KOP
10 best books like KOP (Warren Hammond): Thin Air, Something from the Nightside, Woken Furies, Thirteen, Gridlinked, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War, The White Dragon, The Peloponnesian War, Fallen, Transport
| Author | Richard K. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0575075147 |
Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.And now he's back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember.An ex-corporate...
Something from the Nightside
| Author | Simon R. Green |
| ISBN | 0441010652 |
Our first mention of the Nightside is (in my paperback edition) on page's 10 and 11 where we learn that, "The Nightside is the secret, hidden, dark heart of the city. London's evil twin. It's where the really wild things are."
From that point on, Green continues to write the phrase the Nightside...
| Author | Richard K. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0345479718 |
This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance.
Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5 percent of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable...
| Author | Richard K. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0345485254 |
The future isn’t what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs–private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero–into the body-swapping, hard-boiled, urban jungle of tomorrow in Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies, winning...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0765349051 |
Gridlinked is a science fiction adventure in the classic, fast-paced, action-packed tradition of Harry Harrison and Poul Anderson, with a dash of cyberpunk and a splash of Ian Fleming added to spice the mix.
Cormac is a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future...
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Another nameless town, another target for First Recon. It's only five in the afternoon, but a sandtorm has plunged everything into a hellish twilight of murky, red dust. On rooftops, in alleyways lurk militiamen with machine guns, AK rifles and the odd rocket-propelled grenade. Artillery bombardment...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0345341678 |
Yes by all means, judge a book set in a feudalistic world surrounded by dragon on your personal interpretation of feminism on Earth circa 2013. This makes no sense to me. If you're going to read a book I think you should read a book and suspend your sense of self to really get a feel for the world that's being...
| Author | Donald Kagan |
| ISBN | 0142004375 |
For three decades in the fifth century B.C. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the world’s most respected classical, political, and military historians,...
| Author | Benedict Jacka |
| ISBN | 0440000580 |
For Mage Alex Verus, everything is on the line in the tenth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Marked.
Once Alex Verus was a diviner trying to live quietly under the radar. Now he's a member of the Light Council who's found success, friends...and love. But it's come with...
| Author | Phillip P. Peterson |
| ISBN | 1500197661 |
Nachdem er einen Mord begangen hat, wartet Elitesoldat Russell Harris im Gefängnis auf seine bevorstehende Hinrichtung. Er bekommt jedoch unerwartet eine letzte Chance. Mit neun anderen Häftlingen soll er sich von einem außerirdischen Artefakt zu fremden Sternsystemen transportieren lassen...
| Author | Martin L. Shoemaker |
| ISBN | 1542004314 |
At the heart of a mystery unfolding in space, the opposing forces make a treacherous journey between Earth and Mars.
In space, mutiny means death—that’s why Inspector General Park Yerim is taking her investigation so seriously. The alleged mutineer is Captain Nicolau Aames, whose command...
All the best in humanity rises to meet a powerful alien threat in the sequel to Salvation—part of an all-new trilogy from “the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction” (Ken Follett).
The comparative utopia of twenty-third-century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry...
