Academic Exercises
10 best books like Academic Exercises (K.J. Parker): Iron Council, Darkdawn, A Little Hatred, The Wolf's Call, Priest of Bones, Dark Forge, The Hellfire Rebellion, The Book of Swords, Choose Your Enemies, Ciaphas Cain Trilogy
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345458427 |
Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon—this time, decades later.
It is a...
A ruthless young assassin's journey for revenge comes to a stunning end in the conclusion of this acclaimed epic fantasy trilogy.
The Republic of Itreya is in chaos. Mia Corvere has assassinated Cardinal Duomo and rumors of Consul Scaeva’s death ripple through the street of Godsgrave like...
The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.
On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the...
Anthony Ryan's debut novel Blood Song - book one of the Raven's Shadow series - took the fantasy world by storm. The sequels, Tower Lord and Queen of Fire were both New York Times bestsellers. Now, Anthony Ryan returns to the world of this acclaimed fantasy series with The Wolf's Call, which begins a thrilling...
| Author | Peter McLean |
| ISBN | 0451490215 |
The war is over, and army priest Tomas Piety heads home with Sergeant Bloody Anne at his side. But things have changed while he was away: his crime empire has been stolen and the people of Ellinburg--his people--have run out of food and hope and places to hide. Tomas sets out to reclaim what was his with help...
I loved Dark Forge.
It opened with a bang, a nail-biting battle scene full of Miles Cameron's trademark detailed authenticity that throws you straight back into the story and never lets up.
I love how Cameron takes fantasy tropes and makes them feel real. Aranthur's journey from novice student...
| Author | Simon Hawke |
| ISBN | 0441812627 |
Well the series is now entering the final volumes in the series the characters are all named and are in the picture, the challenge is set the question is now who is making the next move and where. So we enter the story of the Hellfire club and an alternative telling of the story of the birth of American independence...
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0399593764 |
Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling...
| Author | Sandy Mitchell |
| ISBN | 1784968889 |
Book 10 in the Ciaphas Cain Series.
Commissar Ciaphas Cain returns! After putting down an uprising on a mining world, he finds evidence that the corruption might have spread to other planets, and the forge world of Ironfound could now be at risk…
It's been a long time, but the self-styled...
In the 41st millennium Commissar Ciaphas Cain, hero of the Imperium, is an inspiration to his men – at least that’s what the propaganda would have you believe…
Recruited in their millions from planets all over the Imperium, the human soldiers of the Astra Militarum fight tirelessly...
| Author | James Swallow |
| ISBN | 1849707960 |
Nathaniel Garro features in this Horus Heresy audio
While the war rages on across the galaxy, for many on the Throneworld of Terra it exists only in rumour and hearsay. But in the course of her daily duties, humble adept Katanoh Tallery discovers evidence of a conspiracy within the Administratum...
| Author | Claire North |
| ISBN | 1478907940 |
In 17th Century Venice exists a mysterious establishment known only as the Gameshouse.
There, fortunes are made and fortunes are broken over games of chess, backgammon and every other game under the sun.
But those whom fortune favours may be invited to compete in the higher league......
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0399593780 |
Hot on the heels of award-winning editor Gardner Dozois's acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf ... and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda ... and a Wicked Witch of the West. What would Harry...
Monumental Terror (The Destroyer Book 153)
The USA has been anything but “United” lately.
From protests to counter-protests, from red hats to black masks, political tensions in America have reached a breaking point. After a demonstration in Little Rock turns deadly, it seems America is only days away from spiraling into a second...
In the near future, terrorists and drug cartels threaten the security of a United States reeling from the Rollercoaster Recession, escalating unemployment, and air saturated with toxic pollen. Sergeant Peter Birdsall's squad is wiped out by the Navajas cartel in Tijuana thanks to a tip from a mole...
| Author | Simon Hawke |
| ISBN | 1584451297 |
The fifth of Simon Hawk's brilliant Time Wars series returns to print and brings the legendary submarine Nautilus back with it.Aboard her is none other than Jules Verne himself in an adventure that pits the Time Commandos against a ruthless fanatic who hijacks a 20th-century Soviet nuclear sub and...
The Shapechanger Scenario
When humans arrived at Draconis 9, the only life on the planet was docile race of mammals. Humans do what they always do when they arrive on a new planet; they begin to kill things. It turns out the mammals were tasty. Little did the colonists know the animals were actually a race of telepathic shapechangers....
| Author | Simon Hawke |
| ISBN | 0441029116 |
This book I guess will always be an uncomfortable second - not really because of any failure of this book or the author - but to me because of one simple fact - it followed on the The Kyber Connection which to me was such a great book - yes shocking but great all the same. The story here takes a step in to the fantastical...
