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After the Fact (Baen, 1988.)
Pilgrim #2.
Pilgrim, who wanders through space and time in his marvelous machine, goes back to the Civil War period to try to prevent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Arrival, The (Tor, 1999.)
Earth Final Conflict #1.
A race of aliens comes to Earth, purporting to be our friends. Some suspect that they have an ulterior motive, or that perhaps there are different factions among the aliens with differing agendas.
Berserker (Ballantine, 1967, Ace, 1982.)
Berserker #1.
Collection of related stories about the battle between the human race and a number of artificially intelligent warships from an ancient civilization that have decided to exterminate all life in the universe. This series is enumerated in the order published since there is no clear chronology among the books.
Berserker Attack, The (Waldenbooks, 1987.)
Short story published as a pamphlet.
Berserker: Blue Death (Tor, 1985, Gollancz, 1990.)
Berserker #8.
When a berserker machine wipes out a colony world, it kills the daughter of the protagonist. Enraged, he takes a small ship and sets out on an interstellar voyage of vengeance, determined to destroy the sentient starship responsible for the slaughter.
Berserker Death (Baen, 2005.)
Omnibus of The Berserker Wars, Berserker: Blue Death, and Berserker Kill.
Berserker Fury (Tor, 1997.)
Berserker #11.
The berserker ships create versions of themselves which are indistinguishable from human built androids and use these remote units to infiltrate human bases.
Berserker Kill (Tor, 1993.)
Berserker #10.
A Berserker steals a laboratory and a stock of human zygotes in a sophisticated new plan to exterminate the human race.
Berserker Lies (Tor, 1991. )
Berserker #9.
Collection of related stories about sentient starships dedicated to eradicating all life.
Berserker Man (Baen, 2004.)
Omnibus of Brother Assassin, Berserker's Planet, Berserker Man, and The Berserker Throne.
Berserker Man (Ace, 1979, Gollancz, 1988, Tor, 1992.)
Berserker #4.
The berserkers were virtually destroyed in an epic space battle, and now humanity has almost forgotten about them, turning instead to fighting within itself. But the berserkers have been rebuilding, and now they are stronger than ever and facing a sharply divided enemy.
Berserker Prime (Tor, 2004.)
Berserker #13.
Two human civilizations locked in a deadly war have to set aside their differences to defeat a new threat by the berserker machines.
Berserker's Planet (DAW, 1975, Futura, 1975, Tor, 1991.)
Berserker #3.
A disabled Berserker ship lands on a human world and establishes itself as the local god, plotting to repair itself and carry on the fight against all life.
Berserker's Star (Tor, 2003.)
Berserker #12.
While attempting to rescue a man supposedly kidnapped to a distant world by religious fanatics, a man and a woman encounter a deadly secret involving the berserkers.
Berserkers: The Beginning (Baen, 1998.)
Omnibus of Berserkers and The Ultimate Enemy.
Berserkers: The Ultimate Enemy (See The Ultimate Enemy.)
Berserker Throne, The (Tor, 1985.)
Berserker #7.
In the aftermath of the assassination of the ruler of a small interstellar empire, a man discovers a deactivated berserker machines and the computer code that may give him personal control of it, if he dares take the risk of powering the sentient starship up.
Berserker Wars, The (Tor, 1981. Expander version of Berserker.)
Berserker #6.
Collection of related stories about the battle between humans and a fleet of robot starships.
Book of Saberhagen, The (DAW, 1975.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Brother Assassin (Ballantine, 1969, Ace, 1978. Macdonald, 1969, Orbit, 1975, as Brother Berserker.)
Berserker #2.
The robot killing machines have developed a new tactic. There is one human colony world upon which time travel is possible. The berserkers are determined to go back through time and prevent the human race from developing the technology with which they defend themselves.
Brother Berserker. (See Brother Assassin.)
Century of Progress, A (Tor, 1983.)
A man from our time is recruited into a war in a future alternate Earth where the Nazis won the second world war and still control the world, although they are harried by time travelers recruited from our timestream.
Earth Descended (Tor, 1981.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Golden People, The (Ace, 1964, bound with Exile from Xanadu by Lan Wright. Expanded version, Baen, 1984.)
Humans investigate an apparently primitive planet which somehow manages to neutralize most of the high technology devices brought there. The protagonist ultimately learns that the local inhabitants are not as undeveloped as he had previously supposed.
Love Conquers All (Ace, 1979. Baen, 1985, revised.)
In a future where sexual promiscuity is the norm, the only sin is to bear unapproved children. When one woman decides to do so despite the law, she finds herself branded as an arch enemy of society.
Mask of the Sun, The (Ace, 1979, Tor, 1987.)
The protagonist is investigating the disappearance of his brother when he discovers a gateway to an alternate world where the Aztecs are using time travel in an effort to prevent the Spanish from conquering their empire in the new world.
Octagon (Ace, 1981, Sinclair Browne, 1984.)
Participants in an elaborate virtual reality game begin dying for real. The nephew of the brains behind the game is recruited into the effort to investigate, but his initial discoveries point directly at his own uncle.
Of Berserkers, Swords, & Vampires (Baen, 2009.)
Collection of unrelated stories not all of which are SF.
Pilgrim (Baen, 1997.)
Omnibus of Pyramids and After the Fact.
Pyramids (Baen, 1987.)
Pilgrim #1.
Pilgrim is a time traveler who in this case is involved in bringing ancient Egyptian artifacts to the present for sale to museums. Unfortunately, there was a rational basis to legends of Egyptian deities, and some of those creatures resent the thefts.
Rogue Berserker (Baen, 2005.)
Berserker #14.
A berserker machines experiments with human beings.
Saberhagen: My Best (Baen, 1987.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Shiva in Steel (Tor, 1998.)
Berserker #12.
One of the berserker ships begins to exhibits entirely new tactics, and one colony after another is destroyed. Finally humankind decides to wipe it out at all costs, but can they discover what caused the change in behavior before it is passed on to other berserkers?
Specimens (Popular Library, 1976, Ace, 1981, Tor, 1990.)
A family moves into a new home that is situated next to a hidden galactic probe which was sent to collect human specimens for study by a distant alien race.
Ultimate Enemy, The (Ace, 1979, Gollancz, 1990. Baen, 1988, as Berserkers: The Ultimate Enemy.)
Berserker #5.
Collection of related stories about robot warships prowling the galaxy.
Veils of Azlaroc, The (Ace, 1978, Tor, 1987.)
Humans colonize a world where pockets of energy freeze separate communities into individual pocket universes, where no one ages but where it is virtually impossible to communicate with anyone from the outside.
Water of Thought, The (Ace, 1965, bound with We, the Venusians by John Rackham. Expanded version, Tor, 1981.)
The sacred water of a remote world brings visions to those who drink it, even those not native to that world. When it begins to spread to other star systems, the authorities react in alarm, threatening to destroy the source even though it is central to the civilization of the planet where it originates.
White Bull, The (Baen, 1988.)
A novel of the ancient Mediterranean featuring a rationalized Icarus and the Minotaur, the latter of whom is actually an alien stranded on Earth.
Replica (Zebra, 1978.)
A scientist raises a clone of himself as a sort of immortality, but there is an inherent flaw in his plan which will ultimately turn his clone against him.
SABIN, EDWIN L.
City of the Sun, The (George Jacobs, 1924.)
A journey to a lost Aztec civilization concealed in the American Southwest.
Love Bomb, The (Bantam, 1972.)
An alien visitor shakes things up when he comes to Earth but refuses to conform to human mores about clothing, sex, and other moral issues.
Grand Canyon (?, 1942.)
Speculation about the Germans winning world war two.
SADLER, A.
Red Ending (Ward Lock, 1928.)
Russian communists invade India.
Full Disclosure (Doubleday, 1977, Ballantine, 1978.)
Near future political speculation in which the Russian premier is assassinated and the President of the US blinded.
SAGAN, CARL
Contact (Simon & Schuster, 1985, Pocket, 1986, Orbit, 1997.)
An international team is recruited to serve as first contact team when a message is received from an alien civilization.
Edenborn (Putnam, 2004, NAL, 2005.)
Virtual Reality #2.
After a plague wipes out most of humanity, the genetically engineered survivors attempt to build a new society.
Everfree (Putnam, 2006.)
Virtual Reality #3.
A plague wipes out most of the population of Earth.
Idlewild (Putnam, 2003, New American Library, 2004.)
Virtual Reality #1.
An amnesiac trapped in a virtual reality world struggles to remember his past.
Formula, The (?, 1952, Lancer, 1967.)
Marginal thriller about efforts to secure a new formula which could give its owner the power to rule the world.
SAGNIER, THIERRY J.
IFO Report, The (Avon, 1983.)
Reporters investigate a government coverup and discover that aliens have landed on Earth, but that their presence is being concealed from the public.
Suns of Caresh, The (BBC, 2002.)
A Doctor Who novel.
A time anomaly on Earth may be linked to the imminent destruction of another planet.
Agent of the Unknown (Ace, 1956, bound with The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick. 1951 magazine title was Vulcan's Dolls.)
While visiting a pleasure planet, a man becomes infatuated with a beautiful, animate doll, unaware that he is the focus of alien forces.
Best of Margaret St. Clair, The (Academy Chicago, 1985.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Change the Sky and Other Stories (Ace, 1974.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dancers of Noyo, The (Ace, 1973.)
A man is given a mission by the rulers of a post collapse government in California. The parties in power are a blend of clone and android and have extraordinary powers.
Games of Neith, The (Ace, 1960, bound with The Earth Gods Are Coming by Kenneth Bulmer.)
A planet where science has replaced religion faces a terrible crisis, and in the midst of it there is an appearance of what appears to be their ancient goddess embodied.
Green Queen, The (Ace, 1956, bound with 3 Thousand Years by T.C. McClary. 1955 magazine title was Mistress of Viridis.)
A scientist gives the girl he loves some extraordinary powers, but discovers too late that he has changed her personality. Now he must reverse the process of destroy her before she destroys the entire world.
Message from the Eocene (Ace, 1964, bound with Three Worlds of Futurity, also by the author.)
A disembodied alien intelligence wakens from a sleep that stretched throughout the millennia and discovers that Earth is now home to the human race.
Shadow People, The (Dell, 1969.)
A race of beastly flesh eaters has lived beneath the Earth for thousands of years, trapped in a space warp until it is finally opened and they are set free to attack the surface world.
Sign of the Labrys (Bantam, 1963, Corgi, 1963.)
Following a series of plagues, the human race has descended into barbarism, much of it living in enormous caverns in anticipation of a nuclear war that never happened.
Three Worlds of Futurity (Ace, 1964, bound with Message from the Eocene, also by the author.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
ST GEORGE, DAVID
Right Honorable Chimpanzee, The (?, 1978.)
An ape is chosen as the next prime minister of England.
ST GEORGE, E.
Beyond the Reach of Night (Spook, 1983.)
Not seen.
Joyflame of Algol (Spook, 1983.)
Not seen.
South of Eternity (Spook, 1983.)
Not seen.
Thirteenth Eternity, The (Spook, 1982.)
Not seen.
Voyage to the Cat Star (Spook, 1985.)
Not seen.
Winds of Salpurtain, The (Spook, 1983,)
Not seen.
Solar System Swingers (?, 1992.)
Pornography in space.
ST . JOHN, D.W.
Sisters of Glass (Elderberry/Poison Vine, 1999.)
A mind reading policeman rescues a genetically tailored woman from a murderous corporation. The two are then forced to flee across a future America, pursued by an organization that wants to use mind control to influence the population.
Face in the Pool, The (McClurg, 1905.)
Not seen.
ST JOHN, PHILIP (Pseudonym of Lester Del Rey, whom see)
Rockets to Nowhere (Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1954.)
A secret colony is built on the moon.
Dance for the Ivory Madonna (Speed of C, 2002.)
In a future where the US has fragmented and Africa has united, a man joins an international spy organization and returns to Africa to avenge the murder of his father.
Leaves of October, The (Baen, 1988, Speed of C, 2003.)
Humans achieve interstellar travel and encounter a much older race that dominates the galaxy, and which judges whether or not newcomers are sufficiently civilized to be allowed to exist.
Voice in Every Wind, A (Speed of C, 2003.)
Collection of loosely related stories.
Zanesville (Villard, 2005.)
A man who might be a mutant goes on a cross country quest accompanied by two holograms that come to life.
SALISBURY, H.B.
Birth of Freedom, The (See Miss Worden's Hero.)
Miss Worden's Hero (Dillingham, 1890. Independent, 1929, as The Birth of Freedom.
A socialist Utopia.
American Emperor, The (Tabard Inn Press, 1913.)
Adventure and intrigue as a secret cabal seeks to turn America into a dictatorship.
Squareheads, The (Independent, 1929.(
A novel of the near future.
SALKIN, DAVID M.
Necessary Extremes (Berkley, 2007.)
Marginal thriller about an imminent nuclear war in the Mideast.
SALLEE, WAYNE ALLEN
For You, the Living (Roadkill, 1996.)
Chapbook story about a new plague.
Few Last Words, A (Hart-Davis, 1969, Macmillan, 1970.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Limits of the Sensible World (Host, 1994.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
SALSITZ, R.A.V. (See Anne Knight.)
SALTERBERG, B.J.
Outlander: Captivity, The (Harbinger, 1989.)
A misogynistic man finds himself in a world where women are dominant.
SALVATORE, R.A.
Attack of the Clones (Del Rey, 2002, from the screenplay by George Lucas and ?)
A Star Wars novel.
Minions of Palpatine manipulate events so that an army of clones is created and sent into battle, endangering the future of the Republic.
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (Del Rey, 1996.)
A Tarzan novel.
Tarzan sets off to stop an adventurer who has gained possession of a device that will open a doorway to the hidden land at the center of the Earth and allow the telepathic Mahars to attack the surface.
