Children of the Thunder
10 best books like Children of the Thunder (John Brunner): Before She Sleeps, Ronia, the Robber's Daughter, The Shore of Women, And All Between, Floating Worlds, Dinner at Deviant's Palace, West of January, Amnesiascope, The Poison Master, Il cuoco dell'Alcyon
| Author | Bina Shah |
| ISBN | 1883285763 |
In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible.
Yet...
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
| Author | Astrid Lindgren |
| ISBN | 0140317201 |
The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending!
Two clans of robbers, enemies for as long as the two chiefs Mattis and Borka can remember, share a forest and a castle split in two by a giant lightning, and a common enemy in the knights of the crown. Bad-mannered, ill-tempered, violent and boastful,...
| Author | Pamela Sargent |
| ISBN | 1932100369 |
I really enjoyed this book's exploration of daring feminist themes like "Wouldn't it be awful if the world was controlled by domineering man-hating lesbian separatists who forced all the men to live in primitive squalor? I bet they'd ostracize any woman who even wondered if men should be treated like...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0595370306 |
Eight-year-old Teera finds herself above the powerful Root that keeps her Erdling community captive underground. The Erdlings are feared and despised by the Kindar people who live in the massive trees above. Raamo and Neric, two young Kindar discover Teera and for reasons of their own decide to keep...
| Author | Cecelia Holland |
| ISBN | 0575071427 |
2000 years in the future, runaway pollution has made the Earth uninhabitable except in giant biodomes. The society is an anarchy, with disputes mediated through the Machiavellian Committee for the Revolution. Mars, Venus and the Moon support flourishing colonies of various political stripes....
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 1892284847 |
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award: In a nuclear-ravaged California, a humble musician sets out on a dangerous quest to rescue his lost love from the clutches of a soul-devouring religious cult
In the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having long...
| Author | Dave Duncan |
| ISBN | 0889952523 |
Set on a distant planet, far in the future, West of January tells the story of a world in which time moves very slowly. Because it takes a lifetime for each region of the planet to experience dawn, midday and dusk, the planet's population does not remember the catastrophes that occur as the sun moves across...
| Author | Steve Erickson |
| ISBN | 0805053611 |
Erickson's funniest and most intensely confessional novel edges Los Angeles up against the next millennium and into a vortex of fire. The city is a surreal landscape overrun by abducted strippers, nomadic artists, reluctant pornographers, subversive newspaper columnists, alienated movie critics,...
| Author | Liz Williams |
| ISBN | 0553584987 |
Liz Williams is one of science fiction’s boldest new writers and this novel is one of her most profound speculations on freedom, love, and human destiny. On a distant world ruled by an alien race, humanity is enslaved, having forgotten its own past and condemned to have no future--until one woman is...
Il suicidio di un operaio appena licenziato e un imprenditore privo di scrupoli trovato assassinato con un colpo di pistola alla nuca. E poi c’è l’Alcyon, una goletta un po’ misteriosa, pochissimi gli uomini di equipaggio, niente passeggeri, la zona di poppa larga abbastanza per fare atterrare...
