A Matter of Time

6 best books like A Matter of Time (Glen Cook): The Drowned Cities, An Oblique Approach, Stuck in Neutral, Changer of Worlds, Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey, River-Horse

The Drowned Cities

Author	Paolo Bacigalupi
ISBN	0316056243

Soldier boys emerged from the darkness. Guns gleamed dully. Bullet bandoliers and scars draped their bare chests. Ugly brands scored their faces. She knew why these soldier boys had come. She knew what they sought, and she knew, too, that if they found it, her best friend would surely die.

In...

An Oblique Approach

Author	David Drake
ISBN	0671878654

Some of the best-written trash I've ever read. Trash, by the way, is a perfectly legitimate genre. There is good trash and then there is bad trash. Never turn down the opportunity to read good trash.

This is pulpy, ridiculous, muscular, high-adventure alternate history with totally implausible...

Stuck in Neutral

Author	Terry Trueman
ISBN	0064472132

Shawn McDaniel is an enigma and a miracle except no one knows it, least of all his father. His life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. Not even those who love him best have any idea what he is truly like. In this extraordinary and powerful first novel, the reader learns to look beyond the obvious...

Changer of Worlds

Author	David Weber
ISBN	0743435206

WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR

Lady Dame Honor Harrington—starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess—has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against all comers. Along the way, she has become the legend known as "the Salamander" from her habit...

Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey

Author	William Least Heat-Moon
ISBN	0316110256

About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking...

River-Horse

Author	William Least Heat-Moon
ISBN	0140298606

On the Road Again
There's no shortage of 20th-century literature about traveling across America in a car. Even William Least Heat-Moon, author of River Horse, wrote a nonfiction work about his search in a beat-up Ford for himself and America (Blue Highways).

But not since the 19th-century...