.
Planet of Judgment (Bantam, 1977, Corgi, 1977.)
A Star Trek novel.
The Enterprise finds itself orbiting an apparently artificial planet whose alien rulers have supernormal powers, including the ability to neutralize all mechanical and computer systems aboard the ship and the power to control a black hole. They seize several members of the crew to study in anticipation of a battle with an invading alien armada.
Separate War and Other Stories, A (Ace, 2006.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Starbound (Ace, 2010.)
Carmen Dula #2.
A young woman tries to prevent an interstellar war.
Tool of the Trade (Morrow, 1987, Gollancz, 1987, Avon, 1988.)
A deep cover spy for the communists has developed a device that allows him to control the minds of others, but when his Soviet masters try to command him, he discovers that he has mixed feelings about where his loyalties lie.
Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds (NESFA, 1993.)
Collection of related stories, plus essays and verse.
Worlds (Viking, 1981, Pocket, 1982, Macdonald, 1982, Gollancz, 2001.)
Worlds #1.
A citizen of one of the habitats orbiting the Earth makes a trip back to the homeworld, where she confronts street crime, strange habits, and a fanatic group that is determined to destroy the entire planet.
Worlds Apart (Viking, 1983, Orbit, 1984, Ace, 1984, Avon, 1992.)
Worlds #2.
A plague devastates the population of Earth, and the only civilization that survives is aboard a variety of orbiting habitats, the inhabitants of which are faced with reclaiming the homeworld or starting fresh elsewhere.
Worlds Enough and Time (Morrow, 1992, New English Library, 1992, Avon, 1993.)
Worlds #3.
A desperate attempt to launch a voyage to the stars is beset with problems from the outset, and the hopeful founders of a new human society begin to be concerned that their enterprise will end in chaos and death before their destination is even in sight.
World Without End (Bantam, 1979, Corgi, 1979.)
A Star Trek novel.
Further adventures on an artificial world whose masters are able to shape the physical nature of its inhabitants, and who have trapped the Enterprise crew between themselves and an orbiting Klingon warship.
HALDEMAN, VOL (See collaboration with Andrew Offutt as John Cleve.)
HALE, ANDREW
2020: Vision of the Future (Ada, 1987.)
Not seen.
HALE, JOHN
Paradise Man, The (Rapp & Whiting, 1969.)
Not seen.
HALE, KELLY (See collaboration with Simon Bucher-Jones.)
HALE, MARTIN
Fourth Reich, The (Jonathan Cape, 1965.)
Not seen.
HALEY, CLAUD (Pseudonym of Leslie Fish.)
Beyond the Solar System (Arc, 1954.)
Invaders from Mercury threaten the Earth.
HALKIN, JOHN (Also writes Horror.)
Blood Worm (Arrow, 1987, Critics Choice, 1988.)
Two new insect species, a poisonous beetle and a worm that eats living, human flesh, team up to menace the world once again.
Slime (Hamlyn, 1984, Critics Choice, 1986.)
A new breed of jellyfish whose bite is invariably fatal appears, becoming even more dangerous when it is apparent they can breed with unprecedented rapidity, and live in fresh water as well as the oceans.
Slither (Hamlyn, 1980, Nelson, 1981, Critics Choice, 1986.)
The world is menaced by a new species of reptile that emerges from ponds and lakes, breeding quickly, and growing to frighteningly large size.
Squelch (Hamlyn, 1985, Critics Choice, 1986.)
A mutated species of moth is quite beautiful, but their caterpillar stage is deadly to human beings.
HALL, AUSTIN (See also collaboration which follows.)
People of the Comet, The (Griffin, 1948.)
Old fashioned space opera about the appearance of a strange comet, which turns out to have a humanoid population along with various dangers.
Spot of Life, The (Ace, 1964. Magazine version, 1932.)
Spot #2.
A mastermind from another dimension plans to open a doorway into our world and invade New York City with his unconquerable army.
HALL, AUSTIN & FLINT, HOMER EON
Blind Spot, The. (Magazine version 1921. Prime, 1951, Museum, 1953, Ace, 1964, Greenhill, 1987.)
Spot #1.
One room in our world is actually a doorway to a parallel universe whose inhabitants are interested in conquering new worlds. Two friends investigate the other reality and solve some of the questions raised in the early part of the novel, but not all of them.
HALL, DESMOND (Pseudonym of Anthony Gilmore.)
Space Hawk (?, 1952.)
Collection of related stories.
HALL, FRANCES (See collaboration with Piers Anthony.)
HALL, G. ROME
Black Fortnight, The (Swan, 1904, Sonnenschein, 1904.)
A future war novel.
HALL, JOHN RYDER (Also writes Fantasy. Pseudonym of William Rotsler, whom see.)
Futureworld (Ballantine, 1976, based on the screenplay by Mayo Simon and George Schenck.)
The control programs in a futuristic theme park begin to malfunction and the thrills and dangers that are supposed be simulated suddenly become real, and deadly.
Green Hailstones (Hale, 1978.)
Not seen.
HALL, ROBERT LEE
Exit Sherlock Holmes (Scribners, 1977, Playboy, 1979.)
Dr. Watson investigates his friend’s past after the latest round of battles with Professor Moriarty, and discovers that Holmes is actually a time traveler from the future.
HALL, RODNEY
Kisses of the Enemy (Penguin, 1987.)
Near future novel about Australia after a political change.
HALL, RONALD
Open Cage, The (Collins, 1970, Panther, 1973.)
An abortive nuclear strike nevertheless has devastating effects on the planet’s climate, and in the aftermath the survivors struggle in a world suddenly considerably less hospitable to humans.
HALL, SANDI
Godmothers, The (Women’s Press, 1982.)
Women revolt against an increasingly patriarchal future society.
Wingwomen of Hera (Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987.)
A comet causes chaos among two planetary populations in this implausible adventure. It was supposed to be the first of the Cosmic Botanists trilogy with Newchild of Maladar to be the next volume, but subsequent books apparently never appeared.
HALL, WILLIS
Henry Hollins and the Dinosaur. (See Summer of the Dinosaur.)
Summer of the Dinosaur (Bodley Head, 1977. Bodley Head, 1988, as Henry Hollins and the Dinosaur.)
Not seen.
HALLAM, ATLANTIS
Star Ship on Saddle Mountain (Macmillan, 1955.)
A young boy is kidnapped to Saturn.
HALLAMSHIRE, DAVID
Alien’s Dictionary, The (Headline, 1989.)
Not seen.
HALLE, LOUIS
Sedge (Praeger, 1963.)
A would be Utopia isolates itself from the rest of the world for hundreds of years.
HALLEN, A.L.
Angilin: A Venite King (Digby Long, 1907.)
Adventures on Venus.
HALLIDAY, MAGS L.
History 101 (BBC, 2002.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor and friends show up in the middle of the Spanish Civil War.
HALPERIN, JAMES L.
First Immortal, The (Del Rey, 1998.)
A man is cryogenically frozen for eighty years and wakes up in a future world filled with nanotechnology, cloning, and artificial intelligence. But he soon learns that although personal immortality now seems possible, that hasn’t solved the problem of interpersonal communication.
Truth Machine, The (Del Rey, 1996, Ivy, 1996.)
In order to combat rising crime, the US institutes a policy whereby violent criminals are immediately executed, but only after being proven guilty by a machine that is one hundred percent accurate in its judgment. Or is it?
HALSBURY, EARL OF
1944 (Butterworth, 1926.)
Future war novel in which most of the population of the world is killed.
HAM, BOB
Alabama Bloodbath (Bantam, 1991.)
Overload #11.
Not seen.
Atlanta Burn (Bantam, 1990.)
Overload #5.
Not seen.
Highway Warriors (Bantam, 1989.)
Overload #3.
Not seen.
Huntsville Horror (Bantam, 1991.)
Overload #9.
Not seen.
Michigan Madness (Bantam, 1991.)
Overload #10.
Not seen.
Nebraska Nightmare (Bantam, 1990.)
Overload #6.
Not seen.
Ozark Payback (Bantam, 1991.)
Overload #8.
Not seen.
Personal War (Bantam, 1989.)
Overload #1.
Not seen.
Rolling Vengeance (Bantam, 1990.)
Overload #7.
Not seen.
Tennessee Terror (Bantam, 1989.)
Overload #4.
Not seen.
Vegas Gamble (Bantam, 1991.)
Overload #12.
Not seen.
Wrath, The (Bantam, 1989.)
Overload #2.
Not seen.
HAMBLY, BARBARA (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Children of the Jedi (Bantam, 1995.)
A Star Wars novel.
?
Crossroad (Pocket, 1994.)
A Star Trek novel.
The Enterprise encounters a disabled ship whose crew claims to be from a future in which the Federation is being subverted by a secret organization. But the refugees seize control of the ship, and Kirk must decide whether to believe them, or another group of time travelers who arrive with a very different story.
Ghost-Walker (Pocket, 1991, Titan, 1991.)
A Star Trek novel.
A neutral world threatened by famine is the scene when Kirk and crew arrive on a mission of mercy, only to find their own lives in jeopardy when a mysterious alien creature boards the Enterprise.
Ishmael (Pocket, 1985, Titan, 1989.)
A Star Trek novel.
Spock is aboard a Klingon ship that has found a way to travel through time, and it's on the way back to sabotage the Federation during the early days of its formation.
Planet of Twilight (Bantam, 1997.)
A Star Wars novel.
A warlord has kidnapped Princess Leia and the re-awakening of an intelligent alien species powerful enough to endanger the Republic has caused a crisis, but Luke Skywalker is off searching for the woman he loves in this better than average media spinoff.
HAMBROOK, EMERSON
Red To-morrow, The (Proletarian, 1920.)
A new world war ends with the triumph of communism.
HAMILTON, CICELY
Lest Ye Die. (See Theodore Savage.)
Theodore Savage (Parsons, 1922. Jonathan Cape, 1928, as Lest Ye Die.)
Civilization has passed to barbarism in the future.
HAMILTON, EDMOND (See also Brett Sterling and collaboration which follows. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Battle for the Stars (Paperback Library, 1961, Torquil, 1961, Mayflower, 1963, Tor, 1989, bound with The Nemesis from Terra by Leigh Brackett.)
Two competing interstellar empires send delegations to Earth to participate in a ceremony, but both have ulterior motives, plans to forcibly incorporate Earth into their spheres of influence.
Best of Edmond Hamilton, The (Del Rey, 1977, Doubleday, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Beyond the Moon (See The Star Kings.)
Calling Captain Future (Popular Library, 1967. Magazine version, 1940.)
A Captain Future novel.
Captain Future must counter the evil influence of a mastermind from another star system who has hypnotized the population of Earth into following him.
Captain Future and the Space Emperor (Popular Library, 1967. Magazine version 1939.)
A Captain Future novel.
An alien empire capable of transforming humans into horrible monsters has plans to seize the solar system which only Captain Future may be able to defeat.
Captain Future’s Challenge (Popular Library, 1967. Magazine version, 1940.)
A Captain Future novel.
Alien invaders attack various planets in the solar system in a synchronized attack, while Captain Future is kidnapped into space.
Chronicles of the Star Kings (Arrow, 1986.)
Omnibus of The Star Kings and Return to the Stars.
City at World's End (Frederick Fell, 1951, Museum, 1952, Corgi, 1954, Crest, 1961, Del Rey, 1983.)
A nuclear weapon propels a midwestern city far into the future where Earth is a deserted, dying world. An intrusively benevolent interstellar government tries to relocate the survivors but they decide instead to risk a dangerous experiment designed to revitalize the Earth.
Closed Worlds, The (Ace, 1968.)
Star Wolf #2.
A team of mercenaries tracks down a missing scientist on a world that forbids visitors from other worlds and discovers an ancient technology that allows mental travel among the stars.
Crashing Suns (Ace, 1965.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Doomstar (Belmont, 1966.)
Rumors of a weapon that can alter the output of stars with disastrous effects on local populations prompts authorities to use a discredited trader as their agent to track down those responsible.
Fugitive of the Stars (Ace, 1965, bound with Land Beyond the Map by Kenneth Bulmer.)
A star pilot is framed into taking the blame for a fatal accident, but he escapes and returns to a fringe world where the local aristocracy is using slave labor to build a supercomputer.
