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Alliance, The (Lionhearted, 1999.
Romance set on a distant world.
True Blood (Tor, 2006.)
True #1.
Two people investigating the destruction of a spaceship uncover a plot and fall in love.
True Deception (Tor, 2007.)
True #2.
A man and a woman battle space pirates.
Unknown World, The (See The World of Theda.)
World of Theda, The (Digit, 1962. Ewington, 1973, as The Unknown World.)
A small number of humans discover that aliens have landed on Earth and have been abducting humans.
Planet Named Terra, A (Digit, 1962.)
Space explorers discover a mirror world of Earth.
United Planets, The (Digit, 1962, Arcadia, 1967.)
A space voyage runs into trouble when it stumbles into an alien civilization.
Overmind (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1967.)
Aliens from another dimension.
My Side by King Kong (Philips Park Press, 1976, Collier, 1976, Star, 1977.)
The story of King Kong, as told from the point of view of the ape.
Tunnel (Forge, 2000.)
Marginal thriller about terrorists who put a missile in the Lincoln Tunnel and demand ransom.
Viper Three (MacMillan, 1971, Pocket, 1972.)
A group of escaped prisoners gain control of a nuclear missile and demand the President as their hostage.
WAGGONER, TIM
Hyperswarm (Ibooks, 2004.)
Based on the Defender arcade game. War threatens to break out among various human colony worlds.
WAGNER, KARL EDWARD (See collaboration with David Drake.)
WAHL, JAN
Furious Flycycle, The (Delacorte, 1968, Dell Yearling, 1973.)
Melvin #1.
A child inventor creates a flying bicycle in order to rescue his aunt and uncle.
SOS Bobomobile! (Delacorte, 1973, Dell Yearling, 1978.)
Melvin #2.
The boy genius creates a submersible device and searches for the Loch Ness monster.
Murder on the Thirty-First Floor (See The Thirty-First Floor.)
Steel Spring, The (Joseph, 1970, translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate.)
A plague sweeps across Sweden.
Thirty- First Floor, The (Knopf, 1967, Bantam, 1971, translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate. Michael Joseph, 1967, as Murder on the 31st Floor.)
A police officer in a repressive future welfare state investigates a bombing and ends up becoming a criminal himself.
Divided, The (Del Rey, 1999.)
On a war torn planet, a woman rises to the highest ranks in the military, but gains the enmity of jealous rivals as well as her actual enemies.
Merro Tree, The (Del Rey, 1997.)
A performer is outraged when his artform is proscribed throughout the galaxy. He disobeys the new law, is tried, and eventually escapes.
WAJENBERG, EARL (See collaborationswith Clayton Emery.)
Audience for Einstein, An (Mundania, 2005.)
A novel speculating about the effect of human cloning on society.
Beyond the 13th Sun (Carousel, 1981.)
A princess uses her ability to control the minds of others in her plot to seize control of a galactic empire.
WALDROP, HOWARD (See also collaboration with Jake Saunders.)
All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past (See Strange Monsters of the Recent Past: Neat Stories.)
Better World's in Birth, A (Golden Gryphon, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (Golden Gryphon, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Going Home Again (St Martins, 1997.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Howard Who? (Doubleday, 1986, Small Beer, ?.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Night of the Cooters (Ursus, 1990, Legend, 1991, Ace, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories. Legend edition includes A Dozen Tough Jobs, a short novel.
Strange Monsters of the Recent Past (Ziesing, 1991, Ace, 1991 Ursus, 1987, with slightly different contents as All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past: Neat Stories.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Strange Things in Closeup (Legend, 1989.)
Omnibus of Howard Who? and All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past.
Them Bones (Ace, 1984, Legend, 1989.)
A man travels back through time in an effort to stop World War III and finds himself in an alternate history where Christianity and the Roman Empire never existed.
You Could Go Home Again (Cheap Street, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
WALKER, J.B.
America Fallen! (Putnam, 1915.)
The European war spreads to North America.
Lord's Pink Ocean, The (Houghton Mifflin, 1972, DAW, 1973.)
Following a nuclear war, a small group of humans survive in a pocket of normality surrounded by mysterious clouds and creatures.
Winter of Madness (Houghton Mifflin, 1974, Pocket, 1975.)
Marginal spy story spoof involving some superscientific devices.
Inherit the Earth (Atheneum, 1981.)
A young girl with psi powers is improperly diagnosed as mentally deficient. When a scientist studying her tries to harm her, she escapes and makes a life for herself on her own.
America Fallen! (Dodd, Mead, 1915.)
Future war novel.
Date with Destiny, A (Cosmos, 1949.)
Marley #2.
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Mission Accomplished (Cosmos, 1947.)
Marley #1.
Spy story set in South America involving a disintegration ray.
Who Killed Utopia (Carlyle, 1980.)
In a future Utopian society where violence is unknown, a murder is committed and no one knows how to deal with it.
WALKER, ROBERT W.
Aftershock (St Martins, 1987.)
An earthquake sets free a mutated animal that resulted from military experiments, and the creature has a taste for human flesh.
Brain Watch (Leisure, 1985.)
Medical thriller about a man who experiments with mind control.
Search for the Nile (Bantam, 1986.)
Time Machine #12.
A multi-path gamebook.
Whiteout (Tor, 1996.)
In an overpopulated future where virtual reality is a fact of life, the nations of the world battle over the future of Antarctica.
WALKER, STEVE
22nd Century Blues (Hodder, 1996, Coronet, 1996.)
Wide ranging satire set in the future.
WALKHAM, WALTER (Pseudonym of James Ivory.)
When Earth Trembled (Hale, 1980.)
Not seen.
Infinite Jest (Little, Brown, 1996.)
Massive near future satire involving an addictive movie and changes to the way corporations interact.
Forty Years On (Collins, 1958.)
Life in England after a nuclear war.
WALLACE, EDGAR.
Day of Uniting, The (?, 1926.)
World disaster novel.
Door with Seven Locks, The (?, 1926.)
Marginal thriller about mind control.
Green Rust (Ward Lock, 1919, Small Maynard, 1920.)
A megalomaniac introduces a disease that will effect the world's food supply as part of his plan to dominate the Earth.
1925 (Newnes, 1915.)
A failed peace treaty leads to a new world war.
Planetoid 127 (Reader’s Library, 1929, Greenhill, 1986.)
A scientist communicates with Earth's twin world and discovers that the inhabitants of that world know our future.
Story of a Fatal Peace, The (?, 1915.)
Future war.
Address: Centauri (Gnome, 1955, Galaxy, 1958. Shorter magazine version published in 1952 as Accidental Flight.)
A group of misfit humans are chosen to be the first voyagers to the stars.
Worlds in Balance (Atlas, 1955.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Croyd (Berkley, 1967.)
Croyd #1.
A secret agent of the future has his personality transplanted into that of a female who lacks the unusual mental abilities that make him effective.
Deathstar Voyage (Berkley, 1969, Dobson, 1972.)
Claudine St Cyr #1.
The protagonist is assigned as a bodyguard to protect a planetary ruler on a starship voyage. The ship itself is untrustworthy, and there are assassins among the passengers and crew.
Dr. Orpheus (Berkley, 1968.)
Croyd #2.
A body switching super spy of the future confronts alien invaders and a new drug that threatens to enslave a large portion of the human population.
Heller's Leap (DAW, 1979.)
Croyd #5/Claudine St Cyr #3.
A police detective and a private investigator solve the mystery of a space traveler who was murdered under impossible circumstances after visiting a particularly mysterious star system.
Lucifer Comet, The (DAW, 1980.)
In the heart of a comet, humans discover two frozen beings, one apparently human, the other apparently Satan himself, or the creature upon which the legends are based.
Megalomania (DAW, 1989.)
Croyd #6.
A frustrated politician plots a cosmic event which will wipe out the entire galaxy.
Pan Sagittarius (Putnam, 1973, Berkley, 1974.)
An agent is sent to manipulate the mind of a single individual to see if by so doing he can alter the course of history.
Claudine St Cyr #2
A detective must find a missing heir and recover stolen gems on a far world.
Rape of the Sun, The (DAW, 1982.)
The human race is in imminent peril when a powerful alien being tries to steal the sun itself.
Sign of the Mute Medusa, The (Popular Library, 1977.)
Claudine St Cyr #4.
A police detective finds herself on a planet where pollution is killing everyone except the aristocracy who have protected themselves in a domed city.
Voyage to Dari, A (DAW, 1974.)
Croyd #3.
Aliens intent on dominating the galaxy sent agents to capture Croyd because his unique mental powers are a danger to their plans.
World Asunder, The (DAW, 1976, Dobson, 1978.)
An epic struggle through space and time for control of the destiny of the human race.
Z-Sting (DAW, 1978.)
Croyd #4.
A super spy comes out of retirement when a device that isolates belligerent powers begins to fail.
Man, The (Simon & Schuster, 1964, Cassell, 1965, Crest, 1965.)
Marginal near future political thriller about the first Black US President.
Pigeon Project, The (Simon & Schuster, 1979.)
A scientist discovers a method of doubling the human lifespan and battles ensue over control of the process.
R Document, The (Simon & Schuster, 1976, Bantam, 1977, Forge, 2006.)
Near future political thriller.
WALLACE, JAMES (See also Geoffrey John Barrett, Edward Leighton, and Dennis Summers.)
Guardian of Krandor, The (?, 1976.)
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Man from Tomorrow, A (?, 1976.)
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Plague of the Golden Rat (?, 1976.)
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Next War: A Prediction, The (Martyn, 1892.)
Racial tensions result in a major new war.
Fear Itself (BBC, 2005.)
A Doctor Who book.
The Doctor prevents humans from getting involved in their first interstellar war.
WALLER, ROBERT
Shadow of Authority (Jonathan Cape, 1956.)
Satire in which all publishing is controlled by a single authority.
No One Goes There Now (Doubleday, 1971.)
An alien race announces its opposition to human violence.
World I Left Behind Me, The (St Martins, 1979.)
Human discovery of a working faster than light stardrive attracts the attention of aliens, both friendly and unfriendly.
Only Lovers Left Alive (Dutton, 1964, Blond, 1964, Bantam, 1965, Pan, 1966.)
All the adults in the world commit mass suicide, and the teenagers and children descend into barbarism when they take over.
WALLIS, GEORGE C. (See also Royston Heath.)
Call of Peter Gaskell, The (World’s Work, 1947.)
A lost world novel.
Legend of Lost Earth (Ace, 1963, bound with Alpha Centauri or Die! By Leigh Brackett. Revised, Four Winds, 1977, as by Hope Campbell.)
A space traveler spends his life searching for the possibly mythical planet Earth.
Light of Lilith, The (Ace, 1961, bound with The Sun Saboteurs by Damon Knight.)
On a mysterious planet, it is possible under the right conditions to see into the future.
Mills of Space, The (Purnell, 1989.)
Angulum #2.
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Starbloom (Purnell, 1989.)
Angulum #1.
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WALLOP, DOUGLAS
What Has Four Wheels and Flies (Norton, 1959, Davies, 1959.)
Satire about a future in which dogs are taught how to drive.
WALSH, JAMES MORGAN
Vandals of the Void (Hamilton, 1931, Hyperion, 1976.)
Militants from the planet Mercury threaten the security of the solar system.
Vanguard to Neptune (Fantasy Press, 1952, Cherry Tree, 1952.)
An astronaut is stranded on Neptune.
WALTER, W.GREY.
Curve of the Snowflake, The (Norton, 1956. Duckworth, 1956, as Further Outlook.)
A mild adventure story and a grand tour of a future world.
Further Outlook (See The Curve of the Snowflake.)
WALTERS, HUGH (Pseudonym of Walter Hughes.)
Blast-off at 0300 (See Blast Off at Woomera.)
Blast Off at Woomera (Faber, 1957 Criterion, 1958, as Blast-off at 0300.)
Chris Godfrey #1.
The story of an early launch into space.
Blue Aura, The (Faber, 1979.)
Chris Godfrey #19.
Boy Astronaut (Abelard, 1977.)
Boy Astronaut #1.
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Caves of Drach, The (Faber, 1977.)
Chris Godfrey #17.
Dark Triangle, The (Faber, 1981.)
Chris Godfrey #20.
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Chris Godfrey #6.
