Sturgeon, a great short-story writer, uses the genre to explore what it is to be human, and how we can strive to be more. It is a novel of discovery, but also a novel of compassion and hope. It's also a cracking good read! One of the most accurate prediction novels I've ever read. This book is great sci-fi- offers a convincing portrayal of a science-led society where privacy and individualism are crushed with an exploration of love, conscience and desire. Despite some dubious plot points Perdido Street Station features one of the most mesmerising and terrifying monsters I've ever come across.
Described with a stunning, fluid, dreamlike intensity, in a wonderfully rendered world, the Slake Moths made Perdido Street Station the most memorable sf novel I've read. Banks novels are great because you have to think quite hard to understand them while you're reading them. I normally read pretty fast, but I have to slow down to read an Iain M. Which is appropriate for The Algebraist because he created a whole species of creatures, The Dwellers, that are 'slow'.
They live for aeons, on gas giants, and little things like having a conversation can go on for centuries for them. When I read this book I thought that was the most wonderful idea, that we can't communicate with some entities because we're simply on a different time scale. The fun of reading Iain M. Banks novels is that somehow he manages to think of these things, that once you've got your head round make perfect sense but you might never have thought of yourself. The Laws of Robotics have been one of the guiding ethical codes of my life - and should be for any good person, I believe.
I was very surprised that not a single person mentioned Asimov as their favourite, despite him having such a wide repertoire. This is a strange little novelette in the middle of Dickson's epic "Dorsai" series. It tells the tale of a pacifist Dorsai who like all Dorsai is in the military, but whose weapon is the bagpipes. Surrounded in a fortress by hordes of clansmen on a Spanish speaking planet, he uses music to insult and infuriate the hordes and sacrifice himself to win the battle. His honour and courage and the creativity of the cultural values described make this story one my favorites of all time.
Ridley Scott is working up the film project now. Superb book, though if you have seen Starship Troopers the film it can spoil it a bit. Its scary, funny and unusually for PKD its got lots of heart. Gully Foyle is a refreshing bastard of a hero. He's agressive, selfish and mean and deserves everything he gets Very cool book goes a little freaky at the end. A beautifully simple idea a child with an invisible friend that as the book progresses becomes more intriguing and more dangerous at the same time. Also - it's an easy read that can encourage youngsters to take up SF. Brilliant short story about the exploitation of a young gaming genius by the military, published originally in Unfortunately got expanded into a series of novels, but the original is a chillling political parable, which has gained resonance in the era of child soldiers and xbox.
Not only does it have dinosaurs, humour, adventure and a loss of control of the environment in which the protagonists find themselves, but unlike the film version it examines the importance of chaos theory which is what makes it SF for me. Two more choices in no order of priority: A pretty obvious one - Childhood's End is one of Arthur C. Clarke's best and is a science fiction classic. Any fan of the genre reading this book will instantly notice countless ways in which it has influenced subsequent work. For anyone new to the genre, this book is a good starting point. The story itself is short, enthralling, and easy to read.
Even reluctant readers could finish it in a day or so. Murakami is our greatest living writer, and whilst most of his books have flights of fancy that could loosely align them with SF, this is his full-blown masterpiece. Discovered it when I was 11 or 12, in the adult section of the local public library. It opened me up to the world of "what if" that has remained to this day. I was hooked on Science Fiction since. Smith is human, only he was born on Mars, and raised there. That has caused him to think a bit differently, and use more of his brain than the rest of us do.
When the full version of the book was finally released, I also bought a copy of it. Using it as a way to look at life, and how we can treat one another, as opposed to how we do responded to daily life, remains fascinating. It does not cease to teach. I have given copies of it away, as gifts, to whomever asks "Why do you like to read that junk, anyway? Asimov's robot stories not only present a coherent, imaginative vision of the future, but also give us an insight into the ways in which he and others during his lifetime thought about and presented the future.
Not only that, but he writes excellent prose and the stories he conceived are always clever and illuminate the human condition. I wish very much that he was alive today to see the innovations that are happening now. It's an SF story that's really all about humanity, including man's inhumanity to man. It's really the history of philosophy disguised as SF but don't let that put you off. Its depth and language. It rung a chord at the time, the messiah will be crucified nor what time what century and what period.
Our political masters cannot handle popular uprising even if they are democratic institutions. The original world, within a world, within a world, later used frequently in the matrix inception and others. The thirteeth floor film adaptation doesn't do it justice. I would recomend this book because it deals with exactly what science fiction means to discuss: Lem's best novel is about epistemology, and the our absolute ignorance of what lies beyond the bounds of the earth, and how utterly unprepared we are to encounter it.
Very very difficult to describe - but it's simply brilliant. It's wildly imaginative, frightening - psychedelic, even. A great, simple story boy searches for lost sister set in a future Britain seemingly viewed through early 90s ecstasy-flavoured optimism. Gods and monsters, budhism v hinduism v christianity in a fight to the finish, the worst pun ever recorded, and a joy in humanity in all of its many aspects and attributes. And yes, it's SF, not fantasy. I used to re-read this book every couple of years; it's long, confusing at times, but has a wonderful circular narrative that invites further exploration.
It's also got a fabulous sense of place even though the city of Bellona is fictional. Like early McEwan stories, Delany brilliantly captures a sense of urban ennui and although there are elements of hard sci-fi in the book, they are kept in the background, so that the characters are allowed to come through - something quite rare is SF. I also concur with the support for Tiger, Tiger: Find it pretty remarkable that such a list would completely omit any of Dick's work. Many of his books are of a high enough standard to be chosen, but 'Flow My Tears The Policeman Said' is one of his best.
Not really SF, but a world where gods actually exist counts as imaginative fiction to me. A haunting modern mythic saga. The first and best of the epic series which ultimately became too convuluted. Characters innocent and undeveloped, I wish I could read this for the first time again. The book that kicked off the 'Foundation' saga.
The dead hand of Hari Seldon and his new science, the mathematics of psycho-history unfold against a backdrop of the whole galaxy. Asimov was just so full of ideas and happily his characters were full and real people I cared about - he was THE giant of Sci-Fi and 'Foundation' one of dozens I could have chosen. Morally ambiguous love-story combined with grounded, 'realistic' sci-fi - i cannot believe no has turned this into a film yet I read it as a child and it has never left me.
I believe it leads a young mind to explore "the other" in a different way. Most science fiction, it has been said, is driven by violent conflict; Babel avoids that, having an idea - an untranslatable language - and unpacking it, unfolding out from there. It packs in interesting and human characters, stylish writing, fascinating concepts and ideas, a manic outpouring of intelligent thought, and a great plot, managing to, even now, 45 years after its original publication, be thought-provoking and boundary-pushing.
I love the language and the way the book draws you into an "alien" perspective by the assumption that this perspective is "normal". Much like Jostein Gaarder's 'Sophie's World,' or indeed most of Stephenson's other writing, 'Anathem' is a lesson in science and philosophy wrapped in narrative. In this case, the narrative is sprawling, believable and dramatic, although the middle section feels like a lecture, the purpose of which only becomes apparent towards the end of this weighty novel.
The world Stephenson creates is rich and believable, a parallel universe in which science and philosophy are restricted to an odd, codified monastic system - at least until a global crisis places the monks centre stage. It was one of the first sf novels I read when I was a kid and it blew my mind.
The basic idea of taking current trends, creatively extrapolating them into the future and weaving personal as well as social stories from them just stunned me. And my eldest son is called Isaac. The aliens are fascinating but it's all about the characters and getting inside the heads of flawed, damaged, normal human beings! Not really sci-fi, more fantasy, still a great book to read that gives the world a cracking character - Druss, the Legend of the title. Displays some of the better gamut of human characteristics, without being overly poncy.
Dark, satirical, laugh out loud funny, ridiculous and scathing. The book follows robot Tik Tok as he realises that he does not have to follow the Asimov laws when he kills a young innocent blind girl just for fun. He soon gets a taste for murder and gets very good at it. Farcical in places with a whole raft of ridiculous characters it draws parallels with the slave trade and the fight for equality. His murderous exploits and cool, calm cunning takes him although way to the top at the White House, his aim: The novel also takes swipes at celebrity culture, religion, mob mentality and pretty much everything else.
It's one of those goto books when a friend asks for a recommendation. A book that was way ahead of its time, predicting flying machines and total war. Plus it is a great read and adventure story. You believe what you are reading really happended as Martians invide Surrey and London in the late Victorian era.