Galaxy Mission (Popular Library, 1967. Magazine version, 1940.)
A Captain Future novel.
A substance which allows humans to return to youthfulness spreads through the solar system, but only Captain Future suspects that it is part of a plan to enslave the human race.
Haunted Stars, The (Torquil, 1960, SF Book Club, 1960, Pyramid, 1962, Jenkins, 1965.)
A group of scientists investigate an abandoned military base on the moon, build a starship, and travel to the real homeworld of humanity, which has been prohibited from building spaceships by a mysterious alien race.
Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, The (Allan, 1936, Gregg, 1975.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Magician of Mars, The (Popular Library, 1968. Magazine version, 1941.)
A Captain Future novel.
An evil scientific genius has escaped from prison, and Captain Future has to track him down before he revives the reign of terror which he once inflicted on the solar system.
Metal Giants, The (Swanson, 1935.)
Short story in pamphlet form.
Outlaws of the Moon (Popular Library, 1967. Magazine version, 1942.)
A Captain Future novel.
Captain Future is missing, someone has framed him for a series of crimes, and plans are made to loot his secret base on the moon.
Outlaw World (Popular Library, 1967. Magazine version, 1945.)
A Captain Future novel.
Invaders from another system are conquering all of humanity’s planets, so Captain Future sets out to find the enemy’s homeworld and undermine their attack.
Outside the Universe (Ace, 1964. Magazine version, 1929.)
An intergalactic war spans most of the universe in this early space opera.
Planets in Peril (Popular Library, 1967. Magazine version, 1942.)
A Captain Future novel.
Captain Future travels to another dimension, where the local inhabitants prevail upon him to solve their problems.
Quest Beyond the Stars (Popular Library, 1967. Magazine version, 1941.)
A Captain Future novel.
Future is off to another star system in search of a technology which will help to restore the ecosystem of the planet Mercury before all of its inhabitants are forced to abandon their home world.
Return to the Stars (Lancer, 1969.)
John Gordon #2.
Interstellar politics in a distant future when the galaxy is filled with competing empires.
Star Kings, The (Frederick Fell, 1949, Museum, 1951, Paperback Library, 1967. Signet, 1950, as Beyond the Moon.)
John Gordon #1.
A contemporary man exchanges bodies with a scientist from the far future. There he is the son of the ruler of a galactic empire and becomes involved with a war, treachery, assassination, and a series of comic book adventures.
Star of Life, The (Crest, 1959, Torquil, 1959, SF Book Club, 1959.)
An astronaut trapped in space awakens from suspended animation to find an interstellar civilization dominated by immortal humans who have forbidden others to travel to the star that provides this gift. He sides with some rebels, reaches that world, only to discover that it causes children to become mutated monsters.
Star Stealers, The (Haffner, 2009.)
Collection of related short stories.
Starwolf (Ace, 1982. Hamlyn, ?, as The Starwolf Trilogy.)
Omnibus of the Starwolf trilogy.
Starwolf Trilogy, The. (See Starwolf.)
Sun Smasher, The (Ace, 1959, bound with Starhaven by Ivar Jorgenson. Magazine title Starman Come Home, 1954.)
An aristocrat from an interstellar empire is left on Earth with no memories. Recovered by his comrades, he eventually decides to destroy the ultimate weapon even at cost of his throne.
Tharkol, Lord of the Unknown (World, 1950. Magazine title The Prisoner of Mars, 1939.)
Martians invade the Earth.
Valley of Creation, The (Lancer, 1964. Magazine version, 1948.)
A handful of mercenaries are lured to a remote Tibetan valley where they find work in a battle between two factions of lost world where tigers, wolves, horses, and eagles all equal humankind in intelligence. They eventually find the source of this oddity; an ancient crashed spaceship whose intelligent occupants moved their minds into local fauna.
Weapon from Beyond, The (Ace, 1967.)
Starwolf #1.
A fugitive pirate is drafted by a mercenary group in their efforts to destroy a rumored superweapon. They find instead a crashed alien starship being exploited by one planet hoping to find the means of conquering another.
What’s It Like Out There? (Ace, 1974.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
World of the Starwolves (Ace, 1968.)
Star Wolf #3.
In order to reclaim a priceless treasure from a world guarded by advanced weaponry, Morgan Chane returns to the pirate world to organize a raid.
Stark and the Star Kings (Haffner, 2005.)
A collection of novels by the two writers and their single crossover story written collaboratively.
HAMILTON, LAURELL K. (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Nightshade (Pocket, 1992.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation novel.
A world where incessant warfare has finally damaged the ecosphere irreversibly asks the Federation for assistance. Conspirators unwilling to end the fighting frame Picard for murder, and it's up to Worf and Troi to negotiate peace and exonerate their commander.
HAMILTON, PATRICK
Impromptu in Moribundia (Constable, 1939.)
Not seen.
HAMILTON, PETER F. (Note that the Neutronium Alchemist books are sequels to the Reality Dysfunction, and The Naked God completes the sequence.)
Conflict (Aspect, 1998. Macmillan, 1997, as part of The Neutronium Alchemist.)
Neutronium Alchemist #2.
The souls of the dead return from beyond to possess the bodies of the living in a war that threatens to destroy the civilized universe.
Consolidation (Aspect, 1998. Macmillan, 1997, as part of The Neutronium Alchemist.)
Neutronium Alchemist #1.
Displaced intelligences seize control of other bodies, and champions of nanotechnology and genetic engineering are forced to combine their efforts to stave off defeat.
Dreaming Void, The (Del Rey, 2008.)
Commonwealth #3.
Long space opera about a missing or dead alien race and a strange anomaly that could destroy a world.
Emergence (Aspect, 1997. Macmillan, 1996, Pan 1997, as part of The Reality Dysfunction.)
Reality Dysfunction #1.
Panoramic novel of an invading force that threatens a wide variety of planets and races with mind control, plagues, mutations, and physical attacks.
Expansion (Aspect, 1997. Macmillan, 1996, Pan, 1997, as part of The Reality Dysfunction.)
Reality Dysfunction #2.
An alien race so different that they are almost supernatural threaten the civilized worlds.
Faith (Aspect, 2000.)
The second half of The Naked God.
Fallen Dragon (Warner, 2002.)
The corporate exploitation of the galaxy has taken an ugly turn, with armies of enhanced soldiers in use to coerce colony worlds into cooperating with the bigger companies.
Flight (Aspect, 2000.)
The first half of The Naked God.
Judas Unchained (Del Rey, 2006.)
Commonwealth #2.
Humanity is caught between a race of aliens determined to exterminate them and another which uses mind control to influence others.
Lightstorm (Orion, 1998, Starscape, 2005.)
A Web novel.
A group of children investigate sinister goings on at a local dump, using the internet of the future as their tool.
Mindstar Rising. (Pan, 1993, Tor, 1996.)
Greg Mandel #1.
A freelance security operative with the gift of telepathy sets out to track down the parties responsible for a string of sabotage attacks on a high tech scientific project involving artificial intelligence.
Misspent Youth (Ballantine, 2006.)
The discovery of a form of immortality leads to numerous problems.
Naked God, The (Aspect, 1999. Paperback edition was published in two parts as Flight and Faith.)
Sequel to the Neutronium Alchemist sequence.
The final resolution of the conflicts which have divided humans from aliens and humans from humans on a galactic scale.
Nano Flower, The (Pan, 1995, Tor, 1998.)
Greg Mandel #3.
A brilliant scientist has disappeared, leaving the wife and company he founded incapable of dealing with suddenly stronger competition from their rivals. She hires Mandel to find her husband, but in the process he discovers the secret source of incredible new inventions.
Neutronium Alchemist, The (Macmillan, 1997, Pan, 1997.)
Reality #2.
See Conflict and Consolidation.
Pandora's Star (Del Rey, 2004.)
Commonwealth #1.
When humans investigate a new star system, they release a race of bellicose aliens from their imprisonment behind a force field.
Quantum Murder, The (Pan, 1994, Tor, 1997.)
Greg Mandel #2.
A telepathic detective sets out to find out who killed a brilliant scientist who was on the verge of a great discovery.
Reality Dysfunction, The (Macmillan, 1996, Pan, 1997.)
Reality #1.
See Emergence and Expansion.
Second Chance at Eden, A (MacMillan, 1998, Aspect, 1999.)
Collection of loosely related stories.
Temporal Void, The (Del Rey, 2009.)
Commonwealth #4.
An anomaly in space threatens to flood the galaxy with destructive dreams.
Watching Trees Grow (PS, 2000.)
Short novel about a race of immortals in an alternate Earth. One of them has committed a murder, and a patient detective keeps the case open for centuries until the proper forensic tools become available to him.
HAMILTON, TODD CAMERON (See collaboration with P.J. Beese.)
HAMILTON, VIRGINIA
Dustland (Morrow, 1980, Greenwillow, 1980, Avon Flare, 1981.)
Justice #2.
Three children are transported to a near magical future land where the Earth is dying and strange creatures prowl the wastelands.
Gathering, The (Morrow, 1981, Greenwillow, 1981, Avon Flare, 1981.)
Justice #3.
After traveling to the far future, several children discover a domed city that is the last vestige of civilization on a dying planet.
Justice and Her Brothers (Morrow, 1981, Greenwillow, 1981, Avon Flare, 1981.)
Justice #1.
A young girl senses that there is some mysterious force stirring in the vicinity of her home, a force which her brothers know about but refuse to discuss.
HAMMIL, JOEL (Also writes Horror.)
Limbo (Arbor House, 1980, Pocket, 1982.)
Innocent patients are being used as guinea pigs in a secret project to stimulate greater intelligence.
HAMMOND, PETER J.
Sapphire and Steel (Star, 1979.)
Based on the television show of the same name. A rift in the fabric of time threatens the universe, but two mysterious people appear who claim to have the power to restore things to normality.
Cloud, The (Pan, 2006.)
The first radio contact with aliens is followed by an attack on Earth.
Emergence (MacMillan, 2001, Pan, 2002.)
Near future thriller involving a super corporation.
Extinction (Macmillan, 2005.)
The Earth shifts on its axis.
HAMMONDS, MICHAEL
Burning Man, The (Pinnacle, 1991.)
Three people are linked by a mysterious psi power that gives them shared visions of a flaming man, symbol of a terrible fate that threatens the world.
HAMMOND, WARREN
Ex-Kop (Tor, 2008.)
Kop #2.
A busted police officer agrees to help his old partner with a case.
Kop (Tor, 2007.)
Kop #1.
A group of colonists discover that they world to which they emigrated is not as appealing as they had been led to believe.
HANCOCK, H. IRVING
At the Defense of Pittsburgh, or the Struggle to Save America’s Fighting Steel Supply (Altemus, 1916.)
Future War #3.
Not seen.
In the Battle for New York, or Uncle Sam’s Boys in the Desperate Struggle for the Metropolis (Altemus, 1916.)
Future War #2.
Not seen.
Invasion of the United States, or Uncle Sam’s Boys at the Capture of Boston, The (Altemus, 1916.)
Future War #1.
Not seen.
Making the Stand for Old Glory, or Uncle Sam’s Boys in the Last Frantic Drive (Altemus, 1916.)
Future War #4.
Not seen.
HAND, ELIZABETH (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Aestival Tide (Bantam, 1992.)
Ascendants #2.
Life inside a domed city of the far future has been rigidly controlled for many generations, but now there is discontent stirring and the unrest may cause the gates to be opened and the city’s populace to be exposed to the outside world.
Bibliomancy (PS, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Catwoman (Del Rey, 2004, from the screenplay by John Rogers, Mike Ferris, and John Brancato.)
A demure woman by day turns into a costumed superhero at night.
Frenchman, The (Harper, 1997, from the script by Chris Carter.)
A Millennium novel.
Marginal SF because of the psychic visions available to the protagonist, a detective who specializes in serial killers who are somehow linked to the onset of the millennium.
Glimmering (Harper, 1997.)
We see the end of the millennium through the eyes of a number of disparate characters including one dying of AIDS and a drug addicted rock star. The usual riots and religious cults, but handled with unusual restraint and intelligence.
Icarus Descending (Bantam, 1993.)
Ascendants #3.
An asteroid is about to crash into the Earth, threatening the extinction of the entire human race. A handful of people discover a secret that might allow a few to survive and rebuild.
