Griffin's Egg

8 best books like Griffin's Egg (Michael Swanwick): The Once and Future King, Time Out of Joint, Rogue Moon, The Citadel of Weeping Pearls, Sarah Jane, Songe à la douceur, A Touch Of Frost, Iqbal

The Once and Future King
AuthorT.H. White
ISBN0441627404
This book terrified me, on many levels. It's 667 pages long, to begin with. It's been a while since I read a serious chunkster like that (besides Harry Potter, which somehow in my mind doesn't really count...).

Besides that, I am just not a fan of "Authur" stories, despite my deep love of the Disney...
Time Out of Joint
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet...
AuthorAlgis Budrys
ISBN0380389509
Rogue Moon is a short sf novel by Algis Budrys, published in 1960. It was a 1961 Hugo Award nominee, losing to Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. A novella-length version of the story was included in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 2, edited by Ben Bova.

Before...
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls
AuthorAliette de Bodard
ISBN1625672551
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology and esoteric sciences-its inhabitants capable of teleporting themselves anywhere, its weapons small and undetectable and deadly.
Thirty years ago, threatened by an invading fleet from the Dai...
Sarah Jane
AuthorJames Sallis
ISBN1641290803
A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive

Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised...
Songe à la douceur
AuthorClémentine Beauvais
ISBN2848659084
Quand Tatiana rencontre Eugène, elle a 14 ans, il en a 17 ; c’est l’été, et il n’a rien d’autre à faire que de lui parler. Il est sûr de lui, charmant, et plein d’ennui, et elle timide, idéaliste et romantique. Inévitablement, elle tombe amoureuse de lui, et lui, semblerait-il… aussi....
A Touch Of Frost
AuthorR.D. Wingfield
ISBN0552145556
Detective Inspector Jack Frost, offically on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain of a Denton public lavatory - and then, when Frost attempts to join the revels later on, the nubile...
Iqbal
AuthorFrancesco D'Adamo
ISBN1416903291
When young Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, his arrival changes everything for the other overworked and abused chidren there. It is Iqbal who explains to them that despite their master's promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinetely. But it is also Iqbal who inspires the...
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