Maximum Offense
10 best books like Maximum Offense (David Gunn): Holy Sister, Empire of Silence, Sweet Silver Blues, The Dead Path, The Sleeping God, The Line Of Polity, Spin State, Brilliance of the Moon, The Vor Game, The Nano Flower
Author | Mark Lawrence |
ISBN | 0008152403 |
The third instalment in a brilliant fantasy series from the international bestselling author of Prince of Thorns
Nona Grey’s story reaches its shattering conclusion in the third instalment of Book of the Ancestor.
They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman.
The...
Author | Christopher Ruocchio |
Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.
It was not his war.
On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe...
Author | Glen Cook |
ISBN | 0451450701 |
It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. Even with the aid of Morley, the toughest half-elf around, Garrett isn't sure he'll make it out alive from a land where magic...
Author | Stephen M. Irwin |
ISBN | 0385533438 |
Do you remember the last time a book gave you the chills? The Dead Path is the ghost story we’ve been waiting for.
A haunting vision in the woods sets off a series of tragic events, leaving Nicholas Close lost amid visions of ghosts trapped in their harrowing, final moments. These uniquely terrifying...
Author | Violette Malan |
ISBN | 0756404460 |
Masters of weapons and martial arts, Mercenaries Dhulyn Wolfshead and Parno Lionsmane have just saved one of the Marked, those gifted with special powers, from a mob that appears to be under the influence of a priest of the Sleeping God. Learning that this is not an isolated incident and realizing that...
Author | Neal Asher |
ISBN | 0330484354 |
Short Review vs Long Review
Dooble-ooble-caro-flock!
- Gabbleduck quote
(very) Short review
This book (and the Polity series so far) is friggin’ awesome, read it! The end.
(fairly) Long review
The Outlink stations were poised on the surface...
Author | Chris Moriarty |
ISBN | 0553586246 |
From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware...
Spin State
UN Peacekeeper...
Author | Lian Hearn |
ISBN | 1594480869 |
A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot...
Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
ISBN | 0671720147 |
A buddy read with Choko and Maria.
Miles Vorkosigan graduated from the Military Academy despite his handicap. He hoped for a decent assignment, but his superiors thought he had an insubordination problem, so they decided a good way to fix it is to assign him to a remote place which in this case...
Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
ISBN | 0812577698 |
Peter F. Hamilton is one the rising stars of science fiction in the nineties. His epic space adventure, The Reality Dysfunction, was a major international bestseller, while his near future thrillers, Mindstar Rising and A Quantum Murder, introduced an intriguing new hero in the character of Greg...
Author | Chris Moriarty |
ISBN | 0553586254 |
Call Arkady a clone with a conscience. Or call him a traitor. A member of the space-faring Syndicates, Arkady has defected to Israel with a hot commodity: a genetic weapon powerful enough to wipe out humanity. But Israel’s not buying it. They’re selling it–and Arkady–to the highest bidder....
Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
ISBN | 0812555244 |
Professor Edward Kitchener, a double Nobel laureate researching quantum cosmology for the powerful Event Horizon conglomerate has been savagely murdered. But was he the victim of industrial espionage, personal revenge, or a crime of passion by one of his handpicked team of live-wire students?...
Author | Chris Bunch |
ISBN | 0451460308 |
You know that feeling you get when you know the answer? That is such an awesome feeling. Today at the bookstore I work at, I overheard someone saying, "Gosh I wish I could find that one dragon series I read so long ago."
"Try me!" I said, sneaking up on him.
He jumped. "Oh...ummm...you probably...