Which science fiction novel was written by a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic
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Michaelmas (novel) Michaelmas (1977) is a science fiction novel by American writer Algis Budrys.
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Algis Budrys Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome, John A. Sentry, William Scarff, and Paul Janvier.
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The Forgotten Planet The Forgotten Planet is a science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster. It was released in 1954 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. The novel is a fix-up from three short stories, "The Mad Planet" and "The Red Dust", both of which had originally appeared in the magazine "Argosy" in 1920 and 1921, and "Nightmare Planet", which had been published in "Science Fiction Plus" in 1953.
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Teranesia Teranesia is a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Egan. The novel won the 2000 Ditmar Award for Best Novel but Egan declined to accept the award.
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James D. Macdonald James Douglas Ignatius Macdonald (born 1954) is an American author and critic who lives in New Hampshire with his wife and frequent collaborator, Dr. Debra Doyle. He works in several genres, concentrating on fantasy, but also writing science fiction, and mystery and media tie-ins.
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Deus Irae Deus Irae is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American authors Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny. It was published in 1976. "Deus irae", meaning "God" in Latin, is a play on "Dies Irae", meaning "Day of Wrath" or "Judgment Day". This novel is based on Dick's short story "The Great C."
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Something Coming Through Something Coming Through is a 2015 novel by Paul J. McAuley featuring elements of science fiction and crime fiction.
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Solaris (novel) Solaris is a 1961 philosophical science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. The book centers upon the themes of the nature of human memory, experience and the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species.
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The Simulacra The Simulacra is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel portrays a future totalitarian society apparently dominated by a matriarch, Nicole Thibodeaux. It revolves around the themes of reality and illusionary beliefs, as do many of Dick's works. Additionally, it touches on Nazi ideology.
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Blindsight (Watts novel) Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It garnered nominations for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and a Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The novel follows a crew of astronauts sent out as the third wave, following two series of probes, to investigate a trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt comet dubbed 'Burns-Caulfield' that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal to an as-yet unknown destination elsewhere in the solar system, followed by their subsequent first contact. The novel explores questions of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, game theory as well as evolution and biology. "Blindsight" is available online under a Creative Commons license. Its sequel "Echopraxia" came out in 2014.
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Hammerfall (novel) Hammerfall is a science fiction novel by American science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh . It was first published in June 2001 in the United States by HarperCollins under its Eos Books imprint. It was also serialized in two parts as "Ribelle Genetico" and "Il Pianeta del Deserto" in the Italian science fiction magazine, "Urania", published in issue 1425 in October 2001, and issue 1430 in January 2002, respectively.
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The Stars, Like Dust The Stars, Like Dust is a 1951 science fiction mystery book by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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Observation on the Spot Observation on the Spot (Polish "Wizja lokalna", with the common meaning of the expression being "crime scene investigation") is a social science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem. The novel is a report of Ijon Tichy's travel to a faraway planet Entia (in Polish text: Encja) to study their civilization. This report was supposed to fix a misunderstanding arisen from Tichy's Fourteenth Voyage to supposedly Entia (then known as Enteropia), which turned out to be a satellite of Entia, masqueraded by Entians to misguide explorers. The travel was also to verify the results of the "Institute of Historiographical Computers" (Polish: Instytut Maszyn Dziejowych), which use predictive modeling to overcome the speed of light limitation and get information about the state of the affairs on remote planets based on information obtained from previous expeditions.
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Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius Vincas Mickevičius (October 19, 1882 – July 17, 1954), better known by his pen name Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, was a Lithuanian writer, poet, novelist, playwright and philologist. He is also known as Vincas Krėvė, the shortened name he used in the United States.
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Peter A. Balaskas Peter A. Balaskas (Born 1969 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author of speculative fiction.
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James Gleick James Gleick ( ; born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called "one of the great science writers of all time".
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Radix (novel) Radix is a science fiction novel by American writer A. A. Attanasio, published in 1981. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981. It is the first of four books in Attanasio's Radix Tetrad, followed by " In Other Worlds" in 1984.
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Not Before Sundown Not Before Sundown (orig. fin. "Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi", United States: "Troll - a love story") is a novel written by Finnish author Johanna Sinisalo in 2000. In the same year it won a Finlandia Prize for literature. Since then it has won several awards including The James Tiptree Jr. award in 2004 for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore our understanding of gender.
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Nemesis (Asimov novel) Nemesis is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov. One of his later science fiction novels, it was published in 1989, three years before his death. The novel is loosely related to the future history; connecting several ideas from earlier and later novels, including non-human intelligence, sentient planets (Erythro), and rotor engines ("").
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Close to Critical Close to Critical is a science fiction novel by Hal Clement. The novel was first serialized in three parts and published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1958. Its first hardcover book publication was in July 1964.
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The Dreaming Jewels The Dreaming Jewels, also known as The Synthetic Man, is the first novel of American science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon.
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Linda Nagata Linda Nagata (born November 7, 1960 in San Diego, California) is a Hawaii-based American author of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels, novellas, and short stories. Her novella "Goddesses" was the first online publication to win the Nebula Award. She frequently writes in the Nanopunk genre, which features nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain.