Next of Kin

7 best books like Next of Kin (Eric Frank Russell): The Water Knife, The Old Drift, Practical Demonkeeping, The Murders of Molly Southbourne, A Civil Campaign, Perihelion Summer, The White Company

The Water Knife
AuthorPaolo Bacigalupi
ISBN0385352875
In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, leg-breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her luxurious developments...
The Old Drift
AuthorNamwali Serpell
ISBN1781090491
A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of time

On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the story...
Practical Demonkeeping
AuthorChristopher Moore
ISBN0060735422
In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people...
The Murders of Molly Southbourne
AuthorTade Thompson
Every time she bleeds a murderer is born. Experience the horror of Tade Thompson's The Murders of Molly Southbourne.

The rule is simple: don't bleed.

For as long as Molly Southbourne can remember, she's been watching herself die. Whenever she bleeds, another molly is born, identical...
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
ISBN0671578855
Miles Vorkosigan has a problem: unrequited love for the beautiful widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, violently allergic to marriage after her first exposure. If a frontal assault won't do, Miles thinks, try subterfuge. He has a cunning plan... Lord Mark Vorkosigan, Miles' brother, also has a problem: his...
Perihelion Summer
AuthorGreg Egan
ISBN1250313783
Greg Egan's Perihelion Summer is a story of people struggling to adapt to a suddenly alien environment, and the friendships and alliances they forge as they try to find their way in a world where the old maps have lost their meaning.

Taraxippus is coming: a black hole one tenth the mass of the sun...
The White Company
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0486437639
"Now order the ranks, and fling wide the banners, for our souls are God's and our bodies the king's, and our swords for Saint George and for England!" With that rousing proclamation, twelve hundred knights ride into battle, accompanied by the stalwart archers known as the White Company.
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