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Love Warrior, The (New English Library, 1975.)
War between barbarian hordes in the far future.
LACH-SZYRMA, W. S.
Aleriel: A Voyage to Other Worlds. (See A Voice from Another World.)
Under Other Conditions (Black, 1892.)
Venus #2.
Not seen.
Voice from Another World, A (Oxford, 1874. Wyman, 1883, as Aleriel, or a Voyage to Other Worlds.)
Venus #1.
Not seen.
LACKEY, MERCEDES (See collaborations which follow, plus with Anne McCaffrey.)
LACKEY, MERCEDES & FLINT, ERIC & FREER, DAVE
Wizard of Karres, The (Baen, 2004.)
A sequel to The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz. A comic adventure in space.
LACKEY, MERCEDES & GUON, ELLEN
Freedom Flight (Baen, 1992.)
A Wing Commander novel.
An unlikely group of star pilots find their fates entwined as they attempt to free a world from an oppressive invader.
LAFARGUE, PHILIP
Forsaken Way, The (Hurst & Blackett, 1900.)
A future in which Britain has become a third world nation.
LAFFERTY, R.A.
Annals of Klepsis (Ace, 1983, Wildside, 2002.)
The world may be on the verge of destruction if not saved by a hero and what appears to be a genuine ghost. A madcap adventure that verges on fantasy.
Apocalypses (Pinnacle, 1977.)
Two metaphysical short novels about the future of humanity.
Arrive at Easterwine (Scribners, 1971, Ballantine, 1973, Dobson, 1977.)
A self aware computer writes its own autobiography, satirizing human foibles in the process.
Aurelia (Starblaze, 1982.)
A brilliant alien girl from the stars shows up on Earth where she is considered a god by some, a devil by others.
Back Door of History, The (United Mythologies, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Does Anyone Have Anything Further to Add? (Scribner, 1974, Dobson, 1980, Wildside, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Early Lafferty, The (United Mythologies, 1981.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Early Lafferty II, The (United Mythologies, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Elliptical Grave, The (United Mythologies, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Episodes of the Argo (United Mythologies, 1990.)
Collection of related stories.
Fourth Mansions (Ace, 1969, Dobson, 1972, Wildside, 2002.)
A totally indescribable story about seven unlikely people who are drawn together to save the world, or maybe not. Includes an invisible creature, men who live multiple lives, and a poor innocent trying to figure out what’s going on.
Golden Gate and Other Stories, The (Corroboree, 1985.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
How Many Miles to Babylon (United Mythologies, 1989.)
Short story in pamphlet form.
Iron Tears (Edgewood, 1992, Wildside, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Lafferty in Orbit (Broken Mirrors, 1991, Wildside, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Nine Hundred Grandmothers (Ace, 1970, Dobson, 1975, Wildside, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Not to Mention Camels (Bobbs-Merrill, 1976, Dobson, 1980, Wildside, 2002.)
An unusual man who exists in three different realities with three different personalities is involved in a series of phantasmagorical adventures across a set of universes.
Past Master (Ace, 1968, Rapp & Whiting, 1968, Wildside, 2002.)
A planet whose Utopian culture is beginning to fall apart decides to consult an expert to find out what they are doing wrong. So they reach back through time and grab Sir Thomas More and introduce him to the world they believe is fashioned after his philosophy.
Promontory Goats (United Mythologies, 1988.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Reefs of Earth, The (Berkley, 1968, Dobson, 1970, Wildside, 2002.)
The Puca family includes seven ugly children who have strange powers and who intend to wipe out everyone on Earth except themselves.
Ringing Changes (Ace, 1984.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Serpent's Egg (Wildside, 2003.)
A satirical look at the future.
Space Chantey (Ace, 1968, bound with Pity About Earth by Ernest Hill. Dobson, 1976.)
Comic novel of space explorers and their improbable adventures, patterned after the Odyssey.
Strange Doings (Scribners, 1972, DAW, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Through Elegant Eyes: Stories of Austro and the Men Who Knew Everything (?, 1983.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LAFLIN, JACK
Bees, The (Tempo, 1976.)
Swarms of killer bees from South America begin to invade the US, attacking and killing people and stirring the government to action against them.
Temple at Ilumquh, The (Award, 1970, Tandem, 1970.)
Marginal spy thriller about a band of fanatic assassins whose minds have been programmed and bodies augmented.
LAIDLAW, MARC
Dad’s Nuke (Donald Fine, 1985, Critics Choice, 1987.)
Satire in which a man builds a nuclear reactor as part of his home protection system, while his genetically programmed son, angry wife, and precocious daughter each rebel in their own way.
Kalifornia (St Martins, 1993.)
Satire in which a woman has her unborn child wired for direct sensory input prior to birth, but who runs into trouble in the form of religious fanatics.
Third Force, The (Scribner, 1996.)
A former member of the government of a repressive future totalitarian state joins the underground and discovers much that she didn’t know about her society. Based on the computer game Gadget.
LAIGHT, RUPERT
Revenge of the Slitheen (BBC, 2007.)
A Sarah Jane Smith novel.
?
Atmosphere (Leisure, 2002.)
Although packaged as horror, the serial killers in this are human agents of alien invaders who are harvesting lifeforce to power their spaceships.
LAIN, DOUGLAS
Last Week's Apocalypse (Night Shade, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LAING, ALEXANDER & PAINTER, THOMAS
Glass Centipede, The. (See The Motives of Nicholas Holtz.)
Motives of Nicholas Holtz, The (Farrar & Rinehart 1936. Butterworth, 1936, as The Glass Centipede.)
Not seen. An experiment in the creation of artificial life results in a deadly virus.
LAKE, DAVID J.
Fourth Hemisphere, The (Void, 1980.)
Even though Earth has been virtually destroyed in a nuclear war, the two warring factions continue their battle from bases on the moon, from which each hopes to launch colony ships to other planets.
Gods of Xuma, The (DAW, 1978.)
Xuma #1.
An explorer in a far star system discovers a planet whose climate and inhabitants bear an uncanny resemblance to the Barsoom of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and he subsequently has a series of adventures there.
Man Who Loved Morlocks, The (Hyland, 1981.)
A sequel to The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
Right Hand of Dextra, The (DAW, 1977.)
Dextra #1.
Humans try to colonize a world where DNA takes an entirely different form, and their efforts to replace the native flora and fauna run into serious problems until they finally decide to find a way to reach a biological compromise.
Ring of Truth, The (DAW, 1982, Cory & Collins, 1982.)
An aristocrat of a non human race in what may be another universe goes on a quest across the surface of his world, a place where the laws of nature are not the same as those of our Earth.
Walkers on the Sky (DAW, 1976. Fontana, 1978, revised.)
Adventure on a world divided into two, where the ground dwellers look up and see people passing above them in the sky. Things start to get interesting when one of the people from the upper world falls through the barrier into the lower one.
Warlords of Xuma (DAW, 1983.)
Xuma #3.
What appears to be a primitive world of swords and pirates and the like turns out to be the mask covering a much more sophisticated and established alien culture that has consciously chosen the face it turns to the stars.
Wildings of Westron, The (DAW, 1977.)
Dextra #2.
The battle between two different ecosystems on one planet is renewed, while the human colonists are themselves divided into two rival camps. And the local ecology seems to be evolving into a more dangerous form.
American Sorrows (Wheatland, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Greetings from Lake Wu (Wheatland, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Rocket Science (Fairwood, 2005.)
A returning veteran has the secret of a radical new form of space propulsion system, and many enemies who want it.
LALLEY, PAUL
Colony, The (Carlyle, 1979.)
An infestation of South American Fire Ants shows up in the US and endangers the citizens of a small town. In an effort to bring the colony under control, the authorities plan to make use of a proscribed insecticide, despite protests from some within the community.
LAMARK, DREW
Medusa Horror, The (Futura, 1983.)
A horde of maneating jellyfish begin picking off vacationers along the Cornish coast until survivors alert the world to the danger.
LAMASTER, SLATER
Cupid Napoleon (Humphries, 1934. Magazine version, 1928, as Luckett of the Moon.)
Not seen.
LAMB, HAROLD
Marching Sands (Appleton, 1920, Jacobsen, 1930, Hyperion, 1974.)
A lost world novel set in Asia with a group of explorers escaping religious cultists and stumbling across a civilization isolated from the outside world for many generations.
LAMB, WILLIAM (Pseudonym of Storm Jameson, whom see.)
World Ends, The (Dent, 1937.)
Not seen. An end of the world novel.
LAMBARD, CREEDE (See collaboration with Steve Jackson.)
LAMBARD, SHARLEEN (See collaboration with Steve Jackson.)
LAMBE, DEAN R. (See collaboration with Michael Banks.)
LAMBERT III, W. (See also Adriana DeBolt and Christopher Dane.)
Assignment: Grey Area (Carousel, 1981.)
Awkward thriller about a spy trying to disrupt a Soviet bacteriological weapons program that could wipe out all human life.
Encores in Fade (Carousel, 1981.)
A human is transported to a primitive world where he is forced to participate in gladiatorial games, all of which he believes to be a dream.
Michael: The Master (Carousel, 1981.)
Sequel to The Alien Within, published as by Adriana DeBolt.
The protagonist sets out to capture his father, who became a traitor and took his starship into an alternate universe.
LAMBOURNE, JOHN
Kingdom That Was, The (Murray, 1931.)
Professor Ellis #1.
A lost world novel.
Second Leopard, The (Murray, 1932.)
Professor Ellis #2.
A lost world novel.
L’AMOUR, LOUIS
Californios, The (Bantam, 1974, Saturday Review Press, 1974.)
Marginal western novel involving an Indian with psychic power.
Haunted Mesa, The (Bantam, 1987.)
An investigator is trying to determine what happened to the Anasazi Indian tribe and stumbles across a lost civilization.
LAMPMAN, EVELYN SIBLEY
Rusty’s Space Ship (Doubleday, 1957.)
Kids story about efforts to return a wandering UFO to its owner.
Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek, The (Doubleday, 1955, Scholastic, 1962.)
Stegosaurus #1.
Amusing tale of the complications that arise when teenagers find and befriend a fully grown, slightly clumsy dinosaur.
Shy Stegosaurus of Indian Springs, The (Doubleday, 1962.)
Stegosaurus #2.
Not seen.
LAMPP, JAMES
Sandra Effect, The (Manor, 1978.)
An inventor creates a working matter transmitter, but it has some unusual quirks. For one thing, although it moves people around, it always leaves their clothing behind.
LAMPTON, CHRISTOPHER (See also collaboration with David Bischoff.)
Cross of Empire (Laser, 1976.)
A hapless tourist gets caught between the security forces of Earth and an alien race, both of which think he is an agent working for the other side.
Gateway to Limbo (Doubleday, 1979.)
Not seen.
LAMSZUS, WILHELM
Human Slaughterhouse, The (Hutchinson, 1913.)
Future war novel.
Falling Towards Jupiter (Terminus, 2003.)
A coming of age novel about a young girl who solves a murder on a station orbiting Jupiter.
LANCE, KATHRYN (See also Lynn Beach.)
Caution: Aliens at Work (Gold Key, 1998.)
A young boy finds an alien toolkit that gives him great powers, but the owner is on the warpath trying to reclaim his property.
Pandora’s Children (Questar, 1986.)
Pandora #2.
The anti-science bias of a fanatical religious group brings them into conflict with the last surviving scientific establishment on Earth, in a battle which will determine the fate of the human race.
Pandora’s Genes (Questar, 1985.)
Pandora #1.
Two young people attempt to find love in a post collapse world where machines no longer work and a fanatical religious cult fights any attempt to regain the lost of the their ancestors. Unless something is done, however, the human race faces extinction.
LANCOUR, GENE (Pseudonym of Gene Lancour Fisher.)
Globes of Llarum, The (?, 1980.)
A mercenary helps colonists revolt against an interstellar corporation.
Immortal Coil (Pocket, 2002.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel.
Data leads the search for a revolutionary new type of android which disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
LAND, JON
Alpha Deception, The (Gold Medal, 1988.)
McCracken #2.
?
Blue Widows, The (Forge, 2003.)
Marginal thriller about a future terrorist plot on an immense scale.
Council of Ten, The (Gold Medal, 1987.)
?
Dead Simple (Forge, 1998.)
A tanker full of experimental explosives is hijacked by terrorists who use the material to destroy every bridge and tunnel into Manhattan as part of their plan.
Eighth Trumpet, The (Gold Medal, 1989.)
McCracken #3.
A group armed with superweapons sets out to conquer the world.
Last Prophecy, The (Forge, 2004, Tor, 2005.)
Marginal thriller about a plot against the US linked to Nostradamus.
Lucifer Directive, The (Zebra, 1984.)
Stolen nuclear weapons precipitate a crisis.
Ninth Dominion, The (Gold Medal, 1991.)
?
Omega Command, The (Gold Medal, 1986.)
McCracken #1.
?
Omicron Legion, The (Gold Medal, 1991.)
McCracken #4.
High tech assassination and other thrills as several different international conspiracies upset international order.
Valhalla Testament, The (Gold Medal, 1990.)
?
Vortex (Zebra, 1984.)
The entire world is doomed when a launch of Soviet missiles heads for the US, powerful enough to rip a hole in the structure of space time itself.
Walk in the Darkness, A (Forge, 2000.)
Marginal thriller about a series of murders that leads a group to believe that a secret society is trying to prevent revelation of the fact that the basis for Christianity is false.
LANDIS, ARTHUR H.
Home - To Avalon (DAW, 1982.)
Inhabitants of various human colonies on inhospitable worlds begin to distrust the very nature of the only Earthlike planet ever discovered and clamor for its destruction. The hero travels to that world to solve its various mysteries.
LANDIS, GEOFFREY A.
Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities (Golden Gryphon, 2001.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Mars Crossing (Tor, 2000.)
The third expedition to Mars seems doomed to follow the first two into disastrous failure. The only chance the astronauts have to survive is in a dangerous trek across the planet’s surface.
Myths, Legends, and True History (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LANDIS, MARIE (See collaboration with Brian Herbert.)
LANDON, KRISTIN
Cold Minds, The (Ace, 2008.)
Hidden Worlds #2.
Humans battle artificial intelligences.
Dark Reaches, The (Ace, 2009.)
Hidden Worlds #3.
Humans battle sentient machines and discover survivors in Earth's home system.
Hidden Worlds, The (Ace, 2007.)
Hidden Worlds #1.