Last Summer at Mars Hill (Harper, 1998.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Twelve Monkeys (Harper, 1995, based on the screenplay by David & Janet Peoples.)
A prisoner volunteers to travel back in time to discover the source of a plague that wiped out most of the human race, but by mischance he ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
Waking the Moon (Harper, 1995.)
A college student discovers a secret organization that has been controlling governments and other institutions for all of recorded history, but which now faces a crisis that borders on the supernatural.
Winterlong (Bantam, 1990.)
Ascendants #2.
Two young people set off on a voyage of discovery in a phantasmagorical future world.
HANDLEY, MAX
Meanwhile (Arlington, 1977, Warner, 1979, Questar, 1985.)
Comic novel about a barbaric future Earth where amazons, cannibals, clones, and other unlikely characters interact with a man recently emerged from an undersea city.
HANLEY, ELIZABETH (Pseudonym of Linda Dubreuil.)
Ms President (Belmont Tower, 1977.)
The first woman President of the US faces unusual along with predictable problems.
HANLEY, JAMES
What Farrar Saw (Nicholson & Watson, 1946.)
A satirical future, overpopulated Britain in which bombs are used to clear traffic jams.
What Farrar Saw and Other Stories (Deutsch, 1984.)
Collection of unrelated stories not all of which are science fiction.
HANNA, W.C.
Tandar Saga, The (Arcadia, 1964.)
A spaceship travels to the solar system in time to meet the inhabitants of Venus and witness an atomic war on Earth.
HANNAN, ROBERT CHARLES
Betrothal of James, The (Bliss, Sands, 1898.)
Rejuvenation.
HANSEN, KARL
Dream Games (Ace, 1985.)
Hybrids #2.
Humans on Earth are lost in virtual reality sex fantasies and have abandoned rule of the galaxy to the Cybermind, a vast artificial intelligence. But some of the hybrid humans refuse to accept the status quo and begin sabotaging the computer’s rule.
War Games (Playboy, 1981.)
Hybrids #1.
Mechanically enhanced soldiers fight one another on the moons of Saturn until they recognize a greater mission, the search for an artifact that could change the course of history.
HANSEN, VERN
Claws of the Night (Digit, 1964.)
Not seen.
Creatures of the Mist (Digit, 1963.)
A human criminal is one of several kidnapped by aliens to a far world to provide breeding stock, but who becomes instead a leader in the resistance to an invasion by yet another power.
Grip of Fear, The (Digit, 1964.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Twisters, The (Digit, 1963.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
HANSMAN, WILLIAM
A.G. Man, The (Vantage, 1968.)
Not seen.
HAPKA, CATHERINE (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Attack of the Vampire Worms (Gold Key, 1998.)
Strange worms infect their victims with a violent allergy to the sun, so they live in a hidden cave and try to recruit newcomers. Their vampirism is non-supernatural.
HARBEN, WILL
Land of the Changing Sun, The (Merriam, 1894.)
Lost world novel.
HARBINSON, W.A. (Note that different editions number the Project Saucer series differently. Also writes Horror.)
Dream Maker (Sphere, 1991, Walker, 1992.)
The destruction of the ozone layer is being accomplished by a discorporate monster whose power grows in direct proportion to the amount of pollution. An astronaut warns the government of the truth, but economic stability is ruled more important than environmental concerns until a small group acts independently to bring the truth to light.
Eden (Dell, 1987. Corgi, 1987, as The Light of Eden.)
One by one, sections of the modern world are disappearing, replaced by wilderness. A scientist discovers that we are being manipulated by alien beings who are sending the human race back through time.
Genesis (Corgi, 1980, Dell, 1982.)
Project Saucer #3.
More revelations about alien visitors who are kidnapping and experimenting upon human beings. Although third in the series, this was actually the first written.
Inception (Dell, 1991, New English Library, 1994.)
Project Saucer #1.
Drawing on reported UFO sightings, the author has constructed a novel that ties many of them together and suggests that the Earth is regularly visited by denizens of other planets, that many governments know about this, but that the information is being kept from the public.
Light of Eden, The. (See Eden.)
Millenium (Hodder, 1995, New English Library, 1997.)
Project Saucer.
A worldwide conspiracy against the human race involving the changing of Earth's ecosystem.
Otherworld (Corgi, 1984.)
Not seen.
Phoenix (New English Library, 1995, Hodder, 1995.)
Project Saucer #2.
More flying saucer incidents take place in the years following World War II.
Revelation (Corgi, 1982, Hodder, 1996.)
Not seen.
HARCOURT, GLENN (See collaboration with Carter Scholz.)
HARDING, E.
Woman Who Vowed, The (Unwin, 1908.)
A matriarchal future society.
HARDING, LEE
Children of Atlantis, The (Cassell, 1976.)
Not seen.
Displaced Person. (See Misplaced Persons.)
Fallen Spaceman, The (Cassell, 1973, Harper & Row, 1980, Bantam Skylark, 1982.)
An alien in an oversized spacesuit is marooned on Earth where he makes friends with a human boy.
Frozen Sky, The (Cassell, 1976.)
Not seen.
Future Sanctuary (Laser, 1976.)
In Sanctuary, a man who has been fleeing enemies he cannot identify tries to understand where he is, how he came here, and who his real friends are.
Misplaced Persons (Hyland, 1979, as Displaced Person. Harper & Row, 1979, Bantam, 1983.)
A teenager discovers that he’s fading from view, eventually encounters other inhabitants of another dimension into which he is drifting.
Return to Tomorrow (Cassell, 1977.)
Not seen.
Waiting for the End of the World (Hyland, 1983.)
Rebels plot against the authoritarian government of a repressive future Australia.
Web of Time, The (Cassell, 1980.)
Not seen.
Weeping Sky, The (Cassell, 1977.)
A strange phenomenon in the sky threatens worldwide disaster.
World of Shadows, A (Hale, 1975.)
Aliens switch a man’s personality to another body and he spends the rest of the book trying to convince the authorities of the truth.
HARDING, RICHARD (Pseudonym of Robert Tine, whom see.)
Bay City Burnout (Pinnacle, 1985.)
Outrider #4.
After a warlord kidnaps his friend and injuries his girl, a survivalist travels to his stronghold to get revenge, even if it means wading through an army of goons to get it.
Blood Highway (Pinnacle, 1984.)
Outrider #3.
A survivalist sets out to eliminate a gang of vicious killers who have been preying on the survivors of a nuclear war.
Built to Kill (Pinnacle, 1985.)
Outrider #5.
An evil despot launches a war of conquest against the survivors of nuclear war ravaged Chicago, but a survivalist organizes a resistance that derails their invasion.
Fire and Ice (Pinnacle, 1984.)
Outrider #2.
The protagonist and his arch enemy are both competing to find a store of fuel oil, and neither would mind killing the other in the process.
Outrider, The (Pinnacle, 1984.)
Outrider #1.
In the aftermath of a nuclear war, a survivalist with an armored vehicle travels around the country searching for supplies, resisting the efforts by newly risen warlords to make him subject to their rule.
HARDY, HILBERT
Cosmos Project, The (Book Guild, 1989.)
Not seen.
HARDY, JASON M. (See also collaboration which follows.)
Last Charge, The (Roc, 2007.)
A Battletech Mech Warrior novel.
The good guys retreat in this game oriented military SF novel.
HARDY, JASON M. & BILLS, RANDALL N.
Principles of Desolation (Roc, 2006.)
A Battletech Mech Warrior novel.
A disgraced woman redeems herself on the battlefield.
Dawn of Immortality, The (Vanguard, 2002.)
Humans expanding into space encounter alien dangers both hidden and open.
HARFORD, SCOTT
Lustopia (Pendulum, 1970.)
Pornography in a “perfect” future society.
HARGRAVE, JOHN
Imitation Man, The (Gollancz, 1931.)
Not seen.
HARGREAVES, H.A.
North by 2000 (Peter Martin, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
HARING, SCOTT
Duel Track (TSR, 1987.)
A Car Wars multi-path gamebook.
Green Circle Blues (TSR, 1987.)
A Car Wars multi-path gamebook.
HARKAWAY, NICK
Gone-Away World, The (Knopf, 2008.)
A satiric disaster novel.
HARKER, KENNETH
Flowers of February, The (Hale, 1970.)
Not seen.
Symmetrians, The (Compact, 1966.)
A repressive future dictatorship imposes patterns of behavior and order so strict that all original thought is virtually impossible. Naturally such a state of affairs is inherently unstable, and the protagonist becomes one of those who questions the status quo.
HARKINS, PHILIP (See collaboration with Harold Goodwin as John Blaine.)
HARKON, FRANZ (See also Astron Del Martia.)
Spawn of Space (Scion, 1951.)
Aliens attack Earth with gigantic monsters.
HARKONEN, JIM
Sister of Earth (1st Books, 2001.)
A convict from Earth arrives on Venus looking for a new life and finds himself in the middle of a battle between the colonists and the government that has been imposed on them.
House of Reeds (Tor, 2004.)
Sixth Sun #2.
A scientist gets caught in the middle of a potential interstellar war when the government on Earth tries to flex its muscles.
Land of the Dead (Tor, 2009.)
Sixth Sun #3.
Alternate history in which Japan and the Aztecs grew to prominence.
Wasteland of Flint (Tor, 2003.)
Sixth Sun#1.
A new human civilization is spreading to the stars when it discovers mysterious alien artifacts. A scientist discovers that they include self aware constructs that can imitate humans.
HARLAND, PAUL (See collaboration with Paul Evenblij.)
HARMAN, ANDREW (Also writes Fantasy.)
It Came From on High (Orbit, 1998.)
Aliens from outer space, the shroud of Turin for real, a conspiracy in the Vatican, and other amusing nonsense.
Midsummer Night’s Gene, A (Legend, 1997.)
Comic novel about a breakthrough in genetic engineering that is designed to create more abundant foods. It appears, however, that aliens from another world are manipulating the experiment for their own purposes.
Passion Play, A (Orbit, 2000. Orbit, 2000, as Talonspotting.)
Spoof in which experiments with animals as an aid to curing the sick takes a comical turn.
Talonspotting (See A Passion Play.)
HARNES, PETER
Arms of Arum, The (Frenchy’s Gay Line, 1970.)
Collection of pornographic stories, not all of which are SF.
HARNESS, CHARLES L. (Also writes Fantasy.)
Catalyst, The (Pocket, 1980.)
Various companies contend for the right to manufacture a new wonder drug that could transform medicine, but the means they employ aren’t always legal, or safe.
Drunkard's Endgame. (See Rings.)
Firebird (Pocket, 1981.)
The galaxy is ruled by a pair of telepathic computers who have conceived a new way of life that requires the temporary destruction of the existing universe. Opposed to them are mysterious characters from an unknown world.
Krono (Avon, 1988, Franklin Watts, 1988.)
The protagonist is a professional time traveler whose job is to bleed off some of the overpopulation of Earth to form colonies in prehistory. But when he’s framed for a disaster that wipes out one of the colonies, he must become an investigator to find out who’s really responsible and clear his name.
Lunar Justice (Avon, 1991.)
Quentin Thomas #2.
A plan to relocate some of Earth’s teeming masses to the moons of Jupiter is aided by a brilliant lawyer with telekinetic abilities, but hampered by trumped up legal charges and a vindictive judge.
Lurid Dreams (Avon, 1990.)
A student who is able to mentally travel through time contacts Edgar Allen Poe, and discovers that powers within the Confederacy have discovered his existence and are planning to use that knowledge to alter the outcome of the war.
Ornament to His Profession, An (NESFA, 1998.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Paradox Men, The (Ace, 1955, bound with Dome Around America by Jack Williamson. Faber, 1964, Four Square, 1967, New English Library, 1976, Crown, 1984, Easton, 1992. Magazine version, 1949, and Bouregy, 1953, as Flight into Yesterday.)
A larger than life thief is the only hope for the future of freedom in a future US that has fallen under the sway of a dictatorship and cut itself off from the rest of the world.
Redworld (DAW, 1986.)
Following a civil war on a primitive world, science and religion agree to a partitioning of their powers, but a young man discovers that neither side has all the answers.
Ring of Ritornel, The (Berkley, 1968, Gollancz, 1968, Panther, 1974.)
