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| •The Hallowed Hunt • "The Handler" •"The Happy Breed" •Harry Potter books • Have Space Suit--Will Travel • "Heirs of the Perisphere" •"Helen O'Loy" • "The Hemingway Hoax" • Heretics of Dune • "He Who Shapes" •"His Vegetable Wife" • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy •"The Hole Man" • "Home is the Hangman" • "Homelanding" •The Horse and His Boy • "The House the Blakeneys Built" • "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" • "How Beautiful With Banners" • "How the World Was Saved" •"Huddling Place" • "Hunter's Moon" • Hyperion • |
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| The Hallowed Hunt |
| by Lois McMaster Bujold 2005 |
| Preview: After the Lady Ijada kills Prince Boleso in self-defense, Lord Ingrey is assigned to transport the body and the prisoner to the capital. But the old king is dying and the succession is in doubt. Ingrey and Ijada are caught up in political and theological intrigue as they struggle to understand and control the powers bequeathed to them by their spirit-animals and as they align against a powerful force that desires the hallowed kingship for its own purposes. |
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| "The Handler" |
| by Damon Knight First pulbished in Rogue, August 1960 Collected in The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery |
| Preview: The fun at an after-show party ends when the star introduces his handler. |
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| "The Happy Breed" |
| by John T. Sladek First published in Dangerous Visions, 1967 |
Preview: In the near future (1987) a complex of therapeutic environment machines regulate health, happiness, and every other aspect of human life. Compare to "With Folded Hands" by Jack Williamson |
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| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
| by J. K. Rowling See General Guide to the World of Harry Potter |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| by J. K. Rowling See General Guide to the World of Harry Potter |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
| by J. K. Rowling See General Guide to the World of Harry Potter |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
| by J. K. Rowling See General Guide to the World of Harry Potter |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
| by J. K. Rowling See General Guide to the World of Harry Potter |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
| by J. K. Rowling See General Guide to the World of Harry Potter |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
| by J. K. Rowling See General Guide to the World of Harry Potter |
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| Have Space Suit--Will Travel |
| by Robert A. Heinlein 1958 |
| Preview: Kip Russell wins a space suit in a contest but gets kidnapped but escapes with the Mother Thing from the planet Vega, but the Vegans put Kip on trial as a representative for all of Earth. |
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| "Heirs of the Perisphere" |
| by Howard Waldrop First published in Playboy, July 1985 |
| Preview: Fifteen hundred years after the destruction of civilization, three robotic theme park hosts are activated; they set off to find a time capsule. |
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| "Helen O'Loy" |
| by Lester del Rey See the Reading Guide |
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| "The Hemingway Hoax" |
| by Joe Haldeman First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novella Winner of a Nebula for Best Novella |
| Preview: A con man talks a Hemingway scholar into trying to forge some lost manuscripts. But the Spacio-Temporal Adjustment Board, which is monitoring time channels, tries to stop the scheme. |
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| Heretics of Dune |
| by Frank Herbert See the Reading Guide to the Dune Novels |
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| "He Who Shapes" |
| by Roger Zelazny First published in Amazing, January 1965 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III Winner of a Nebula for Best Novella |
| Preview: Neuroparticipant therapist Render is a Shaper, a "special analyst" able to enter and then manipulate the world of his patients' dreams in order to deal with their neuroses. He agrees to a blind psychiatrist's request to treat her by acclimating her to visual stimuli so that she too might eventually become a Shaper. |
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| "His Vegetable Wife" |
| by Pat Murphy See the Reading Guide |
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| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| by Douglas Adams See the Reading Guide to The Hitchhiker's Trilogy |
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| "The Hole Man" |
| by Larry Niven First published in Analog, January 1974 Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Story |
| Preview: An astrophysicist discovers a quantum black hole. |
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| "Home is the Hangman" |
| by Roger Zelazny First published in Analog, November 1975 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novella Winner of a Nebula for Best Novella |
| Preview: The Hangman, a remotely-controlled robot that may have acquired sentience, has returned to Earth to kill the four people who First operated it. |
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| "Homelanding" |
| by Margaret Atwood First published in Tesseracts 3, 1990 Collected in The Norton Book of Science Fiction |
| Preview: Upon first contact, a female describes herself to the inhabitants of a planet. |
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| The Horse and His Boy |
| by C. S. Lewis See the General Guide to The Chronicles of Narnia |
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| "The House the Blakeneys Built" |
| by Avram Davidson First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1965 Collected in The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery |
| Preview: Four people shipwrecked on a planet meet the Blakeneys, the planet's only inhabitants, who have been inbreeding for 500 years. |
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| "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" |
| by James Tiptree, Jr. First published in Aurora: Beyond Equality, ed. Vonda McIntyre and Susan Anderson, 1976 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novelette Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette |
| Preview: While on a circumsolar mission, the spaceship Sunbird with three crewmen is crippled by a solar flare. Rescued by the Gloria, they discover they are now 300 years in the future; they spend the year returning to Earth in the company of the four women and one young man in the crew. Listening to their chatter, Orren Lorimer, the Sunbird's scientist, uncovers the true nature of the epidemic that has depopulated the Earth. |
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| "How Beautiful With Banners" |
| by James Blish First published in Orbit 1, ed. Damon Knight, 1966 Collected in The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ursula K Le Guin and Brian Attebery |
| Preview: On Titan, Dr. Ulla Hillstrøm is attached by a creature known as a flying cloak; the creature seems to be trying to merge with Hillstrøm's protective bubble. |
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| "How the World Was Saved" |
| by Stanislaw Lem Translated by Michael Kandel First published in English in The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age, 1974 Collected in Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts, ed. Heather Masri |
Preview: The robot inventor Trurl creates a machine that can make anything that begins with the letter "n." Compare this story with "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke |
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| "Huddling Place" |
| by Clifford D. Simak See the Reading Guide |
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| "Hunter's Moon" |
| by Poul Anderson First published in Analog November 1978 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novelette |
| Preview: Husband and wife xenologists on the moon Medea in a remote solar system are using electronic neuranalysis techniques to "mindscan" the dromids and oranids, indigenous intelligent life forms which are at war with each other. |
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| Hyperion |
by Dan Simmons |
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