To finish off my Intro to SF class

Thanks to everyone who suggested novellas when I asked previously – I did leave off some suggestions when I was completely unfamiliar with them. All of these, I’ve either read and enjoyed, or read sufficient other work by the author that I felt comfortable assigning them.

So it’s obviously not a complete list of great SF novellas! But a good starting point, if you want to dig into some. Some are available for free online, but many (including mine) are not.

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SF Novellas

• Jon Bois, “17776”
• Lois McMaster Bujold, “Borders of Infinity”
• Becky Chambers, “A Psalm for the Wild-Built”
• Ted Chiang, “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”
• Richard Chwedyk, “Bronte’s Egg”
• Aliette de Bodard, “The Tea Master and the Detective”
• Córy Doctorow, “Unauthorized Bread”
• Kate Elliot, “The Keeper’s Six”
• Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, “This is How You Lose the Time War”
• Hao Jingfang, “Folding Beijing”
• Kij Johnson, “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”
• Daniel Keyes, “Flowers for Algernon”
• Nancy Kress, “Beggars in Spain”
• Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Word for World is Forest”
• Janelle Monáe and Alaya Dawn Johnson, “The Memory Librarian”
• Nnedi Okorafor, “Binti”
• Malka Older, “The Mimicking of Known Successes”
• Tochi Onyebuchi, “Riot Baby”
• Manjula Padmanabhan, “Escape”
• Kim Stanley Robinson, “Green Mars”
• Kelly Robson, “Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach”
• Priya Sharma, “Pomegranates”
• Robert Silverberg, “Born with the Dead”
• Vandana Singh, “Ambiguity Machines”
• Charles Stross, “Lobsters”
• Theodore Sturgeon, “Baby is Three”
• Martha Wells, “All Systems Red”
• Kai Ashante Wilson, “Sorcerer of the Wildeeps”
• Gene Wolfe, “Seven American Nights”