It also created a sub genre of its own the "Alien Invasion" story. A classic novel that stands above all others. Read this, and it's sequels, 20 years ago. Could not put the book down. Finished it in 2 days. Still totally abosrbs me today. Great detailed story about a lonely, little boy. Also fascinating on the military life of Battle School and the Earth's attitude to alien races. Not just this book but the whole series. Benchmark sci fi novel and whats important is the prose, the ideas expunded in the books and the fact that all my sci fi hating friends read the series on reccomendation and were completely converted.
Lazurus Long - how I wish to be him! I was twelve when I read Ringworld, my first adult Science Fiction novel. It sparked a life long love of SF. The central concept of the Ringworld a constructed habitat that is a ring around a star is vividly brought to life. The story moves at a pace and the aliens very well imagined - especially the Pearson's Puppeteer. This book is a prime example of why SF will always be a literary form with TV and film being very much the poor relations. I still have that battered second hand copy I read first over thirty years ago and have reread several times since.
Becasue it's a collection of haunting short stories about what would happen when humans got to Mars, each filled with twists, turns and pathos. Like the Martians who defend themselves by changing their appearance to look like humans, to the last human left on the planet after the rest have gone back to Earth. Plus, like all good Sci Fi, it's not really about space, but about humanity. As a young boy this book fed my imagination for sci-fi. Having been originally written in the 30s the vivid pictures he paints of far away worlds with bizarre creatures in a swashbuckling story were far ahead of its time.
As you say if current human civilization was unexpectedly destroyed, I'd like this to survive as a warning of how it could all happen again. An ambassador given permission to roam. The discovery that the society is not really primitive and pre-industrial. The gradual realization that the society is post-atomic and that the re-discovery of machinery and science has been banned post the disaster Mary Gentle's book is in itself a voyage of discovery in which the reader starts as a comfortable alien observer and ends as a very uncomfortable but involved critic of a world that wobbles between utopia and dystopia.
Very handy for hitchhikers and the best read. Introduces millions of people to to British humour and the SF genre every year. Great advert for SF and also very funny. A fantastic book that should be read by anyone planning to join the secret service as a subversive officer! It's easy to read, a great story that keeps you hooked. The characters are great and you really root for the hero.
A man wakes up naked to find he has been resurrected along with every other human who ever lived during the history of earth. Their new home is a riverplanet, they are all 25, they don't age, they can't die, and it is all a big social and spiritual project, created by an alien race. This book and the ones that follow are staggering conceptually. They mix history, politics, pyschology, religion, and everyday life in a sublime cocktail.
One of the few Sci-Fi books that you read in which that you know you are also a character. For those that go the distance with the whole Riverworld series, the final installment 'Gods of the Riverworld' cranks up the hypothetical social situations to mind boggling levels. Computers that play your whole life back to you, so you can come to terms with your wasted time, evil deeds, poor posture.
A super computer that can build rooms a hundred miles wide, and produce anything from human history at request. A cornerstone of the sci-fy genre. Read how Paul Atriedes uncovers the secrets of Arrakis and the Fremen people. Follow Paul's journey into a dangerous world where unlocking the power of the spice melange and it's keepers transforms him into the most powerful being in the galaxy. Set in an epic universe filled with wierd and wonderul creatures, monsters and alien races. A must read for any sci-fy nut. Despite not having the easiest of openings you really have to force yourself to get past the first few pages , this really is a superb opening to a wonderful Sci-Fi trilogy.
There are some great ideas, some excellent characters and some wonderful speculation on humanities future, but most of all it's a cracking story, and the main plot sideswipes you from left-field when you get to it as it was for me, at least totally unexpected. Cannot recommend this enough. I really like the way the author describes a data world, and interweaves this with a broader narrative, which includes a comparison between the plight of a Jewish community in Prague during the 16th-century and the futuristic community of the future.
So much SciFi work is seen as being written by people whose only talent was a good imagination. Alfred Bester was one a new age of writers who wrote engaging stories that happened to be along a SciFi theme. Gully Foyle is reborn on the Nomad, but is alive to revenge only, in a plot which takes us through a world where instantaneous travel with the power of the human mind is possible. His journey to discover who he is can only be compared to the greats of SciFi writing. A definite must read. It challenges the concept of self and individuality.
It is unremittingly, violently captivating throughout and it introduces the coolest hotel ever imagined. Its simply sublime, beautiful written, and would be an epic if it was on screen. Simply the best series of SCi Fi books ever written. How was it missed out? Asimov changed our understanding of robots with his formulation of the laws governing the behavior of robots. The stories combine science fact and fiction in such a way that you almost believe the robots are humans. Well written interesting stories that really make the reader ponder the future of robots.
It's just a feckin brilliant story apart from the end which was a bit naff imo. This fantasy doesn't include any aliens, space ships, or magic, but it's in its' own weird universe. A very Dickensian gothic tale. I agree about William Gibson. The tale is a great romp of the imagination with an insight into some physics. It is a completely worked out version of a believable future. It does not require the 'suspension of disbelief' normal to SF. And it is a great adventure story! Old school Silverberg before he went over to the dark side of fantasy , details human feelings of loss like no other SF tale.
Very human story of the more-than-humans living amongst us. The enormous scale and technical details of the science fiction element of the story are breath taking whilst the story still holds the reader close to the characters of the core individuals in the story. As with all Dick's books, it explores his twin fascinations: The human side is handled with his usual tender melancholy, while the metaphysical investigations are ramped up and up as the protaganist, teleported to a colony planet where all is not as it seems, dissolves, with the aid of an LSD tipped dart, into a nightmare where reality itself seems to deconstruct.
Wonderful language and weird world building. The protagonist - Adam Reith - a stranded earthman has many adventures, encountering the various inhabitants of Tschai, a much fought over planet. Not quite a picaresque as Reith is too honest but some of his associates are less so. Charming and lovely books and, let us not forget, anyone who can title one of them vol 2 Servants of the Wankh is worthy of deep respect even if he didn't know what it means to english ears haha.
Do yoursel a favour: The Player of Games does more than tell an exciting and engaging tale. In the empire of Azad, where the books action takes place, Iain M Banks creates a civilization which reflects the worst excesses of our own, despite its alien nature. Using the empire of Azad themes of one cultures interference in another are explored as the benign, peaceful Culture displays the lengths it will go to push a cruel empire closer to its own philosophy. The story revolves around a man playing a board game.
Admittedly it's a vast, complex board game central to the lives of those who play it, but it's essentially just a big, complicated chess set. This sounds like rather dull stuff to relate to the reader, but the authors descriptions of the game are never less than completely involving and genuinely exciting. There is a popular misconception that Douglas Adams was responsible for bringing humour into Sci-Fi. But before him there was already the brilliant Stanislaw Lem, whose humour can be often anarchic and deeply satirical.
This is a good example of his satirical humour at its most razor sharp. If the idea of Sci-Fi combined with Swiftean satire sounds appealing then this book is definitely for you. Supremely imaginative, and enjoyable at some level at almost any age. Written in the 50s, it creates a remarkably believable portrayal of modern life, before continuing an escape into an equally believable future. It asks all the important questions about human beings and society. I'm using UoW as my choice but really any of Banks' culture novels fit the bill.
Banks' stands astride 21st century science fiction as a giant. He not only manages to excel in world building, The Culture has to be one of the greatest realised sci-fi universes in print, but also manages something that virtually all other sci-fi authors fail at; the evolution of psychology over time. The inhabitants of Banks' worlds are existentially flawed and carry with them a melancholy created by pitting emotional psychology against the vast backdrop and advanced science they have foisted upon them. The scale of his stories could leave the protagonists dwarfed by the spectacle but they end up dovetailing perfectly into the situations thought up by Banks by allowing us to connect to the madness of existance, whether they're human or alien.
Each of his new novels are events in the genre and allow their readers to conduct thought experiments of what it would be like to exist in such a reality surely the goal of any sci-fi? I read it as a teenager and the sheer scale of the technological achievement of building the Ring has stayed with me - even though I cant remember much of the details of the story today!
Totally influenced and encouraged me to pursue my dream of working in the building industry which I don't regret, even today. Atmospheric blend of fantasy and s decadence, with a consumptive, sexually ambiguous heroine whom I'd love to see Tilda Swinton play! It realistically sets out an anarchist society from an anthropological background; it's a hard life but it actually works!