Vector Prime (Del Rey, 1999, Arrow, 1999.)
A Star Wars novel.
First in a new subseries set about twenty years after the collapse of the Empire. A charismatic leader is threatening to split the Republic just as it is about to be menaced by an alien race from outside known space.
Island of Fear and Other Science Fiction Stories (Permabooks, 1963, Mayflower, 1964.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Eucarion (Vista, 1998.)
Future war novel fought in Korea, complicated by a meteor strike that releases a new plague.
Book of Stier, The (Berkley, 1971.)
The latest rock craze is masterminded by a man who is apparently superhuman. The US government collapses and is absorbed by Canada.
SANDERS, J.R.
Container Is Ready, The (Vantage, 1988.)
Container #1.
?
Intergalactic Express, The (Vantage, 1988.)
Container #2.
?
Passion of Molly T, The (Putnam, 1984.)
A feminist future.
Tomorrow File, The (Putnam, 1975, Berkley, 1976.)
The forces of oppression and freedom battle for control of America in the closing years of the 20th Century.
Hamlet Warning, The (Scribner, 1976, Warner, 1977.)
Marginal thriller about attempts to use a nuclear weapon in the Dominican Republic as part of an effort to blackmail the USA.
SANDERS, ROB
Redemption Corps (Black Library, 2010.)
A Warhammer novel.
Interstellar mercenaries are caught between two hostile forces.
Bad Man Ballad (Bradbury, 1986.)
In 1813, a handful of people go in search of a giant who is believed to have murdered a dwarf. There's no magic involved, but rather a genuine giant.
Engineer of Beasts, The (Orchard, 1988.)
A young orphan with extraordinary mechanical ability goes on a quest and meets a man who keeps a menagerie of robot animals.
Invisible Company, The (Tor, 1989.)
A scientist accepts the gift of immortality from a shadowy group that wants certain services in return. He will eventually discover that they compose a secret cabal to rule the world.
Terrarium (Tor, 1985.)
The human race has retreated from the natural world into a series of closed cities, but some of those resident wish to escape to the dangerous but free world beyond.
Are We Having Fun Yet? (Wildside, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
J (Ibooks, 2001.)
The protagonist lives in three different versions of our world, but her various manifestations start drifting back and forth between realities.
Journey to Fusang (Popular Library/Questar, 1988.)
Adventure in an alternate North America that was colonized primarily by Asians. As Indians and interlopers jockey for power, the protagonist discovers that an ambitious man is putting together a coalition that will dominate the old world as well as the new.
Pockets of Resistance (Popular Library, 1990.)
A professional assassin for a repressive future American government is declared an outlaw. He escapes, joins the underground, and leads a mission to destroy one of the main supports of the dictatorship.
Wild Blue and the Gray, The (Warner Questar, 1991, Wildside, 2002.)
The Confederacy won its independence and became the dominant power in North America after allying itself with the Cherokees. Now a Cherokee pilot has gone to Europe to fight on the side of England against the Germans.
SANDERSON, HILDA
Riddles of Nifiter (Royal Fireworks, ?)
Scientifically illiterate story for younger readers about the colonization of another world.
SANFORD, RICHARD
Roadkill (Write Way, 1996.)
An underground cavern filled with vicious beasts are let loose on the when hikers inadvertently open their prison.
Cocoon (Jove, 1985.)
Cocoon #1.
A group of elderly people are caught up in events when an alien starship returns to Earth after five thousand years. Its purpose it to retrieve some individual left in suspension all that time, but their advent will change the lives of the humans as well.
Metamorphosis (Jove, 1988.)
Cocoon #2.
The elderly people who left with the aliens in the first volume return with their youth restored. Their mission is to help more of the comatose aliens stranded on Earth to return to their own worlds.
SAPIR, RICHARD BEN (See also collaborations with Warren Murphy.)
Far Arena, The (Seaview, 1978, Dell, 1979.)
A Roman gladiator is found frozen into suspended animation. He is revived in the modern world, and has great difficulties adjusting to what he finds.
Beyond the Sea of Ice (Bantam, 1988.)
First Americans #1.
Not seen.
Corridor of Storms (Bantam, 1988.)
First Americans #2.
The survivors of a series of prehistoric natural disasters try to find a new homeland in North America.
Edge of the World (Bantam, ?)
First Americans #7.
?
Face of the Rising Sun (Bantam, ?)
First Americans #9.
?
Forbidden Land (Bantam, 1989.)
First Americans #3.
The leader of a primitive band loses the confidence of his people and must flee with his family before they are the targets of deadly retribution.
Sacred Stones, The (Bantam, 1991.)
First Americans #5.
?
Shadow of the Watching Star (Bantam, 1991.)
First Americans #8.
As the Ice Age ends, a shaman decides that a human sacrifice is necessary.
Thunder in the Sky (Bantam, ?)
First Americans #6.
?
Time Beyond Beginning (Bantam, 1998.)
First Americans #10.
A young man abandoned by his prehistoric tribe finds refuge with another, grows to maturity, and returns for a confrontation with his own people.
Walkers of the Wind (Bantam, 1990.)
First Americans #4.
Not seen.
SARAC, ROGER (Pseudonym of Roger Caras.)
Throwbacks, The (Belmont, 1965.)
A risky scientific experiment results in living Neanderthals.
Cave, The (Harcourt, 2003, translated from the Portugese by Margaret Jull Costa.)
Dystopian novel in which the western world becomes one gigantic commercial entity.
Cutthroat Cannibals, The (Popular Library, 1988.)
Last Ranger #8.
In post apocalyptic American, a wandering hero escapes death at the hands of a tribe of survivors who have turned cannibal.
Damned Disciples, The (Popular Library, 1988.)
Last Ranger #9.
The protagonist must rescue his daughter from the fortress of evil cultists in post nuclear war America.
Is This the End? (Popular Library, 1989.)
Last Ranger #10.
Madmen, mutants, and military types vie for power in post nuclear war America.
Last Ranger, The (Popular Library, 1986.)
Last Ranger #1.
A nuclear war leaves the US largely destroyed, plagued by anarchy, violence, and petty tyrants.
Madman's Mansion, The (Popular Library, 1986.)
Last Ranger #3.
A wandering hero battles a post nuclear war dictator who is protected by an army of criminals and the insane.
Rabid Brigadier, The (Popular Library, 1987.)
Last Ranger #4.
A military genius has organized an army with which to restore order in post war America. Unfortunately, his program calls for the elimination of large classes of people judged unworthy of existing in the new order.
Savage Stronghold, The (Popular Library, 1986.)
Last Ranger #2.
A religious fanatic allies himself with a motorcycle gang in an effort to become the dominant force in post apocalyptic America.
Vile Village, The (Popular Library, 1988.)
Last Ranger #7.
The hero finds himself in a remote community where two gangs of thugs are attempting to wipe each other out and become the rulers of part of post nuclear war America. He joins one of the gangs in order to manipulate them into wiping each other out.
Warlord's Revenge, The (Popular Library, 1988.)
Last Ranger #6.
The protagonist's efforts to survive in post nuclear America grow more labored when he becomes the target of what remains of organized crime. Simultaneously, a renewed nuclear strike results in mutated lifeforms with unexpected means of killing their prey.
War Weapons, The (Popular Library, 1987.)
Last Ranger #5.
One extraordinary man proves too much to handle for a would be dictator who has raised an army with which to conquer post war America and enslave the surviving citizens.
SARGENT, PAMELA (See also collaborations which follow.)
Alien Child (Harper & Row, 1988, Starwanderer, 1989.)
A visiting alien wakes up a human child from suspended animation in a totally deserted Earth and feels obligated to watch over her and find out what happened to her kind.
Alien Upstairs, The (Doubleday, 1983, Bantam, 1985.)
Two people struggle to find a purpose in their lives in an America that seems to have lost its direction. Then a new tenant moves in, who proves to be an alien from another world, and whose advent will change them forever.
Behind the Eyes of Dreamers and Other Short Novels (Five Star, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best of Pamela Sargent, The (Academy Chicago, 1987.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Child of Venus (Avon, 2001.)
Venus #3.
The alliance between Earth and colonized Venus is beginning to fall apart, and unrest spreads through the population of the smaller world in anticipation of the struggle to come.
Climb the Wind (HarperPrism, 1999.)
An alternate history in which the American Indians successfully resisted the complete conquest of North America. A new war is underway, and this time they're not content to simply avoid losing it. They want to win.
Cloned Lives (Gold Medal, 1976, Fontana, 1981.)
Episodic novel, originally published in separate sections, about a group of cloned children and the problem and triumphs they encounter as they grow to maturity.
Earthseed (Harper & Row, 1983, Collins, 1984, Starwanderer, 1987.)
Seed #1.
A sentient starship oversees a crop of children who are created through artificial birthing. Eventually it finds a colony planet to replace the dying Earth and tries to establish a new civilization, but can the ship guide them to the creation of a society less suicidal than that of their parents?
Elvira's Zoo (EDC, 1979.)
Short story published as a pamphlet.
Watchstar #2.
A teenager is notified by an artificial intelligence that she is to be the contact between an isolationist Earth and her own people, who live inside a comet.
Farseed (Tor, 2007.)
Seed #2.
A new colony world is torn when the community splits in two.
Golden Space, The (Timescape, 1982, Pocket, 1983.)
A scientist convinces a woman to be inseminated with genetically altered sperm in order to mother a superior form of human being. Their children, however, must make a new destiny for themselves in a world in which they do not fit.
Watchstar #3..
Feuding factions must unite to meet the menace of a rogue comet.
Shore of Women, The (Crown, 1986, Bantam, 1987, Chatto & Windus, 1987, Pan, 1988, Benbella, 2004.)
Women seize control of all of the remaining centers of civilization following a nuclear war, outlawing technology and keeping men in subservience. One young woman questions the rules of her people and becomes an outcast.
Starshadows (Ace, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sudden Star, The (Gold Medal, 1979. Fontana, 1980, as The White Death.)
Following the appearance of a white hole in the solar system, society has become more repressive and America is a dictatorship where many forms of medical practice are now illegal. The protagonist is a doctor who disobeys the laws and becomes a fugitive.
Thumbprints (Golden Gryphon, 2004.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Venus of Dreams (Bantam, 1986, Easton, 1990.)
Venus #1.
A family saga about some of the handful of humans who travel to the planet Venus as part of an effort to terraform that world and create a new home for humankind.
Venus of Shadows (Doubleday, 1988, Bantam, 1990.)
Venus #2.
Further adventures of a large cast of characters who are among the complement of the first concerted effort to colonize the planet Venus.
Watchstar (Pocket, 1980.)
Watchstar #1.
On a lost colony world, a young woman's life is transformed by the discovery of a damaged starship stranded on that world.
Watchstar Trilogy, The (White Wolf, 1996.)
Omnibus of the trilogy.
White Death, The (See The Sudden Star.)
SARGENT, PAMELA & ZEBROWSKI, GEORGE
Across the Universe (Pocket, 1999.)
A Star Trek novel.
Kirk discovers an early starship whose crew have barely aged since they left Earth. Not only are they having difficulty adjusting to the change in human affairs, but they are paranoid as a group and possess a powerful weapon.
Fury Scorned, A (Pocket, 1996.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation novel.
Picard must wrestle with the agonizing problem of whom to evacuate from a planet that is about to go nova. At the last minute, Data develops a plan that might avoid the tragedy, or destroy the Enterprise along with an entire world.
Garth of Izar (Pocket, 2003.)
A Star Trek novel.
A Starfleet officer whose insanity caused a disaster returns after his cure in an attempt to make amends.
Heart of the Sun (Pocket, 1997.)
A Star Trek novel.
The Enterprise is investigating an artificial world found within an asteroid belt when they discover that it is on a collision course with an inhabited planet.
Jonas McFee, A.T. P. (MacMillan, 1989, Aladdin, 1992.)
A youngster finds an alien artifact that gives him psi powers.
SARRANTONIO, AL (See also book ghostwritten as Neal Barrett Jr.)
Exile (Roc, 1996.)
Five Worlds #1.
The four inhabited worlds of the solar system have become primitive monarchies all of which are battling for political supremacy and control of the terraforming and colonization of the planet Venus.
Haydn of Mars (Ace, 2005.)
Mars #1.
Intrigue and treachery in a Martian civilization.
Journey (Roc, 1997.)
Five Worlds #2.
Interplanetary war ravages much of the solar system as the ruler of Mars decides that he wants to dominate all of humankind.
Personal Agendas (Dell, 1997, Boxtree, 1997)
Babylon 5 #8.
A group of Narns hatch a plot to rescue their leader G'Kar from captivity by the emperor of Centauri, unaware of the fact that he has made a deal with a rebel faction to facilitate the ruler's assassination.
Queen of Mars (Ace, 2006.)
Mars #3.
A battle among the Martians for control of their world.
Return (Roc, 1998.)
Five Worlds #3.
The King of Earth is living on Venus while the planet is restored, but an ambitious ruler from the outer worlds wants to dominate the entire solar system.
Sebastian of Mars (Ace, 2005.)
Mars #2.
The young ruler of Mars is overthrown and driven into exile.
Chronicles of Scar, The (Avon, 1996.)
Scar #1.
In a post apocalypse America, a young man's accession to the throne of a small kingdom is in jeopardy until his cause is given a surprising boost by the discovery of another youngster from the lowest levels of society.
Legacy of the Ancients (Avon, 1997.)
Scar #2.
The succession has been settled, and now Arn is sent on a mission to neutralize the ruler of a brutal enemy state who has found a powerful weapon left over from before the apocalyptic war that destroyed civilization.
SARVARI, DARREN (See collaboration with Ivan Cat.)
Dark Planet (Medallion, 2004.)
A telepathic spy visits a neutral planet during an interstellar war.
