Hangfire
10 best books like Hangfire (David Sherman): Somewhere in France, Dorsai!, Startide Rising, The Vor Game, The Better Part of Valor, Goodnight from London, Gardens of the Sun, Starpilot's Grave, Pandora's Legions, Empire's End
| Author | Jennifer Robson |
| ISBN | 0062273450 |
Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford wants to travel the world, pursue a career, and marry for love. But in 1914, the stifling restrictions of aristocratic British society and her mother’s rigid expectations forbid Lily from following her heart. When war breaks out, the spirited young woman seizes...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0812503988 |
aka The Genetic General
Throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the art of war has made them...
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| ISBN | 0671720147 |
A buddy read with Choko and Maria.
Miles Vorkosigan graduated from the Military Academy despite his handicap. He hoped for a decent assignment, but his superiors thought he had an insubordination problem, so they decided a good way to fix it is to assign him to a remote place which in this case...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 0756400627 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
What happens when a staff sergeant questions a two-star general's parentage to his face? Torin Kerr discovers the answer in Tanya Huff's much-anticipated sequel to Valor's Choice.
Separated from her company, Kerr is ordered to report to a top-secret reconnaissance...
From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France—comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start...
| 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 | Debra Doyle |
| ISBN | 0812517059 |
A broken and drifting ship, its long-dead captain still strapped in the command seal: that's what free-spacers call a starpilot's grave. When one of these derelict craft appears in the Net, the artificial barrier zone separating the Republic from the Mageworlds, the discovery is no accident. It's...
| Author | Christopher Anvil |
| ISBN | 0671318616 |
The aliens of Centra have won the war against Earth only to find that they are not clever enough to keep the peace.
The humans infiltrate all the military and political levels of Centran society. They end up fighting FOR the Centrans on far away planets.
Who is who?
"We took this stitching-gun...
| Author | Chris Bunch |
| ISBN | 1841490830 |
The Empire is in chaos. The once-great Imperial Navy has been shattered in battle and lies burning in space, riven by a civil war that threatens to engulf humanity’s future. For the revered Eternal Emperor is not the man his subjects thought him to be—and may not even be human at all. And it is Sten—Imperial...
| Author | Mark L. Van Name |
| ISBN | 1439132674 |
1. Rave reviews for Mark L. Van Name:
· “Van Name has created a hero worth at least a dozen more novels . . . I want this to be a series. I want to read a new one every year.” —Orson Scott Card
· “One Jump Ahead is like well-aged white...
| Author | Mike Resnick |
| ISBN | 1591027888 |
The date is 1970 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, finds itself in an all-out war against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man’s growing military and economic power.
The rebel...