Interstellar intrigue as various characters attempt to prevent a scourge from terrorizing the galaxy as it did once before.
Rings (NESFA, 1999.)
Omnibus of The Paradox Men, The Ring of Ritornel, Firebird, and Drunkard's Endgame. The last has not been published elsewhere and concerns a society of robots aboard a starship.
Rose, The (Compact, 1966, contains two short stories. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1968, Berkley, 1969. Panther, ? Magazine version, 1953.)
A lyrical story of the rivalry of art and science in a future society, and the ultimate discovery that both are important.
Venetian Court, The (Del Rey, 1982.)
Quentin Thomas #1.
A lawyer must save his client, accused of infringing on the patent for a robot, which has become a capital crime. His job is made more difficult by the discovery that the judge sitting on the case may be mentally unbalanced.
Wolfhead (Berkley, 1978.)
In a primitive future Earth, raiders from underground caverns kidnap a woman from the surface. She is subsequently rescued by a man armed with a high tech sword and accompanied by a very intelligent wolf.
HARPER, DAVID (See collaboration with Robin Moore.)
HARPER, GEORGE W.
Gypsy Earth (Doubleday, 1982.)
An alien invasion fleet attacks human installations on the planet Pluto, and although initially defeated, they use technology clearly in advance of anything known. A heroic captain organizes what remains of the space fleet in preparation for the final battle to save Earth.
HARPER, HARRY (See also collaboration which follows.)
Air King’s Treasure, The (Cassell, 1913.)
Not seen.
HARPER, HARRY & GRAHAME-WHITE, CLAUDE
Invisible War-Plane, The (Blackie, 1915.)
A scientist develops a method of making planes invisible.
HARPER, RORY
Petrogypsies (Baen, 1989.)
A young man leaves his home to join a roving band of petrogypsies, who wander around using their high tech drilling equipment to find pockets of fossil fuels.
Dreamer (Roc, 2001.)
Silent Empire #1.
Agents of an interstellar organization attempt to find a boy who can tap into a kind of universal overmind and use it as a means to seize control of the bodies of others.
Nightmare (Roc, 2002.)
Silent Empire #2.
A boy with extraordinary psi powers enters the dreams of those around him in an attempt to track down a serial killer.
Offspring (Roc, 2004.)
Silent Empire #4.
Intruders have interfered with the ability of the people of Bellerophon to enter the dream world and now only a handful still possess that power.
Trickster (Roc, 2003.)
Silent Empire #3.
A spaceship crew seeking to locate and free their relatives from slavery attempt a con on a remote world.
Unity (Roc, 2007.)
A Battlestar Galactica novel.
A marooned survivor is carrying a terrible new bio-weapon.
HARPER, TARA check numbering
Cataract (Del Rey, 1995.)
Cat #2.
Although she has been forbidden to bond, telepathically or otherwise, with the cats of a distant world, a woman finds that events move faster than her desires, and she finds herself using her powers in violation of the law.
Cat Scratch Fever (Del Rey, 1994.)
Cat #1.
A woman who hopes to secure a career as a telepath must first undergo a physical transformation, but something goes wrong and she’s stuck with a choice that is forbidden by the code of her kind.
Grayheart (Del Rey, 1996.)
Wolfwalker #4.
A telepath uses her abilities and her wolf companion to investigate a series of deaths and discovers that they were murders rather than accidents.
Lightwing (Del Rey, 1992.)
A telepath joins a project to create a faster than light drive, a discovery that will allow the human race to join the greater interstellar community. But her powers seem to cause problems among her co-workers and endanger the entire project.
Shadow Leader (Del Rey, 1991.)
Wolfwalker #2.
A telepath and her wolf companion provided essential information as war threatens a primitive but peaceful land, and now agents of the enemy are searching for her so that she cannot provide similar assistance in the future.
Silver Moons, Black Steel (Del Rey, 2001.)
Wolfwalker #5.
After being nearly destroyed in a confrontation with aliens, a woman and her wolf companion seek to find a place where they will be safe.
Storm Runner (Del Rey, 1993.)
Wolfwalker #3.
War threatens to spill over the border, and the telepathically sensitive wolves that live in that region are fleeing before a mysterious force that originate in the lands of an aggressive enemy.
Wolf in Night (Del Rey, 2005.)
Wolfwalker #7.
A world of aliens, humans, and telepathic wolves is menaced by a plague.
Wolf's Bane (Del Rey, ?)
Wolfwalker #4.
?
Wolfwalker (Del Rey, 1990.)
Wolfwalker #1.
A telepathic healer in a primitive society is bonded mentally to a wolf who proves a valuable ally when she is cut off from her people and pursued across unknown territory by a band of slavers.
HARPER, VINCENT
Mortgage on the Brain, The (?, 1905.)
Not seen.
HARPMAN, JACQUELINE
I Who Have Never Known Men (Avon, 1998, translated from the 1995 French edition by Ros Schwartz.)
The youngest of a group of women imprisoned underground following what appears to be a nuclear war makes various discoveries while in captivity and when subsequently freed into an empty world.
HARRIMAN, STEVEN (Pseudonym of Steven Spruill, whom see.)
Sleeper (Berkley, 2003.)
A Pentagon secret escapes, a creature capable of destroying every living being in its path.
HARRINGTON, ALAN
Paradise 1 (Little, Brown, 1977.)
The quest for immortality.
HARRINGTON, WILLIAM
Jupiter Crisis, The (McKay, 1971, Dell, 1972.)
When a US spy plane is captured by the Russians, a series of consequences follow which bring the world to the brink of nuclear war.
HARRIS, ANNE (Also writes Fantasy.)
Accidental Creatures (Tor, 1998.)
Corporations genetically alter human protoplasm to create a four armed race that can live as virtual slaves in their factories, but the newly created race doesn’t long remain content with its inferior status and begins to wage war against the corporations.
Nature of Smoke, The (Tor, 1996.)
High tech complexities in a strangely distorted version of our world with a hip, highly competent protagonist whose discoveries get her into considerable trouble. She becomes romantically involved with a man investigating the human perception of reality.
HARRIS, BRIAN (Pseudonym of Harold King, whom see.)
World War III (Pocket, 1982, based on the screenplay by Robert L. Joseph.)
Following a famine, desperate Soviet leaders seize the Alaska oil pipeline to coerce the US into shipping food to them, but the US resists and sends troops to recapture the lost territory, setting off a worldwide conflict.
HARRIS, CLARE WINGER
Away from Here and Now (Dorrance, 1947.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
HARRIS, DAVID (See collaboration with Harry Harrison.)
HARRIS, GORDON
Apostle from Space (Logos, 1978.)
A visitor from another planet claims to be an emissary from God. Is he lying, telling the truth, or is he actually an angel?
HARRIS, J. HENRY
Romance in Radium, A (?, 1906.)
An alien visits the Earth.
HARRIS, JOHNSON (See John Wyndham.)
Love in Time (Utopian, 1946.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
HARRIS, KATHLEEN
Jane Arden Space Nurse (Popular Library, 1962, Ryerson, 1962, Bouregy, 1962.)
A nurse gets romantically involved with two astronauts who are training for the first trip to the moon.
HARRIS, LEANN
Hunter’s Heart (Pinnacle, 1997.)
A telepath gets caught up in intrigue and romance in the midst of an interstellar war.
HARRIS, MACDONALD (Pseudonym of Donald Heiney. Also writes Fantasy.)
Balloonist, The (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976.)
Marginal story of a balloon trip across the Arctic.
Glowstone (Morrow, 1987.)
A sort of alternate world has strange parallels to our own in what is basically a retelling of the story of Marie Curie. Marginal.
HARRIS, MARK JOHN
Solay (Bradbury, 1993.)
Solay is a young girl from another planet, secretly on Earth, who makes friends with an unhappy Earth girl and helps her to change her life.
HARRIS, RAYMOND
Broken Worlds, The (Ace, 1986.)
Human civilization is scattered throughout the stars, and one branch has allied itself with a race of brutal aliens who periodically attack and pillage other planets. Now they are headed for the home of our protagonist, and he must forge an alliance among various separate governments to oppose them.
Schizogenic Man, The (Ace, 1990.)
The hero is chosen by an artificial intelligence to participate in some dream research that is considerably more sinister than he suspects.
Shadows of the White Sun (Ace, 1988.)
A woman unjustly accused of murder teams up with an android to track down the real culprit and exact her own brand of justice.
HARRIS, ROBERT
Fatherland (Random House, 1992, Harper, 1993, Arrow, 2001.)
Alternate history in which the Nazis won World War II. A detective investigating the murder of a high ranking Nazi official in Berlin discovers that he has gotten involved in a sinister and deadly power struggle within the government.
HARRIS, ROSEMARY (Also writes Fantasy.)
Quest for Orion, A (Faber, 1978, Puffin, 1982.)
Orion #1.
A wave of barbarism has overwhelmed much of the world and civilization seems to have drifted back in time, but a handful of survivors attempts to keep the spirit of the modern age alive despite the setback.
Tower of the Stars (Faber, 1980.)
Orion #2.
Not seen.
Fifth Horseman, The (Panther, 1976.)
An attempt to harvest large portions of the oil reserves under the British Isles has an unfortunate side effect. The land subsides and a large portion of the country is flooded, across whose subsequent ruins the protagonist travels on a journey of discovery.
Mistress of Downing Street, The (Michael Joseph, 1972, Corgi, 1973.)
The new prime minister of England is a determined woman who plans to outwit and defeat the new dictator of America, whose program of conformity and repression is spreading throughout the world.
Saliva (Star, 1977.)
England is devastated by a new strain of rabies that can be transmitted in saliva, not just bites but even through kissing.
HARRIS-BURLAND, J.B. (See also Harris Burland.)
Gold Worshippers, The (Dillingham, 1906.)
Not seen. Borderline fantasy about the transmutation of metals.
HARRISON, BARBARA
Cold Night's Death, A (Award, 1973, from the screenplay by Christopher Knopf. The film is also known as The Chill Factor.)
When the single man staffing an isolated research station ceases communication with the outside world, two investigators are sent to find out what happened. They start cleaning up the mess, seeing to the contingent of monkeys which were the basis of the experiment, before they suddenly realize that the rules have changed, and it might not be the animals who are the subjects of study any longer.
HARRISON, CRAIG
Quiet Earth, The (Hodder, 1981.)
A novel of the last few people on Earth following a disaster.
HARRISON, G.B.
Fires of Arcadia, The (Harcourt Brace, 1965.)
Genetic engineering.
HARRISON, HARRY (See collaboration with Gordon R. Dickson and also collaborations which follow. Also writes Fantasy.)
Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat, The (Berkley, 1978, Doubleday, 1978.)
Omnibus of the first three Stainless Steel Rat novels.
Best of Harry Harrison, The (Pocket, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of Harry Harrison, The (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Bill, the Galactic Hero (Doubleday, 1965, Gollancz, 1965, Berkley, 1966, Avon, 1975, Millennium, 1999. Magazine title The Starsloggers.)
Bill #1. (For other titles in this series, see collaborations below. Note that Avon began numbering with volume 2 as volume 1.)
An unlikely hero becomes a soldier in a war against an alien race in this spoof of SF military stories.
Captive Universe (Berkley, 1969, Putnam, 1969, Faber, 1970.)
A recreation of the ancient civilization of the Aztecs is maintained in an artificially isolated society, but a member of that culture rebels against the traditions of his people and seeks to learn what lies beyond the limits of their lands.
Daleth Effect, The (Berkley, 1970, Putnam, 1970. Magazine title, Faber, 1970, In Our Hands the Stars.)
An Israeli scientist discovers a simple, cheap method of space travel and defects to Denmark. When a space going submarine rescues some stranded Russian astronauts, the secret is out, and the world battles for control of his discovery.
Deathworld (Bantam, 1960, Penguin, 1963, Sphere, 1973, Ace, 1987.)
Jason dinAlt #1.
A fugitive takes refuge on the planet Pyrrus only to discover that the entire ecology has suddenly become violently hostile to the presence of human colonists, besieging them in armed camps, preventing any attempt to expand.
Deathworld II (Bantam, 1964, Sphere, 1977, Ace, 1987. Gollancz, 1964, as The Ethical Engineer.)
Jason dinAlt #2.
