Man-Kzin Wars 9
10 best books like Man-Kzin Wars 9 (Larry Niven): The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Foxglove Summer, Whispers Under Ground, Berserker, Bolo, Conqueror, Destiny's Forge, The Chosen, Nina Kimberly the Merciless, Changer of Worlds
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0340837942 |
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer...
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| ISBN | 0575132507 |
In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some...
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| ISBN | 0575097647 |
In Tufnell Park, North London, a pair of railway tracks diver under a school, taking train to and from Kings Cross. Wet, filthy, dangerous. Lovely place. And one Sunday before Christmas a sweet (sort of) kid called Abigail took me and my long suffering colleague Lesley May down there to look for a ghost.
We...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0441054951 |
Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met--and fought a war of mutual extinction. The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it: the death machines, the BERSERKERS. Guided by self-aware computers more intelligent than any human, these world-sized battlecraft carved a...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0425075591 |
Bolo. Originally developed as far back as the 1980's by the Bolo Division of General Motors, these great artillery machines took on awareness in later designs and gradually began to replace man in that most human of endeavors: War.
But let Bolo speak for itself. In the action-packed Annals of the...
Raj Whitehall has led his men across the face of the planet Bellevue to one victory over the barbarian nations after another, until he is close to achieving his secret mission: resurrecting interstellar civilization with the help of the ancient battle computer Center, which whispers at the back of...
| Author | Paul Chafe |
| ISBN | 1416520716 |
The length was intimidating, just under a thousand pages but worth it. Chafe has the military training and enough science smarts to pull it all together (I'm sure Larry was involved in a few pre-reads). There are elements of the Greek tragedies such as Jason and the Argonauts, Orpheus and Eurydice in...
| Author | S.M. Stirling |
| ISBN | 0671877240 |
The human galactic federation is in ruins, and the worlds have devolved to various levels of barbarism. On the planet Bellevue, which is at about the early nineteenth century in development, a young officer named Raj Whitehall and his friend venture into the catacombs under the capital. There, they...
This was an enjoyable YA fantasy/comedy.
The story followed Nina Kimberley the Merciless, a teenage barbarian princess, as she sets out on her first real quest/adventure. Unfortunately for her a delicate political situation means she is forced to take King Francis along for the journey....
| Author | David Weber |
| ISBN | 0743435206 |
WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR
Lady Dame Honor Harrington—starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess—has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against all comers. Along the way, she has become the legend known as "the Salamander" from her habit...
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| ISBN | 1473222443 |
There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little more than give a frisson to travelling and boost tourism. But now there's a rash of sightings on the Metropolitan Line and these ghosts are frightening, aggressive and seem to be looking for something.
Enter...
