Michigan City Public Library
Michigan City, Indiana
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Science Fiction Booklists

  African American Authors ~ Aliens ~ ChicagoHumorous ~ Mars ~ Military/War
Post-Apocalypse ~ Star Wars ~ TeensTime Travel ~ Virtual Reality


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Links:
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Aliens

Try:
Greg Bear ~ The Forge of God series
Jack Chalker ~ Well of Souls series
C.J. Cherryh ~ Compact Space series / The Foreigner series
Gordon R. Dickson ~ The Dilbia series
Nancy Kress ~ The Probability series
Anne McCaffrey ~ The Doona series
Frederik Pohl ~ The Heechee series
James White ~ The Sector General series
Timothy Zahn ~ The Dragonback  eries


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Chicago

Try:
Poul Anderson ~ Orion Shall Rise
Isaac Asimov ~ Pebble in the Sky
Ray Bradbury ~ To the Chicago Abyss
Algis Budrys ~ Hard Landing
Jim Butcher ~ The Dresden Files
P.N. Elrod ~ The Vampire Files
Robert Heinlein ~ Between Planets / Methuselah's Children / To Sail beyond the Sunset
Richard Knaak ~ Dutchman / Frostwing / King of the Grey
R.A. Lafferty ~ Tales of Chicago
Jody Lynn Nye ~ Higher Mythology / The Magic Touch
Nick Pollotta ~ Bureau 13 series

Wilson Tucker ~ The Year of the Quiet Sun
Harry Turtledove ~ The Worldwar series
Gene Wolfe ~ Castleview / Pandora / There are Doors




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Mars

Try:
Brian Aldriss ~ White Mars
Piers Anthony ~ Total Recall
John Barnes ~ The Sky so Big and Black
Greg Bear ~ Moving Mars
Gregory Benford ~ The Martian Race
Ben Bova ~ Mars / Return to Mars
Ray Bradbury ~ The Martian Chronicles 
Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ The John Carter of Mars aeries
Arthur C. Clarke ~ The City and the Stars / The Sands of Mars
Ty Drago ~ Phobos
Gentry Lee ~ Bright Messengers / Double Moon, Full Night / The Tranqulity Wars
Paul J. McAuley ~ The Secret of Life
Larry Niven ~ Rainbow Mars
Christopher Pike ~ The Season of Passage
Frederik Pohl ~ The Day the Martians Came
Kim Stanley Robinson ~ Mars series
William Shatner ~ Man O'War / The Law of War
Dave Tyson
Jack Williamson ~ Beachhead
Robert Zubrin




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Military/War

Try:
Lois McMaster Bujold ~ The Vorkosigan series
Chris Bunch ~ The Last Legion series
Orson Scott Card ~ The Ender series
Roxann Dawson ~ The Tenebrea series
Gordon R. Dickson ~ The War and Honor series
William C. Dietz ~ The Pik Lando series
James Doohan ~ The Flight Engineer series
David Drake ~ The Hammer's Slammers series
Joe Haldeman ~ The Forever War series
Charles Ingrid ~ The Sand Wars series
Keith Laumer ~ The Bolo series
Larry Niven ~ The Man/Kzin Wars series
Elizabeth Moon ~ The Serrano Legacy series
Rick Shelley ~ The Dirigent Mercenary Corps / The Spec Ops Squad series
David Sherman
Mike Shepherd ~ Kris Longknife series

David Weber ~ The Honor Harrington series


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Post-Apocalypse

Try:
David Brin ~ Postman
Pat Frank ~ Alas, Babylon
Robert A Heinlein ~ Farnham's Freehold
Russell Hoban ~ Riddley Walker
P.D. James ~ Children of Men
Denis Johnson ~ Fiskadoro
Stephen King ~ The Stand
Richard Matheson ~ I Am Legend
Robert R. McCammon ~ Swan Song
Nevil Shute ~ On the Beach
George R. Stewart ~ Earth Abides
Sheri S. Tepper ~ The Visitor
Wilson Tucker ~ The Year of the Quiet Sun
Kurt Vonnegut Jr ~ Cat's Cradle / Galapagos
Kate Wilhelm ~ Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Walter Jon Williams ~ The Rift
John Wyndham ~ The Day of the Triffids The Night of the Triffids by Simon Clark


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Star Wars

Try:
Roger MacBride Allen ~ The Corellian Trilogy
Aaron Allston ~ The X-Wing series
Kevin J. Anderson ~ The Jedi Academy series
Greg Bear ~ The Rogue Planet
A.C. Crispin ~ The Han Solo Trilogy
Brian Daley ~ Han Solo Adventures
William C. Dietz ~ The Dark Forces series
Alan Dean Foster ~ The Approaching Storm
K.W. Jeter ~ The Bounty Hunter Wars
George Lucas
James Luceno ~ The Agents of Chaos series
Michael P. Kube-McDowell ~ The Black Fleet Crisis series
L.Neil Smith ~ The Lando Calrissian Trilogy
Michael A. Stackpole ~ The Dark Tide / The X-Wing series
Sean Williams ~ The Force Heretic series
Timothy Zahn ~ The Admiral Thrawn / The Hand of Thrawn series

 

Links:
Fantastic Fiction's Star Wars Booklist
The Force.Net


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Time Travel

Try:
Piers Anthony ~ Ghost
Robert Aspirin ~ The Time Scout series
Kage Baker ~ The Company series
John Barnes ~ Finity
Phillip Baruth ~ The X President
Stephen Baxter ~ Manifold series
David Brin ~ The Out of Time series
Octavia E. Butler ~ Kindred
Arthur C. Clarke ~ The Light of Other Days
Michael Crichton ~ Timeline
L. Warren Douglas ~ The Sorceress's Tale series
Eric Flint ~ The 1632 Series (Assiti Chards)
J.Suzanne Frank ~ The Chloe series
Joe Haldeman ~ Forever Free
Michael Hale ~ A Fold in the Tent of the Sky
Randall Ingermanson ~ Premonition
Stephen King ~ Dark Tower series
Sean McMullen ~ The Centurion's Empire
Audrey Niffenegger ~ The Time Traveler's Wife
Andre Norton ~ The Time Traders series
Robert J. Sawyer ~ Flashforward

Armin Shimerman ~ The Merchant Prince series
Allen Steele ~ Chronospace
H.G. Wells ~ The Time Machine


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Virtual Reality

Try:
Alexander Besher
Pat Cadigan ~ Skynners
Jack L. Chalker ~ The Wonderland Gambit series
Dennis Danvers ~ Circuit of Heaven series

Charles de Lint ~ Spirits in the Wires
William Gibson
Howard V. Hendrix ~ The Labyrinth Key
Jeff Noon ~ Vurt
Rudy Rucker
Neal Stephenson ~ Snow Crash
Robert L. Wise ~ Deleted
Roger Zelazny ~ Donnerjack


Links:
The CyberPunk Project
Cyberpunk Science Fiction



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