Muse of Fire

8 best books like Muse of Fire (Dan Simmons): The Willows, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Pump Six and Other Stories, Inside Job, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, Nobody's Home: An Anubis Gates Story, The End of the Sentence, If You Give a Pig the White House: A Parody for Adults

The Willows

Author	Algernon Blackwood
ISBN	1587156520

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment—river, sun, wind—and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows,...

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Author	Rudyard Kipling
ISBN	0688143202

Here is the thrilling story of Rikki, a fearless young mongoose who finds himself locked in a life-and-death struggle to protect a boy and his parents from Nag and Nagaina, the two enormous cobras who stalk the gardens outside the family's home in India. Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's timeless...

Pump Six and Other Stories

Author

Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the...

Inside Job

Author	Connie Willis
ISBN	1596060247

Professional debunker Rob, proprietor of the Jaundiced Eye magazine, considers himself incredibly lucky to have Kildy as his sole employee. Smart, dedicated, gorgeous, and, thanks to her last movie before she hung up on Hollywood, rich, she's a pleasure to oblige when she says Rob has to witness this...

The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism

Author	Robert B. Reich
ISBN	0679736158

There is no longer such a thing as an American economy, say Robert Reich at the beginning of this brilliant book.  What does it mean to be a nation when money, goods, and services know no borders?  What skills will be the most valuable in the coming century? And how can our country best ensure that all its...

Nobody's Home: An Anubis Gates Story

Author	Tim Powers
ISBN	1596066709

For the first time in his esteemed career, Tim Powers returns to the setting (and a central character) from his landmark time travel novel, The Anubis Gates.

Tracking the murderer of her fiancée through 19th century London's darkest warrens, Jacky Snapp has disguised herself as a boy -- but...

The End of the Sentence

Author	Maria Dahvana Headley
ISBN	1596066792

It begins with a letter from a prisoner...

As he attempts to rebuild his life in rural Oregon after a tragic accident, Malcolm Mays finds himself corresponding with Dusha Chuchonnyhoof, a mysterious entity who claims to be the owner of Malcolm's house, jailed unjustly for 117 years. The prisoner...

If You Give a Pig the White House: A Parody for Adults

Author	Faye Kanouse
ISBN	1250256410

A coiffed and blustery pig has shoved his way into the White House! A cleverly worded and illustrated picture book, this is the adult parody of the beloved children’s cautionary tale, If You Give a Pig a Pancake.

Watch in dismay as the presidential pig gets into trouble, binges on too much Fox...