Sentient machines destroy the Earth but some humans survived to colonize other worlds. Years later, their presence is discovered.
LANDSMAN, SANDY
Gadget Factor, The (Atheneum, 1984, Signet Vista, 1985.)
A brilliant kid is trying to invent a new twist when he inadvertently discovers genuine time travel, and gets the entire human race into big trouble.
LANE, ANDY (See also collaborations which follow.)
All Consuming Fire (Doctor Who Books, 1994.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure.
The Doctor teams up with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to track down the thief who stole a book that describes the doorways to another dimensions, and the dangers and powers beyond.
Empire of Glass, The (Doctor Who Books, 1995.)
A Doctor Who Missing Adventure
In 17th Century Venice, the Doctor encounters William Shakespeare and Galileo, and together they help to foil an alien invasion force.
Original Sin (Doctor Who Books, 1995.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure.
The Doctor is sent to a future Earth where he is immediately arrested and sent to a prison planet. But a series of murders shakes human society, and the authorities ultimately turn to the Doctor to solve the mystery.
Slow Decay (BBC, 2007.)
A Torchwood novel.
?
LANE, ANDY & MORTIMORE, JIM
Lucifer Rising (Doctor Who Books, 1993.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure.
The Doctor travels to a planet where an expedition searching for alien artifacts broke off its exploration without explanation some time in the past. His investigation uncovers the fact that the alien technology isn't entirely inactive.
Banquo Legacy, The (BBC, 2000.)
A Doctor Who novel.
A hostile time lord has deprived the Doctor of transportation and the power to regenerate and left him in the middle of the late 19th Century.
LANE, JANE (Pseudonym of Elaine Dakers.)
State of Mind, A (Muller, 1964.)
A repressive new society emerges from the ashes of a nuclear war.
LANE, JOHN (Pseudonym of Dennis Talbot Hughes, whom see.)
Maid of Thuro (Curtis Warren, 1952.)
Not seen.
Mammalia (Curtis Warren, 1953.)
Not seen.
Mizora: A World of Women (?, Bison, 2002.)
?
LANG, ALLEN KIM
Wild and Outside (Chilton, 1966, Ambassador, 1966.)
A secret agent has adventures on a wild world.
LANG, H.
Air Battle, The (William Perry, 1859, Cornmarket, 1972.)
The advent of aerial warfare completely changes the geopolitical structure of the world with an African nation becoming the pre-eminent power.
LANG, JEFFREY (See also collaborations with Dean Weddle and J.G. Hertzler.)
Cohesion (Pocket, 2005.)
A Star Trek Voyager novel.
The ship stumbles into an alternate dimension.
Immortal Coil (Pocket, 2002.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel
Data goes through an identity crisis while investigating the mysterious destruction of a new android.
LANG, KING (House pseudonym.)
Astro Race (Curtis Warren, 1951. ) (David Griffiths.)
A new space drive is developed at the Jupiter mining colony.
Gyrator Control (Curtis Warren, 1951. ) (David Griffiths.)
Martians, conquered by Earth, plot to steal a secret weapon.
Projectile War (Curtis Warren, 1951.) (David Griffiths.)
Earth battles invaders who have captured the outer solar system.
Radar Invasion (Curtis Warren, 1951.) (David Griffiths.)
Humans use a tailored plague to thwart alien invaders.
Saturn Patrol (Curtis Warren, 1951.) (E.C. Tubb.)
One man organizes various planets into an alliance against interstellar outlaws.
Space Line (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (John Jennison.)
The moon is kidnapped by aliens seeking a way to preserve their race.
Task Flight (Curtis Warren, 1951.) (David Griffiths.)
Space adventure involving telepathic aliens and mysterious incidents.
Terra! (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (George Hay.)
Humorous tale of one man’s crusade to turn back an alien invasion.
Trans Mercurian (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (Brian Holloway.)
The first expedition to Mercury discovers another planet.
LANG, SIMON (Pseudonym of Darlene Hartman.)
All the Gods of Eisernon (Avon, 1973.)
Skipjack #1.
An aggressive race launches an invasion of a peaceful, idyllic planet as part of their planet to dominate the galaxy. Earth decides to call their bluff and attempts to reverse the invasion, leaving the formerly paradisical planet caught in the middle.
Elluvon Gift, The (Avon, 1975.)
Skipjack #2.
A mutinous crew is further tempted by the gift of a mysterious alien race, and then endangered by the actions of an alien enemy who seeks to steal the technology for their own, warlike use.
Hopeship (Ace, 1994.)
Skipjack #5.
A spaceman is being treated aboard a hospital ship when someone commits a murder and frames him for the crime. Despite his injuries, he must find a way to unmask the real killer before his own fate is sealed.
Timeslide (Ace, 1993.)
Skipjack #4.
A starship crew takes a dangerous journey into the past to observe Earth during the second world war, and also to look into a war on a planet of feline aliens.
Trumpets of Tagan, The (Ace, 1992.)
Skipjack #3.
A human starship crew returns to the planet they helped to liberate when one of its most revered citizens is kidnapped into space by unknown forces.
LANGART, DARRELL T. (See Randall Garrett.)
Anything You Can Do (Doubleday, 1963, Mayflower, 1963, Lancer, 1969. Leisure, ?, as Earth Invader as by Randall Garrett.)
An alien from the stars invades Earth, single handedly (if that’s the right term) killing many people, stealing military secrets, destroying installations. Scientists finally develop a superman who is designed to be able to defeat the invader, but he’s a reluctant hero with serious doubts about the entire enterprise.
Earth Invader. (See Anything You Can Do.)
LANGE, JOHN (Pseudonym of Michael Crichton, whom see.)
Binary. (Knopf, 1972, Literary Guild, 1972, Bantam, 1973.)
Near future thriller in which an insane millionaire decides to wipe out the entire city hosting the Republican National Convention using a newly developed nerve gas.
LANGE, OLIVER
Defiance: An American Novel. (See Vandenberg.)
Vandenberg (Stein & Day, 1971, Bantam, 1972. Day, 1984, as Defiance: An American Novel.)
The Soviet Union conquers America after wiping out Washington and having the rest of the country virtually collapse. But under the occupation, a stubborn patriot rallies the resistance and eventually helps overthrow the invaders.
LANGELAAN, GEORGE
Out of Time (Four Square, 1964.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LANGFORD, DAVID (See also William Robert Loosley. See also collaboration which follows.)
Dragonhiker’s Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune’s Edge: Odyssey Two, The (Drunken Dragon, 1988.)
Collection of spoofs.
Irrational Numbers (Necronomicon, 1994.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Leaky Establishment, The (Muller, 1984, Sphere, 1985, Big Engine, 2001.)
Marginal satire about a man who inadvertently steals a nuclear device and can't figure out how to put it back.
Space Eater, The (Arrow, 1982, Pocket, 1983, Baen, ?)
Two agents are sent via matter transmitter to a distant planet to bring to a halt a series of proscribed experiments which pose a deadly threat to the stability of the human empire.
LANGFORD, DAVID & GRANT, JOHN
Earthdoom! (Grafton, 1987.)
Not seen. A spoof of disaster novels in which all of them happen at once.
LANGFORD, GEORGE
Kutnar, Son of Pic (Boni & Liveright, 1921.)
Pic #2.
A story of prehistory.
Pic, the Weapon Maker (Boni & Liveright, 1920.)
Pic #1.
A story of prehistory.
Senrac, the Lion Man (Liveright, 1954.)
A story of prehistory.
LANGLEY, BOB
War Lords (Morrow, 1981.)
Concerned about the weakness of British resolve in the face of a new Soviet build up, the US resorts to covert and increasingly overt actions to subvert the British government and turn the country into a puppet state run by the CIA.
LANG-TUNG
Decline and Fall of the British Empire, The (White, 1881.)
Pamphlet about the Chinese conquest of England.
LANIER, STERLING E.
Hiero Desteen (Doubleday, 1984.)
Omnibus of Hiero’s Journey and The Unforsaken Hero.
Hiero’s Journey (Chilton, 1973, Bantam, 1974, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1975.)
Hiero #1.
In a post holocaust world where mutations are everywhere and science is a forgotten mystery, a man sets out on a quest to locate a storehouse of knowledge from the ancient past in an effort to help humanity regain mastery of the world.
Hiero’s Journey and The War for the Lot (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Menace Under Marswood (Del Rey, 1983.)
Someone is stirring up trouble among the less civilized clans of human settlers on Mars, so the United Nations decides to send a mission to root out the rebels. To do so, they try to mend their fences with another set of enemies.
Unforsaken Hiero, The (Del Rey, 1983.)
Hiero #2.
Deprived of his psychic powers, the protagonist must survive treachery at the hands of his former friends, escape across a post holocaust world, and outwit a host of new enemies.
LANNING, SERETA
Escape from Tomorrow (Fearon-Pitman, 1977.)
A misguided scientific experiment creates a goo that begins to spread, threatening to engulf the world.
Captured by the Engines (Warner, 1991.)
A Batman novel.
Gotham City is menaced by mechanical assassins, self aware motor vehicles, too powerful for the local authorities until Batman lends a hand.
Something Lumber This Way Comes (Subterranean, 2000.)
Young adult chiller about a house that is actually a creature from another world.
Terror on the High Skies (Little, Brown, 1992, Fantail, 1993.)
A Batman story.
Adventure for younger readers.
Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back (Pulphouse, 1992.)
Short story in pamphlet form set following a nuclear war.
Neighbors from Outer Space (Rainbow Bridge, 1996.)
Kids' book about a boy's encounter with aliens.
LARGE, ERNEST C.
Asleep in the Afternoon (Jonathan Cape, 1938, Holt, 1939.)
Charles Pry #2.
Marginal story about an invention that can force people to sleep.
Dawn in Andromeda (Jonathan Cape, 1956.)
Ten people are marooned on an uninhabited world and must build a new society.
Sugar in the Air (Jonathan Cape, 1937, Nelson, 1937, Scribner, 1937.)
Charles Pry #1.
Near future story about a company’s development of a new product involving artificial photosynthesis.
LARGENT, R. KARL
Black Death (Leisure, 1988.)
The excavation of an ancient grave lets loose an old plague to which no one in the modern world has any resistance.
Jakarta Plot, The (Leisure, 1999.)
Marginal thriller about the kidnapping of the Vice President and an international coalition against China.
Red Ice (Leisure, 1995.)
A resurgent Russian nation has designed a new doomsday weapon, but it has been stolen by a Chinese spy who died, but whose files lay at the bottom of the ocean.
LARSEN, EGON
You’ll See (Rider, 1957.)
The world is united under a single benevolent though sometimes inept government.
LARSON, CHARLES
Chinese Game, The (Lippincott, 1969, Pocket, 1970.)
Marginal thriller about mind control and a sinster Chinese plot.
Measure of the Universe, The (Saga, 2002.)
A human and an alien scientist investigating the history of the development of written language have a series of interesting encounters.
LARSON, GLEN A. (See collaborations with Ron Goulart, Robert Thurston, Nicholas Yermakov, Reginald Hill, and Mike Resnick)
LARSON, MAJLISS
Pawns and Symbols (Pocket, 1985.)
A Star Trek novel.
Famine has devastated the Klingon worlds, and they are threatening an all out interplanetary war to save themselves. Kirk struggles to avert the war, and rescue a human scientist with amnesia who has fallen into Klingon hands.
LA SALLE, VICTOR (House Pseudonym.)
After the Atom (Spencer, 1953.) (Leonard Fish.)
Aliens conquer Earth following a nuclear war.
Assault from Infinity (Spencer, 1953. ) (T.M. Wade.)
Aliens from another solar system begin a conquest of humanity.
Black Sphere, The (Spencer, 1952.) (Gerald Evans.)
Humans are kidnapped to Saturn by a race planning to invade the Earth, but instead they undermine their captors’ power.
Dawn of the Half Gods (Spencer, 1953.) (John Glasby.)
The children of the human race become a separate species and destroy all the adults.
Menace from Mercury (Spencer, 1954.) (Robert Lionel Fanthorpe.)
An invading force from Mercury, previously believed to be uninhabitable, threatens the entire solar system.
Seventh Dimension, The (Spencer, 1953.) (T.M. Wade.)
A handful of people discover a doorway to another, and very dangerous, dimension.
Suns in Duo (Spencer, 1953.) (T.M. Wade.)
Visitors to another star arrive just in time to get caught up in a planetary disaster.
Twilight Zone (John Spencer, 1954, Badger, 1959.) (John Glasby.)
A new ice age has covered the Earth and humanity survives in a repressive society on Mercury.
LASKI, MARGHANITA
Love on the Super-Tax (Cresset, 1944.)
Marginal story of a future European war.
Thunder on the Right. (See Tory Heaven.)
Toasted English. (See Tory Heaven.)
Tory Heaven (Cresset, 1948. ?, as Thunder on the Right. ? as Toasted English.)
Alternate history in which postwar British politics turned in a different direction.
LASKY, KATHRYN
Star Split (Hyperion, 1999.)
Young adult novel about a teenager in the far future who discovers that the perfect society she has believed in is actually breeding the individuality out of the human race. She subsequently becomes a rebel.
LASSER, DUSTIN
Orgy in Orbit. (See Space Nymph.)
Space Nymph (Beeline, 1978. Beeline, 1980, as Orgy in Orbit, bound with Janet’s Sex Planet by Carrie Onn.)
Pornography in outer space.
LASSWITZ, KURD
Two Planets (Southern Illinois University, 1971, Popular Library, 1978, translated from the 1948 German edition.)
An expedition to the North Pole stumbles across a secret Martian outpost and nearly precipitates an interplanetary war with the peaceful explorers seeking resources to help their dying planet.
LATHAM, PHILIP (Pseudonym of R.S. Richardson, whom see.)
Five Against Venus (Winston, 1952.)
A family crashlands on the jungle planet of Venus and has an exciting time before they are eventually rescued.
Missing Men of Saturn (Winston, 1953.)
An expedition to Titan follows a series of mysterious disappearances, then seems doomed itself when members of the crew turn up missing.
Resurrection (Powys Carlton, 2002.)
A Space 1999 novel.
A mysterious force prowls the runaway moon, claiming victim after victim.
LATNER, ALEXIS GLYNN
Hurricane Moon (Pyr, 2007.)
An attempt to colonize another world goes awry when the journey lasts so long that human genetic tissue is altered. The system where they finally stop also has a world which has been artificially sculpted by a dead race.
