Science Fiction

05 Sep 2024 13:32

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I pledge allegiance to the form
of science fiction and fantasy
and to the promise for which it stands:
one world,
polycultural,
genetically engineered,
with Internet access for all.

--- Tonio Roque

I've spun off my list of recommendations into a separate page.

The distinction between science fiction and fantasy, like that between animal and plant, is sometimes unclear; still, it doesn't do to call Dunsany SF any more than it does to give your true love a bouquet of hippopotami.

On-line SF resources (author's pages are on the recommendations page):
• Infinite Matrix
• David Langford and Ansible
• SFF Net [now (2023) defunct after long service]

To read, SF;
• Chingiz Aitmatov, The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
• Brian Aldiss
  • Helliconia Summer
  • Helliconia Winter
  • Hothouse
• Poul Anderson
  • A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
  • Tau Zero
• Patricia Anthony
  • Conscience of the Beagle
  • Happy Policeman
• Eleanor Arnason
  • The Sword Smith
  • Mammoths of the Great Plains
  • To the Resurrection Station
  • A Woman of the Iron People
• Madeline Ashby, vN [sequels if I end up liking that one]
• Isaac Asimov
  • Caves of Steel
  • The Naked Sun
  • The Gods Themselves
• A. A. Attanasio
  • Last Legends of Earth
  • Radix
• Kage Baker
  • The Empress of Mars
  • Dark Mondays
  • Mother Aegypt and Other Stories
• Iain M. Banks
  • Against a Dark Background
  • The Algebraist
  • The Bridge
  • Feersum Endjinn
  • The Culture:
    2. The Player of Games
    4. The State of the Art
    5. Excession
    8. Matter
    10. The Hydrogen Sonata
• John Barnes [Memo to self: Kaleidescope Century and Mother of Storms are both reported to be pointlessly unpleasant by Reliable Sources...]
  • Finity
  • A Million Open Doors
  • Orbital Resonance
• Elizabeth Bear
  • All the Windwracked Stars
  • Ancestral Night
  • Carnival
  • Dust
  • Hammered, Scardown, Worldwired
  • Undertow
• Greg Bear
  • Dead Lines
  • Darwin's Radio
  • Eon and Eternity
  • Moving Mars
  • Strength of Stones
• Chris Beckett, Holy Machine
• K. A. Bedford, Hydrogen Steel
• J. M. Berger, Optimal
• Lauren Beukes, Zoo City
• Lloyd Biggle, Monument [Humanity as the stupid alien invader with superior weaponry...]
• Terry Bisson, Bears Discover Fire
• John Boyd
  • The Pollinators of Eden
  • The Rakehells of Heaven
• Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
• Damien Broderick
  • Godplayers
  • Transcension
  • The White Abacus
• John Brunner
  • Age of Miracles
  • Bedlam Planet
  • Catch a Falling Star
  • To Conquer Chaos
  • The Crucible of Time
  • The Dramaturges of Yan
  • From This Day Forward
  • The Jagged Orbit
  • Listen!
