Scardown
10 best books like Scardown (Elizabeth Bear): The Light Brigade, Storm of Locusts, The Citadel of Weeping Pearls, Command Decision, Desdemona and the Deep, Valor's Trial, The Unkindest Tide, Scout's Progress, After Atlas, I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land
| Author | Kameron Hurley |
| ISBN | 1481447963 |
From the Hugo Award–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars.
They said the war would turn us into light.
I wanted to be counted...
| Author | Rebecca Roanhorse |
| ISBN | 1534413529 |
It’s been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie, Diné monster hunter, is trying to make the best of things. Only her latest bounty hunt has gone sideways, she’s lost her only friend, Kai Arviso, and she’s somehow found herself responsible for a girl with a strange...
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls
| Author | Aliette de Bodard |
| ISBN | 1625672551 |
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology and esoteric sciences-its inhabitants capable of teleporting themselves anywhere, its weapons small and undetectable and deadly.
Thirty years ago, threatened by an invading fleet from the Dai...
| Author | Elizabeth Moon |
| ISBN | 0345491599 |
With the Vatta's War series, award-winning author Elizabeth Moon has claimed a place alongside such preeminent writers of military science fiction as David Weber and Lois McMaster Bujold. Now Moon is back and so is her butt-kicking, take-no-prisoners heroine, Kylara Vatta. Once the black-sheep...
In Desdemona and the Deep, the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below. On the surface, her world is rife with industrial pollution that ruins the health of poor factory workers while the idle rich indulge themselves in unheard-of...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 0756404797 |
The rousing military adventure (Locus) continues with a brand new Valor novel.
Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is a Confederation Marines marine. She's survived more deadly encounters and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive than anyone in the Corps. Unexpectedly pulled from battle,...
| Author | Seanan McGuire |
| ISBN | 0756415071 |
Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong.
When the Luidaeg—October "Toby" Daye's...
| Author | Sharon Lee |
| ISBN | 0441009271 |
5/5; 5 stars; A+
Well, after re-reading this book, I've had to up my rating from 4 stars to 5. When your heart rate is up and you're all wound up as you're coming to the close of your book...you know you've been thoroughly entertained.
This book is not only an interesting and well paced adventure...
| Author | Emma Newman |
| ISBN | 0425282406 |
Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man’s murder is much more than it seems...
Govcorp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But...
I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land
Jim is in New York City at Christmastime shopping a book based on his blog—Gone for Good—premised on the fact that “being nostalgic for things that have disappeared is ridiculous.” Progress decides for people what they need and what’s obsolete. It’s that simple. Of course, not everyone...