LA TOURETTE, AILEEN
Cry Wolf (Virago, 1986.)
Strange novel about a woman who is the sole survivor of a nuclear war who knows what happens. Although she attempts to shelter the future population of Earth from knowledge of what destroyed the old order, she is finally compelled to share her knowledge.
LATTIMER, DICK
Space Station Friendship (Stackpole, 1988.)
The story of a visit to the first functioning space station concentrating on the mechanics of its operation and the advantages to science.
LAUMER, KEITH (See also collaboration with Gordon R. Dickson, and collaboration which follows.)
Afrit Affair, The (Berkley, 1968.)
An Avengers novel.
Marginal thriller based on the television series in which a super criminal uses various inventions to perplex the protagonists.
Alien Minds (Baen, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Assignment in Nowhere (Berkley, 1968, Dobson, 1972.)
Brion Bayard #3.
Someone is playing with the timelines again, and now bits and pieces of history are disappearing. Bayard and friends must track down another menace to the stability of their worlds.
Back to the Time Trap (Baen, 1992.)
Roger Tyson #2.
Once more the battle between two groups of superbeings has unsettled the time stream and people are being shunted from one century to another without warning.
Best of Keith Laumer, The (Pocket, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Beyond the Imperium (Tor, 1981.)
Omnibus of Assignment in Nowhere and The Other Side of Time.
Big Show, The (Ace, 1972, Hale, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Bolo (Berkley, 1977, Millington, 1977.)
Bolo #1.
Collection of related stories about robot fighting machines.
Breaking Earth, The. (See Catastrophe Planet.)
Catastrophe Planet (Berkley, 1966, Dobson, 1970. Tor, 1981, with additional short material.)
A series of devastating earthquakes has destroyed much of the Earth. In the aftermath, the hero discovers that there is a mysterious civilization living at the bottom of the ocean, and that mysterious men are keeping track of his activities.
Chrestomathy (Baen, 1984.)
Collection of excerpts from unrelated novels.
Compleat Bolo, The (Baen, 1990.)
Omnibus of Bolo and Rogue Bolo.
Day Before Forever and Thunderhead, The (Doubleday, 1968, Dell, 1969.)
Two unrelated novellas.
Dinosaur Beach (Scribner, 1971, DAW, 1971, Hale, 1973, Baen, 1986. Magazine title The Time Sweepers.)
The agent of one group of time travelers is the only survivor of an attack on their base in the Jurassic. Alone, he must defeat the opposition, who are hoping to reshape the timeline to their advantage.
Drowned Queen, The (Berkley, 1968.)
An Avengers novel.
Steed and Peel are sent aboard the first submersible ocean liner to prevent criminals and/or saboteurs from interfering with its maiden voyage.
End As a Hero (Ace, 1985.)
A soldier manages to overcome the mental control of an invading alien race and steals the secrets of their technology. But when he attempts to return to Earth to share his knowledge, he learns that no one believes his story and that the military is trying to destroy him under the mistaken impression that he has been brainwashed.
Enemies from Beyond (Pyramid, 1967.)
Invaders #2.
Further adventures of the only human who knows the Earth has been invaded secretly by inhabitants of another planet.
Envoy to New Worlds (Ace, 1963, bound with Flight from Yesterday by Robert Moore Williams. Ace alone, ?. Baen, ?, Dobson, 1972, as Retief: Envoy to New Worlds.)
Retief #1.
Collection of related stories about a galactic diplomat.
Future Imperfect (Baen, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Galactic Diplomat (Berkley, 1966, Doubleday, 1966.)
Retief #3.
Collection of related stories about a galactic diplomat.
Galactic Odyssey (Berkley, 1967, Dobson, 1968, Tor, 1983.)
A wise cracking human is off to the stars in pursuit of the aliens who kidnapped the woman whom he was supposed to be guarding.
Galaxy Builder, The (Ace, 1984.)
Lafayette O’Leary #4.
Tired of being shuffled from one reality to the next, O’Leary finally decides to track down the entities or devices responsible for controlling the probability worlds so that he can return to his preferred home permanently.
Glory Game, The (Doubleday, 1972, Popular Library, 1973, Hale, 1974, Pocket, 1980, Tor, 1983.)
The captain of a military space vessel gets caught in the middle when his patrol on the borders of an alien empire becomes the center of attention for one group of politicians determined to negotiate a peace on any terms, and another committed to all out war regardless of the consequences.
Gold Bomb, The (Berkley, 1968.)
An Avengers novel.
Peel and Steed discover that someone in England is assembling a nuclear weapon and set out to track him down.
Great Time Machine Hoax, The (Simon & Schuster, 1964, Pocket, 1965. Magazine title A Hoax in Time.)
Comic romp about a man who inherits a mysterious machine which he operates without knowing what it is designed to do. To his immense discomfort, it’s a working time machine.
Greylorn (Berkley, 1968. Dobson, 1968, as The Other Sky.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
House in November, The (Putnam, 1970, Berkley, 1971. Magazine title The Seeds of Gonyl.)
A small town wakes up one day to find that it has been conquered by forces which appear different depending on who is looking at them. Some of the residents are missing, and others are compelled to perform tasks required by a mysterious and compelling force.
House in November and The Other Sky, The (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973, Tor, 1981.)
Omnibus of the two short novels.
Imperium (Baen, 2005.)
Omnibus of Worlds of the Imperium, The Other Side of Time, and Assignment in Nowhere.
Infinite Cage, The (Putnam, 1972, Berkley, 1974, Dobson, 1976, Tor, 1983.)
An amnesiac wakens in a large city, destitute and confused. As time passes, he discovers that he has strange powers which will help him to survive, and which might be the key to the discovery of his actual identity.
Invaders, The (Pyramid, 1967. Corgi, 1968, as The Meteor Men as by Anthony Lebaron.)
Invaders #1.
Episodic novel based on the television series about a man who discovers aliens are secretly living among us, and who is pursued by them ever afterwards.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Galaxy (Berkley, 1968, Dobson, 1969.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Judson’s Eden (Baen, 1991.)
Judson is marooned on a planet whose flora cause him to hallucinate, but he manages to make an idyllic retreat for himself, although the passage of time is so strange that he isn’t sure how long he’s been there. But then Earth discovers him, and its self serving government decides to appropriate the planet for its own uses.
Knight of Delusions. (See Night of Delusions.)
Legions of Space (Baen, 2004.)
Collection of unrelated stories and novels.
Lighter Side, The (Baen, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories, plus the novels The Time Trap and The Great Time Machine Hoax.
Long Twilight, The (Putnam, 1969, Berkley, 1970, Hale, 1976.)
Two immortals who have existed since before recorded history continue their endless battles in the future, this time focusing on a runaway nuclear power plant that could devastate much of the Earth.
Long Twilight and Other Stories, The (Baen, 2007.)
Omnibus of The Long Twilight, Night of Delusions, and some unrelated stories.
Monitors, The (Berkley, 1966, Dobson, 1968.)
Alien visitors take control of the Earth and force human beings to rigidly conform to the laws we have passed, leading to chaos, repression, and sardonic humor.
Night of Delusions (Putnam, 1972, Berkley, 1974, Dobson, 1977. Tor, 1982, with additional short stories as Knight of Delusions.)
The bodyguard of a politician gets involved with dream therapy and discovers in the process that aliens are secretly invading the world.
Nine by Laumer (Berkley, 1967, Faber, 1968.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Odyssey (Baen, 2002.)
Omnibus of Galactic Odyssey, Dinosaur Beach, and several short stories.
Once There Was a Giant (Doubleday, 1971, Hale, 1975.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Once There Was a Giant (Tor, 1984.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Other Side of Time, The (Berkley, 1965, Dobson, 1968.)
Brion Bayard #2.
Having overthrown the dictator of an alternate Earth, Bayard is now faced with a variety of menacing forces from still other timelines, some of which have science far in advance of anything he’s familiar with, and all of which seem to have produced outstanding villains.
Other Sky, The. (See Greylorn.)
Other Sky and the House in November, The (Tor, 1981.)
Omnibus of the two titles.
Plague of Demons, A (Berkley, 1965, Penguin, 1967, Baen, 1985. Magazine title The Hounds of Hell.)
A bioengineered human discovers that aliens have been systematically kidnapping selected people in order to incorporate them into their war machines in a conflict that has been going on for generations.
Plague of Demons & Other Stories, A (Baen, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Retief: Ambassador to Space (Doubleday, 1969, Berkley, 1970.)
Retief #5.
Collection of related stories about a galactic diplomat.
Retief and the Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude (Baen, 1986.)
Retief #14.
Retief gets involved with a beauty pageant, among other things. Incorporates the novel Retief’s Ransom.
Retief and the Rascals (Baen, 1993.)
Retief #17.
A wild and woolly outlaw world is being invaded by the alien Groaci, and despite its unsavory reputation the planet is viewed as important to human expansion, so a diplomatic mission is sent to turn the tide.
Retief and the Warlords (Doubleday, 1968, Berkley, 1970, Pocket, 1978, Baen, ?.)
Retief #4.
Retief sets out to negotiate a peace with the aggressive, lobsterlike race threatening part of human controlled space, but he runs into trouble with space pirates along the way.
Retief at Large (Ace, 1978.)
Retief #9.
Collection of related stories about a galactic diplomat.
Retief: Diplomat at Arms (Pocket, 1982, (Baen, ?)
Retief #11.
Collection of related stories about a galactic diplomat.
Retief: Emissary to the Stars (Dell, 1975, Pocket, 1979.)
Retief #8.
Collection of related stories about a galactic diplomat.
Retief: Envoy to New Worlds. (See Envoy to New Worlds.)
Retief in the Ruins (Baen, 1986.)
Retief #15.
Collection of related stories about a galactic diplomat.
Retief of the CDT (Doubleday, 1971, Pocket, 1978, Baen, 1985.)
Retief #7.
Collection of related stories about a galactic diplomat.
Retief’s Ransom (Putnam, 1971, Berkley, 1972, Dobson, 1975. Later incorporated into Retief and the Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude.)
Retief #6.
Retief has to outsmart the Groaci again, this time on a planet whose inhabitants consists of gestalt entities which can split up into numerous bodies.
Retief to the Rescue (Pocket, 1984, Baen, ?)
Retief #12.
A civil war on a primitive planet gives alien enemies a great opportunity to set back the course of human diplomacy in that region of space. Fortunately, Retief outsmarts them and ultimately ends the war.
Retief’s War (Doubleday, 1965, Berkley, 1967, Pocket, 1978, Baen, ?)
Retief #2.
Efforts to unite a dangerous planetary population under a single, more amiable government are endangered by the presence of agents of the rival Groaci race, so an unorthodox diplomat must break a few rules to see that his government’s desires are met.
Retief Unbound (Ace, 1979.)
Retief #10.
Collection of related stories about a galactic diplomat. Includes Envoy to New Worlds.
Return of Retief, The (Baen, 1984.)
Retief #13.
On probation for his tendency to disobey orders, a diplomat finds himself in a perfect position to bring an end to escalating alien assaults on a human colonized region of space.
Reward for Retief (Baen, 1989.)
Retief #16.
Retief’s latest mission is to a hostile world whose inhabitants are concealing the fact that they are located near a dimensional flux that allows them to alter reality simply by thinking about it.
Rogue Bolo (Baen, 1986.)
Bolo #2.
The narrative history of the development of the bolo, a robot fighting machine which eventually begins to develop self awareness.
Shape Changer, The (Putnam, 1972, Berkley, 1973, Hale, 1977, Ace, 1981.)
Lafayette O’Leary #3.
O’Leary is unstuck among the probability worlds once again, and before he can return this time he encounters an alternate version of himself.
Star Colony (St Martins, 1981, Ace, 1983.)
The story of the founding of the first human colony among the stars, originally planned as the beginning of a series.
Stars Must Wait, The (Baen, 1990.)
Bolos #3.
An astronaut is stuck in suspended animation for a century and wakens on an Earth that has been reduced to barbarism and whose inhabitants are menaced by sentient robot tanks which are still functioning after a war long over.
Star Treasure, The (Berkley, 1971, Putnam, 1971, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974. Baen, 1986, includes short stories.)
When one of his friends is murdered by agents of a secretive group of power brokers, the protagonist vows to have revenge, even if that means upsetting the entire structure of human civilization.
Time Bender, The (Berkley, 1966, Dobson, 1971, Ace, 1981. Magazine title Axe and Dragon.)
Lafayette O’Leary #1.
An unlikely hero finds himself in another probability world where magic appears to work, although he eventually discovers that there are some very sophisticated bits of technology helping things along.
Timetracks (Ballantine, 1972.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Time Trap (Berkley, 1970, Putnam, 1970, Hale, 1976, Baen, 1992.)
Roger Tyson #1.
A man from our era is recruited to help a time agent when something becomes unstuck in the fabric of the space time continuum and people start drifting from one place and one year to another.
Trace of Memory, A (Berkley, 1963, Mayflower, 1968, Paperback Library, 1972, Tor, 1984.)
The protagonist agrees to aid an amnesiac who seems to have lived for centuries. Before long they discover an ancient spaceship orbiting the Earth, and find themselves being chased by hostile aliens.
Ultimax Man, The (St Martins, 1978, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980, Berkley, 1982, Baen, ?)
A petty criminal becomes the subject of an experiment to combine all of the acquired knowledge of humankind into a single brain. As a consequence, he becomes something else entirely.
Undefeated, The (Dell, 1974.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
World Shuffler, The (Berkley, 1970, Putnam, 1970, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973.)
Lafayette O’Leary #2.
O’Leary found a home for himself in another probability world and was quite happy, until someone altered the rules and he found himself exiled to another reality with no way of getting back.
Worlds of the Imperium (Ace, 1962, bound with Seven from the Stars by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Dobson, 1967, Ace, ?, alone. Tor, 1982, has added unrelated stories.)
Brion Bayard #1.
The protagonist is kidnapped into an alternate world ruled by an iron fisted dictator who turns out to be his alternate self. His mission is to replace his doppelganger and help free the human race.
Zone Yellow (Baen, 1990.)
Brion Bayard #4.
The worlds of the imperium are being invaded from other timelines, this time chiefly by intelligent, humanlike rats who carry a deadly plague on top of their equally nasty weapons.
LAUMER, KEITH & BROWN, ROSEL GEORGE
Earthblood (Doubleday, 1966, Berkley, 1968, Coronet, 1979, Dell, 1980, Bluejay, 1984.)
