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414BC
• The Birds by Aristophanes
410
• On the marriage of Hermes and Philology by Marianus Capella
1390
• The Franklin's Tale (in The Canterbury Tales) by Geoffrey Chaucer
1634
• Somnium by Johannes Kepler
1666
• Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
1726
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
1752
• Micromegas by François Marie Arouet de Voltaire
1833
• Mortal Immortal by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1843
• The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
1844
• The Balloon Hoax by Edgar Allan Poe
1845
• The Power of Words by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
1849
• Kavanagh by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1852
• Hypatia: New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley
1864
• Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1869
• War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy
1870
• Round the Moon by Jules Verne
1873
• The Tachypomp by Edward Page Mitchell
1884
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
1885
• An Old Arithmetician by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
• The Sirdar's Chess-Board by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
1886
• A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll
1889
• Topsy-turvy (Sans Dessus Dessous) by Jules Verne
1893
• Adventure of the Final Problem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Musgrave Ritual by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Sylvie and Bruno Concluded by Lewis Carroll
1894
• Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
1895
• The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes by Herbert George Wells
• The Wonderful Visit by Herbert George Wells
1896
• The Plattner Story by Herbert George Wells
1897
• The Star by Herbert George Wells
1898
• The Time Machine by Herbert George Wells
1899
• idée fixe du Savant Cosinus (L') by Christophe -- Georges Colomb
1900
• The Story of Yung Chang by Ernest Bramah (Ernest Bramah Smith)
1901
• The Genius by Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovskii
1906
• Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil
1907
• An Episode of Flatland by Charles H. Hinton
• The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle
1908
• The Chair of Philanthromathematics by O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
1913
• The Mathematical Man by Robert Musil
1914
• The Judge's House by Bram Stoker
1916
• The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1921
• Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw
1923
• The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice
1924
• The Ingenious Mr. Spinola by Ernest Bramah
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Young Archimedes by Aldous Huxley
1927
• The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin by Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi
1928
• The Appendix and the Spectacles by Miles J. Breuer (M.D.)
• The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
1929
• The Bishop Murder Case by S.S. van Dine (pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright)
• The Captured Cross-Section by Miles J. Breuer (M.D.)
1930
• The Bird with the Broken Wing by Agatha Christie
• The Gostak and the Doshes by Miles J. Breuer (M.D.)
• The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails by Robert Musil
1931
• The Fifth-Dimension Catapult by Murray Leinster
• The Sleepwalkers (Schlafwandler) by Hermann Broch
1932
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1933
• The Dreams in the Witch-House by H.P. Lovecraft
• The Image in the Mirror by Dorothy Leigh Sayers
• The Unknown Quantity by Hermann Broch
1934
• The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Leigh Sayers
• Through the Gates of the Silver Key by H.P. Lovecraft / E. Hoffmann Price
1935
• The 39 Steps by Alfred Hitchcock (director)
1936
• The Brink of Infinity by Stanley G. Weinbaum
1937
• Odile by Raymond Queneau
• Stand-In by Tay Garnett
1938
• Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
1939
• In Good King Charles's Golden Days by George Bernard Shaw
• Misfit by Robert A. Heinlein
1940
• And He Built a Crooked House by Robert A. Heinlein