Hiding from the authorities, dinAlt is kidnapped by a group of fanatics, then falls into the hands of space slavers before escaping and returning to hiding.
Deathworld III (Dell, 1968, Sphere, 1977, Ace, 1987. Magazine title The Horse Barbarians.)
Jason dinAlt #3.
A fugitive is looking for an out of the way planet on which to settle, but Felicity is home to an alien race that lives for the glory of battle and slaughter.
Deathworld Trilogy, The (Berkley, 1976, Doubleday, 1976, Orbit, 1999.)
Omnibus of the Jason dinAlt novels.
Fifty in Fifty (Tor, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Galactic Dreams (Tor, 1994, Legend, 1994.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Homeworld (Bantam, 1980, Panther, 1981.)
World #1.
The protagonist is recruited by a beautiful woman who is an active member of the resistance against a repressive government which rules the Earth and controls emigration to the stars.
Invasion: Earth (Ace, 1982, Sphere, 1984.)
Aliens attempt to conquer the Earth, but are ultimately thwarted by human ingenuity.
Jupiter Plague, The. (See Plague from Space.)
Make Room, Make Room! (Doubleday, 1966, Berkley, 1967, Penguin, 1967, Tor, 2008.)
Filmed as Soylent Green. A detective in a future, heavily overpopulated New York City is investigating a series of disappearances which lead him to the horrible truth. The government is executing poor people and using their bodies to feed those who are left.
Man from P.I.G., The (Avon Camelot, 1968.)
An interstellar agent is assisted on his missions by a mutated, highly intelligent pig.
Man from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T., The (Puffin, 1974.)
Two short novels in one volume.
One Step from Earth (Macmillan, 1970, Collier, 1971, Faber, 1972, Tor, 1985.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Plague from Space (Doubleday, 1965, Gollancz, 1966, Bantam, 1968. Tor, 1982, significantly rewritten as The Jupiter Plague.)
The first expedition to Jupiter returns and crashes, letting loose an unearthly plague that spreads rapidly, threatening to wipe out the entire human race.
Planet of No Return (Wallaby, 1981, Tor, 1982, Severn House, 1983.)
Brion Brandd #2.
An interstellar agent infiltrates another closed society, and barely escapes with his life.
Planet of the Damned (Bantam, 1962, Tor, 1987. Dobson, 1967, as Sense of Obligation.)
Brion Brandd #1.
An agent is sent to a world that threatens war against its neighbor, and which plans to execute anyone who arrives from offworld. Once there, he discovers that the harsh conditions of the planet have altered the human colonists to a point where they have become another species.
Planet of the Robot Slaves, The (Avon, 1989, Gollancz, 1989.)
Bill #2.
Bill and his companions are dropped on a planet teeming with robot warriors.
Prime Number (Berkley, 1970, Sphere, 1975.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Rebel in Time, A (Tor, 1983, Granada, 1983.)
A rebel patriot with a time machine is planning to use future technology to change the course of history and help the Confederacy triumph in the Civil War. Opposed to him is a Black northern soldier who prefers that the outcome remain unchanged.
Return to Eden (Bantam, 1988, Grafton, 1988.)
Eden #3.
Kerrick’s tribe has taken refuge on a remote island, but his old enemy among the intelligent dinosaurs has not forgotten about him, and ultimately the conflict between the two will be symbolic of that between the differing species vying for hegemony over the Earth.
Skyfall (Faber, 1976, Atheneum, 1976, Ace, 1978, Tor, 1990.)
A gigantic spaceship designed to channel energy from the sun has a malfunction and is now threatening to crash, along with its crew, somewhere on Earth. Its mass is great enough that the collision will be a colossal disaster.
Spaceship Medic (Faber, 1970, Puffin, 1976. Magazine title Plague Ship.)
An unlikely meteor strike leaves a spaceship crippled and most of its crew dead. The young doctor on board suddenly finds himself cast as leader in a desperate effort to find a way to reach the orbit of Mars.
Stainless Steel Rat, The (Pyramid, 1961, New English Library, 1966, Sphere, ?, Walker, ?, Orion, 1997.)
Stainless Steel Rat #1.
An interstellar conman becomes an agent for a special organization determined to prevent an ambitious woman from building a battleship and threatening interplanetary war. But Jim di Griz finds that keeping her in custody is more of a struggle than he counted on.
Stainless Steel Rat for President, The (Bantam, 1982, Doubleday, 1982, Sphere, 1982.)
Stainless Steel Rat #5.
The Rat and his family are sent to a tourist planet dominated by an aging dictator on a mission to undermine his government and bring about a revolution.
Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, The (Bantam, 1987.)
Stainless Steel Rat #7.
In order to track down the killer of an old friend, the Rat temporarily joins a planetary army and discovers that his superiors are planning the invasion of another world. Preventing the attack ultimately has a link to his personal quest.
Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell, The (Orion, 1996, Tor, 1996.)
Stainless Steel Rat #9.
On a pleasure planet, someone has kidnapped Slippery Jim’s wife, someone who acts as virtual god on that planet. So to get her back, it’s necessary to resort to the analog of the devil.
Stainless Steel Rat Goes to the Circus, A (Millennium, 1998. Tor, 1999, as The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus.)
Stainless Steel Rat #10.
Not seen.
Stainless Steel Rat Is Born, A (Bantam, 1985, Titan, 1985.)
Stainless Steel Rat #6.
Chronologically the first in the series, this is the story of the Rat’s youth, how he became a con man, grew to manhood, and became the greatest criminal in the galaxy.
Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus, The. (See A Stainless Steel Rat Goes to the Circus.)
Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World, The (Putnam, 1972, Faber, 1974, Sphere, ?, Berkley, 1973, Ace, 1987.)
Stainless Steel Rat #3.
Someone is kidnapping people and sending them into the past, so to rescue his family the Rat goes back to Earth in the 1980’s.
Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues, The (Bantam, 1994.)
Stainless Steel Rat #8.
To get the antidote for a slow acting poison introduced into his body, the Rat agrees to retrieve a priceless alien artifact from whoever has stolen it and taken it to a planet filled with rogues, criminals, and outcasts.
Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge, The (Walker, 1970, Faber, 1971, Berkley, 1973, Orion, 1997.)
Stainless Steel Rat #2.
Despite a recent crime spree, the Rat is forgiven and recruited to undermine a distant planetary ruler who has found a way to successfully wage interstellar war, threatening various neighboring worlds.
Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!, The (Joseph, 1978, Doubleday, 1979, Bantam, 1979.)
Stainless Steel Rat #4.
The Rat is back, this time to prevent a mysterious alien race from conquering the entire galaxy.
Stainless Steel Trio, A (Tor, 2002.)
Omnibus of A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born, The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, and The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues.
Stainless Steel Visions (Tor, 1993, Legend, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Stars and Stripes Forever (Del Rey, 1998.)
Stars and Stripes #1.
England enters the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy, but due to a bungled attack that targets the wrong side, they end up uniting the North and South against them in a war that drives them entirely out of the Americas.
Stars and Stripes in Peril (Del Rey, 2000.)
Stars and Stripes #2.
The North and South have set aside their differences in order to fight the British. Now, as an invasion from Mexico threatens Texas, the Americans launch a daring plan to invade the British Isles.
Stars and Stripes Triumphant (Hodder, 2002, New English Library, 2002, Del Rey, 2002.)
Stars and Stripes #3.
American forces invade the British Isles.
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (Putnam, 1973, Berkley, 1974, Faber, 1974, Benbella, 2006.)
A spoof of space operas. Two college students discover a faster than light drive and are soon visiting Titan, just the first step in a wild adventure among the stars.
Starworld (Bantam, 1981, Panther, 1981.)
World #3.
There is open rebellion by the colony worlds against the dictatorship of Earth, but the protagonist has been taken prisoner and brought back for sentencing. There he escapes and is instrumental in making the rebellion a success.
Technicolor Time Machine, The (Doubleday, 1967, Berkley, 1968, Faber, 1968, Tor, 1981. Magazine title The Time Machined Saga.)
A nutty scientist invents a time machine and loans it to a movie company that will film authentic 11th Century Viking scenes without having to pay for sets and costuming. Unfortunately, some of the Vikings have othre plans in this frequently funny romp.
To the Stars (Doubleday, 1981, Bantam, 1987.)
Omnibus of the World trilogy.
Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!, A (Faber, 1972, New English Library, 1976, Tor, 1981, Gollancz, 2000. Putnam, 1972, Berkley, 1974, as Tunnel Through the Deeps.)
In an alternate world where Great Britain suppressed the American colonies and still rules the New World, the descendant of George Washington is put in charge of a construction project which plans to build a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean, strengthening British rule.
Tunnel Through the Deeps. (See A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!)
Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows (Gollancz, 1965, Bantam, 1968.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
War With the Robots (Pyramid, 1962, Dobson, 1967, Panther, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
West of Eden (Bantam, 1984, Granada, 1984.)
Eden #1.
In a parallel history where dinosaurs evolved intelligence and humans became either their slaves or their prey, a young warrior escapes his reptilian masters and uses his intimate knowledge of their habits and abilities to become a leader of one of the nomadic human tribes.
Wheelworld (Bantam, 1981, Panther, 1981.)
World #2.
Exiled to a farm planet for his resistance to the government of Earth, the protagonist becomes a leader when something happens and all communication with Earth is cut off. He leads a dangerous trek cross country to a place where the involuntary colonists have a chance to survive.
Winter in Eden (Bantam, 1986, Grafton, 1986.)
Eden #2.
With a new ice age threatening, the dinosaurs are determined to capture territory dominated by the humans, but Kerrick organizes his tribe to resist the incursions and preserve their newly gained homeland.
You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat (Grafton, 1985, Ace, 1988.)
A multi-path gamebook related to the author's Stainless Steel Rat series.
HARRISON, HARRY & BISCHOFF, DAVID
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (Avon, 1991, Gollancz, 1991.)
Bill #4.
While waiting for a new foot in a hospital on a pleasure planet, Bill is abducted into a bizarre underworld of sex and instant gratification.
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars (Avon, 1991, Gollancz, 1992.)
Bill #6.
This was announced as Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of the Hippies from Hell but was retitled. On a planet famous for its bars, Bill must avoid assassins and find a Time Portal before it is used to destroy the universe.
HARRISON, HARRY & HALDEMAN, JACK C.
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Zombie Vampires (Avon, 1991, Gollancz, 1992.)
Bill #5.
Employed as a guard on a prison ship, Bill has another set of wild adventures when he encounters a planet of the living dead.
HARRISON, HARRY & HARRIS, DAVID
Bill, the Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure (Avon, 1992, Gollancz, 1993.)
Bill #7.
Bill is sent to attack a planet, but decides to use the opportunity to make some repairs to his body.
HARRISON, HARRY & MINSKY, MARVIN
Turing Option, The (Warner, 1992, Viking, 1992, Roc UK, 1993.)
A brain damaged man is wired into a computer and the interface between man and machine becomes blurred. With his new abilities, the combined being attempts to track down the assassins who nearly killed him before they can strike again.
HARRISON, HARRY & SHECKLEY, ROBERT
Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains (Avon, 1990, Gollancz, 1990.)
Bill #3.
Bill is sent to spy on the residents of a mysterious, closed planet, but he discovers that the locals are looking for fresh bodies into which to put their own preserved brains.
HARRISON, HARRY & STOVER, LEON
Stonehenge. (See Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died.)
Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died (Tor, 1983. Earlier version, ?, 1972, Sphere, ?, as Stonehenge.)
Three people whose land is threatened by the power of Atlantis journey to the British Isles on their quest to find allies.
HARRISON, HELGA
Catacombs, The (Chatto & Windus, 1962.)
Religion in a post apocalyptic future.
HARRISON, M. JOHN (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Centauri Device, The (Doubleday, 1974, Panther, 1975, Bantam, 1980, Orion, 1986, Millennium, 2000.)
A lowly spaceport worker is the last of the Centaurans and as such, his cooperation is necessary to activate a weapon that could make its owner the most powerful force in known space. He is forced to flee, pursued by various parties, until he is able to take a hand in determining his own fate.
Committed Men, The (Hutchinson, 1971, Doubleday, 1971, Panther, 1973.)
A handful of people in a shattered Britain reeling from the effects of radiation poisoning set out to unite a reptilian mutant child with others of its kind.