An Earth boy is shanghaied aboard a circus ship, kidnapped by space pirates, befriended by their leader, and becomes his staunchest friend for a series of interplanetary exploits.
Earthblood & Other Stories (Baen, 2008.)
The novel with selected stories by each of the two authors.
LAURENS, MARSHALL
Z Effect, The (Pocket, 1974.)
A mad scientist discovers a way to wipe out the entire human race and announces his intention to become world dictator. The protagonist is assigned the job of tracking him down and preventing him from making use of his discovery.
LAURIA, FRANK
Dark City (St Martins, 1998, based on the screenplay by Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs, and David S. Goyer.)
Aliens kidnap a city full of humans and experiment upon them, causing them to fall into a deep sleep each night in which their personalities are reprogrammed and the city is reformed around them. The aliens, who animate dead human bodies in order to move around, are attempting to find out what makes us human in an effort to save themselves from extinction. When one man manages to stay awake and remember his previous existence, their experiment is endangered.
Pitch Black (St Martins, 2004, based on the screenplay by Jim & Ken Wheat and David Twohy.)
A spaceship crashes on a desert world where the infrequent total eclipse unleashes a horde of ravenous creatures.
LAURIE, A.
New York to Best in Seven Hours (Sampson Low, 1890.)
An oil pipeline is built across the Atlantic.
LAVERS, NORMAN
Northwest Passage, The (?, 1984.)
Not seen.
LAW, WINIFRED
Rangers of the Universe (New Century, 1945.)
Space #2.
On their way back to Earth, two youngsters are captured by interplanetary pirates.
Through Space to the Planets (New Century, 1944.)
Space #1.
Children’s book about a boy’s adventures on another planet.
LAWHEAD, STEPHEN R.
Dream Thief (Crossway, 1983.)
A scientist aboard a space station is troubled by odd dreams which eventually lead him to the discovery of an enigmatic alien who infiltrates through our subconscious minds.
Emphyrion (Lion, 1990.)
Omnibus of The Search for Fierra and The Siege of Dome.
Howard Had a Spaceship (?, 1986.)
Not seen.
Search for Fierra, The (Crossways, 1985.)
Empyrion #1.
A writer is enlisted in a project to create a record of a visit to an alien civilization, and discovers that the people he is studying are slowly surrendering their high civilization to chaos.
Siege of Dome, The (Crossways, 1985.)
Empyrion #2.
A writer trying to chronicle the decline of a race gets caught up in an imminent war of conquest.
Sudden Impact (toExcel, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories not all of which are SF.
It May Happen Yet (?, 1899.)
Napoleon invades England.
LAWRENCE, HENRY LIONEL
Children of Light, The (MacDonald, 1960, Consul, 1962.)
Radiation causes mutations.
LAWRENCE, J.A. (See also collaboration with James Blish.)
Mudd's Angels (Bantam, 1978, Corgi, ?)
A Star Trek novel.
The Enterprise runs into Harry Mudd again, the irrepressible, rather dishonest trader is this time planning to delivery a cargo of beautiful androids as sex toys for the frontier worlds.
LAWRENCE, JIM (See also Victor Appleton II and Hunter Adams.)
Cutlass Clue, The (Signet Vista, 1986.)
A group of kids team up to track down a saboteur on a remote island where their parents are working on the first artificial intelligence machine.
LAWRENCE, JOSEPHINE
Not a Cloud in the Sky (Harcourt Brace, 1964.)
Mild satire set in a future where compulsive retirement is accompanied by segregation to supposedly better administered communities for the aged.
LAWRENCE, LOUISE (Pseudonym of Elizabeth Wintle.)
Andra (Collins, 1971.)
Two thousand years from now humanity lives underground. A young girl has a brain implant from a brain preserved from the 20th Century and then sees her own society from the point of view of our time period.
Calling B for Butterfly (Harper, 1982.)
A colony ship is badly damaged by an asteroid and only six people survive, and they appear to be on a collision course with Jupiter. They must learn to live together, survive without their fellow crewmembers, and find a way to avert the final destruction of their ship.
Dream-Weaver (Clarion, 1996.)
An apprentice empath tries to help in a conflict between humans and her people.
Extinction is Forever and Other Stories (Bodley Head, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Moonwind (Harper & Row, 1986.)
Two teenagers win a trip to the moon, but on their arrival, they become involved with a discorporate alien intelligence wakened from hibernation and seeking help to return to the stars.
Power of Stars, The (Collins, 1972, Lion, 1976.)
A young girl appears to have been possessed by some extraordinary extraterrestrial power, and two boys each attempt in their way to rescue her from whatever it is.
Star Lord (Harper, 1978, Pocket, 1980.)
A young boy is rescued from a crash in a remote mountain region, but one of his rescuers knows that he is not human, but rather an alien who is the focus of a struggle far larger than the concerns of Earth.
Warriors of Taan, The (Bodley Head, 1986, Harper & Row, 1988.)
A humanoid race that has always lived in balance with their ecology sees their world being destroyed by the growing number of colonists from Earth. Eventually this results in an armed uprising that eventually recaptures their planet.
LAWRENCE, MARGERY
Tomorrow of Yesterday, The (Hale, 1966.)
Atlantis is founded by colonists from Mars.
LAWS, ROBIN D.
Freedom Phalanx, The (CDS, 2006.)
A City of Heroes novel.
Young superheroes attempt to motivate their elders.
LAYMON, RICHARD
Flesh (Allen, 1987, Tor, 1988, Headline, 1990.)
An alien parasite travels secretly from body to body, drawing its sustenance from the terror and painful deaths of its hosts. Eventually someone notices the trail of deaths and begins to put two and two together.
Quake (St Martins, 1995, Headline, 1995.)
A devastating earthquake destroys much of Los Angeles, and in the aftermath a sadistic madman attempts to take advantage of some of the trapped victims.
Woods Are Dark, The (Paperback Library, 1981, New English Library, 1983, Headline, 1991.)
An alien is stranded in the woods near a small town, from which point it mentally enslaves some of the local people in order to provide itself with fresh human victims.
LAYTON, J.A.
Vortex One (Jove, 2001.)
Marginal thriller about the pursuit of people who possess a new technology that could change the world.
LAZARUS, H.
English Revolution of the Twentieth Century, The (Unwin, 1894.)
Political satire.
LAZARUS, KEO
Gismo (Follett, 1970. Scholastic, 1974, as The Gismo from Outer Space.)
Not seen.
Gismo from Outer Space, The. (See The Gismo.)
LAZARUS, RICHARD
Journey into Mystery (University Editions, 1992.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LAZENBY, NORMAN (See also Bengo Mistral.)
Terror Trap (Shenstone, 1949.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LAZUTA, GENE
Blood Flies (Diamond, 1990.)
A cavern is opened from which emerges a horde of insects not seen on Earth for thousands of years. The flies are ravenous and they swarm in such numbers that they kill every living thing which they encounter.
LEA, RICHARD
Outward Urge, The (Cowan, 1947.)
Time travel to ancient Britain.
LEACOCK, STEPHEN
Afternoons in Utopia (Dodd Mead, 1932, Lane, 1932.)
Collection of loosely related satires.
LEAHY, JOHN
Drome (Fantasy Press, 1952.)
Not seen. An underground world.
LEATHERWOOD, HANK
Startail (Pleasure Reader, 1969.)
Pornography set in outer space.
LEBAN, JOHN (See collaboration with Harold Bell Wright.)
LEBARON, ANTHONY (Pseudonym of Keith Laumer, whom see.)
Meteor Men, The. (See listing under Keith Laumer.)
LEBECK, OSKAR & DUBOIS, GAYLORD
Stratosphere Jim and His Flying Fortress (Grosset, 1941.)
Not seen.
LEBLANC, MAURICE
Three Eyes, The (Burt, 1921, Macaulay, 1921.)
A man invents a machine that displays pictures of past events and uses it to solve crimes.
LE BRETON, THOMAS
Mr Teedles, the Gland Old Man (Laurie, 1927.)
Amusing novel about an early experiment in rejuvenation.
LEDERMAN, FRANK
Tremor (Kaye, 1952.)
A woman is kidnapped to another planet and a rescue team must deal with that world’s strange lifeforms.
LEDWIDGE, MICHAEL (See collaboration with James Patterson.)
Banner's Bonus (BMI, 1995.)
A romance about an interstellar kidnapping plot that gets complicated when a young woman's bodyguard becomes romantically interested in her.
LEE, DAVID (Pseudonym of David S. Garnett, whom see.)
Destiny Past (Hale, 1974.)
Not seen.
LEE, EDWARD
Operator “B” (CD, 1999.)
A test pilot is given a secret mission. Fly a captured, operational flying saucer to Mars in order to prevent a space probe from bringing back a lethal virus.
Slither (Leisure, 2006.)
Aliens infest an island with predatory worms and claim numerous victims.
Stickmen, The (CD, 2000.)
An out of work journalist discovers that many of the popular conspiracy theories are correct. The government is hiding the remains of a crashed alien spaceship, among other things, and a young boy with unusual powers has stolen a small yield nuclear device.
LEE, GENTRY (See also collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke.)
Bright Messengers (Bantam, 1995.)
Rama #1.
Set in the universe of the Rama novels written by Arthur C. Clarke and sometimes Gentry Lee. A research project on Mars is trying to determine whether a strange manifestation is a natural occurrence, evidence of alien intelligence, or a message from God.
Double Full Moon Night (Bantam, 1999.)
Rama #2.
A handful of explorers enter an alien sphere in an attempt to discover the nature of the creators of this artificial environment.
Tranquility Wars, The (Bantam, 2000.)
Rama #3.
The solar space colonies have been split into two separate warring power groups and two young people get caught up in the struggle and have to re-examine their values.
Ebb Tides and Other Tales (Dark Regions, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LEE, MIKE (Also writes Fantasy.)
Fallen Angels (Black Library, 2009.)
A Warhammer novel.
War among the stars.
LEE, ROBERT C.
Day It Rained Forever, The (Little, Brown, 1968.)
Not seen.
Once Upon Another Time (Nelson, 1977.)
Not seen.
Summer of the Green Star (Westminster, 1981.)
Not seen.
Timequake (Westminster, 1982.)
Not seen.
LEE, SHARON & MILLER, STEVE (Also write Fantasy.)
Agent of Change (Del Rey, 1988, Ace, 2002.)
A Liaden Universe novel.
A spy and a mercenary become involuntary partners when they run into difficulties both with the police force of the planet they are visiting and an interplanetary crime ring. With the aid of an alien acquaintance, they eventually escape their troubles.
Balance of Trade (Meisha Merlin, 2004, Ace, 2006.)
A Liaden Universe novel.
A young man takes an unlikely position with a company of interstellar traders.
Carpe Diem (Del Rey, 1989, Ace, 2003.)
A Liaden Universe novel.
The two fugitives don’t get much rest. Now they’re pursued by his former employers and family members, their old enemies in the criminal syndicate, and a fresh bunch of space pirates.
Conflict of Honors (Del Rey, 1988, Ace, 2002.)
An outcast works various jobs on interstellar freighters until she discovers that someone with a grudge against her is willing to commit violence to satisfy their anger. Although she decides to leave the ship on which she is currently working, the captain decides to intercede in her battle.
Crystal Dragon (Meisha Merlin, 2006.)
Great Migration #2.
?
Crystal Soldier (Meisha Merlin, 2005, Ace, 2007.)
Great Migration #1.
Set in the Liadem universe. A soldier and a space pirate team up for a series of interstellar adventures.
Fledgling (Baen, 2009.)
A Liaden Universe novel.
A young woman gets into trouble on a rigidly controlled world.
I Dare (Meisha Merlin, 2002, Ace, 2003.)
A Liaden Universe novel.
The last desperate battle to resolve the future of an interstellar family of aristocrats.
Local Custom (Ace, 2002.)
A Liaden Universe novel.
An interstellar merchant must decide whether honor obligates him to marry the woman who bore his child as an interstellar war becomes imminent.
Partners in Necessity (Meisha Merlin, 1999.)
Omnibus of the first three Liaden novels.
Pilot's Choice (Meisha Merlin, 2000.)
A Liaden Universe novel.
Omnibus of two unpublished novels, Local Custom and Scout's Progress.
Plan B (Meisha Merlin, 1999.)
A Liaden Universe novel.
Space adventure involving a planetary invasion, a pair of fugitives who are wanted by practically everyone, a purloined spaceship, and an interstellar war.
Scout's Progress (Ace, 2002.)
A Liaden Universe novel.
A woman rebels against the passive role expected of her and travels into space.
Sword of Orion (Phobos, 2005.)
Beneath Strange Skies #1.
A human and an alien discover that they must play a pivotal role in a political struggle in the aftermath of the collapse of an interstellar empire.
Tomorrow Log, The (Meisha Merlin, 2003.)
An interplanetary thief gets in trouble with a local crime lord and is pursued by a woman who wants him to return to the spaceborn culture in which he was born.
LEE, STAN
God Project, The (Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.)
The CIA may have a direct line to God.
LEE, STAN (See also collaboration with Bill McCay.)
LEE, STAN & TIMMONS, STAN
Alien Factor, The (Ibooks, 2001.)
An alien crashes on Earth during World War II>
LEE, TANITH
Beautiful Biting Machine, The (Cheap Street, 1984.)
Short story in pamphlet form.
Birthgrave, The (DAW, 1975, Orbit, 1977.)
Vazkor #1.
Although technically SF, this series has the feel of epic fantasy. In the opener, a woman awakens in the midst of a volcano with no knowledge of her past or future, possessing psi powers, and destined to be the focus of a great deal of conflict.
Biting the Sun (Bantam, 1999.)
Omnibus of Don't Bite the Sun and Drinking Sapphire Wine.
Day by Night (DAW, 1980.)
A colony living underground on the dark side of a planet that never revolves to see the sun is entertained by stories about a mythical civilization on the bright side. But then evidence surfaces indicating that perhaps there is some truth underneath the tales.
Days of Grass (DAW, 1985.)
Aliens have conquered the Earth and the only free humans survive in vast underground caverns. A young woman emerges onto the surface out of curiosity, and is taken as a captive to an alien city where she learns the truth about the future of her world.
Don’t Bite the Sun (DAW, 1976.)
Four-Bee #1.
A precocious young woman has a series of adventures in a future where biotechnology allows you to recover from death, and to design a body to your own specifications, one that can be changed almost as easily as changing clothing.