• Blowups Happen by Robert A. Heinlein
• Inflexible Logic by Russell Maloney
• The Mathematics of Magic by L. Sprague de Camp / Fletcher Pratt
• Vault of the Beast by Alfred Elton van Vogt
1941
• The Geometrics of Johnny Day by Nelson Bond
1943
• Many Moons by James Thurber
• Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett (aka Henry Kuttner and Catherine L. Moore)
• N Day by Philip Latham
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
1945
• A. Botts and the Moebius Strip by William Hazlett Upson
• The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Ethical Equations by Murray Leinster
• Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin
1946
• No-Sided Professor by Martin Gardner
• Technical Error by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Wall of Darkness by Arthur C. Clarke
1947
• Gulliver's Posthumous Travels to Riemann's Land and Lobachevskia by William Pepperell Montague
• The Next Dimension by Vladimir Karapetoff
1948
• Aleph Sub One by Margaret St.~Clair
• And Be a Villain by Rex Stout
• The Cube Root of Conquest by Rog Phillips
1949
• The Death of Archimedes by Karel Capek
• The Man Who Counted : A Collection of Mathematical Adventures by Malba Tahan
• Paul Bunyan versus the Conveyor Belt by William Hazlett Upson
• Skylark of Valeron by E. E. Doc Smith
• Szatan Z Siodmej Klasy by Kornel Makuszynski
• The Time Axis by Henry Kuttner
• What Dead Men Tell by Theodore Sturgeon
1950
• The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator by Murray Leinster
• The New Reality by Charles Leonard Harness
• Sidewise in Time by Murray Leinster
• A Subway Named Moebius by A.J. Deutsch
• Turjan of Miir (The Dying Earth) by Jack Vance
1951
• The Day the Earth Stood Still by Robert Wise (director) / Harry Bates (story) / Edmund H. North
• The Fairy Chessmen by Henry Kuttner
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Ibn Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in his Labyrinth by Jorge Luis Borges
• It was the Monster from the Fourth Dimension by Al Feldstein
• Left or Right by Martin Gardner
• Nice Girl with Five Husbands by Fritz Leiber
• The Sinister Researches of C.P. Ransom by Homer C. Nearing~Jr.
1952
• The Island of Five Colors by Martin Gardner
• The Last Magician by Bruce Elliott
• The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein
• Star, Bright by Mark Clifton
• The Year of the Jackpot by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Zero Clue by Rex Stout
1953
• Conjure Wife (Dark Ladies) by Fritz Leiber
• The Indefatigable Frog by Philip K. Dick
• The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke
• Starman Jones by Robert A. Heinlein
• Watt by Samuel Beckett
1954
• Brain Wave by Poul Anderson
• The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin
• The Devil and Simon Flagg by Arthur Porges
• Gomez by C.M. Kornbluth
• Naturally (Double Whammy) by Fredric Brown
• Silence Please by Arthur C. Clarke
1955
• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
• A Fable for Moderns by Lord Dunsany
• Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick
1956
• All on a Golden Afternoon by Robert Bloch
• Aniara by Harry Martinson
• The Curve of the Snowflake by William Grey Walter
• The Imaginary Number by Yizhak Oren
• The Non-Statistical Man by Raymond F. Jones
• Train Brains / The Runaway Train (Donald Duck) by Carl Barks
1957
• The Feeling of Power by Isaac Asimov
• The Giant Claw by Fred F. Sears (director)
1958
• Fantasia Mathematica : Being a Set of Stories, Together With a Group of Oddments and Diversions, All Drawn from ... by Clifton Fadiman (editor)
1959
• Donald in Mathmagic Land by Hamilton Luske (director)
• The Investigation by Stanislaw Lem
• The Pi Man by Alfred Bester
1960
• The Crime of the Mathematics Professor by Clarice Lispector
• Drunkard's Walk by Frederik Pohl
• Into the Comet by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Symbolic Logic of Murder by John Reese
1961
• FYI by James Blish
• Immortal Bird by H. Russell Wakefield
• Ms Fnd in a Lbry by Hal Draper
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster / Jules Feiffer (Illustrator)
• Return from the Stars by Stanislaw Lem
• Tiger by the Tail by A.G. Nourse
1962
• The Devil a Mathematician Would Be by A.J. Lohwater
