Beowulf's Children

6 best books like Beowulf's Children (Larry Niven): Rule 34, Halting State, The Tar-Aiym Krang, We Few, Heechee Rendezvous, The Nightmare Stacks

AuthorCharles Stross
ISBN1841497738
DI Liz Kavanaugh: You realise policing internet porn is your life and your career went down the pan five years ago. But when a fetishist dies on your watch, the Rule 34 Squad moves from low priority to worryingly high profile.

Anwar: As an ex-con, you'd like to think your identity fraud days are...
AuthorCharles Stross
ISBN0441014984
In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates -- a dot-com start-up company that's just floated onto the London stock exchange. But this crime may be a bit beyond Smith's expertise.

The...
The Tar-Aiym Krang
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
ISBN0345908570
Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings -- two great golden clouds suspended in space around it.

Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers -- a teeming, constantly shifting...
AuthorDavid Weber
ISBN1416520848
Prince Roger MacClintock was an heir to the galaxy's Throne of Man-and a self-obsessed spoiled young brat . . . until he and the Royal Marines sent to protect him were stranded on Marduk with only their feet to get them half way around the entire planet. So far, they've traversed a continent, crossed a sea...
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0345300556
At last - the ultimate book in the renowned Heechee Saga!
Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent...
The Nightmare Stacks
AuthorCharles Stross
ISBN0356505340
Alex Schwartz had a promising future - until he contracted an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret agency.

His first assignment is in Leeds - his old hometown. The thought of telling his parents that he's lost...
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