The Einstein Intersection is a 1967 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968.

The Left Hand of Darkness is the account of the efforts of a man named Genly Ai, a representative from a galactic federation of worlds (the Ekumen), who seeks to bring the world of Gethen into that society. It forms part of a series of books by Le Guin all set in the fictional Hainish universe.

A powerful new drug enables protagonist Kinnall Darival to attain telepathic contact with others, and this sharing brings him the courage to lead a revolution against his repressive culture. A backlash to the Sixties culture in which the book was written leads some critics to see it as merely a psychedelic drug fantasy.

The "Rama" of the title is the starship, which is initially mistaken for an asteroid and named after the Hindu deity Rama. The nature and purpose of the starship and its creators remains enigmatic throughout the book.

The novel tells the story of William Mandella, a university student conscripted for an elite UN task force being assembled for a war against the Taurans, an alien species discovered when they suddenly attacked human colonist's ships. They are sent out for what might be described as reconnaissance in force, though the politic of revenge are also a major factor in their formation.

It was first discovered by an explorer on Venus, who found a small ship, fiddled with the controls and by accident triggered its return to its home port. Once there, he was unable to figure out how to get back, but before he committed suicide (he would have run out of supplies long before he could be rescued), he was able to signal Gateway's location.

Set in the 22nd century, it describes the construction of a space elevator. This orbital "beanstalk" is a giant structure rising from the ground and linking with a satellite in geostationary at the height of approximately 36,000 kilometers. Such a structure would be used to raise payloads to orbit without having to use rockets.

Journey and ascent to power of Severian, a journeyman torturer who is exiled from the Seekers for Truth and Penitence for committing the one unforgivable act: showing mercy to his victim by allowing her to commit suicide and thereby avoid further excruciation.

In the year 2489 C.E, Terran spaceship Streaker — crewed by 150 uplifted dolphins, seven humans, and one uplifted chimpanzee — discovers a derelict fleet of spaceships the size of small moons in a shallow cluster. They appear to belong to the Progenitors, the legendary "first race" which uplifted the other species.

In a future where mankind has barely survived two invasions by the "buggers", an insectoid alien race, the world's most talented children, including the extraordinary Ender Wiggin, are taken into "Battle School" at a very young age to supply commanders for the expected Third Invasion.

After a extensive life as an archeaologist, Liz Butler remembers a dig, in the ruins of a Mayan city, when a long-dead priestess introduced her into Mayan magic. Good read-fast.

Coming of age story. Woman's tour of duty at China Beach puts the young woman from Kansas through the mixture of empathy for the Vietnamese and anger at the outright racism of army personnel. The twist is a hallucinatory journey through the jungle with a one-legged Vietnamese boy, a battle-seasoned but soldier and a amulet given her by a dying man.

Stations of the Tide is the story of a bureaucrat with the Department of Technology Transfer who must descend to the surface of Miranda to hunt a magician who has smuggled proscribed technology past the orbital embargo, and bring him to justice before the world is transformed by the flood of the Jubilee Tides.

Ultimately more utopian than dystopian, the story focuses on egalitarian sociological and scientific advances in human culture.

A Hobson's Choice is an apparently free choice that is really no choice at all. In this book it is a play on the main character's name and describes to the choice between immortality and provable life after death.

Parable of the Talents, tells the story of how, as the U.S. continues to fall apart, the protagonist's community is attacked and taken over by a bloc of religious fanatics who inflict brutal atrocities. The novel is a harsh indictment of religious fundamentalism.

Lou is a bioinformatics specialist, and high-functioning autistic, who has made a good life for himself. A new manager at the firm where he works puts pressure on the department where many autistic people work. Lou is pressured to undergo an experimental treatment that might "cure" his autism.

For a million years prior to the dawn of Homo sapiens, two immortal, shapeshifting aliens roam the Earth with little memory of their origins or their purpose. In the year 2019, an artifact is discovered off the coast of Samoa, buried deep beneath the ocean floor. The mysterious find brings the two extraterrestrials together.