• The Mathematical Magpie: Being more stories, mainly transcendental, plus subjects of essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, ... by Clifton Fadiman (editor)
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
1963
• The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster
• Three Cornered Wheel by Poul Anderson
1964
• Four Brands of Impossible by Norman Kagan
• The Mathenauts by Norman Kagan
• The Secret Integration by Thomas Pynchon
• Three Days in Karlikania by Vladimir Levshin
• The Unteleported Man (aka Lies Inc.) by Philip K. Dick
1965
• Bill, the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison
• Quanto scommettiamo ("How much do you want to bet?") by Italo Calvino
• Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe by Dionys Burger
• Those Who Can, Do by Bob Kurosaka
1966
• Death of a Doxy by Rex Stout
• The Geometry of Love by John Cheever
• Lord Darcy by Randall Garrett
• Monday Begins on Saturday by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• The Pacifist by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Tale of the Big Computer (aka The End of Man?) by Hannes Alfven (writing as Olof Johannesson)
• Torn Curtain by Alfred Hitchcock (Director)
1967
• Black Mask of Al-Jabr by Vladimir Levshin
• The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
• Het gemillimeterde hoofd (The Cropped Head) by Gerrit Krol
• The Mouse and his Child by Russell Hoban
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
1968
• Death and the Compass (La Muerte y La Brujula) by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Extraordinary Hotel or the Thousand and First Journey of Ion the Quiet by Stanislaw Lem
• The First Circle by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
• His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem
• The Last Starship from Earth by John Boyd
• Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
• The N-Plus-1th-Degree by Stephen Barr
• Sebastian by David Greene (director)
1969
• Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick
• The Holmes-Ginsbook Device by Isaac Asimov
• The Maxwell Equations by Anatoly Dnieprov
• Operation Chaos / Operation Changeling by Poul Anderson
• What I'm going to do, I think by Larry Woiwode
1970
• Been a long, long time by R. A. Lafferty
• The Devil You Don't by Keith Laumer
• I of Newton by Joe Haldeman
• Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
1971
• De Impossibilitate Vitae and Prognoscendi by Stanislaw Lem
• A Slight Miscalculation by Ben Bova
• Straw Dogs by Sam Peckinpah (Director)
1972
• Go, Little Book by Isaac Asimov
• Mirror Image by Isaac Asimov
• Touch the Water, Touch the Wind by Amos Oz
1973
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1974
• Cantor's War by Christopher Anvil
• The Disposessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Inverted World by Christopher Priest
• The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Pre-Persons by Philip K. Dick
• The Return of Moriarty by John Gardner
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
• Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-Students Turned on to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness by Don Knuth
1975
• The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges
• Euclid Alone by William F. Orr
1976
• Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
• Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer
• The Phantom of Kansas by John Varley
• Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
• Solid Geometry by Ian McEwan
• Trouble on Triton by Samuel R. Delany
• The Ultimate Crime by Isaac Asimov
1977
• The Gnome and the Pearl of Wisdom: A Fable by Richard Willmott
• The Grand Wheel by Barrington J. Bayley
• Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan
• Math Patrol by TV~Ontario
• Quarantine by Arthur C. Clarke
1978
• Art Thou Mathematics? by Charles Mobbs
• Immune Dreams by Ian Watson
• La vie mode d'emploi by George Perec
• Mathmakers by TV~Ontario
• Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons
1979
• Convergent Series by Larry Niven
• Gödel, Escher Bach: an eternal golden braid by Douglas Hofstadter
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Ker-Plop by Ted Reynolds
• Mathematical R & D by Paul J. Nahin
• Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino
• Newton's Gift by Paul J. Nahin
• The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
• Sekret Enigmy by Roman Wionczek
• Timescape by Gregory Benford
1980
• Constans (The Constant Factor) by Krzysztof Zanussi
• Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
• It's My Turn by Claudia Weill (director)
• The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• The Shadow Guests by Joan Aiken
• Sixty Million Trillion Combinations by Isaac Asimov
• White Light, or What is Cantor's Continuum Problem? by Rudy Rucker
1981
• 1 to 999 by Isaac Asimov
• Doctor Who (Episode: Logopolis) by Christopher Bidmead
• Drode's Equations by Richard Grant
• The Infinite Plane by Paul J. Nahin
• Kepler: A Novel by John Banville
• A New Golden Age by Rudy Rucker
1982
• Getting the Combination by Isaac Asimov
• Imperativ by Krzystof Zanussi
• The Killion by Ian Frazier
1983
• Cascade Point by Timothy Zahn
• The Geometry of Narrative by Hilbert Schenck
• A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon by Lennart Hjulström
• Message Found in a Copy of Flatland by Rudy Rucker
• The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein
• The Strange Case of Mr. Jean D. by Joao Filipe Queiro
1984
• The Flight of the Dragonfly (aka Rocheworld) by Robert L. Forward
• The Gates of Heaven by Paul Preuss
• The Planiverse: computer contact with a two-dimensional world by A.K. Dewdney
• Q.E.D. by Bruce Stanley Burdick
• Silicon Muse by Hilbert Schenck
1985
• Artifact by Gregory Benford
• Contact by Carl Sagan
• Eon by Greg Bear
• Gödel's Doom by George Zebrowski
• The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Mister God, This is Anna by Fynn
• Summer Solstice by Charles Leonard Harness
1986
• The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator
• Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore (playwright)
• Calculus of Murder by Erik Rosenthal
• Child's Play by Isaac Asimov
• Mefisto: A Novel by John Banville
• The Stargazers by Barbara Susan Lefever
• Tangents by Greg Bear
• Ten by Isaac Asimov
1987
• The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Cliff Walk by Margaret Dickson
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
• Forbidden Knowledge by Kathryn Cramer
• Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder by Rudy Rucker (editor)
• MathNet by Childrens~Television~Workshop
• Numberland by George Weinberg
• Professor and Colonel by Ruth Berman
• Schwarzschild Radius by Connie Willis
• Stand and Deliver by Ramon Menendez
• The World as I Found It by Bruce Duffy
1988
• Advanced Calculus of Murder by Erik Rosenthal
• BLIT by David Langford
• Hapgood by Tom Stoppard
• Neverness by David Zindell
• Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Thomas Gray: Philosopher Cat by Philip J. Davis
• Twisters by Paul J. Nahin
1989
• The Eight by Katherine Neville
• Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
• Mozart on Morphine by Gregory Benford
• Rama II by Arthur C. Clarke /Gentry Lee
• Sphere by Michael Crichton
1990
• Big Numbers by Alan Moore / Bill Sienkiewicz
• Brain Dead by Charles Beaumont (writer) / Adam Simon (director)
• Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
• The Cambridge Theorem by Tony Cape
• Counting on Frank by Rod Clement
• The Ghost from the Grand Banks by Arthur C. Clarke
• In The Country of the Blind by Michael Flynn
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• Maths à mort by Margot Bruyère
• Strange Attractors by William Sleator
• Three times table by Sara Maitland
• Two Trains Running by August Wilson
• Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
1991
• Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana by Michael Bishop
• The Catalyst by Desmond Cory
• The Difference Engine by William Gibson / Bruce Sterling
• Division by Zero by Ted Chiang
• Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber
• Fatous Staub by Christian Mähr
• The Infinite Assasin by Greg Egan
• Rucker - A Life Fractal by Eli Halberstam by John Allen Paulos
• The Theory of Everything by Lisa Grunwald
• Tigor (aka The Snowflake Constant) by Peter Stephan Jungk
• Tracking the Random Variable by Marcos Donnelly
• Understand by Ted Chiang
1992
• Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos by Kate Willhelm
• Doing our Babbage by Ira Slobodien
• Fractal Mode by Piers Anthony
• Into Darkness by Greg Egan
• The Kissing Number by Ian Stewart
• The Mask of Zeus by Desmond Cory
• Morte di un matematico napoletano by Mario Martone (director)
• Sneakers by Phil Alden Robinson (director)
• Time, Like an Ever Rolling Stream by Judith Moffett
• Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
• Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies by Greg Egan
1993
• 1963 by Alan Moore
• 7 Steps to Midnight by Richard Matheson
• Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
• The Dobie Paradox by Desmond Cory
• A Gebra Named Al by Wendy Isdell
• Herbrand's Conjecture and the White Sox Scandal by Eliot Fintushel
• The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons
• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
• Strange Attractors by Rebecca Goldstein
• Transition Dreams by Greg Egan
1994
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or the Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. King
• The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
• Good Benito by Alan P. Lightman
• Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling
• The Limit of Delta Y Over Delta X by Richard Cumyn
• Regarding Roderer by Guillermo Martinez
• The Visiting Professor by Robert Littell
• Who Killed the Duke of Densmore? by Claude Berge
• Ylem by Eliot Fintushel
1995
• The Adventure of the Russian Grave by William Barton / Michael Capobianco
• Antonia's Line by Marleen Gorris
• Chaos in Wonderland: Visual Adventures in a Fractal World by Clifford Pickover
• Distress by Greg Egan
• Enigma by Robert Harris / Tom Stoppard
• Fillet of Man by Eliot Fintushel
• The Future Engine by Byron Tetrick
• The Ganymede Club by Charles Sheffield
• Hamisch in Avalon by Eliot Fintushel
• Luminous by Greg Egan
• Math Curse by Jon Scieszka / Lane Smith (illustrator)
• Moriarty by Modem by Jack Nimersheim
• One by George Alec Effinger
• A Piece of Justice by Jill Paton Walsh
• Probabilities by Michael Stein
• Simpsons (Homer³) by John Swarzwelder / Steve Tomkins / David S. Cohen
1996
• According to the Law by Solvej Balle
• The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Conte d'ete by Eric Rohmer
• Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Infinity by Patricia Broderick
• Izzy at the Lucky Three by Eliot Fintushel
• Leaning Towards Infinity by Sue Woolfe
• Il Lemma di Levemberg by Marco Abate (writer) / S. Natali (artist)
• Mathemagics by Margaret Ball
• The Mirror Has Two Faces by Barbra Streisand (director)
• Moebius by Gustavo Daniel Mosquera~R.
• The Nature of Smoke by Anne Harris
• Out of the Sun: A Novel by Robert Goddard
• Panda Ray by Michael Kandel
• The Rock by Robert Doherty
• The Year of the Tiger by Jack Higgins
1997
• Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat by Theoni Pappas
• After Math by Miriam Webster
• Conceiving Ada by Lynn Hershman-Leeson
• Cube by Vincenzo Natali (Director)
• Gödel's Sunflowers by Stephen Baxter
• Good Will Hunting by Gus Van~Sant (director) / Matt Damon (Screenplay)
• Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
• The Logic Pool by Stephen Baxter
• The Loom of God: Mathematical Tapestries at the Edge of Time by Clifford Pickover
• The Number Devil (Der Zahlenteufel) by Hans Magnus Enzenberger
• Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz by Irene Dische
• Sir Cumference and the... by Cindy Neuschwander
• Threshold by Sara Douglass
• Tre per zero by T. Sclavi (writer) / B. Brindisi (artist)
1998
• Algorithms and Nasal Structures by Lois H. Gresh
• Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Stout
• Aurora in Four Voices by Catherine Asaro
• Bloom by Wil McCarthy
• Boltzmann's Ghost by Ken Wharton
• Conversations on Mathematics with a Visitor from Outer Space by David Ruelle
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Diaspora by Greg Egan
• Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer
• The Facts of Death by Raymond Benson
• The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga
• The French Mathematician by Tom Petsinis
• Habitus by James Flint
• Herr Doctor's Wondrous Smile by Vladimir Tasic
• Journey into a Dark Heart by Peter Hoeg