Drinking Sapphire Wine (DAW, 1977.)
Four-Bee #2.
The protagonist finally does something that the protective, all seeing utopian government of Earth cannot tolerate, so he/she is exiled. But eventually we discover that human ingenuity is still smarter than the average supercomputer.
Drinking Sapphire Wine (Hamlyn, 1979.)
Omnibus of the title novel and Don’t Bite the Sun.
Electric Forest (Doubleday, 1979.)
The only ugly woman in a society which has mastered its own genetic development becomes emotionally involved with a man who promises to make her beautiful, but who has a secret agenda.
Eva Fairdeath (Headline, 1994.)
A woman cast adrift in a future Earth where pollution has destroyed all the trees and birds meets an enigmatic man who offers her a new hope for the future.
Metallic Love (Bantam, 2005.)
Robot #2.
The story of a woman who fell in love with a robot inspires a slum child and her companions.
Quest for the White Witch (DAW, 1978, Orbit, 1979.)
Vazkor #3.
A barbarian warrior has various adventures as he travels across a primitive world trying to track down his mother, who is supposedly a witch who managed to survive her own death. Ultimately he discovers his true heritage and helps transform the world.
Sabella, or the Blood Stone (DAW, 1980, Unwin, 1987.)
The title character lives on a remote colony world, and although she’s not a supernaturally undead creature, she’s as close to a genuine vampire as you’re likely to encounter in SF.
Shadowfire. (See Vazkor, Son of Vazkor.)
Silver Metal Lover, The (Doubleday, 1981, DAW, 1982, Unwin, 1986, Orion, 1986, Bantam, 1999.)
Robot #1.
The protagonist falls passionately in love with a new robot who is designed to look and function exactly like a man. Then the company that manufactured him orders a recall, and she is faced with the possibility of losing him forever.
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (DAW, 1978. Futura, 1979, as Shadowfire.)
Vazkor #2.
The son of an ambitious man who tried to unite the diverse cities of a barbaric planet into a unified nation tries to step into the role of his now dead father, despite rumors that the latter was driven not by common sense but by the manipulation of a witch.
Venus Preserved (Outlook, 2003.)
Secret Books of Venus #4.
In an alternate version of Venice, an experiment attempts to bring back to life the souls of two people long dead.
Women as Demons (Women’s Press, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LEE, THOMAS
Falsivir’s Travels (Proprietor, 1886.)
Exploration of the lands concealed within the earth.
LEE, TUNG
Wind Obeys Lama Toru, The (Kutub Popular, 1967.)
Not seen. An overpopulated future.
LEE, WALT (See collaboration with Richard Delap.)
LEESOM, ROBERT
At War With Tomorrow (Longman, 1986.)
Time #4.
Not seen.
Fire on the Cloud (Mammoth, 1991.)
Cloud #2.
Not seen.
Landing in Cloud Valley, The (Mammoth, 1991.)
Cloud #1.
Not seen.
Metro Gangs Attack, The (Longman, 1986.)
Time #3.
Not seen.
Slambash Wangs of a Compo Gormer (Collins, 1987.)
Not seen.
Three Against the World (Longman, 1986.)
Time #2.
Not seen.
Time Rope (Longman, 1986.)
Time #1.
Not seen.
Always Coming Home (Harper, 1985, Bantam, 1986, Gollancz, 1986, University of California Press, 2001.)
An intricate interweaving of stories and sketches all set in a near future Utopian society.
Birthday of the World, The (Harper, 2002.)
Collection of mostly loosely related stories set in the Hain universe.
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (Capra, 1987, Plume, 1988, Gollancz, 1990, Roc, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Changing Planes (Harcourt, 2003, Gollancz, 2003, Ace, 2004.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
City of Illusions (Ace, 1967, Gollancz, 1971, Panther, ?)
Earth’s empire has been destroyed by an alien race who strike again whenever they see any sign of technology rising on any of the worlds humans have colonized. One man, armed with a strange knowledge, prepares to defy the aliens and help humanity resume its proper role in the universe.
Compass Rose, The (Pendragon, 1982, Gollancz, 1983.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dispossessed, The (Harper & Row, 1974, Gollancz, 1974, Avon, 1975, Millennium, 1999, Gollancz, 2006.)
Two very different cultures exist on the planet Urras and its moon, Anarres. One is a competitive group of contending nations similar to Earth, while the other is a Utopian society that has lasted for generations. The protagonist believes that both societies are doomed, however, unless they unite once more and share their differing ideas.
Eye of the Heron, The (Gollancz, 1982, Harper, 1983, Bantam, 1984, Starscape, 2003.)
A group of pacifists is exiled to a distant planet, where they seem doomed to be destroyed by the lawless population that greets them. Ultimately they are led off to found a separate society by a woman who abandons her own people to join them.
Eye of the Heron and The Word for the World Is Forest, The (Gollancz, 1991.)
Omnibus of the two titles.
Fisherman of the Inland Sea, A (Harper, 1994, Gollancz, 1996.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Five Complete Novels (Avenel, 1985.)
Omnibus of Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Word for the World Is Forest.
Four Ways to Forgiveness (HarperCollins, 1996, Gollancz, 1997.)
Four related stories set in the Hainish universe.
Lathe of Heaven, The (Scribner, 1971, Gollancz, 1972, Avon, 1973, Panther, ?, Millennium, 2001.)
A psychiatrist discovers that one of his patients can actually alter the real world through his dreams. He begins manipulating them in an attempt to create a better world, but unsurprisingly everything goes wrong and he ends up creating a dystopian nightmare instead.
Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, The (Book of Month Club, 1991.)
Omnibus.
Left Hand of Darkness, The (Ace, 1969, Macdonald, 1969, Panther, ?, Walker, 1969, Gollancz, 2001.)
The first ambassador to the planet Winter finds himself in a very complex mix of intrigues and local problems. The inhabitants of Winter are, for one thing, hermaphroditic, and their planet is caught in the midst of an endless ice age.
New Atlantis, The (Tor, 1989, bound with The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson.)
Long story of a future America where central authority is collapsing.
Nine Lives (Pulphouse, 1992.)
Short story in pamphlet form concerning a clone.
Ones Who Walk Away from the Omelas, The (Creative Education, 1993.)
Short story.
Planet of Exile (Ace, 1966, bound with ? Ace, alone, ?, Tandem, 1972.)
A small, lost human colony must ally itself with a primitive tribe of indigenes who fear the outsiders because both cultures are menaced by an even fiercer horde of barbarians that are threatening to overrun the entire area.
Rocannon’s World (Ace, 1966, bound with The Kar-Chee Reign by Avram Davidson. Ace, alone, ?, Tandem, 1972.)
A human scientist living on a planet with three distinct humanoids races watches in horror as an outside force invades and conquers the planet. Enraged, he decides to help the natives defeat the invaders.
Telling, The (Harcourt, 2000, Ace, 2001, Gollancz, 2001.)
A Hain novel.
A researcher explores the culture of a planet which destroyed its entire history and literature in order to shed a primitive culture and create a technological one which would enable them to reach the stars.
Three Hainish Novels. (See Worlds of Exile and Illusion.)
Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine, The (Capra, 1984, bound with Wonders Hidden by Scott R. Sanders, which is not SF.)
Excerpt from the novel Always Coming Home.
Wind’s Twelve Quarters, The (Harper & Row, 1975, Bantam, 1976, Gollancz, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Word for the World Is Forest, The (Berkley, 1976, Gollancz, 1977, Starscape, 2006.)
Humans discover a planet that resembles paradise and begin to exploit it ruthlessly despite the protestations of the natives, until the latter begin to use their power over the dreamworld to drive the invaders away.
Worlds of Exile and Illusion (Orb, 1996. Doubleday, ?, as Three Hainish Novels.)
Omnibus of City of Illusions, Rocannon’s World, and Planet of Exile.
LEIB, FRANKLIN ALLEN
Behold a Pale Horse (Forge, 2000.)
Very marginal story of future political intrigues in which a President launches military strikes against North Korea and Iraq before being assassinated.
Best of Fritz Leiber, The (Del Rey, 1974, Doubleday, 1974, Sphere, 1974.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Big Time, The (Ace, 1961, bound with The Mind Spider and Other Stories, also by Leiber. Ace, alone, ?, Four Square, 1965, Tor, 2000, Easton, ?, Orb, 2001.)
A Changewar novel.
A group of time agents are resting in a time station set outside of time when they begin to suspect that one of their number is a traitor, working secretly for their adversaries, who wish to twist time into another history.
Book of Fritz Leiber, The (DAW, 1974. Gregg, 1980, includes The Second Book of Fritz Leiber.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Change War, The (Gregg, 1978.)
Collection of related stories.
Changewar (Ace, 1983.)
Collection of related stories about a battle to control the course of time.
Dealings of Daniel Kesserich, The (Tor, 1997.)
Short novel originally written in the 1930’s about a scientific experiment to explore the world beyond life.
Destiny Times Three (Galaxy, 1952. Magazine version, 1945.)
The citizens of what appears to be a Utopian society have similar dreams of their problems in another world ruled by a dictatorship.
Gather, Darkness (Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1950, Grosset, 1951, Berkley, 1962, New English Library, 1966, Pyramid, 1969. Magazine version, 1943.)
Following the collapse of our current civilization, a new one arises using high technology and brainwashing to control its population. The government is in the hands of a repressive church, and the revolutionaries therefore assume the guise of devils in order to defeat them.
Ghost Light, The (Berkley, 1984, Ace, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Green Millennium, The (Abelard, 1953, Lion, 1954, Icon, 1964, Olmstead, 2001. Ace, 1969, bound with Night Monsters, also by Leiber.)
The protagonist is agonizing over the possibility that his job might be lost to a robot when a strange cat enters his life, leading him to adventure in an amusement park of the future, and with strange visitors from another planet.
Kreativity for Kats and Other Feline Fantasies (Wildside, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Leiber Chronicles, The (Dark Harvest, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Mind Spider and Other Stories, The (Ace, 1961, bound with The Big Time also by Leiber. Ace, alone, ?)
Collection of mostly unrelated stories.
Night Monsters (Ace, 1969, bound with The Green Millennium by the same author.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Night Monsters (Gollancz, 1974.)
Collection of unrelated stories, not the same as the Ace edition.
Night of the Wolf, The (Ballantine, 1966, Sphere, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Pail of Air, A (Ballantine, 1964.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Second Book of Fritz Leiber, The (DAW, 1975.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Secret Songs, The (Hart-Davis, 1968, Panther, 1975.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Shadows With Eyes (Ballantine, 1962.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Ship of Shadows (Tor, 1989, bound with No Truce for Kings by Poul Anderson.)
Long story bound in doublebook format.
Ships to the Stars (Ace, 1964, bound with The Million Year Hunt by Kenneth Bulmer. Ace, alone, ?, Gollancz, 1979.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Silver Eggheads, The (Ballantine, 1962, New English Library, 1966.)
Satirical look at a future in which writers use computers to generate their novels, the minds of important people are preserved in silver, egg shaped containers, and robots are programmed to act just like people.
Sinful Ones, The (Pocket, 1980, Baen, 1986. Universal Giant, 1953, bound with Bulls, Blood, and Passion by David Williams. Magazine version 1950.)
A chance encounter leads the protagonist to the realization that he is one of the very few real human beings in a world populated by robots masquerading as living creatures.
Specter Is Haunting Texas, A (Walker, 1969, Gollancz, 1969, Bantam, 1971, Collier, 1992.)
A visitor from the moon colony arrives in a future Texas where bioengineering has led to universally tall Texans and their abnormally short Mexican slaves. His arrival turns out to be the key to the overturn of the status quo.
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (Ballantine, 1966, based on the screenplay by Clair Huffaker.)
A Tarzan novel.
Tarzan has a series of typical adventures battling a group of villains, but in this case he is transplanted from the jungles of Africa to those of South America.
Wanderer, The (Ballantine, 1964, Dobson, 1967, Tor, 1983, Gollancz, 2000.)
A wandering star comes too close to the Earth and sets off cataclysmic natural disasters everywhere. Unlike most similar novels of the time, the book concentrates on the fate of average people rather than the triumphs of unlikely heroes.
Worlds of Fritz Leiber, The (Ace, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
You’re All Alone (Ace, 1972, Carroll & Graf, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories incorporating the novel The Sinful Ones.
LEIBER, JUSTIN
Beyond Gravity (Tor, 1988.)
Forth #2.
A disembodied human intelligence is captured by an alien race and carried off to the stars, where he discovers he has been chosen as the representative for the entire human race.
Beyond Humanity (Tor, 1987.)
Forth #3.
The discovery that humanity is not alone in the universe has a devastating effect, resulting in waves of anti-technological hysteria that threaten to bring down civilization.
Beyond Rejection (Del Rey, 1980.)
Forth #1.
The hero wakes up in a new body and is told that he died in an accident in space. He suspects this to be a lie and eventually teams up with an unusual secret agent to track down the people who have stolen his body, eventually leading to contact with an alien race.
LEIBOLD, JAY
Antimatter Formula, The (Bantam, 1986.)
Choose Your Own Adventure #57.
A multi-path gamebook.
Beyond the Great Wall (Bantam, 1987.)
Choose Your Own Adventure #73.
A multi-path gamebook.
LEICHTER, LARRY R.
Epidemic! (Zebra, 1980.)
A new form of meningitis that appears to originate in the ocean and which kills fish as well as humans spreads inward despite every effort to quarantine the infected or to find an effective treatment for those already afflicted.
LEIGH, LORA
Bengal's Heart (Berkley, 2009.)
Feline Humans #7.
Felinoid humans fight for their rights.
Coyote's Mate (Berkley, 2009.)
Feline Humans #6.
An uplifted coyote is overwhelmed by passion.
Dawn's Awakening (Berkley, 2007.)
Feline Humans #4.
Romance involving feline humans.
Harmony’s Way (Berkley, 2006.)
Feline Humans #2.
A woman genetically altered to have feline characteristics runs afoul of a cult.
Lion's Heat (Berkley, 2010)
Feline Humans #8.
Romance involving genetically altered humans.
Megan’s Mark (Berkley, 2006.)
Feline Humans #1.
A part human, part feline detective tracks a killer.
Mercury's War (Berkley, 2008.)
Feline Humans #5.
?
Tanner's Scheme (Berkley, 2007.)
Feline Humans #3.
Humans launch a campaign to wipe out genetically altered feline humans.