AND it also provides the alien's perspective on humanity! Not just the best SF. But best novel Ive ever read. Impossible to explain its importance so briefly. Orwell lays it out. It is appropriated by literary fiction like most great SF. It's a thousand pages of wonder and awe at how mindboggling complex the universe is and the joy and fascination there is in trying to understand it with just the human brain. This is how physics and philosophy should be taught - at the same time and with multi-dimensional spaceships. An Epic Story, with a dark plot. Donaldson creates a very beleiveable universe.
As Soon as I finished the 1st book, I was online ordering the remaining 4 stories. This is the third book in C. Lewis's science fiction trilogy. It combines themes of mythology, allegory and religion with some great characters and moments of true horror. It's a great story that keeps you gripped all the way through. This book is about the simple acts of kindness that can make immense and profound differences to the future.
The main character is Shevik: He makes a difficult decision to travel to the neighbouring planet of Urras to try and use their expertise to piece it together. The novel weaves around in time: Shevik's present and past are explored: Back on Urras, Shevik begins to realise he is becoming a small pawn in a powerful government's game and has to reconcile himself with the fact that he may never have been able to go home in the first place and may never go home now. At its centre is Shevik: It remains one of the best characters I can remember in any book - at the end the final twist of the twin narratives meets into one of the best endings I have read in any book.
It's a different kind of science fiction that allows the reader to be an active creator of the "other timely" world introduced by Koontz. It's not about zombies or aliens or space but it does represent something maybe even more bone-chilling: The epic scope of the book, showing the terrifying yet exciting possibilities of the human race as an multi planetary starship faring bunch of brilliently flawed individuals, and organsiations. A really rare find these days as I think it is out of print. Witty and engaging, it draws parralels with life on earth in a profound and imaginative alien galaxy.
First published in , the book documents the many highs and lows of man's struggle for survival. The book contains the first mention of genetic engineering in a sci fi novel, a compelling and truly eye-opening read. So maybe it is the outer fringes of SF where myth and fantasy meets "steam punk" but it does have futuristic dimensions albeit in a retro kinda way. It is the way the characters seem unbelievable yet real which gets me in all of his books by the way and sucks me in to a reading time vortex - as all good books should.
Bradbury's Mars keeps shifting its identity, becoming a symbol of the dreams and fears of America itself. No attempt is made at scientific accuracy this Mars is hot, for example , and the stories reflect the Cold War era in which they were written. Bradbury could overwrite, but he keeps this tendency under control here, and the book has a haunting resonance. It has the fastest start I can recollect any book having, The Affront are hilarious and the Culture ships superb. I also appreciate that the nature of the excession is never defined. Hard sci-fi at its best. The attention to detail and depth of knowledge of the author make this a compelling and inspirational book to read.
This is a strange, compelling and beautifully written story. I'd defy anyone from the most hard-nosed SF aficionado on up not to enjoy reading it. If can get into the language, you'll enter a plausible yet mythical world where you'll get your first knowin from the eyes of a dog and learn the secrets of the master chaynjis. Can't believe that none of these magnificent books were chosen.
Some better than others, but all full of wonderful prose, deep imagination, gripping stories and interesting characters. One of the few books I've read in one sitting. Set in a wonderfully imagined dystopic America, it's very bleak but also savagely funny, always brilliant, and ultimately heartbreaking. This book is a positive, hopeful contemplation of mankind's possible next step. How we might evolve into something better than we are now. The first hint of this next evolutionary step is not evidenced by those we conventionally think of as brighter, stronger or more beautiful, but by the supposed freaks and invalids that just might come together in some way to become, collectively, something Ringworld is SF on a grand scale in many respects.
Set far into the future, it is scientifically well researched and utterly believable, with "alien" characters that are lifelike and convincing: A fantastic novel, one of many well-written books by Larry Niven. Excellent book using Sci-fi construct of time dilation to show futility of war. Written after he server in Vietnam. The sheer scope of the imagination: The gradual unfolding of the driving force of the novel: My son and I discussed it for days. Farmer is woefully under-rated, and really only known for his Riverworld series, but the World of Tiers is, I think, his masterwork.
It contains so much of why I read SF - it has terrific characters, it's overflowing with ideas, it has marvellous set pieces and it engenders a sense of awe and wonder at the possibilities of our universe or, rather, the multiverse. If I had the money I'd personally bankroll a film of the books, now that we have the technology to do justice to them.
It has a breadth, wit and complexity that ensnared me from the first line. Banks has the ability to create fullt formed world's that are totally believable. An utterly wonderful read. Reads like an allegorical account of the Chernobyl disaster, fifteen years before it happened. The love affair between Lazarus Long and Dora Brandon - but much more. Although not usually classified as Science Fiction, Carter's early novel certainly echoes the themes and styles of the genre. After all, what could be more sci-fi than a plot in which our hero must struggle against a mad scientist, in order to restore a world of order and 'reality'?
The surrealist form of the novel and it's passionate portrayal of female sexuality which is quite unusual for a genre largely dominated by men makes it, for me, all the more interesting. But, first and foremost, it is Carter's unforgettable language that puts the Infernal Desire Machines A book about an unbelievably old man and the wisdom that he has learned throughout the years. Shows the way we grapple with the big questions. Not without problems, but has incredibly high peaks. The story of an alien who comes to earth to in a quest to save his planet, not ours but is destroyed when he becomes all-too-human.
The style is nicely understated, the plot, tech and characters believable and the story is full of gentle ironies. Gripping story,fascinating,immaculately drawn characters living in believable world s. This book,and it's sequel,"Fall of Hyperion",are masterworks,in my opinion. I was so caught up in these books that they seemed more real than fiction to me,and this feeling holds up with repeated readings. The story got it all: Compared to his earlier novel "Snow Crash", Stephenson move further away from "Neuromancer" and into the future. And that's where I like my Sci-Fi: To my mind, Dick is the greatest writer of the 20th Century full stop.
Never afraid to tackle the big questions, eg what does it mean to be human? Or, as in this case, what exactly is the nature of reality? Banks' love of the genre shines out of every word. He has all the usual suspects in the Space Opera toy box, but he shows them to us through the eyes of a spoilt man-child who wants to play with them as much as we do. And finally we get the twist, probably Banks' finest, that makes us immediately turn back to page 1 and read it all again in a completely different context. A bonkers, mad book, the story of Dr Frankenstein taken to a grey-goo-fuelled extreme.
As the character's life disintegrates under the power of his creation, the narrative expands and fragments. The structure mimics the plot, sliding deliriously out of control until the reader ends up somewhere quite other than where they expected to. People need to be reminded of its existence; 'Dune,' 'Left Hand Painted with a broader brush than LeGuin's with whose work this one is often compared, it scores through the thought given to its societies and the extraordinary fairness with which it examines the personalities of some truly loathesome characters, particularly the brute like, emotionally retarded Saba and the self loathing vampire beureaucrat Tanuojin, the latter finally emerging as one of the most tragic and pitiable characters in Twentieth Century fiction.
From what I've read of her historical fiction, it's also a tragedy that she's not produced more SF, which she would appear to do far better. This book has so much soul in it. I return to it constantly as a benchmark of how good a book can be when it presumes it has intelligent and sensitive readers.
This book also has one of the most pervasive scents, and evocative moods I have read in sci-fi. I'm not a mad fan of gleaming rocket ships. Not a pill-for-lunch or a personal-jet pack in sight. What happens in this book could happen to any of us today. The ending is set far in the future, but the book is reassuring about man's ability to adapt now, today, to a new life anywhere on earth in this case, at the bottom of the ocean. I found it compeletly believable and beautiful in its detail.
The ultimate in political intrigue and dystopian commentary, all wrapped up in Banks' wonderfully realised Culture. Ostensibly about a man invited to play in a tournament of glorified intergalactic Risk, and yet the depth of the social observations, set alongside the super-cool tech, and written with razor-sharp wit, makes it so much more than this. If you only ever read one Iain M. Banks book then it should be this one; and if you ever read this one you'll certainly want to read the rest.
Extra terrestrial humanoid lands on earth, is captured and kept in an institute where he develops friendship with one of the doctors. Book is written in the form of journal entries and newspaper articles as we see a naive outsider's look at our culture and how his attitudes and preconceptions change as he is influenced by ours. A mightily written account of an outsider attempting to come to terms with his new surroundings.
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As the stage for the chunin exams begins and the oath he made in Hinata's blood. Naruto's life will spiral out of control but also the secrets and truth will be revealed to him. As life continues to spiral a new prophecy is born and the old prophecy is change. Will the new prophecy help Naruto or will the old prophecy come true. But a few moments can make all the difference, and now the Legendary Hero must serve his rightful King while keeping him hidden. Harry Potter and The Chance at a New Life by kossboss reviews A small change in Harry's battle with the Basilisk had him slowly absorbing Voldemort's memories from the Horcrux in his scar.
