Pasquale's Angel

7 best books like Pasquale's Angel (Paul J. McAuley): The Puppet Masters, Cowboy Angels, The Book of Skulls, Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye, The Long Firm, What’s Going On?: The Meanderings of a Comic Mind in Confusion

The Puppet Masters

Author

Robert A. Heinlein

First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed.

Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting back. Then...

Cowboy Angels

Author	Paul McAuley
ISBN	0575082232

How is it possible that such marvellous novels like Cowboy Angels and excellent writers like Paul Mcauley constantly get low ratings while hacks like Andy Weir and Ernest Cline are praised as SF wonders?Only 3,34 rating for this spectacular mix of action and hard sf,superb writing and complex plot,brilliant...

The Book of Skulls

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0345471385

Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, college roommates, go on a spring break trip to Arizona: Eli, the scholar, who found and translated the book; Timothy, scion of an American dynasty, born and bred to lead; Ned, poet and cynic; and Oliver, the...

Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

Author

Mike Resnick

Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:

In this Hugo and Nebula award-winning novella by Mike Resnick, humanity once controlled much of the galaxy due to its ambition and ruthlessness, but then declined for unspecified reasons and is now an extinct race. About five thousand years...

All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

Author	Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN	0316725234

As a teenager Jane Bell had dreamt of playing in the casinos of Monte Carlo in the company of James Bond, but in her punk phase she'd got herself pregnant and by the time she reaches forty-six she's a grandmother, her dreams as dry as the dust her Dyson sucks up from her hall carpet every day. Then her son Ross,...

The Long Firm

Author	Jake Arnott
ISBN	0340748788

A peppy, stylish tour of the London underworld of the 60’s and 70’s, punctuated by sudden bursts of gruesome violence. This is the story of Harry Starks, an East End gangster, a charismatic, feared, and fearless man as told by five very different characters who encounter Harry at different stages...

What’s Going On?: The Meanderings of a Comic Mind in Confusion

Author	Mark Steel
ISBN	1847372813

Comedian Mark Steel has spent most of his life a committed, signed-up member of the Socialist Workers Party. The Labour Party coming to power in 1997 could have been the start of a new political dawn for Mark and for Britain. But instead, big business and war-mongering thrived under New Labour, and in...