Conquerors' Legacy
10 best books like Conquerors' Legacy (Timothy Zahn): Solo Command, Firestar, The Neutronium Alchemist 1: Consolidation, Permanence, The Stars are Also Fire, Crossing the Line, The Book of Kane, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea / The Mysterious Island / Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Around the World in Eighty Days, Storming Intrepid, A Call to Arms
| Author | Aaron Allston |
| ISBN | 0553579002 |
Wraith Squadron: they are the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force. Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the first in battle, the last line of defense. Now they must find and destroy a wily enemy more powerful than the Empire itself.
Their covert mission has been a success. The enemy has been...
| Author | Michael Flynn |
| ISBN | 0812530063 |
Michael Flynn continues to work with economic/mathematical predictive models of the future that are dead on target. In this book, he (correctly) predicts a recession leading to a small war in the year 2001-2 from the time of his authorship in the mid-1990s.
Perhaps more importantly, Flynn...
| Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0446605174 |
0 star (rounded to 1 for unfortunate technical reasons).
Peter Hamilton is to science-fiction what the Marquis de Sade is to erotism: thousands of pages, hundreds of cartoonish characters (reduced to toys playing the situations), repetitive situations ad nauseam (but always described...
| Author | Karl Schroeder |
| ISBN | 0765342855 |
Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running from her bullying brother, who has threatened to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0812530225 |
After being less than impressed by “a harvest of stars” I decided to give the sequel a go.
And let’s get it over with from the start, it is a far better story. 3.5 stars.
Where “harvest” focussed on the humans leaving earth, this one focuses on the ones who stayed behind.
In...
| Author | Karen Traviss |
| ISBN | 0060541709 |
Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a lost colony on a distant and dangerous planet -- a hostile world coveted by two alien races and fiercely protected by a third. But in the course of her mission, she overstepped a boundary and stumbled into forbidden lands. And...
| Author | Karl Edward Wagner |
| ISBN | 0937986720 |
I love the Kane books by Karl Edward Wagner, but I was tempted to rate this final volume even lower : three of the best novellas already published in the previous volumes are gathered here with two shortish stories, so 80 % of the collection is recycled material and it just doesn't feel right to call this...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea / The Mysterious Island / Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Around the World in Eighty Days
| Author | Jules Verne |
| ISBN | 1566195365 |
A pioneer of the now immensely popular genre of fiction we call science fiction, Jules Verne wrote startling adventure stories that not only vividly captured the imagination of the 19th-century reading public, but are still read avidly today. Filled with wondrous voyages, marvelous semi-scientific...
| Author | Payne Harrison |
| ISBN | 0804105537 |
"A stunning success...A literally out-of-this-world chess game of nuclear proportions."
THE BALTIMORE SUN
What begins as a routine voyage of a space shuttle carrying Star Wars technology, turns into a harrowing nightmare in outer space when a Russian agent siezes command of the vehicle....
| Author | Loren L. Coleman |
| ISBN | 0451459121 |
This is the second book in the Mech Warrior Dark Age series. This series is a continuation of the Battletech series. The books in this series, like the books in the original Battletech series, are by various authors. This one is by Loren L. Coleman. The Republic of the Sphere has known a long period of peace...
| Author | Michael A. Stackpole |
| ISBN | 0451459059 |
For generations, the Republic of the Sphere has known a Golden Age of peace. Mighty BattleMechs, once kings of the battlefields, now aid the reconstruction of war-torn worlds. But when terrorists destroy the interstellar communications net, each planet is thrust into isolation. Suddenly old hatreds...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0446603457 |
This sounded like a concept that would be quite fascinating: on a remote planet, a colony of humans have set up a sort of wild west society in which they depend on the sentient nighthorses, creatures which bond with humans. Most of the wildlife is telepathic and has the ability to send distorting emotion...
| Author | David Gerrold |
| ISBN | 0553277650 |
It's pretty rare for me to read a series where the first and second books are both amazing. This is a perfect follow up to the first book in the series. Everything I loved about the first book is still present, and in addition there is a significant advancement in world building and setting up for future books....
| Author | L.E. Modesitt Jr. |
| ISBN | 0812545583 |
This is one of my favorite books. Not just because it's a good sci-fi story, but because there's a pervasive idea throughout about taking care of the environment and wastefulness.
There's this great story about the cybs coming back to Earth after generations to kind of get their own back from...
| Author | Dayton Ward |
| ISBN | 0743457897 |
It started small, with an unprepared band of Marine reservists encountering deadly extraterrestrial visitors in the backwoods of Missouri. But this fatal First Contact rapidly escalates into a global crisis as mankind discovers that two warring species of aliens have invaded our world through...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0671319620 |
THE PLANET PIRATES ENSLAVED SASSINAK AND DESTROYED HER WORLD...A FATAL MISTAKE!The Planet Pirates traces the careers of two remarkable women. Sassinak escaped from slavery to freedom, and then used that freedom to fight the evil that had wrecked her world, first as a cadet, later as a captain, and...
