Mysterium
9 best books like Mysterium (Robert Charles Wilson): City of Golden Shadow, Permutation City, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making, The Weapon Shops of Isher, The Dirdir, Albatross, Elven Star
| Author | Tad Williams |
| ISBN | 0886777631 |
Let me just start by saying this: the first time I finished this series, I immediately went back and started reading it again. I can't think of any other series that I've done that with.
This is one of Tad Williams' "economy-sized manuscripts," similar to his fantasy classic Memory, Sorrow and...
The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace. Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes something way beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie...
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0671416162 |
Severian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic of the Master of Power, a legendary figure of mythic proportions. Armed with his sword, Terminus Est, and the Claw, Severian continues his journey to Thrax, the city of his exile. Bizarre apes, strange...
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0671631934 |
This, as well as the first two books and theoretically the last in the series, is rapidly becoming the most difficult work of SF I've ever read. Why? It's not particularly difficult to follow; the Hero's Quest is rather straightforward throughout. Nor is the main character Severian particularly uninteresting...
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
The author of The People Are Going to Rise Upon Your Shore turns his keen eye to our current crisis of masculinity using his upbringing in a rural, patriarchal home as an entry point to consider the personal and societal dangers of performative gender
Based on his provocative and popular New...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0671431293 |
With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops. This volume, The Weapon Shops of Isher, includes the first three parts of the saga and...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0879974788 |
Getting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved only stealing a spaceship or having one built to order — for Tschai was the abode of several intelligent star-born races and, as such, had spaceyards. But Adam Reith's problem was not so simple.
He'd already been lucky to escape the Chasch...
| Author | Terry Fallis |
| ISBN | 0771050968 |
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From two-time Leacock Medal winner Terry Fallis comes a funny and smart new novel about destiny--and what it means to forge your own path.
Adam Coryell is your average high-school student--well, except for that obsession with fountain pens--when his life changes...
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0553290983 |
On steamy Pryan, never-ending sunlight and plentiful rain have created a jungle so vast that humans and elves dwell high in the trees and only dwarves live anywhere near the ground. From the treetops the aristocratic elves sell weapons to the other races, whose incessant warfare sends a steady steam...