Domes of Pico, The (Faber, 1958. Criterion, 1959, as Menace from the Moon.)
Chris Godfrey #2.
A mysterious base on the moon is interfering with energy sources on Earth.
Expedition Venus (Faber, 1962, Criterion, 1963.)
Chris Godfrey #5.
The first expedition to Venus runs into trouble.
First Contact? (Faber, 1971, Nelson, 1973.)
Chris Godfrey #13.
An expedition to the planet Uranus encounters signs of what appears to be intelligent life.
First Family on the Moon (Abelard, 1979.)
Boy Astronaut #2.
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First on the Moon (Criterion, 1960, Tempo, 1962. Faber, 1960, as Operation Columbus.)
Chris Godfrey #3.
A young American and a young Russian must work together if either of them is to return successfully from the moon.
Glass Men, The (Faber, ?)
Chris Godfrey #21.
Journey to Jupiter (Faber, 1965. Criterion, 1966, revised.)
Chris Godfrey #8.
Scientists attempt to abort an expedition to Jupiter, but a malfunction means that the ailing crew has no choice but to complete the mission.
Last Disaster, The (Faber, 1978.)
Chris Godfrey #18.
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Menace from the Moon (See The Domes of Pico.)
Mission to Mercury (Faber, 1965, Criterion, 1965.)
Chris Godfrey #9.
The first expedition to Mercury includes a telepath among the crew.
Mohole Menace, The (See The Mohole Mystery.)
Chris Godfrey #11.
Chris Godfrey #4.
Murder on Mars (Faber, 1975.)
Chris Godfrey #16.
Nearly Neptune (Faber, 1969. Washburn, 1970, as Neptune One Is Missing.)
Chris Godfrey #12.
Passage to Pluto (Faber, 1973, Nelson, 1973.)
Chris Godfrey #14.
An expedition beyond the orbit of Pluto runs into trouble and a young astronaut undertakes a rescue mission.
P-K (Severn House, 1986.)
Chris Godfrey #24.
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School on the Moon (Abelard, 1981.)
Boy Astronaut #3.
Chris Godfrey #10.
Astronauts are placed in suspended animation during the long trip to Saturn.
Terror by Satellite (Faber, 1964, Criterion, 1964.)
Chris Godfrey #7.
A madman seizes control of a satellite and threatens to use its lasers against the Earth.
Tony Hale, Space Detective (Faber, 1973.)
Chris Godfrey #15.
WALTERS, NICK (See also collaboration with Paul Leonard.)
Dominion (BBC, 1999.)
A Doctor Who novel.
While searching for his missing companions, the Doctor discovers an alien race living secretly beneath the forests of Sweden.
Fall of Yquatine, The (BBC, 2000.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor must make use of an unreliable traveling salesman to help him influence the government of the planet Yquatine, which is facing total annihilation unless it moves to prevent a war.
Reckless Engineering (BBC, 2003.)
A Doctor Who novel.
The Doctor must intervene when rival versions of Earth's history assume separate realities.
Superior Beings (BBC, 2001.)
A Doctor Who novel.
While visiting what is supposed to be a pleasure planet, the Doctor finds himself involved with a recently revived race of hunters who eat human flesh.
WALTON, BARBARA
Odyssey (Boulevard, 1996.)
A Quantum Leap novel.
Sam is jumped into the mind of a gifted young boy enrolled in a special program. But the project is about to be terminated, and if it ends, the boy's life will be altered for the worse.
Sons of the Ocean Deeps (Winston, 1952.)
Adventure in a future where the sea has been colonized by humans modified to breathe the water.
WALTON, DAVID
Terminal Mind (Meadowhawk, 2008.)
Intrigue in a fractured US.
Farthing (Tor, 2006.)
Peace With Honor #1.
A murder mystery set in an England where Churchill was removed from power and peace was negotiated with Hitler.
Half a Crown (Tor, 2008.)
Peace With Honor #3.
In an alternate world, a plot arises against the victorious Axis powers.
Ha'penny (Tor, 2007.)
Peace With Honor #2.
Police battle terrorists in an alternate England that became an ally of Hitler.
No Transfer (Vanguard, 1967, Signet, 1968.)
Futuristic satire with a university serving to represent society as a whole.
Colossus (Fedogan & Bremer, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Eye and the Finger, The (Arkham House, 1944.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Strange Harvest (Arkham House, 1965.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Time Burial (Fedogan & Bremer, 1996.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
WARD, B. (See Bengo Mistral.)
In the Name of Honor (Pocket, 2002.)
A Star Trek novel.
Kirk is involved in peace negotiations with the Klingon Empire when he discovers that there is a secret prisoner camp filled with Federation citizens.
Last World War, The (Pocket, 2003.)
Aliens invade Earth from another dimension and a worldwide war ensues.
Foundations (Pocket, 2004.)
A Star Trek S.C.E. novel.
An episodic adventure of a roving repair team.
Summon the Thunder (Pocket, 2006.)
A Star Trek Vanguard novel.
A remote outpost faces an alien menace.
Wet Work (Pocket Star, ?)
A 4400 novel.
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Green Suns, The (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1961, Panther, 1963.)
Alien influences are secretly at work within human society.
WARD, HERBERT D.
Republic Without a President and Other Stories, A (Tait, 1891.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
White Crown and Other Stories, The (?, 1894.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
WARD, JAMES (See collaboration with Mary L. Kirchoff.)
WARD, RICHARD HERON
Sun Shall Rise, The (Nicholson & Watson, 1935.)
England becomes a dictatorship.
WARE, PAUL
Flight of the Mariner (New English Library, 1997.)
Racial memory leads a group of humans to the true home world of the human race, not the Earth.
Death on a Warm Wind (Rapp & Whiting, 1968, Doubleday, 1968, Belmont, ?)
Thriller about an earthquake accompanied by a strange wind that causes enormous loss of life.
WARNER, MICHAEL (See collaboration with R.D. Warner.)
Galactic Rift (Manor, 1979.)
A human raises a force to free the slaves held by an alien who can control human minds from a distance.
Aerodrome, The (Atlantic Montly, 1941, Ballantine, 1969.)
Satirical look at a future England where brainwashing and secret intrigues are used by the government.
Alien Heaven (Hale, 1976.)
Not seen.
Growing Young (Xlibris, 2001.)
A man acquires the secret of immortality and negotiates with various governments about its use.
Last Underclass, The (Xlibris, 2002.)
A novel about transplanting minds into younger bodies.
Man Over Mind (Xlibris, 2000.)
A battle against people who have linked their minds with computers in order to rule the galaxy.
WARREN, GEORGE (See also Nick Carter.)
Dominant Species (Ace, 1980.)
A primitive water world erupts into violence when offworlders introduce modern technology.
Space Sex (Heart, undated.)
Pornography in space.
WASHBURN, MARK (See also James Frey.)
Armageddon Game, The (Dell, ?)
Not seen.
Night Wind (Dell, 1982.)
A proscribed US biological weapon was lost during the Vietnam war, and now it has surfaced again in Philadelphia.
Omega Threat, The (Dell, 1980.)
Conspirators plan to use a US space shuttle flight as part of a scheme for global domination.
Palafox (Cope & Fenwick, 1927.)
A machine that reads thoughts.
WATER, SILAS (See also Noel Loomis.)
Man With Absolute Motion, The (Rich and Cowan, 1955, Arrow, 1965.)
The energy level of the universe is declining rapidly, so the protagonist is sent on a mission to find the source of power and reinvigorate it.
Rebel Planet (Puffin, 1985.)
Multi-path gamebook.
Armageddon: A Tale of Love and Invention (Rand McNally, 1898.)
Future War.
Son of the Ages, A (Doubleday Page, 1914.)
A novel of prehistory.
Story of Ab, The (Way & Williams, 1897. Black, 1904, as A Tale of the Time of the Cave Men.)
A novel of prehistory.
Tale of the Time of Cave Men, A (See The Story of Ab.)
WATERS, T.A.
Centerforce (Dell, 1974.)
A rebel runs from the repressive future US government in a world where mutants are common and life is cheap.
Love That Spy! (Lancer, 1968.)
Marginal spy spoof about efforts to find a scientist who has developed a superweapon.
Probability Pad, The (Pyramid, 1970.)
This is a sequel to The Butterfly Kid by Michael Kurland and Chester Anderson. A bunch of hippies confront a variety of SF themes in this spoof.
WATKINS, GRAHAM
Virus (Carroll & Graf, 1995.)
A new computer virus becomes capable of infecting and killing human beings as well as destroying programming.
Killing of Idi Amin, The (Everest, 1976, Avon, 1977.)
Marginal thriller about efforts to assassinate an African ruler.
Centrifugal Rickshaw Dancer, The (Questar, 1985.)
Lagrange #1.
Rebels plan to use a pleasure machine as part of their campaign to unseat the dictator who rules Earth.
Clickwhistle (Doubleday, 1973.)
Humans learn to communicate with dolphins.
Cosmic Thunder (Avon, 1996.)
Earth has sunk into famine and decay when the aliens arrive, strange beings who can pass through solid matter and who dispense wisdom and aid. But their arrival also gives rise to a new cult.
God Machine, The (Doubleday, 1973, Angus & Robertson, 1973.)
People shrink themselves to escape a totalitarian government.
Going to See the End of the Sky (Questar, 1986.)
Lagrange #2.
A dangerous sporting event involving a race through space is also the key to a revolutionary movement against a repressive government.
Last Deathship off Antares, The (Questar, 1989.)
Half a million human prisoners are taken during a war against Antares, and they are all imprisoned in a horrible orbiting jail where cannibalism and fights to the death are everyday occurrences. But one man has a plan to seize control of the prison and get revenge if not freedom.
What Rough Beast (Playboy, 1980.)
A superhuman creature arrives on Earth just as the self aware computer system that runs much of the world decides it is time to dispense with the human race.
Ecodeath (Doubleday, 1972.)
A novel of environmental disaster.
Litany of Sh'reev, The (Doubleday, 1976.)
Following the collapse of a galactic empire, a psychic healer tries to solve a puzzling mystery.
WATLOCK, W.A.
Next “Ninety Three”, The (Field & Tuer, 1886.)
Pamphlet portraying a repressive Socialist England.
WATSON, IAN (See also collaboration which follows.)
Alien Embassy (Gollancz, 1977, Ace, 1978, Panther, 1979.)
A very few humans are able to mentally travel between the stars and gather information from other cultures. But one of these individuals discovers a deadly threat as well.
Book of Being, The (Gollancz, 1985, DAW, 1986, Grafton, 1986.)
Yaleen #3.
A woman is caught up in a battle between two super intelligences, one of which is planning to destroy the universe.
Book of Ian Watson, The (Ziesing, 1985.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Book of the River, The (Gollancz, 1984, Panther, 1985, DAW, 1986, Granada, 1988.)
Yaleen #1.
On a primitive world where men are driven mad by something in the river's water and only women are immune, a young woman wonders about the world on the far side of the river.
Book of the Stars, The (Gollancz, 1984, DAW, 1986, Panther, 1986, Granada, 1988.)
Yaleen #2.
A young woman has become the agent of a sentient force that lives within the water of a large river. In its service, she is compelled to investigate a mystery.
Books of the Black Current, The (Doubleday, 1986.)
Omnibus of the Yaleen series.
Butterflies of Memory, The (PS, 2006.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Chaos Child, The (GW Books, 1995, Black Library, 2003.)
A Warhammer novel.
An adventurer steals information about paranormal events from a great library.
Chekhov's Journey (Gollancz, 1983, Panther, 1984, Carroll & Graf, 1989.)
A film crew is attempting to recreate an historic trek across Siberia, using hypnosis to convince an actor that he is Chekhov. But the actor begins to claim that he is actually an astronaut from the future, and that his vehicle is on a collision course with the past.
Coming of Vertumnus and Other Stories, The (Gollancz, 1994.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Converts (Panther, 1984, St Martins, 1985.)
A wealthy man has made a discovery which could literally make him superhuman, but first he wants to find a suitable mate.
Deathhunter (Gollancz, 1981, Corgi, 1982, St Martins, 1987.)
In a future where professional guides help you to experience your death, an unexpected murder takes place. The protagonist is to guide the killer to his own fate, and discovers that the man has a plot to trap death and make everyone immortal.
Draco (GW Books, 1990.)
A Warhammer novel.
