Empire of Light
10 best books like Empire of Light (Gary Gibson): Steel Gauntlet, Shadow of the Scorpion, Gardens of the Sun, Absorption, The Well of Stars, The Endymion Omnibus, The Ascendant Stars, Boundary, Enemy of My Enemy, Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
"Marines ain't supposed to sit. We're supposed to kill."
After the resource-rich planet Diamunde is seized by the armed forces of industrialist Marston St. Cyr, the Confederation Marines face their most desperate battles yet against the mechanized forces of the bloody usurper. Promised...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 1597801399 |
Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and a vicious alien race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn’t remember. Cormac signs up with Earth Central Security and is sent out to...
| Author | Paul McAuley |
| ISBN | 0575079371 |
The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, founded by descendants of refugees from Earth’s repressive regimes, the Outers, have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union, and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational...
| Author | John Meaney |
| ISBN | 0575085339 |
A very ambitious series but quite mediocre execution so far; Absorption is not really a novel but more a collection of snippet threads that never coalesce and late in the book seem very rushed to boot; it is the first volume of a series true, but still I expected more coherence - maybe the number of pages...
| Author | Robert Reed |
| ISBN | 0765347644 |
In The Well of Stars, Hugo award-nominated author Robert Reed has written a stunning sequel to his acclaimed novel Marrow. The Great Ship, so vast that it contains within its depths a planet that lay undiscovered for generations, has cruised through the universe for untold billions of years. After...
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0575076348 |
ENDYMION
Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea...
| Author | Michael Cobley |
| ISBN | 1841496359 |
This was disappointing... Finally, this story was looking to become something great, as have been promised in the previous two books. But no. The end unfortunately ruins it. The last 50-100 pages gives a feeling similar to "whoops, my pizza just got delivered, best I eat it before it gets cold, let me...
| Author | Eric Flint |
| ISBN | 1416509321 |
I found this to be a very average read. I feel like I need to mention that the cover art for this novel is extremely misleading. Dinosaurs are virtually non-existent in this novel and only exist in the plot in the most generic sense because of the time period being discussed. This was greatly disappointing...
| Author | Christie Golden |
| ISBN | 0743492579 |
Chakotay and his sister, Sekaya, are imprisoned on the formerly Cardassian-occupied planet of Loran II. They soon discover that their tormentor is an old enemy: Arak Katal, the Bajoran who betrayed Chakotay's comrades, the Maquis, to Starfleet. Worse still, he is also Chakotay's second-in-command,...
| Author | Diane Duane |
| ISBN | 1416525777 |
THE HISTORIC SAGA BEGINS Born in the twilight years of Vulcan's violent and passionate past, those who declared themselves Rihannsu chose to reign free in the unknown reaches of space rather than to serve under the new tyranny of logic. Having severed themselves from their homeworld, they survived...
