Days of Atonement
10 best books like Days of Atonement (Walter Jon Williams): Other Days, Other Eyes, Migration, Finity, Fools, Those Who Watch, Majic Man, Cyber Way, Playgrounds of the Mind, Holding Wonder, The Stone Within
| Author | Bob Shaw |
| ISBN | 0330238930 |
Slow glass was an amusing scientific toy. Light traveled through it so slowly that, looking through a pane of it, you might see what had happened five minutes ago on the other side--or five years. It stopped being a toy when great new jeliners began to crash, caraccidents multiplied astronomically and...
| Author | Julie E. Czerneda |
| ISBN | 0756403464 |
Senior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor was a biologist who studied the spawning habits of salmon. Then, last season, just as she and Dr. Emily Mamani were starting their research, they were interrupted by the arrival of Brymn, the first Dhryn to set...
| Author | John Barnes |
| ISBN | 0812571452 |
Lyle Peripart is reasonably content with his quiet life as an expatriate American academic in New Zealand, a pleasant backwater in a world ruled by the Twelve Reichs. Until he accepts a plum job offer from a billionaire industrialist -- and he's roughed up by the Gestapo in Surabaya, shot at in Saigon,...
| Author | Pat Cadigan |
| ISBN | 0553295128 |
In her first novel, Mindplayers, Pat Cadigan introduced a very cool setting and technology. Unfortunately, in my opinion, she didn't do much with it, storywise. Cadigan returns to the setting of Mindplayers in her third novel, Fools, and this time she delivers an engrossing story that takes full advantage...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0450032604 |
THOSE WHO WATCH is the strange, seductive novel of three inadvertent colonists from outer space whose accidental encounter with Earth triggers interplanetary conflict. It also the most unusual love story ever written.
VORNEEN—the seducer, in the shell of an Apollo who came out of nowhere...
| Author | Max Allan Collins |
| ISBN | 0451199456 |
It's doubtless some form of confirmation bias, but I find I like these Nathan Heller books a lot more when I agree with MAC's conclusions.
In this case, I'm on the border.
Heller starts out working for Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, then segues over to Drew Pearson, who would...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0441132456 |
Decent SF mystery, with the usual strange anachronisms found in so much near-future SF.
Detective Vernon Moody must investigate the death of an art collector, and the trail leads to the Navaho reservation in Arizona. Along the way, he learns more than he wants to know of Navaho religious practice...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0812516958 |
Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]
ACE #1
The sequel to N-Space
Playgrounds of the Mind captures the startling range and variety of Larry Niven's spectacular career, from bestselling novels such as Lucifer's Hammer and The Ringworld Engineers, from his...
| Author | Zenna Henderson |
| ISBN | 0380012510 |
In this many-dimensioned new collection of speculative fiction, Zena Henderson introduces us to a boy who "calls" his mother, despite the fact that the nearest phone is miles away.--and reads the distress call from an orbiting astronaut's mind; to the amazing cures of Aunt Sophronia--pills for the...
| Author | David Wingrove |
| ISBN | 0440217555 |
A dying old man's dreams warn the Seven T'Ang that a fierce storm is approaching...so dark, so deadly it can destroy a world. Not even the T'ang, rulers of the magnificent mile-high city-kingdoms of the planet, can predict from where the danger will come. As assassins spread outward to a fortified palace...
SIN EATERS
Investigating an epidemic of deaths among the world's leading scientists. Bill Graham learned their terrible discovery: Earth was—and had been for centuries—controlled by aliens!
The alien energy beings fed on human emotions. To cultivate their "food:' they...
| Author | Julian May |
| ISBN | 0345395107 |
From Julian May, the acclaimed author who created the incredible worlds of The Many-Colored Land and The Golden Torc, comes a bold new science fiction adventure!
When rebellious Asahel Frost was expelled from the Interstellar Commerce Secretariat on trumped-up charges, he lost it all:...
| 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 | Christopher Hinz |
| ISBN | 0812530780 |
A quarter of a millennium ago, before the nuclear apocalypse forced the inhabitants of earth to flee their home planet, few humans could have imagined the course their path would take. Now, the orbital colonies are the final sanctuary of humanity and life is more dangerous than ever before. The colonists...
| Author | Chris Moriarty |
| ISBN | 0553384945 |
Sometimes a ghost of a chance is all you get.
Award-winning author Chris Moriarty returns to a dazzling cyber-noir far future in this gritty, high-stakes thriller where the only rule is “Evolve . . . or die.”
The Age of Man is ending. The UN’s sprawling interstellar empire...
| Author | Dave Wolverton |
| ISBN | 0553276107 |
Sometimes the best books are found entirely by accident.
I found On My Way to Paradise almost completely by accident. Larry Correia, the author of the larger than life Monster Hunter International series posted on his blog that Dave Wolverton, an author I had never heard of, was in dire straights...
Los Alamos, 1944. A World War is being fought. In the American desert, the race is on to build an atomic bomb. The fate of the world is at stake, in more ways than one. The Seventh Doctor arrives, posing as a nuclear scientist; Ace is his driver and research assistant. They are here because someone, or something,...
| Author | James Axler |
| ISBN | 0373625499 |
OUT OF THE RUINS OF THE APOCALYPSE, A NEW CIVILIZATION BEGINS...
In the blasted heart of the new America, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior-survivalists search for hidden caches of food, weapons and technology -- the legacy of a preholocaust society -- stashed in lonely outposts known as...
