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Science Fiction (often called sci-fi or SF) is a popular genre of fiction in which the narrative world differs from our own present or historical reality in at least one significant way. This difference may be technological, physical, historical, sociological, philosophical, metaphysical, etc, but not magical (see Fantasy).
—Excerpted from Science Fiction on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
Science Fiction books from before the 20th century are listed on the page Precursors of Science Fiction. The cutoff is more by author than by date. Jules Verne (1828-1905) is usually considered the first modern SF author.
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Astounding Stories
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
(English)- The Beetle Horde / Victor Rousseau
- The Cave Of Horror / Captain S. P. Meek
- Phantoms Of Reality / Ray Cummings
- The Stolen Mind / M. L. Staley
- Compensation / C. V. Tench
- Tanks / Murray Leinster
- Invisible Death / Anthony Pelcher
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930
(English)- Old Crompton's Secret / Harl Vincent
- Spawn of the Stars / Charles Willard Diffin
- The Corpse on the Grating / Hugh B. Cave
- Creatures of the Light / Sophie Wenzel Ellis
- Into Space / S. P. Meek
- The Beetle Horde (Part 2 of 2) / Victor Rousseau
- Mad Music / Anthony Pelcher
- The Thief of Time / S. P. Meek
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science March 1930
(English)- Cold Light / S. P. Meek
- Brigands of the Moon (Part 1 of 4) / Ray Cummings
- The Soul Master / Will Smith and R. J. Robbins
- From the Ocean's Depths / Sewell Peaslee Wright
- Vandals of the Stars / A. T. Locke
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930
(English)- The Man Who Was Dead / Thomas H. Knight
- Monsters of Moyen / Arthur J. Burks
- Vampires of Venus / Anthony Pelcher
- Brigands of the Moon (Part 2 of 4) / Ray Cummings
- The Soul Snatcher / Tom Curry
- The Ray of Madness / S. P. Meek
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1930
(English)- Into the Ocean's Depths / Sewell Peaslee Wright
- Murder Madness (Part 1 of 4) / Murray Leinster
- Brigands of the Moon (Part 3 of 4) / Ray Cummings
- The Jovian Jest / Lilith Lorraine
- The Atom-Smasher / Victor Rousseau
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1930
(English)- Out of the Dreadful Depths / Charles Willard Diffin
- Murder Madness (Part 2 of 4) / Murray Leinster
- The Cavern World / James P. Olsen
- Brigands of the Moon (Part 4 of 4) / Ray Cummings
- Giants of the Ray / Tom Curry
- The Moon Master / Charles Willard Diffin
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930
(English)- Beyond the Heaviside Layer / S. P. Meek
- Earth, the Marauder (Part 1 of 3) / Arthur J. Burks
- From an Amber Block / Tom Curry
- The Terror of Air-Level Six / Harl Vincent
- The Forgotten Planet / Sewell Peaslee Wright
- The Power and the Glory / Charles Willard Diffin
- Murder Madness (Part 3 of 4) / Murray Leinster
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science August 1930
(English)- The Planet of Dread / R. F. Starzl
- The Lord of Space / Victor Rousseau
- The Second Satellite / Edmond Hamilton
- Silver Dome / Harl Vincent
- Earth, the Marauder (Part 2 of 3) / Arthur J. Burks
- Murder Madness (Part 4 of 4) / Murray Leinster
- The Flying City / H. Thompson Rich
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930
(English)- A Problem in Communication / Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
- Jetta of the Lowlands (Part 1 of 3) / Ray Cummings
- The Terrible Tentacles of L-472 / Sewell Peaslee Wright
- Marooned Under the Sea / Paul Ernst
- The Murder Machine / Hugh B. Cave
- The Attack From Space / S. P. Meek
- Earth, the Marauder (Part 3 of 3) / Arthur J. Burks
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science October 1930
(English)- Stolen Brains / S. P. Meek
- The Invisible Death / Victor Rousseau
- Prisoners of the Electron / Robert H. Leitfred
- Jetta of the Lowlands (Part 2 of 3) / Ray Cummings
- An Extra Man / Jackson Gee
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science November 1930
(English)- The Wall of Death / Victor Rousseau
- The Pirate Planet (Part 1 of 4) / Charles Willard Diffin
- The Destroyer / William Merriam Rouse
- The Gray Plague / Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