  • The Long Result
  • The Maze of Stars
  • Muddle-Earth
  • Players at the Game of People
  • The Polymath
  • The Productions of Time
  • The Sheep Look Up
  • The Stars
  • Timescoop
• Steven Brust, Cobwoy Feng's Space Bar and Grill
• Tobias Bucknell, Crystal Rain
• M. M. Buckner, Watermind
• Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Dreamweaver's Dilemma
  • Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
• Emma Bull, Falcon
• Octavia Butler
  • Patternist series;
    3. Clay's Ark
    4. Survivor
    5. Patternmaster
  • Earthseed series
    1. Parable of the Sower
    2. Parable of the Talents
  • Xenogenesis series
    1. Dawn
    2. Adulthood Rites
    3. Imago
• Pat Cadigan
  • Synners
  • Tea from an Empty Cup
• Jeffrey Carver, The Infinity Link
• Adam-Troy Castro, The Third Claw of God
• Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
• Suzy McKee Charnas
  • Motherlines
  • The Furies
• C. J. Cherryh
  • 40,000 in Gehenna
  • Tripoint
  • The Faded Sun
  • Collected Short Fiction
  • Port Eternity
  • Finity's End
  • Brother to Earth
  • Wave without a Shore
  • Serpent's Reach
  • Regenesis
• Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life
• Deborah Christian, Mainline
• Arthur Clarke [None of his "collaborations" are worth your time]
  • 1984: Spring --- A Choice of Futures [Nonfiction]
  • 3001
  • Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography
  • Collected Stories
  • The Exploration of Space [Nonfiction]
  • Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! Collected Essays, 1934--1998
  • The Lions of Comarre
  • Profiles of the Future
  • Report on Planet Three
  • The Snows of Olympus: A Garden on Mars
  • The Wind from the Sun
• Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl, The Last Theorem [an exception to the rule above]
• Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity
• Brenda Clough
  • How Like a God
  • The Doors of Death and Life
  • Speak to Our Desires
• John Clute, Appleseed
• Michael Cobley, Seeds of Earth
• Alfred Coppel, Glory
• Richard Cowper, The Road to Corlay
• Sara Creasy, Children of Scarabaeus
• Maurice G. Dantec, Babylon Babies
• Avram Davidson
  • The Enemy of My Enemy
  • Masters of the Maze
  • The Redward Edward Papers
  • Mutiny in Space
• Bradley Denton, Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede
• Marianne de Pierres, Peacemaker [Review at Tor.com]
• Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, The Rapture of the Nerds
• Terry Dowling, Wormwood
• Gardner Dozois (ed.), The New Space Opera
• George Alec Effinger
  • Heroics
  • What Entropy Means to Me
• Greg Egan
  • Axiomatic [Review by Danny Yee]
  • The Dark Integers, and Other Stories
  • Diaspora
  • Incandescence
  • Luminous [No US edition; contains stories from first collection, Our Lady of Chernobyl]
  • Quarantine [Review by Danny Yee]
  • Schild's Ladder
  • Teranesia
  • An Unusual Angle [1st novel, out of print]
• Harlan Ellison
  • Approaching Oblivion
  • The Deadly Streets
  • Edgeworks
  • I, Robot [Screenplay based on Asimov's robot stories; unfilmable.]
  • Slippage
• Carol Emshwiller, The Secret City
• M. J. Engh, Arslan
• Joe Clifford Faust, A Death of Honor
• Sheila Finch, The Guild of Xenolinguists
• John M. Ford
  • From the End of the Twentieth Century
  • Fugue State
  • Heat of Fusion
• Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary
• Valerie J. Freireich
  • Becoming Human
  • Testament
• C. S. Friedman, Madness Season
• Randall Garrett
  • Earth Invader [a.k.a. Anything You Can Do]
  • Starship Death
  • Unwise Child
  • Takeoff!
  • Takeoff Two!
• Mary Gentle
  • Golden Witchbreed
  • Ancient Light
• Amitav Ghosh, The Calcutta Chromosome
• William Gibson, Spook Country
• William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine
• Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever
• Kathy Ann Goonan
  • Queen City Jazz
  • In War Times
• Phyllis Gotlieb
  • Blue Apes
  • Doctor Umlaut's Earthly Kingdom [!?]
  • Heart of Red Iron
  • Sunburst
  • Why Should I Have All the Grief?
