Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem

10 best books like Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem (Lois McMaster Bujold): Revenant Gun, Sorcerer to the Crown, Blackveil, The Last Sun, Freedom's Landing, To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Treason, Year of the Griffin, Iphigeneia in Tauris, The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Revenant Gun
AuthorYoon Ha Lee
ISBN1781086079
Machineries Of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonishing conclusion!

When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he's a seventeen-year-old cadet--but his body belongs to a man decades...
Sorcerer to the Crown
AuthorZen Cho
ISBN0425283372
Magic and mayhem collide with the British elite in this whimsical and sparkling debut.

At his wit’s end, Zacharias Wythe, freed slave, eminently proficient magician, and Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers—one of the most respected organizations throughout all of Britain—ventures...
Blackveil
AuthorKristen Britain
ISBN0756406609
Read Kristen Britain's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.

The long-awaited sequel to Green Rider, First Rider's Call, and The High King's Tomb.

Once a simple student, Karigan G'ladheon finds herself in a world of deadly danger and complex magic, compelled by forces...
The Last Sun
AuthorK.D. Edwards
Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home.

With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives...
Freedom's Landing
AuthorAnne McCaffrey
ISBN0441003389
Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the spaceships floated into view above Denver. As human slaves were herded into the maw of a massive vessel, Kristin realized her normal life was over and her fight for freedom was just beginning…

The alien Catteni value strength...
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
AuthorBecky Chambers
ISBN0062936018
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.

Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel,...
Treason
AuthorOrson Scott Card
ISBN0765309041
Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad" -- radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh... and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. For, on a planet without hard metals...
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0575075376
It is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University. Although Wizard Corkoran's obsession is to be the first man on the moon, and most of his time is devoted to this project, he decides he will...
AuthorEuripides
The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in our sense is associated with downfall, death, and disaster. But to the ancient Greeks, the use of heroic legend, the tragic diction and meters, and the tragic actors would have defined it as pure tragedy,...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
AuthorErnest Hemingway
4★
“No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now.”

Harry’s dying. Gangrene. He’s not happy about it, but he’s resigned to it...
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