Newton's Cannon
10 best books like Newton's Cannon (Greg Keyes): The Years of Rice and Salt, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice, The Silver Crown, Kingdom Come, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, The Peshawar Lancers, Island of Icarus, Grave Importance, Camera Obscura, Other Earths
The Years of Rice and Salt
| Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| ISBN | 0553580078 |
It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur - the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if? What if the plague killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have...
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1587156911 |
Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are...
| Author | Robert C. O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0689871252 |
Ellen awakens one morning with a mysterious silver crown on the pillow beside her. What magic powers it possesses she has not yet discovered, but the sudden changes in her life are unmistakable: her house is burned down, her family has disappeared, and a man in a dark uniform is stalking her. Can Ellen...
| Author | Mark Waid |
| ISBN | 1563893304 |
Writer Mark Waid, coming from his popular work on Flash and Impulse, and artist Alex Ross, who broke new ground with the beautifully painted Marvels, join together for this explosive book that takes place in a dark alternate future of the DC Superhero Universe. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and almost...
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
| Author | Theodora Goss |
| ISBN | 1534427872 |
Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice—and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the electrifying conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Nebula Award finalist and Locus Award winner The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter.
Life’s always an adventure for the Athena...
| Author | S.M. Stirling |
| ISBN | 0451458737 |
In the mid-1870s, civilization froze in time when comets hit the earth. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together. In the 21st century, boats still run on steam, messages are delivered by telegraph, and the British Empire controls much of the world from its capital...
Field Journal of Jonathan Orms, 1893
En route to polite exile in the Galapagos Islands (field work, to quote the dean of my university), I have found myself marooned on a deserted tropical paradise. Deserted, that is, except for my savior, a mysterious American called Marcus. He is an inventor—and...
| Author | Vivian Shaw |
| ISBN | 0316434655 |
A charmingly witty fantasy adventure in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies.
Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in...
| Author | Lavie Tidhar |
| ISBN | 0857660942 |
CAN'T FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION TO A MYSTERY? CALL IN THE QUIET COUNCIL. The mysterious and glamorous Lady De Winter is one of their most valuable agents. A despicable murder inside a locked and bolted room on the Rue Morgue in Paris is just the start. This whirlwind adventure will take Milady to the...
| Author | Nick Gevers |
| ISBN | 0756405467 |
Eleven original stories about the different paths our world might've taken...
Alternate history explores the many possible directions our world could follow if certain key events didn't occur at all or were changed in some crucial way. Is our Earth the only Earth, our reality the only one...
From the bestselling author of The Chronicles of St Mary's.
The Nothing Girl has grown up…
It’s life as usual at Frogmorton Farm – which is to say that events have passed the merely eccentric and are now galloping headlong towards the completely bizarre.
Once again...
LEONARDO DA VINCI HAS A PROBLEM.
A serious problem.
The soul-wrenching kind.
The career killing kind.
He needs to finish a piece for the Pope—but doesn’t know how.
Alas, figuring it out is no trivial task. In fact, nobody ever has.
Of all the great and grand quests...
In a Russia where the Decembrists' rebellion was successful and the Trans-Siberian railroad was completed before 1854, Sasha Trubetskaya wants nothing more than to have a decent debut ball in St. Petersburg. But her aunt's feud with the emperor lands Sasha at university, where she becomes one of its...
Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
| Author | Paul Collins |
| ISBN | 0393357325 |
On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston’s West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and offered...
Mockingbird, Vol. 2: My Feminist Agenda
| Author | Chelsea Cain |
| ISBN | 1302901230 |
A top secret mission on behalf of an old friend, a tropical cruise. What could go wrong? Turns out it's a theme cruise - super-hero themed, naturally - a floating comic con. Now Bobbi is trapped on a boat with a thousand cosplayers, caped colleagues she was trying to avoid, an ex-boyfriend who keeps showing...