LEIGH, R.A.
3 Passports to Paradise (Spectrutek, 1999.)
Spectrutek #1.
A conference among representatives of three colony worlds leads to tension and conflict. The colonies consist of New Age cultists, genetically enhanced animals, and super patriots.
LEIGH, STEPHEN (See also collaborations which follow. Writes fantasy as S.L. Farrell.)
Alien Tongue (Bantam, 1991.)
A team of humans is sent to explore a mysterious wormhole discovered near Jupiter, suspecting that it was artificially constructed by an alien race.
Bones of God, The (Avon, 1986, Headline, 1988.)
Religious heretics are waiting for a prophesized leader to help them gain freedom from the repression of the ruling theocracy. The government trains an amoral man to impersonate their messiah and lead them to defeat, but he discovers that he has acquired superhuman powers and begins to wonder if he is in fact the one foretold.
Changeling (Ace, 1989.)
#1 in the multi-author Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Robots and Aliens series.
A world of intelligent robots is menaced by alien invaders, and their best hope for survival is a pair of humans who have been stranded among them.
Crystal Memory, The (Avon, 1987.)
Humans have never left the solar system, despite the arrival of an alien race with faster than light travel. A woman wakens one day to discover that two years have been stolen from her memories, and her search for answers will change the future of the entire species.
Dance of the Hag (Bantam, 1983.)
Neweden #2.
Now that the guild of assassins has been allowed to take assignments offworld, their internal discipline begins to fall apart, and their leader suddenly finds that his former followers are now potentially his greatest enemies.
Dark Water’s Embrace (Avon, 1998.)
Mictlan #1.
An abandoned human colony beset by infertility and unexplained mutations is becoming increasing authoritarian, and the discovery by a doctor that there is a connection between this and the planet’s previous inhabitants makes her an outcast among her own kind.
Dinosaur Conquest (Avon, 1995, Ibooks, 2005.)
Dinosaur #6.
The final effort to restore the original time stream is endangered by the usual cast of villainous characters.
Dinosaur Planet (Avon, 1993.)
Dinosaur #2.
Two time travelers try to track down a psychotic third one who is playing with the course of history, but their efforts run into trouble when they encounter two different races of intelligent dinosaurs, each determined to wipe out the other.
Dinosaur Warriors (Avon, 1994.)
Dinosaur #4.
Things don’t get any easier for two stranded time travelers who find that the fabric of time has been completely destroyed and can only be restored if they find the man who caused the problem in the first place. But in the meantime, they’re pursued by fresh villains as well as their old enemies, the dinosaurs.
Dinosaur World (Avon, 1992.)
Dinosaur #1.
The discovery of time travel has an unfortunate side effect when one trip changes the entire course of history. In the aftermath, if that’s the right term in a time travel novel, humans must team up with a race of intelligent dinosaurs to try to bring stability to the time continuum.
Quiet of Stone, A (Bantam, 1984.)
Neweden #3.
The one time leader of the assassins guild now returns to their planet as head of a military force, determined to defeat the villainous forces who have taken his place and turned the assassins from true artisans of death into less disciplined killers.
Secret of the Lona, The (Ace, 1988.)
#1 in the multi-author Dr. Bones series.
A human adventurer goes on a mission to plumb the secrets of an alien civilization that seems intent upon conquering all other species.
Slow Fall to Dawn (Bantam, 1981, Headline, 1988.)
Neweden #1.
The leader of a secretive order of assassins is hoping to allow his prize students to operate off their homeworld, but his plans are endangered by the machinations of a local politician who suspects him of treachery.
Speaking Stones (Avon, 1999.)
Mictlan #2.
The human colonists on Mictlan are mutating, and a distinct third sex has emerged. When a human child is kidnapped, tensions between humans and indigenous aliens come to a boiling point. A team of investigators from a society of the new gendered humans decides to solve the mystery and defuse the situation.
LEIGH, STEPHEN & MILLER, JOHN J.
Dinosaur Empire (Avon, 1995.)
Dinosaur #5.
In an ancient Egypt that has been settled by dinosaurs rather than humans, the wandering heroes must retrieve the key to their freedom from that era before it is buried forever in a gigantic tomb.
Dinosaur Samurai (Avon, 1993.)
Dinosaur #3.
Two men lost in a fluctuating time stream find themselves in an alternate medieval Japan, where they are caught between fierce samurai warriors and intelligent time traveling dinosaurs.
LEIGHTON, EDWARD (See also Geoffrey John Barrett, Dennis Summers, and James Wallace.)
Light from Tomorrow, A (?, 1977.)
?
Lord of the Lightning (?, 1977.)
?
Out of Earth's Deep (?, 1976.)
?
LEIGHTON, TOM
Phoenix Formula, The (Dell, 1980.)
Two Americans contend with agents of Hitler’s SS to find an ancient secret that could prove to be a powerful enough weapon to change the outcome of the war.
LEININGER, ROBERT
Black Sun (Avon, 1991.)
A change in the nature of the sun suddenly turns the Earth into a dark and increasingly cold place where panic and violence destroy civilization almost overnight and the human race seems doomed to extinction.
LEINSTER, MURRAY. (Pseudonym of Will F. Jenkins, whom see.)
Aliens, The (Berkley, 1960.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of Murray Leinster, The (Corgi, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of Murray Leinster, The (Del Rey, 1978.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Black Galaxy, The (Galaxy, 1954. Magazine version 1949.)
A lone spaceship from Earth discovers that an alien race has been systematically exterminating every species that discovers space travel. Cut off from home, the crew devises a means to defeat the enemy's warfleet in this implausible but adventurous early space opera.
Brain-Stealers, The (Ace, 1954, bound with Atta by Rufus Bellamy. Badger, 1960. Magazine version 1947, as The Man in the Iron Cap.)
In the not too distant future, science has been outlawed by the government. The protagonist, an escaped political prisoner, discovers that aliens with the power to control the minds of groups of people have invaded the Earth, and can be withstood only by wearing metal caps.
Checkpoint Lambda (Berkley, 1966. Magazine title Stopover in Space.)
A newly assigned commander at a space station discovers that a band of criminals is aboard, preparing to hijack a ship that is due to arrive and rumored to be carrying a priceless treasure.
City on the Moon (Ace, 1957, bound with Men on the Moon edited by Donald A. Wollheim. Avalon, 1957.)
Joe Kenmore #3.
The moon is being colonized jointly by a number of nations, but fear that the US is dominating everything leads a number of powers to engage in a continuing program of sabotage.
Colonial Survey (See The Planet Explorer.)
Conquest of the Stars (American SF, 1952.)
Short story in pamphlet form.
Creatures of the Abyss (Berkley, 1961. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1969, as The Listeners.)
Aliens from two different worlds are secretly conducting operations in the Luzon Deep, harvesting fish from the ocean, and occasionally destroying a passing vessel. A team of investigators discovers the truth and battles giant squids and other dangers.
Doctor to the Stars (Pyramid, 1964.)
A Med Service book.
Three long stories about a star traveling doctor's adventures on three separate planets.
Duplicators, The (Ace, 1964, bound with No Truce with Terra by Philip E. High. Magazine title Lord of the Uffts)
A Landing Grid novel.
Two unlikely adventurers land on a primitive world whose colonists have an odd society in which commerce is considered insulting. There's an intelligent species of animal on the planet that doesn't like humans very much, although it supports their civilization, and a large number of matter duplicators.
Fight for Life (Prize, 1949. Magazine version as The Laws of Chance, 1947.)
In the aftermath of a nuclear war, several survivors discover that the blasts alter certain minerals such that they can affect the laws of chance. They use these luck charms to change their own situation and eventually retaliate against the invaders.
First Contacts (NESFA, 1998.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Forgotten Planet, The (Gnome, 1954, Ace, 1956, Carroll & Graf, 1990, incorporating material published in magazines in 1926, 1927, and 1953)
Descendants of a shipwrecked crew struggle to survive on a world of giant insects. One of their number changes the course of history by rediscovering human dignity and leading his people to a safer region of the planet. Inventive adventure story with almost no dialogue.
Four from Planet Five (Gold Medal, 1959, White Lion, 1974. Magazine title Long Ago, Far Away.)
A spaceship crashes in the Antarctic and its passengers, four children, are rescued. Although there is worldwide panic at the prospect of alien invasion, the children are actually the survivors of a prehistoric civilization who were sent through time to escape a global catastrophe.
Greks Bring Gifts, The (Macfadden, 1964.)
An alien starship arrives on Earth, dispensing superscience and promising scientific advances. Unfortunately, there's something they're not revealing, the fact that their technology is a trap designed to ruin the planet's economy and make them dependent on the Greks.
Hot Spot, The (Pyramid, 1969.)
Land of the Giants #2.
Based on the television series. A handful of humans on a gigantic alternate Earth travels to the South Pacific seeking refuge on a remote island.
Invaders of Space (Berkley, 1964, Tandem, 1968.)
A Landing Grid novel.
An engineer is shanghaied aboard a pirate starship that plans to loot a luxury liner carrying a large amount of cash. They discover that the crew and passengers abandoned ship for an uninhabited planet, and the protagonist foils the pirates and saves the day.
Land of the Giants (Pyramid, 1968.)
Land of the Giants #1.
Based on the television series. An airplane goes through a spacewarp and emerges on a world that is very much like the Earth, but much larger. There they must deal with giant humans, insects, and other obstacles.
Last Spaceship, The (Galaxy, 1949, Fell, 1949, Cherry Tree, 1952.)
Three story series about a man who escapes an interstellar civilization that controls people by means of a disciplinary circuit, a mental block that limits their actions. He becomes leader of another planet and leads the fight to defeat aggressors from other worlds.
Listeners, The. (See Creatures of the Abyss.)
Logic Named Joe, A (Baen, 2005.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Med Series, The (Ace, 1983.)
Med Service series.
A collection of stories about Calhoun of the Med Service.
Med Ship (Baen, 2002.)
Collection of stories about Calhoun of the Med Service, including the novels This World Is Taboo and The Mutant Weapon.
Men into Space (Berkley, 1960.)
Based on the television series. Stories about the development of near future space travel told from the viewpoint of a successful astronaut. Starts with orbital shots and ends with voyages to Mars and Venus.
Miners in the Sky (Avon, 1967.)
Two miners searching the rings of a remote world find a valuable mineral deposit. But unscrupulous rivals looking for an easy fortune murder one and try to kill the other in order to steal their claim.
Monster from Earth's End, The (Gold Medal, 1959, Muller, 1960.)
A cargo plane full of newly discovered Antarctic plants crashes on a remote island. The plants are animate and soon begin killing the staff of a military/scientific base stationed there. Filmed as The Navy vs the Night Monsters.
Monsters and Such (Avon, 1959.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Murder Madness (Brewer Warren, 1931, Fantasy Press, 1949.)
A drug is used as a means to achieve world power.
Murray Leinster Omnibus, A (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1968.)
Omnibus of Operation Terror, Checkpoint Lambda, and Invaders of Space.
Mutant Weapon, The (Ace, 1959, bound with The Pirates of Zan. Magazine title Med Service)
A Med Service adventure.
Calhoun is a star travelling doctor who investigates a planet that seems deserted except for a handful of thugs. He discovers they have unleashed a mutated plague that selectively kills the original colonists, allowing them to move in and take over an already established colony.
Operation: Outer Space (Fantasy Press, 1954, Signet, 1957, Grayson, 1957.)
Set in same universe as the Joe Kenmore series.
A television crew sent to the moon to help a neurotic scientist realize his fantasy accidentally discovers the secret of faster than light travel and visit an Earthlike world around another star.
Operation Terror (Berkley, 1962, Tandem, 1968.)
Very contrived thriller about an apparent invasion of the US by aliens armed with a weapon that beams terror. After many alarms and excursions, we discover that it is actually a plot by the US government to make other countries aware of the danger of this kind of technology.
Other Side of Here, The (Ace, 1955, bound with One Against Eternity by A.E. Van Vogt. Magazine title The Incredible Invasion.)
Invaders from an alternate Earth use a device that puts entire cities into suspended animation. The only two people who know the truth are hunted as plague carriers while the invaders systematically being looting our world.
Other Side of Nowhere, The (Berkley, 1964. Magazine title Spaceman.)
A Landing Grid novel.
When Braden signs onto the Rim Star, he discovers that the captain is planning to commit suicide in order to kill his newly hired crew, a band of men who hijacked another ship in the past. Braden and the passengers have to team up to prevent themselves from being caught in the crossfire.
Out of This World (Avalon, 1958.)
Collection of three related stories about an intuitive genius.
Pirates of Zan, The (Ace, 1959, bound with The Mutant Weapon. Bart, 1989. Magazine title, The Pirates of Ersatz.)
A Landing Grid novel.
A refugee from a planet of space pirates tries to make an honest living and gets into trouble with more than one planetary government. Eventually he makes use of some of the techniques of his homeland to make a place for himself.
Planet Explorer, The (Avon, 1957. Gnome Press, 1957, as Colonial Survey)
Four long stories about Bordman, a colonial survey officer, who solves ecological problems on four different planets during his career.
Planets of Adventure (Baen, 2003.)
Omnibus of The Forgotten Planet, The Planet Explorer, and several short stories.
Quarantine World (Carroll & Graf, 1992.)
Med Service series.
A collection of stories about Calhoun of the Med Service.
Sidewise in Time (Shasta, 1950.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Silver Menace, The (Black Dog, 2006.)
Collection of two unrelated stories.
S.O.S. from Three Worlds (Ace, 1966.)
Med Service series.
A collection of stories about Calhoun of the Med Service.
Space Captain (Ace, 1966, bound with The Mad Metropolis by Philip E. High. Magazine title Killer Ship.)
A Landing Grid novel.
A heroic space captain makes use of a revolutionary new device in his quest to track down a notorious pirate ship and put it out of business permanently.
Space Gypsies (Avon, 1967.)
A group of explorers seeking knowledge about a human space empire that predated Earth's expansion to the stars runs into hostile aliens.
Space Platform (Shasta, 1953, Pocket, 1955, Belmont, 1965.)
Joe Kenmore #1.
The US launches a space station despite the protests, and an unbelievably prolific number of sabotage attempts. The paranoia is undoubtedly a productive of the Red scare of the 1950's, but the novel conveys a good sense of the excitement the possibility of space travel provided in pre-NASA days.
Space Tug (Shasta, 1953, Pocket, 1954, Belmont, 1965.)