SAUNDERS, GEORGE
Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, The (Riverhead, 2005.)
Satire about a country so small only one citizen can fit at a time.
Civilwarland in Bad Decline (Random House, 1996.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Texas-Israeli War, The (Ballantine, 1974.)
Following a nuclear war, Texas secedes from the devastated US and warfare springs up along the border. Israel was spared the worst of the war, and now mercenaries from that country have come to the US to join the fight against the secessionists.
SAVAGE, BLAKE (See also John Blaine)
Assignment in Space with Rip Foster (See Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet)
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet (See Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet)
Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet (Whitman, 1952. Whitman, 1958, as Assignment in Space with Rip Foster, Golden Press, 1969, as Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet)
A young cadet is sent on a mission to a mineral rich asteroid to claim it before enemy forces can seize control.
SAVAGE, D.J.
Glass Lady, The (Daring, 1985, Pinnacle, 1990.)
American and Soviet astronauts fly on a secret mission to disable an orbiting weapon system that has malfunctioned with unpredictable consequences before it triggers a nuclear war.
Court Martial of Robert E. Lee, The (Combined, 1993.)
Marginal secret history novel in which Lee was court martialed.
Jetman Meets the Mad Madam (Beeline, 1966.)
Pornography involving a superhero.
Coach Draws Near, The (Torquil, 1964, Dell, 1967.)
A romantic suspense novel that is only SF because of a nuclear war on the very last page.
SAVAGE, RICHARD (Pseudonym of Ivan Roe.)
When the Moon Died (Ward Lock, 1955, Digit, 1963.)
A worldwide revolt against a despotic government results in the collapse of civilization and the destruction of the moon.
Archives of Haven, The (Corgi, 1977.)
Lemmus #3.
The failed experiment to create a new civilization on Earth has consequences throughout the civilized worlds of the galaxy.
Arena (Hale, 1979.)
People from various times are gathered together for a single mission.
Beyond the Outer Mirr (Corgi, 1976.)
Lemmus #2.
The collapse of Atlantis has caused a crisis within the galactic government. When a disruptive force begins to grow stronger in one star system, a dramatic decision is made.
Hammerhead (St Martin, 1987, Zebra, 1990.)
Marginal thriller about an increase in Cold War tensions and the development of a high technology helicopter so effective on the battlefield that Communist agents will stop at nothing to steal a prototype.
Horsemen in the Shadows (Harper, 1996.)
Marginal thriller about black market nuclear arms just as a cabal of ex-military and intelligence officers plot to seize control of the Russian government.
Waiters on the Dance (Arlington,1976, Corgi, 1972.)
Lemmus #1.
Representatives of a galactic civilization decide to colonize the planet Earth and thereby change the future of the galaxy by founding Atlantis.
Self-Discovery (Macmillan, 1979, Collier, 1980, translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.)
A dead body is mysteriously transformed in a laboratory, hinting at an entirely new field of science.
Beyond the Great South Wall (Sampson Low, 1899.)
Lost world novel involving a dinosaur.
SAVILE, STEPHEN (Also writes Fantasy.)
Shadow of the Jaguar (Titan, ?)
A Primeval novel.
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Saucers Over the Moor (Newnes, 1955, Hamlyn, 1967.)
Flying saucers are sighted, but they turn out to be a new weapon system.
Envy of the Gods (Bridgeway, 2006.)
The inhabitant of a distant planet is discontented with his society.
SAWARD, ERIC
Attack of the Cybermen (Target, 1989, from the 1985 script by Paula Moore.
A Doctor Who book.
The Cybermen are back, this time with a time machine that will allow them to prevent the destruction of their own home world, and eliminate the Earth instead.
Slipback (Target, 1986.)
A Doctor Who book.
The Tardis arrives aboard an unhappy spaceship commanded by a man of uneven temperament and menaced by a computer that is increasingly prone to making its own decisions.
Twin Dilemma, The (Target, 1985, from the 1984 script by Anthony Steven.)
A Doctor Who book.
The Doctor's regeneration has not gone smoothly and he is subject to fits of temper which nearly have tragic results. He decides to become a hermit, but that resolve doesn't last long when a new alien menace rears its twin heads.
Visitation, The (Target, 1982.)
A Doctor Who book.
In 17th Century England, the Doctor is suspected of being a witch, a prejudice acquired by villagers who have been plagued by alien androids with strange powers.
SAWYER, ROBERT J.
Calculating God (Tor, 2000.)
An alien arrives on Earth and announces that some supernatural force has been manipulating his own as well as human and other alien cultures.
End of an Era (Ace, 1994, New English Library, 1994, Tor, 2001.)
A scientist uses a time machine to investigate the disappearance of the dinosaurs. He discovers that the Earth was altered at the critical moment by the intervention of visitors from Mars.
Factoring Humanity (Tor, 1998, Orb, 2004.)
A signal is received from an alien civilization, containing the keys to a new technology. One scientist discovers that it is also a key that will stimulate human evolution, either into a new stage or extinction.
Far-Seer (Ace, 1992, New English Library, 1995, Tor, 2004.)
Afsan #1.
On a world inhabited by intelligent dinosaurs, a young apprentice is about to make his mandatory pilgrimage to look upon the face of god. Instead, he begins to have doubts about the religious beliefs of his people when compared to the discoveries of modern science.
Flashforward (Tor, 1999.)
A scientific experiment causes everyone on Earth to have a brief glimpse of their own personal future and sets off a wave of hysteria and social unrest.
Foreigner (Ace, 1994, New English Library, ?, Tor, 2005.)
Afsan #3.
The dinosaur inhabitants of a doomed world find an ancient starship. From its wreckage they recover the technology that might enable them to flee to another planet.
Fossil Hunter (Ace, 1993, New English Library, 1995, Tor, 2005.)
Afsan #2.
A scientifically inclined dinosaur is searching for metal which will stand up to the pressure of interplanetary flight because the world his race inhabits is doomed. To do so, he must resist the pressure of his society to conform to their standards of behavior.
Frameshift (Tor, 1997.)
A terminally ill man discovers that an associate's company has been using a revolutionary new device to check the physical condition of its employees.
Golden Fleece (Questar Popular Library, 1990, McGee Woods, 1998, Tor, 1999.)
On a starship run by a supercomputer, a woman is found mysteriously dead by radiation. Although the official position is that she committed suicide, but her ex-husband believes that she was murdered, and possibly by the intelligence operating the ship.
Hominids (Tor, 2002.)
Hominids #1.
A quantum experiment links our world to one in which Cro-Magnons survived and our form of humanity did not, and an involuntary visitor comments at length on the foibles of our world.
Humans (Tor, 2003.)
Hominids #2.
Further contact between our world and an alternate one where Neanderthals became dominant.
Hybrids (Tor, 2003.)
Hominids #3.
A Neanderthal scientist and his human lover try to work out their cultural differences while a disaster in our reality has humans contemplating an invasion of the alternate world.
Illegal Alien (Ace, 1997, HarperCollins, 1997, Easton, 1998.)
A handful of aliens enter the solar system and are welcomed to Earth. Everything seems to be going well until a human is murdered, and one of the aliens appears to be responsible.
Iterations (Red Deer, 2004.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Mindscan (Tor, 2005.)
A terminally ill man has his personality copied into an artificial body, but discovers that this increases rather than solves his problems.
Relativity (Isfic, 2005.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Rollback (Tor, 2008.)
First contact with aliens is a mixed blessing.
Starplex (Ace, 1996.)
Humans have been exploring space for years via a series of wormholes created by another race. Now a vessel from some alien civilization has appeared, and with it comes the threat of an interstellar war.
Terminal Experiment, The (Harper, 1995, New English Library, 1995, McGee Wood, 1998.)
A scientist creates three modified versions of his own personality as an experiment into the nature of life, death, and immortality. The intelligences escape into the world wide computer system, where one of them proves itself capable of murder.
WWW: Wake (Ace, 2009.)
WWW #1.
A handicapped woman discovers an alien presence in the worldwide web.
WWW: Watch (Ace, 2010.)
WWW #2.
An artificial intelligence duels with a government agency.
SAXON, RICHARD (Pseudonym of J.L. Morrissey, whom see.)
Cosmic Crusade (World, 1964, Arcadia, 1966.)
The human race expands into interstellar space.
Future for Sale (Consul, 1963, Arcadia, 1965.)
A scientific discovery makes it possible to visit the future, but with unexpected results.
Hour of the Phoenix (Consul, 1964, Arcadia, 1965.)
Just as it appears that humanity will spread through the solar system, a rogue star appears in the sky and civilization falls apart.
Stars Came Down, The (Consul, 1964, Arcadia, 1967.)
The first trip to another star system faces a series of dangers.
SAXTON, JOSEPHINE
Group Feast (Doubleday, 1971.)
Not seen.
Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith, The (Doubleday, 1969, Curtis, undated.)
Surreal novel of a young boy who wanders through a largely deserted Earth avoiding other human beings.
Little Tours of Hell (Pandora, 1986.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Power of Time, The (Chatto & Windus, 1985.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Queen of the States (Women’s Press, 1986.)
Surreal bit about a woman who travels through time and space, convincing people only that she is crazy.
Vector for Seven (Doubleday, 1970.)
A group of casual vacationers discover they have been abducted by aliens.
Havoc in Islandia (Houghton Mifflin, 1982.)
Islandia #3.
Someone is plotting to assassinate the queen.
Islar, The (Houghton Mifflin, 1969, Signet, 1971.)
Islandia #1.
Sequel to Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright. Adventures in a Utopian society hidden from the rest of the world.
Two Kingdoms, The (Houghton Mifflin, 1979.)
Islandia #2.
The Queen of Islandia must deal with the possibility of a foreign invasion.
'68 (Norton, 1964, McLeod, 1964, Signet, 1964.)
Near future political thriller about a ruthless man's quest for the Presidency.
Agent to the Stars (Subterranean, 2007, Tor, 2008.)
A publicity agent finds himself representing gelatinous aliens in this mild spoof.
Android’s Dream, The (Tor, 2006.)
A rare, genetically altered animal must be located in order to cool off an interstellar diplomatic fracas.
Ghost Brigades, The (Tor, 2006.)
Ghost Brigades #2.
An investigation is launched to discover why a human scientist provided secret data to enemy aliens.
Last Colony, The (Tor, 2007.)
Ghost Brigades #3.
A retired soldier finds that his safe haven on a colony world is actual a gambit in a conflict between humans and aliens.
Old Man's War (Tor, 2005.)
Ghost Brigades #1.
Retired humans in a distant future enlist in the military to get homesteads on distant worlds.
Zoe's Tale (Tor, 2008.)
Ghost Brigades #4.
A teenager is instrumental in a major first contact scenario.
Descent of Angels (Black Library, 2007.)
A Warhammer novel.
Contending forces battle for control of a colony world.
Fear the Darkness (Black Flame, 2006.)
Psi Division #2.
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Fifteen Hours (Black Library, 2005.)
A Warhammer novel.
A new member of the military of an interstellar empire has his baptism under fire.
Red Shadows (Black Flame, 2006.)
Psi Division #1.
Adventures of a police woman who tracks down psi powered criminals.
Sins of the Father (Black Flame, 2007.)
Psi Division #3.
An abused child seeks revenge in a futuristic city policed by psychics.
Aftershock (Crown, 1991, Crest, 1992.)
A devastating earthquake levels much of Manhattan and an heroic survivor helps to rescue many of those trapped.
Myrmidon Project, The (Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1981, Ace, 1982.)
Computer enhanced equipment makes it possible for the news networks to alter the public's perception of events by using a new technology that makes any visual representation possible.
SCARBOROUGH, ELIZABETH (See collaborations with Anne McCaffrey.)
Channeling Cleopatra (Ace, 2002.)
Cleopatra #1.
A race is on to find the tomb of Cleopatra because it is believed that vast knowledge can be obtained from a sample of her DNA.
Cleopatra 7.2 (Ace, 2004.)
Cleopatra #2.
The personality of Cleopatra is merged with that of a modern woman by a controversial genetic process.
In a dismal future, a young woman enters the army and is captured in Tibet during a war. She and her fellow inmates have strange dreams just as the world erupts into a nuclear war.
SCARROW, ALEX
Last Light (Orion, 2007.)
The severing of the oil supply leads to world wide unrest.
Space Lawyer (Gnome, 1953.)
A feisty lawyer battles the corporation which is ruthlessly exploiting the colonization of the solar system.
Conquered Place, The (See The Naked and the Damned.)
Naked and the Damned, The (Popular Library, 1955. Putnam, 1954, as The Conquered Place.)
The US is conquered by Russia.
SCHATZING, FRANK
Swarm, The (Hodder, 2006, Warner, 2006 translated from the German by Sally Ann Spencer.)
A previously unsuspected intelligent race living in the ocean depths manipulates other lifeforms to cause a series of attacks and escalating disasters aimed at exterminating the human race.
Zip Zip and His Flying Saucer (Dutton, 1956.)
Zip Zip #1.
Human kids encounter a visitor from Mars.
Zip Zip and the Red Planet (Dutton, 1961.)
Zip Zip #3.
Not seen.
Zip Zip Goes to Venus (Dutton, 1958.)
Zip Zip #2.
A Martian goes on a trip to Venus. For younger readers.
SCHEER, K.H. (Perry Rhodan books are part of a multi-author series originally published in Germany. See also collaborations which follow.)
Again: Atlan! (Ace, 1974.)
Perry Rhodan #46.
Rhodan battles the immortal Atlan as the Solarian and Arkon empires clash again.
Blue System, The (Ace, 1976.)
Perry Rhodan #99.
Spies attempt to initiate a war between the Arkon Empire and the Solarians.
Columbus Affair, The (Ace, 1975.)
Perry Rhodan #80.
Aliens attack Earth from a secret base on Pluto.