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A dark knight that is both just and merciless, fair to the good and a demon to those doing evil's deed. This is the story of Harry Potter, the wizard to lead them all. Phoenix Corrupted by iamneverwhere reviews A chance meeting and Albus and Gellert would become inseparable friends, until the death of Albus' sister. But what if Ariana had survived? Almost a century later, a boy named Harry Potter would survive the Killing Curse, finally bringing an end to Grindelwald's war. Now, as he finds a place for himself at Hogwarts, there are signs that suggest that the war might not truly be over.
Episode IV - Destiny of the Force by trekaddict reviews A few months after Ahsoka returned with Master Unduli, and just as the fleet is extra-weak, a new threat surfaces from deeper in the Unknown Regions, while on Weitun the Skywalkers are expecting their third child. Fourth part of the Heresyverse. Now three hundred years later, King Rhaegar Targaryen wishes to make up for his father's crimes against the Starks by wedding his sister to the crown prince. Having saved Harry once, this time should be much easier with his past experience.
If only things would go as he expects they should Under the Serpent's Gaze by Somadrake reviews Hermione as she goes through her second and third years faces inner trials with herself, her friends and family. She must fight to protect those that she cares about from enemies inside and outside the school. All the while keeping her identity secret. All the while under the gaze of a serpent. The Last Son by hyvnn reviews He was born with the sun in his right hand, and the moon in his left. Hogwarts Hybrid by DapperCrapper reviews Takes place after season 1 finale. Rebekah was tasked with taking the Mikaelson Miracle Baby and to find a witch to shield her from those who hunt her.
A certain stern but soft witch agrees and Rebekah and her niece manage to live quietly for the better part of ten years. But that all ends when a letter flutters to her front porch. Dark Phoenix of Konoha by White Angel of Auralon reviews Naruto has a big secret, he isn't the dead last he appears to be. But why would he show that before he is ready to deal with the stones the council loves placing in his way? The Sandaime, having opened his eyes will do his best to make sure that Konoha will retain the Will of Fire.
It Galen, the Sith assassin. He has only the barest of memory and has awoken on the planet of Christophsis. Should he really care about the war? Should he care about the memories he has lost? Starts episode , goes into the movie, then into the series Star Wars - Rated: Where there's Naquadah there's a way by bookgal33 reviews An idea sparked by season 5, Failsafe. What if there was a way to mine the naquadah asteroid? How I imagine there were closer alliances made between the Jaffa and the Tauri.
Harry Potter and the War-Torn Soldier by Averyk reviews In fourth year, when Harry's name came out of the Goblet of Fire, what would he have been like if he were a bit more cautious? How would things turn out, if he were to make a new friend: What if he were to truly change The Wizarding World forever? What if his marriage was the smartest political decision of the war. When one of the ruling Triarchs of Volantis learns that a distant kin of his has married a Westerosi King an alliance is formed.
Forbidden Kingdom by fadedaura reviews Percy Jackson and his brother are sent into Westeros on a mission by one of the oldest living Protogenoi. Though they are tasked with a prime duty, it doest stop them from making a home for themselves. A kingdom hidden from the Seven Kingdom emerges to destroy the fragile balance that hangs by a thread.
One hour that changed everything by InfiniteDragon reviews What's an hour, more or less? In the case of Konoha, an hour means everything. An alternate timeline, in which Minato still sealed the Kyuubi inside his newborn son, but in which the Demon Fox had one- just one- more hour to destroy Konoha. After training the three Orphans from Rain to defend themselves adequately, Jiraiya returns home, confident that they will change the future of the world.
Poor Jiraiya has no idea how true that will be, because the Ame Trio doesn't want to part ways. A Song of a Sweet Rose by dragonpyre reviews Jon has been plagued by strange dreams of late. Ones that seem to almost warn him of events to come. Then, when the hand of the king dies, and Robert Baratheon rides north to Winterfell, Jon knows the dream didn't mean nothing. And then there's the growing question of his mother.
Instead of going to the wall, Jon follows Ned south to kings landing where he hopes to stop everything. Here be Dragons by fadedaura reviews They were given a chance A single gambit by he Old Gods forever changes the game as the newest members of the wolfpack tear through the Seven Kingdoms to create the home they always wanted.
The Game of Thrones would never be the same. Eventual crossovers with other franchises. Consequences by the unknown spirit reviews When the unthinkable happens at the Valley of the End, it starts a chain reaction that forever shifts the lives of Naruto, Sakura, and everyone they've ever known. Strengths and friendships will be tested, bonds will form and break, and ideals will clash as the destiny of the shinobi world is forever changed and set upon a path that few can truly predict.
Healer on the ground by Owlmemaybe reviews AU from season 1. Clarke is the last in a long line of healers, hiding their strange gift for centuries. When circumstances separate her from the other delinquents, she stumbles on the Commander of the grounders and her secret is revealed. Soon, she finds herself drowning in the grounders wars and politics as she searches for her people and tries to help their Commander.
After an attempted apparition that was disrupted by a spell, Harry finds himself and his friends caught up in a world that was separated into clans and had young prisoners falling from the sky, with no hope of returning home. Rise of the Shinobi by Saito Uzumaki reviews The Jedi and the Sith have been the two most prominent organizations who have had many battles over the fate of the galaxy. Now a new era has started in a time of peace, however that peace is threatened as a new order rises out from the dark corners of the galaxy an Order that is neither Sith or Jedi, but stakes claim to the Galaxy nonetheless.
Gone a decade, a Dragon comes home to roost. Percy Jackson and the world of magic by I'mjusttryingtofindmyway reviews In the battle against Kronos Percy the thrown back in time to Unable to even step foot in America as not risk damaging time itself he is exiled to UK, but all is not lost as he finds a world to hide away in, a world to live in. A world of magic. The wizarding world won't know what hit it. During Chamber of Secrets, Harry finds a friend in someone he'd never thought about before. That was the beginning of an experience that opened his eyes to what he had been missing. The Wizard King by BloodKing9 reviews Harry Potter has always wanted to achieve greatness, having seen no route in his world he decides to go to another and achieve it there.
There they meet the Founders of Hogwarts, who are not at all pleased about what has happened to their school. They decide that something must be done.
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When Death shows Harry the tragic outcome of failing to completely destroy the Horcruxes he has to do it all over again. At the same time as Harry's decision to re-enter the Living, Time and Magic throw another resurrected hero in the mix, the slain Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
The Road to Hell by seagate reviews War is hell and the aftermath is even more so, Harry and allies have just come through a recent war and have to now deal with the consequences. In attempting to deal with the consequences Harry finds himself in a world of ice and fire, and now he has a whole new set of problems to face. Star date… two lines over coma…I think.
Adrift for what feels like eternity through the eternal vacuum of space has taken a toll on both me and the crew. I believe my first mate Fawkes is planning a mutiny his only deterrent being that he needs my thumbs to pilot the ship. I continue my voyage to go where Padfoot has probably gone before. Arriving two years before Attack of the Clones, this is Harry's story as he grows through the Clone Wars and his return home.
Not sure which genres to call this one. The Girl of Many Faces by Wolf the swordsman reviews Jon Snow leaves westeros in search for more men to join the watch. The first city he visits is Braavos, where he meets the last person in the world he thought he would. The person he wanted to see above any other, but once he finally sees her she slips away every time.
Replaced by his master. Dooku died by the hands of Qui-Gon's legacy, filled with regret and sorrow for his failure to save the galaxy from corruption. Now given a second chance to try everything again, will he use this gift to save the lives of countless beings in a galaxy corrupted by darkness, or has he fallen too far already beyond redemption?
A woman with a secret conspires to reveal sensates' existence to the world. Sensates are disappearing faster than ever as a new drug makes its way into the Archipelago. A Cluster in alliance with BPO returns with a vengeance. Our heroes may have won the first battle, but the war is just beginning. Extra scenes and different perspectives from that story. The Havoc side of the Force by Tsu Doh Nimh reviews I have a singularly impressive talent for messing up the plans of very powerful people - both good and evil. Somehow, I'm always just in the right place at exactly the wrong time.
What can I say? Forced Alliances by jjsmith5 reviews What if Robert Baratheon feared that is hold upon the throne wasn't as secure as he'd like and needed his friend Ned to help make it secure Fostered at Dragonstone by targaryenemperor reviews We know that Jon Arryn wanted his son, Robert, to be fostered by Stannis at Dragonstone but died before that could be accomplished.