• Mira Grant, Feed
• Daryl Gregory, The Album of Dr. Moreau
• Nicola Griffith
  • Ammonite
  • The Blue Place
• Jon Courtenay Grimwood
  • Effendi
  • Pashazade
  • The End of the World Blues
• Joe Haldeman
  • Forever Free
  • Marsbound
  • Work Done for Hire
• Elizabeth Hand
  • The Winterlong Trilogy:
    1. Winterlong
    2. Aestival Tide
    3. Icarus Descending
  • Glimmering
• M. John Harrison
  • Light
  • Viriconium
• Zenna Henderson, The People: No Different Flesh
• Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship
• Jim C. Hines, Terminal Uprising
• Russell Hoban
  • The Lion of Boaz-Jachim and Jachim-Boaz
  • Ridley Walker [Read it in high school, can't remember a damn thing about it except that I'd probably like it better now]
• Ernest Hogan, High AzTech
• Holdstock, Earthwind
• Ceceilia Holland, Floating Worlds
• Kameron Hurley
  • The Light Brigade
  • The Stars Are Legion
  • Nyx series
    3. Rapture
    4. Apocalypse Nyx
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Alexander Jablokov
  • Carve the Sky
  • Deepdrive
  • A Deeper Sea
  • Nimbus
  • River of Dust
• K. W. Jeter
  • The Glass Hammer
  • Farewell Horizontal
  • Infernal Devices
  • Moorlock Night
• Simon Jimenez, The Vanished Birds
• Gwyneth Jones
  • Bold as Love
  • Flowerdust
  • North Wind
  • White Queen
• Richard Kadrey, Metrophage
• Janet Kagan, Hellspark
• James Patrick Kelly, Burn
• John Kessel
  • Good News from Outer Space
  • Corrupting Dr. Nice
• Caitlin R. Kiernan
  • A Is For Alien
  • The Dry Salvages
• Nancy Kress
  • Beggars in Spain
  • Dogs
  • Steal Across the Sky
• Mur Lafferty, Six Wakes
• Kristin Landon, The Dark Reaches
• David Langford
  • Different Kinds of Darkness
  • The Leaky Establishment
  • The Space Eater
  • Up Through an Empty House of Stars
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  • City of Illusion
  • Planet of Exile
  • Left Hand of Darkness
  • The Wind's 12 Quarters
  • The Lathe of Heaven
  • A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
  • The Telling
  • Voices
  • The Word for World Is Forest
  • The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas
  • The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories
    1. Where on Earth
    2. Outer Space, Inner Lands
• Fritz Leiber
  • The Green Millennium
  • The Wanderer
• Murray Leinster, First Contacts; The Essential Murray Leinster
• Stanislaw Lem
  • The Chain of Chance
  • Eden
  • Fiasco
  • Hospital of the Transfiguration
  • Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
  • Mortal Engines
  • Highcastle
  • Return from the Stars
  • The Investigation
  • Tales of Pirx the Pilot
  • A Stanislaw Lem Reader [Review by Danny Yee]
• Doris Lessing, Mara and Dann
• Jonathan Lethem
  • Amensia Moon
  • Girl in Landscape
  • Gun, with Occasional Music
  • As She Climbed Across the Table [about really falling in love with your experiment]
• Jane Lindskold, Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls
• Cixin Liu, The Dark Forest
• Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Sardonyx Net
• Ken MacLeod
  • The Corporation Wars
    1. Dissidence
    2. Insurgence
    3. Emergence
  • Descent
  • The Execution Channel
  • Giant Lizards from Another Star
  • The Human Front
  • Intrusion
  • Lightspeed
    1. Beyond the Hallowed Sky
    2. Beyond the Reach of Earth
  • Newton's Wake
  • The Night Sessions
  • The Stone Canal
• George R. R. Martin
  • The Armageddon Rag
  • Dying of the Light
