Pandora's Legions
10 best books like Pandora's Legions (Christopher Anvil): Somewhere in France, The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin, Startide Rising, The Vor Game, The Better Part of Valor, Hangfire, Goodnight from London, Gardens of the Sun, Starpilot's Grave, Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side
| Author | Jennifer Robson |
| ISBN | 0062273450 |
Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford wants to travel the world, pursue a career, and marry for love. But in 1914, the stifling restrictions of aristocratic British society and her mother’s rigid expectations forbid Lily from following her heart. When war breaks out, the spirited young woman seizes...
The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin
| Author | L. Jagi Lamplighter |
THIS IS A REVISED AND EXTENDED EDITION
Rachel Griffin wants to know everything. As a freshman at Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts, she has been granted to opportunity to study both mundane and magical subjects.
But even her perfect recollection of every book she has ever read...
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| ISBN | 0671720147 |
A buddy read with Choko and Maria.
Miles Vorkosigan graduated from the Military Academy despite his handicap. He hoped for a decent assignment, but his superiors thought he had an insubordination problem, so they decided a good way to fix it is to assign him to a remote place which in this case...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 0756400627 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
What happens when a staff sergeant questions a two-star general's parentage to his face? Torin Kerr discovers the answer in Tanya Huff's much-anticipated sequel to Valor's Choice.
Separated from her company, Kerr is ordered to report to a top-secret reconnaissance...
| Author | David Sherman |
| ISBN | 0345435923 |
Six agents have died hideously trying to penetrate the crime families behind a vast empire of pleasure and debauchery--
Now it's up to the Marines to break the circle.
Most people will visit Havanagas only in their dreams, for few can afford the exclusive resort planet that recreates ancient...
From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France—comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start...
| Author | Paul McAuley |
| ISBN | 0575079371 |
The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, founded by descendants of refugees from Earth’s repressive regimes, the Outers, have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union, and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational...
| Author | Debra Doyle |
| ISBN | 0812517059 |
A broken and drifting ship, its long-dead captain still strapped in the command seal: that's what free-spacers call a starpilot's grave. When one of these derelict craft appears in the Net, the artificial barrier zone separating the Republic from the Mageworlds, the discovery is no accident. It's...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0743435370 |
Two complete novels in one volume feature hapless heroes caught in an out-of-kilter spacetime clockwork: Chester W. Chester IV, who has inherited his great-grandfather's lifework--a super computer that can bring any situation or time to life; and Roger Tyson, who is being pursued through time by...
| Author | Eric Flint |
| ISBN | 1416520783 |
The intrepid team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader had not only pulled off the only victory the beleaguered colony's feeble military forces had won against the invading aliens, but had also uncovered the secret that the invaders were really a feint, being under the...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0743435540 |
Star Soldiers by Andre Norton
Humanity’s aggressive nature causes them to be galactic mercenaries when they burst out of Sol’s gravity well. Molded into a strict regime by Galactic Central Control, man’s creative aspects are ignored as they bleed off their most courageous warriors.
ANDRE...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 5550929929 |
Sooner or later, all civilizations age and decline, grow senile and die—either by conquest from without, or from internal rot. The final days of Western Civilization are signaled by the joining of the USA and the USSR into a ruthless and imperial state that spans first the Earth and then the Solar System....
| Author | Chris Bunch |
| ISBN | 1841490830 |
The Empire is in chaos. The once-great Imperial Navy has been shattered in battle and lies burning in space, riven by a civil war that threatens to engulf humanity’s future. For the revered Eternal Emperor is not the man his subjects thought him to be—and may not even be human at all. And it is Sten—Imperial...
| Author | Mark L. Van Name |
| ISBN | 1439132674 |
1. Rave reviews for Mark L. Van Name:
· “Van Name has created a hero worth at least a dozen more novels . . . I want this to be a series. I want to read a new one every year.” —Orson Scott Card
· “One Jump Ahead is like well-aged white...
| Author | Tom Kratman |
| ISBN | 1416573836 |
Revenge: it won’t bring your wife and kids back, but it might help with the nightmares.
Patricio Carrera has been waging what amounts to a private world war to bring to justice the murderers of his family. He’s raised an army and air force and used them. He’s raised a fleet and he’s about to...
| Author | Mike Resnick |
| ISBN | 1591027888 |
The date is 1970 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, finds itself in an all-out war against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man’s growing military and economic power.
The rebel...
Big Boys Don't Cry is a novella from military science fiction author Tom Kratman, known for A Desert Called Peace and his Carrera series. The novella follows the life cycle of a Ratha, a sentient future supertank that dutifully fights Man's battles on dozens of alien worlds. But will the massive creature...