• Mercury Rising by Harold Becker (director)
• Nachman by Leonard Michaels
• Nachman Burning by Leonard Michaels
• Number 9: The Search for the Sigma Code by Cecil Balmond
• Pi by Darren Aronofsky (director)
• The Planck Dive by Greg Egan
• The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods by Ann Cameron
• Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
• To Hold Infinity by John Meaney
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
• Towel Season by Ron Carlson
• The Wild Numbers by Philibert Schogt
1999
• The Book of Irrational Numbers by Michael Marshall Smith
• Border Guards by Greg Egan
• The Cambridge Quintet by John L. Casti
• En busca de Klingsor (In Search of Klingsor) by Jorge Volpi
• The Expert by Lee Gruenfeld
• Futurama by David S. Cohen (David X. Cohen) / Ken Keeler / Jeff Westbrook
• Geometria dell'apocalisse by Marco Abate (writer) / R. Bogagni (artist)
• Hilbert's Hotel by Ian Stewart
• Imaginary Numbers : An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings by William Frucht (editor)
• Infinitely Near by Anthony Cristiano
• An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
• Mathematical Goodbye by Hiroshi Mori
• A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos by A.K. Dewdney
• A Matter of Mathematics by Brian Wilson Aldiss
• Nachman at the Races by Leonard Michaels
• The Penultimate Conjecture by Leonard Michaels
• Signal to Noise by Eric S. Nylund
• Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen
• The Square Root of Pythagoras by Paul Di~Filippo / Rudy Rucker
• Visitors from Oz : The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman by Martin Gardner
2000
• Antibodies by Charles Stross
• Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
• Code to Zero by Ken Follett
• Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math and Probability by Colin Bruce
• D'Alembert's Principle: A Novel in Three Panels by Andrew Crumey
• Fermat's Last Tango by Joanne Sydney Lessner / Joshua Rosenblum
• The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem by Rinne Groff
• Gambler's Rose by G.W. Hawkes
• God and Stephen Hawking by Robin Hawdon
• The Gold Cup by Lucas Reiner
• Hypatia by Mac Wellman
• An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
• Killing Time by Frank Tallis
• The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke / Stephen Baxter
• Mailman by J. Robert Lennon
• Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter
• Mathematically Bent by Colin Adams
• Milo and Sylvie by Eliot Fintushel
• Miscalculations by Elizabeth Mansfield
• Nuremberg Joys by Charles Sheffield
• Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
• Oracle by Greg Egan
• Paradox by John Meaney
• The Parrot's Theorem by Denis Guedj
• Proof by David Auburn (playwright)
• Properties of Light by Rebecca Goldstein
• Recess (Episode: A Genius Among Us) by Brian Hamill
• Rooster: An American Tragedy by Brian Fielding
• San by Lan Samantha Chang
• The Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw
• Spying on My Dreams by Laurence Howard
• Two Moons by Thomas Mallon
• White Mars : or, the mind set free : a 21st Century Utopia by Brian Wilson Aldiss / Roger Penrose
2001
• Against the Odds by Martin Gardner
• The Bank by Robert Connolly
• A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar / Akiva Goldman
• The Case of the Murdered Mathematician by Julia Barnes / Kathy Ivey
• The Company of Strangers by Robert Wilson
• Diamond Dogs by Alistair Reynolds
• Flatterland: like Flatland, only more so by Ian Stewart
• The Fractal Murders by Mark Cohen
• La formula di Ramanujan by Marco Abate (writer) / P. Ongaro (artist)
• Math Takes a Holiday by Paul Di~Filippo
• The Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern
• Still She Haunts Me by Katie Roiphe
• Surfing through Hyperspace by Clifford Pickover
2002
• Alphabet by Chelsea Spear
• The Arnold Proof by Jessica Francis Kane
• Bad Boy Brawley Brown by Walter Mosley
• Belonging to Karovsky by Kathryn Schwille
• Beyond the Limit: The Dream of Sofya Kovalevskaya by Joan Spicci
• Cyberchase by Educational~Broadcasting~Corporation
• Dark as Day by Charles Sheffield
• The Escher Twist by Jane Langton
• Falling Umbrella by Julia Whitty
• Hannah, Divided by Adele Griffin
• Infinities by John Barrow