- Jetta of the Lowlands (Part 3 of 3) / Ray Cummings
- Vagabonds of Space / Harl Vincent
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science December 1930
(English)- Slaves of the Dust / Sophie Wenzel Ellis
- The Pirate Planet (Part 2 of 4) / Charles Willard Diffin
- The Sea Terror / S. P. Meek
- Gray Denim / Harl Vincent
- The Ape-Men of Xlotli / David R. Sparks
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931
(English)- The Dark Side of Antri / Sewell Peaslee Wright
- The Sunken Empire / H. Thompson Rich
- The Gate to Xoran / Hal K. Wells
- The Eye of Allah / Charles Willard Diffin
- The Fifth-Dimension Catapult / Murray Leinster
- The Pirate Planet (Part 3 of 4) / Charles Willard Diffin
- Astounding Stories February 1931
(English)- Werewolves of War / Desmond W. Hall
- The Tentacles from Below / Harry Bates and Desmond W. Hall
- The Black Lamp / S. P. Meek
- Phalanxes of Atlans (Part 1 of 2) / F. V. W. Mason
- The Pirate Planet (Part 4 of 4) / Charles Willard Diffin
- Astounding Stories March 1931
(English)- When the Mountain Came to Miramar / Charles Willard Diffin
- Beyond the Vanishing Point / Ray Cummings
- Terrors Unseen / Harl Vincent
- Phalanxes of Atlans (Part 2 of 2) / F. V. W. Mason
- The Meteor Girl / Jack Williamson
- Astounding Stories April 1931
(English)- Monsters of Mars / Edmond Hamilton
- The Exile of Time (Part 1 of 4) / Ray Cummings
- Hell's Dimension / Tom Curry
- The World Behind the Moon / Paul Ernst
- Four Miles Within / Anthony Gilmore
- The Lake of Light / Jack Williamson
- The Ghost World / Sewell Peaslee Wright
- Astounding Stories May 1931
(English)- Dark Moon / Charles Willard Diffin
- When Caverns Yawned / S. P. Meek
- The Exile of Time (Part 2 of 4) / Ray Cummings
- When the Moon Turned Green / Hal K. Wells
- The Death-Cloud / Nat Schachner and Arthur Leo Zagat
- Astounding Stories June 1931
(English)- THE MAN FROM 2071 / SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT
- MANAPE THE MIGHTY / ARTHUR J. BURKS
- HOLOCAUST / CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN
- THE EARTHMAN'S BURDEN / R. F. STARZL
- THE EXILE OF TIME / RAY CUMMINGS
- Astounding Stories July 1931
(English)- THE DOOM FROM PLANET 4 / JACK WILLIAMSON
- THE HANDS OF ATEN / H. G. WINTER
- THE DIAMOND THUNDERBOLT / H. THOMPSON RICH
- THE SLAVE SHIP FROM SPACE / A. R. HOLMES
- THE REVOLT OF THE MACHINES / NAT SCHACHNER AND ARTHUR L. ZAGAT
- THE EXILE OF TIME / RAY CUMMINGS
- Astounding Stories August 1931
(English)- THE DANGER FROM THE DEEP / RALPH MILNE FARLEY
- BROOD OF THE DARK MOON / CHARLES WILLARD DIFFIN
- IF THE SUN DIED / R. F. STARZL
- THE MIDGET FROM THE ISLAND / H. G. WINTER
- THE MOON WEED / HARL VINCENT
- THE PORT OF MISSING PLANES / CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK
Links for Edwin Abbot Abbot: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Poul William Anderson: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Edwin Lester Linden Arnold: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Robert Jay Arthur: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for John Jacob Astor: Wikipedia, ISFDB
This is really the billionaire Astor who died aboard the Titanic.
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Links for Peter Baily: ISFDB
Links for Frank Banta: ISFDB
Links for Robert Barr: ISFDB
- The Face and the Mask
(Mixed Collection, Speculative Fiction Below) (English)- The Fear of It
- The Doom of London
- A New Explosive
Links for C.C. Beck: ISFDB
Links for Edward Bellamy: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Pierre Benoit: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for James Blish: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Robert Bloch: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Jesse F. Bone: ISFDB
Links for Leigh Brackett: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Ray Bradbury: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Marion Zimmer Bradley: Wikipedia, ISFDB
- The Colors of Space
(English)
This is a fun and fairly well-written short novel. It's not without a few minor clunkers -- including one or two examples of my pet peeve, background/exposition couched in unnatural-sounding dialogue -- and is no doubt wildly different in tone from Zimmer Bradley's later work. Still, the tale of young Bart Steele among the mysterious Lhari is creative enough, and humanistic (as it were!) enough, to elevate this above the usual space opera fare. 