  • Nightflyers
  • Portraits of His Children
  • Sandkings
• Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire
• David Marusek, Counting Heads
• Paul J. McAuley
  • Austral
  • Beyond the Burn Line
  • Cowboy Angels
  • Eternal Light
  • Evening's Empires
  • Four Hundred Billion Stars
  • The Invisible Country
  • The King of the Hill
  • Little Machines
  • Mind's Eye
  • Players
  • Of the Fall
  • Red Dust
  • Secret Harmonies
  • Stories from the Quiet War
  • Strange Angels
  • A Very British History
  • The White Devils
  • The Whole Wide World
• Michael McCloskey, The Trilisk Ruins
• Ian McDonald
  • Brasyl
  • The Broken Land [=Hearts, Hands and Voices]
  • Cyberabad Days
  • The Dervish House
  • Desolation Road
  • Empire Dreams
  • Evolution's Shore [=Chaga]
  • Kirinya [Sequel to Chaga]
  • Luna: New Moon [J. D. Nicoll is isn't taken with it, but McDonald has a lot of good will built up with me]
  • River of Gods
  • Sacrifice of Fools
  • Speaking in Tongues
  • Terminal Cafe [=Necroville]
• Sandra McDonald
  2. The Stars Down Under
  3. The Stars Blue Yonder
• Maureen McHugh
  • After the Apocalypse: Stories
  • Mission Child
  • Nekropolis
• Patricia McKillip, Moon-Flash = Moon-Flash and The Moon and the Face
• Sean McMullen, Eyes of the Calculor
• China Mieville, Embassytown
• Walter Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Laura Mixon, Glass Houses
• David Moles, Seven Cities of Gold
• James Morrow, This Is the Way the World Ends
• Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark
• C. L. Moore, Judgment Night
• Derryl Murphy, Wasps at the Speed of Sound
• Pat Murphy
  • Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell
  • The City, Not Long After
• Ramez Naam, Nexus
• Linda Nagata
  • Inverted Frontier series
    4. Blade
  • The Last Good Man
  • Light and Shadow: Eight Stories
  • Limits of Vision
  • Memory
  • Pacific Storm
  • The Red: Going Dark
  • Skye Object 3270a
  • Tech-Heaven
• Jamil Nasir
  • Distance Haze
  • Tower of Dreams
  • The Houses of Time
• Eric S. Nylund, Signal to Noise
• Annyn Atanielle Noel
  • The Duchess of Kneedeep
  • Speaker to Heaven
  • Murder on Usher's Planet
• Megan E. O'Keefe
  • Velocity Weapon
  • The Blighted Stars
• Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon
• Malka Older, Infomocracy
• Patrick O'Leary, Door Number Three
• Rebecca Ore, Becoming Alien et seq.
• Ada Palmer
  2. Seven Surrenders
  3. The Will to Battle
• Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
• Paul Park
  • All Those Vanishd Engines
  • Celestis
  • The Cult of Loving Kindness
  • The Sugar Festival
• Marge Piercy, He, She and It
• Doris Piserchia
  • A Billion Days of Earth
  • The Spinner
• Frederik Pohl
  • Platinum Pohl
  • The Way the Future Was
• Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, Gladiator-at-Law
• Rachel Pollack, Temporary Agency
• Adam Rakunas, Windswept
• Robert Reed
  • Beneath the Gated Sky
  • An Exaltation of Larks
  • Marrow
  • Sister Alice
  • Well of Stars
• Alastair Reynolds
  • Absolution Gap
  • Blue Remembered Earth
  • Chasm City
  • Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
  • Elysium Fire
  • Galactic North
  • House of Suns
  • Pushing Ice
  • Revenger
  • The Six Directions of Space
  • Terminal World
  • Zima Blue and Other Stories
• K. Richardson, Blood Orbit
• Keith Robertson, Pavane
• Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Antractica
  • Forty Signs of Rain et seq.
