Higher Education

7 best books like Higher Education (Charles Sheffield): Bellwether, Starswarm, Janissaries, Fringe, Washington Dekretet, The Gladiator, That Ain’t Witchcraft

Bellwether
AuthorConnie Willis
ISBN0553562967
Pop culture, chaos theory and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and Nebula winning author of Doomsday Book.

Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennet O'Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same...
Starswarm
AuthorJerry Pournelle
ISBN0765345315

Kit has never known any life but his existence at the protected laboratory compound known as Starswarm Station. And for all that time he has heard the Voice: an artificial intelligence chip implanted in his skull. It guides him and helps protect him from the planet's many dangers, including roaming...
AuthorJerry Pournelle
ISBN0671877097
Some days it just didn't pay to be a soldier. Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission—only to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their...
Fringe
AuthorTom Mandrake
ISBN1401224911
FBI Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant scientist Walter Bishop and his estranged son Peter investigate the world of "fringe science"(telepathy, time travel etc) following a series of unexplained events, which begin to raise suspicions that a large scientific research company Massive Dynamic is experimenting...
Washington Dekretet
AuthorJussi Adler-Olsen
Da Doggie Rogers træder ind på Hotel Splendor for at fejre den demokratiske præsidentkandidat Bruce Jansens valgsejr, er det i forvisning om, at den rigtige mand har vundet. Men mens den nyvalgte præsident hyldes, affyrer en mand et skud, der dræber Bruce Jansens hustru og deres ufødte barn....
The Gladiator
AuthorHarry Turtledove
The Soviet Union won the Cold War. The Russians were a little smarter than they were in our own world, and the United States was a little dumber and a lot less resolute. Now, more than a century later, the world's gone Communist, and capitalism is a bad word.
 
For Gianfranco and his friend Annarita,...
That Ain’t Witchcraft
AuthorSeanan McGuire
Crossroads, noun:

1. A place where two roads cross.
2. A place where bargains can be made.
3. See also “places to avoid.”

Antimony Price has never done well without a support system. As the youngest of her generation, she has always been able to depend on her parents, siblings,...
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