But what if his plan would have worked? What if Robert Arryn is Stannis' new ward? How will the complexity of the War of the Five Kings change after this? I do not own A Song of Ice and Fire. Sansa never married Ramsay, she stayed in the Vale. The Blackfish sought help from the Vale to retake Riverrun, and she was in the middle of it all. Jon is proclaimed King after retaking Winterfell with the northern lords and Sansa's army. And now the Dragonqueen is coming and Willas Tyrell searches new alliances. Natblida by tv-addict reviews The oxygen problem on the Ark was discovered way sooner.
Plans were forged and actions were taking place. But plans never last long in the course of actions. At the end, a blue-eyed, blonde baby ends up alone on earth. Her blood as black as the night. Or maybe it's just the beginning…. Harry Potter's most excellent adventure by wolfd reviews The boy who lived simply wanted to take a break from being everyone's Hero. Who'd have thought that being kidnapped by Jaffa out of some lousy Diner would do the trick? They have no idea how far down the rabbit hole goes.
O'Neill, Vala, Harry P. Rated T for light-graphic violence and language. Ariel was the one who held off Amara long enough for God and Lucifer to lock her away. But before she was locked away, she killed him. Now, God had wiped everyone's memories of Ariel and everyone thinks only Lucifer helped God. Millennia later, Harry Potter dies and wakes up again, with wings. When the risen Voldemort calls his followers once again in '95, Regulus makes haste to the home he left behind half a lifetime ago, reconnecting with his estranged brother and settling on a very different side of the conflict.
The Order of the Phoenix is reborn from the ashes. Let the Gardens Bloom by shivangoes reviews House Gardener as the Kings of the Reach were shrewd, cunning, diplomatic and powerful. They were all supposed to die on the Fields of Fire during Aegon's Conquest. A single prince was all that it took for House Gardener to survive and for the History of Westeros to change.
The Race has thrived for hundreds of thousands of years and who recently conquered their 5th world are heading toward Tosev 3, Earth believing the conquest to be ease against the sword swing savages. Little do they know that those sword swing savages are now one of if not the most powerful force in the Galaxy, the Tau'ri.
The Colonials have just started taking their first steps into a much larger galaxy where danger, friends, and the unknown lie around every corner. And Earth has now taken the next huge step into the galaxy and its rise to superpower is all but inevitable. So what's to stop them? Old enemies from the past thought to be gone and new ones not yet seen. Alone with the Wolves by the moon of my life reviews Robb, Jon, and Daenerys have been inseparable since the day they could walk.
Even after learning of their identities, nothing could divide them. Then their world starts to shift once Robert Baratheon arrives and nothing is the same afterwards. But with Order 66 given and the Jedi scatter her plans must be accelerated making her bring her adoptive son, Harry Potter, and her apprentices Daphne and Susan to their trials. While on Earth Voldemort begins his plans for resurrection. The Yajuu Sannin by Shredjeep reviews While exploring the Team 7 training ground, a young Naruto happens to stumble across a strangely shaped kunai embedded in a tree.
Years of frustration and deciphering later, he finally cracks the fuinjutsu formula hidden along the handle to surprising and painful results. History is rewritten as the descendants of the Otsutsuki clan are finally all gathered onto one team. However, what most didn't know was that the man had a younger brother, a man who also participated in Project: While one brother thrust himself into the light of the world, the other was forced to walk in it's shadows, and they embraced him wholeheartedly.
Dark Phoenix by Lightningscar reviews "This camp isn't for me. Will Nico find a new home at Hogwarts or will he meet rejection there as well? Will he even want to return to Camp Half-Blood when they need him? Ignores 'Heroes of Olympus' series, though characters from it might appear.
A Twist by Tsubodei reviews Qui-gon Jinn survived the battle of Naboo, but that doesn't mean Obi-wan's relationship with him did. Having healed his Master from a near fatal wound, Obi-wan is cast aside as Anakin takes his place. What happens when an initiate at the Temple foresees the dangers of the future?
Will Obi-wan and this boy be able to help Anakin stay true to the light, or will the darkness win? Rising Legend by Blandusername reviews Naruto possesses an abundance of potential and talent. With help from the God of Shinobi himself Naruto will harness his full potential and along with his team. They'll change the Shinobi world. Re-write of Naruto Path of a Legend. A Magical Life by Cassie's Bedlam reviews She wasn't anyone's hero, wasn't anyone's choice to be a hero, but she was here, alive, and her sister is stupidly brave and loyal.
She may not be a hero, but she was a sister, she was a Black, and like hell was she going to let Dora get herself killed. New SI series, first in the series. Tonks, OC, Cassiopeia B. Tale of the Setting Sun by PK Samurai reviews Naruto was born with hair as red as his mother's, but with a face and intellect that paralleled his father, the Fourth Hokage.
Will the revolution he brings be the world's salvation or destruction? How will it change it events that follow? Please read and review. Interlude by samguinity reviews My take on the events that fill the time-gap between Season 4 and Season 5. Clarke's struggles on the ground, Octavia's challenges in the bunker, and the group dynamics in space are all part of the fun! Find out how everyone grows together, apart, and into their new selves. Dragons and Wolves by Stormborn Dragneel reviews What's more terrifying?
Losing your kingdom or your heart? She's conquered the rest of the world, only the North stands in her way. Lady Stark by Jpena reviews "I don't understand father? A Darker Legacy by cr4zypt reviews Darkness. When everything that you know and love is taken away from you so harshly. All you can think about is anger, hatred and even revenge.
And no one can save you. Upon Entering Atlantis for the very first time John Shepard started to remember his former lives as Alterran. Lots of non-canon stuff. Now armed with a great power and having lost what made him who he was, he leaves Konoha to find purpose. However all isn't easy when you have a whole village and a criminal organisation bent on world domination looking for you.
Where will his journey lead him? In the process, he will set his own legend in the galaxy. Kitsune Sennin by devilzxknight86 reviews Asking Kakashi for training before the third round of the Chunin Exams. Naruto determined to Beat Neji after he told him Hinata's feelings towards him. Unaware to Naruto his destiny changed to be a greater Sennin then ever before. The Pack Survives by InheritanceJackson reviews Brandon, Ned, Lyanna, and Benjen Stark travel to the great tourney of Harrenhal unaware that the events set in motion will lead to great upheaval throughout the seven kingdoms.
Rise of the Lycans by kaleb-yamato reviews Harry Potter is bitten at the end of his third year at Hogwarts by Porfessor Lupin. But he does not become a Werewolf, no he becomes the Magical Worlds first Lycan. Stranger Things by blacksluggard reviews It is Harry's 4th year at Hogwarts and he is about to face his First Task when he discovers his telepathic bond with the Hungarian Horntail. What does it mean for harry? Is he the new Dragon Rider? Faultlines by NyGi reviews A story of how Harry growing up as Tony's brother might have changed things in both worlds. At least in my head.
Now with the option of reading chronologicaly. They look out for each other, they have each other's back and they face the trials ahead of them. Each Nation has a Fate seal, a seal that binds two together forever. Condition, no affection can be used. Naruto has been alone, but he doesn't care. Will he accept his future partners or reject them? How will this affect 'the golden trio' and the wizarding world, when a third faction joins the game and decides to turn the Board asunder. Watch as William Dagworth-Granger brings his house back from ruins, and into its former glory.
Son of the Sea God by Sassenach reviews Zeus kills Sally Jackson with his master bolt when Percy is six months old, drastically changing Percy's life and the course of his future. Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rated: Does he commence to attempt a fix or does he immediately crap himself? Hey, why not both! It all started the day of the Kumo incident at the Hyuuga compound - one action altered the course of history and the ninja world. Will be epic in length. Pairings are not the focus of the story, though they exist.
Cover art belongs to amandas-sketches on deviant art. Tampering with Time by Palaserece reviews When Kyuubi was extracted from Uzumaki Naruto, it was the Nidaime Hokage that came up with an unconventional solution. An experimental reincarnation jutsu on Namikaze Minato and a one-way trip, with his Kurama, to the past. Minato-centric Naruto - Rated: Tales of Outcasts by The Night Hunter reviews Sometimes few ill placed words can change one's future dramatically.
This a story of Uzumaki Naruto and the group of people similar to him that struggles in brutal Shinobi world. Those are Tales of Outcasts. Of Love and War Book 3: The Clone Wars has begun! So far, the horrors of battle and the loss she has recently suffered has changed Zelina greatly. But it is only the beginning. Things are only going to get worse. With both Anakin and Zelina spiraling towards a dark path, will any of them find the will to make it through this war?