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Embedding, The (Gollancz, 1973, Scribner, 1975, Quartet, 1975, Bantam, 1977, Panther, 1981, Carroll & Graf, ?.)
Alien visitors are connected to ancient human myths and contemporary metaphysical events.
Collection of unrelated stories.
Flies of Memory, The (Gollancz, 1990, Carroll & Graf, 1991.)
A human team is sent to communicate with a shipload of alien visitors who say they have come to Earth in order to "remember" it.
Gardens of Delight, The (Gollancz, 1980, Corgi, 1982, Pocket, 1982.)
A starship is forced to land its passengers on a planet that has been designed as a faithful reproduction of the Bosch painting of the title.
God's World (Gollancz, 1979, Panther, 1982, Carroll & Graf, 1990.)
A delegation of humans sets off to a distant star after angels appear claiming to represent God. They discover a planet that appears to be in communication with Heaven, but is it really the Heaven we've been promised?
Great Escape, The (Golden Gryphon, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Hard Questions (Gollancz, 1996.)
A woman falls prey to a cult that believe she holds the secret of a new generation of supercomputer so radically different that its use could result in a virtual civil war in modern America.
Harlequin (GW Books, 1994.)
A Warhammer novel.
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Inquisition War, The (Black Library, 2004.)
Omnibus of Draco, Harlequin, and Chaos Child.
Jonah Kit, The (Gollancz, 1975, Scribner, 1976, Panther, 1977, Bantam, 1978.)
Two humans find their minds have been imprinted within that of a whale.
Martian Inca, The (Scribner, 1977, Gollancz, 1977, Panther, 1978, Ace, 1978.)
A returning space probe to Mars contains a biological agent that contaminates the Bolivian peasants who first encounter the wreckage. A new disease begins to spread throughout the world, and one man realizes that he has access to the memories of his ancestors.
Miracle Visitors, The (Gollancz, 1978, Ace, 1978, Panther, 1980, Carroll & Graf, 1990.)
Humankind discovers that UFO sightings, while not necessarily visitors from outer space, are in fact encounters with a different form of life.
Mockymen (Golden Gryphon, 2003.)
An odd blend of reincarnation and alien invasion stories, with disembodied aliens inhabiting vacant human bodies in preparation for the conquest of Earth.
Nanoware Time (Tor, 1991, bound with The Persistence of Vision by John Varley.
Novella published as half of a doublebook.
Oracle (Gollancz, 1997, Vista, 1998.)
A Roman Centurion adjusts to the modern world when he is mysteriously brought forward through time to an age when scientists are about to create a device that will allow them to look back through time.
Salvage Rites and Other Stories (Gollancz, 1988, Grafton, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Collection of unrelated stories.
Collection of unrelated stories.
Collection of unrelated stories.
Very Slow Time Machine, The (Gollancz, 1979, Ace, 1979, Panther, 1981.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Adventures in a virtual world reproduction of Babylon.
Under Heaven's Bridge (Gollancz, 1981, Ace, 1982, Corgi, 1982.)
Humans attempt to understand an alien race which is facing extinction from a solar catastrophe. The aliens seem to be blends of flesh and machines, and there is some question whether or not they are in fact living beings.
WATSON, JAMES L.
Agent Orange Affair, The (Apollo, 1971.)
Marginal thriller about the development of a terrifying new biological warfare weapon.
WATSON, JANE WERNER
Case of the Semi-Human Beans, The (Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1979.)
Two young boys discovers a new kind of bean that acts as though it is intelligently directed, and eventually discover alien visitors.
Case of the Vanishing Spaceship, The (Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1982.)
For younger readers.
WATSON, JUDE (Pseudonym of Judy Blundell. Also writes Horror.)
Captive Temple, The (Scholastic, 2000.)
A Star Wars novel.
An infiltrator inside the Jedi headquarters has made one attempt to kill Yoda already, so Ben Kenobi and friends must track down the intruder.
Captive to Evil (SBS, 1998.)
A Star Wars book.
Princess Leia is trapped.
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Dangerous Rescue, The (Scholastic, 2001.)
A Star Wars novel.
A team of Jedi set out to rescue prisoners from an evil manipulator.
Dark Rival, The (Scholastic, 1999.)
A Star Wars novel.
An apprenticed Jedi, believed to have died, returns intent upon revenge against those whom he believes betrayed and abandoned him.
Dark Warning (Scholastic, 2005.)
A Star Wars novel.
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Day of Reckoning, The (Scholastic, 2000.)
A Star Wars novel.
A Jedi trainee gone bad tricks his former master into visiting a remote planet where he frames him for a heinous crime.
Death on Naboo (Scholastic, 2006.)
A Star Wars novel.
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Defenders of the Dead, The (Scholastic, 1999.)
A Star Wars novel.
Obi-Wan Kenobi disobeys his master to help a rebellion.
Desperate Mission, The (Scholastic, 2005.)
A Star Wars novel.
Obi-Wan mourns the loss of Anakin to the dark side.
Fight for Truth, The (Scholastic, 2000.)
A Star Wars novel.
While searching for a potential new Jedi warrior, three of the Jedi are imprisoned by a tyrannical planetary government.
Hidden Past, The (Scholastic, 1999.)
A Star Wars novel.
Two Jedi knights find themselves trapped on a planet whose rulers use selective imposed amnesia to control the population.
Last of the Jedi (Scholastic, 2007.)
A Star Wars novel.
A Jedi trainee is caught between Darth Vader and the Emperor.
Legacy of the Jedi/Secrets of the Jedi (Scholastic, 2006.)
A Star Wars novel.
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Master of Deception (SBS, 2008.)
A Star Wars book.
Jedi Fergus Olin gets caught between Darth Vader and the Emperor again.
Only Witness, The (SBS, 1998.)
A Star Wars book.
A planetary crime lord faces a crisis.
Queen Amidala (Scholastic, 1999.)
A Star Wars novel.
A collection of journal entries by Queen Amidala.
Return of the Dark Side (Scholastic, 2006.)
A Star Wars novel.
A Jedi agrees to help the emperor in order to save his friends.
Secret Weapon (Scholastic, 2007.)
A Star Wars novel.
A Jedi plots to steal technology from Darth Vader.
Tangled Web, A (Scholastic, 2006.)
A Star Wars novel.
A Jedi is coerced into helping the emperor catch a saboteur.
Ties That Bind, The (Scholastic, 2001.)
A Star Wars Novel.
The adventures of a young Obi-Wan.
Underworld (Scholastic, 2005.)
A Star Wars novel.
A Jedi looks for other survivors of the empire.
No Man's Land (Gollancz, 1975, Puffin, 1976.)
A giant robot designed to raze buildings is scheduled to demolish a town, but a young boy pits his wits against the government and the robot to save the place he loves.
WATT-EVANS, LAWRENCE (See also Nathan Archer.)
Celestial Debris (Fox Acre, 2002.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Chromosomal Code, The (Avon, 1984.)
Earth has been taken over by a coalition of interstellar species, and one of the few surviving humans is determined to make them pay for their conquest.
Crosstime Traffic (Del Rey, 1992.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Denner's Wreck (Avon, 1988.)
Descendants of involuntary colonists marooned on a distant world face fresh challenges when the planet is rediscovered by humans, but humans who want to exploit their discovery.
Nightside City (Del Rey, 1989.)
A city was built on a planet that was believed to have stopped rotating its face to the sun. Now the light is slowly returning and parts of the city have already been abandoned. But if destruction is unavoidable, why is someone quietly buying up the doomed properties?
Shining Steel (Avon, 1986.)
A group of religious fundamentalists colonized a planet, then promptly fragmented into a variety of differing sects. When Earth reopens contact and introduces the "sins" they fled, a holy warrior takes up the battle anew.
Behemoth B-Max (Tor, 2004.)
Starfish #3.
With much of civilization destroyed, the survivors huddled in undersea cities face a fresh problem.
Behemoth Seppuku (Tor, 2005.)
Starfish #4.
The second half of the final installment in the series.
Blindsight (Tor, 2006.)
A group of very strange and varied characters is chosen for a space mission to contact a mysterious alien.
Maelstrom (Tor, 2001.)
Starfish #2.
In the aftermath of a tidal wave, a mysterious woman comes ashore whom some believe to be a supernatural entity.
Starfish (Tor, 1999.)
Starfish #1.
Humans have been physically altered so that they can live under the sea, but there are psychological changes that the scientists hadn't planned on.
Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes (Tesseract, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
WAUGH, EVELYN
Love Among the Ruins (Chapman & Hall, 1953, Little Brown, 1954.)
Marginal satire on the welfare state.
Vile Bodies (Chapman & Hall, 1930.)
Europe after another war.
WAUGH, SYLVIA
Earthborn (Delacorte, 2002.)
Nesta Gwynn #2.
An alien child living secretly on Earth plots to avoid returning to her home world.
Space Race (Delacorte, 2000, Dell Yearling, 2001.)
Nesta Gwynn #1.
A youngster is informed by his family that they are not from Earth and that it’s time to go home.
Who Goes Home? (Dell Yearling, 2005.)
Nesta Gwynn #3.
A stranded alien on Earth seeks help for his son.
Kretzmer Syndrome, The (Jenkins, 1968.)
Near future Britain is slipping toward totalitarianism.
Ads Infinitum (Curtis, 1971.)
Dream House #2.
The protagonist visits a virtual reality world where everything is based on commercials.
Dunes of Pradai (Curtis, 1971.)
In a far future where warfare is virtually unknown, a group of humans develop nuclear weapons and endanger the balance of the universe.
World of the Sleeper (Ace, 1967, bound with The Last Castle by Jack Vance.)
Dream House #1.
A man bored with the safe existence of the future elects to pursue a series of adventures in a virtual realtiy world.
WEATHERBY, W.J.
Goliath (Quicksilver, 1981, Bantam, 1981.)
Marginal thriller about a plot by Soviet agents to assassinate the Pope.
Brothers in Arms (Avon Eos, ?)
Terran Alliance #1.
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Patriots in Arms (Eos, 2003.)
Terran Alliance #3.
A rebel threatens to undermine the successes the rebels have made against the Terran dictators.
Rebels in Arms (Avon Eos, 2002.)
Terran Alliance #2.
A soldier who deserted the repressive Terran dictatorship to help the rebels discovers that they're not much better and, even worse, his genetically altered body is developing problems.
WEAVER, MICHAEL D.
Mercedes Nights (St Martins, 1987.)
Someone illegally clones copies of a famous celebrity, but the clones aren't reconciled to a life of slavery, and soon make things difficult for their owners as well as their original.
My Father Immortal (St Martins, 1989, Avon, 1981.)
A group of people went into suspended animation when nuclear wars destroyed much of the Earth, but they have awakened prematurely in a landscape filled with horrifying mutants.
Second Infinity, A (Avon, 1996.)
Something is destabilizing a future Utopia, so one of its citizens takes a mental journey back through time to better understand the nature of humankind.
Memory Boy (HarperCollins, 2000.)
A volcanic upheaval leaves most of the US in ruins and the protagonist has a perilous journey to a remote cabin.
Snowboys, The (Doubleday, 1973, Bantam, 1976.)
Explorers discover a powerful, still active artifact buried in the ice of the Arctic.
King Solomon's Mines (Dell, 1950, based on the screenplay by Helen Deutsch.)
A retelling of the book of the same title by H. Rider Haggard.
Adventures of Terra Tarkington, The (Bantam, 1985.)
Collection of related stories about an interstellar nurse.
Earthchild (Atheneum, 1982, Bantam, 1983.)
Earthsong #1.
Immortality has been achieved, but as the first generation of immortals begins to rule the world, they discover that it is as much a curse as a blessing.
Earth Song (Atheneum, 1983, Bantam, 1984.)
Earthsong #2.
Those who accept immortality are doomed to live uncreative lives. This follows the career of a composer who chooses to remain mortal so that he can create music.
Halflife, The (Tor, 1989.)
A government experiment in personality adjustment goes wrong. Marginal.
Pestis 18 (Tor, 1987.)
Terrorists threaten to release the Black Death in New York City.
Ram Song (Atheneum, 1984, Bantam, 1985.)
Earthsong #3.
An entire planet cuts itself off from the rest of humanity in order to be insulated from immortality, but they are contacted in turn by beings from another universe.
After the Inferno (Hale, 1977.)
