Convergent Series

7 best books like Convergent Series (Larry Niven): Earth Abides, Heathen Vol. 1, The World of Star Trek, Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own, Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro, The Hammer of God, Coda, Vol. 1

AuthorGeorge R. Stewart
ISBN0345487133
”The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way. Mankind had been trembling about destruction through war, and had been having bad dreams of cities blown to pieces along with their inhabitants, of animals killed, too, and of the very vegetation...
AuthorNatasha Alterici
Heathen Volume One collects the first four issues of the acclaimed fantasy series from creator Natasha Alterici. Aydis is a young Viking woman, who after being banished from her home, sets out on a mission to right the wrongs of a corrupt god. Her first move is to find and free the cursed Valkyrie Brynhild....
AuthorDavid Gerrold
ISBN0312944632

We're human beings, with the blood of a million savage years on our hands...but we can stop it.
- Kirk, 'A Taste of Armageddon'

I found this on my parents' bookshelf, looking as though it hadn't been touched since 1971. When I opened it, the cover fell off.

While I love the original...
AuthorDavid Toomey
ISBN0393071588
In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear...
Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro
AuthorPhil Gaimon
Plump, grumpy, slumped on the couch, and going nowhere fast at age 16, Phil Gaimon began riding a bicycle with the grand ambition of shedding a few pounds before going off to college. He soon fell into racing and discovered he was a natural, riding his way into a pro contract after just one season despite...
The Hammer of God
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN1857231945
"Entertaining. . .[Clark] handles both ideas and characters with deftness and wit; in short, the outstanding living science fiction writers is romping".-- "Chicago Sun-Times". In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, an amateur astronomer...
Coda, Vol. 1
AuthorSimon Spurrier
ISBN1684153212
A broken fantasy that’s equal parts Lord of the Rings and Mad Max, Coda is the next original series by Eisner-nominated author Simon Spurrier (The Spire, Six-Gun Gorilla).

In the aftermath of an apocalypse which wiped out nearly all magic from a once-wondrous fantasy world, an antisocial...
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