Cosmic Decoy, The (Ace, 1973.)
Perry Rhodan #21.
Rhodan discovers that aliens have secretly infiltrated Earth in prepartion for an invasion.
Crimson Universe (Ace, 1975.)
Perry Rhodan #67.
Space battles galore as aliens from another dimension invade.
Duel Under the Double Sun (Ace, 1977.)
Perry Rhodan #108.
Brainwashed, Rhodan is tricked into instigating an interstellar war.
Fortress Atlantis (Ace, 1974.)
Perry Rhodan #52.
An immortal wakens from suspended animation to advise Perry on the future of the civilized universe.
Fortress of the Six Moons (Ace, 1971.
Perry Rhodan #7.
The alien Topides are building a spacegoing fortress which Perry must destroy before they use it for a fresh attack.
Immortal Unknown, The (Ace, 1972.
Perry Rhodan #13.
Perry attempts to save an entire planetary population from an impending nova of their sun.
Last Days of Atlantis, The (Ace, 1975.)
Perry Rhodan #62.
Atlan is an immortal space traveler who recalls in this episode his experiences during the last days of the lost continent back on Earth.
Man and Monster (Ace, 1973.)
Perry Rhodan #36.
A visit to a dangerous planet to find a cure for a mysterious plague.
Mystery of the Anti, The (Ace, 1976.)
Perry Rhodan #88.
Intelligence agents vs an interstellar conspiracy.
Planet Mechanica (Ace, 1977, bound with Seeds of Ruin by William Voltz.)
Perry Rhodan #112.
Arkon discovers that a long dead race has left a booby trap to destroy their inheritors.
Power Key (Ace, 1975.)
Perry Rhodan #78.
An army attempts to break the stranglehold of a super computer with ambitions.
Realm of the Tri-Planets (Ace, 1973.)
Perry Rhodan #31.
Perry's adventure defeating a horde of killer robots.
Target Star, The (Ace, 1976.)
Perry Rhodan #92.
The first flight of an experimental star drive leads to adventure.
Time's Lonely One (Ace, 1974.)
Perry Rhodan #42.
A mysterious immortal figure arises from suspended animation and causes problems for Rhodan.
SCHEER, K.H. & ERNSTING, WALTER (The Perry Rhodan books are a multi-author series originally published in Germany.)
Enterprise Stardust (Ace, 1969.)
Perry Rhodan #1.
A human astronaut finds a mission from an alien race on the moon and maneuvers them into providing new technology to the human race. Filmed as Mission Stardust.
Radiant Dome, The (Ace, 1969.)
Perry Rhodan #2.
With two alien passengers, Rhodan returns to Earth to force the nations of the world to forget their differences.
SCHEER, K.H. & MAHR, KURT (The Perry Rhodan books are a multi-author series originally published in Germany.)
Vega Sector (Ace, 1970.)
Perry Rhodan #5.
Rhodan leads a space fleet to the Vega system to defeat a horde of bellicose aliens.
At the Eye of the Ocean (Pocket, 1981.)
The captain of a sailing ship has a psychic power that enables him to sense the activities of denizens of the ocean.
Chrono-Sequence (Tor, 1988.)
A novel of first contact centered on the ocean.
Rose for Armageddon, A (Pocket, 1982, Allison and Busby, 1984.)
As civilization begins to collapse, a group of scientists work on a computer program so sophisticated that it may solve the question of human existence and the destiny of the species.
Steam Bird (Tor, 1988.)
The maiden flight of a steam powered nuclear aircraft.
Wave Rider (Pocket, 1980.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Young West (Arena, 1894.)
A sequel to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy.
SCHMID, SUSAN MAUPIN
Lost Time (Philomel, 2008.)
Young adult novel about a girl with an unusual implant.
Kensho (Ace, 1979.)
Mushin #2.
The alien mind creatures have been defeated for centuries, but now human greed and hatred have caused schisms in a colony world's society, and these tensions are opening a new gateway for the Mushin to return.
Labyrinth (Ace, 1989.)
Questioner #1.
An alien trainee undergoes rigorous challenges as he seeks to become one of the Questioners, the ultimate peacekeeping force in the universe.
Paradise (Ace, 1990.) DOUBLE CHECK TITLE – MAY BE DARK PARADISE
Questioner #3.
The inhabitants of a peaceful planet are suddenly beginning to turn on each other violently. Although they are reluctant to seek outside help, the situation becomes so drastic that they finally call in the Questioners.
Satori (Ace, 1981.)
Mushin #3.
A colony world has come close to developing the mental powers that will make them immune to the technology and violence of Earth. But at a critical moment, a warship from the homeworld arrives to cast into doubt the future of their society.
Shadow (Ace, 1990.)
Questioner #2.
An alien seeks to settle the battle between two species who share a world, one as masters, one as slaves. And he would prefer to accomplish this without getting himself killed in the process.
Wanderer (Ace, 1985.)
Mushin #4.
A peaceful colony world dedicated to mental arts must develop a defensive weapon against an armada of military warships sent from Earth to force them back into the fold.
Wayfarer (Ace, 1978.)
Mushin #1.
Humans colonize a planet unaware of the fact that it is home to a discorporate life form that can infect humans and turn them to violence. Several generations later, one of those born on that world masters the mental arts that allows him to defeat the aliens.
SCHMIDT, STANLEY
Argonaut (Tor, 2002.)
An encounter with a strange insect reveals to the protagonist that humanity is being monitored by an alien race, possibly as a prelude to invasion.
Generation Gap and Other Stories (Five Star, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Lifeboat Earth (Berkley, 1978.)
Sins #2.
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Newton and the Quasi-Apple (Doubleday, 1975, Popular Library, 1977.)
An alien civilization is facing destruction at the hands of the growing numbers of barbarian hordes when a ship from Earth arrives. Although some see this as salvation, others view the offworlders as even more dangerous than the local troublemakers.
Sins of the Fathers, The (Berkley, 1976.)
Sins #1.
An experimental starship goes back in time to study a supernova, and one of its crew is driven mad by the discovery that the Earth itself is doomed.
Tweedlioop (Tor, 1986, Fox Acre, 2002.)
An alien who resembles a squirrel is stranded in Alaska after his ship crashes. Although some humans befriend him and want to help him to return to his people, the government has a very different agenda.
SCHMITZ, JAMES H.
Agent of Vega (Gnome, 1960, Permabooks, 1962, Mayflower, 1964.)
Collection of loosely related stories.
Agent of Vega & Other Stories (Baen, 2001.)
A collection of sometimes related stories. Includes the earlier collection of the same name.
Best of James H. Schmitz, The (NESFA, 1991.)
Collection of sometimes related stories.
Demon Breed, The (Ace, 1968, Futura, 1974. Magazine title The Tuvela.)
A woman survives the alien invasion of a colony world. Accompanied by three mutated otters, she manages to stay out of their clutches, and finds a way to communicate the situation to the offworld authorities in time for them to take countermeasures.
Eternal Frontier (Baen, 2002.)
Collection of sometimes related short stories.
Eternal Frontiers, The (Putnam, 1973, Berkley, 1973, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974.)
A colony world that has split into two warring factions is menaced by a third force, hostile aliens. A man who has been a member of both factions proves to be the instrument of reconciliation.
Hub: Dangerous Territory, The (Baen, 2001.)
Collection of inter-related stories.
Legacy (See A Tale of Two Clocks.)
Lion Game, The (DAW, 1973, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976. Magazine version 1971.)
A Telzey Amberdon novel.
Telzey's encounter with an assassin who has psi powers doesn't dampen her enthusiasm for meddling in interstellar affairs, but then she discovers an alien race plotting to challenge humanity's place in the power structure.
Nice Day for Screaming and Other Tales of the Hub, A (Chilton, 1965.)
Collection of loosely related stories.
Pride of Monsters, A (Macmillan, 1970, Collier, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Tale of Two Clocks, A (Dodd, Mead Torquil, 1962, Belmont, 1965. Ace, 1979, as Legacy.)
A Trigger Argee book.
A woman from the other side of the galaxy comes to Earth to solve an ancient secret that could menace all the civilized worlds.
Telzey Amberdon (Baen, 2000.)
A Telzey Amberdon book.
Collection of related stories.
Telzey Toy, The (DAW, 1973, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976. Ace, 1982, as The Telzey Toy and Other Stories.)
A Telzey Amberdon book.
Collection of related stories about a telepath.
Telzey Toy and Other Stories, The (See The Telzey Toy.)
TnT: Telzey & Trigger (Baen, 2000.)
A Telzey Amberdon book and a Trigger Argee book.
Collection of related stories.
Trigger & Friends (Baen, 2001.)
Collection of loosely related stories.
Universe Against Her, The (Ace, 1964. Magazine title was Undercurrents.)
A Telzey Amberdon novel.
The protagonist is a young woman with the rare talent of being able to read the minds of alien species. When she eavesdrops on aliens who are planning a war of interplanetary conquest, she suddenly finds herself being hunted through the stars.
Witches of Karres, The (Chilton, 1966, Ace, 1967, Gollancz, 1988, Baen, 2004.)
A sympathetic space captain rescues three young witches from their master and offers to take them to refuge on another world. As they travel from world to world, he begins to regret his decision when they get him into increasingly difficult situations.
SCHNEIDER, JOHN G.
Golden Kazoo, The (Rinehart, 1956, Dell, 1956, Signet, 1964.)
A spoof of Presidential politics in the near future in which advertising becomes the most important part of the process. More prophetic than most SF.
SCHOFIELD, SANDY (Pseudonym of Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch, whom both see.)
Big Game (Bantam, 1999.)
A Predator novel.
A Navajo witnesses an alien hunter killing a friend, but interprets it as the return of a legendary creature killed by one of his ancestors. In order to survive, he decides that he must mimic the technique that worked so long ago.
Big Game, The (Pocket, 1993.)
A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel.
Quark is sponsoring a high stakes poker game, but one of the players is murdered. The assassin becomes less significant, however, when Sisko learns that a mysterious power threatens the entire station.
Loch Ness Leap (Boulevard, 1997.)
A Quantum Leap novel.
Sam finds himself only a few years in the past, in the body of a man investigating the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, and also on a more personal mission.
Rogue (Bantam, 1994, Millenium, 1995)
An Aliens novel.
A team of marines travels to a prison world where the warden has gone insane and is breeding aliens in a secret colony under the prison.
SCHOLES, KEN
Long Walks, Last Flights, and Other Strange Journeys (Fairwood, 2008.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
SCHOLZ, CARTER (See also collaboration which follows.)
Cuts (Drumm, 1985.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Palimpsests (Ace, 1984.)
Ancient manuscripts provide the key to the future.
Central Passage (Sloane, 1962, Dell, 1964.)
A brief nuclear war devastates much of the world, but in the aftermath, two individuals are born who have mutated and become more intelligent, more peaceful, and more admirable people. So naturally the rest of the human race decrees that they should be killed.
SCHOW, DAVID J.
Sedalia (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Short story in pamphlet form about the sudden appearance of a dinosaur.
SCHREIBER JOE
Death Troopers (Del Rey, 2009.)
A Star Wars novel.
Survivors of a disabled starship encounter danger on a mysterious derelict.
Engine of Recall (?)
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Lady of Mazes (Tor, 2005.)
Ventus #2.
When outsiders disrupt a Utopian world, one of its residents travels through space seeking help.
Permanence (Tor, 2002.)
A young woman fleeing an abusive brother finds what she believes to be a mineral rich comet, but which turns out to be a derelict alien starship.
Pirate Sun (Tor, 2008.)
Virga #3.
An unjustly treated officer seeks vengeance in a miniature universe.
Queen of Candesce, The (Tor, 2007.)
Virga #2.
A woman struggles to survive amongst various artificial worlds.
Sunless Countries, The (Tor, 2009.)
Virga #4.
A new force threatens a world of weightlessness.
Sun of Suns (Tor, 2006.)
Virga #1.
In an odd, artificial world, a man seeks vengeance against the officer who commanded the army that conquered his nation.
Ventus (Tor, 2000.)
Ventus #1.
Adventures on a planet whose ecology is to be terraformed using nanotechnology.
Alongside Night (Crown, 1979, Ace, 1982.)
Inflation is out of control, the economy is failing, and law and order are beginning to disintegrate. The government decides to impose order through dictatorship, but one determined man organizes a rebellion to preserve freedom.
Rainbow Cadenza, The (Simon & Schuster, 1983, Avon, 1986.)
Women are outnumbered seven to one in a future which has dissolved into brutal entertainment, casual acceptance of death, and other failings. One young woman decides to rebel against the system by creating a new art form.
SCHULTZ, MARK
Stop Motion (Pocket Star, 2004.)
A Justice League of America novel.
The Flash battles a villain even faster than he is.
SCHUTTE, JAMES E.
Bunyip Archives, The (Baskerville, 1992.)
Explorers discover a race of diminutive humans living in the Australian outback. When rumor leaks out that their blood can restore youth to others, the race is on to protect them.
SCHUTZ, J.W.
Moon Microbe, The (Hale, 1976.)
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People of the Rings (Hale, 1975.)
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Black No More (Macaulay, 1931.)
A tale of scientific wonders.
Wandering Tellurian, The (Ace, 1967, bound with The Key to Irunium by Kenneth Bulmer.)
The adventurers of a space traveling merchant who specializes in selling weapons to primitive planets.
President's Contract, The (Brandon, 1972.)
Marginal satirical thriller about a US President who hires the Mafia to rid him of a troublesome Vice-President.
Meadowlark Sings, The (Harrington Park, 2006.)
A gay Utopia.
SCORTIA, THOMAS N. (See also collaborations with Frank M. Robinson.)
Artery of Fire (Doubleday, 1972, Popular Library, undated.)
