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SF: Far Future/Clarke's Law

Clarke's Law states that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Stories in this category are set in far-future societies that amply demonstrate this law.

Authors & Titles

• Aldiss, Brian: The Long Afternoon of Earth
  
• Anderson, Poul: Genesis
  
• Anderson, Poul: Tau Zero
  
• Attansio, A.A.: The Last Legends of Earth
  
• Banks, Iain M.: Culture series
  
  1. Consider Phlebas
     
  2. The Player of Games
     
  3. Use of Weapons
     
  4. Against a Dark Background
     
  5. State of the Art
     
  6. Excession
     
  7. Inversions
     
  8. Look to Windward
     
  9. Matter
     
• Baxter, Stephen: Xeelee series
  (In order of publication, as preferred by the author.)
  
  1. Raft
     
  2. Timelike Infinity
     
  3. Flux
     
  4. Ring
     
  5. Destiny's Children series
     
     1. Coalescent
        
     2. Exultant
        
     (short stories) Vacuum Diagrams
     
• Bear, Greg: City at the End of Time
  
• Benford, Gregory: Beyond Infinity
  
• Benford, Gregory: Galactic Center series
  
  1. In the Ocean of Night
     
  2. Across the Sea of Suns
     
  3. Great Sky River
     
  4. Tides of Light
     
  5. Furious Gulf
     
  6. Sailing Bright Eternity
     
• Brin, David: Uplift series
  
  1. Sundiver
     
  2. Startide Rising
     
  3. The Uplift War
     
  4. Brightness Reef (Uplift Storm Trilogy #1)
     
  5. Infinity's Shore (Uplift Storm Trilogy #2)
     
  6. Heaven's Reach (Uplift Storm Trilogy #3)
     "Temptation": novelette in Far Horizons edited by Robert Silverberg
     
• Card, Orson Scott: Homecoming series
  
  1. The Memory of Earth
     
  2. The Call of Earth
     
  3. The Ships of Earth
     
  4. Earthfall
     
  5. Earthborn
     
• Chalker, Jack: Well World series
  
  1. Midnight at the Well of Souls
     
  2. Exiles at the Well of Souls
     
  3. Quest for the Well of Souls
     
  4. The Return of Nathan Brazil
     
  5. Twilight at the Well of Souls
     
  6. The Sea is Full of Stars
     
  7. Ghost of the Well of Souls
     
• Chalker, Jack: Watchers at the Well series (follows the Well World series)
  1. Watchers at the Well of Souls
     
  2. Shadow of the Well of Souls
     
  3. Gods of the Well of Souls
     
• Cherryh, C.J.: Gene Wars series
  
  1. Hammerfall
     
  2. Forge of Heaven
     
• Clarke, Arthur C.: The City and the Stars
  
• Egan, Greg: Schild's Ladder
  
• Hamilton, Peter F.: Night's Dawn series
  
  1. The Reality Dysfunction Part 1: Emergence
     
  2. The Reality Dysfunction Part 2: Expansion
     
  3. The Neutronium Alchemist Part 1: Consolidation
     
  4. The Neutronium Alchemist Part 2: Conflict
     
  5. The Naked God
     
• Herter, David: Ceres Storm
  
• Hughes, Matthew: Archonate series
  
  1. Fools Errant
     
  2. Fool Me Twice
     
  3. Black Brillion
     
  4. Majestrum (Henghis Hapthorn #1)
     
  5. The Spiral Labyrinth (Henghis Hapthorn #2)
     
  6. Hespira (Henghis Hapthorn #3)
     
• Kenyon, Kay: The Entire and the Rose series
  
  1. Bright of the Sky
     
  2. A World Too Near
     
  3. City Without End
     
  4. Prince of Storms
     
• Kenyon, Kay: Maximum Ice
  
• Kerr, Katharine: Snare
  
• Kress, Nancy: Probability series
  
  1. Probability Moon
     
  2. Probability Sun
     
  3. Probability Space
     
• McAuley, Paul J.: Confluence series
  
  1. Child of the River
     
  2. Ancients of Days
     
• McDevitt, Jack: Infinity Beach
  
• McMullen, Sean: Greatwinter series
  
  1. Souls in the Great Machine
     
  2. The Miocene Arrow
     
  3. Eyes of the Calculor
     
• Melko, Paul: Singularity's Ring
  
• Moorcock, Michael: Dancers at the End of Time series (aka Jherek Carnelian series)
  (NOTE: This series is part of the Eternal Champion Multiverse)
  
  1. An Alien Heat
     
  2. The Hollow Lands
     
  3. The End of All Songs
     
  4. A Messiah at the End of Time (aka The Tranformations of Miss Mavis Ming)
     (omnibus) The Dancers at the End of Time (contains An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End of All Songs)
     
• Murphy, Pat: There and Back Again
  
• Palmer, Stephen: Urbis Morpheos
  
• Pohl, Frederik: The World At the End of Time
  
• Reed, Robert: Marrow
  
• Reed, Robert: Sister Alice
  
• Reynolds, Alastair: Thousandth Night and Mina's Flowers
  
• Robson, Justina: Living Next Door to the God of Love
  
• Schroeder, Karl: Ventus
  
• Schroeder, Karl: Virga series
  
  1. Sun of Suns
  2. Queen of Candesce
     
  3. Pirate Sun
     
  4. The Sunless Countries
     
• Shaw, Bob: The Ceres Solution
  
• Simmons, Dan: Hyperion series
  
  1. Hyperion
     
  2. The Fall of Hyperion
     
  3. Endymion
     
  4. The Rise of Endymion
     A Hyperion novelette appears in Far Horizons edited by Robert Silverberg
     
• Simmons, Dan: Muse of Fire
  
• Stewart, Ian & Cohen, Jack: Heaven
  
• Sucharitkul, Somtow: Inquestor series
  
  1. The Light on the Sound
     
  2. The Throne of Madness
     
  3. The Darkling Wind
     (short stories) Utopia Hunters
     
• Vandermeer, Jeff: Veniss Underground
  
• van Vogt, A.E.: The Book of Ptath
  
• Vinge, Joan: The Snow Queen
  
• Vinge, Vernor: Deepness series
  
  1. A Fire Upon the Deep
     
  2. A Deepness in the Sky
     

• Williams, Walter Jon: Implied Spaces
  
• Williamson, Jack: Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods
  
• Wolfe, Gene: Sun series
  
  1. Book of the New Sun series
     
     1. Shadow and Claw
        
     2. Sword and Citadel
        
  2. Book of the Long Sun series
     
     1. Nightside of the Long Sun
        
     2. Lake of the Long Sun
        
     3. Caldé of the Long Sun
        
     4. Exodus from the Long Sun
        
  3. Book of the Short Sun series
     
     1. On Blue's Waters
        
     2. In Green's Jungles
        
     3. Return of the Whorl
        
• Wright, John C.: Golden Age series
  
  1. The Golden Age
     
  2. The Phoenix Exultant
     
• Zelazny, Roger: Lord of Light