Not seen.
Cheyney's Robot (Hale, 1978.)
Not seen.
Dimension Lords (Hale, 1979.)
Not seen.
Eye of Hollerl-Ra, The (Hale, 1977.)
Not seen.
Fate of Phral, The (Hale, 1980.)
Not seen.
Froth Eater, The (Hale, 1980.)
Not seen.
Poisoned Planet (Hale, 1978.)
Not seen.
Time Druids, The (Hale, 1978.)
Not seen.
WEBER, DAVID (See also collaborations which follow.)
Apocalypse Troll, The (Baen, 1999.)
The planet Earth gets caught in the crossfire of an interstellar war. The hero finds himself rescuing an alien soldier, who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Armageddon Inheritance, The (Baen, 1993.)
Colin McIntyre #2.
An otherwise average astronaut finds himself in command of an intelligent alien starship in the face of an alien invasion.
Ashes of Victory (Baen, 2000.)
Honor Harrington #9.
After escaping a prison planet and returning to her home planet, Honor is once again embroiled in battles both military and political.
At All Costs (Baen, 2005.)
Honor Harrington #11.
The now aging Honor Harrington is still involved in the military.
Bolo! (Baen, 2005.)
Collection of related stories.
By Heresies Distressed (Tor, 2009.)
Safehold #3.
A military alliance on a colony world is undermined by secrets.
By Schism Rent Asunder (Tor, 2008.)
Safehold #2.
An island nation rebels against a theocracy.
Echoes of Honor (Baen, 1998.)
Honor Harrington #8.
Although reportedly executed, Honor is still alive on a hostile prison planet, and she is organizing a small group of her fellow prisoners for an escape.
Empire from the Ashes (Baen, 2003.)
Omnibus of the Colin McIntyre trilogy.
Excalibur Alternative, The (Baen, 2002.)
A group of English longbowmen are kidnapped by aliens to act as mercenaries and end up taking over the alien empire.
Field of Dishonor (Baen, 1994.)
Honor Harrington #4.
Although Honor was victorious in her battle against an attacking fleet, she is less skilled at fighting political intrigues and protecting her reputation at home.
Flag in Exile (Baen, 1995.)
Honor Harrington #5.
Wrongfully dishonored at home, Honor tries to make a new life for herself on another world. When a new war threatens to erupt, she agrees to serve in the space navy, but her enemies aren't all in space. Some of them want to use the war as an excuse to get her killed.
Heirs of Empire (Baen, 1996.)
Colin McIntyre #3.
A human has become head of the reborn galactic empire after defeating a horde of aliens, but now his kids are kicking around the universe, and getting into trouble.
Honor Among Enemies (Baen, 1996.)
Honor Harrington #6.
The protagonist assumes the command of an impromptu fleet designed to track down space pirates, but there are also individuals plotting to destroy her in the process.
Honor of the Queen, The (Baen, 1993.)
Honor Harrington #2.
A female captain is sent to a neutral planet to urge it into an alliance, but women on this world have no rights and her authority is an affront to their culture.
In Enemy Hands (Baen, 1997.)
Honor Harrington #7.
A highly successful military officer is captured by enemy forces and sent to a prison planet where she is to be executed.
In Fury Born (Baen, 2006. Revised version of Path of the Fury.)
Mighty Fortress, A (Tor, 2010.)
Safehold #3.
Military SF.
Mutineers' Moon (Baen, 1991.)
Colin McIntyre #1.
While on a routine flight over the moon, an American is chosen by a gigantic automated battleship buried under the surface to be its new captain and protect the Earth from alien invaders.
Off Armageddon Reef (Tor, 2006.)
Safehold #1.
An android helps a subjugated human race to regain its freedom.
Old Soldiers (Baen, 2005.)
A Bolo novel.
Military adventure involving semi-intelligent tanks.
On Basilisk Station (Baen, 1993.)
Honor Harrington #1.
A female military officer gets on the bad side of her superior and is assigned to a backwater system with an inferior ship. Eventually it turns out she is the only one in position to thwart an attempt at a military takeover.
Path of the Fury (Baen, 1992. Revised in 2006 as In Fury Born.)
When her homeworld is raided by pirates, a young woman turns pirate herself, planning to avoid the authorities and use her new identity to get close to the people who murdered her family.
Shadow of Saganami, The (Baen, 2004.)
Saganami #1.
This new series is set in the same universe as the Honor Harrington books. In the opener, a warship assigned to a backwater world finds itself immersed in very serious problems.
Short Victorious War, The (Baen, 1994.)
Honor Harrington #3.
To quiet unrest on their own world, the leaders of Haven decide to launch a brief, successful interstellar war. Unfortunately for their plans, they hadn't counted on a feisty female officer to oppose them.
Storm from the Shadows (Baen, 2009.)
Honor Harrington #12.
After a prisoner exchange, a female officer is reassigned to a remote part of space.
War of Honor (Baen, 2002.)
Honor Harrington #10.
Despite everyone's efforts to avoid another interplanetary war, it happens and Honor has to come out of retirement.
Worlds of Weber (Baen, 2009.)
Collection of sometimes related stories.
WEBER, DAVID & EVANS, LINDA
Hell Hath No Fury (Baen, 2007.)
Arcana #2.
War between a world of magic and a world of psionics in this novel which mixes two genres.
Hell’s Gate (Baen, 2006.)
Arcana #1.
A war is fought across the barrier between parallel worlds.
Crown of Slaves (Baen, 2003.)
Set in same universe as the Honor Harrington series.
A military officer and his daughter provide security to a traveling official by providing a double for the daughter as well as more conventional efforts. Unfortunately, interstellar politics is even more convoluted than they anticipated.
Torch of Freedom (Baen, 2009.)
Set in the Honor Harrington universe.
A complex interstellar plot to incriminate an innocent planetary government.
March to the Sea (Baen, ?)
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March to the Stars (Baen, 2003.)
Prince Roger #2.
Humans and aliens engage in primitive forms of war on the planet Marduk.
March Upcountry (Baen, 2002.
Prince Roger #1.
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We Few (Baen, 2005.)
Prince Roger #4.
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Crusade (Baen, 1992.)
Interstellar War #2.
Just when it appears that the interstellar war is about over, a mysterious ship appears and renews the hostilities, leading to a fresh round of fighting.
In Death Ground (Baen, 1997.)
Interstellar War #3.
Humans and their former enemies must make common cause against a third star traveling race that outnumbers and outguns them both.
Insurrection (Baen, 1990.)
Interstellar War #1.
Following an interstellar war, Earth decides to retain its control over the outer colonies, even calling upon its former enemies to suppress a growing rebellion.
Shiva Option, The (Baen, 2002.)
An interstellar war reaches a critical phase.
Stars at War, The (Baen, 2004.)
Omnibus of Crusade and In Death Ground.
Stars at War II, The (Baen, 2005.)
Omnibus of The Shiva Option and Insurrection.
WEBER, JOE
Primary Target (Berkley, 1999.)
Agents of a collapsing Russian Federation make an alliance with terrorists from the Mideast in a plot to assassinate the President of the US and precipitate a world crisis.
Friulan Plot, The (Hale, 1980.)
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WEBSTER, F.A.M.
Curse of the Lion, The (United Press, 1922.)
Collection of related stories about intelligent apes.
Gold and Glory (?, 1932.)
A lost world novel.
Ivory Talisman, The (Frederick Warne, 1930.)
A lost world novel.
Land of Forgotten Women, The (Skeffington, 1950.
A lost world novel.
Lord of the Leopards (Hutchinson, 1935.)
Intelligent apes.
Lost City of Light (Frederick Warne, 1934.)
A lost world novel.
Mubendi Girl (Hutchinson, 1935.)
A lost world novel.
Second Wind (Hutchinson, 1934.)
A lost world novel.
Trail of the Skull, The (Juvenile Productions, 1937.)
A lost world novel.
WEDDLE, DEAN & LANG, JEFFREY
Abyss (Pocket, 2001.)
A Star Trek Deep Space Nine novel.
Dr. Bashir battles a genetically enhanced superman.
Moving Snow, The (Murray, 1974.)
A change in climate leaves the British Isles under a permanent coat of snow.
WEIN, LEN (See collaborations with Joseph Silva & Marv Wolfman, and with David Houston.)
WEINBAUM, STANLEY G.
Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum, The (Fantasy Press, 1949, Ballantine, 1974, Sphere, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Black Flame, The (Fantasy Press, 1948, Harlequin, 1953, Avon, 1969. This edition incorporates the story but not the collection Dawn of Flame.)
Generations after a nuclear war devastates the Earth, the survivors discover the secret of immortality.
Dark Other, The (FPCI, 1950.)
` A scientist's experiments with human consciousness alter his personality.
Collection of unrelated stories.
Martian Odyssey, A (Hyperion, 1974.)
Omnibus of A Martian Odyssey and The Red Peri & Others.
Martian Odyssey, A (Fantasy Press, 1949, Lancer, 1966, Sphere, 1977.)
Collection of occasionally related stories.
New Adam, The (Avon, 1969, Sphere, 1974. Magazine version 1939.)
A man born with a superhuman intelligence struggles to find a place in a society of his inferiors.
Red Peri & Others, The (Fantasy Press, 1952.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Empire Strikes Back, The (Random House, 1985, based on the screenplay by George Lucas.)
Young readers’ adaptation of the movie.
Menace in Space (Wanderer, 1986.)
A Chuck Norris novel.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Simon & Schuster, 1984, based on the screenplay by ?)
Young readers’ adaptation of the film.
Star Wars (Random House, 1985, based on the screenplay by George Lucas.)
Young readers’ adaptation of the film.
Tron (Little Simon, 1982, based on the screenplay by ?)
Young readers’ adaptation of the film.
Wicket and the Dandelion Warriors (Random House, 1985.)
A Star Wars novel.
An adventure among the Ewoks.
WEINBERG, ROBERT (See collaboration with Lois Gresh.)
Distant Signals and Other Stories (Porcepic, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
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Getting Near the End (?)
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Station Gehenna (Congdon & Weed, 1987, Worldwide, 1988.)
A psychologist is sent to a space station and becomes embroiled in a murder mystery.
National Lampoon's Doon (Pocket, 1984.)
A spoof of Dune by Frank Herbert.
Better Man, The (Pocket, 1994.)
A Star Trek novel.
The Enterprise is transporting a personal enemy of McCoy on a diplomatic mission to a world that has demanded removal of a Federation research station. McCoy discovers that he has a daughter on that world, but can't reveal her offworld ancestry because it might result in her execution.
Covenant of the Crown, The (Pocket, 1981.)
A Star Trek novel.
Spock, McCoy, and a royal princess are stranded on a barren planet where they must find a ceremonial crown before a band of Klingon hunters and their allies find the fugitives.
Deep Domain (Pocket, 1987.)
A Star Trek novel.
Spock and Chekhov disappear while visiting a water world, and Kirk finds that the local government is not interested in cooperating in their recovery. Someone has discovered a long forgotten political secret, and the planet is heading toward a civil war.
Exiles (Pocket, 1990.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation novel.
Two worlds which have historically been bitter enemies are both in danger of destruction, so the Enterprise shows up to try to organize a cooperative effort to save their populations. But some elements from both sides are unable to forget past hatreds, and will destroy the Enterprise if necessary to prevent a rapprochement.
Path to Conquest (Tor, 1987.)
A "V" novel.
To subjugate the human race, the invading aliens are altering our weather to bring about a premature winter, and destroying the world's oil reserves.
Perchance to Dream (Pocket, 1991.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation novel.
Picard and the captain of a hostile vessel are both teleported to the surface of a supposedly barren world where they are forced to work in consort to stay alive, and eventually escape the attention of the powerful being who has seized them.
Power Hungry (Pocket, 1989.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation novel.
The Enterprise is sent to bring supplies to a planet suffering from famine, but upon arriving he discovers that its corrupt, dictatorial government is unlikely to distribute the cargo fairly.
Prisoners and Pawns (Pinnacle, 1985.)
A "V" novel.
Both the invading aliens and the human resistance are having internal problems this time, mostly from ambitious subordinates seeking greater power.
WEIS, MARGARET (See also collaborations which follow.)
Ghost Legion (Bantam, 1993.)
Star of Guardians #4.
