3. "What books or stories are about X?" (rec.arts.sf.written)
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This article is from the rec.arts.sf.written FAQ, by Evelyn C. Leeper evelynleeper@geocities.com with numerous contributions by others.
3. "What books or stories are about X?" (rec.arts.sf.written)
There are several lists published of works in specific sub-genres:
A. Cyberpunk
Laura Burchard defined cyberpunk as "a subgenre of SF which
(usually) combines high technology ("cyber") with an alienated, often
criminal, subculture ("punk"). Some people consider cyberpunk to be a
Literary Movement; others consider it a marketing gimmick. Arguing
about which it is is pointless and not encouraged in this newsgroup."
There is a news group called alt.cyberpunk which is the best place to
discuss cyberpunk. A comprehensive list of cyberpunk works can be
gotten by sending e-mail to John Wichers at wichers@husc4.harvard.edu,
and there is an alt.cyberpunk FAQ, edited by "Frank"
(frank@knarf.demon.co.uk) available at
http://www.knarf.demon.co.uk/alt-cp.htm.
There is also another cyberpunk bibliography (novels and anthologies)
at http://maskull.home.mindspring.com/cpunk.htm.
Robert Schmunk (rbs@skatecity.com) points out that "cyberpunk must be dead,
because Time magazine has done a cover article on it."
B. Steampunk
Steampunk in analogous to cyberpunk, and refers to SF stories set in
the 19th Century and involving technology of that era. There is no
bibliography as yet, but for now,
http://www.io.com/~bowman/Falkenstein/Fiction.html lists some of the
well-known steampunk works.
C. Alternate Histories
"Uchronia," a large and searchable bibliography of alternate history
stories is maintained by Robert Schmunk (rbs@skatecity.com) and is
available on the Web at http://www.uchronia.net.
CAVEAT: Flat text copies of the bibliography may be found at various
science fiction archives around the net. However, they are archived
Usenet postings and none will be dated more recently than March 1997.
D. Transformation Stories
A bibliography of books, stories, movies, and other works involving
physical transformation (through lycanthropy, science, magic, etc.) is
available at http://www.halcyon.com/phaedrus/translist/translist.html.
A text-only version is also available at the same address.
[Provided by Phaedrus [transform@halcyon.com].
E. Gender Issues
A bibliography of stories which address gender issues through
science fiction is available on sflovers.rutgers.edu (Q#98).
F. King Arthur and Robin Hood
Arthurian and Robin Hood FAQs posted to rec.arts.books and
news.answers.
G. Jewish SF
S. H. Silver (shsilver@ameritech.net) has a list of Jewish SF stories
at http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/jewishsf.html. He also has Pluto in
SF, First Contact, debut stories & novels, Baseball in SF, and Chicago
in SF bibliographies.
H. Mormon SF
A long, but not exhaustive, annotated list, with links to other
materials, may be found at http://www.adherents.com/lit/sf_lds.html.
I. Christian SF
A bibliography by the late Ross Pavlac is at
http://www.enteract.com/~mpavlac/christsf.htm. There is also the
Christian Fandom website at
http://www.christian-fandom.org/christian-fandom/.
J. Only non-human characters
Suggestions so far include:
Robert Asprin's BUG WARS
John Brunner's CRUCIBLE OF TIME
Mary Caraker's WATERSONG
Arthur C. Clarke's "Second Dawn"
Samuel R. Delany's EINSTEIN INTERSECTION
Diane E. Gallagher's ALIEN DARK (mostly)
Raymond F. Jones & Lester del Rey's WEEPING MAY TARRY
Ross Rocklynne's SUN DESTROYERS
H. Beam Piper's FIRST CYCLE
Robert J. Sawyer's "Quintaglio" Trilogy: FAR-SEER, FOSSIL HUNTER,
and FOREIGNER
Robert Silverberg's AT WINTER'S END and THE NEW SPRINGTIME
Olaf Stapledon's STAR MAKER and NEBULA MAKER
James Tiptree's "Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death"
K. Post-apocalypse
There is a bibliography and links at http://www.reed.edu/~karl/postapoc/.
L. Other
As with requests for plots, titles, or authors, ask that all replies be
e-mailed to you and that you will summarize (set the Followup-to to
"poster" to encourage e-mail response). Note that a summary is not
just concatenating all the replies together and posting the resulting
file. Take the time to strip headers, combine duplicate information,
and write a short summary. [Provided by Evelyn Leeper
[evelynleeper@geocities.com].]
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