Ice Monkey and Other Stories, The (Gollancz, 1983.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Light (Gollancz, 2002, Bantam, 2004.)
Light #1.
Strange novel in which murder is part of a process by which quantum physicists believe they can predict future events, this story alternating with the quest for alien technology four centuries in the future.
Machine in Shaft Ten, The (Panther, 1975.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Nova Swing (Gollancz, 2006, Bantam, 2007.)
Light #2.
An upsurge in strange, partly biological artifacts troubles a future society.
Pastel City, The (New English Library, 1971, Doubleday, 1971, Avon, 1974.)
In the far future, the Earth has degenerated into a new feudalism with knights and city states, but there are remnants of the old technology concealed in underground strongholds, and those who live there are plotting to take control of the surface world.
HARRISON, MICHAEL
Brain, The (Cassell, 1953.)
Not seen. An intelligent cloud creature is created by a nuclear blast.
Higher Things (Macdonald, 1945.)
A bank clerk discovers that he has the ability to levitate.
HARRISON, PAYNE
Forbidden Summit (Berkley, 1997.)
Not seen. Possibly ufos.
Storming Intrepid (Crown, 1989, Ivy, 1990.)
A Russian spy hijacks a space shuttle containing top secret technology, and the government is prepared to use whatever force is necessary to stop him from delivering it, even at the cost of the rest of those aboard the ship.
HARRISON, SUE
Brother Wind (Avon, 1995.)
Prehistory #3.
Not seen.
Call Down the Stars (Morrow, 2001.)
Storyteller #3.
A novel of prehistory.
Cry of the Wind (Morrow, ?)
Storyteller #2.
A novel of prehistory.
Mother Earth, Father Sky (Avon, 1991.)
Prehistory #1.
A young woman and her infant brother are the only survives of a prehistoric massacre.
My Sister the Moon (Avon, 1993.)
Prehistory #2.
An outcast woman goes on a perilous journey in the midst of an ice age.
Song of the River (Morrow, ?)
Storyteller #1.
A novel of prehistory.
HARRISON, WILLIAM
Rollerball (Warner, 1975, Orbit, 1975. Morrow, 1974, as Roller Ball Murder.)
Collection of unrelated stories only some of which are SF.
Roller Ball Murder. (See Rollerball.)
HARRY, ERIC L.
Arc Light (Jove, 1996.)
A thriller set following a nuclear war, when the survivors in America set about the impeachment of the President who led them to disaster.
Invasion (Berkley, 1999.)
China mounts a massive invasion of North America in a bid for world power.
Protect and Defend (Berkley, 1999.)
The Russian government collapses and Chinese armies appear to be on the verge of conquering all of Asia. When the President of the US is assassinated, an untested vice president must take over with the world on the verge of the greatest war of all time.
HART, AVERY (See collaboration with Paul Mantell.)
HART, MARCUS ALEXANDER
Oblivion Society, The (Permuted Press, ?)
Adventures after a nuclear war.
HARTLEY, L. P. (Also writes Horror.)
Facial Justice (Doubleday, 1960, Hamish Hamilton, 1960, Penguin, 1966, Curtis, ?.)
In the aftermath of a nuclear war, the survivors institute a new society that assumes evil is the result of envy and requires everyone to be exactly the same. This conformist society is quickly troubled by the presence of a young woman who refuses to go along.
HARTLEY, NORMAN
Quicksilver (Atheneum, 1979, Avon, 1980.)
A woman becomes the mistress of a computer magnate in order to prevent him from completing his plans to destroy the economy of the world and become a dictator.
HARTMAN, EMERSON
Lunarchia (Ryerson, 1937.)
Not seen.
Race for Doroon (Robert Reed, 2001.)
A man and an intelligent alien feline help a crashed space traveler find her missing father.
HARTMAN, KEITH
Gumshoe Gorilla (Meisha Merlin, 2001.)
Gumshoe #2.
A detective investigating some missing clones finds more than he bargained for.
Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse, The (Meisha Merlin, 1999.)
Gumshoe #1.
Kitchen sink futuristic detective story with the trappings of the supernatural. Very complex interweaving of several different mysteries.
HARTMAN, WENDY
Dinosaurs Are Back and It’s All Your Fault Edward, The (Bodley Head, 1996.)
A young boy hatches a dinosaur egg.
HARTRIDGE, JON
Binary Divine (Macdonald, 1969, Doubleday, 1969, Playboy, 1970.)
In a world that seems to have achieved perfection, people mysteriously vanish, and only the protagonist knows the truth about a superhuman intelligence which is responsible.
Earthjacket (Walker, 1970, Macdonald, 1970.)
In the far future, the natural environment has been completely replaced by a regimented, artificial human culture that tolerates no nonconformity, but which is at its heart ripe for a change.
HARVEY, FRANK
Air Force! (Ballantine, 1959.)
Collection of loosely related stories about the early stages of space exploration.
HARVEY, JAMES
Titans of the Universe (Manor, 1978. Plagiarized from Escape Across the Cosmos by Gardner Fox.)
An unjustly accused man with superhuman powers is stranded on a primitive planet where he overthrows the despotic government and plans revenge against his enemies.
HARVEY, M. ELAYN
Warhaven (Franklin Watts, 1987.)
Two rival civilizations are waging war across the solar system, until a small number of peacemakers take it upon themselves to negotiate an end to the hostilities, despite the existence of factions on both sides that have a vested interest in the continuation of the conflict.
HARVEY, W.
Strange Conquest (Lincoln Williams, 1934.)
Not seen. A future world crisis.
HASSE, HENRY
Stars Will Wait, The (Avalon, 1968.)
An alien vessel seeking mineral deposits but experiencing problems with its equipment and the inexperience of its crew arrives on Earth just in time to get involved with problems on our end as well.
HASSLER, KENNETH
Destination Terra (Lenox Hill, 1970.)
Not seen.
Dream Squad (Lenox Hill, 1970.)
Not seen.
Glass Cage, The (Lenox Hill, 1969.)
Not seen.
Intergalac Agent (Lenox Hill, 1971.)
The manager of a hunting planet finds things getting out of control when some of his clients decide they want to hunt intelligent beings..
Message from Earth, A (Lenox Hill, 1970.)
A decaying interstellar empire based on Earth sends one man to confront a powerful enemy.
Multiple Man, The (Lenox Hill, 1972.)
An agent sent to get a mining operation going runs into murder and political maneuvering.
HASSON, JAMES
Bid Time Return (Macmillan, 1960.)
Not seen.
HASTINGS, GEORGE GORDON
First American King, The (Smart Set, 1904.)
A man wakens from suspended animation in a future America that has become feudal.
HASTINGS, J. KENT (See collaboration with Brad Linaweaver.)
HASTINGS, MILO
City of Endless Night (Dodd, Mead, 1920, Hyperion, 1970. Magazine version 1919 as Children of Kultur.)
The embattled German government withdraws the entire country into underground caverns which are nearly impregnable to their enemies. An interloper finds the seeds of rebellion and eventually escapes, returning with an army that allies itself with revolutionaries.
HATCH, GERALD (Pseudonym of Dave Foley.)
Day the Earth Froze, The (Monarch, 1963.)
The use of experimental weapons releases a cloud that cuts off the sunlight and plunges the world into a new ice age, amidst which the handful of survivors struggle to survive.
HATCH, RICHARD (See collaborations that follow and also with Christopher Golden.)
Destiny (Ibooks, 2005.)
A Battlestar Galactica novel.
A supernova threatens the survivors of an interstellar war.
Rebellion (Ibooks, 2002.)
A Battlestar Galactica novel.
The fugitives find themselves in a region of space where their star drives don't work and are soon fighting among themselves.
Resurrection (Ibooks, 2001.)
A Battlestar Galactica novel.
After Adama dies, Apollo takes command of the refugee fleet, and weathers attacks by Cylons, aliens, and challenges to his command from within his own staff.
Captive Audience (PublishAmerica, 2004.)
Aliens steal a cruise ship.
HATHAWAY, LOUISE
Enchanted Hour, The (Newbegin, 1940.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
HAUSHOFER, MARLEN
Wall, The (Cleis, 1991, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside. German edition 1962.)
The protagonist discovers that some disaster has apparently wiped out everyone else in the world.
HAUTALA, RICK (Also writes Horror.)
Mountain King, The (CD Publications, 1997.)
A man tries to convince people that his friend was kidnapped by an inhuman creature while they were climbing a remote mountain peak.
HAUTMAN, PETER
Mr. Was (Simon & Schuster, 1996.)
A man travels back through time to change his own childhood.
HAWKE, N.
Invasion That Did Not Come Off, The (Drane, 1909.)
Future war.
HAWKE, SIMON (See also Nicholas Yermakov, J.D. Masters and S.L. Hunter. Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Argonaut Affair, The (Ace, 1987.)
Timewars #7.
Time travelers return to ancient Greece and discover the intersection of two worlds, one in which legendary creatures from our reality actually exist.
Blaze of Glory (Pocket, 1995.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation novel.
The Enterprise is sent to protect a recently liberated planet from the depredations of a pirate ship, but gets drawn into local conflict as well when the former dictatorship tries to reassert itself.
Cleopatra Crisis, The (Ace, 1990.)
Timewars #11.
Time agents return to ancient Rome to prevent an assassination aimed at altering history.
Dracula Caper, The (Ace, 1988.)
Timewars #8.
The Victorian world is invaded by genetically engineered vampires and werewolves from the future.
Hellfire Rebellion, The (Ace, 1990.)
Timewars 310.
Time police have to stop a rogue time traveler who plans to assassinate the leaders of the colonial revolution in America.
Ivanhoe Gambit, The (Ace, 1984, Pulpless, 1999.)
Timewars #1.
A corps of time police must prevent a madman from replacing one of the kings of England and changing the course of history.
Khyber Connection, The (Ace, 1986.)
Timewars #6.
The time police are back in colonial India to oppose another attempt to change the course of history.
Lilliput Legion, The (Ace, 1989.)
Timewars #9.
Gulliver's little people turn out to be genetically created creatures from the far future.
Nautilus Sanction, The (Ace, 1985.)
Timewars #5.
A Russian supersub from the future has been transported back to the past, and the time police find themselves in the midst of a real life version of 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea.
Patrian Transgression, The (Pocket, 1994.)
A Star Trek novel.
Kirk runs into trouble on a planet seeking membership in the Federation. There's a terrorist group plotting a revolution, and the authorities have responded by means of a telepathic police force.
Pimpernel Plot, The (Ace, 1984.)
Timewars #3.
A time agent inadvertently alters the course of the French Revolution, and another agent must go back and repair the damage.
Predator 2 (Jove, 1990, based on the screenplay by Jim Thomas and John Thomas.)
An alien from another world hunts its prey in near future Los Angeles, and earns the wrath of a tough police detective who is not afraid to operate outside the rules.
Psychodrome (Ace, 1987.)
Psychodrome #1.
An interstellar scavenger hunt has a big prize and a big risk, because some of the contestants will kill others to gain an advantage.
Romulan Prize, The (Pocket, 1993.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation novel.
The Romulans are planning to exploit the secret of a planet whose inhabitants are telepathic shapechangers, and they lure the Enterprise into a situation where Picard must act in order to prevent the subversion of the Federation.
Shapechanger Scenario, The (Ace, 1988.)
Psychodrome #2.
A virtual reality game becomes real when shapechanging, telepathic aliens invade the world.
Six Gun Solution, The (Ace, 1991.)
Timewars #12.
When several time agents disappear on assignment, the protagonist is sent back to the time of Wyatt Earp to find out why.
Timekeeper Conspiracy, The (Ace, 1984, Pulpless, 1999.)
Timewars #2.
Time travel proves to be a mixed blessing, and an agent must be sent back to the time of the Musketeers to prevent villains from altering history.
Whims of Creation, The (Aspect, 1995.)
Life aboard a multi-generation starship goes awry when mental disease becomes prevalent and a horde of inexplicable creatures begin to appear aboard.
Zenda Vendetta, The (Ace, 1985.)
Timewars #4.
Time travelers from the 27th Century have altered history in the small European nation of Ruritania, and the time police must shift things back to normal.
HAWKES, JACQUETTA
Providence Island (Chatto & Windus, 1959, Random House, 1959, Grey Arrow, 1961.)