The exploitation of an interstellar phenomenon to generate energy from Earth has a series of strange side effects, but the man in charge of the project is too egotistical to shut it down.
Best of Thomas N. Scortia, The (Doubleday, 1981.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Caution! Inflammable! (Doubleday, 1975, Bantam, 1976.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Earthwreck! (Gold Medal, 1974, Coronet, 1975.)
A nuclear war wipes out all life on Earth. Survivors on the US and Soviet space stations combine forces to create a viable colony on the moon.
Anthrax Mutation, The (Pyramid, 1976. Sphere, 1971, as Project Dracula.)
An explosion destroys a germ warfare laboratory and releases a swarm of bats carrying a very deadly new form of anthrax.
Project Dracula. (See The Anthrax Mutation.)
King of America, The (Traveler's Companion, 1969.)
Futuristic pornography.
Gorgonites' Quest, The (Dreamworks, 1998.)
A Small Soldiers book.
Sequel to the movie, Small Soldiers. A young boy discovers an island inhabited by the self aware toys who survived the events in the film.
Small Soldiers (Dreamworks, 1998, based on the screenplay by Gavin Scott, Adam Rifkin, Ted Elliott, and Terry Rossio.)
A Small Soldiers book.
Novelization for the film about two groups of toys who become self aware thanks to sophisticated computer chips, and set out to destroy each other.
How I Helped the Chicago Cubs (Finally) Win the World Series (Aardwolf, 2005.)
With the help of a time machine, a fan locates some topnotch players so the Cubs can win the series.
SCOTT, HEW
Way of War, The (Long, 1907.)
Future war between England and Germany.
SCOTT, HOLDEN (Pseudonym of Ben Mezrich, whom see.)
Carrier, The (St Martins, 1999.)
While seeking a cure for cancer, a scientist develops a new virus that can melt the flesh off a human skeleton in a matter of seconds.
SCOTT, HOLLY & DUNCAN, JAIMIE
Hydra (Fandemonium, ?)
A Stargate novel.
The exploration of alien worlds is complicated by traitors within the group.
Siren Song (Fandemonium, ?)
A Stargate novel.
A bounty hunter disrupts an interstellar research project.
SCOTT, J.M. (See collaboration with Robert Theobald.)
Passing for Human (DAW, 1977, Women’s Press, ?)
Futuristic satire featuring a woman of many talents in a bizarre version of our world.
SCOTT, MELISSA
Burning Bright (Tor, 1993.)
A would be game designer visits a planet that is dedicated to playing elaborate role playing games. She eventually discovers that the game is real, and that she's caught in a struggle between two intelligent species vying for galactic domination.
Choice of Destinies, A (Baen, 1986.)
An alternate history novel in which Alexander the Great turns his attention to Rome and launches a war that will change the course of history forever.
Dreaming Metal (Tor, 1997.)
An illusionist who travels from planet to planet, entertaining with her cybernetic tricks, inadvertently creates a true artificial intelligence.
Dreamships (Tor, 1992.)
In order to navigate interstellar space, more sophisticated computers are installed. Eventually the border between machine and self awareness is passed, triggering a crisis in human society.
Empress of Earth, The (Baen, 1987, Gollancz, 1989.)
Silence Leigh #3.
A brilliant young woman with extraordinary powers must find a way to reach sequestered Earth in order to gain a starship command of her own.
Five-Twelfths of Heaven (Baen, 1985, Gollancz, 1988.)
Silence Leigh #1.
In a distant future when Earth has been lost, a new physics is discovered that looks very much like a form of magic. A young practitioner joins the crew of a starship in order to escape the repressive government under which she lives, and develops her abilities to manipulate this new force.
Game Beyond, The (Baen, 1984.)
An interstellar empire goes through a crisis when its leadership dies, and the struggle for power in the aftermath involves warfare as well as politics.
Garden, The (Pocket, 1997.)
A Star Trek: Voyager novel.
The Voyager sends an away team to a mysterious planet that seems to promise great stores of supplies, but they get caught in a war with another race, and discover they can trust neither side in the conflict.
Jazz, The (Tor, 2000.)
The entertainment industry has gone high tech, but a couple of unconventional artists stumble across the dark truth hidden behind the media hype.
Kindly Ones, The (Baen, 1987, Gollancz, 1990.)
A space opera involving a repressive planetary government.
Mighty Good Road (Baen, 1990.)
An interstellar salvage crew is hired to recover the cargo of a starship that crashes on an unpopulated world. The local lifeforms are hostile and deadly, and at least one of them has intelligence that rivals that of humans. And just to make things interested, the protagonists discover that their employers aren't particularly interested in having them succeed.
Night Sky Mine (Tor, 1996.)
An orphan searches for a future for herself in a future in which virtual reality is an everyday fixture.
Proud Helios (Pocket, 1995.)
A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel.
A pirate ship begins raiding shipping in the vicinity of the wormhole, endangering trade to Bajor. Sisko and the Cardassians agree to cooperate, but when hostages are taken aboard the raider, Sisko must find a way to force the Cardassians to break off their attack.
Roads of Heaven, The (Doubleday, 1988.)
Omnibus of the Silence Leigh trilogy.
Shadow Man (Tor, 1995.)
Although the human race has split into five separate genders, on one planet it is mandatory that everyone choose either male or female, and the ensuing tension disrupts the life of an attorney.
Shapes of Their Hearts, The (Tor, 1998.)
Trouble arises on a colony world when the personality of a religious zealot is merged with that of a very advanced artificial intelligence.
Silence in Solitude (Baen, 1986, Gollancz, 1989.)
Silence Leigh #2.
A young woman has mastered the new art of manipulating reality. She sets out to find lost Earth, which has been cut off from contact with the rest of the universe for many generations.
Trouble and Her Friends (Tor, 1994.)
A reformed hacker a century from now must track down the person who is impersonating her and committing computer crimes.
SCOTT, MICHAEL (See also collaboration with Arnold Shimerman.)
Gemini Game (O'Brien, 1993, Holiday House, 1993, Troll, 1996.)
Two young game designers discover that someone is using their virtual reality system to commit crimes, so they immerse themselves to find the culprit.
Space Slaves (Hustler, 1982.)
Pornography about three astronauts who waken from suspended animation to find Earth dominated by sex starved women.
SCOTT, TIM
Love in the Time of Fridges (Bantam, 2008.)
Appliances #2.
Conspiracy in a future when machines are sentient.
Outrageous Fortune (Bantam, 2007.)
Appliances #1.
Satire set in a future when household appliances have personalities.
SCOTT, WARWICK (Pseudonym of Elleston Trevor, whom see.)
Domesday Story, The (Davies, 1952. Lion, 1953, as Doomsday.)
Society adapts to the advent of super weaponry.
Doomsday (See The Domesday Story.)
Renegade (Ace, 1989.)
Robots and Aliens #2.
A human woman stranded on a planet of robots tries to prevent a war with an alien race.
SCRYMSOUR, ELLA M.
Perfect World, The (Nash & Grayson, 1922.)
A journey underneath the Earth, followed by a trip to Jupiter.
SCUDAMORE, F.
Great War of 189-, The (Heinemann, 1893.)
Future war novel.
Symzonia (Seymour, 1820.)
A Utopia.
SEAFORTH (Pseudonym of George Foster, whom see.)
We Band of Brothers, Jenkins, 1939.
Not seen. Future war.
SEAFORTH, A.N.
Last Great Naval War, The (Cassell, 1892.)
Future war novel.
SEAL, GYLA BETH & TAYLOR, JANUARY (See Royal Fireworks)
Works of Thy Hands (Royal Fireworks, 1996.)
Three unusually bright children discover that they are part of an illegal genetic experiment.
Creeping Evil, The (Hutchinson, 1950.)
A sea monster menaces the world.
Invisible Ships, The (Hutchinson, 1950.)
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SEAMARK (See Austin J. Small.)
SEARLE, RONALD (See collaboration with Geoffrey Williams.)
Astronaut, The (Penguin, 1960, Pocket, 1962.)
Humorous novel about a man fearful of heights who finds himself serving as an astronaut.
Big X, The (Harper, 1959, Heinemann, 1959, Dell, 1960, Four Square, 1961.)
A pilot joins the space program and agrees to test fly an experimental new rocket that could give the US the advantage in space.
Pentagon (Bernard Geis, 1971, Paperback Library, 1972.)
Marginal thriller about a plot within the Pentagon to undermine the civilian government of the US.
Pilgrim Project, The (McGraw Hill, 1964, Allen, 1965, Crest, 1965, Mayflower, 1966.)
Thriller about a secret space project. Filmed as Countdown.
Soundling (Ballantine, 1982.)
Not seen.
Under the Flag of the Cross (Clark, 1908.)
Future war novel.
SEDDON, ANDREW M.
Red Planet Rising (Crossway, 1995.)
A colony on Mars erupts in strife when a new leader decides to eliminate all Christians.
SEDGEWICK, S.N.
Last Persecution, The (Grant Richards, 1909.)
China conquers all of Europe.
SEDGWICK, MARCUS
Floodland (Dolphin, 1999, Delacorte, 2001, Dell Yearling, 2002.)
A youngster is trapped when most of England sinks. She escapes gangs and other dangers by sailing away in a stolen boat, then finds herself on another island with even more dangerous inhabitants.
There Will Never Be Another You (Random House, 2006.)
Marginal story about future terrorists.
SEE, N.
Keepers, The (Carlisle, 1998.)
Two divers discover a secret that takes them to Mongolia and a secret enclave of visitors from another planet.
SEESTERN
Armageddon 190- (Kegan, Paul, 1907.)
Future war between England and Germany.
Alien Dreams (Baen, 1998.)
Tom Jenkins #2.
A young boy has gotten his wish and become a member of the Space Guard, but even as he is attempting to adjust to his new life, it will change again with the arrival of an alien race.
Spacer Dreams (Baen, 1995.)
Tom Jenkins #1.
A foundling wishes to escape into space, but there doesn't seem to be any way for him to get there. Then space pirates attack, and he's instrumental in defeating them, as a consequence of which he is admitted into the Space Guard.
SEIDMAN, DAVID
Steel Terror (Pocket, ?)
A Marvel comics novel.
Iron Man and the Avengers are faced with a challenge from Ultron, an invincible super robot.
SELBY, CURT (Pseudonym of Doris Piserchia, whom see.)
I, Zombie (DAW, 1982.)
In the future, the recent dead can be partially revived, their bodies fitted with control devices that turn them into organic robots. Or so it seems. If no memory remains, however, why is someone determined to murder a woman who is already dead?
F.S.C. (Novel, 1963. Novel, 1964, as The Pleasure Mongers. Papillon, 1974, as Mr. Tomorrow.)
In a vanilla future world where everyone conforms to the rules, a robust and ribald man searching for sex upsets things.
Mr. Tomorrow (See F.S.C.)
Pleasure Mongers, The (See F.S.C.)
Red Rape! (Headline, 1960.)
After the Communists conquer America, a group of victimized women escape into the wilderness and plot revenge against the invaders.
SELLIER, CHARLES E. JR. (See also collaboration with Robert Weverka.)
SELLINGS, ARTHUR (Pseudonym of Robert Arthur Ley. See also Ray Luther.)
Junk Day (Dobson, 1970.)
An artist battles thugs in a post apocalyptic world.
Long Eureka, The (Dobson, 1968.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Power of X, The (Dobson, 1968, Berkley, 1970.)
Matter duplication has become a reality, although it is very expensive. Supposedly there is no difference between the original and the copy, until one art dealer discovers that he can sense the difference merely by touching the two versions.
Quy Effect, The (Dobson, 1966, Berkley, 1967.)
A scientist inadvertently discovers a power source so potentially deadly that he is universally reviled by a world fearful of what it will mean in a future war.
Silent Speakers. (See Telepath.)
Telepath (Ballantine, 1962. Dobson, 1963, Panther, 1965, as Silent Speakers.)
The protagonist discovers by accident that he has telepathic powers. Although he is initially frightened by the experience, he eventually decides to explore the possibilities.
Time Transfer and Other Stories (Joseph, 1956, Compact, 1966.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Uncensored Man, The (Dobson, 1964, Berkley, 1967.)
A scientist discovers that seemingly random strings of words from various sources are actually warnings being communicated to the world from an alternate dimension.
SELLWOOD, A.V.
Children of the Damned (Four Square, 1964, based on the screenplay by John Briley.)
The world is startled to discover that there are six children with such extraordinary intelligence that they appear to be more than human. Then people begin to fear that they are aliens, or a mutation that will wipe out its own race.
Prophecy (Ballantine, 1979.)
Concealed pollution from a paper mill has caused a number of animal forms in Maine to become mutated. A handful of people are chased across a section of wilderness by an oversized, mutated bear.
SEMPLE, LORENZO JR.
King Kong (Ace, 1977.)
This is the screenplay of the remake of the classic monster movie.
SENARENS, LUIS P. (see Macmillan sf book)
Born of Flame (Atheneum, 1982.)
Spacebread #2.
A feline alien tries to help a resident of a distant world escape his cruel master.
Double Disappearance of Walter Fozbek, The (Hastings House, 1980, Avon Camelot, 1983.)
Fozbek #1.
A youngster wakes up in the morning to discover he is the only human in a world of intelligent dinosaurs.
Loonie Louie Meets the Space Fungus (Avon Camelot, 1991.)
For younger readers.
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol (Avon Camelot, 1986.)
Fozbek #2.
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Spacebread (Atheneum, 1981.)
Spacebread #1.
An intelligent cat from another world becomes stranded on Earth.
SERLING, ROBERT J.
President's Plane Is Missing, The (Doubleday, 1967, Dell, 1968.)
Near future thriller about the disappearance of Air Force One during a crisis.