  • Galileo's Dream
  • Three Californias trilogy
  • Red Mars trilogy
  • 2312
  • Ministry for the Future
• Justina Robson
  • Silver Screen
  • Natural History
• Joanna Russ
  • The Adventures of Alyx
  • And Chaos Died
  • The Female Man
  • The Hidden Side of the Moon
  • Picnic on Paradise
  • Souls
• Richard Paul Russo
  • Carlucci [= omnibus of Destroying Angel, Carlucci's Edge and Carlucci's Heart]
  • Ship of Fools
• Geoff Ryman
  • Air
  • The Child Garden: A Low Comedy
• Nick Sagan, Idlewild
• Scott R. Sanders, The Engineer of Beasts
• William Sanders
  • The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan
  • Journey to Fusang
• Pamela Sargent
  • Venus of Dreams
  • Venus of Shadows
  • Earthseed
  • Shore of Women
  • Watchstar
• Robert Sawyer
  • Frameshift
  • Terminal Experiment
• John Scalzi
  • The Android's Dream
  • The Collapsing Empire
  • Lock In
• Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  • Nothing Sacred
  • Last Refuge
• Hilbert Schenck, Steam Bird
• Karl Schroeder
  • Ventus
  • Permanence
  • Lady of Mazes
• Melissa Scott, Dreamships
• James H. Schmitz
  • A Pride of Monsters
  • The Eternal Frontiers
• Carolyn See
  • Making History
  • Golden Days
• Carol Severance ["anthropological" sf]
• Sheckley, Options
• Lucius Shepard
  • Beast of the Heartland, and Other Stories
  • Kalimantan
  • Life During Wartime
• Joel Shepherd
  • Kill-Switch
  • Renegade
• Will Shetterly, Chimera
• Martin L. Shoemaker, The Last Dance
• Joel Shepherd, Renegade
• Sharon Shinn, Archangel
• Susan Shwartz, Second Chances
• Robert Silverberg
  • The Alien Years
  • Born with the Dead
  • Dying Inside
  • The Face of the Waters
  • The Gate of Worlds
  • Hot Sky at Midnight
  • Lord Valentine's Castle
  • The Man in the Maze
  • The Mountains of Majipoor
  • Thorns
  • Tower of Glass
• Clifford Simak
  • City
  • Ring Around the Sun
  • Cemetary World
  • Time Is the Simplest Thing
  • Time and Again
  • Way Station
• Dan Simmons
  • The Hollow Man
  • Ilium and Olympos
  • Muse of Fire
  • Phases of Gravity SF, he says]
• The Best of John Sladek
• Joan Slonczewski
  • Daughter of Elysium
  • The Wall Around Eden
  • The Children Star
  • Brainplague
• Cordwainer Smith (pseud. of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
  • Norstrilia
  • The Rediscovery of Mann: The Complete Short Science Fiction
• Kristine Smith
  2. Rules of Conflict
  3. Law of Survival
• Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward
• Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge, The Phoenix in Flight
• Wen Spencer, Endless Blue
• Brian Stableford, The Werewolves of London
• Olaf Stapeldon
  • Odd John
  • Sirius
• Allan Steele, The Tranquility Alternative
• Neal Stephenson, Anathem
• Bruce Sterling
  • The Artificial Kid
  • Gothic High-Tech
  • Globalhead
  • Involution Ocean
  • Robot Artists and Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories
  • Visionary in Residence
  • (ed.), Mirrorshades
• Caroline Stevermer, River Rats
• John E. Stith, Manhattan Transfer
• Charles Stross
  • Accelerando
  • Glasshouse
  • Neptune's Brood
  • Toast
• The Brothers Stugartski
  • The Final Circle of Paradise
  • Hard to Be a God
  • Noon: 22nd Century
• Theodore Sturgeon
  • The Dreaming Jewels
  • E Pluribus Unicorn
  • The Golden Helix
  • More than Human
  • Some of Your Blood
  • Venus Plus X
• Tricia Sullivan, Maul
• Michael Swanwick
  • Bones of the Earth
  • Dancing with Bears
  • The Dog Said Bow-Wow
  • Gravity's Angels
  • In the Drift
  • Tales of Old Earth
• Judith Tarr, Forgotten Suns
• Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race
• Jeffrey Thomas, Monstrocity
• Joyce Thompson, Conscience Palace
• "James Tiptree, Jr." (pseud. of the late Alice Sheldon)
  • Brightness Falls from the Air [Review by Danny Yee]
  • Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
  • Up the Walls of the World
• Wilson Tucker
  • Ice and Iron
  • The Year of the Quiet Sun
• Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
• Jack Vance [gets his own page]
• Jeff VanderMeer, Borne
• John Varley
  • The Barbie Murders
  • The Golden Globe
  • Mammoth
  • Millennium
  • The Ophiuchi Hotline
  • Steel Beach
  • Wizard
• Carrie Vaughn, Martians Abroad
• Joan Vinge
  • Eyes of Amber, and Other Stories
  • The Outcasts of Heaven's Belt
  • Snow Queen et seq.
