Four Day Planet
9 best books like Four Day Planet (H. Beam Piper): After the Flood, Vessel, Doctor Who: The Good Doctor, Planet of the Damned, City at World's End, The Night of the Long Knives, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture, Through Fiery Trials, The Gordian Protocol
| Author | Kassandra Montag |
| ISBN | 0062889397 |
An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great...
| Author | Lisa A. Nichols |
| ISBN | 1501168770 |
An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story…. A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian.
After Catherine Wells’s ship experiences...
Doctor Who: The Good Doctor
| Author | Juno Dawson |
| ISBN | 1785943847 |
On the planet of Lobos, the Doctor halts a violent war between the native Loba and human colonists. Job done, the TARDIS crew departs – only for Ryan to discover he’s left his phone behind. Again.
Upon returning, the Doctor finds that the TARDIS has slipped hundreds of years into the future...
Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift to win the Twenties, an annual physical and mental competition among the best and smartest people on Anvhar. But scarcely able to enjoy his victory, Brandd is swept off to the hellish planet Dis where he must...
Written near the dawn of the Cold War era and soon after mankind first became aware of the fearful possibilities of the atom bomb, "City at World's End" yet remains both highly readable and grippingly entertaining today, more than 65 years after its initial appearance. Edmond Hamilton's book initially...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1604596651 |
Last weekend I stumbled across a number of public domain sci-fi books on Amazon. Fritz Leiber had several titles available, with this one being one the more provocatively titled. (I thought it was going to be some sort of sci-fi Nazi thing.) As it turned out, the story (a novella of about 90 pages or so)...
The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
| Author | Glen Weldon |
| ISBN | 1476756694 |
A witty, intelligent cultural history from NPR book critic Glen Weldon explains Batman’s rises and falls throughout the ages—and what his story tells us about ourselves.
Since his creation, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop-art...
| Author | David Weber |
| ISBN | 0765325594 |
With new alliances forged and old regimes fractured, Merlin--the cybernetic avatar of Earth's last survivor and immortal beacon to humanity--and the colonies of Safehold and have many adventures ahead in Through Fiery Trials, the continuation of David Weber's New York Times bestselling military...
NEW STANDALONE NOVEL FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE HONOR HARRINGTON SERIES, DAVID WEBER
A Man of Two Worlds
Doctor Benjamin Schröder was far from a man of action. In fact, he was a history teacher — Chairman of the Castle Rock University history department...