With the Clone Wars in full swing and the shadow of the Dark Side growing ever more powerful, the Jedi turn to an ancient Jedi Master who has re-awakened to save the galaxy from an age of darkness. However, the shadow of a more powerful darkness creeps in the Unknown Regions of the Galaxy, and he wants it! With the help of Sirius and Remus she decides to take Harry away from Dumbledore's manipulations and goes to America. Fifteen years later Harry returns to fulfil his destiny. With the help of his friends and family, the Boy Who Lived will fight a very different battle this time.
Unfortunately, with her father's death, the purpose is lost but the marriage remains. She's still going to be queen. Just not in the way she had expected. An AU to an AU. Reversal of Fortune by Rap reviews What if Season three went a little differently? Criss Cross Applesauce different? A Different Path by Naruto7thHokage reviews Anakin is found much earlier and is forged into what the prophecy actually entails.
He will become powerful to enforce balance, and his power is much higher than in the movies. His Midi-chlorian count has been raised to exaggerate the point of him being one with the Force, and being the son of said energy. Snowfall by airman62 reviews What if Jon received a vision from Brynden Rivers that changed the shape of Westeros forever? Dueling for Thrones by fundamental blue reviews After the war, life went on. Desperate for survival, what's left of the wizarding populace plunges through the Veil into Westeros. Plagued with personal loss, the heroes from the last war integrate into a society without the Statute of Secrecy.
It would be easier, if the magic here would acknowledge their existence. He grows up in Winterfell surrounded by his family, but when his father marries Catelyn Tully after the death of his mother certain events lead to Jon joining the Company of the Roses. Now he is back in the North ready to claim what is owed to him and make the North a true superpower. Changing the story by Hi dear reviews A few weeks before was sent to Earth, a mysterious woman took some of them to an unknown location, along with other important people, to see the future.
Will the story really change? Or will it worsen with knowledge? The Queen Gambit by nectere13 reviews Margaery Tyrell, unwilling to marry a man in love with her brother decides her own course of action, and find a king she could support. She plans ahead and takes a few thousand men, and more loyal to her with carts of the fruits of The Reach to support Robb Stark, even though she has to get through the Lannisters first. What if he trusted Obi-Wan a little bit more, remained a Jedi, and Luke and Leia grew up together in the rebellion?
Plot divergence AU, beginning midway through Episode 3. Please read and review! Convinced into attacking the Lannisters instead of the North Balon leads the ironborn to raid and conquer in the Westerlands, without a betrayal and an attack at his home Robb is left with his army whole and free to focus on his war for independence. Aegon's throne is close to crumbling and the age of the kings of Westeros comes again. The Secret of the Wolves: Fury of the Stag by Slick reviews When serious and grave accusations are leveled against Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell, concerning the parentage of his bastard, Jon Snow, Westeros finds itself on a direct course for war.
This will be pretty mature in later chapters. What if he learns early about who and what the Ancient house of Potter is really about. I had 38 chapters finished but due to my USB drive dying i lost all but the 11 i posted, I am working on it. Guardians of Konoha by DaGreatSaiyaman reviews Naruto was born 5 years before Kyuubi attack and the Kyuubi is sealed inside his brother and sister. Obito saves Rin and doesn't join Madara. How will the shinobi world fare with 2 Kyuubi Jinjuriki?
What will Madara do without Obito? Rated M for language, violence and lemons. No set pairing yet. Rogue Knight by Illuviar reviews A man with the memories and skills of a Sith Warrior from a conflict that ended four millenia ago finds himself thrown in the opening weeks of the Clone Wars. He has a mission - deal with the current Sith Lord and his supporters permanently and prepare the galaxy for the eventual arrival of the Vong. This is a SI story. He never suspected he would be stuck in a medieval magical world where a dangerous game would be played.
The Black Wolf and the Winter King has arrived. All will kneel before him, or burn in fire. A son, born of two ancient houses separated by loyalty and war. Now, Jon Snow seeks to find his place in the vast world he calls home. Yet Jon will one day learn that his path was lain out before him long ago. For as his House has always claimed And this time, Fire alone shall not prevail. The House of Potter Rebuilt by DisobedienceWriter reviews A curious year-old Harry begins acting on the strange and wonderful things he observes in the wizarding world.
He might just turn out very differently, and the world with him. He is awaken fifty years in the future into a world that is quite changed. The Jedi are gone, the clones are gone, and he learns about the days leading to the end of the Republic. Obi-Wan must now navigate in a world that he no longer recognizes, though the galaxy no longer has Jedi, he will be the Jedi they need.
Can he beat his prejudices and give people a chance, or will he crumble under the pressure? How will their escape and return to the outside world impact the events in Game of Thrones? Children of Wand and Atom by Drakenn reviews What would happen if during that fateful night after the basilisk was slain something more happened? And the venom combined with phoenix tears woke up something that was hidden well. Robb has returned to King's Landing to begin establishing his governance as the one true King of Westeros, and to prepare his country for the Long Night, that he knows is approaching.
These preparations will take him to Essos and beyond to find Daenerys Targaryen. Amongst the chaos, Robb still finds happiness with his Queen, Margaery Tyrell. Harry Potter is taken in by a loving family, and raised to become the hero of both worlds. Even as he enters Hogwarts looking for friends, he is confronted by the darkness in the wizarding world. Guided by an amnesic Force spirit of one of his past lives, the Wizarding World is in for a change. The Song of Builders by jojobevco reviews During a fight with a dragon, Head Auror Harry Potter and a few others are transported to another world.
Years later, Westeros and Essos are a little smarter and a little more honorable. The players of the Game of Thrones become pawns when the Builders raise their fist and strike. This is the Song of Builders, a song millennia in the making. Story starts at the end of "Baelor. Finding myself in an unknown land, hounded by heralds of ice and fire, as well as the idiotic peoples of the lands in this Is it possible to find a way home? As in way, way later. The Young Lion by yozza reviews Harry James Potter died in the war and was reborn into a world vastly different to his own.
Surrounded by lies, mystery and intrigue can Harry win and survive or will he fall prey to the machinations of other players. Because when you play the Game of Thrones You win or you die. By some unknown force of magic, Harry finds himself on the desert planet of Tatooine where he encounters an exiled Jedi Master. Under the tutelage of this new teacher, Harry will become something the Empire is not prepared for. In the world depicted in the series, the human race has left Earth to colonize the stars. The future descendants of humanity have sent probes back to Earth to record what has become of it.
The Book of the New Sun. Heinlein -human society on a future Earth is slipping into a gradual, but inevitable, collapse. Much to the dismay of the only male left, the women of the island continue the human species for thousands of years where they evolve into seal-like creatures. Planet of the Apes. Published between and The Dark Tower Series. First book published in To Serve The Master.
Created by Gene Roddenberry ; ran between and The British science-fiction sitcom ; first ran between and , was restarted in Against the Fall of Night. The City and the Stars. Dan Simmons - a sequel The Rise of Endymion. The Mote in God's Eye. Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle. Manga by Yasuhiro Nightow , published between and David Drake , published between and Larry Niven - An expedition from earth to find a futuristic planet, a ring surrounding a star, results in the members finding that a meteor puncture in the ring's floor and power failure caused the cities to break apart and civilization to collapse.
Series by Douglas Hill - a lone soldier fights to bring down the organisation which unleashed a deadly radiation against his planet, killing all his people and rendering the planet uninhabitable.
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Stirling and David Drake , published between and Don McKellar - follows the lives of several individuals as they cope with their final six hours on Earth before the apparent incineration of the Earth by the sun the cause of the apocalypse is never directly stated. The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. The episode of Babylon 5 - written by J. The End of the World.
The episode of the television series Doctor Who. Songs of Distant Earth. Clarke - in which the last survivors of Earth arrive at a distant colony unexpectedly. Frank Lillie Pollock where a second sun's light incinerates the Earth. Limited series by Garth Ennis depicting the adventures of a man traveling on Earth's surface a few years after a solar event called The Burn. Followed by a sequel, Just a Pilgrim: Film series based on the book series, concerning the Rapture.
The manga and subsequent anime movies and TV series by Kia Asamiya - The story is set in a Blade Runner -style world which has been invaded by demonic beings. Season 4 and 5 are based around the pre-apocalyptic world in which the angels are gearing up for a battle between heaven and hell. James Blish - a black magician brings about the end of the world by releasing all the demons from Hell. Brian Keene - And its sequel City of the Dead. Rather than the zombies being an infection, as in most zombie fiction; these zombies are reanimated by demonic entities, the sisquisim, from the Old Testament.
