Arctic Rising

10 best books like Arctic Rising (Tobias S. Buckell): The Light Brigade, vN, Moonstruck, Unmasked, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Chimera, Blood Ties, Intrusion, In the Black, Stellarnet Rebel

The Light Brigade
AuthorKameron Hurley
ISBN1481447963
From the Hugo Award­­–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars.

They said the war would turn us into light.
I wanted to be counted...
vN
AuthorMadeline Ashby
ISBN0857662627
Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot.

For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, little...
AuthorSusan Grant
ISBN0373772599
I mean, I dunno what to say with this one. When you're in a SF universe and a character is referencing "Devil meets Prada" which only THREE years later dates the book, how in the world can you believe that you're in a world where there are space ships and alternate races? UUUUUGH.

In the VERY narrow...
AuthorC.J. Barry
ISBN0505525747
To the merchants he plunders, he’s the Ghost Rider of the Dead Zone. To sector law enforcement, he’s a wanted pirate. To the slaves he rescues, he’s the savior, laghato. To one determined female, Qaade Deter is serious trouble.
Torrie Masters had heard of the legendary raider, but she’d...
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
AuthorRandall Munroe
ISBN1473680336
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
AuthorT.C. McCarthy
ISBN0316128171
Escaped Germline soldiers need to be cleaned up, and Stan Resnick is the best man for the job. A job that takes him to every dark spot and every rat hole he can find.

Operatives from China and Unified Korea are gathering escaped or stolen Russian and American genetics, and there are reports of new...
Blood Ties
AuthorGarth Nix
ISBN0545522455
The adventure continues in this third book of the epic multiplatform fantasy series.

Erdas is a land of balance. A rare link, the spirit animal bond, bridges the human and animal worlds. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan each have this gift-and the grave responsibility that comes with it.

But...
AuthorKen MacLeod
ISBN1841499390
I found this book deeply frustrating. Like my favourite kind of science fiction, it poses some really interesting questions about technology, society, and the interaction of the two. However, as a novel, I found it absolutely wretched.

The central premise of the book is that in the near future,...
AuthorSheryl Nantus
Book one of Tales from the Edge

When Sam Keller left the military, she ran to the far end of the galaxy. Now she captains the Bonnie Belle, a spaceship full of courtesans who bring a little pleasure to hard-up men on mining colonies. When one of her girls turns up dead, it's Sam's job to find out who...
AuthorJ.L. Hilton
Welcome to Asteria, a corporate-owned, deep-space colony populated with refugees, criminals and obsessive online gamers. Genny O'Riordan has shifted in from Earth determined to find a story that will break her blog into the Stellarnet Top 100, and even better—expose the degradation of the colony's...
AuthorWalter Jon Williams
Dagmar Shaw got out of the game... and into the movies.

Sean is a washed-up child actor reduced to the lowest dregs of reality television to keep himself afloat. His life was a downward spiral of alcoholism, regret, and failure... until he met Dagmar.

Except Sean has secrets, dark even...
Fire and Ice
AuthorShannon Hale
ISBN0545522463
The adventure continues in this fourth book of the epic multiplatform fantasy series.

Cracks In The Ice

Strange things are happening at the frozen edge of the world. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have crisscrossed Erdas in their quest to stop the ruthless Conquerors. Only the...
Against the Tide
AuthorTui T. Sutherland
ISBN0545522471
The sun is shining in the Hundred Isles, and yet the path forward seems crowded with shadows. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have traveled across the world, seeking a set of powerful talismans in order to keep them from enemy hands. Throughout their journey the young heroes have been hounded by pursuers,...
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