Joe Kenmore #2.
The US has a space station in orbit, but a foreign power is attacking it with nuclear missiles. Joe Kenmore and company devise a way to defend and resupply the station.
Talents, Incorporated (Avon, 1962.)
A group of humans with various psychic abilities sell their services to a planet trying to defend itself from an aggressive, multi-system empire by predicting the future, mentally locating warships, and so on.
This World Is Taboo (Ace, 1961. Magazine title, Pariah Planet.)
A Med Service book.
Short novel about Calhoun's adventures when he discovers one world whose inhabitants are disfigured by a now dormant plague, and another that has a pathological hatred of the first. When famine threatens the former, Calhoun takes direct action to force the latter to overcome their prejudices.
Timeslip! (Pyramid, 1967.)
Time Tunnel #2.
Based on the television series. A nuclear weapon is lost a century back and time travelers must find a way to recover it before it explodes in the present and precipitates a war.
Time Tunnel (Berkley, 1964.)
This should not be confused with Leinster's The Time Tunnel, although there are similarities. Two scientists discover that there is a tunnel connecting the present to the year 1804, and that someone has gone through in order to change the course of history.
Time Tunnel, The (Pyramid, 1967, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1971.)
Time Tunnel #1.
Based on the television series and not the same novel as Time Tunnel. Two adventures in time travel, one at the Johnstown Flood, the other in the old West featuring Bat Masterson.
Twists in Time (Avon, 1960.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Unknown, The (American SF, 1952.)
Short story in pamphlet form.
Unknown Danger (Pyramid, 1969.)
Land of the Giants #3.
Based on the television series. A group of refugees on a world of giants explores the ocean in search of a place of safety while trying to find out how to return to the real Earth.
Wailing Asteroid, The (Avon, 1960.)
Signals from the asteroid belt lure an adventurer and his friends to a deserted fortress which, they discover, was an outpost abandoned to colonize the Earth. And now an alien battle fleet is approaching and no one remembers how to use the still functioning weaponry. Filmed as The Terrornauts.
War With the Gizmos (Gold Medal, 1958, Muller, 1959. Magazine title, Strange Invasion.)
Three people discover the existence of invisible gaseous lifeforms that suffocate warm blooded creatures. The gizmos chase them cross country to prevent them from revealing their existence, wiping out entire communities in the process.
LEISNER, WILLIAM
Losing the Peace (Pocket, 2009.)
A Star Trek Next Generation novel.
War with the Borg threatens the galaxy.
LEITHAUSER, BRAD
Hence (Knopf, 1989.)
Reflective novel about a man reminiscing about a chess match between a human and a computer.
LEM, STANISLAW
Chain of Chance (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, Jove, 1979. Polish version, 1975.)
An investigator looking into several mysterious disappearances discovers that the laws of chance may not be working as they usually do.
Cosmic Carnival, The (Continuum, 1981, translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Cyberiad, The (Seabury, 1974, Avon, 1976, Harvest, 1985, translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel. Original Polish version, 1967.)
Collection of related stories set in a future world run by robots.
Eden (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989, translated from the Polish by Marc E. Heine.)
A space crew crashlands on a bizarre planet where genetic engineering and automation seem to have completely destroyed the resident civilization.
Fiasco (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988, translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel.)
A ship full of enlightened humans arrives on an alien world just as its inhabitants are reaching the peak of a self destructive arms race.
Futurological Congress, The (Seabury, 1974, Avon, 1976, Harvest, 1985, translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel. Polish version, 1971.)
An Ion Tichy book.
A space pilot finds himself in a future which appears to have achieved Utopia, partially with the assistance of newly developed hallucinogenic drugs. But when he tries the drugs himself, he discovers an unpleasant truth about this perfect world.
His Master’s Voice (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983, Harvest, 1984, translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel. Polish version, 1968.)
A mysterious signal from space seems to be a message, but is it the basis for a new technology, the secret of a new weapon, or something else entirely?
Imaginary Magnitude (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984, Harvest, 1985, translated from the Polish by Marc E. Heine.)
Collection of essays supposed about genuine books published in the next century.
Investigation, The (Seabury, 1974, Avon, 1976, translated from the Polish by Adele Milch. Polish version, 1959.)
Police officials are trying to figure out how bodies are mysteriously moving from one place to another, or disappearing entirely. The solution lies not with criminals, however, but with the existence of another world impinging on our own.
Invincible, The (Seabury, 1973, Ace, 1973, translated from the German by Wendayne Ackerman. German edition, 1967.)
An expedition finds an abandoned spaceship whose crew was apparently attacked and killed by an unknown force.
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (Seabury, 1973, Avon, 1976, translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose. Polish version, 1971.)
An extraterrestrial virus has destroyed all of the paper in the world. The last bastion of old style paperwork is the hermetically sealed Pentagon, which has become a high tech, paranoid culture unto itself.
Memoirs of a Space Traveler (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982., translated from the Polish by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek.)
A Tichy book.
Collection of related stories.
More Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1982, Harvest, 1983, translated from the Polish by Louis Iribarne, Michael Kandel, and Magdalena Majcherizyk.)
A Pirx book.
Collection of related stories about a space adventurer.
Mortal Engines (Seabury, 1977, Avon, 1982, translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel.)
Collection of loosely related stories about intelligent machines.
One Human Minute (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986, translated from the Polish by Catherine S. Leach.)
Collection of three “reviews” of books written in our future.
Peace on Earth (Harcourt Brace, 1994, translated from the Polish by Elinor Ford and Michael Kandel. Polish version, 1987.)
An Ion Tichy story.
A very funny novel about a man sent to investigate robotic activities on the moon who has his brain split so that different parts of his body are at war with one another.
Perfect Vacuum, A (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Return from the Stars (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980, Avon Bard, 1982, translated from the Polish by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson. Polish version, 1961.)
Because of the time differential, a space pilot returns to Earth after over a century, and finds a society that now uses artificial means to remove all tendencies toward violence from its citizens. But he doesn’t want to be changed.
Solaris (Faber, 1970, Walker, 1970, Berkley, 1971, Harvest, 1987, translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. French edition, 1961.
Scientists visiting a newly discovered planet with an ocean that is essentially a single sentient being are shown manifestations of people they’ve lost in their past lives, and speculate that the ocean being is a repository of memory from which reality can be generated.
Solaris, The Chain of Chance, A Perfect Vacuum (Penguin, 1981.)
Omnibus of the three titles.
Star Diaries, The (Seabury, 1976, Avon, 1977, Harvest, 1985, translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel. Polish version, 1971.)
An Ion Tichy book.
Collection of related stories about a wandering space pilot.
Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1979, Avon, 1981, translated from the Polish by Louis Iribarne.)
A Pirx book.
Collection of related stories about a space adventurer.
Tales of Pirx the Pilot, Return From the Stars, The Invincible (Penguin, 1982.)
Omnibus of the three titles.
LEMARCHAND, ELIZABETH
Alibi for a Corpse (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969, Tandem, 1971.)
Standard murder mystery which includes a brief encounter with a genuine telepath.
L’ENGLE, MADELEINE
Acceptable Time, An (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1989, Dell, 1990.)
Time #5.
A time gate opens and transports a young girl three thousand years into the past where she encounters a Native American tribe menaced by a drought.
Arm of the Starfish, The (Farrar Straus, 1965, Hodder, 1990.)
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Many Waters (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986, Dell, 1987.)
Time #4.
Two children are cast back through time to the days of Noah, as he constructs his ark, and as fantastic beings make their presence known on Earth.
Swiftly Tilting Planet, A (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1978, Dell Laurel, 1979, Souvenir, 1980.)
Time #3.
More adventures in time as a handful of children set out to stop a mad dictator who is threatening to destroy the world.
Wind in the Door, A (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1973, Dell Yearling, 1974, Methuen, 1975.)
Time #2.
An alien shows up in a garden and conducts two children into space, where they find the key to solving some of their problems on Earth.
Wrinkle in Time, A (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1962, Constable, 1963, Scholastic, 1970., Dell Laurel, ?, Dell Yearling, 1973, Puffin, ?)
Time #1.
A mysterious adult helps three children travel through time in search of a missing professor.
LENGYEL, CORNEL
Atom Clock, The (Fantasy Press, 1951.)
A short play about an attempt to create a Utopian society in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
LEOKUM, LEONARD & POSNICK, PAUL
Weather War (Pinnacle, 1978.)
A series of natural disasters strikes in different parts of the country. The protagonist begins to suspect a pattern and learns that someone has found a way to control the weather and turn it into a devastating and unsuspected weapon.
LEON, MARK
Gaia War (Avon, 1995.)
Lew Slack #2.
Slack’s computer hacker friend has apparently found a way to access a different reality, from which he has extracted what appears to be a genuine goddess. Blurs the border between SF and fantasy.
Mind Surfer (Avon, 1995.)
Lew Slack #1.
A computer programmer discovers the key to travel outside the normal realms of space and time and has various adventures.
Unified Field, The (Avon, 1996.)
Lew Slack #3.
With the assistance of secrets gained from another reality, two young computer programmers set out on a journey to the stars and discover the secret of human destiny.
LEONARD, GEORGE H. (See also Hughes Cooper.)
Alien (Playboy, 1977. Sphere, 1981, as Alien Quest.)
A man sets out on a search for proof of extraterrestrial visitors on Earth in order to claim a million dollar reward. He finds his efforts hindered by mysterious forces, some of which are human, and some of which definitely are not.
Alien Quest. (See Alien.)
Beyond Control (Macmillan, 1975, Pocketg, 1978.)
Marginal thriller about a doctor who discovers a secret government conspiracy involving the medical profession.
LEONARD, PAUL (See also collaboration which follows.)
Dancing the Code m (Doctor Who Books, 1995.)
A Doctor Who Missing Adventure
The Doctor peers into the future and sees himself and his companion being murdered by the Brigadier. Determined to avert this fate, he is nonetheless forced toward that conclusion with the discovery of an alien invasion force on Earth.
Dreamstone Moon (BBC, 1998.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor gets involved in the conflict between ecologists and miners on a planetoid that is the source of dreamstones, which can capture and preserve what one dreams.
Genocide (BBC, 1997.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor visits Earth in the 22nd Century and discovers that the human race never existed, so he has to go back to prehistoric times to find out what has changed and restore the original timeline.
Last Resort, The (BBC, 2003.)
A Doctor Who novel.
Aliens conquer an alternate version of Earth.
Revolution Man (BBC, 1999.)
A Doctor Who novel.
A mysterious figure is altering the history of the 1960s by means of a strange new drug.
Speed of Flight (Doctor. Who Books, 1996.)
A Doctor Who Missing Adventure.
The Doctor and his companions find themselves in fresh trouble when they land on a primitive world just going through the early throes of an industrial revolution.
Toy Soldiers (Doctor Who Books, 1995.)
A Doctor Who New Adventure
In the aftermath of World War I, the Doctor searches for a group of missing children and discovers that they are being kidnapped to an alien world.
Turing Test, The (BBC, 2000.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor travels back to help Dr. Turing decipher the German military codes during World War II, gets involved in a series of killings, and finds out that a nonhuman intelligence is meddling in human affairs.
Venusian Lullaby (Doctor Who Books, 1994.)
A Doctor Who Missing Adventure.
The Doctor arrives on Venus just as its native race seems on the verge of extinction, either by the depletion of their planet's resources or in all out war. A star travelling species offers to evacuate the survivors to Earth, but the Doctor suspects their motives.
LEONARD, PAUL & WALTERS, NICK
Dry Pilgrimage (Virgin, 1998.)
The New Adventures #13.
A space traveler goes on what she thinks is a vacation trip and gets mixed up with religious fanatics and a murder.
LEOPOLD, CHRISTOPHER
Blood and Guts Is Going Nuts (Doubleday, 1976, Berkley, 1978.)
Alternate history in which Patton invades Russia.
LEOURIER, CHRISTIAN
Mountains of the Sun, The (Berkley, 1974. French version, 1971.)
Civilization on Earth has collapsed and colonists from Mars are able to return after many generations. There they find primitive human tribes battling nature gone wild.
LE PAGE, RAND (House pseudonym.)
“A” Men (Curtis, 1952. (Brian Holloway.)
A scientist is held prisoner in the asteroid belt.
Asteroid Forma (Curtis Warren, 1953.) (Dennis Talbot Hughes.)
Efforts to create a communications network throughout the galaxy go awry when unscrupulous individuals try to use it to build a power base.
Beyond These Suns (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (Cyril Prothero.)
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Blue Asp (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (David O’Brien.)
Flying saucers attack earth with a series of natural and unnatural disasters.
Satellite B.C. (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (John Glasby and Arthur Roberts.)
Episodic adventures of an exploratory space vessel.
Time and Space (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (John Glasby and Arthur Roberts.)
A galactic war of the far future spills over into the various ages of humanity.
War of Argos (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (William Bird.)
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Zero Point (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (John Glasby and Arthur Roberts.)
Various forces on Earth compete to dominate an inhabited world discovered in another star system.
LEPIRE, JOE H.
I Was Alone (Exposition, 1963.)
Not seen.
LE QUEUX, WILLIAM
Battle of Royston, The. (See The Invasion of 1910.)
Great War in England in 1897, The (Tower, 1894.)
Future war novel in which England defeats France and Russia.
Invasion, The. (See The Invasion of 1910.)
Invasion of 1910, The (Nash, 1906. Newnes, 1910, as The Invasion. Ellison, 1984, as The Battle of Royston.)
Future war novel in which England is nearly defeated because of its unpreparedness.
Mystery of the Green Ray, The (Hodder, 1915.)
Not seen.
Terror of the Air, The (Lloyd’s, 1920.)
Germans use advanced aircraft to threaten the security of England.
Unknown Tomorrow, The (White, 1910.)
A socialist dystopia.
LERANGIS, PETER
Amazing Ben Franklin, The (Bantam, 1987.)
Time Traveler #4.
A multi-path gamebook.
Last of the Dinosaurs, The (Bantam, 1988.)
Time Machine #22.
A multi-path gamebook.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Wanderer, 1986, based on the screenplay by ?.)
Young readers’ version of the movie.
LERNER, EDWARD M. (See also collaboration with Larry Niven.)
Fools' Experiments (Tor, 2008.)
An artificial life form begins attacking computer experts.
Moonstruck (Baen, 2005.)
Aliens offer what appears to be a very good deal to the governments of Earth, but some suspect that there is a hidden drawback.