Brian Keene - a Lovecraftian tale of one of the last survivors on earth.
In the novel, the world floods causing several monsters appear, mainly gigantic, maneating earthworms. Garth Nix - A novel in which a group of extradimensional beings invade earth and cause all human adults over the age of 14 to vanish. Dean Koontz - A novel in which a malevolent demonic force kills off the majority of the human race.
The Shadow of Yesterday. The role-playing game, in which the unification of all people in a fantasy world under a single, supernatural language results in the destruction of a world by what is presumed to be an asteroid that becomes that world's new moon, one that eclipses the sun for a week out of each month. A role-playing game, in which an advanced civilization is threatened and destroyed by supernatural forces that religion is knowingly, and in some ways unknowingly, centered on.
The reasons for the Dayworld dystopia seems to be a combination involving overpopulation, ecological catastrophe, some sort of disaster that rendered petroleum unusable, and World War III. This is hinted at in the second book. Stirling - Ongoing series of novels and short stories. A disaster of indeterminate cause most speculation within the novels concerns an all-powerful outside force, often facetiously referred to as " Alien space bats " causes electricity, combustion engines, and modern explosives to cease functioning.
A series of novels set in a world created by Storm Constantine - humanity is replaced as the planet's dominant species by a race of mystic hermaphrodites. War and plague ravage the human population, but no single cause is specified. Ongoing comic series, which takes place roughly years in the future, where North America is a dustbowl and lacking modern technology. The Last Man [14]. The Book of Machines. The novel Erewhon ' s section The Book of Machines. Richard Jefferies - the nature of the catastrophe is never stated, except that apparently most of the human race quickly dies out, leaving England to revert to nature.
Wells - Towards the end of the book The Time Traveler witnesses the Suns expansion, causing the death of all life on Earth. The War of the Worlds. Shiel - A volcanic eruption floods the world with cyanide gas. Forster - A short story emphasizing machinery instead of computers. Jack London - Sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet, James Howard Smith tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons.
William Hope Hodgson - the Sun burns out and the last of humanity is sheltered in an arcology from the hostile environment and the creatures adapted for it. George Allan England - two characters wake from suspended animation and find that some great disaster has torn an enormous chasm in the Earth and created a second moon. Play by Karel Capek - notable for coining the term ' robot '.
The War of the Giants. The Shape of Things to Come. Filmed as Things to Come in Only a group of children survives and forms a strange new humanity. Things to Come [17]. A future second world war leads to a breakdown of civilization in most of the world, with technology returning to medieval levels by By the Waters of Babylon. Philip George Chadwick, when a near-invincible army of artificially created soldiers - the flesh guard - falls into the hands of an untrustworthy power, continental Europe forms an alliance and invades Britain.
The resulting carnage, involving poisonous electric gas, "humanite" atomic bombs, and the unfeeling march of the Flesh Guard, reduces whole cities and towns in Europe to smoking rubble. A cartoon short by Hugh Harman - animals rebuild a post-apocalyptic world after humanity has fought wars to the point of extinction. Pat Frank - Depicts a world in which a nuclear power plant explosion renders the entire male population infertile. Not with a Bang. Asimov, Isaac - a later book, Robots and Empire gave a different explanation. There Will Come Soft Rains.
Ray Bradbury in The Martian Chronicles. Arch Oboler - the film shows the aftermath of a nuclear war, centered on a group of five survivors. Ray Bradbury - short story in The Illustrated Man. When Worlds Collide film. The Day of the Triffids. John Wyndham - Initially thought to be a blinding meteor shower, but later suggested to be a manmade satellite based weapon accidentally discharged, allowing the bioengineered Triffid plants to dominate.
A new primitive society emerges long after a nuclear war. Invasion USA [ citation needed ]. Star Man's Son [14]. Norton, Andre Also published as Daybreak: Daphne du Maurier - survival horror. The short story The Birds by Daphne du Maurier - made into the film The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock - in which birds begin launching spontaneous mass attacks against humanity. Gerald Heard ; a mildrew-generated fog appears to undermine civilization. The Nine Billion Names of God.
Clarke - A short story taken from the short story collection of the same name. Wylie, Philip - Cautionary for its time , civil defense -themed "tale of two cities": Some Will Not Die. Slaves To The Metal Horde. The Last of the Masters. Dick - short story novelette by Dick, Philip K. Elsewhere, the last government, a highly centralized and efficient society, is in hiding from the Anarchist League, a global militia preventing the recreation of any government.
Day the World Ended [19]. John Wyndham - U. The aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Canadian community. The Long Tomorrow [28]. Brackett, Leigh - in the aftermath of a nuclear war scientific knowledge is feared and restricted. World Without End [22]. Edward Bernd, starring Hugh Marlowe , Rod Taylor - Robust 20th Century men—narrowly escaping the ubiquitous "time warp"—kill giant spiders, help pale nerds and their beautiful women emerge from underground, and retake the post World War III surface from troglodyte mutants.
Fritz Leiber - A small family struggles to survive at near-zero temperatures after Earth is ripped from its solar orbit. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. John Christopher - A virus that destroys plants causes massive famine and the breakdown of society. Made into the film No Blade of Grass. Nevil Shute - also the films based on the book. Rand, Ayn - American society slowly collapses after the country's leading industrialists mysteriously disappear.
Teenage Cave Man [19]. Jones , The world's machinery grinds to a halt after comet dust arrives. Terror from the Year A made-for-television play by J. Several of the issues brought up in the programme were discussed in an hour-long debate following its conclusion. A group of survivors from an atomic war become trapped in an underground station - During the play, broadcast live on Armchair Theatre , one of the actors Gareth Jones actually died whilst the show was on the air.
George, Peter - filmed as Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick. The poem from Collected Poems — by George Macbeth. On the Beach [33]. The World, the Flesh and the Devil [19]. Shiel 's The Purple Cloud. A TV adaptation of a play by Marghanita Laski. Pat Frank - the aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Florida community. The Twilight Zone - numerous episodes, and its revivals. Atomic War Bride [ citation needed ].
A Yugoslav science fiction drama film directed by Veljko Bulajic. Shigeaki Hidaka, a Japanese film about a third world war started when the US accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Korea Japanese title: Yonju-ichi jikan no kyofu. The Time Machine [22]. A Canticle for Leibowitz. Miller, Jr, Walter M. Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman. The Last Woman on Earth. The Earth's oxygen levels drop suddenly, suffocating most life—survivors in an oxygen-producing jungle speculate that this happened because of "a bigger and better bomb" but the reasons are not made clear.
Beyond the Time Barrier. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Ballard - First published novel. World destroyed by increasingly powerful winds. Panic in Year Zero! A movie about a family that escapes Los Angeles after the city is devastated by a nuclear attack. This Is Not a Test. Loosely based on the John Wyndham novel of the same name. The film Triffids are a venomous space-borne plant, and arrive on Earth via meteorites.
Brian Aldiss - Presents a dying Earth where vegetation dominates and animal life is all but extinct. Ballard - Climate change causes flooding. Anthony Burgess - Global over-population and famine leads to mass chaos. John Christopher - A decrease in radiation from the sun causes a new ice age. Comic books series by Gold Key Comics. Novel by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer. Adapted to film in by the same name. A forty-something woman while vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains discovers that a transparent wall has been placed that closes her off from the outside world; all life outside the wall appears to have died, possibly in a nuclear event.
War novel by Ralph Peters. Islamic extremists launch a series of dirty bomb attacks against the West, which results in a backlash against Muslims. A radical Christian government takes over the US and sends the Army, Marines, and a National Guard full of evangelicals to invade and retake a long-nuked Israel. The Last Man on Earth. The Time Travelers [ citation needed ]. The Dalek Invasion of Earth. The Doctor Who serial. Some examples from the relaunch are in Army of Ghosts and Doomsday , and in The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords though it could be argued that only the Master is alien.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Ballard - A super drought evaporates all water on earth. Brian Aldiss - The human race becomes sterile. Time of the Great Freeze. Robert Silverberg - Another ice-age has engulfed the earth. A group from New York travels over the ice to London in the year Nuclear War Card Game. Thomas Disch - Alien flora is seeded on Earth, and quickly comes to dominate all landmasses, threatening Human extinction. John Christopher - Civilization destroyed by massive worldwide earthquakes. Television adaptation of the Novel of the same name. Daleks - Invasion Earth AD.
