Mars Crossing
10 best books like Mars Crossing (Geoffrey A. Landis): Gold Coast, The Mote in God's Eye, The Lion's Game, Mission Child, Learning the World: A Scientific Romance, Mindbridge, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, The Hammer of Eden, The Hearing, Masquerade
| Author | Nelson DeMille |
| ISBN | 0751531219 |
Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa,...
Very entertaining, interesting, intriguing, thought provoking, etc.
Good science fiction.
Robert A. Heinlein himself is quoted as saying something to the effect that this was the best science fiction novel he had ever read. I don’t know that I’d go that far, but this was very...
| Author | Nelson DeMille |
| ISBN | 0446679097 |
Detective John Corey, last seen in Plum Island, now faces his toughest assignment yet: the pursuit and capture of the world's most dangerous terrorist -- a young Arab known as "The Lion" who has baffled a federal task force and shows no sign of stopping in his quest for revenge against the American pilots...
| Author | Maureen F. McHugh |
| ISBN | 0380791226 |
Mission Child is an expansion of Maureen McHugh's "The Cost to Be Wise," a fascinating novella from the original anthology Starlight 1.
Janna's world was colonized long ago by Earth and then left on its own for centuries. When "offworlders" return, their superior technology upsets the balance...
| Author | Ken MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0765351773 |
Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 0575071141 |
The discovery of a remarkable alien technology light years from Earth could have devastating consequences for humanity in this science fiction classic by the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel The Forever War
In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345446674 |
In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough...
| Author | Ken Follett |
| ISBN | 0449227545 |
Ken Follett hits the top of his form with "The Hammer of Eden," a state-of-the-art suspense thriller to rival his best.
When controversial radio talk host John Truth broadcasts a terrorist threat of a man-made earthquake, few people take it seriously. Crackerjack young FBI agent Judy Maddox is assigned...
| Author | John Lescroart |
| ISBN | 0451204891 |
Hardy's best friend, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky, has kept a secret from him...and everyone else. Hardy never knew that Abe had a daughter-until she was shot dead. It seems obvious that the heroin addict hovering over her body with a gun is the guilty party, and Glitsky has few qualms about sweating a confession...
| Author | Gayle Lynds |
| ISBN | 0312986033 |
When you gaze into the mirror--and find a stranger looking back? Liz Sansborough has no recollection of her past as a CIA agent; no idea what her future holds. For her, there is only the present...and the chilling knowledge that the world's most lethal assassin has set his sights on her.
When...
| Author | Nancy Kopp |
| ISBN | 0451404777 |
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| Author | Eric Van Lustbader |
| ISBN | 0345484851 |
"Swiftly paced and fascinating...An intricately designed puzzle."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
She is a sorceress--indescribably beautiful, overpoweringly sensual--who possesess incomprehensible powers. She is also a murderess who plans to use her power to kill Nicholas Linnear, the hero...
| Author | Gary Krist |
| ISBN | 0425173003 |
kate is an ex chicago cop who has moved to the east coast and met the man of her dreams, joel. they r now happily married with him running his own company and making a lot of money in the process
then one evening he pops out to the shops and never returns ......
naturally kate is worried - is...
| Author | Eric Van Lustbader |
| ISBN | 0345466837 |
"Chilling, brutal, and satisfying...The reader becomes deeply involved."
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
The sudden death of a major presidential contender in the arms of his beautiful mistress sends his best friend, Tracy Richter, on an epic journey of violence back into the heart of the Cambodian...
| Author | Eric Van Lustbader |
| ISBN | 0449209164 |
"Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb."
NEWS RECORD
This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't...
| Author | David L. Lindsey |
| ISBN | 0446608033 |
Unless I'm somehow misreading this, the book seems to start off with one of the most glaring examples of authorial and editorial malpractice I've seen in years (underlining added):
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Chapter 1
Venice, Sestiere Di Dorsoduro
It was the middle...
