After Man: A Zoology of the Future
10 best books like After Man: A Zoology of the Future (Dougal Dixon): The Second Sleep, The Inheritors, Headlong, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying, Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy, Fives and Twenty-Fives, All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A.D. Voyage to Darwin IV, Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras & Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature
All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is.
1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones –...
| Author | William Golding |
| ISBN | 0156443791 |
When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people...
| Author | Michael Frayn |
| ISBN | 0571225586 |
The combined smell of mildew, old food and wet dog was about to make me heave undigested pot roast, when our host had finally gotten around to telling us why he invited us to dinner.
“I heard you were something of a comic book aficionado and wanted your opinion on something.”
I eyed...
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 1419704427 |
This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich...
Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
As the title of her current book makes clear, Sallie Tisdale is a provocative writer who likes to address uncomfortable (even taboo) subjects that many prefer to avoid. If you can get past the blunt, weirdly funny, and challenging title of this book, you’ll be okay with the contents: an interesting...
| Author | Mark P. Witton |
| ISBN | 0691150613 |
For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs, such as the giant azhdarchids, were the largest...
It's the rule-always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A bomb inside five meters cuts through the armor, killing everyone in the truck. Once clear, get out and sweep twenty-five...
All Yesterdays is a book about the way we see dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Lavishly illustrated with over sixty original artworks, All Yesterdays aims to challenge our notions of how prehistoric animals looked and behaved. As a critical exploration of palaeontological art, All Yesterdays...
| Author | Wayne Barlowe |
| ISBN | 0894806297 |
In 2358, wildlife artist Wayne Douglas Barlowe joined the first manned flight to Darwin IV, fourth planet in the newly discovered F-Class binary system 6.5 light years from Earth. Now his long-awaited account of that historic journey has been published. More vivid than the holos and more interpretive...
Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras & Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature
| Author | Jerome Clark |
| ISBN | 0684856026 |
The ultimate quest for the world's most mysterious creatures.
The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman -- these are the names of the elusive beasts that have caught the eye and captured the imaginations of people around the world for centuries. Recently, tales of these "monsters"...