The jungle in Africa starts to crystallize all life and expands outward. Harry Harrison - Made into the film Soylent Green directed by Richard Fleischer - showing a world where humanity had become massively overpopulated, and a vague ecological disaster is creating a growing dust bowl, and the entire economy is collapsing. Late August at the Hotel Ozone. Konec srpna v Hotelu Ozon [47] [48]. In the Year [ citation needed ]. Journey to the Center of Time [ citation needed ]. Kavan, Anna - earth threatened by Nuclear winter.
Planet of the Apes [22]. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick - basis for the film Blade Runner. John Brunner - Set in a future of extreme over-population. The Bed Sitting Room [51]. Originally based on a play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. Roger Zelazny - made into a movie and a Hawkwind song Marco Ferreri Italian title: Il Seme dell'uomo [54]. Michael Moorcock - Set in a new ice age on earth.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes [55]. The second film in the Planet of the Apes feature film series. Kir Bulychev - in Russian language. No Blade of Grass [56]. Based on the novel The Death of Grass. Doctor Who serial Inferno in which attempts to tap the Earths core for power leads to a volcanic apocalypse.
Glen and Randa [22]. The Omega Man [59]. Kit Pedler , Gerry Davis. A microbe designed to eat waste plastic gets loose. Directorial debut for Douglas Trumbull. An ecologically-minded astronaut struggles to save the last bio-dome preserving what's left of Earth's wildlife. Adventures with uncooperative droids and the rings of Saturn ensue. John Brunner - The United States is overwhelmed by environmental irresponsibility and authoritarianism. The End Of The Dream. A Thief in the Night.
In , a crew of space travelers tries to colonize Venus after Earth is destroyed by a " doomsday device ". Directed by Herbert J. Leder , Lee Sholem , and producer Harry Hope. Battle for the Planet of the Apes [ citation needed ]. The fifth movie in the Planet of the Apes feature film series. Refuge of Fear [ citation needed ]. El refugio del miedo [61].
Directed by Peter Fonda. A research team discover a way to travel into the future, and in doing so discover that a worldwide ecological catastrophe is imminent. They send a group of earnest teenagers forward in time to repopulate the Earth after the disaster - but it doesn't end well. Flight of the Horse. A manga series by Go Nagai that tells the tale of a Japan devastated by a massive earthquake and mass volcanic eruption and isolated from the rest of the world, with the remnants of humanity divided between the strong and the weak. A sequel to Nagai's Devilman series. Stephen King - An unknown phenomenon makes Earth's machines turn against humanity.
It was later made into the movie Maximum Overdrive , which added an alien invasion subplot. The Camp of the Saints. Swiss film, French title: Made for TV movie. A mutated virus created by a solar flare destroys virtually all of the human population. One family has survived, and endeavors to travel across America to their family home. James Herbert - The last two novels of The Rats trilogy show how after a nuclear war, humanity is overthrown by mutated Giant Black Rats.
A Boy and His Dog [22]. A young man Don Johnson and his dog Tiger, the dog actor struggle for survival and encounter strife in a harsh, post-apocalyptic wasteland where food, water, and women are scarce. Based on the writings of Harlan Ellison. Black Moon [ citation needed ]. The Noah [ citation needed ]. Daniel Bourla - An American soldier becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear war. A Doctor Who story that also features alien invasion. Guerrillas from the future explain that they are attempting to kill someone because he caused an explosion at the peace conference, starting a series of wars that left humanity vulnerable to Dalek conquest.
Return to the Planet of the Apes. The Coming of the Horseclans. Robert Adams - followed by seventeen other books in the horseclans series. Series by Robert Adams - first book The Girl Who Owned a City. Society is chased into domes by an ecological disaster, and holds a ceremonial death ritual for all citizens who reach the age of 30 to control the population. A man who formerly helped control the population flees the domed city to avoid his own ceremony.
BBC series about the daily struggles of British survivors of a plague which kills most of the world population. The People Who Own the Dark [ citation needed ]. Amando de Ossorio Spanish title: Dick - in collaboration with Roger Zelazny. Eckert - The stability of the Earth comes into question. The Winter of the World. Poul Anderson - Civilization and a new species has emerged from a deadly Ice Age that has destroyed all previous life.
Ralph Bakshi - A good wizard and his evil brother battle some two millennia after Armageddon. Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle - A comet impact. John Christopher - A virus wipes out the weak and the old, until the planet is populated by young teenagers only. Heine - The planet is decimated by a virus, as told through the eyes of one survivor. Stephen King - Collected in the book Night Shift. Short story, tells the tale of a virus which turns males into female-hating psychopaths when sexually aroused.
Deathsport [ citation needed ]. An anime series by Hayao Miyazaki. Supermagnetic WMDs devastate Earth and causes virtually all land to be submerged underwater. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Two humans search for a way to survive in toxic wasteland. Game from TSR, Inc. Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Mostly futuristic in appearance, but outside of the gleaming Utopian city lies apocalyptic ruins swarming with mutants.
Australian movie; depicts a declining civilization through the eyes of the titular character who seeks revenge. John Crowley - Civilization transformed several millennia past an unspecified collapse of civilization. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Choose Your Own Adventure. Larry Collins , coauthor Dominique Lapierre. This Time of Darkness [74]. Japanese film also known as Virus , directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The Shadow of the Torturer.
The Road Warrior [19]. The second installment in the Mad Max series. This movie follows the titular character as he interacts with a community based around a small oil refinery and a group of marauding bandits. Film version directed by Christian de Chalonge. Jerry Ahern - Series. First book , Total War. Game from Fantasy Games Unlimited. Series of seven books by Paul O. Williams - first book , The Breaking of Northwall A thousand years after a series of nuclear exchanges.
Craig Harrison - Adapted into the movie of the same name. The Day of the Triffids TV series. Post-apocalyptic Italian film [75] [76]. Returning astronauts encounter bikers and mutants in a post-nuclear setting. Released as "Zombie Aftermath" in the UK. Cyberpunk manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo published by Dark Horse Comics - about a group of young bikers in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo who clash with the government and psychics with incredible power. Adapted into a animated movie. Human Highway [ citation needed ]. A low-budget B-movie - an extremely loose adaptation of the novel She by H.
Rider Haggard , starring Sandahl Bergman as a post-civilization warrior. Warriors of the Wasteland [22]. After a nuclear way humanity is reduced to starving tribes with roving gangs seeking to take what they can by force. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross. The anime series and its sequels rewritten and combined with The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada to create Robotech ', which dealt similarly with post-apocalyptic themes.
An Italian film set in featuring a mercenary out to rescue the last fertile woman on Earth. Exterminators of the Year [ citation needed ]. Le Dernier Combat [83]. Warrior of the Lost World [22]. Yor, the Hunter from the Future. Patrick Tilley - series, set at the end of the 3rd millennium. Series by William W. Johnstone - first book , Out of the Ashes.
Fist of the North Star. Influential shonen manga series by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara - A warrior trained in a powerful martial arts style rights wrongs and battles evil warlords in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Inspired the landmark anime series, a live-action film, and many games. The Last Children of Schewenborn. Series by Hideyuki Kikuchi - first book , Novels and later anime movies , set ten thousand years after a nuclear war occurs in ,. Dark Enemy [ citation needed ]. In the Cell saga of Dragon Ball Z , a time traveler arrives from a post-apocalyptic future where two powerful killer androids have destroyed much of the world, and attempts to stop the same thing from happening in the main timeline.
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in a bunker, then they find the keys to the last MX missile. All men, except two who were hibernating, die after a war with the use of an M-bomb that kills only males. Whitley Strieber , coauthor James Kunetka. Hayao Miyazaki - Based on the manga of the same name. Michael Swanwick - Also an alternate history Story - the Three Mile Island reactor incident resulted in a very large release of radioactivity, devastating the Northeastern U.
An adaptation of the first two books in the trilogy by John Christopher. Landmark post-apocalyptic anime series based on the manga of the same name. Game from Game Designer's Workshop - set in a world where a Sino-Russian war degenerates into a limited nuclear conflict that eventually drags in Europe and America. Series of films dealing with a future devastated by a war between humans and machines, the attempt of the machines to kill the hero of the human resistance in the past, and the attempt of the hero and others to prevent this future from ever coming to pass.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome [22]. The third installment in the Mad Max series. This film follows the titular character as he interacts with the post apocalyptic community of Bartertown.