More Stories from the Twilight Zone (Bantam, 1961.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
New Stories from the Twilight Zone (Bantam, 1962, Corgi, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Stories from the Twilight Zone (Bantam, 1960, Corgi, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Argus Steps In (Black Moss, 1990, translated from the French by David Homel.)
Argus #2.
Further efforts by aliens to save humankind from itself.
Scorpion's Treasure, The (Black Moss, 1990, translated from the French by Frances Morgan.)
Sword of Arhapal, The (Black Moss, 1990, translated from the French by Frances Morgan.)
Those Who Watch Over Earth (Black Moss, 1990, translated from the French by David Homel.)
Argus #1.
Two humans are recruited by an alien organization seeking to prevent the human race from destroying itself.
SERPELL, CHRISTOPHER (See collaboration with Douglas Brown.)
SERVICE, PAMELA F.
Question of Destiny, A (Atheneum, 1986.)
The son of a presidential candidate discovers that one of his father's advisors is actually an alien anthropologist studying the human race.
Stinker from Space (Scribner, 1988, Juniper, 1989.)
Stinker #1.
An alien stranded on Earth temporarily occupies the body of a skunk. Befriended by some children, he finds is way back into space. For younger readers.
Stinker's Return (Scribner, 1993.)
Stinker #2.
An alien who looks like a skunk returns to Earth for some new adventures.
Under Alien Stars (Macmillan, 1990, Juniper, 1991.)
A human child of a collaborator and the alien child of one of the conquerors of Earth overcome their dislike of one another to become friends and set in motion a change in the way the two species interact.
Weirdos of the Universe Unite! (Atheneum, 1992.)
Teenagers with very strange powers encounter avatars who warn them of an alien invasion.
SERVISS, GARRETT P.
Columbus of Space, A (Dillingham, 1894, Appleton, 1911, Hyperion, 1974.)
An inventor builds a spaceship and travels to the planet Venus where he has trouble with the local queen.
Edison's Conquest of Mars (See Invasion of Mars.)
Invasion of Mars (Powell, 1969, abridged. Carcosa House, 1947, as Edison's Conquest of Mars. Magazine version 1898.)
A sequel to The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Humans recover following the death of the Martian invaders, and now they counterattack.
Moon Maiden, The (Fantasy Press, 1978.)
The inhabitants of the moon are secretly shaping human civilization.
Moon Metal, The (Harper, 1990.)
Not seen. A rare new metal found on the moon becomes incredibly valuable.
Second Deluge, The (Grant Richards, 1912, McBride Nast, 1912, Hyperion, 1974.)
A scientist discovers that the Earth is about to pass through a cloud of water which will drown all of the land, so he builds an enormous ark.
Brink, The (Arthur Fields, 1976, Pyramid, 1977.)
Marginal novel about a near nuclear war with China.
Reefsong (Del Rey, 1991.)
Following an accident, a woman is reconstructed so that she can breathe underwater. She is then assigned to a waterworld to find some lost records. Instead she discovers that the corporation which she works for is engaged in illegal exploitation of the colonists and its own employees.
Future Took Us, The (Bodley Head, 1957, Puffin, 1962.)
Two youngsters are kidnapped into the future.
Coming Self-Destruction of the United States of America, The (Souvenir, 1969, Zebra, 1971.)
A future history in which internal tensions within American society eventually lead to a break down of law and order and the collapse of the government.
Herald, The (McGraw Hill, 1981, Avon, 1984.)
A genetically engineered plague begins wiping out all but a chosen few people scattered throughout the world.
Soldier Boy (Pocket, 1982.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
SHADWELL, THOMAS (Group pseudonym for John Gregory Betancourt, Arthur Byron Cover, and Tim Sullivan)
Dinosaur Trackers, The (Harper, 1991.)
#4 in the multi-author Time Tours series.
Not seen.
SHAFER, ROBERT.
Conquered Place, The (Putnam, 1955. Popular Library, undated, as The Naked and the Damned.)
The United States has been defeated and occupied, religion outlawed, civil order disintegrated, and the moral order fading.
Naked and the Damned, The (See The Conquered Place.)
SHAFFER, EUGENE CARL (See also Gene Shaffer.)
Clones, The (Decade, 1980.)
A madman plans to use the science of cloning to achieve world domination.
Last Breath, The (Papillon, 1974. Decade, 1980, in slightly different form as Panic 7.)
A combination of ecological disasters and a new plague coincide with several other minor crises to set up what appears to be the end of the world.
Panic 7 (See The Last Breath.)
SHAFFER, GENE (See also Eugene Carl Shaffer.)
Countdown to Doomsday (Carousel, 1982.)
A satellite is launched into orbit by persons unknown, with a defensive system so advanced it cannot be stopped. It begins bathing the Earth with its secret ray, which renders women infertile.
SHAHAR, ELUKI BES (See also collaboration with Tom DeFalco. Also writes fantasy as Rosemary Edghill.)
Archangel Blues (DAW, 1993.)
Hellflower #3.
A smuggler and a fugitive provide the unlikely combination that will defeat a power hungry politician who is prepared to launch an interstellar war to further his agenda.
Darktraders (DAW, 1992.)
Hellflower #2.
An interstellar smuggler returns a young man to his home world, where they both face the violent politics of his people, the mystery of the whereabouts of their artificial intelligence ally, and the risk of being murdered by one of their many foes.
Hellflower (DAW, 1991.)
Hellflower #1.
A space pilot befriends a fugitive and finds that they have accumulated a large and determined group of enemies. Capture means discovery of the fact that she has an advanced artificial intelligence aboard her ship.
Smoke and Mirrors (Boulevard, 1997.)
A Marvel comics novel.
A plan to neutralize mutant powers appears to be part of a government program but is actually the result of a plot by a mysterious supervillain to eliminate the X-Men.
SHANKS, EDWARDS
People of the Ruins, The (Stokes, 1920, Collins, 1921.)
Civilization has given way to barbarism in the future when a time traveler arrives from the present.
SHANNON, FRED (See William S. Ruben.)
Devil's Passkey, The (Appleton Century Crofts, 1952, Signet, 1953.)
Marginal detective story about a missing scientific formula that provides the means for producing a new, inexpensive narcotic drug.
SHANNON, TERENCE
What Happened to the Indians (Shannon, 2000.)
Aliens attack Earth and lose.
It's Only Temporary (Permuted Press, 2005.)
When a meteor dooms the Earth, civilization collapses.
Mind Call (Major, 1978.)
Interstellar travel invariably causes crews to go insane, until one daring adventurer makes use of a radical and dangerous new device to overcome the difficulty.
Planet Without a Name (Major, 1976.)
Humans send a mission to an alien planet to negotiate friendly relations, but the envoys find themselves caught up in a war between surface dwellers and an amphibious race.
Time to Remember, A (Random House, 1986, Signet, 1988.)
A man whose brother died in Vietnam tries to prevent the war from happening by traveling back through time to prevent Oswald from assassinating Kennedy. Much to his surprise, changing the course of history turns out to be more complicated than expected.
SHAREE, KEITH
Gulliver's Fugitives (Pocket, 1990.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation novel.
On the track of a missing starship, the Enterprise finds a lost colony that has made all works of fiction the ultimate crime. The local authorities try to purge the ship of "contraband", and the crew gets caught between them and the rebels attempting to overthrow their tyranny.
Secret Martians, The (Ace, 1960, bound with Sanctuary in the Sky by John Brunner.)
The protagonist has an almost psychic ability to see the solution to myriad problems. He is recruited by the government to go to Mars to investigate the disappearance of a small group of people, but his arrival is the catalyst for a startling change.
Ultimatium in 2050 A.D. (Ace, 1965, bound with Our Man in Space by Bruce W. Ronald. Magazine title The Programmed People.)
In a highly overpopulated future, one man and one woman learn the truth about the hospitals sprinkled about the world. They don't cure people; they euthanize them to reduce the crowding.
Girl of Many Parts, A (Dell Laurel, 1988.)
A teenaged girl orders a duplicate herself from an intergalactic catalog. At first things go well, with the duplicate doing the things she dislikes or isn't good at, but eventually the copy decides to displace the original. For young adults.
Psyclone (Barclay, 2001.)
A scientist clones his dead twin brother and forgets to include a soul. The result – a monster that is eventually destroyed. Anti-scientific, anti-cloning nonsense.
SHATNER, WILLIAM (Actually a pseudonym used by a wide variety of writers. See notes below and collaborations which follow.)
Ashes of Eden, The (Pocket, 1995.)
A Star Trek novel.
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Avenger (Pocket, 1997.) (Garfield & Judith Reeves-Stevens)
A Star Trek novel.
Spock is investigating the death of his father, who may have been murdered, and Kirk has come out of hiding to help track down the cause of a mysterious plague that is spreading throughout the Federation.
Beyond the Stars (HarperPrism, 2000.)
Quest #4.
A man with the power to mentally restructure time tries to find a place for himself in a fluid universe.
Captain's Blood (Pocket, 2003.) (Garfield & Judith Reeves-Stevens)
A Star Trek novel.
Kirk and Picard investigate the apparent murder of Spock.
Captain's Glory (Pocket, 2006.) (Garfield & Judith Reeves-Stevens)
A Star Trek novel.
The Federation is faced with war against an alien race that has conquered galaxies.
Collision Course (Pocket, 2008.) (Garfield & Judith Reeves-Stevens.)
A Star Trek novel.
The adventures of young Kirk and Spock.
Dark Victory (Pocket, 1999.)
A Star Trek novel.
The alternate Kirk from the mirror universe where he is evil crosses into our timeline and hatches a plan of interuniversal conquest. Kirk teams up with Picard and his old crewmates to defeat the invasion.
Quest #2.
The protagonist just wants to be a citizen of the Confederation of stars, but he discovers that there is a dark secret wrapped around his birth and finds himself a fugitive.
In Alien Hands (Harper, 1997.) (William Quick.)
Quest #2.
A man with genetically enhanced superpowers must stand between the world he has vowed to defend and an alien fleet determined to destroy the planet.
Law of War, The (Ace, 2001.) (Probably Chris Henderson.)
War #2.
Things were just starting to look up for Mars under a new political leader when an old rivalry with a powerful Earthman threatens fresh chaos.
Man O' War (Putnam, 1996, Ace, 1997.) (Probably Chris Henderson.)
War #1.
A career diplomat is sent to Mars to negotiate an end to a strike by miners, but he discovers instead an unrest that could lead to an independence movement and interplanetary war.
Odyssey (Pocket, 1998.)
Omnibus of Avenger, The Return, and The Ashes of Eden.
Preserver (Pocket, 2000.) (Garfield & Judith Reeves-Stevens.)
A Star Trek novel.
In the alternate universe where an evil version of Kirk exists, the good one is seemingly overpowered by his variant self, but is actually preparing to transform the other reality.
Return, The (Pocket, 1997.)
A Star Trek novel.
Shadow Planet (Avon Eos, 2002.)
Quest #5.
A man with extraordinary mental powers has survived numerous dangers in the past. Now a space captain, he uncovers a plot to limit humanity's expansion into space.
Spectre (Pocket, 1998.) (Garfield & Judith Reeves-Stevens.)
A Star Trek novel.
Kirk and Picard are forced to act as a team when the Voyager appears to have returned to the known universe, though without half its crew.
Quest #3.
Two alien empires, fearful that the human race is about to make an evolutionary leap forward, secretly form an alliance and prepare for war.
Tek Kill (Ace, 1996.) (Ron Goulart)
Tek #8.
The detective protagonist must once again clear an innocent man, in this case his boss, who has been taped committing a murder even though he was not involved.
Teklab (Putnam, 1991, Ace, 1993.) (Ron Goulart.)
Tek #3.
An American detective travels to London to search for his missing son, and finds himself caught in yet another plot involving high tech crime.
Teklords (Ace, 1991.) (Ron Goulart)
Tek #2.
A tough detective takes on a case involving an artificial plague and android assassins.
Tek Money (Ace, 1995.) (Ron Goulart)
Tek #7.
Our detective hero must discover who murdered one of his old associates, because his son has been accused of the crime and has an inadequate alibi.
Tek Net (Ace, 1997.)
Tek #9
The protagonist agrees to help his partner when the latter's wife disappears under mysterious circumstances.
Tek Power (Ace, 1994.) (Ron Goulart)
Tek #6.
A big city detective uncovers a terrifying plot. Criminals using advanced computers have developed an android which they plan to substitute for the President of the US.
Tek Secret (Ace, 1993.) (Ron Goulart)
Tek #5.
A detective takes on what should be a relatively simple missing persons case, and travels from the city into the more rural part of future America. He discovers that high tech criminals have spread from the urban centers.
Tek Vengeance (Ace, 1993.) (Ron Goulart)
Tek #4.
When the protagonist's girlfriend is targeted by high tech criminals because of her plans to testify against them, a tough detective sets out on a mission of vengeance.
TekWar (Putnam, 1989, Ace, 1990.) (Ron Goulart)
Tek #1.
In a high technology future, war is waged secretly using computers, virtual reality, and other devices generally hidden from public view.
Captain’s Glory (Pocket, 2006.)
A Star Trek novel.
Kirk must deal with another alien presence.
Captain's Peril, The (Pocket, 2002.)
A Star Trek novel.
While vacationing on Bajor, Kirk and Picard find themselves being stalked by a murderer.
Collision Course (Pocket, 2007.)
A Star Trek novel.
A young Kirk gets into trouble with the law.
SHAVER, RICHARD
I Remember Lemuria and the Return of Sathanas (Venture, 1948.)
Collection of the two stories.
SHAW, BOB
Collection of unrelated stories.
Between Two Worlds (?, 1986.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Ceres Solution, The (Gollancz, 1982, DAW, 1984.)
A race of humanlike aliens with much greater lifespans has come to Earth and is living secretly among us, observing. Then the asteroid Ceres moves inexplicably out of orbit, and the secret can no longer be kept.
