Lest Darkness Fall & Related Stories
10 best books like Lest Darkness Fall & Related Stories (L. Sprague de Camp): A Fall of Moondust, The High Crusade, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Flag in Exile, The Alexander Inheritance, Conscious, My Lost Family, The Sisters, Methuselah's Children, Atmosphaera Incognita
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575073179 |
For a million years the bubble had been growing, like a vast abscess, below the root of the mountains. Now the abscess was about to burst. Captain Harris had left the controls on autopilot and was talking to the front row of passengers as the first tremor shook the boat. For a fraction of a second he wondered...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0743475283 |
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix,...
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
| Author | Nisi Shawl |
| ISBN | 1781085781 |
Anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many races
There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” proclaimed Octavia E Butler.
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many...
| Author | David Weber |
| ISBN | 0671876813 |
Hounded into retirement and disgrace by political enemies, cut to the heart by the murder of the man she loved, and bereft of confidence in herself and her abilities, Captain Honor Harrington has retreated to the planet Grayson to take up her role as Steadholder while she tries to heal her bitter wounds.
But...
The Alexander Inheritance
| Author | Eric Flint |
| ISBN | 1481482483 |
NEW TIME TRAVEL ALT. HISTORY FROM A MASTER: Flint's Ring of Fire and Boundary series have proved him to be a master of time travel alternate history. Here then, a new tale of persons displaced in time, fighting for their lives.
Twice before, mysterious cosmic catastrophes have sent portions of the...
| Author | Annaka Harris |
| ISBN | 0062906712 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fascinating insights await you in these pages.” --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals
As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics...
A family must come to terms with the past when two missing children reappear after 40 years. As the secrets unravel in this real-life tale, can the family lay to rest the ghosts of the past? Growing up in a poor Yiddish-speaking home in 1950s London, teenager Lillian marries a charming older man, Raymond....
Two sisters climbing the ranks of Dublin’s criminal justice system. A murder case that could change their lives forever. The Sisters is a gripping new thriller from one of the most exciting voices in crime fiction.
In this prequel to the international bestseller The Ruin, set 10 years prior,...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0671655973 |
After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All.
No...
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 1596069198 |
For more than two decades, Neal Stephenson has been the reigning master of the epic fictional narrative. His vast, intellectually rigorous books have ranged in setting from the distant past (The Baroque Cycle) to the modern era (Reamde) to the remote future (Anathem, Seveneves). But when Stephenson...