Thegoldenband 12:43, 12 May 2007 (EDT) - The Door Through Space
(English)
This story mentions larger political struggles occuring between humans and non-humans in this far distant future, but at the same time, largely glosses over these struggles and the inherent differences and conflicts between the races that cause it. Instead, the author is more concerned with the idea of friendship, honor, love and hatred between individuals. The main character, Race, and his brother-in-law, were once as close as brothers, but that ended six years ago in a fight that left both men scarred. After Race's sister asks for his help in saving her daughter, Race must confront that hatred while on a quest that ultimately leads to great discoveries ... both for himself and for the entire planet. 
JHutch 9 January 2008 - The Planet Savers
(English) - Year of the Big Thaw
(English)
Links for Miles John Breuer: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Fredric Brown: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Algis Budrys: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Edgar Rice Burroughs: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Barsoom series
Pellucidar series
Caspak series
other SF
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Links for John W. Campbell: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Arcot, Morey and Wade series
in series order
Links for Karel Capek: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Terry Gene Carr: Wikipedia
Links for Robert W. Chambers: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Chase, Adam pseudonym of Stephen Marlowe
Links for Michael D. Cooper: ISFDB, official Starman series website
The Starman series
Links for Ray Cummings: Wikipedia, ISFDB
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Dee, Roger (Aycock, Roger D.) 1914-2004
Links for Samuel R. Delany wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Lester Del Rey: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Philip K. Dick: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Cory Doctorow: Wikipedia, ISFDB
- Craphound
(English) - Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
(English)
The future world Doctorow has created has eliminated death and poverty. Instead of money, you have "Whuffie", which is how much respect you have from your peers. Do something others like, you get more "Whuffie". Do something poorly, you lose "Whuffie". And in this future world, Disney World is not run by the Walt Disney Corporation, but rather by regular citizens who form "ad-hoc" groups to run various parts of the Magic Kingdom. Doctorow manages to examine everything from the meaning of life (without death) to love, friendship and how society can and should function from personal levels to large group levels. At the same time, the story at the heart of this examination is interesting and well worth the read. 

JHutch 14 January 2008 - Eastern Standard Tribe
(English) - Home Again, Home Again
(English) - A Place so Foreign
(English) - Printcrime
(English) - Return to Pleasure Island
(English) - Shadow of the Mothaship
(English) - Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
(English) - Super Man and the Bug Out
(English)
Take the Superman character we all know and love. Put him into a story that is outside the standard canon of stories. DC comics has been doing this for years with great success. Cory Doctorow does the same thing with this short story about "The Superman". The hook is that instead of crashing his spaceship in Kansas and being raised by salt-of-the-earth-God-fearing farmers, Kal-el crashes near Toronto, Canada and is raised by a Jewish couple. Instead of Clark Kent, we get Hershie Ambrowicz. A amusing and well told story that turns the Superman mythos in a new direction. 

JHutch 14 January 2008
Links for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Charles Dye: ISFDB
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Edmondson, G.C., Edmondson, Garry C. 1922-1995
Pseudonym of William C. Boyd and Lyle G. Boyd.
Links for E. Everett Evans: ISFDB
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Links for Patrick Fahy: ISFDB
Links for Paul W. Fairman: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Philip José Farmer: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for J. Anthony Ferlaine: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Flagg, Francis pseud. Weiss, George Henry 1898-1946
Links for Homer Eon Flint: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Charles Louis Fontenay: Wikipedia, ISFDB
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Links for Randall Garrett: Wikipedia, ISFDB
"Queens Own FBI" series
Links for Harold Leland Wright Goodwin: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for George Griffith: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for James E. Gunn: Wikipedia, ISFDB
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Links for Harry Harrison: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Robert E. Howard: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne: Wikipedia, ISFDB
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Links for Laurence Mark Janifer: Wikipedia, ISFDB
"Queens Own FBI" series
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Links for Rudyard Kipling: Wikipedia
Links for Damon Francis Knight: Wikipedia, ISFDB
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Links for Mary E. Bradley Lane: ISFDB
Links for John Keith Laumer: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Fritz Leiber: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Leinster, Murray, [pseud.], (Jenkins, William Fitzgerald), 1896-1975
Links for Murray Leinster: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for David Lindsay: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Wikipedia, ISFDB
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Links for Abraham Merritt: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Abraham Merritt: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Morris, G. A. (pseudonym of Katherine MacLean)
Morrison, William, pseudonym of Joseph Samachson 1906-1980
Links for John Munro: ISFDB
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Links for William F. Nolan: Wikipedia, ISFDB
- Of Time and Texas
(English)
Published in Fantastic Universe, November 1956 issue. This is what you would call a short-short story which are stories that are 750 words or less. This little gem weighs in at 608 words. Interestingly, the Gutenberg legal text around the story is 5 times that size (3079 words). The story is an idea on using a Time Door for population control and what might happen when things don't go as planned. 
