Moonseed
9 best books like Moonseed (Stephen Baxter): The Light of Other Days, The Rosewater Insurrection, Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond, Credo, The Gardens of the Dead, Rush of Blood, Paradox: Am Abgrund der Ewigkeit, The Rosewater Redemption, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0812576403 |
When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and...
The Rosewater Insurrection
| Author | Tade Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316449083 |
All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret.
The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive Kaaro, is at the forefront of the cold, silent conflict. She must capture a...
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
| Author | Gene Kranz |
| ISBN | 0425179877 |
This memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director.
Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America’s manned space program and was...
| Author | Melvyn Bragg |
| ISBN | 0340667060 |
Britain during the Dark Ages is the setting for the fascinating story of Bega, a young Irish princess who became a saint, and her lifelong bond with Padric, prince of the north-western kingdom of Rheged. This dramatic, far-reaching tale brings to life a land of warring kings, Christians and pagans,...
| Author | William Brodrick |
| ISBN | 0670034983 |
A gripping new tale of intrigue from a “John le Carré in the making” (Daily Telegraph, London)
William Brodrick’s extraordinary new thriller, like its predecessor The Sixth Lamentation, focuses again on Father Anselm, a barrister turned monk who finds himself at the center of a mystery...
| Author | Mark Billingham |
| ISBN | 1847444210 |
Rush of Blood Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder...Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body...
Paradox: Am Abgrund der Ewigkeit
| Author | Phillip P. Peterson |
+++ Der neue Peterson: Ein HiTech-Thriller mit einer großen Dosis Science-Fiction +++
„Außerirdische? Hier draußen?“, fragte Ed ungläubig.
David wandte den Blick von der sternenlosen Finsternis hinter den Cockpitfenstern ab und sah Ed direkt in die Augen. „Sie sind hier...
| Author | Tade Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316449091 |
The Rosewater Redemption concludes the award-winning, cutting edge Wormwood trilogy, set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices.
Life in the newly independent city-state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting.
The Mayor finds...
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
| Author | James R. Hansen |
| ISBN | 0743257510 |
On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few he uttered at that historic moment. In a penetrating...
