In the Eye of Heaven

10 best books like In the Eye of Heaven (David Keck): The Empire of Ashes, Holy Sister, Ancillary Mercy, The Scar, The Whitefire Crossing, Green Mars, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra, A Little Hatred, Forever Peace, The Tainted City

The Empire of Ashes

Author	Anthony Ryan
ISBN	0356506444

For hundreds of years, the Ironship Trading Syndicate was fuelled by drake blood–and protected by the Blood-blessed, those few who could drink it and wield fearsome powers. But now the very thing that sustained the corporate world threatens to destroy it.

A drake of unimaginable power...

Holy Sister

Author	Mark Lawrence
ISBN	0008152403

The third instalment in a brilliant fantasy series from the international bestselling author of Prince of Thorns

Nona Grey’s story reaches its shattering conclusion in the third instalment of Book of the Ancestor.

They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman.

The...

Ancillary Mercy

Author	Ann Leckie
ISBN	0356502422

For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as Breq. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist—someone who might be a refugee from a ship that's been hiding beyond the empire's reach for three thousand years. In the meantime a messenger...

The Scar

Author	China Miéville
ISBN	0345460014

Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city....

The Whitefire Crossing

Author	Courtney Schafer
ISBN	1597802832

Dev is a smuggler with the perfect cover. He's in high demand as a guide for the caravans that carry legitimate goods from the city of Ninavel into the country of Alathia. The route through the Whitefire Mountains is treacherous, and Dev is one of the few climbers who knows how to cross them safely. With...

Green Mars

Author	Kim Stanley Robinson
ISBN	0553572393

In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.

Nearly a generation...

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra

Author	Toby Wilkinson
ISBN	0747599491

I have to say, I really enjoyed this book. My professor may have derisively called it "popular history", but I still love this book.

From first picking it up, it became hard every time I had to put it down. The combination of fluid, easy writing and the fact that this book is packed to the rafters...

A Little Hatred

Author

Joe Abercrombie

The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.

On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the...

Forever Peace

Author	Joe Haldeman
ISBN	0441005667

Welcome to the future...where the final war is being waged

....against war itself.

There is such a bounty of wonderful, insightful and important ideas stuffed into this novel that I find myself seriously bummed that weak storytelling and plodding central plot flow marred my enjoyment...

The Tainted City

Author	Courtney Schafer
ISBN	1597804037

Dev is a desperate man. After narrowly surviving a smuggling job gone wrong, he’s now a prisoner of the Alathian Council, held hostage to ensure his friend Kiran — former apprentice to one of the most ruthless mages alive — does their bidding.

But Kiran isn’t Dev’s only concern. Back...

Dark Forge

Author

Miles Cameron

I loved Dark Forge.
It opened with a bang, a nail-biting battle scene full of Miles Cameron's trademark detailed authenticity that throws you straight back into the story and never lets up.
I love how Cameron takes fantasy tropes and makes them feel real. Aranthur's journey from novice student...