Lincoln's Dreams
10 best books like Lincoln's Dreams (Connie Willis): In the Garden of Iden, Conundrum, Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, Sky Coyote, The Meadow, Killing Mister Watson, Starplex, Bluff, Treason's Harbour, The Far Side of the World
| Author | Kage Baker |
| ISBN | 0765314576 |
This is the first novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them...
| Author | Jan Morris |
| ISBN | 1590171896 |
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married,...
| Author | Miranda Kennedy |
| ISBN | 1400067863 |
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s...
| Author | Kage Baker |
| ISBN | 0380731800 |
Facilitator Joseph is quite a guy. He's sailed with the Phoenicians, and he's been an Egyptian priest, an Athenian politician, and secretary to a Roman senator. After all, his employer, the twenty-fourth-century Company, sends immortal cyborgs like Joseph all over the world and all over time. But...
| Author | James Galvin |
| ISBN | 0805027033 |
An American Library Association Notable Book
In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and...
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 0517086719 |
A fine example of Southern literature written by a guy from New York.
Matthiessen's historic fiction falls somewhere between James Agee and Harry Crews, a good read. I also noted influences or allusions to Flannery O'Connor, the obligatory nod to Faulkner, and more than a passing similarity...
| Author | Robert J. Sawyer |
| ISBN | 0441003729 |
So far, all that they could make out was a series of maddeningly vague shadows.
Starplex is just an absolute plethora of big ideas. An.absolute.PLETHORA. And by “big”, I mean mind-BLASTING ….and challenging.
So how does one go about reviewing something like this? It’s basically...
| Author | Jane Stanton Hitchcock |
"Driven by the heart-pounding suspense of a high-stakes poker game, Bluff is a vivid, compelling novel about deceit, seduction, and delicious revenge that will keep you spellbound and cheering as you turn the last page." -Susan Cheever, New York Times bestselling author
One-time socialite...
| Author | Patrick O'Brian |
| ISBN | 0393308634 |
All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of...
The Far Side of the World
| Author | Patrick O'Brian |
| ISBN | 0393308626 |
The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various...
| Author | Patrick O'Brian |
| ISBN | 0393309606 |
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage—the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's...
| Author | Nnedi Okorafor |
| ISBN | 1506710751 |
From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award Winner Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death, Binti, Akata series) comes Laguardia. Set in an alternative world where aliens have come to Earth and integrated with society, LaGuardia revolves around a pregnant Nigerian-American doctor, Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka,...