A remote island is inhabited by people with extrasensory powers.
HAWKEY, RAYMOND (See collaboration which follows.)
End Stage. (See It.)
It (New English Library, 1983. Sphere, 1988, as End Stage.)
President #3.
Not seen.
Side Effect (Jonathan Cape, 1989.)
President #2.
Not seen.
HAWKEY, RAYMOND & BINGHAM, ROGER
Wild Card (Stein & Day, 1974, Ballantine, 1988.)
President #1.
A secret government project to perfect a new biological weapon involves the use of the virus against an American community.
HAWKIN, MARTIN
When Adolph Came (Jarrolds, 1943.)
Uchronia in which the Nazis successfully invade the British Isles.
HAWKINS, EDWARD H.
Wellspring (Apollo, 1970.)
A military project to develop a bacteriological weapon has startling and unfortunate results.
HAWKINS, JIM
Living One, The (Popular Library, 1980.)
To escape a nuclear war on Earth, a charismatic leader brings his followers to another planet where they live with a limited technology. Other survivors from Earth, still using more sophisticated equipment and relentlessly evil, follow and enslave the colonists.
HAWKINS, PETER (See Karl Maras.)
HAWKINS, WARD
Blaze of Wrath (Del Rey, 1986.)
Harry Borg #3.
An alliance of villains plots to gain control of an energy crystal that will allow them to dominate the parallel world where lizards are dominant on Earth, but Harry Borg and his friends ride to the rescue once again.
Red Flame Burning (Del Rey, 1985.)
Harry Borg #1.
An aging alcoholic is lured into an alternate world where he is cured, and then given the task of rescuing kidnapped humans as well as preventing a war among the lizard people who live in that realm.
Sword of Fire (Del Rey, 1985.)
Harry Borg #2.
Harry and his friends from a parallel world are leagued against human terrorists this time, and are instrumental in stopping a plot that would have destroyed the human world.
Torch of Fear (Del Rey, 1987.)
Harry Borg #4.
Borg agrees to travel by matter transmitter to another world, but he didn’t expect to end up in the body of one of the local inhabitants. Somehow he must complete his mission and then return to his own body.
Dragon Fire (MacMillan, ?)
Future war novel about a battle between India and Pakistan that leads to a nuclear war with China.
HAWTON, HECTOR
Operation Superman (Ward, Lock, 1951.)
Not seen.
HAY, GEORGE (See also King Lang and Roy Sheldon.)
Flight of the Hesper (Hamilton, 1951.)
A generational starship runs into internal and external problems as it attempts to colonize a new world.
Man, Woman, and Android (Hamilton, 1951.)
Martians interfere in human affairs, which involve a servile race of androids.
This Planet for Sale (Hamilton, 1951.)
An android gets caught between the government and a rapacious interstellar corporation.
HAY, JACOB & KESHISHIAN, JOHN M.
Autopsy for a Cosmonaut (Little, Brown, 1969, Popular Library, 1970. Dent, 1970, as Death of a Cosmonaut.)
A doctor agrees to a trip to orbit to perform an autopsy on a Russian cosmonaut that may have implications for world peace.
Death of a Cosmonaut. (See Autopsy for a Cosmonaut.)
HAY, JOHN
Invasion, The (Hodder, 1968.)
Communist forces from Southeast Asia launch a nuclear attack against Australia and then send in an invasion force to seize the subcontinent.
HAY, WILLIAM DELISLE
Doom of the Great City, The (Newman, 1880.)
A terrible fog kills most of the population of London.
Three Hundred Years Hence (Newman, 1881.)
A Utopian novel.
Portals in a Northern Sky (Autodidactic Press, 2002.)
In an increasingly depressing future, someone invents a device that allows history to be played back.
HAYES, F.W.
Great Revolution of 1905, The (Forder, 1893. Reeves, 1894, expanded as State Industrialism.)
Near future political speculation.
State Industrialism. (See The Great Revolution of 1905.)
HAYES, JEFF
Paradise on Earth. (See Portland, Oregon A.D. 1999 and Other Sketches.)
Pleiades Club (Multnomah, 1917.)
Not seen.
Portland, Oregon A.D. 1999 and Other Sketches (Baltes, 1913. Baltes, 1913, as Paradise on Earth.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
HAYES, RALPH
Doomsday Conspiracy, The (Belmont Tower, 1974.)
A fanatical terrorist group is planning to detonate an orbiting Soviet weapons system that could devastate the world, so a secret agent is sent out to stop them.
Last View of Eden, The (Tower, 1981.)
A government conspiracy attempts to cover up an error that has wiped out most of the population of an entire state, but the protagonists discover that the victims have been poisoned.
Visiting Moon, The (Lenox Hill, 1971.)
A starship captain discovers that military tactics come in handy when exploring other worlds.
Curse of Peladon, The (Target, 1974.)
A Doctor Who book.
The Doctor struggles to resolve political intrigue in the court of the monarch of the planet Peladon, a world where an ancient god still lives in a secret cavern beneath the surface, and where visitors from other worlds are considered little more than demons.
Ice Warriors, The (Target, 1976.)
A Doctor Who book.
Martians have changed the climate of Earth to bring a new Ice Age, thereby weakening the human race in anticipation of an interplanetary invasion. But the Doctor shows up in the nick of time to foil their plot.
HAYNES, BRIAN (See collaboration with Tom Keene.)
HAYNES, JOHN ROBERT (Pseudonym of Philip Wilding, whom see.)
Scream from Outer Space (Rich & Cowan, 1955, Panther, 1958.)
A strange sound from space is driving people mad, so an expedition is launched to the planet from which it originates, a newcomer to the solar system.
HAZLITT, HENRY
Great Idea, The (Appleton, 1951, Collins, 1951. Benn, 1952, as Time Will Run Back.)
A future communist state reverts to capitalism.
Time Will Run Back. (See The Great Idea.)
HEALD, DENISE LOPES
Mistwalker (Del Rey, 1994.)
On a jungle world, a small time trader hires an offworlder to help with her latest trip, and discovers that various parties are determined to prevent them from completing their mission. At first she thinks they’re angry with her, but eventually she discovers that her problems center around her new employee.
HEALY, DOMINIC
Voyage to Venus (Currawong, 1943.)
Not seen.
HEARD, H.F. (Also writes Fantasy and Horror.)
Doppelgangers (Vanguard, 1947, Cassell, 1948, Ace, 1966.)
In a future Earth divided between two despotic powers, the protagonist is chosen to be the double of one of the rulers, and as a consequence finds himself caught in the battle between the two sides.
Reply Paid (Vanguard, 1942, Cassell, 1943, Dell, ?, Lancer, 1964.)
Marginal murder mystery involving psychic powers.
HEATH, JACK
Lab, The (Pan, 2006, Scholastic, 2009.)
Six of Hearts #1.
A young superhero tries his powers.
Remote Control (Pan, 2007, Scholastic, 2010.)
Six of Hearts #2.
A teenager with extraordinary abilities finds himself caught between his friends and his enemies.
Third Transmission (Pan, 2009.)
Six of Hearts #3.
?
HEATH, PETER (Pseudonym of Peter Fine.)
Assassins from Tomorrow (Lancer, 1967.)
Mind Brothers #2.
A man from the future helps the contemporary world deal with a secret cult that is linked to a dangerous orbiting satellite and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Men Who Die Twice (Lancer, 1968.)
Mind Brothers #3.
This time the danger is a virus that could wipe out all life on Earth, as well as a missing submarine filled with nuclear weapons.
Mind Brothers, The (Lancer, 1967.)
Mind Brothers #1.
A man from the future mentally contacts one from today and helps him to thwart a Communist plot that would have resulted in a terrible future.
HEATH, ROYSTON (Pseudonym of George C. Wallis.)
Corsair of the Sky, A (?, 1912.
An airborne pirate causes an international crisis.
HECK, PETER J. (See collaborations with Robert Asprin.)
HEDGES, SID
Plague Panic (Jenkins, 1934.)
Not seen. Scientists must combine their efforts to combat a new plague.
HEGLAND, JEAN
Into the Forest (Legend, 1997, Arrow, 1998, Bantam, 1998.)
Two young girls discover that they must learn to change if they are to survive in their woodland home after civilization collapses and they lose contact with everyone they know.
HEIDE, FLORENCE PARRY
Problem with Pulcifer, The (Lippincott, 1982.)
Children’s book set in a future where books and television have switched roles.
HEIM, MICHAEL
Aswan! (Knopf, 1972, Warner, 1973, translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. Collins, 1972, as The Waters of Aswan.)
In the midst of fresh tension between Arabs and Israelis, the Aswan dam is threatening to break, and the possibility of a military strike endangers most of the population of Egypt.
Waters of Aswan, The. (See Aswan!)
HEINE, IRVING (Pseudonym of Dennis Talbot Hughes, whom see.)
Dimension of Illion (Tit-Bits, 1955.)
Not seen.
HEINE, WILLIAM C.
Death Wind (Pyramid, 1976. Pocket, 1974, Simon & Schuster, 1974, Hale, 1974, as The Last Canadian. Paperjacks, 1986, as The Last American.)
A devastating plague is sweeping across North America, and the protagonist bundles up his family and sets off into the remote wilderness hoping to escape the contamination.
Last American, The. (See Death Wind.)
Last Canadian, The. (See Death Wind.)
HEINLEIN, ROBERT A. (See also collaboration which follows. Also writes Fantasy.)
Assignment in Eternity (Fantasy Press, 1953, Signet, 1954, Museum, 1954, Baen, 1987. Digit, 1960, as Lost Legacy.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of Robert Heinlein, The (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of Robert Heinlein 1939-1942, The (Sphere, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of Robert Heinlein 1947-1959, The (Sphere, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Between Planets (Scribners, 1951, Gollancz, 1968, Ace, ?, Baen, 2009. Magazine version under the title Planets in Combat.)
A teenager without a nationality gets caught up in the war that erupts when the colonists on Venus try to break with Earth. He eventually chooses on the side of freedom and finds a new home for himself.
Beyond This Horizon (Fantasy Press, 1948, Grosset & Dunlap, 1952, Signet, 1960, Panther, 1967, Baen, 2001.)
In a future world that verges on the Utopian, a handful of people grow discontented because there is no challenge left and they believe the human race is stagnating. So they set out to undermine the status quo and forge a new society.
Cat Who Walks Through Walls, The (Putnam, 1985, Berkley, 1986, New English Library, 1986.)
Kitchen sink novel in which an attempted assassination leads the protagonist through parallel worlds peopled with characters from Methuselah’s Children, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, and others.
Citizen of the Galaxy (Scribners, 1957, Ace, ?, Gollancz, 1969, Peacock, 1972.)
A slave boy goes through a harrowing apprenticeship until he is prepared for his manhood as a free trader ranging the stars in pursuit of money.
Day After Tomorrow (Gnome, 1949, Signet, 1951, Baen, 1999, as Sixth Column. Mayflower, 1962, New English Library, ca 1973.)
The US has been conquered by armies from Asia, but a handful of Americans, armed with a revolutionary new weapon based on atomic energy, are working from within to weaken and eventually overthrow the occupation forces.
Destination Moon (Gregg, 1979.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Door into Summer, The (Fantasy House, 1956, Doubleday, 1957, Signet, 1959, Panther, 1960, Gollancz, 2000.)
The protagonist is trapped into suspended animation by those he thought were his friends. When he wakens, it’s in a future when it is possible to manipulate time, so he sets out to return to his original point in history and turn the tables.
Double Star, Signet, 1957. (Doubleday, 1956, Signet, 1957, Joseph, 1958, Panther, 1960.)
An out of work actor is kidnapped to Mars where he is given the unenviable job of impersonating a missing politician whose presence is essential for the negotiation of a lasting peace between Earth and Mars. But as time passes, the original doesn’t show up and the actor matures into the role.
Expanded Universe (Ace, 1980, Grosset & Dunlap, 1980, Baen, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Farmer in the Sky (Scribners, 1950, Gollancz, 1963, Pan, 1967, Dell, 1968, Baen, 2009.)
The colony on Ganymede is rocked by a terrific disaster that jeopardizes their future. They must decide whether to return to overpopulated Earth and admit their failure, or try to find a way to remain a viable colony.