Cosmic Kaleidoscope (Gollancz, 1976, Doubleday, 1977, Dell, 1979, Pan, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dagger of the Mind (Gollancz, 1979, Pan, 1981, Ace, 1982.)
A man participating in a series of experiments in telepathy begins to experience strange visions and finds his grip on reality fading.
Dark Night in Toyland (Gollancz, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dimensions (See Warren Peace.)
Fire Pattern (Gollancz, 1984, Grafton, 1985, DAW, 1986.)
A reporter reluctantly sets out to cover a story of spontaneous human combustion, even though he believes it to be a hoax. Instead his investigation reveals evidence that it is actually the manifestation of alien intervention on Earth, preparatory to an invasion.
Fugitive Worlds, The (Gollancz, 1990, Baen, 1990.)
Overland #3.
A mysterious crystal disk is growing between two worlds that share a common atmosphere, threatening the civilization that spans them both.
Galactic Tours (Proteus, 1981.)
Not seen.
Ground Zero Man (Avon, 1971, Corgi, 1976. Gollancz, 1985, Panther, 1985, revised as The Peace Machine.)
An unprepossessing man invents a device which could literally destroy the world. Agents of various world governments pursue him, some to kill him, others to acquire the knowledge for themselves.
Killer Planet (Gollancz, 1989.)
Not seen. For younger readers.
Medusa's Children (Doubleday, 1977, Gollancz, 1977, Dell, 1980, Pan, ?)
A series of adventures inside a strange planetoid that is actually liquid.
Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle (NESFA, 1986, bound with Between Two Worlds by Terry Carr, which is not SF.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Night Walk (Banner, 1967, Avon, 1970, New English Library, 1970, Dell, 1979.)
A man who possesses uncomfortable secrets about a government agency is blinded and exiled to a swamp world. There he develops a psi power, the ability to see through the eyes of others, which enables him to escape and exact retribution.
One Million Tomorrows (Ace, 1970, gollancz, 1971.)
Immortality has been achieved, but those who take the drug are no longer fertile. The protagonist is the first to try a new treatment that may get around the problem, but he finds his life threatened by mysterious figures prepared to murder him rather than let the experiment proceed.
Orbitsville (Gollancz, 1975, Ace, 1977, Pan, ?.)
Orbitsville #1.
Space explorers discover an enormous artificial world, in the interior of which is a habitable land. Is it safe to colonize, and who or what built it in the first place? And for what purpose? It encloses its own sun and has a land area more than a billion times that of Earth.
Orbitsville Departure (Orbit, 1983, Gollancz, 1983, Ace, 1985.)
Orbitsville #2.
A man determined to gain vengeance travels to a gigantic artificial world in search of his enemy, and discovers some of the truth about the origin of that structure.
Orbitsville Judgment (Gollancz, 1990.)
Orbitsville #3.
Not seen.
Other Days, Other Eyes (Ace, 1972, Gollancz, 1972, Pan, ?)
A novel about the discovery of slow glass, a form of glass through which light passes so slowly that it can be used to record scenes secretly, leading to blackmail and other maneuvering.
Palace of Eternity, The (Ace, 1969, Gollancz, 1970.)
A war between humans and an alien race is turning against Earth. Desperately, they move military headquarters to a remote planet that has been spared the trouble of war in the past, and involve a retired military officer in the final battle.
Peace Machine, The (See Ground Zero Man.)
Ragged Astronauts, The (Gollancz, 1986, Baen, 1988.)
Overland #1.
Two planets are so close that they share a common atmosphere. When a deadly alien species endangers the human inhabitants of one world, they decide to migrate using balloons to the other planet.
Shadow of Heaven (Avon, 1969, New English Library, 1970, Corgi, 1978, Gollancz, 1991.)
An orbiting habitat is supposedly managed by robots with no human occupants. A visitor discovers that it has a hidden human population, descended into savagery, but possessing a weapon that can menace the entire Earth.
Ship of Strangers (Gollancz, 1978, Ace, 1979, Pan, ?)
Episodic adventure of space explorers encountering bizarre lifeforms on different worlds, originally published as separate stories.
Terminal Velocity (See Vertigo.)
Tomorrow Lies in Ambush (Gollancz, 1973, Ace, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Two-Timers, The (Ace, 1968, Gollancz, 1969, Pan, ?)
A perfectly ordinary man is confronted by his apparent doppelganger, a man who claims that he is the original and that he wants his life back.
Vertigo (Gollancz, 1978, Ace, 1979, Pan, ? Gollancz, 1981, revised as Terminal Velocity.)
An astronaut has been unable to resume his career after an attack nearly killed him and left him mentally scarred. Now he must overcome his fears in order to thwart a sinister group plotting against the government.
Warren Peace (Gollancz, 1993. Gollancz, 1994, as Dimensions.)
Not seen.
Who Goes Here? (Gollancz, 1977, Ace, 1978, Pan, ?)
A humorous look at the interplanetary version of the French Foreign Legion. A member of an interstellar exploratory group suffers from amnesia and must search for his own past while avoiding being killed by a variety of creatures from other worlds.
Wooden Spaceships, The (Gollancz, 1988, Baen, 1988, Futura, 1989.)
Overland #2.
Interplanetary war breaks out between two planets so close to one another that they share the same atmosphere.
Wreath of Stars, A (Doubleday, 1976, Gollancz, 1976, Dell, 1978, Pan, ?.)
A phantom planet from an alternate universe passes through the solar system. Most people forget about it after it's gone, but the protagonist doesn't have that luxury. He has seen strange creatures hiding below ground and realizes that something has crossed between worlds.
SHAW, BRIAN (House pseudonym.)
Argentis (Curtis Warren, 1952. ) (E.C. Tubb.)
Various parties contend for control of an ancient alien ship.
Lost World (Curtis Warren, 1953.) (Brian Holloway.)
An attempt to split the world in two so that rival philosophies can exist separately.
Ships of Vero (Curtis Warren, 1952.) (David O'Brien.)
The sun goes out, threatening the entire universe in this scientifically illiterate adventure.
Z Formations (Curtis Warren, 1953.) (John Russell Fearn.)
The discovery of a stranded UFO leads a group of people on a journey to the stars.
SHAW, BRYAN (Pseudonym of John Russell Fearn, whom see.)
Z Formations (Curtis, 1953.)
A flying saucer conveys several people to an adventure filled planet in another star system.
SHAW, DAVID (Pseudonym of David Griffiths. See also King Lang and Gil Hunt.)
Laboratory X (Curtis Warren, 1950.)
First contact with an alien race that is a distorted mirror image of humanity.
Planet Federation, Curtis Warren, 1950.
Ugly aliens have conquered Earth, but the resistance eventually overthrows them.
Space Men, Curtis Warren, 1951.
A group of renegades are brought to justice.
SHAW, FREDERICK L. JR.
Envoy to the Dog Star (Ace, 1969, bound with Shock Wave by Walt & Leigh Richmond.)
Scientists breed a dog as intelligent as a human being and use it as the pilot for the first interstellar flight. Unfortunately for them, they didn't predict that the dog would have ideas of his own upon arriving.
Astrosex (Midwood, 1970.)
Pornography about sex in space.
Attack of the Baby Godzillas (Scholastic, 1998, based on the screenplay by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.)
Young readers' adaptation of part of the Godzilla movie.
SHAW, SARAH
Saturn's Children (In Star Trek Mirror Universe, Pocket, 2007.)
A Star Trek Deep Space Nine novel.
Kira struggles to save her people in an alternate universe where the Federation has fallen.
SHAW, W.J.
Cresten, Queen of the Toltus. (See Under the Auroras.)
Under the Auroras (Excelsior, 1888. Reprinted in 1892 as Cresten, Queen of the Toltus.)
Adventures underground.
SHAWN, FRANK S. (Pseudonym of Ron Goulart, whom see.)
Enchanted Diamond, The (?, 1894.)
A lost race novel.
Wonderful Electric Man, The (?, 1899.)
Euthanasia is used to control the growth of the population.
ESP McGee to the Rescue (Avon Camelot, 1984.)
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SHEA, MICHAEL (Also writes Fantasy.)
Extra, The (Tor, 2010.)
In the near future, Hollywood's monster films are designed to actually kill some of the actors.
Tomorrow's Men (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982.)
A future England is split up among various military factions.
Eye in the Pyramid, The (Dell, 1975, Sphere, 1976.)
Illuminatus #1.
Opening volume of a wild trilogy about the various secret societies that live hidden within our own society, possessing arcane knowledge, secretly manipulating the world.
Golden Apple, The (Dell, 1975, Sphere, 1976.)
Illuminatus #2.
A detective gathers information indicating a secret worldwide conspiracy that plans to release a new plague to decimate the population.
Illuminatis Trilogy, The (Dell, 1984.)
Omnibus of the trilogy.
Leviathan (Dell, 1975, Sphere, 1976.)
Illuminatus #3.
A policeman discovers that the Mafia is actually controlled by an ageless, worldwide conspiracy to control human destiny.
Cloning (Walker, 1972, Pinnacle, 1974.)
A man subject to strange dreams and an illogical aversion to androids discovers that he is a clone.
SHECKLEY, ROBERT (See also collaboration with Harry Harrison.)
Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton, The (See Crompton Divided.)
Alien Harvest (Bantam, 1995.)
An Aliens novel.
A dying entrepreneur and a professional thief team up to launch an illegal expedition to steal a substance a rival corporation is harvesting from the bodies of aliens. With a rebellious crew, they arrive on a remote planet and begin their operation, assisted by a robot simulacrum of the aliens, but treachery threatens to kill them all.
Alien Starswarm (Dime, 1990.)
Short story published as a pamphlet.
Call to Arms, A (Del Rey, 1999, from the script by J. Michael Straczynski.)
A Babylon 5 novel.
Although the Shadows are gone, one of their allied races has found a working planet buster and is determined to destroy Earth. Sheridan and an alien thief team up to thwart them, although Earth is nonetheless contaminated with a biological weapon.
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (Doubleday, 1971, Gollancz, 1972, DAW, 1974. Pan, 1974, as The Same to You Doubled.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Citizen in Space (Ballantine, 1955, New English Library, 1969, Ace, 1978.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Collected Short Fiction Volume 1 (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Collected Short Fiction Volume 2 (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Collected Short Fiction Volume 3 (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Collected Short Fiction Volume 4 (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Collected Short Fiction Volume 5 (Pulphouse, 1991.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Crompton Divided (Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1978, Bantam, 1979. Joseph, 1978, as The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton.)
A man with multiple personalities is split into three, each with its own body, each dispatched to a different planet to make a life. Having grown to maturity, one of the three personas now decides to reunite himself with his alternate selves.
Dimension of Miracles (Dell, 1968, Gollancz, 1969, Ace, 1979.)
Humorous story about a man who wins an intergalactic prize, but in the process loses track of which of many alternative Earths is actually his home world.
Dimensions of Sheckley (NESFA, 2002.)
Omnibus of Immortality Inc., Journey Beyond Tomorrow, Mindswap, Minotaur Maze, and Dimension of Miracles.
Dramocles (Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1983, New English Library, 1984.)
A planetary ruler who believes he has a greater destiny sets out with good intentions and ends up starting an interstellar war and causing other problems.
Hunter/Victim (Signet, 1988, Methuen, 1988.)
Hunt #3.
In a future where it is legal to hunt others, a man whose wife died in a terrorist attack agrees to engage in a hunt with an arms dealer as his target.
Immortality Delivered (See Immortality, Inc.)
Immortality, Inc. (Avalon, 1958, as Immortality Delivered. Bantam, 1959, Gollancz, 1963, Ace, 1978. Magazine title The Time Killers.)
Filmed as Freejack. A century from now, immortality is a fact of life, but sinister forces make use of the procedure to hijack bodies.
Is That What People Do? (Holt Rinehart, 1984.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Journey Beyond Tomorrow (Gollancz, 1962, Signet, 1962, Corgi, 1966, Dell, 1969. Sphere, 1978, Ace, 1979, under the title The Journey of Joenes. Magazine title Journey of Joenes.)
Satiric novel set in the future when superstition has replaced knowledge. A young man goes on a voyage of discovery through a bizarre version of our world.
Laertian Gamble, The (Pocket, 1995.)
A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel.
Dr. Bashir agrees to gamble in Quark's place as the agent of a Laertian visitor, unaware of the fact that she has mastered a theoretical science that alters the rules of chance in her favor. When he tries to back out, an armed ship arrives to force the play to continue, even at the cost of the entire station.
Masque of Manana, The (NESFA, 2005.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Mindswap (Delacorte, 1966, Gollancz, 1966, Dell, 1967, Mayflower, 1968, Orb, 2006.)
A man's personality is switched into a different body.
Notions: Unlimited (Bantam, 1960.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Options (Pyramid, 1975, Pan, 1977.)
Spoof of SF adventures involving a man whose spaceship is disabled. Stranded on a bizarre alien planet, he sets off on a trek to an outpost where he can find repair parts.
People Trap, The (Dell, 1968, Gollancz, 1969.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
People Trap, The and Mindswap (Ace, 1988.)
Omnibus of the two titles.
Pilgrimage to Earth (Bantam, 1957, Corgi, 1959.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Robert Sheckley Omnibus, The (Gollancz, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Robot Who Looked Like Me, The (Sphere, 1978, Bantam, 1982.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Same to You Doubled, The (See Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?)
Shards of Space (Bantam, 1962, Corgi, 1962.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Status Civilization, The (Signet, 1960, New English Library, 1967, Dell, 1968. Magazine title Omega.)
A man who sins against the repressive society of Earth is exiled to a prison planet where he discovers an entire culture dedicated to the glorification of "evil".
Status Civilization and Notions: Unlimited, The (Ace, 1979.)
Omnibus of the two books.