• Vernor Vinge
  • A Fire Upon the Deep [Review by Danny Yee]
  • A Deepness in the Sky
• Elisabeth Vonarburg, The Silent City
• Howard Waldrop
• Sage Walker, Whiteout
• Jo Walton, My Real Children
• Andy Weir, The Martian
• Martha Wells
  • Artificial Condition
  • Exit Strategy
  • Rogue Protocol
• Cherry Wilder
  • Second Nature
  • Signs of Life
• Kate Wilhelm
  • The Best Defense
  • Crazy Time
  • The Killing Thing
  • Welcome, Chaos
  • Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang
• Liz Williams
  • Banner of Souls
  • Poison Master
• Walter Jon Williams
  • Diamonds from Tequila
  • Frankensteins and Foreign Devils
  • The Green Leopard Plague
  • Imperium Restored
• Connie Willis
  • All Seated on the Ground
  • Blackout
  • D.A.
  • Inside Job
  • Lincoln's Dreams
  • Miracle
  • Passages
  • Road to Roswell
• Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising
• Robert Charles Wilson
  • The Affinities
  • The Chronoliths
  • Darwinia: A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century
  • Spin
• Gene Wolfe
  • The Book of the Long Sun
  • The Book of the Short Sun
  • Endangered Species
  • The Fifth Head of Cerebrus
  • Home Fires
  • Urth of the New Sun
• Dingbo Wu and Patrick Murphy, eds., Science Fiction from China
• John Wyndham
  • Chocky
  • The Chrysalids
  • Consider Her Ways
  • The Hidden People
  • Jizzle
• Roger Zelazny
  • Today We Choose Faces
  • Bridge of Ashes
• Sarah Zettel
  • Kingdom of Cages
  • Playing God
  • Reclamation
• Joe Zieja, Communication Failure

To read, about SF:
• Carl Abbott, Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West
• Brian Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree
• Paul K. Alkon, Science Fiction Before 1900: Imagination Discovers Technology
• Camille Bacon-Smith, Science Fiction Culture
• Mark Brake and Neil Hook, Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science
• Damien Broderick
  • The Spike
  • X, Y, Z, T: Dimensions of Science Fiction
• Seo-Young Chu, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation
• Frank L. Cioffi, Formula Fiction? An Anatomy of American Science Fiction, 1930--40
• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
• Thomas M. Disch, The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
• Peter S. Fisher, Fantasy and Politics: Visions of the Future in the Weimar Republic
• Karl S. Guthke, The Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds, from the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction [Review in Isis]
• Noah Heringman, Deep Time: A Literary History
• Kameron Hurley, Geek Feminist Revolution
• Patricia Kerslake, Science Fiction and Empire
• David Ketterer, New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction, and American Literature
• Nikolai Krementsov, Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction
• Brooks Landon, Science Fiction after 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars
• Stanislaw Lem, Microworlds
• Andrew May, Pseudoscience and Science Fiction
• Alec Nevala-Lee, Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
• Alexei Panshin, Heinlein in Dimension [Full text free online, along with other critical writings by Panshin on Heinlein]
• Alexei and Cory Panshin, The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence [Review by Danny Yee]
• Mark Payne, Flowers of Time: On Postapocalyptic Fiction
• Constance Penley, NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America
• Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
• Manu Saadia, Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
• John Rieder
  • Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction [Review by Danny Yee]
  • Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System
• Peter Stockwell, The Poetics of Science Fiction
• Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great
• Patricia S. Warrick, The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction