Lady of Mazes
10 best books like Lady of Mazes (Karl Schroeder): The Dark Beyond the Stars, Counting Heads, The Fortunate Fall, Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1), Beginning Operations, The House of the Kzinti, David Falkayn: Star Trader, The Trikon Deception, Ragamuffin, Up Against It
| Author | Frank M. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0312866240 |
For two thousand years, the starship Astron has searched the galaxy for alien life--without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space.
The ship's captain--immortal, obsessed--refuses...
| Author | David Marusek |
| ISBN | 0765312670 |
Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist: The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries....
| Author | Raphael Carter |
| ISBN | 0312863276 |
I don't believe it.
I just realized that I haven't updated my top ten book list in my own mind for almost a decade. I certainly haven't modified my top three in over 25 years.
What I have just read has just supplanted number three. Perhaps even number two.
For the moment, I feel...
Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1)
| Author | Alan Burt Akers |
| ISBN | 0860078027 |
On the planet Kregen that circles Antares, the brightest star of the Constellation of the Scorpion, two forces contend for the world's destiny. One of them, the Savanti, called in a human pawn from far-away Earth.
His name is Dray Prescot, and only the Savanti know his role.
Dray Prescot...
| Author | James White |
| ISBN | 0312875444 |
Hospital Station / Star Surgeon / Major Operation
"Sector General: A massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. Its 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of the any conceivable alien patient - though that...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 0743488253 |
Dr Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American science fiction writer, engineer, essayist, and journalist, who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte, and from 1998 until his death maintained his own website and blog.
From the beginning, Pournelle's work centered around strong...
1. Poul Anderson remains one of science fiction's most popular writers, and this generous volume of his best work, with wide-ranging themes and settings, will attract his thousands of fans and win him many new ones.
2. Included is a complete novel, Satan's World, and a number of equally...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0765355361 |
In the near future: Earth is an ecological nightmare, and humanity may well go the way of the dinosaurs. But overhead orbits salvation. A vast metallic island in space, Trikon conducts research too risky to be held on earth--research which could save the planet.
Yet Commander Dan Tighe discovers...
| Author | Tobias S. Buckell |
| ISBN | 0765315076 |
The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically "free," mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. The secretive alien Satraps tightly restrict the technological...
| Author | M.J. Locke |
| ISBN | 0765315157 |
Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes...
| Author | Michael Z. Williamson |
| ISBN | 1416591540 |
When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligent lifeforms-the first which humans had ever encountered-it should have been the most important event in history. And it might be-for all the wrong reasons. Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys to the...
| Author | Murray Leinster |
| ISBN | 0743471628 |
Planets of Adventure is an anthology of short stories. It contains one almost full-length story and several shorter stories, all of which are based on the theme implied by the title. The quality of the stories was pretty consistent – they weren’t terribly engaging, but they did hold my interest...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Carver |
| ISBN | 0312864531 |
Stars are dying: that's the news that greets John Bandicut and his companions. They must travel to a nebula called Starmaker—to discover what force threatens not just the newborn stars, but every world within a thousand light-years. They must journey not just into the perils of a star-forming nebula,...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0743471806 |
This is a compilation of two earlier books, Judgement on Janus and Victory on Janus. A dedication on the back cover (?by the editors? David Weber and Eric Flint, anyway) reads:
"To Andre Norton--Andre, you proved long ago that being a giant has nothing to do with physical stature. You've been...
| Author | James H. Schmitz |
| ISBN | 0671319841 |
The Federation of the Hub: thousands of rough, ornery and tough-minded human worlds with only the subtlest of governments holding them together. It's prime real estate for criminals, unscrupulous corporations, and invaders from beyond Federation space. But in Hub space, a citizen is expected to...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0743499069 |
Invisible aliens ruled the Earth, and only one man could see them-and they were hunting him down.
A complete novel of science fiction adventure and a host of short novels in one large volume. A Plague of Demons: One man found out the secret behind the aliens who controlled the world, harvesting...
The debut novel from a exciting new voice in SF—about what happens after ninety percent of humanity leaves Earth
There is an artificial ring around the Earth and it is empty after the Singularity. Either all the millions of inhabitants are dead, or they have been transformed into energy beings...
| Author | Ian Douglas |
| ISBN | 0380818248 |
In the future,
earth's warriors have
conquered the heavens.
But on a distant world,
Humanity is in chains ...
Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0743435877 |
Raj Whitehall was a young noble of the Civil Government, the last remnant of galactic civilization on the planet Bellevue, when he came across an ancient but still functioning Fleet Battle Computer named Center. With Center's vast fund of knowledge and strategic calculating abilities, Raj could...
The three basic human needs are food, water…and shelter. But in the late 21st century, compassion is a crime. You can get your memories wiped just for trying to help.
Papa Preston Walford's world doesn't allow for coincidences. Accidents. Secrets in the backs of closets. Or the needs...
| Author | Robert Zubrin |
| ISBN | 0441009638 |
A five-person crew become the first humans to walk upon the Red Planet in a landmark mission to Mars. But when their findings set off a wave of controversy and political upheaval back home, public opinion turns against the mission and they are left stranded. As their situation becomes more desperate,...
