Four Hundred Billion Stars

7 best books like Four Hundred Billion Stars (Paul J. McAuley): Darwin's Radio, The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Way Station, Children of God, Dark Light, Engine City

Darwin's Radio

Author	Greg Bear
ISBN	0345459814

So I keep on reading Bear novels, feeling disappointed, waiting a while, then rinse and repeat.

This time I've clarified why I am so ambivalent about this guy: he has fascinating ideas then writes dull books about them. The premise here is an extreme example. Our "junk" DNA turns out to be a collection...

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

Author	David E. Hoffman
ISBN	0385537603

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War

While...

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Author	Eric Schlosser
ISBN	1594202273

A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons

Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological...

Way Station

Author	Clifford D. Simak
ISBN	0020248717

Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest...

Children of God

Author

Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction...

Dark Light

Author	Ken MacLeod
ISBN	1841491098

Better than the previous novel, but very uneven. The shifting perspectives in the last novel was annoying and in this one, the use of the present tense format is often irritating. I stick with this series simply because it is an interesting concept. The last chapter was really the worst of it all, which...

Engine City

Author	Ken MacLeod
ISBN	0765344211

WHO OWNS THE STARS?

For ten thousand years Nova Babylonia has been the greatest city of the Second Sphere, an interstellar civilization of human and other beings who have been secretly removed, throughout history, from Earth.
Now humans from the far reaches of the Sphere have come, to...