Taishi 23 June 2009 - Small World
(English)
Links for Andre Norton: Wikipedia, ISFDB
The Time Traders
- The Defiant Agent
(English)
Apaches volunteers are sent to a planet to search for the remains of an older space faring race before the enemy does. But something goes horribly wrong after the ship crashes. Then they find that the enemy is already there, searching for the ancient ruins. 

Taishi 1 July 2009 - Key Out of Time
(English)
On a planet that seems like a complete paradise, the Time Agents search for signs of an extinct hostile race that ruled the stars. While attempting to go back in time, a freak accident leaves them stranded thousands of years in the past. Not only do they have to contend with the hostile race, they must also contend with a medieval society in a state of war.

Taishi 1 July 2009 - The Time Traders
(English)
non-SF
Links for Alan E. Nourse: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Philip Francis Nowlan: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Buck Rogers
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P
Links for H. Beam Piper: Wikipedia, ISFDB
This list constitutes the complete work of Piper. Some of them are still in copyright.
Terro-Human Future History series
in Future History chronological order
- The Edge of the Knife
(English)
Think of time as a continuous line and your perception of it as a the edge of a knife slicing between past and present. Now, imagine that you start to "remember" the future side of the knife as clearly and as often as the "past". 
JHutch 14 January 2008
Omnilingual
(English)
Egyptian hieroglyphics were unreadable until the Rosetta stone, with its parallel inscriptions in different languages, was unearthed. But on another world, what can the archaeologists use as a universal language key? An interesting and ingenious puzzle piece. 

Malcolm Farmer 11:31, 6 February 2007 (EST)- When in the Course-- (English) — still in copyright
- Four-Day Planet
(English)
Four-Day Planet refers to the slow rotation time of the planet this story is set on. During one year, the planet rotates through four day/night cycles. However, this fact plays little role in the story. It is mostly about a popular uprising that deposes a tyrannical leader skimming the profits of the folks doing all the real work. 
JHutch 18 January 2008 - Uller Uprising
(English) - Ullr Uprising
(English) — different versions - Naudsonce
(English) - Little Fuzzy
(English) - "The Other Human Race" later title "Fuzzy Sapiens" (English) — still in copyright
- Fuzzies and Other People (English) — still in copyright
- Oomphel in the Sky
(English) - Graveyard of Dreams
(English) - The Cosmic Computer
(English) — expanded version of "Graveyard of Dreams" also titled "Junkyard Planet"
A poor backward planet has only one thing going for it. It was the home of the main headquarters of the Terran military during a past war ... and when they left, they left all their extra stuff. It was more expensive to move the heavy equipment over interstellar distances than it was worth. And rumors tell of a "Cosmic Computer" so powerful that it could solve everyone's problems on this little backward planet ... if only they could find it. 
JHutch 18 January 2008 - Space Viking
(English) - A Slave is a Slave
(English) - Ministry of Disturbance
(English) - The Keeper
(English)
Paratime series
other SF
non-SF
Links for Frederik Pohl: Wikipedia, ISFDB
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Links for Rick Raphael: ISFDB
Reynolds, Mack, [pseud.] Reynolds, Dallas McCord 1917-1983
Links for Mack Reynolds: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Carey Rockwell: ISFDB
"Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" series
in series order
Links for Roy Rockwood: Wikipedia, ISFDB
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Links for James H. Schmitz: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Garrett P. Serviss: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Robert Shea: Wikipedia, ISFDB
More recent historical fiction by Robert Shea.
The Saraecen duology:
Links for Robert Sheckley: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Walt Sheldon: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Robert Silverberg: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for E. E. Smith: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for George H. Smith: Wikipedia
Links for George Oliver Smith: Wikipedia
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Links for Albert Teichner: ISFDB
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V
This is a house pseudonym used at times by Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar and Roger P. Graham.
Links for Jules Verne: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for Kurt Vonnegut: Wikipedia, ISFDB
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Links for Manly Wade Wellman: Wikipedia, ISFDB
Links for H. G. Wells: Wikipedia, ISFDB
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Y
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