The ruler of a galactic empire risks throwing his people into chaos when he falls in love with a woman other than the one who is supposed to become his mate.
King's Sacrifice (Bantam, 1991.)
Star of Guardians #3.
Politics and intrigue as the restored galactic government tries to deal with internal problems and the threat of alien invasion.
King's Test (Bantam, 1991.)
Star of Guardians #2.
As an alien armada threatens the restored galactic monarchy, humans search for a weapon so powerful it can tear apart the universe.
Lost King, The Bantam, 1990.)
Star of Guardians #1.
A malevolent democracy has replaced the benevolent monarchy that ruled the galaxy. The heir to the throne is in hiding and a ruthless general is searching for him.
WEIS, MARGARET & PERRIN, DON
Hung Out (Gollancz, 1997, Roc, 1998, Vista, 1998.)
Star of Guardians #7.
A heroic crimefighter and his allies battle an evil crime syndicate in a galactic society.
Knights of the Black Earth (Roc, 1995, Gollancz, 1995, Vista, 1996)
Star of Guardians #5.
A man seeking revenge for the treachery that turned him into a cyborg must team up with his old enemy against a common threat.
Robot Blues (Roc, 1996, Gollancz, 1996.)
Star of Guardians #6.
A band of mercenaries steal an alien artifact, then lose it, and voracious aliens are searching for it to use as a weapon against human civilization.
WEISS, BOBBI JG (See collaboration with David Cody Weiss.)
WEISS, BOBBI JG & WEISS, DAVID CODY
Animal Rage (Little, Brown, 2003.)
A Smallville novel.
Young Clark Kent battles an animal rights activist who is also a shapechanger.
Breakaway (Pocket, 1997.)
A Star Trek: Next Generation: Starfleet Academy novel.
Young Deanna Troi uses her telepathic powers as part of a test of her competence at the academy, a simulation in which she’s kidnapped by space pirates.
Close Encounters (Minstrel, 1997.)
Alex Mack #18.
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Deceptions (Pocket, 1998.)
Star Trek: Next Generation Starfleet Academy #14.
Data and others are investigating a dead planet when someone arrives with plans to steal ancient knowledge and murder all the witnesses.
Lifeline (Pocket, 1997.)
A Star Trek: Voyager: Starfleet Academy novel.
Young Janeway struggles with personal rivalries among the cadets, and nearly loses her chance at a career.
Bop Squared (Black Plankton, ?)
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Diplodiners (Black Plankton, 1997.)
The human race discovers its destiny is to produce television programs for the rest of the galaxy.
Mood Shifts (Black Plankton, 1996.)
Satire in which you can purchase a new personality.
Snugglarea (Black Plankton, 1996.)
Spoof of the future when nothing is quite as it seems.
WEISS, DAVID CODY (See collaboration with Bobbi JG Weiss.)
Galaxy Quest (Puffin, 1999, from the screenplay by Robert Gordon and David Howard.)
Comical spoof of SF with actors recruited for a war among the stars.
Journeys into Limbo (Infinity, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Pleasure Dome of Sigma 93, The (Hale, 1978.)
Not seen.
Cloning of Joanna May, The (Collins, 1989, Viking, 1989.)
A man has his wife cloned.
Rules of Life, The (Hutchinson, 1987.)
Short story about communicating with computers, published as a pamphlet.
Time Sweep (Hutchinson, 1976.)
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WELLARD, JAMES
Night in Babylon (Macmillan, 1953.)
Christianity vs a despotism in a future Europe united under a dictatorship.
Hijack (Beagle, 1971.)
A professional criminal infiltrates Cape Canaveral and discovers an earth shattering secret.
WELLER, ARCHIE
Land of the Golden Clouds (Allen & Unwin, 1999.)
Thousands of years after a nuclear war, various strange tribes in Australia interact.
Continuum (Welling, 1983.)
A Star Trek short story.
Displaced, The (Welling, 1982.)
A Star Trek novel.
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Transition (Welling, 1982.)
A Star Trek novel.
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WELLMAN, MANLY WADE (See also Brett Sterling and collaboration which follows.)
Beasts from Beyond (World, 1950. Magazine title Strangers on the Heights.)
Legendary creatures exist in a parallel universe.
Beyonders, The (Warner, 1977.)
Creepy story about an alien observer who gets involved with some hill people and causes trouble.
Dark Destroyers, The (Avalon, 1959. Ace, 1960, abridged from the 1938 magazine version as Nuisance Value, bound with Bow Down to Nul by Brian W. Aldiss.)
Disgusting aliens have conquered the world but humans have managed to survive and now one of their number is about to strike a terrible blow against the invaders.
Devil’s Planet, The (World, 1951.)
Adventures on Mars.
Giants from Eternity (Avalon, 1959. Magazine version 1939.)
A plague from space endangers the world.
Invading Asteroid, The (Stellar, 1932.)
Short story published in pamphlet form.
Island in the Sky (Avalon, 1961.)
Rebellion against a future dictatorship.
Sojarr of Titan (Prize, 1942.)
A space traveler crashes on one of Saturn's moons and runs into monstrous aliens.
Solar Invasion, The (Popular Library, ?. Magazine version 1936.)
A Captain Future novel.
An evil mastermind steals the moon.
Strangers on the Heights (Night Shade, 2005.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Twice in Time (Avalon, 1957, Galaxy, 1958, Baen, 1988. Magazine version, 1940.)
A man from our time travels back to the past and leaves a record in a vault to be opened in the present.
Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds (Warner, 1975.)
A sequel to The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Professor Challenger and Sherlock Holmes team up to capture a Martian and avert a second invasion.
WELLMAN, WADE (See collaboration with Manly Wade Wellman.)
Fiery Flower, The (Doubleday, 1959, Permabooks, 1961, Mayflower, 1963.)
Marginal story about a sort of superman.
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (New English Library, 1961, Ballantine, 1961, from the screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest.)
Simultaneous nuclear explosions change the Earth's orbit and threaten to warm the climate beyond the point where human life is possible.
Doorways to Space (Fantasy Publishing, 1951.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Planets of Adventure (Fantasy Publishing, 1949.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Beyond the Gates (Roc, 1999.)
On a planet colonized by religious fanatics, the discovery of an anomalous lifeform causes a local researcher to acquire enemies determined to kill her to silence her.
Children of the Earth (Del Rey, 1992.)
Mother Earth #2.
The man who destroyed a starship to prevent word of Earth's recolonization from spreading throughout the stars is transported through time and becomes confused about his relationship to the rest of the human race.
Earth Is All That Lasts, The (Del Rey, 1991.)
Mother Earth #1.
As the human race attempts to re-populate abandoned Earth, the conflict between technology and the ecology are once more a matter of debate.
Earth Saver, The (Del Rey, 1993.)
Mother Earth #3.
A star traveler discovers that Earth has been recolonized and wants to let others know, but the inhabitants of Earth prefer to be left alone.
Mother Grimm (Roc, 1997.)
The Earth's ecology is presumed poisoned and civilization resides in a domed city. But is it really impossible to live outside or not?
Autocracy of Mr. Parham, The (Heinemann, 1930, Doubleday, 1930.)
Marginal near future political satire.
Best Science Fiction Stories of H.G. Wells (Dover, 1966.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Best Stories of H.G. Wells (Ballantine, 1960.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Camford Visitation, The (Methuen, 1937.)
A discorporate alien visits the Earth.
Collector’s Book of Science Fiction by H.G. Wells, The (Castle, 1978.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Complete Science Fiction of H.G. Wells, The (Avenel, 1978.)
Omnibus.
Complete Short Stories (Benn, 1927, St Martins, 1971.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells, The (See The Short Stories of H.G. Wells.)
Complete Stories of H.G. Wells, The (Dent, 1998.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Cone, The (Fontana, 1965.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Country of the Blind, The (Golden Cockerel, 1939.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Country of the Blind, The (Haldeman Julius, 1921.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Country of the Blind and Other Stories, The (Nelson, 1911.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Cure for Love, A (See A Story of the Days to Come.)
Definitive Time Machine, The (See The Time Machine.)
Door in the Wall and Other Stories, The (Kennerly, 1911, Richards, 1915.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dream, The (Collins, 1924, Jonathan Cape, 1924, Macmillan, 1924.)
The present as seen from thousand of years in the future.
Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction (University of California, 1975.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Empire of the Ants and 8 Science Fiction Stories (Grosset & Dunlap, 1977, Tempo, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Empire of the Ants and Other Stories, The (Haldeman Julius, 1925, Scholastic, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Famous Short Stories of H.G. Wells, The (See The Short Stories of H.G. Wells.)
Favorite Short Stories of H.G. Wells, The (Doubleday Doran, 1937.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
First Men in the Moon, The (Bowen Merrill, 1901, Newnes, 1901, Dell, 1947, Collins, 1954, Corgi, 1956, Fontana, 1960, Pocket, ?, Ballantine, 1963, Airmont, 1965, Berkley, 1967, Magnum, 1968, Everyman, 1993, Millennium, 2001.)
A scientist uses antimatter to make the first flight to the moon and discovers it is inhabited by a race of giant insects.
First Men in the Moon and Other Stories, The (Unwin, 1925.)
Collection of the novel and unrelated stories.
Five Great Novels (Gollancz, 2004.)
Omnibus of The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The First Men in the Moon, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Food of the Gods, The (Collins, 1955, Ballantine, 1963, Popular Library, 1964, Airmont, 1965, Berkley1967. MacMillan, 1904, Scribner, 1904, as The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth.)
A substance is discovered which causes everything to grow to extraordinary sizes, and when giant children are created, they become alienated from the rest of the race.
Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, The (See The Food of the Gods.)
H.G. Wells Reader, The (Taylor, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories and essays.
H.G. Wells Science Fiction Treasury, The (Chatham River, 1984.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
H.G. Wells Short Stories (Folio Society, 1990.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
H.G. Wells: The Science Fiction Volume 1 (Dent, 1995.)
Omnibus of The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The First Men in the Moon, and The War of the Worlds.
Holy Terror, The (Joseph, 1939, Simon & Schuster, 1939.)
The founding of a Utopian state.
Inexperienced Ghost and Nine Other Stories, The (Bantam, 1965.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
In the Days of the Comet (Macmillan, 1906, Century, 1906, Benn, 1927, Airmont, 1966, Berkley, 1967, Bison, 2001.)
A comet’s near passage leaves gases in the atmosphere which contribute to the moral decline of the world.
Invisible Man, The (Pearson, 1897, Arnold, 1897, Harper, 1898, Grosset, 1933, Collins, 1933, Penguin, 1938, Armed Forces, 1944, Dell, ?, Pocket, 1956, Fontana, 1959, Chariot, 1960, Scholastic, 1963, Berkley, 1964, Airmont, 1964, Popular Library, 1964, Award, ?, Aerie, ?, Fontana, ?, Gollancz, 2001, Phoenix, 2004.)
A man discovers the secret of invisibility, but it makes him insane and intent upon mastering the world.
Island of Dr. Moreau, The (Stone Kimball, 1896, Heinemann, 1896, Penguin, 1946, Ace, 1958, Ballantine, 1963, Berkley, 1964, Airmont, 1966, Lancer, 1968, Magnum, 1968, Everyman, 1993, Easton, 1995, Phoenix, 2004.)
On a remote island, a mad scientist is attempting to combine human and animal genes and produce intelligent animals. His experimental subjects eventually revolt and kill him.
Island of Dr. Moreau/The Invisible Man, The (Heron, 1969.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Island of Dr Moreau/The Sleeper Awakes, The (Unwin, 1924.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Last War, The (See The World Set Free.)
Man Who Could Work Miracles, The (Cresset, 1936, Macmillan, 1936.)
Short story published alone.
Man Who Could Work Miracles, The (Haldeman Julius, 1931.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Man With the Nose and Other Uncollected Short Stories, The (Athlone, 1984.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Men Like Gods (Cassell, 1923, Macmillan, 1923, Leisure, 1970.)
An ordinary man is transported into a strange future world.
Men Like Gods/The Dream (Unwin, 1927.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Modern Utopia, A (Chapman & Hall, 1905, Scribner, 1905.)
A Utopian novel.
Obliterated Man and Other Stories, The (Haldeman Julius, 1925.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Plattner Story and Others, The (Methuen, 1897.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Scientific Romances of H.G. Wells, The (See Seven Famous Novels.)
Sea Lady, The (Appleton, 1902, Methuen, 1902, Hyperion, 1976.)
Arguably fantasy, this is a rationalized story of a mermaid.
Selected Short Stories (Penguin, 1958.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Seven Famous Novels (Knopf, 1934, Dover, 1949. Gollancz, 1933, as The Scientific Romances of H.G. Wells.)
Omnibus of The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Invisible Man, In the Days of the Comet, and The Food of the Gods. The Gollancz edition added Men Like Gods.
Seven Stories (Oxford University, 1953.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Shape of Things to Come, The (Hutchinson, 1933, Macmillan, 1933, Corgi, 1967.)
More a treatise than a novel, outlining a Utopian future.
Short Stories of H.G. Wells, The (Benn, 1927, Doubleday, 1929. ?, 1938, as The Famous Short Stories of H.G. Wells. ?, 1965, as The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Sleeper Awakes, The (See When the Sleeper Awakes.)
Sleeper Awakes/Men Like Gods, The (Odhams, 1930.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Sleeper Awakes: Tales of the Unexpected, The (Heron, 1969.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Slip Under the Microscope, A (Haldeman Julius, 1931.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Star Begotten (Chatto & Windus, 1937, Viking, 1937, Leisure, 1970, Sphere, ?, Wesleyan, 2006)
Martians use a mysterious ray to cause mutations among the human race. Arguably a sequel to The War of the Worlds.
Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, The (Methuen, 1895, Macmillan, 1930.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, The (Haldeman Julius, 1925.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Story of the Days to Come, A (Corgi, ? Scott, 1899, as A Cure for Love.)
Satirical look at the future.
Tales of Life and Adventure (Collins, 1954.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Tales of Life and Adventure/Tales of Wonder (Heron, 1969.)
Omnibus of the two collections.
Tales of Space and Time (Harper, 1899, Doubleday McClure, 1899.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Tales of the Unexpected (Collins, 1954.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Tales of Wonder (Collins, 1923.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Things to Come (?, 1935. McFarland, annotated, 2007.)
The screen story for the film, with many stills and commentary by Leon Stover.
Thirty Strange Stories (Arnold, 1897, Carroll & Graf, 1997.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Three More Novels of the Future (Doubleday, 1981.)
Omnibus of The Island of Dr. Moreau, A Story of the Days to Come, and The First Men in the Moon.
Three Novels of the Future (Doubleday, 1979.)
Omnibus of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds.
Three Prophetic Novels (Dover, 1960.)
Omnibus of The Time Machine, A Story of the Days to Come, and When the Sleeper Wakes.
Time Machine, The (Heinemann, 1895, Holt, 1895, Berkley, 1957, Bentley, 1963, Airmont, 1964, Magnum, 1970, Penguin, 1995, Worthington, 1995, Dover, 1995, Everyman, ?, House of Stratus, 2002, Phoenix, 2004. Indiana University, 1987, as The Definitive Time Machine. Raintree, 1981, adapted by Betty Ren Wright.) Baronet, 1992, rewritten and with new adventures by Shirley Bogart.
A man travels to the far future and discovers humanity has split into two separate species.
Time Machine and The First Men in the Moon, The (Heron, 1969.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Time Machine and Other Stories, The (Penguin, 1946, Scholastic, 1963.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Time Machine and The Invisible Man, The (Childrens Press, 1969.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds, The (Franklin, 1982, Longmeadow, 1983.)
Omnibus of the three novels.
Time Machine and The Man Who Could Work Miracles, The (Pan 1953.)
Collection of the two stories.
Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, The (Millennium, 1999.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Time Machine and The Wonderful Visit, The (Unwin, 1924.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
Truth About Pyecraft and Other Short Stories, The (Polybooks, 1943.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Truth About Pyecraft and Other Stories, The (Vallancey, 1944.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Twelve Stories and a Dream (Macmillan, 1903, Scribner, 1905.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Twenty Eight Science Fiction Stories (Dover, 1952.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Valley of Spiders, The (London, 1930.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Valley of Spiders, The (Fontana, 1964.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Valley of Spiders and Other Stories, The (Haldeman Julius, 1931.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
War in the Air, The (Bell, 1908, Macmillan, 1908, Boni & Liveright, 1917, Unwin, 1926, Penguin, 1941, Bison, 2002.)
Future war between Germany and the US escalates to engulf the world.
War in the Air, In the Days of the Comet, and The Food of the Gods, The (Dover, 1963.)
Omnibus of the three novels.
War of the Worlds, The (Heinemann, 1898, Harper, 1898, Grosset, 1938, Dell, 1938, Armed Services, 1945, Penguin, 1946, Pocket, 1953, Looking Glass, 1960, Popular Library, 1962, Whitman, 1964, Berkley, 1964, Magnum, 1967, Scholastic, 1968, Golden Press, 1978, Ace, 1988, Pan, 1975, Andor, 1976, Aerie, 1988, Tor, 1988, Phoenix, 2004, BenBella, 2005.)
Martians invade and conquer much of the Earth before succumbing to Earthly disease organisms, against which they have no resistance.
War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man, The (Washington Square, 1962, Peerage, 1987.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
War of the Worlds and The Time Machine, The (Globe, 1956, Dolphin, 1961.)
Omnibus of the two novels.
War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The (Octopus, 1985.)
Omnibus of the three novels.
War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and Selected Short Stories, The (Platt & Munk, 1963.)
Omnibus of the two novels and unrelated stories.
When the Sleeper Wakes (Harper, 1899, Ace, 1959, Phoenix, 2004. Nelson, 1910, Collins, 1925, Bison, 2001, as The Sleeper Wakes.)
A man falls into a peculiar sleep and wakens after two centuries, where he explores a Utopian society.
World Set Free, The (Macmillan, 1914, Dutton, 1914, Unwin, 1926, Collins, 1956, Corgi, ?, Leisure, 1971. Bison, 2002, as The Last War: The World Set Free.)
A devastating war makes the human race rethink the purpose of science.
WELLS, MARTHA (Also writes Fantasy.)
Entanglement (Fandemonium, ?)
A Stargate novel.
The discovery of an alien artifact threatens disaster.
Reliquary (Fandemonium, 2006.)
A Stargate novel.
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Candle in the Sun (Berkley, 1971.)
Earth is flooded and the only human survivors are in domed undersea cities. Then the aliens come, having prepared the planet for their own way of life.
Parasaurians, The (Berkley, 1969.)
Giant robot dinosaurs are created to make a very exclusive amusement park, but death becomes more likely when a killer decides to use the park to further his ends.
Right Handed Wilderness (Ballantine, 1973.)
Scientists develop the ultimate adaptive lifeform, but when it's out of control, it's the most dangerous thing on Earth.
Spacejacks, The (Berkley, 1975.)
A space salvage company gets involved with a mysterious alien ship that is spying on the solar system.
WENK, RICHARD
Batman: The Doomsday Prophecy (Archway, 1986.)
A Which Way book.
A multi-path gamebook pitting Batman against the Joker and the Riddler.
WENTWORTH, K.D. (See also collaboration with Eric Flint.)
Black on Black (Baen, 1999.)
Heyoka Blackeagle #1.
A large humanoid alien has been raised as a human and eventually becomes the leader of a small band of mercenaries.
House of Moons (Del Rey, 1995.)
Tal #2.
A woman who trains people with mental talents runs into trouble with a man armed with mind control technology.
Imperium Game, The (Del Rey, 1994.)
Computers run a replica of ancient Rome where people can role play to their heart's content. But someone has altered the programming and has already committed at least one real murder.
Moonspeaker (Del Rey, 1994, Hawk, 2001.)
Tal #1.
A woman gets caught in a power struggle and her extraordinary mental powers aren't enough to extricate her.
Stars over Stars (Baen, 2001.)
Heyoka Blackeagle #2.
An alien raised as a human stays behind enemy lines on an occupied planet rather than abandon his human friends.
WENTZ, MICHAEL L.
Resurrection of Liberty (Novalibre, 2005.)
A teenager and an ancient starship battle an alien empire.
Star of the Unborn (Viking, 1946, Bantam, 1976.)
A grand tour of a very distant future where most of the problems of today have been solved.
One Helluva Blow (Gold Star, 1964.)
A nuclear weapon has been buried somewhere in California and extortionists want a big payoff or they'll set it off.
Tarzan and the Abominable Snowmen (Gold Star, 1965.)
New Tarzan #4.
Tarzan is captured and forced to fight abominable snowmen in an arena.
Tarzan and the Cave City (Gold Star, 1964.)
New Tarzan #2.
Tarzan stops treasure hunters and gets caught in a war between two lost cities.
Tarzan and the Silver Globe (Gold Star, 1964.)
New Tarzan #1.
First in an unauthorized series of Tarzan adventures. Tarzan travels to Opar where he defeats alien invaders from outer space.
Tarzan and the Snake People (Gold Star, 1964.)
New Tarzan #3.
Tarzan fights to restore peace between two lost cities, one of which is inhabited by non-human beings.
Tarzan and the Winged Invaders (Gold Star, 1965.)
New Tarzan #5.
Mutants from the far future travel to contemporary Africa to suck the life from the local inhabitants.
WESSEX, MARTYN (Pseudonym of D.F. Little.)
Chain Reaction, The (Hale, 1976.)
Not seen.
Slowing Down Process, The (Hale, 1974.)
Not seen.
Stratosphere Express (Wright & Brown, 1936.)
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WEST, ANTHONY.
Another Kind (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951, Houghton Mifflin, 1932.)
A new English civil war.
WEST, CARL (See collaboration with Katherine MacLean.)
WEST, J.
My Afterdream (Unwin, 1900.)
A rebuttal to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy.
Chilekings, The (Ballantine, 1967. Originally published as a novella in 1954 as Little Men.)
Mutant children are much superior to their parents.
Empire of the Ants (Ace, 1977, based on the screenplay by Jack Turley, inspired by the short story by H.G. Wells.)
Giant ants take over a town, using mental powers to enslave the humans, and prepare to conquer the world.
WEST, MORRIS L.
Clowns of God, The (Morrow, 1981.)
An insane Pope believes the world is ending.
Navigator, The (Morrow, 1976.)
A Utopia on a hidden island.
Shoes of the Fisherman, The (Morrow, 1963, Dell, 1964.)
Marginal thriller about a future Pope who intercedes to prevent a nuclear war.
20/20 Vision (Del Rey, 1990.)
A detective believes she has solved a crime committed decades previously, so she uses time travel to bring a clue back to a detective who might be able to bring the criminal to justice, inadvertently changing the course of history.
Universe, and Other Fictions, The (Overlook, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Bird of Time, The (Gnome, 1959, Ace, 1960.)
Human colonists clash with the original inhabitants of Mars when they begin to exploit the dying world.
Everlasting Exiles, The (Avalon, 1967.)
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Lords of Atlantis (Avalon, 1960, Airmont, 1963.)
The nation of Atlantis was founded by humans who had colonized Mars, then returned when that world died. Their imposition of rule over the inhabitants of Earth leads to a catastrophic battle.
Memory Bank, The (Avalon, 1961, Airmont, 1962. Magazine version 1951 as The Dark Tower.)
After the destruction of Earth, humanity creates a gigantic memory bank on another world to store human personalities, but some suspect that this effort to achieve immortality will weaken the race.
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River of Time (Avalon, 1963.)
A group of time travelers attempt to prevent the assassination of Julius Caesar.
A parallel universe exists where time works differently, and where you can store time to be enjoyed later.
Futuretrack 5 (Kestrel, 1983, Greenwillow, 1984, Puffin, 1985.)
A teenager tries to balance security with the need for freedom in a repressive future society.
Gulf (Methuen, 1992, Scholastic, 1992.)
A boy is telepathically linked to an Iraqi soldier.
Phantom City, The (Harper, 1886.
A lost world novel.
Queer Race, A (Cassell, 1887.)
A subset of the English mutate.
WESTCOTT, C.T.
Blood and Bone (Dell, 1989.)
Eagleheart #3.
A pilot accepts a mission to rescue a girl held prisoner by a lawless band of mutants.
Broadsides and Brass (Dell, 1989.)
Eagleheart #2.
To get back into the good graces of the Army, a man infiltrates one of the criminal gangs that rose to power in post apocalypse America.
Silver Wings and Leather Jackets (Dell, 1989.)
Eagleheart #1.
A teenager decides to avenge his father's death by flying a fighter jet in a post nuclear war America.
WESTERFELD, SCOTT
Evolution's Darling (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1999.)
Despite her father's wishes, a young woman teaches the computer in their spaceship to be self aware, which means it must be given its freedom.
Fine Prey (Roc, 1998.)
Aliens dominate the Earth, and although they seem willing to teach their technology to humans, some wonder if the loss of independence is worth it, and whether or not the aliens are telling the whole truth.
Killing of Worlds, The (Tor, 2003.)
Succession #2.
A brilliant spaceship captain launches a desperate effort to prevent a band of machine augmented humans from destroying an interstellar empire.
Polymorph (Roc, 1997.)
A shapeshifter can switch from sex to sex but finds herself battling another of her kind with less compunctions about using his powers for evil purposes.
Pretties (Simon Pulse, 2005.)
Uglies #2.
A teenager who accepted an operation to make her beautiful is reluctant to give it up in a world where prettiness is everything.
Risen Empire, The (Tor, 2003.)
Succession #1.
The human interstellar empire is ruled by a man who has achieved a king of virtual immortality, but he is opposed by a group who wish to spread artificial intelligences throughout the galaxy.
So Yesterday (Razorbill, 2004.)
Advertising executives discover that there are secret forces working within humanity.
Uglies (Simon Pulse, 2005.)
Uglies #1.
In a future when beauty is arranged by surgical treatment, a teenager learns to rebel against conformity.
WESTERMAN, JOHN F.
Power Projector, The (Oxford, 1933.)
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WESTERMAN, PERCY F.
Dreadnought of the Air, The (Partridge, 1914.)
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Flying Submarine, The (Nisbet, 1912.)
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Secret Battleplane, The (Partridge, 1916.)
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Downfall (Bantam, 1972. Little, Brown, 1971, as Lighter Than a Feather.)
An alternate history in which the US did not develop the atomic bomb and had to invade the Japanese Islands with ground troops.
Lighter Than a Feather (See Downfall.)
WESTLAKE, DONALD E. (See also Timothy Culver and Curtis Clark.)
Curious Facts Preceding My Execution and Other Fictions, The (Random House, 1968.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Tomorrow's Crimes (Mysterious Press, 1989.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Utopian, The (Carcanet, 1989.)
A contemporary person is linked to another version of himself hundreds of years in the future.
Comet Z (See His First Million Women.)
His First Million Women (Rinehart, 1934, Avon, 1952. Methuen, 1934, as Comet Z.)
The story of the last fertile man in the world.
Return to Mars (Brown Watson, 1954.)
A typical heroic type discovers the secret of why the Martians abandoned their planet.
WESTON, SUSAN B.
Children of the Light (St Martins, 1985.)
One of the last fertile men in post-atomic war America has to decide whether or not to cooperate with a new religious movement that wants to avoid the errors of the past.
Return to Mars (Brown Watson, 1954.)
Humans investigate to find out why most Martians have abandoned their planet.
Sinister Forces (Brown Watson, 1953.)
A wandering planet appears to have been abandoned by its former occupants.
WETANSON, BURT & HOOBLER, THOMAS
Hunters, The (Doubleday, 1978, Playboy, 1979.)
Hunters #1.
A pair of persuasive missionaries convince a number of people to travel to an abandoned town, where they will be the prey of alien invaders,
Treasure Hunters, The (Playboy, 1983.)
Hunters #2.
A group of people are lured into an elaborate treasure hunt, which is actually the front for a plot by aliens to seize human prey.
Blueprint for Yesterday (Walker, 1971.)
In a mildly repressive future society, a young woman discovers that her grandfather was a rebel and decides to follow in his footsteps.
WETMORE, CLAUDE H.
Sweepers of the Sea (?, 1900.)
Attempts are made to unite South America under Incan rule.
WEVERKA, ROBERT (See also collaboration which follows.)
Moonrock (Bantam, 1973, based on the screenplay by Leslie Stevens.)
Probe #2.
A private investigator gets involved with a trip to the moon.
Search (Bantam, 1973, based on the screenplay by Leslie Stevens.)
Probe #1.
First in a television series about a man who uses high tech equipment as a private investigator.
WEVERKA, ROBERT & SELLIER, CHARLES E. JR.
Hangar 18 (Bantam, 1980, based on the screenplay by Steven Thornley, Tom Chapman, and James L. Conway.)
Private citizens stumble across the discovery that the government is secretly in contact with aliens.
WHARTON, A.
Man on the Hill, The, Unwin, 1923.
A revolution in England.
Divine Intervention (Ace, 2001.)
A remote colony world with a religious government decides not to allow a new shipload of colonists to land.
WHEATLEY, DENNIS
Black August (Hutchinson, 1934, Dutton, 1934, Arrow, 1960.)
Marginal adventure involving a communist plot to seize control of England.
Fabulous Valley, The (Hutchinson, 1934, Arrow, 1958.)
A lost world novel.
Into the Unknown (Hutchinson, 1960.)
Omnibus of Sixty Days to Live, Star of Ill Omen, and Curtain of Fear.
Island Where Time Stands Still, The (Hutchinson, 1954.)
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Lost Continent, The (Arrow, 1965. Hutchinson, 1938, Arrow, 1960 as Uncharted Seas.)
A group of sailors get caught in a gigantic mass of seaweed which has been trapping ships for hundreds of years.
Man Who Missed the War, The (Hutchinson, 1945, Arrow, 1966.)
A lost world novel.
Sixty Days to Live (Hutchinson, 1939, Arrow, 1960.)
Only a handful of people survive when a comet collides with the Earth.
Star of Ill Omen (Hutchinson, 1952, Arrow, 1955.)
A British secret agent must form an alliance with a Russian spy to thwart aliens who plan to destroy the world.
They Found Atlantis (Hutchinson, 1936, Lippincott, 1936, Arrow, 1953, Ballantine, 1973.)
A group of treasure seekers find remnants of the lost Atlantis.
Uncharted Seas (See The Lost Continent.)
Worlds Far from Here (Hutchinson, 1952..)
Omnibus of The Man Who Missed the War, They Found Atlantis, and The Lost Continent.
Jaydium (DAW, 1993.)
An ambitious woman working on a mining world takes a questionable assignment and is inadvertently sent back through time to an earlier age when an alien race ruled the world.
Northlight (DAW, 1995.)
On a primitive colony world, a woman seeks to find her missing friend, and becomes caught up in sinister political turmoil.
Krone Experiment, The (Pressworks, 1986, Onyx, 1988.)
Someone has destroyed a Soviet aircraft carrier and Russian and US space weapons have been deployed. Who is really behind the attack?
Last Mayday, The (Doubleday, 1968, Pyramid, 1969.)
An American agent tries to smuggle the ex-premier of the Soviet Union out of the country in the midst of tensions that could result in nuclear war.
Friendly Persuaders, The (Hutchinson, 1968.)
A delegation of apparently benevolent aliens arrives on Earth.
Chance to Remember, A (Wildside, 2004.)
A pair of wandering space explorers run into various kinds of trouble.
Starship for Hire (Wildside, 2001.)
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Matters of Form (DAW, 1987.)
Humans are being helped to develop their technology by a race of immortal shapechanging aliens who are marooned on Earth, but another, less friendly alien species is about to discover humanity.
Lost Threshold (Phillipps, 1968.)
An underground lost world. For younger readers.
Crusaders, The (Target, 1965.)
A Doctor Who book.
The Doctor travels back through time to the Crusades and meets Richard the Lionhearted.
Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (Avon, 1964.)
A Doctor Who book.
The Tardis arrives on the planet Skaros where a desperate people are destroyed when one of their number creates a race of half organic, half machine cyborgs with a relentless hatred for all other forms of life.
Attack on America (Houghton Mifflin, 1939.)
Future war novel in which Europe unites and invades the US.
Seven Tickets to Singapore (?, 1939.)
Spy thriller involving a death ray.
WHITE, D.E.
Jettison (White, 2000.)
A man searches through space for the woman he loves.
WHITE, FRED M.
White Battalions, The (?, 1900.)
A change in climate affects the outcome of a future European war.
WHITE, J. (See collaboration with W.G. Moffat.)
Alien Emergencies (Tor, 2002, Orb, 2002.)
Omnibus of Ambulance Ship, Sector General, and Star Healer.
Aliens Among Us, The (Ballantine, 1969, Corgi, 1970.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
All Judgment Fled (Rapp & Whiting, 1968, Walker, 1969, Ballantine, 1970, Old Earth Books, 1996.)
The first contact with intelligent aliens is complicated by the stupid political maneuverings among government officials.
Ambulance Ship (Del Rey, 1979. Corgi, 1980, revised.)
Hospital Station #4.
A human doctor is perplexed when he and his associates are transferred from their jobs aboard the hospital station to the relatively minor posting of ambulance ship technicians.
Beginning Operations (Tor, 2001.
Omnibus of Hospital Station, Star Surgeon, and Major Operation.
Code Blue – Emergency (Del Rey, 1987, Orbit, 1989.)
Hospital Station #7.
A newly assigned doctor aboard the hospital station is still suffering from mild xenophobia, and many of her efforts to help cause minor disasters.
Dark Inferno (See Lifeboat.)
Deadly Litter (Ballantine, 1964, Corgi, 1968.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Double Contact (Tor, 1999.)
Hospital Station #12.
Doctors respond to a distress call and discover two previously unknown alien species, which have nearly destroyed each other in a war.
Dream Millennium, The (Ballantine, 1974, Corgi, ?)
A starship searches the galaxy looking for a new home for the human race, because Earth is being overwhelmed by pollution.
Escape Orbit (Ace, 1965. Four Square, 1965, as Open Prison.)
A group of humans are taken prisoner by aliens during an interstellar war. Rather than being placed in a conventional prison, they are marooned on a world of monsters with a warship orbiting to prevent them from being rescued.
Federation World (Del Rey, 1988, Orbit, 1990.)
Earth has been invited as a possible new tenant of part of a Dyson Sphere so large that many intelligent races have already relocated en masse. The protagonist is one of those trained for the initial contact.
Final Diagnosis (Tor, 1997.)
Hospital Station #10.
Doctors in a spacegoing hospital must cope with the first virus that seems to travel from species to species, in defiance of what they previously believed to be an inviolate biological rule.
First Protector, The (Tor, 2000.)
An Earth: Final Conflict novel.
An alien visits primitive Ireland as part of his effort to evaluate the human race.
Futures Past (Del Rey, 1982, Orbit, 1988. The two editions have slightly different contents.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Galactic Gourmet, The (Tor, 1996.)
Hospital Station #9.
A famous chef travels to Sector General with the avowed intention of finding a way to make hospital food palatable.
General Practice (Tor, 2003, Orb, 2003.)
Omnibus of Code Blue: Emergency and The Genocidal Healer.
Genocidal Healer, The (Del Rey, 1992.)
Hospital Station #8.
A doctor who inadvertently wiped out an entire planet's population is now involved with a delicate first contact.
Hospital Station (Ballantine, 1962, Corgi, 1967.)
Hospital Station #1.
Episodic adventures set in a vast orbiting station that is a hospital that is designed to treat members of any of the numerous sentient races of the galaxy.
Interpreter, The (Birmingham SF Group, 1985, bound with A Novacon Garland by David Langford.)
Short story in pamphlet form.
Lifeboat (Ballantine, 1972. Joseph, 1972, as Dark Inferno.)
A newly assigned doctor on an interstellar passenger ship is put to the test when an unexpected disaster incapacitates the ship.
Major Operation (Ballantine, 1971, Orbit, 1987.)
Hospital Station #3.
Collection of related stories set aboard a hospital in space.
Mind Changer (Tor, 1998.)
Hospital Station #11.
Turmoil erupts as a new chief administrator takes over Sector General.
Monsters and Medics (Del Rey, 1977, Corgi, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Open Prison (See Escape Orbit.)
Second Ending (Ace, 1962, bound with The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany.)
A man wakens from suspended animation to discover that Earth is deserted of all human life and populated exclusively by robots.
Secret Visitors, The (Ace, 1957, bound with Master of Life and Death by Robert Silverberg. Digit, 1961. Magazine title was Tourist Planet.)
A doctor is treating what is thought to be a spy but which turns out to be one of several aliens secretly studying the Earth.
Sector General (Del Rey, 1983, Orbit, 1987.)
Hospital Station #5.
Collection of related stories set aboard a hospital in space.
Silent Stars Go By, The (Del Rey, 1991.)
In an alternate history, a kingdom of Ireland discovered and opened trade with the new world, and generations later it launched the first voyage to the stars.
Star Healer (Del Rey, 1984, Orbit, 1987.)
Hospital Station #6.
One of the doctors who has worked aboard a hospital station for years is given the opportunity to become the head of operations.
Star Surgeon (Ballantine, 1963, Corgi, 1967. Magazine title was Field Hospital.)
Hospital Station #2.
Further episodic adventures in a hospital in space catering to alien clients.
Tomorrow Is Too Far (Ballantine, 1971, Joseph, 1971.)
A secret research project is proceeding with a very unusual method of investigating time and space.
Underkill (Corgi, 1979.)
Humans are nearly exterminated by aliens.
Watch Below, The (Whiting & Wheaton, 1966, Ballantine, 1966, Corgi, 1967, Old Earth Books, 1996.)
A group of people trapped under the ocean interact with aliens who have survived the destruction of their water world.
White Papers, The (NESFA, 1996.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Comet (Hamilton, 1975, Harper & Row, 1976.)
A comet changes Earth's climate and causes the end of technological civilization.
Death by Dreaming (Apple Wood, 1981, Ace, 1982.)
A man is trapped in a dream from which he cannot waken. A woman uses psi powers to enter his dream and lead him back to reality.
Land of the Possible, The (Warner, 1979.)
Typical pedantic Utopian speculation.
WHITE, RANDY WAYNE
Dark Light (Berkley, 2006.)
Marginal thriller set after an unprecedentedly powerful hurricane hits Florida.
Typhoon (Jove, 2004.)
Marginal thriller about a Russian submarine plotting a worldwide environmental change.
WHITE, STEVE (See also collaborations with David Weber and those which follow.)
Blood of the Heroes (Baen, 2006.)
An expedition back to the Bronze Age runs into trouble.
Debt of Ages (Baen, 1995.)
Aliens #3.
Somewhat confusing nonsense about contact between the space force of the future and King Arthur's Britain.
Disinherited, The (Baen, 1993.)
Aliens #1.
Peaceful aliens arrive on Earth, warning of nastier creatures who will soon arrive. Unfortunately, the American military space force has been largely deactivated.
Eagle Against the Stars (Baen, 2000.)
Aliens arrive on Earth and impose their rule in the name of free trade, although they are actually bleeding the planet of its resources. But humans have a way of subverting their conquerors.
Emperor of Dawn (Baen, 1999.)
Empire #2.
Centuries after the human empire was saved from rebellion, a weak emperor throws things into chaos again and a new set of heroes must rise to save the day.
Forge of the Titans (Baen, 2003.)
A military officer learns that he's a latent telepath when he's enlisted in a secret government organization.
Legacy (Baen, 1995.)
Aliens #2.
Earth's battle with nasty aliens gets more complicated when time travel is thrown into the mix.
Prince of Sunset (Baen, 1998.)
Empire #1.
The human interstellar empire has grown soft and a new movement is growing to overthrow the old order with a new, more rigid government. Three recent military graduates are about to play a crucial role in thwarting these revolutionary ambitions.
Prometheus Project, The (Baen, 2005.)
A traitor threatens to expose the fact that humanity has been hoaxing an alien race.
Saint Anthony's Fire (Baen, 2008.)
Alternate history in which Spain has alien technology.
WHITE, STEVE & MEIER, SHIRLEY
Exodus (Baen, 2007.)
This An alien race which believes in reincarnation launches an all out war against humans and their allies.
Sign at Six, The (Bobbs-Merrill, 1912. Magazine version as The City of Dread.)
Thriller involving the invention of a new means of communication.
WHITE, TED (See also Norman Edwards, collaboration with Dave Van Arnam as Ron Archer, and collaborations which follow.)
Android Avenger (Ace, 1965, bound with The Altar on Asconel by John Brunner.)
Tanner #1.
A man discovers that he has superhuman powers and that his body occasionally commits an assassination independent of his control.
By Furies Possessed (Signet, 1970, Pocket, 1980.)
A human discovers that he has helped bring to Earth a being possessed by an alien parasite, one who forms a new religion whose hidden purpose is the destruction of the human race.
Great Gold Steal, The (Bantam, 1968.)
A Captain America adventure.
The patriotic superhero foils the plan by three super villains to steal the entire gold reserve of the US government.
Jewels of Elsewhen, The (Belmont, 1967.)
On a routine trip home from work, a man is propelled into another dimension where there are very few real people.
No Time Like Tomorrow (Crown, 1969.)
For young adults.
Secret of the Marauder Satellite (?, 1968, Berkley, 1978.)
A young man whose job is to recover derelict space debris uncovers evidence that an alien force is orbiting the Earth.
Spawn of the Death Machine, The (Paperback Library, 1968.)
Tanner #2.
An android discovers that human civilization was destroyed by the computer that was designed to make society function properly, and that he is now being used as a tool to complete the extermination of humanity.
Trouble on Project Ceres (Westminster, 1971.)
Someone is sabotaging an experimental project which is designed to find new food sources for the vastly overpopulated earth.
Forbidden World (Popular Library, 1978.)
Space explorers find a strange world which seems impossibly to have been designed to offer them exactly what they've been personally searching for.
Sideslip (Pyramid, 1968.)
A man from our world finds himself in an alternate reality where aliens invaded the Earth during the second world war and helped the Nazis win.
WHITE, T.H.
Master, The (Jonathan Cape, 1957, Putnam, 1957, Peacock, 1964, Blackie, 1967, Avon Camelot, 1967.)
Two children and a dog are captured by a supergenius plotting to rule the world.
Breathing Space Only (Void, 1980, Ace, 1986.)
The ecology of Earth has decayed toward ruin, and only in Australia are there remnants of a higher civilization. Then the descendants of human colonists return from the stars to help their homeworld.
Hyades Contact, The (Ace, 1987.)
A group of people are kidnapped by an apparently hostile alien race and marooned on a dangerous but earthlike planet to survive as best they can.
Lake of the Sun (Ace, 1989.)
The first expedition lands on Mars, told from the point of view of the Martians who view it as an invasion.
Sapphire Road (Cory & Collins, 1982, Ace, 1986.)
Rival commercial interests race to be the first to reach another star system.
Specialist, The (Ace, 1990.)
A reporter travels to Mars to investigate rumors of a visitor from another star system, and someone promptly begins trying to kill him.
Thor's Hammer (Cory & Collins, 1983, Ace, 1985.)
A renegade hides in the asteroid belt, threatening to use his equipment and skills to destroy the Earth. A crack agent is sent in to get him and discovers more than he bargained for.
WHITEHEAD, ROBERT (See collaboration with William Odell.)
WHITEHOUSE, WES
Scurrying, The (Futura, 1983.)
The rat population in London explodes and the creatures emerge to seek human prey.
WHITELAW, SONNY (See also collaborations which follow.)
City of the Gods (Fandemonium, ?)
A Stargate novel.
Scientists get marooned on a dying world.
WHITELAW, SONNY & CHRISTENSEN, ELIZABETH
Blood Ties (Fandemonium, ?)
A Stargate Novel.
Alien DNA may have infected some humans.
Exogenesis (Fandemonium, ?)
A Stargate novel.
A group of humans visits an alien world.
WHITELAW, SONNY & FALLON, JENNIFER
Roswell (Fandemonium, ?)
A Stargate novel.
Two people get caught in the wrong timeline.
Kidnapped in Space (Tiger, 1969.)
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Warning from Mars, A (Interplanetary Publications, 1948.)
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WHITESIDE, THOMAS
Alone Through the Dark Sea (Brazilier, 1964.)
Three novelets only one of which is SF.
Scanners (Tower, 1980, Mayflower, 1981, based on the screenplay by David Cronenberg.)
Mutant humans begin to emerge who can use psi powers to explode the brains of their enemies.
WHITMAN, JOHN
Army of Terror (Bantam, 1997.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #6.
A hideous monster is lurking on a remote planet, ready to surprise a new set of visitors.
Brain Spiders, The (Bantam, 1997.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #7.
Several young adventures have adventures involving disembodied brains in robot bodies.
City of the Dead (Bantam, 1997.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #2.
A group of youngsters are visiting a remote planet in search of a new starship when they pay a visit to a mysterious cemetery filled with fearful creatures. For younger readers.
Clones (Bantam, 1998.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #11.
A young girl spots Darth Vader on her world and realizes he has come to track her down.
Doomsday Ship, The (Bantam, 1998.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #10.
Two youngsters are trapped aboard a starship after the alarms go off causing everyone else to flee.
Eaten Alive (Bantam, 1997.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #1.
An intrepid young woman tries to solve the mystery of people who vanish into thin air on a remote planet. For younger readers.
Empire Strikes Back, The (Chronicle, 1997, from the screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan.)
Adaptation for younger readers.
Ghost of the Jedi (Bantam, 1997.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #5.
Refugees hide aboard an abandoned space station, and are confronted by what appears to be a genuine ghost.
Hunger, The (Bantam, 1998.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #12.
Explorers find the crew of a long lost survey ship who somehow managed to survive on a relentlessly hostil world. But have they been changed by their experiences?
Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (Chronicle, 1997, from the screenplay by David Koepp.)
Adaptation of the film for younger readers.
Nightmare Machine, The (Bantam, 1997.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #4.
An amusement park attraction is designed to scare you by implanting images in your brain, but the young hero of this series discovers that it has a more sinister purpose.
Planet Plague (Bantam, 1997.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #3.
While exploring ancient ruins on a backwater world, a young girl discovers evidence that the Empire has created a new plague as their last ditch weapon against the rebellion. For younger readers.
Return of the Jedi, The (Chronicle, 1997, from the screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas.)
Adaptation for younger readers.
Spore (Bantam, 1998.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #9.
A visit to a mining colony nearly turns into disaster when a dangerous lifeform turns up.
Star Wars (Chronicle, 1997, from the screenplay by George Lucas.)
Adaptation for younger readers.
Swarm, The (Bantam, 1998.)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear #8.
Deadly insects react to the killing of one of their kind by attacking every offworlder who is unwary.
Winter's Daughter (Avon, 1984.)
Following a nuclear war that destroys most of the industrialized world, a young woman proves instrumental in helping to create a new civilization.
Ruins of Dantooine, The (Del Rey, 2004.)
A Star Wars novel.
Two adventurers must seize some critical documentation before it falls into the hands of the evil Darth Vader.
Deep Freeze (Manor, 1977.)
A terminally ill man wakens from suspended animation into a strange future world.
Attar of the Ice Valley (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1968.)
A novel of prehistory.
Beware of the Mouse (Putnam, 1958, Borgo, 1978.)
Prequel to the Grand Fenwick series.
Marginal story about the founding of the independent duchy of Grand Fenwick.
Encounter Near Venus (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1967, Macdonald, 1968.)
Space #1.
Teens travel to a planet located near Venus.
Journey to Untor (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1970.)
Space #2.
For younger readers.
Mouse on the Moon, The (Morrow, 1962, Bantam, 1963, Muller, 1964.)
Grand Fenwick #2.
Grand Fenwick gets involved in a space race and beats the US and the Soviet Union to the moon.
Mouse on Wall Street, The (Morrow, 1969, Bantam, 1971.)
Grand Fenwick #3.
The tiny kingdom inadvertently sets off a worldwide financial crisis.
Mouse That Roared, The (Bantam, 1959, Corgi, 1959, Chatto & Windus, 1964, Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2002. Little, Brown, 1955, Hale, 1955, as The Wrath of Grapes. Magazine title was The Day New York Was Invaded.)
Grand Fenwick #1.
In order to supplement its economy, a tiny nation declares war on the US. A superweapon forces the US to capitulate.
Mouse That Saved the West, The (Morrow, 1981.)
Mouse #5.
Grand Fenwick solves the oil crisis.
One in Four (Morrow, 1986.)
The world is menaced by entities from the future.
Take Me to Your President (Putnam, 1957.)
Marginal story about a future peace conference.
Wrath of Grapes, The (See The Mouse That Roared.)