Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe
10 best books like Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe (J.E. Mooney): The Dying Earth, Embassytown, The Rage of Dragons, The Wolf's Call, Bowl of Heaven, Inversions, Zenith: Phase Two, Meeting Infinity, Twisted Metal, Beneath the Twisted Trees
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0671831526 |
I did not like this book much the first time I read it, but after reading it a second time while visualizing its characters as puppets, I found I liked it much more.
This book—particularly the first three stories—irritated me. I found its wizards to be contemptible creatures, morally...
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345524497 |
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space...
Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.
The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war...
Anthony Ryan's debut novel Blood Song - book one of the Raven's Shadow series - took the fantasy world by storm. The sequels, Tower Lord and Queen of Fire were both New York Times bestsellers. Now, Anthony Ryan returns to the world of this acclaimed fantasy series with The Wolf's Call, which begins a thrilling...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0765328410 |
In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space:...
On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king, despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies to...
I realize that I just wrote a review in which I kind of slammed Grant Morrison (see my review for “Final Crisis”), but the truth is, I still kind of like him, especially his non-DC stuff. In particular, I have grown fond of a little series he wrote in the late-80s for the British comic book 2000 A.D. (known...
| Author | Jonathan Strahan |
| ISBN | 1781083800 |
Continuing the award-nominated SF anthology series from multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.
The world we are living in is changing every day. We surf future shock every morning when we get out of bed. And with every passing day we are increasingly asked: how do we have to change...
| Author | Tony Ballantyne |
| ISBN | 0230738605 |
This was a great read! The setting was rather unique, I have never read a book in which all the main characters are robots. It was interesting to read about how they thought and what they fought over or about. There was certainly enough going on to keep me interested all the way through, and I had a hard time...
Beneath the Twisted Trees
| Author | Bradley P. Beaulieu |
| ISBN | 1473223601 |
The fourth book in The Song of Shattered Sands series—an epic fantasy with a desert setting, filled with rich worldbuilding and pulse-pounding action.
When a battle to eradicate the Thirteenth Tribe goes awry, the kingdoms bordering the desert metropolis of Sharakhai see the city as weak...
