Gilgamesh in the Outback is a science fiction novella by American writer Robert Silverberg, a sequel to his historical novel Gilgamesh the King as well...

Gilgamesh's posthumous adventures in the underworld, including the award-winning novella Gilgamesh in the Outback. Neil Gaiman reviewed Gilgamesh the...

takes its name from the poem by William Butler Yeats; a Hugo in 1987 for the novella Gilgamesh in the Outback, set in the Heroes in Hell universe of Bangsian...

allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic...

writing Coraline in 1990, and it was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula...

nominee ("Gilgamesh in the Outback" by Robert Silverberg from Rebels in Hell), as well as one other Nebula Award nominee. The series was resurrected in 2011...

book in the Monk & Robot duology, followed by A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, which was released on July 12, 2022. It won the Hugo Award in 2022. In 2018...

Campbell, written under the pen name Don A. Stuart. Its story follows a group of people trapped in a scientific outpost in Antarctica infested by shapeshifting...

was first published in English and French in the United States by Reynal & Hitchcock in April 1943 and was published posthumously in France following liberation;...

Martin "the American Tolkien", and in 2011, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. He is a longtime resident...

including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career...

inconvenient. The first book of the series, All Systems Red, was published in 2017. The seventh and latest book, System Collapse, was released in 2023. Wells...

time, altering the history of multiple universes on behalf of their warring empires, whose timelines are mutually exclusive. In secret, the two begin leaving...

He is best known for the Cosmere fictional universe, in which most of his fantasy novels, most notably the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive,...

Tachyon Publications. It won the 2013 Hugo Award for best novella. The novella is included in the 2016 Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection. Shai is...

novella by American author Martha Wells. The first in the Murderbot Diaries series, it was published by Tor.com. The series is about a cyborg designed to...

character-driven stories, and is a pioneer of the hopepunk genre. Chambers was born in 1985 in Southern California and grew up in Torrance. Chambers' family included...

"Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival (2016). He was an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame in 2020–2021. Chiang is also...

called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre...

writers. Gaiman has expressed interest in collaborating on a film adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh. He was the only person other than J. Michael Straczynski...

The Lifecycle of Software Objects is a novella by American writer Ted Chiang, originally published in 2010 by Subterranean Press. It focuses on the creation...

fantasy. Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. Between 1994 and 2004, he was also an active writer for the magazine Computer Shopper...

in physics at the University of Illinois. Zahn's novella Cascade Point won the 1984 Hugo Award. He is the author of the Blackcollar trilogy and the Cobra...

novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It is the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series. First published by Ballantine Books in July 1968...

her work in various mediums, including Hugo Awards for her graphic novel Digger, fantasy novel Nettle & Bone, and fantasy novella Thornhedge, the Nebula...

including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, and the Locus Award. Egan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University...

in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English...

The Man Who Sold the Moon is a science fiction novella by American author Robert A. Heinlein, written in 1949 and published in 1950. A part of his Future...

woman who was once the Empress’s servant. She tells Chih about Empress In-yo’s life as they catalogue the contents of the palace. In-yo was a northern...

published in the magazine Astounding (November 1944) and revised for the 1959 collection Aliens 4. This story represents Sturgeon's sole output between the years...