Ring of Swords
10 best books like Ring of Swords (Eleanor Arnason): Deadeye Dick, Redemption Ark, The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, Hard to Be a God, Permafrost, The Hand of Oberon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Demolished Man, The Courts of Chaos, Cherudek
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 0385334176 |
Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany...
Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors - alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons -and a renegade named Clavain...
The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
| Author | Laurie Gwen Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1476753865 |
The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties’ most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.
It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great...
| Author | Arkady Strugatsky |
| ISBN | 0816491216 |
The novel follows Anton, an undercover operative from the future planet Earth, in his mission on an alien planet, that is populated by human beings, whose society has not advanced beyond the Middle Ages. The novel's core idea is that human progress throughout the centuries is often cruel and bloody,...
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.
2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0380016648 |
Across the mysterious Black Road, demons swarm into Shadow. The ancient, secret source of the royal family's power is revealed, & an unholy pact between a prince of the realm & the forces of Chaos threaten all the known worlds with absolute obliteration. The hour of battle is at hand. Now Corwin...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0380008319 |
He who rules Amber rules the one true world. He who thwarts Amber invites the wrath of Amber betrayed.
An unseen enemy of immense strength has seized a Prince of the Blood, and now threatens the perfect kingdom by striking at the very core of its power - the secret knowledge of Shadow.
When...
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 1857988221 |
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder?
Ben Reichs heads a huge 24th century business empire, spanning the solar system. He is also an obsessed, driven man determined to murder a rival. To avoid capture, in a society where murderers can be detected...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 9993911550 |
Amber, the one real world of which all others – including our own Earth – are but Shadows...
For untold millennia, the cosmic Pattern sustained order in Amber and all the known worlds. But now the forces of Chaos have succeeded in disrupting the Pattern, unleashing destructive forces beyond...
| Author | Valerio Evangelisti |
| ISBN | 8804531371 |
Nel mondo perduto di Cherudek, un universo fatto di nebbia, popolato da personaggi dall'identità incerta e vacillante e regolato da leggi diaboliche e misteriose, Eymerich sarà costretto ad affrontare un nemico sconosciuto e inafferrabile, capace di sfidare le barriere del tempo e di alterare...
| Author | Lisa Goldstein |
| ISBN | 1616960140 |
An ages-old family secret breaches the boundaries between reality and magic in this fresh retelling of a classic fairy tale. When Berkeley student Will Taylor is introduced to the mysterious Feierabend sisters, he quickly falls for enigmatic Livvy, a chemistry major and accomplished chef. But...
