Day of the Minotaur
10 best books like Day of the Minotaur (Thomas Burnett Swann): Who Fears Death, A Night in the Lonesome October, The Outside, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Blackout, All Clear, Embassytown, Seven Blades in Black, The Silver Mask, Glasshouse
An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of post-apocalyptic Africa.
In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate...
A Night in the Lonesome October
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0380771411 |
Review updated yet again (and again) on November 1, 2018
A group read with some of my greatest friends: OhWell, Sarah, and Tadiana.
First a disclaimer: I lost count to the number of times I read the book. Seriously. I still find something new with each reread. I would also like to welcome...
| Author | Ada Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 0857668145 |
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their...
| Author | Rivers Solomon |
| ISBN | 1617755885 |
Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until...
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0553803190 |
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next...
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0553807676 |
In Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060—the setting for several of her most celebrated works—and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward,...
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345524497 |
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space...
Sam Sykes returns with a new fantasy that introduces to an unforgettable outcast magician caught between two warring empires.
Among humans, none have power like mages. And among mages, none have will like Sal the Cacophony. Once revered, now vagrant, she walks a wasteland scarred by generations...
A generation ago, Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn't succeed . . . but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt. Now Call is one of the most feared and reviled students in the history...
| Author | Charles Stross |
| ISBN | 0441014038 |
When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn’t take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It’s the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees’ personalities...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0743435087 |
David Selig was born with an awesome power -- the ability to look deep into the human heart, to probe the darkest truths hidden in the secret recesses of the soul. With reckless abandon, he used his talent in the pursuit of pleasure. Then, one day, his power began to die...
Universally acclaimed...
| Author | Carmen Mola |
| ISBN | 8420435570 |
Un día tórrido de verano, la inspectora Elena Blanco, al frente de la Brigada de Análisis de Casos, allana la vivienda de una familia y llega hasta la habitación del hijo adolescente. En la pantalla de su ordenador se confirman sus sospechas: el chico está viendo en directo cómo dos encapuchados...
The Whisperer in Darkness
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 1541183053 |
The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings,...
| Author | Philip Wylie |
| ISBN | 1596540133 |
First published in 1930, Gladiator is the tale of Hugo Danner, a man endowed from birth with extraodinary strength and speed. But Danner is no altruist. He spends his life trying to cope with his abilities, becoming a sports hero in college, later a sideshow act, a war hero, never truly finding peace with...
