A Dream of Wessex
10 best books like A Dream of Wessex (Christopher Priest): Hothouse, The Stress of Her Regard, The Anatomy of Evil, The Female Man, Supper Club, The Only Harmless Great Thing, This Census-Taker, The Eternal Champion, Redemption's Blade, Hitler's Spy Chief: The William Canaris Mystery
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0671559303 |
In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a colossal banyan tree that covers one face of the globe. The last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorised by the carnivorous plants and the grotesque insect life.
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| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 0441790976 |
When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom.
Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey...
| Author | Michael H. Stone |
| ISBN | 1591027268 |
The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, and other high-profile killers are so breathtakingly awful that most people would not hesitate to label them "evil." In this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone—host of Discovery...
| Author | Joanna Russ |
| ISBN | 0807063134 |
I've seen people argue, both here and elsewhere, that this book is outdated and no longer topical.
I'm really confused what rose-colored glasses they're wearing, because as far as I can tell, the majority of this book is still far too true. I've been in these places far, far too often to write...
| Author | Lara Williams |
| ISBN | 0525539581 |
A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites--and their physical spaces--that posits the question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?
Roberta spends her life trying...
The Only Harmless Great Thing
| Author | Brooke Bolander |
| ISBN | 1250169488 |
In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island.
These are the facts.
Now these two tragedies are...
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 1101967323 |
For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, and Karen Russell, This Census Taker is the poignant and uncanny new novella from award-winning and bestselling author China Miéville. After witnessing a profoundly traumatic event, a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0425095622 |
You are John Daker. You are a resident of 20th century Earth. You are a sophisticated, intelligent fellow - urbane, socially conscious, left-leaning. You do not believe in binary thinking; you do not believe in Good vs. Evil. You do not support war; you don't even know how to use a weapon.
You...
Ten years ago, the renegade demigod known as the Kinslayer returned. His armies of monsters issued from the pits of the earth, spearheaded by his brutal Yorughan soldiers. He won every battle, leaving burnt earth and corruption behind. Thrones toppled and cities fell as he drove all before him. And...
Hitler's Spy Chief: The William Canaris Mystery
| Author | Richard Bassett |
| ISBN | 0297846876 |
Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fuhrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could not win. In 1938 he was involved in an attempted coup,...
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
| Author | Johnjoe McFadden |
| ISBN | 0307986810 |
Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital...
Rivers of London: Body Work, #1
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Peter Grant is one of only two members of a very special branch of London's Metropolitan Police. He is, in fact, pretty much a wizard and it's his job to investigate those shadowy crimes that involve urban vampires, weird folk in the underground and,...
