MetaGame
10 best books like MetaGame (Sam Landstrom): Dark Pursuit, First to Fight, First Flight, The Kiribati Test, Sunborn, The Dangerous Dimension, The Best of Robert E. Howard: Crimson Shadows (Volume 1), The Shadow And Night, Midnight in Madrid, The Hunters
"Ever hear the dead knocking?"
Novelist Darell Brooke lived for his title as King of Suspense - until an auto accident left him unable to concentrate. Two years later, reclusive and bitter, he wants one thing; to plot a new novel and regain his reputation. Kaitlan Sering, his twenty-two-year-old...
| Author | David Sherman |
| ISBN | 0345406222 |
"Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol . . ."
Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day's water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim...
| Author | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| ISBN | 1429952008 |
The past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal's Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. "First Flight" is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award.
The winner of the 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of short fiction published in Strange...
| Author | Stacey Cochran |
| ISBN | 1411613589 |
The year is 2058. Karl Connors is a mild-mannered carpet cleaner who vacuums floors at the Global-Com building in Phoenix, Arizona. Karl is a simple man, who only wants simple things. He and his wife Sara would like to have a child. One night, Karl witnesses a CEO's adulterous affair on the sixty-seventh...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Carver |
| ISBN | 0312864531 |
Stars are dying: that's the news that greets John Bandicut and his companions. They must travel to a nebula called Starmaker—to discover what force threatens not just the newborn stars, but every world within a thousand light-years. They must journey not just into the perils of a star-forming nebula,...
| Author | L. Ron Hubbard |
| ISBN | 1592128289 |
Dr. Henry Mudge undergoes a striking personality change when he discovers a mathematical formula"Equation C"that defines a mysterious negative dimension. He is instantly transported to any location in the solar system by merely thinking of iteven when he doesn't want to..
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0345490185 |
Robert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre-and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian-Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry,...
| Author | Chris Walley |
| ISBN | 1414313276 |
In the first book in the epic Lamb among the Stars series, author Chris Walley weaves the worlds of science and the spirit, technology and supernatural into something unique in science fiction. Twelve thousand years into the future, the human race has spread across the galaxy to hundreds of terraformed...
| Author | Noel Hynd |
| ISBN | 0310278724 |
When a mysterious relic is stolen from a Madrid museum, people are dying to discover its secrets. Literally.U.S. Treasury agent Alexandra LaDuca returns from Conspiracy in Kiev to track down the stolen artwork, a small carving called The Pietà of Malta. It seems to be a simple assignment, but nothing...
| Author | Jason Pinter |
| ISBN | 1426845367 |
A Henry Parker novella that is about 40 to 50 pages long. It takes place one night between The Fury and The Darkness.After one of the most harrowing weeks of Henry Parker’s life, night has finally come. Settled in with Amanda Davies, he sleeps before preparing to chase a story alongside his mentor, Jack...
| Author | Mark Nykanen |
| ISBN | 0982175647 |
OH MY GOD! This is excruciatingly bad! This novel has managed to descend to levels of suckness that has never been reached before. This is the Krubera Cave of suckness.
And that is a big disappointment. For this is a thriller that also attempts to deal with the issue of global warning. My own opinions...
| Author | Dan McGirt |
| ISBN | 0982059809 |
Hero Wanted launches the comical Jason Cosmo fantasy adventure series by Dan McGirt. Jason Cosmo is perfectly happy as a humble woodcutter in the village of Lower Hicksnittle-until a foppish stranger tries to kill him, claiming there is a huge price on Jason's head. Ten million gold carats is enough...
| Author | Kay Kenyon |
| ISBN | 1591025419 |
Kay Kenyon, noted for her science fiction world-building, has in this new series created her most vivid and compelling society, the Universe Entire. In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, the Entire is a bizarre and seductive mix of long-lived quasi-human and alien beings gathered...
A VILLAIN’S REQUEST
In 1946, soon-to-be-executed Nazi General Hermann Goering asks young Soul Identity overseer Archibald Morgan to take his looted gold and deposit it in a soul line collection, there to await his soul’s rebirth.
A GRIM RESISTANCE
Flora, a seventeen-year-old...
A solid 3 stars. Would have been higher but there were too many "conveniences" in the book and some inconsistencies. Reads a lot like a made-for-TV series in that the plot is pretty shallow, the characters don't have a lot of depth, and none of the science makes sense.
The plot is straightforward....
| Author | Kevin Bohacz |
| ISBN | 0979181518 |
Immortality has received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly as well as high praise from many other book review publications. Immortality was a #1 best-selling techno-thriller on Amazon from January 2008 to June 2014.
Publisher's Weekly starred review: When human extinctions...
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 0310259347 |
Zack Brewer faces a choice. It can prevent the next war. But it will cost the life of the person he loves the most. JAG Officer Zack Brewer’s prosecution of three terrorists posing as Navy chaplains was called the “court martial of the century” by the press. Now, with the limelight behind him, all...
| Author | John Jackson Miller |
The ruthless cunning of the Sith Order has served the shipwrecked crew of the Omen well on the alien planet Kesh. Subjugating the superstitious Keshiri race by posing as its fabled overlords has ensured the Sith's survival—while they struggle in secret to return to the stars. But after fifteen years...
The Renovation: Carter Mansion
| Author | Terri Kraus |
| ISBN | 0781448468 |
Ethan Willis has made a career out of restoring old houses like the Carter Mansion so he’s an expert with doors and windows. He knows his way around a toolbox, a construction site, and anything else having to do with rebuilding. If only he could do the same with his own life. Tragically widowed and left...
| Author | John C. Brewer |
| ISBN | 1937979008 |
"A riveting modern thriller." -- Midwest Book Review
Hector’s father is dead. Killed fighting in Iraq. So his mother moved the family back to her boring hometown where Hector can’t connect. Worse, his new next door neighbors, the Zahedis, are from Iran, and the son, Sanjar is Hector’s...
| Author | David J. Guyton |
| ISBN | 1440486077 |
A longstanding peace is about to be shattered by villains in the shadows of Medora. They conspire with distant nations to cripple the western Empire and spread their venom eastward. In their secretive attempt, they stumble across the power to slay Arius, the god of war, and replace him with a human puppet....
