Hard Times in Dragon City
10 best books like Hard Times in Dragon City (Matt Forbeck): Black Hammer, Vol. 2: The Event, Odyssey One, Countdown, How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse, Godshaper, Fractured State, Green Light Delivery, Deep Space Dragnet, The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of, Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins
Black Hammer, Vol. 2: The Event
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1506701981 |
4.25ish stars.
Maybe my favorite on-going title. Great character work and a solid, clever plot that deftly balances Golden Age superheroes with New Age struggles. It makes the '90s flashbacks feel like the '40s but it works. This is a big improvement over the first volume; now that the character...
Beyond the confines of our small world, beyond the well of our star, lies a galaxy, and universe, larger and more varied than any of us can imagine. Assigned the task of blazing man's first trail into that great unknown, Captain Eric Weston and the crew of the NAC Odyssey launch on a mission destined to make...
At long last, an extraterrestrial civilization reached out and made the First Contact. However, no one on Earth took their communique for the genuine article. In a similar vein, very few people appreciated just how little time our new suzerains had promised to keep our planet safe.
Regardless,...
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse
First in a duology that reimagines fairy tale tropes within a space opera—The Princess Bride meets Princess Leia.
Rory Thorne is a princess with thirteen fairy blessings, the most important of which is to see through flattery and platitudes. As the eldest daughter, she always imagined...
| Author | Simon Spurrier |
| ISBN | 1608869393 |
Ennay is a man without a god. Bud is a god without a human. Together, they might just survive.
In 1958, the laws of physics stopped working: ignition, electricity, and combustion. But an alternative was provided, and people found themselves each accompanied by their own personal god, the...
| Author | Steven Konkoly |
| ISBN | 1503935582 |
A land in ruin. A state on the verge of secession. A man on the run.
In a future California ravaged by drought and on the brink of political upheaval, a high-profile assassination triggers a cascade of violence and sabotage facilitated by the highest levels of power. Nathan Fisher, an unassuming...
| Author | Anne E. Johnson |
| ISBN | 1936460289 |
Webrid is a carter, like his mother and grandfather before him. It’s not glamorous work, but it mostly pays the bills, and it gives him time to ogle the sexy women on the streets of Bexilla’s capital. Mostly, he buys and sells small goods and does the occasional transport run for a client.
Then...
In space, no one can hear you scream--but that won't stop private eye Rich Weed from shrieking like a little girl.
He probably should've stayed gravity bound at home, but when a representative from transport titan InterSTELLA offers a chance at a wily gang of space pirates, how could Rich say...
The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of
More than 1 million gallons of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River in July 2010, triggering the most expensive cleanup in U.S. history -- more than 3/4 of a billion dollars -- and after almost two years the cleanup still isn’t finished. Why not? Because the underground pipeline that ruptured was carrying...
Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1616557869 |
Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City--Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien--now lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village from which...
Twenty years in the future, America perches on the edge of collapse, devastated by drought and dwindling resources. California, now a totalitarian surveillance state controlling the lion’s share of the nation’s economy, is on the brink of secession. And family man Nathan Fisher finds himself...
The Duchess of Hammers: 2nd Dive
Bye-bye is back! Just a week since the 1st Dive came to an end, Bye-bye and his friends find themselves in Root City, a city built-up around the World Tree itself. This sprawling metropolis is filled with potential and danger in equal measure.
Barely logged in and just starting to put plans in...
The Curse of Hurlig Ridge: 1st Dive
In the future, androids have taken over most jobs, leaving humans with little to do and even less to motivate them. Enter the World Tree Online, a fully immersive virtual reality experience. Join Byron in his first 30 days of a non-stop fantasy adventure in the cursed province of Hurlig Ridge, a land filled...
The Mountain Valley War: 2nd Dive Concludes
Thrown into a conflict beyond the scope of anything Bye-bye ever imagined, he will be tested in ways he never imaged. Whether that means stopping a war or just taking the girl he likes on a date, he certainly has his work cut out for him.
Tensions are rising and if Bye-bye and his friends can’t put a...
Dan's first tournament may have ended, but life goes on. His luck is still with him in his regular life as well, and it seems to be endless. However, he is surrounded by very smart people, and surely one of them is going to start doubting his talents, at least a bit?
Especially now, with a new game...
To Summon the Familiar: Familiars of the Phoenix Empire
Andrew has one chance to pull himself up from his humble beginnings and make something of himself. He has been found to have a spark of magic deep within himself. To bring it forth he must first learn to summon the familiar. He must use every drop of his magic to search the Lands of Mist and find the...
Nathan Attis wakes up with no idea where he is, how he got there, or why his memories of the last few days are gone. He’s more than a little perturbed to discover that he is dead, but it’s not the end of the world.
Due to him being in the army, he gets a 2nd chance at existence in a fantasy VR game called...
Loki's Daughter The Opal Dungeon (Tales of the Opal Dungeon #1)
Alex Washington will be tried and tested as never before as she suffers under the cruel torture of the gods in order to earn a chance to escape and outlive the eradication of humanity. Her one chance comes at the hands of Loki who offers her a devil's bargain if there ever was one. Become a dungeon and grow...