• Jayden's Rescue by Vladimir Tumanov
• Kavita Through Glass by Emily Ishem Raboteau
• Le théorème de Travolta by Olivier Courcelle
• Lee a Julio Verne: El Amore En Tiempos de Criptografia by Susana Mataix
• Little People by Tom Holt
• Nachman from Los Angeles by Leonard Michaels
• Nanunculus by Ian Watson
• Of Mystery There Is No End by Leonard Michaels
• Problems for Self-Study by Charles Yu
• Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan
• Silent Cruise by Timothy Taylor
• Singleton by Greg Egan
• Spaceland by Rudy Rucker
• Sticks by Joan Bauer
• Sushi Never Sleeps by Clifford Pickover
• The Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
• Uncle Georg's Attic by Ben Schumacher
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
2003
• 21 Grams by Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Calculus and Pizza by Clifford Pickover
• Coyote Moon by John A. Miller
• Cryptology by Leonard Michaels
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• A Deadly Medley of Smedley by Feargus Gwynplaine MacIntyre
• Deception by Eric Altman
• The Fairytale of the Completely Symmetrical Butterfly by Dietmar Dath
• The Grass and Tree by Eliot Fintushel
• The Heroic Adventures of Hercules Amsterdam by Melissa Glenn Haber
• I padroni del caos by A. Russo (writer) / Esposito~Brothers (artists)
• In Fading Suns and Dying Moons by John Varley
• Intoxicating Heights (Höhenrausch. Die Mathematik des XX. Jahrhunderts in zwanzig Gehirnen) by Dietmar Dath
• Life in a Mirror by Daniel Ryan
• Long Division by Michael Redhill
• The Monopole Affair by Ken Wharton
• On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction by Karl Iagnemma
• One, True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge by John L. Casti
• The Ore Miner's Wife by Karl Iagnemma
• Partition by Ira Hauptman
• The Poison Master by Liz Williams
• Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle Volume 1 by Neal Stephenson
• Shakespeare Predicted it All by Dietmar Dath
• Touching Centauri by Stephen Baxter
• Turing (A Novel About Computation) by Christos Papadimitriou
• Unreasonable Effectiveness by Alex Kasman
• Zilkowski's Theorem by Karl Iagnemma
2004
• The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
• Calculus (Newton's Whores) by Carl Djerassi
• A Catastrophe Machine by Charles Scholz
• Gaming Instinct (Spieltrieb) by Juli Zeh
• The Housekeeper and the Professor (Hakase No Aishita Sushiki) by Yoko Ogawa
• Incompleteness by Apostolos Doxiadis
• The Labyrinth Key by Howard V. Hendrix
• Leap by Lauren Gunderson
• Mean Girls by Tina Fey (screenplay) /Mark S. Waters (director)
• The Midnighters (Series) by Scott Westerfield
• Newton's Hooke by David Pinner
• The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez
• PopCo by Scarlett Thomas
• The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow / Charles Stross
• Shooting the Sun by Max Byrd
• Sophie's Diary by Dora Musielak
• Stamping Butterflies by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• The Third Party by David Moles
• The Three Body Problem by Catherine Shaw
• Villages by John Updike
2005
• The Adventures of Topology Man by Alex Kasman
• The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
• Another New Math by Alex Kasman
• Cardano and the Case of the Cubic by Jeff Adams
• Case of Lies by Perri O'Shaughnessy
• The Center of the Universe by Alex Kasman
• Comrades in Miami by Jose Latour
• Context by John Meaney
• The Dark Lord by Patricia Simpson
• The Exception by Alex Kasman
• Eye of the Beholder by Alex Kasman
• Flowers Stained with Moonlight by Catherine Shaw
• Für immer in Honig (Forever in Honey) by Dietmar Dath
• The Gangs of New Math by Robert W. Vallin
• Genghis Khan and 888 by Jason Earls
• The Givenchy Code by Julie Kenner
• Improbable by Adam Fawer
• The Legend of Howard Thrush by Alex Kasman
• Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley
• Love Counts by Michael Hastings (libretto) / Michael Nyman (score)
• Lovesong of the Electric Bear by Snoo Wilson (playwright)
• Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier
• The Math Code by Alex Kasman
• Maxwell's Equations by Alex Kasman
• Monster by Alex Kasman
• Mozart and the Whale by Petter Næss (Director)
• Murder, She Conjectured by Alex Kasman
• Nena's Math Force by Susan Jarema