Store of Infinity (Bantam, 1960.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
10th Victim, The (Ballantine, 1965, Mayflower, 1966. Novelization partially of the screenplay by Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Ennio Flalano, and Elio Petri, based on an original short story by Sheckley.)
Hunt #1.
As a way of blowing off steam, the governments of the world have legalized murder within the context of legal human hunts under license.
Uncanny Tales (Five Star, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Untouched by Human Hands (Ballantine, 1954, Cassell, 1955.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Victim Prime (Signet, 1987, Methuen, 1987.)
Hunt #2.
A group of people travel to a remote island to escape the dissolution of Earth's ecology and make a fortune for themselves by surviving a series of organized human hunts.
Watchbird (Pulphouse, 1990.)
Not seen.
Wonderful World of Robert Sheckley, The (Bantam, 1979, Sphere, 1980.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
SHEDLEY, ETHAN I. (Pseudonym of Boris Beiser.)
Earth Ship & Starsong (Viking, 1979, Popular Library, 1981.)
Mishmash in which Earth is dying because of pollution. An effort to find another world creates a black hole that wipes out entire alien races and makes the human race the scourge of the galaxy.
Abyss of Wonders, The (Polaris, 1953.)
A lost race novel.
One Gift, The (Fantasy House, 1974.)
Short story in pamphlet form.
SHEERS, OWEN
Resistance (Doubleday, 2008.)
A resistance movement fights the German occupation of England during World War II.
SHEFFIELD, CHARLES (See also collaboration which follows.)
Aftermath (Bantam, 1998.)
Supernova #1.
The supernova of Alpha Centauri destroys the ecology of Earth, shatters civilization, and sets various groups of survivors on disparate missions.
Amazing Dr. Darwin, The (Baen, 2002.)
Collection of related stories about the adventures of Charles Darwin's father.
Between the Strokes of Night (Baen, 1985, Headline, 1987. Baen, 2002, expanded.)
Following a nuclear war, Earth is abandoned. Survivors elsewhere in the solar system eventually colonize the stars. Then visitors arrive from earth, immortal, prepared to transform their cousins, and help face a threat to the entire species.
Billion Dollar Boy, The (Tor, 1997, Starscape, 2003.)
A spoiled rich kid is erroneously sent to a mining world where he learns much about life before being rescued.
Brother to Dragons (Easton, 1992, Baen, 1992.)
One determined man eventually manages to save the day when sentient machines threaten to overwhelm all living creatures.
Cold As Ice (Tor, 1992.)
Solar War #1.
In the aftermath of a devastating war that ravaged much of the solar system, an attempt to found a new colony on Europa causes political tensions and a threat of renewed conflict.
Compleat McAndrew, The (Baen, 2000.)
Collection of related stories about an inventor.
Convergence (?, 1997.)
Not seen.
Convergent Series (Baen, 1998.)
Omnibus of Summertide and Divergence.
Cyborg from Earth, The (Tor, 1998, Starscape, 2003.)
A teenager who washed out of the space program is nevertheless picked for a dangerous mission in outer space.
Dancing with Myself (Baen, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dark As Day (Tor, 2002.)
Solar War #3.
In the aftermath of a war that nearly destroyed the human race, individuals on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system struggle to shape human destiny, and discover the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Divergence (Del Rey, 1991, Easton, 1991, Gollancz, 1991.)
Heritage Universe #2.
While exploring the supposedly abandoned structures of an alien culture on a far world, a group of people discover a series of traps and tests.
Ganymede Club, The (Tor, 1995.)
Solar War #2.
A woman flees to the moons of Jupiter to find a new life when a savage war devastates many of the human colonies scattered throughout the solar system.
Georgia on My Mind and Other Places (Tor, 1995.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Godspeed (Tor, 1993.)
A space colony becomes isolated from Earth. With limited spaceflight, they are hard put to deal with space pirates, to say nothing of the local climate.
Heritage Universe, The (Guild America, 1992.)
Omnibus.
Hidden Variables (Ace, 1981.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Lady Vanishes and Other Oddities of Nature, The (Five Star, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
McAndrew Chronicles, The (Tor, 1983. Tor, 1993, expanded as One Man's Universe.)
Collection of related stories about an inventor.
Mind Pool, The (See Brother to Dragons.)
My Brother's Keeper (Ace, 1982, Baen, 2000.)
After a plane crash, a man has bits of his brother's brain implanted in his skull. Then he begins experiencing memories that aren't his, and eventually sets out to complete a mission his brother had been secretly involved with.
Nimrod Hunt, The (Baen, 1986, Headline, 1988. Baen, 1993, expanded as The Mind Pool)
An exciting chase through the stars.
One Man's Universe (See The McAndrew Chronicles.)
Proteus Combined (Baen, 1994. Guild America, 1989, as Proteus Manifest.)
Omnibus of Proteus Unbound and Sight of Proteus.
Proteus in the Underworld (Baen, 1995.)
Proteus #3.
Bizarre and vicious new lifeforms are appearing throughout the solar system. If these creatures have evolved from human tissues, now able to reshape themselves at will, then the law prohibits their destruction.
Proteus Manifest. (See Proteus Combined.)
Proteus Unbound (Ace, 1989, New English Library, 1989.)
Proteus #2.
As humanity expands into the universe, it makes use of a technology that allows bodies to be reshaped. But then the outer colonies begin to experience inexplicable technological failures, and one man from Earth must investigate.
Putting up Roots (Tor, 1997, Starscape, 2003.)
Two teenagers are sent to a distant colony world where they are the first to contact an indigenous intelligent lifeform whose existence was not previously suspected.
Resurgence (Baen, 2002.)
Heritage Universe #5.
A group of individuals are called upon to investigate a mysteriously cold body in space, evidence that artificial intelligences are still active in the universe.
Sight of Proteus (Ace, 1978, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980.)
Proteus #1.
Technology advances so greatly that humanity now has control over their very bodies, with the ability to alter them to any reasonable shape desired. An unauthorized experiment leads to a journey into space, and an encounter with other intelligences.
Spheres of Heaven, The (Baen, 2001.)
A race of pacifist aliens quarantines the planet Earth. As the human military discovers a way to break the quarantine, some mysterious force elsewhere in the galaxy begins stealing entire starships.
Starfire (Bantam, 1999.)
Supernova #2.
Efforts are being made to build a shield in space to protect what remains of civilization from a storm of particles from the supernova of Alpha Centauri. But someone is murdering key people to hold up the operation.
Summertide (Del Rey, 1990, Gollancz, 1990.)
Heritage Universe #1.
Scientists and others flock to an unstable star system where the local planet is about to undergo a very rare change. The scientists hope to discover the truth about the aliens who left structures on that world, and the others have varied motives of their own.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Bantam, 1997.)
A man puts himself into suspended animation, but something goes wrong and when he is finally revived, the world has changed irrevocably.
Trader's World (Del Rey, 1988, New English Library, 1989.)
In the aftermath of a world war, an organization known as the Traders emerges to negotiate settlements among the surviving political entities. One of their agents is grateful for his new career, until he discovers that the Traders have a secret agenda of their own.
Transcendence (Del Rey, 1992, Gollancz, 1992.)
Heritage Universe #3.
Exploration of an alien artifact results in the release of malevolent aliens who have been in suspended animation for countless years. Now they are at large in the universe, and threatening to bring back the reign of terror they inflicted before humans even existed.
Transvergence (Baen, 1999.)
Omnibus of Transcendance and Convergence.
Vectors (Ace, 1979.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Web Between the Worlds, The (Ace, 1979, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980, Del Rey, 1988. Baen, 2001 is revised.)
The story of the construction of the first Skyhook, literally a physical structure that connects the surface of the Earth to an orbiting habitat.
Higher Education (Tor, 1996.)
A teenager is thrown out of school and reluctantly accepts a job as an asteroid miner. There he quickly matures, finds his true calling, and solves a murder in the process.
Unman/Kovrigin's Chronicles, The (Macmillan, 1980, Collier, 1981, translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis, Alice Stone Nakhimovsky, and Alexander Nakhimovsky.)
Two unrelated short novels.
SHELDON, LEE (Pseudonym of Wayne Cyril Lee.)
Doomed Planet (Avalon, 1967.)
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SHELDON, ROY (House pseudonym.)
Atoms in Action (Hamilton, 1953.) (H.J. Campbell.)
Shiny Spear #6.
Adventures in another star system.
Beam of Terror (Hamilton, 1951.) (H.J. Campbell.)
Shiny Spear #3.
Mind control traps astronauts among the moons of Saturn.
Energy Alive (Hamilton, 1951.) (H.J. Campbell.)
Shiny Spear #2.
An expedition to the heart of the galaxy encounters a creature made of energy.
Gold Men of Aureus (Hamilton, 1951.)
Space travelers find a hidden race of hostile golden men on Mars.
House of Entropy (Hamilton, 1953.) (H.J. Campbell.)
Shiny Spear #7.
On a far world, a single entity with immense mental powers controls the entire population.
Mammoth Man (Hamilton, 1952.) (H.J. Campbell.)
Prehistory #1.
A caveman survives as the mammoths go crazy.
Menacing Sleep, The (Hamilton, 1952.) (H.J. Campbell.)
A detective has to uncover the source of a subtle and insidious attack against the population of Earth.
Metal Eater, The (Hamilton, 1954.) (E.C. Tubb.)
A mysterious mental power prevents people from exploiting a mysterious planet.
Moment Out of Time (Hamilton, 1952.) (H.J. Campbell.)
A group of time travelers are marooned in the Jurassic age.
Phantom Moon (Hamilton, 1951.) (H.J. Campbell.)
Shiny Spear #1.
A space crew gets caught between two warring races among the moons of Saturn.
Plastic Peril, The (Hamilton, 1952.) (H.J. Campbell.)
Shiny Spear #4.
Explorers on a distant world encounter bizarre life forms.
Space Warp (Hamilton, 1952.)
Aliens from another dimension enter our world in the jungles of Brazil.
Star of Death (Hamilton, 1952.) (H.J. Campbell.)
Shiny Spear #5.
Journey to a planet dominated by intelligent dinosaurs.
Two Days of Terror (Hamilton, 1952.) (H.J. Campbell.)
Prehistory #2.
Adventure in the days of the mammoths.
Beast, The (Gold Medal, 1980.)
The search for an abominable snowman takes a strange turn when the creature is revealed to be intelligent and crafty.
SHELLEY, MARY
Last Man, The (Colbourn, 1826, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833, Grey Walls, 1954, Bison, 1965, University of Nebraska, 1965, Hogarth, 1985, Bison, 2005.).
A plague wipes out most of the population of Europe.
Buchanan Campaign, The (Ace, 1995.)
Second Commonwealth #1.
A fiercely independent planet prepares conventional and guerilla style resistance when a large space power lands troops and attempts to take control.
Captain (Ace, 1999.)
Dirigent Mercenary Corps #3
A mercenary officer finally finds the woman he intends to marry, but then is shipped out to help suppress a civil war on a distant world. Unfortunately, he discovers that his briefing concealed the truth about what is happening on that planet.
Colonel (Ace, 2000.)
Dirigent Mercenary Corps #6.
A nonconforming military officer gets involved with the protection of a research oriented planet in the face of an invasion.
Deep Strike (Ace, 2002.)
Spec Ops Squad #2.
An integrated human/alien military force is sent to invade a hostile world.
Fires of Coventry, The (Ace, 1996.)
Second Commonwealth #2.
Another planet seeks to regain its freedom by defeating and driving away invaders from another star system.
Holding the Line (Ace, 2001.)
Spec Ops Squad #1.
The protagonist is given the job of forging an effective fighting unit out of a disparate group of alien volunteers, some of whom hate each other.
Jump Pay (Ace, 1995.)
13th Spaceborne #3.
The lesser of two warring powers launches a pre-emptive strike against a planet where supplies are being stockpiled in anticipation of a major invasion.
Lieutenant (Ace, 1998.)
Dirigent Mercenary Corps #2.
A young officer in a mercenary group learns the requirements and burdens of leadership when he leads troops into combat for the first time.
Lieutenant Colonel (Ace, 2000.)
Dirigent Mercenary Corps #5.
A crack military unit is sent to protect a mining planet from aggression.
Major (Ace, 1999.)
Dirigent Mercenary Corps #4.
A mercenary group is on a training mission on a backwater planet when a mysterious enemy attacks the planet. The officer in charge must use relatively inexperienced troops to defend the local population.
Officer Cadet (Ace, 1998.)
Dirigent Mercenary Corps #1.
A young officer candidate is expelled from training unfairly. Determined to prove his worth, he joins a mercenary group and has his first taste of real interplanetary combat.
Return to Camerein (Ace, 1998.)
Second Commonwealth #3.
The end of a major interstellar war seems to be approaching, but the fate of a sparsely populated resort world leads to the final battle.
Side Show (Ace, 1994.)
13th Spaceborne #2.
A top secret scientific group has been captured when the Hegemony annexed one of the free worlds. A small but finely tuned military group is sent to rescue the scientists from behind enemy lines.
Sucker Punch (Ace, 2003.)
Spec Ops #3.
A battered military unit is stationed on what should be a relatively peaceful world that is preparing disparate aliens to fight together, but things are never as simple as they are meant to be.
Until Relieved (Ace, 1994.)
13th Spaceborne #1.
Two rival empires are battling for control of the galaxy, and the Accord of Free Worlds musters its own forces to maintain its neutrality. Then one of the major powers starts attacking independent worlds, and a small military group must hold them at bay until reinforcements can arrive.
Chasing the Cosmic Wind (Sterling House, 1998.)
Aliens crash into the Pacific ocean and take control of human bodies, although they are not malevolent in nature. One communicates with his host, breaking a rule of his species.
SHELTON, WILLIAM R.
Stowaway to the Moon (Doubleday, 1973.)
Not seen.