Old Twentieth

10 best books like Old Twentieth (Joe Haldeman): Uncrowned, The Silent Land, Sun of Suns, Houdini: The Handcuff King, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, The Seven Days of Peter Crumb, Time Traders/Galactic Derelict, Berlin, The Hive, The Swarm

Uncrowned
AuthorWill Wight
Emriss Silentborn, Memory of the World.
Tiberian Arelius, the fallen Patriarch.
Akura Malice, Queen of Shadows.
Seshethkunaaz, King of Dragons.
Reigan Shen, Emperor of Lions.
Luminous Queen Sha Miara.
The Eight-Man Empire.
Northstrider.

The Monarchs,...
The Silent Land
AuthorGraham Joyce
ISBN0385533802
When Jake and Zoe are buried under a flash avalanche while skiing in the French Pyrenees, they miraculously dig their way out from under the snow--only to discover the world they knew has been overtaken by an eerie and absolute silence. With their phones cut off, and the village evacuated of every living...
AuthorKarl Schroeder
ISBN0765315432
It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood...
Houdini: The Handcuff King
AuthorJason Lutes
ISBN0786839023

Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so 80 years after his death. This is a snapshot of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous jumps. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason...
AuthorTed Chiang
ISBN1596061006
In medieval Baghdad, a penniless man is brought before the most powerful man in the world, the caliph himself, to tell his story. It begins with a walk in the bazaar, but soon grows into a tale unlike any other told in the caliph's empire. It's a story that includes not just buried treasure and a band of thieves,...
AuthorJonny Glynn
ISBN0061351482
Intelligent, wry, and seriously twisted, Peter Crumb is a man who suffers two personalities, only one of which is capable of remorse. His life has been derailed by a single, devastating act of violence, and now, in what he intends to be his last week on earth, he is determined to leave his mark upon humanity—randomly,...
AuthorAndre Norton
ISBN0671319523
This omnibus edition includes: "The Time Traders" and "Galactic Derelict."

DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIMEIntelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USAs greatest adversary on the world stage is sending its agents...
Berlin
AuthorJason Lutes
ISBN1770463267
"If there was ever any doubt of a graphic novel’s ability to achieve a high level of storytelling, this book blows it away."—Newsday

"Astonishing in its scope, breadth and execution."—The Independent

Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through...
The Hive
AuthorOrson Scott Card
ISBN0765375648
New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.

Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars--the alien invasions...
The Swarm
AuthorOrson Scott Card
ISBN0765375621
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm.

The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army....
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