Farnham's Freehold (Putnam, 1964, Longmans, 1964, Signet, 1965, Dobson, 1965, Corgi, 1967, Berkley, 1971, Ace, 1987, Orbit, 1991, Baen, ?.)
Following a devastating nuclear war, Farnham and his family only manage to survive by pursuing the virtue of selfishness and acting ruthlessly to prevent anyone from endangering their future.
For Us, the Living (Scribner, 2004.)
Early novel published posthumously. The protagonist wakens from an accident to find himself displaced a century into the future.
Four Frontiers (Science Fiction Book Club, 2005.)
Omnibus of Rocketship Galileo, Space Cadet, Red Planet, and Farmer in the Sky.
Friday (Del Rey, 1982, Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1982, New English Library, 1982.)
The title is the name of the protagonist, a genetically tailored superhuman employed as a spy by a mysterious semi-governmental agency that battles against a variety of enemies, not all of whom are clearly identified.
Green Hills of Earth, The (Shasta, 1951, Signet, 1952, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954, Digit, 1962, Pan, ?, Baen, 2000.)
Future History #2.
Collection of loosely related stories.
Green Hills of Earth, The/Menace from Earth, The (Baen, 2010.)
Omnibus of the two collections.
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel (Scribner, 1958, Ace, ?, Gollancz, 1970, Del Rey, 2003.)
After winning a spacesuit in a contest, a young boy travels to the moon where he and his friend get involved with a benevolent alien visitor and a host of other adventures.
Heinlein Triad, A. (See Three by Heinlein.)
Heinlein Trio, A (Doubleday, 1980.)
Omnibus of The Puppet Masters, Double Star, and The Door into Summer.
Infinite Possibilities (Science Fiction Book Club, 2005.)
Omnibus of Tunnel in the Sky, Time for the Stars, and Citizen of the Galaxy.
I Will Fear No Evil (Putnam, 1970, Berkley, 1971, New English Library, 1972, Ace, 1987.)
A very rich man in a dying body has his mind transplanted into a new one, but another personality remains there as well, and the blend of the two has startling consequences.
Job: A Comedy of Justice (Del Rey, 1984, New English Library, 1984.)
A fundamentalist preacher is propelled through a series of apparent parallel worlds.
Lost Legacy. (See Assignment in Eternity)
Man Who Sold the Moon, The (Shasta, 1950, Signet, 1951, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1953, Pan, 1955, Baen, 1987.)
Future History #1.
Collection of loosely related stories.
Menace from Earth, The (Gnome, 1959, Signet, 1962, Dobson, 1966, Corgi, 1968, Baen, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Methuselah's Children (Gnome, 1958, Signet, 1960, Gollancz, 1963, Pan, 1966, Baen, ?)
Future History #4.
A small minority of humans are discovered to have abnormally long lifespans. When they become the objects of hatred and envy, they are forced to flee the Earth in a starship to find a new home for themselves among the stars.
Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The (Putnam, 1966, Berkley, 1968, Dobson, 1972, Ace, 1987, Orb, 1997, Gollancz, 2001.)
Colonists on the moon demand their independence from Earth, and when military action is threatened, prove themselves capable of fighting back, assisted by an artificial intelligence that poses as a human to lead the rebellion.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long, The (?, 1978.)
Excerpts from Time Enough for Love.
Number of the Beast, The (Gold Medal, 1980, New English Library, 1980.)
Four humans discover that they have attracted the attention of extraterrestrial intelligences.
Off the Main Sequence (SF Book Club, 2005.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Orphans of the Sky (Putnam, 1963, Gollancz, 1963, Signet, 1965, Mayflower, 1965, Berkley, 1970, Ace, 1987, Stealth, 2001, Baen, 2002.)
Future History #5
Two related short novels about a generational starship.
Past Through Tomorrow, The (Putnam, 1967, Longmans, 1967, Berkley, 1975, Ace, 1987.)
Omnibus of the first four Future History books.
Podkayne of Mars (Putnam, 1963, Avon, 1964, New English Library, 1969, Berkley, 1970, Ace, 1987, Baen, 1993, Hale, 2002.)
A precocious young girl from Mars is visiting Earth when she discovers that she is the center of attention for spies from three different planetary governments, all gathering information about her uncle, who is a planetary diplomat. Ultimately she proves more than a match for all of them.
Puppet Masters, The (Doubleday, 1951, Signet, 1952, Museum, 1953, Del Rey, 1986, revised, 1990, Baen, 2009. Oxford University, 1979, revised by David Fickling.)
Alien parasites arrive on Earth, attaching themselves to human beings and taking control of their minds. A secretive government agency discovers the truth and sets out to unmask and destroy the invaders. Unfortunately, the invaders multiple quickly and spread throughout the governments of the world.
Red Planet (Scribner, 1949, Gollancz, 1963, Ace, ?, Pan, 1967, Del Rey, 1977, revised 1990.)
Two teenagers uncover a plot to turn the colonists on Mars into virtual slaves and set out across the hostile landscape to let people know the truth. Eventually they are assisted by the Martian natives and return to a confrontation that saves everyone.
Requiem (Tor, 1992.)
Collection of mostly non-fiction with a few unrelated short stories.
Revolt in 2100 (Shasta, 1953, Signet, 1955, Digit, 1959, Gollancz, 1964, Pan, 1966.)
Future History #3.
Collection of loosely related stories.
Robert Heinlein Omnibus, A (Science Fiction Book Club, 1958.)
Omnibus of The Man Who Sold the Moon and The Green Hills of Earth.
Robert Heinlein Omnibus, A (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1966.)
Omnibus of Beyond This Horizon, The Man Who Sold the Moon, and The Green Hills of Earth.
Rocketship Galileo (Scribner, 1947, Ace, ?, New English Library, 1971.)
Filmed as Destination Moon. This is the story of the first successful flight to the moon, which succeeds despite several problems, one of which almost causes them to sacrifice one of their number to save the rest.
Rolling Stones, The (Scribner, 1952, Ace, ?, Baen, 2009. Magazine version was titled Tramp Space Ship. Gollancz, 1969, as Space Family Stone. Cambridge University, 1978, abridged by Rosemary Border as Space Family Stone.)
A family full of eccentric geniuses owns their own spaceship and use it in a series of adventures that take them from the moon to Mars.
Six by H (Gnome, 1959, Pyramid, 1961, Dobson, 1964, Berkley, 1976, Ace, 1989, as The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sixth Column. (See The Day After Tomorrow.)
Space Cadet (Scribners, 1948, Gollancz, 1966, Ace, ?, Tor, 2005.)
The adventures of a young trainee who joins the Space Patrol and is assigned to a series of missions scattered throughout the solar system.
Space Family Stone. (See The Rolling Stones.)
Star Beast, The (Scribners, 1954, Ace, ?, New English Library, 1971.)
A star explorer brings home an alien being that grows into a lumbering, elephant sized creature almost invulnerable to normal dangers but still affectionate. The friendship between the creature and a young boy are tested in a series of adventures before we discover the true nature of the alien.
Starman Jones (Scribners, 1953, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954, Puffin, 1966, Dell, 1967.)
A young man is denied admission to the Astrogators’ Guild, so he runs away to space anyway and has a series of adventures among the stars.
Starship Troopers (Putnam, 1959, Signet, 1961, New English Library, 1961, Berkley, 1968, Ace, 1987.)
Earth has essentially become a benevolent military dictatorship, and young people are conditioned to accept service in the military as a prerequisite to full rights. One young man enlists and matures during a series of battles with a race of oversized insects.
Starship Troopers/The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress/Time Enough for Love (Book of Month Club, 1991.)
Omnibus of the three novels.
Stranger in a Strange Land. (Putnam, 1961, Avon, 1962, Berkley, 1968, New English Library, 1965, Ace, 1987, Putnam, 1991.)
A young human man who was raised by Martians is returned to Earth, where his innocence and very different viewpoint is used to poke fun at many of the institutions of human society.
Three by Heinlein (Doubleday, 1965. Gollancz, 1966, as A Heinlein Triad.)
Omnibus of The Puppet Masters, Waldo, and Magic Inc.
Time Enough for Love (Putnam, 1973, Berkley, 1974, New English Library, 1974, Ace, 1988.)
Future History #6.
Long, retrospective look at the life of Lazarus Long, one of the long lived humans who broke away from Earth when his advantages became the target of envious normals, and who subsequently had many adventures among the stars.
Time for the Stars (Scribners, 1956, Gollancz, 1963, Ace, ?, Pan, 1968, Tor, 2006, Orb, 2007.)
Twins with telepathic powers are used to communicate from an exploratory starship back to Earth, and the explorers run into a series of adventures on far worlds.
To Sail Beyond the Sunset. (Putnam, 1987, Joseph, 1987, Ace, 1988.)
Another kitchen sink novel that incorporates characters from other books, notable The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and the Future History series. A woman discovers that her visitors are from parallel worlds and other times.
To the Stars (Science Fiction Book Club, 2005.)
Omnibus of Between Planets, The Rolling Stones, Starman Jones, and The Star Beast.
Tunnel in the Sky (Scribners, 1955, Gollancz, 1965, Ace, ?, Pan, 1968, Del Rey, 2003.)
A group of teenagers is sent on a training mission to a primitive world, but the matter transmitter that brings them there apparently malfunctions and they are left to fend for themselves with little equipment and no hope of rescue.
Universe (Dell, 1951. Tor, 1991, bound with Silent Thunder by Dean Ing. Magazine version 1941.)
Short story from Orphans of the Sky, printed in pamphlet form.
Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, The. (See Six by H.)
Waldo & Magic, Inc. (Doubleday, 1950, Pyramid, 1963, Signet, 1970. Avon, 1958, as Waldo: Genius in Orbit.)
Two unrelated short novels.
Waldo: Genius in Orbit. (See Waldo & Magic, Inc.)
Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, The (Ace, 1966. New English Library, 1970.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Variable Star (Tor, 2006.)
Colonists en route to another planet discover that Earth has been destroyed.
HEISE, KENAN
Journey of Silas Bigelow, The (Collage, 1981.)
A brief adventure in an alternate North America where there is still an Indian nation which patrols its borders with the much smaller United States.
HELDERS, MAJOR (Pseudonym of Robert Knauss.)
War in the Air, The (Hamilton, 1932.)
Future war novel in which Britain defeats France
Mask of the Phantasm (Bantam Skylark, 1994, based on the script by Alan Burnett.)
A Batman novel.
Junior novelization of the animated television series. Batman faces the Joker and a new super villain, Phantasm.
Cloak and Dagger (Jam, 2003.)
A Net Force novel.
A young computer expert is unjustly accused of stealing confidential files in a future internet.
HEMING, JOHN (See also Paul de Wreder.)
From Earth to Mars (Currawong, 1943.)
Not seen.
King of the Underseas (Currawong, 1942.)
Not seen.
Living Dead, The (Currawong, 1942.)
Not seen.
Other Worlds (Currawong, 1942.)
Not seen.
Subterranean City (Currawong, 1942.)
Not seen.
HEMINGWAY, AMANDA (Also writes Fantasy.)
Pzyche (Faber, 1982.)
Not seen.
HEMINGWAY, HILARY & LINDSAY, JEFFREY (See also collaboration with Michael Dorn.)
Dreamchild (Forge, 1998.)
A hybrid human/alien child fathered during an alien abduction is the only bridge to an understanding between the two races.
HEMRY, JOHN G. (See also Jack Campbell.)
Against All Enemies (Ace, 2006.)
Law #4.
The violent suppression of a terrorist group leads to suspicions of spies within the space force.
Burden of Proof (Ace, 2004.)
Law #2.
A fatal accident aboard a starship results in a criminal trial of a negligent but powerfully connected young officer.
Just Determination, A (Ace, 2003.)
Law #1.
A space going lawyer has to defend a military officer who ordered the destruction of a civilian space vessel under mysterious circumstances.
Rule of Evidence (Ace, 2005.)
Law #3.
Sabotage aboard a military starship results in a trial.
Stark's Command (Ace, 2001.)
Stark #2.
The military forces on the moon have committed mutiny to help the colony win its independence from the oppressive US government, but now civilian and military must stand together as the Earthbound forces regroup.
Stark's Crusade (Ace, 2002.)
Stark #3.</