Probe (Warner, 1991.)
A space probe in the vicinity of Jupiter encounters an alien probe, which results in various repercussions back on Earth.
Small Miracles (Tor, 2009.)
A man gets infected by nanomachines.
LERNER, RICHARD & GUNTHER, MAX
Epidemic 9 (Morrow, 1980.)
A terrible new plague that could literally change the appearance of the human race for future generations begins to spread throughout the world.
LEROE, ELLEN W.
Robot Raiders (Harper & Row, 1987.)
Robot #2.
Not seen.
Robot Romance (Harper & Row, 1985.)
Robot #1.
A human boy in a robot school engages in some troublesome experiments that get the mechanical faculty into an uproar.
LEROUX, GASTON
Bride of the Sun, The (McBride, 1915.)
A lost world novel.
Machine to Kill, The (Macaulay, 1935.)
Not seen. A robot murderer.
LERR, NED
First Contact (Disney, 2009)
Spectrobe #1.
Young adult fare about a quest to defeat an alien invasion.
Rise of the Darkness (Disney, 2009.)
Spectrobe #2.
Youngsters have adventures in space while seeking to locate representatives of an ancient time.
LESLIE, DESMOND (See also collaboration which follows.)
Amazing Mr. Lutterworth, The (Wingate, 1958.)
Aliens help save the Earth by providing a source of cheap energy.
Angels Weep (Laurie, 1948.)
A fascist dictatorship in America.
LESLIE, DESMOND & MOORE, PATRICK
How Britain Won the Space Race (?, 1982.)
Alternate history in which England developed a space program in the 19th Century.
LESLIE, PETER
Autumn Accelerator, The (Corgi, 1969.)
Invaders #4.
Not seen.
Night of the Trilobytes, The (Corgi, 1968.)
Invaders #3.
Not seen.
LESSER, MILTON (See also Adam Chase. Writes mysteries as as Stephen Marlowe.)
Earthbound (Winston, 1952, Hutchinson, 1955.)
A teenager with an uncertain past goes on a rescue mission to the asteroid belt.
Recruit for Andromeda (Ace, 1959, bound with The Plot Against Earth by Calvin M. Knox. Magazine title Voyage to Eternity.)
A man from Earth is drafted for a trip to the stars, supposedly only for a set period although no one has ever returned. His companion is a mysterious character who seems to have more knowledge about their journey than he should have.
Secret of the Black Planet (Belmont, 1965.)
Two related stories about a man with superhuman abilities.
Spacemen Go Home (Winston, 1961.)
Humans attempt to subvert an interstellar computer that has determined that our species should be confined to our solar system.
Stadium Beyond the Stars (Winston, 1960.)
En route to the interstellar Olympics, a teenager discovers the existence of a telepathic alien race, but no one appears to believe him, except for a mysterious group who get him disqualified from competing as part of their effort to destroy his credibility.
Star Seekers, The (Winston, 1953.)
A generational starship is finally near its goal, but unless some of its residents can escape the conditioning of their enclosed society and take control of the ship, it will crash instead of landing.
LESSING, DORIS
Canopus in Argos: Archives (Vintage, 1992.)
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Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, The (Jonathan Cape, 1983, Knopf, 1983.)
Canopus in Argos #5.
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Four-Gated City, The (Knopf, 1969, MacGibbon & Kee, 1969, Bantam, 1970.)
Fifth and final volume in a series, the previous of which are not SF, culminating with the collapse of London into anarchy.
Making of the Representative for Planet Eight, The (Knopf, 1982, Jonathan Cape, 1982, Vintage, 1983.)
Canopus in Argos #4.
A peaceful, Edenlike planet with a near Utopian society is plunged into a new ice age without warning and with disastrous consequences.
Marriage Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (Jonathan Cape, 1980, Knopf, 1980, Granada, 1981.)
Canopus in Argos #2.
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Memoirs of a Survivor, The (Octagon Press, 1975, Knopf, 1975, Book of Month Club, 1975, Psychology Today Books, 1975, Bantam, 1976.)
In a near future where anarchy, pollution, and the general decay of orderly society are the rule of the day, a woman and her twelve year old child struggle to survive and make a new life for themselves.
Shikasta (Jonathan Cape, 1979, Knopf, 1979, Granada, 1980.)
Canopus in Argos #1.
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Sirian Experiments: The Report by Ambien II, of the Five, The (Jonathan Cape, 1981, Knopf, 1981.)
Canopus in Argos #3.
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Story of a Non-Marrying Man, The. (See The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories.)
Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories, The (Knopf, 1972, Bantam, 1974. Jonathan Cape, 1972, as The Story of a Non-Marrying Man.)
Collection of unrelated stories not all of which are SF.
LESSNER, ERWIN
Phantom Victory (Putnam, 1944.)
A resurgent Nazi movement finally succeeds in conquering the entire world.
LESTER, ANDREW (See also Terry Greenhough.)
Thrice-Born, The (New English Library, 1976.)
A bigoted interstellar society sends a mission to decide the moral status of a planet of hermaphrodites, thereby revealing more about their own prejudices than anything else.
LESTER, EDWARD
Siege of Bodike, The (Heywood, 1886.)
Speculation about the temporary separation of Ireland from the British Empire.
LESTER, H.F.
Taking of Dover, The (Arrowsmith, 1888.)
Future war pamphlet.
Cobb's Choice (Denlinger's, 2001.)
An artist enters a parallel world where his alternate self is a master criminal.
L’ESTRANGE, MILES
Platonia (Arrowsmith, 1893.)
A journey to a previously unsuspected planet in our solar system.
What We Are Coming To (Douglas, 1892.)
A look at a future when women have the vote.
Amazing Adventures from Zoom's Academy (Del Rey, 2005.)
Young adult novella about a teen who discovers she has super powers.
LETHEM, JONATHAN
Amnesia Moon (Tor, 1995, Headline, 1995, New English Library, 1997.)
The protagonist lives in a remote town following a nuclear war that devastated most of the world. Or at least that’s what he thinks. He subsequently learns that the world has undergone quite a different transformation.
Gun, With Occasional Music (Tor, 1994, Harcourt, 1994, Headline, 1995.)
A satiric blend of the tough detective story with SF. The protagonist lives in a future world where some of his fellow citizens are animals that have been altered to produce intelligence, and where he must solve a murder mystery despite interference by government officials.
Men and Cartoons (Doubleday, 2005.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, The (Tor, 1996.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LETTS, BARRY (See also collaboration with Terrance Dicks.)
Daemons, The (Target, 1974.)
A Doctor Who book.
An archaeological dig in England involves an ancient barrow which actually holds imprisoned a demonlike alien race defeated in the distant past. But the Master shows up to urge the dig on, and the Doctor has to intervene to keep the Earth from being invaded.
Ghost of N-Space, The (Doctor Who Books, 1995.)
A Doctor Who Missing adventure.
The Doctor travels to Italy to help foil a mafia plot, only to discover that the menace is more than merely human evil and that the mysterious ghosts of a local castle are actually visitors from elsewhere.
Island of Death (BBC, 2005.)
A Doctor Who book.
The Doctor investigates a strange cult on a remote island on Earth.
Paradise of Death, The (Doctor Who Books, 1994.)
A Doctor Who book.
The Doctor and friends investigate a murder at a futuristic theme park and discover that some of the attractions are more realistic than expected. In fact, alien creatures from another world have opened a beachhead on the Earth.
LEVEN, JEREMY
Creator (Coward, McCann, Geoghegan, 1980, Pocket, 1982.)
A scientist is attempting to clone his dead wife while carrying on an affair with a much younger woman, and also while resisting the efforts of his young assistant to supplant him, in more ways than one.
LEVENE, MALCOLM
Carder’s Paradise (Hart-Davis, 1968.)
A future society has automated most work and developed other technological advances.
LEVENE, PHILIP & MORRISSEY, J.L.
City of the Hidden Eyes (WDL, 1960.)
Unearthly creatures begin appearing in the darkness, snatching human victims for some nefarious purposes of their own, originating in an underground kingdom.
LEVENE, REBECCA (See also collaboration which follows.)
Bad Timing (Black Flame, 2004.)
Human mutants are shunned by normal humans, so many of them support themselves as interstellar bounty hunters.
Kill or Cure (Abaddon, ?)
An Afterblight Chronicles novel.
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LEVENE, REBECCA & WINSTONE, SIMON
Where Angels Fear (Virgin, 1998.)
The New Adventures #17.
An epidemic of religious cultism sweeps across a planet, accompanied by what appears to be genuine miracles. As most alien races withdraw, a scientist tries to determine what is happening.
LEVETT, ARTHUR
Martian Examines Christianity, A (Watts, 1934.)
More lecture than story, and the title tells it all.
LEVI, PRIMO
Mirror Maker, The (Schocken, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sixth Day, The (Joseph, 1990, Summit, 1990, Abacus, 1991, translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
LEVIE, REX DEAN
Insect Warriors, The (Ace, 1965.)
A primitive hunter has various adventures in a world filled with giant insects.
LEVIN, BETTY
Creature Crossing (Greenwillow, 1999.)
Two youngsters encounter a small animal that turns out to be a dinosaur in this young readers' book.
LEVIN, IRA
Boys from Brazil, The (Random House, 1976, Joseph, 1976, Dell, 1978.)
Before the fall of the Third Reich, Nazi scientists initiated a wide ranging plot to bring to life a new Hitler some time in the future, and now that time is at hand.
Stepford Wives, The (Random House, 1972, Joseph, 1972, Crest, 1973.)
The wives in the town of Stepford are all very subservient to their husbands, and with good reason. They’ve been replaced by robots indistinguishable from the originals.
This Perfect Day (Random House, 1970, Joseph, 1970, Crest, 1971.)
The world government of the future has established what they claim to be a Utopia, but the truth is very different.
Three by Ira Levin (Random House, 1985.)
Omnibus of The Stepford Wives, This Perfect Day, and Rosemary’s Baby.
LEVIN, JOHN (See collaboration with Frank M. Robinson.)
LEVINSON, PAUL
Bestseller (Pulpless, 1999.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Borrowed Tides (Tor, 2001.)
The first starship leaves for Alpha Centauri for a series of adventures, including a return trip that effectively moves through time as well as space. A lifeless planet in that system is transformed instantly into a duplicate of Earth.
Consciousness Plague, The (Tor, 2002.)
D'Amato #2.
A detective gets involved when a new treatment neutralizes an organism in the human brain which is responsible for consciousness.
Pixel Eye, The (Tor, 2003.)
D'Amato #3.
While investigating the disappearance of squirrels from a park, a police detective stumbles upon a piece of new technology that is being secretly deployed.
Plot to Save Socrates, The (Tor, 2006.)
Time travelers plan to rescue Socrates before he drinks the hemlock.
Silk Code, The (Tor, 1999.)
D'Amato #1.
A detective uncovers a conspiracy of individuals who throughout the centuries have developed a biological equivalent of technology.
LEVINSON, BRUCE SCOTT (See collaboration with L.E. Modesitt.)
LEVITIN, SONIA
The Cure (Harcourt Brace, 1999.)
Young adult novel about a boy sent back from the 25th Century because of his capacity for proscribed emotion to the 13th Century. In the midst of the Black Death, he tries to alter the future.
LEVY, DAVID
Gods of Foxcroft, The (Arbor House, 1970, Pocket, 1971.)
Two lovers are brought back to life in the far future when all the citizens of Earth have been forced to accept immortality by an extraterrestrial race, and suicide is now the only crime.
LEVY, ELIZABETH
Something Queer in Outer Space (Hyperion, 1993.)
Children’s book about a family’s trip into outer space.
LEVY, ROGER
Dark Heavens (Gollancz, 2003. Originally announced as Bad Memory.)
Dystopia #2.
As civilization descends into chaos and religious fundamentalism, mass suicide becomes legal. The protagonist is engaged in monitoring things to make sure that the suicides are voluntary.
Reckless Sleep (Gollancz, 2000, Millennium, 2001.)
Dystopia #1.
A military group that tried successfully to invade another world returns to an Earth that is undergoing considerable volcanic activity. Virtual reality has become the favored occupation of much of the population. One ex-soldier discovers that the after effects of the failed invasion are influencing his life.
LEWIN, LEONARD C.
Triage (Dial, 1972, Warner, 1973.)
The US government begins passing laws which authorize the euthanizing of certain classes of misfits, starting with drug addicts and ending who knows where?
LEWIS, C.S.
Cosmic Trilogy, The (Bodley Head, 1990.)
Omnibus of Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength.
Dark Tower and Other Stories, The (Collins, 1977, Harcourt Brace, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories. There has been some controversy as to whether or not many of these were actually written by Lewis.
Essential C.S. Lewis, The (Macmillan, 1988.)
Collection of stories, not all of which are SF.
Of Other Worlds (Harcourt, 1966.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Out of the Silent Planet (Lane, 1938, Nelson, 1943, Macmillan, 1946, Avon, 1949, Collier, 1962, Oxford, 1966, Longmans, 1966.)
Ransom #1.
The story of the first expedition to Mars. An involuntary astronaut communicates with the native Martians and discovers that Earth is dominated by an evil spirit.
Perelandra (Lane, 1943, Macmillan, 1944, Avon, 1950, Collier, 1962. Pan, 1953, as Voyage to Venus.)
Ransom #2.
Travelers to the planet Venus discover that there is a mystical power that inhabits each planet, giving them their own distinct personalities. Their near perfect society is menaced by the arrival of a scientist from Earth who is inspired by the spirit of evil.
That Hideous Strength (Lane, 1945, Bodley Head, 1945, MacMillan, 1946, Pan, 1955, Collier, 1962. Avon, ?, as The Tortured Planet, abridged.)
Ransom #3.
Good and evil battle on planet Earth as a secret society of scientists plans to remake human society along more orderly lines.
Tortured Planet, The. (See That Hideous Strength.)
Voyage to Venus. (See Perelandra.)
LEWIS, HENRY
Way Out: The Social Revolution in Retrospect, Viewed from A.D. 2050, The (Stock, 1933.)
Not seen.
LEWIS, IRWIN
Day New York Trembled, The (Avon, 1967.)
A clever new weapon is introduced into the US by foreign agents, an epidemic that makes people immune to pain.
Day They Invaded New York, The (Avon, 1964.)
An unlikely hero uncovers a clever plan by alien agents to invade the US by changing routine parts of everyday life.