• NUMB3RS by Nick Falacci / Cheryl Heuton
• Numbers Don't Lie by Terry Bisson
• The Object by Alex Kasman
• Only Say the Word by Niall Williams
• Pop Quiz by Alex Kasman
• Progress by Alex Kasman
• Reality Conditions by Alex Kasman
• Reality Conditions: short mathematical fiction by Alex Kasman
• Six Thought Experiments Concerning the Nature of Computation by Rudy Rucker
• The Stranger House by Reginald Hill
• Welcome to Paradise by Paul David-Goddard /Helen Miller
• The Writing on the Wall by Steve Stanton
• Zéro, ou les Cinq vies d'Aemer by Denis Guedj
2006
• 2+2=5 by Rudy Rucker / Terry Bisson
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
• The Blue Door by Tanya Barfield
• Borzag and the Numerical Apocalypse by Jason Earls
• The Cat in Numberland by Ivar Ekeland (author) / John O'Brien (illustrator)
• Delicious Rivers by Ellen Maddow
• Dirac by Dietmar Dath
• Echoes from the Past by Edward Michel-Bird
• Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
• The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
• G103 by Oliver Tearne (director)
• Ghost Dancer by John Case
• God Doesn't Shoot Craps by Richard Armstrong
• A Higher Geometry by Sharelle Byars Moranville
• In the River by Justin Stanchfield
• La fiamma sul ghiaccio (The Flame on the Ice) by Umberto Marino (director)
• Letters to a Young Mathematician by Ian Stewart
• The Library Paradox by Catherine Shaw
• life.exe by Jason Rogers
• The Long Chalkboard by Jenny Allen / Jules Feiffer (Illustrator)
• A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
• Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker
• The Measure of Eternity by Sean McMullen
• Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
• Mersenne's Mistake by Jason Earls
• The Pacific Mystery by Stephen Baxter
• Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss by Margaret B.W. Tent
• Pythagorean Crimes by Tefcros Michaelides
• Resolution by John Meaney
• River of Gods by Ian McDonald
• The Simpsons: Girls Just Want to Have Sums by Matt Selman
• Stranger than Fiction by Marc Forster (Director) / Zach Helm (Screenplay)
• The Tolman Trick by Manil Suri
• The Weight of Numbers by Simon Ings
• What Are the Odds? by Justin Spitzer (writer) / Matthew Tritt (director)
• The Witch of Agnesi by Robert Spiller
2007
• Abendland (Occident) by Michael Köhlmeier
• The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
• Archimedes, a planetarium opera by James Dashow
• Barking by Tom Holt
• A Calculated Demise by Robert Spiller
• The Cambist and Lord Iron by Daniel Abraham
• A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri / Hartosh Singh Bal
• Crimes and Math Demeanors by Leith Hathout
• Dark Integers by Greg Egan
• Diary of a Bad Year by John Maxwell Coetzee
• A Disappearing Number by Simon McBurney
• Divergence by Tony Ballantyne
• Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra by Wendy Lichtman
• False Witness by Randy D. Singer
• Fermat's Room (La Habitacion de Fermat) by Luis Piedrahita / Rodrigo Sopeña
• Gifted: A Novel by Nikita Lalwani
• Global Dawn by Deborah Gelbard
• I Sin Every Number by Jason Earls
• The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
• Midtown Pythagoras by Michael Brodsky
• On the Quantum Theoretic Implications of Newton’s Alchemy by Alex Kasman
• Orpheus Lost: A Novel by Janette Turner Hospital
• Our Feynman Who Art in Heaven... by Paul Di~Filippo
• Powerball 310 by K.T. Reid
• Pythagoras's Darkest Hour by Colin Adams
• Red Zen by Jason Earls
• Simple Genius by David Baldacci
• Strip Search by William Bernhardt
• The Sudoku Murder by Shelley Freydont
• You Don't Scare Me by John Farris
2008
• 21 by Robert Luketic (Director)
• Anathem by Neal Stephenson
• Cocoon of Terror by Jason Earls
• Hole in the Paper Sky by Howard Kingkade (Screenplay) / Bill Purple (Director)
• Irrational Numbers by Robert Spiller
• The Last Theorem by Arthur C. Clarke / Frederik Pohl
• The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
• Maths on a Plane by Phil Trinh
• Perelman's Song by Tina Chang
UNDATED
• Frobenius: A Sesquilogue by Lee Rudolph
• Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis / Christos Papadimitriou
• The Rose Acacia by Ralph P. Boas,~Jr.

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