Silhouette

10 best books like Silhouette (Dave Swavely): Bad Glass, Protector, Faith, The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century, Earthseed, The Ultimate Inferior Beings, The Seed, Prepare, Slipstream, Broken Piano for President

Bad Glass
AuthorRichard E. Gropp
ISBN0345533933
One of the most hauntingly original dark fantasy debuts in years—perfect for fans of Lost and Mark Danielewski’s cult classic, House of Leaves.
 
Something has happened in Spokane. The military has evacuated the city and locked it down. Even so, disturbing rumors and images seep out,...
Protector
AuthorVanna Smythe
ISBN1477408398
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Duty versus love is the one battle warrior Kae does not know how to fight.

Kae has trained his entire life to become an elite Protector of the Realm. When he finally achieves this honor he finds himself...
AuthorJohn Love
ISBN1597803901
Moby Dick meets Duel in John Love''s debut novel of Space Opera and Military Science Fiction! Faith is the name humanity has given to the unknown, seemingly invincible alien ship that has begun to harass the newly emergent Commonwealth. 300 years earlier, the same ship destroyed the Sakhran Empire,...
AuthorCarne Ross
ISBN0399158723
تقوم فكرة الكتاب على تشجيع العمل الفردي المؤثر في المجتمع وعدم انتظار ‏القرارات الحكومية، وعدم الخوف من الفوضى. وليس الكتاب دعوة للعنف أو الدماء، ‏بل...
AuthorPamela Sargent
ISBN0765332159
Ship hurtles through space. Deep within its core it carries the seed of humankind. Launched by the people of a dying Earth over a century ago, its mission is to find a habitable world for the children - 15-year-old Zoheret and her shipmates - whom it has created from its genetic banks.

To Zoheret...
The Ultimate Inferior Beings
AuthorMark Roman
ISBN1477492208
The End of the Universe is nigh ...

Landscape architect jixX is way out of his depth when mistakenly appointed captain of a dangerous space mission. He’s never flown a spaceship before, but at least he’s not alone; none of his crewmembers have, either. To make matters worse, the ship’s...
AuthorFola
ISBN1463567898
Throughout our lives, many things may lead us to forget who we truly are. Result? Slowly yet inevitably, cages and chains enslave our thoughts and slay our freedoms.
Down the ages, men have thus fallen for hosts of illusions, confusions and fears - except for the seven dreamers whose stories this...
Prepare
AuthorGeoffrey Germann
ISBN0985288809
"...cutting-edge... skillful... high-octane..." Kirkus Reviews

As a small boy, Darren Kiel was witness to his father's corruption and contemptible misconduct. As he grew, that experience gave rise to a seething need to atone for his father's crimes, to set the world aright, to enforce...
Slipstream
AuthorMichael Offutt
ISBN1554049571
“Last night I died for the third time this week...” Those are the words spoken by Jordan Pendragon on the curb out front of his high school. He's talking about dreams he's been having. However, he soon discovers that they're not dreams but a premonition of things to come.

Jordan wants to be...
Broken Piano for President
AuthorPatrick Wensink
ISBN1621050203
Ever drank too much and forgot what happened? Don't be embarrassed. Deshler Dean faces this problem every day of his life.

Dean is far more brilliant and productive when he's blackout drunk. In the last few months alone, he has invented a hamburger more addictive than crystal meth, scored a...
56 Sherlock Holmes Stories in 56 Days
AuthorCharlotte Anne Walters
ISBN1780922736
To celebrate the release of her novel Barefoot on Baker Street, Charlotte Anne Walters undertook the task of reading and reviewing one of the original Sherlock Holmes short stories every day until she had completed all 56. The reviews were posted daily on her blog and attracted viewers from all over...
MetaWars: Fight for the Future
AuthorJeff Norton
ISBN1408314592
In an unforgiving future, two warring factions - the MILLENIALS and the GUARDIANS - are locked in a brutal battle over control of an online virtual world called the Metasphere. Jonah Delacroix has always known which side he's on - the same side as his dead father. But when he assumed his father's avatar,...
AuthorGavin G. Smith
ISBN0575094753
Of all the captains based out of Arclight only Eldon Sloper was desperate enough to agree to a salvage job in Red Space. And now he and his crew are living to regret his desperation.

In Red Space the rules are different. Some things work, others don't. Best to stick close to the Church beacons. Don't...
Haywire
AuthorJustin R. Macumber
Once our greatest weapon. Now our gravest threat.

A century ago, super-soldiers known as Titans drove alien invaders from the solar system and back to their home world. Now the Titans have returned, infected by a virus and compelled to destroy humanity. Will a scholar, her son, and the only...
The Martian War: A Thrilling Eyewitness Account of the Recent Invasion As Reported by Mr. H.G. Wells
AuthorGabriel Mesta
ISBN0743446550

Classic science fiction author H. G. Wells's most memorable and compelling novel was arguably The War of the Worlds, made even more famous by the notorious Mercury Theater radio production starring Orson Welles that became the "Night That Panicked America." But what if the Martian invasion was...
Red Leaves and the Living Token
AuthorBenjamin David Burrell
Doctors tell Raj that his son Emret won't survive his illness. As Raj struggles to prepare himself and Emret for the inevitable, he's confronted by Moslin, his son's nurse, who’s been filling Emret’s head with fairytales about heroic quests and powerful disease curing miracles. Emret now thinks...
Lux 1.1: Seeds
AuthorJalex Hansen
Seeds is the first book in the Lux series.

Lux Omnibus Volume 1, containing Seeds, Call to Arms, and Alliance is now available from Amazon.
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In a crumbling America where teenagers are hunted and contained, a small group of rebels rises up to fight a desperate battle against a...
Fighting Gravity
AuthorLeah Petersen
When Jacob Dawes is selected for the Imperial Intellectual Complex as a child, he's catapulted from the poverty-stricken slums of his birth into a world where his status as an unclass is something no one can forget, or forgive.

His growing scientific renown draws the attention of the emperor,...
There Comes a Prophet
AuthorDavid Litwack
ISBN1554049962
"But what are we without dreams?"

A thousand years ago the Darkness came—a terrible time of violence, fear, and social collapse when technology ran rampant. But the vicars of the Temple of Light brought peace, ushering in an era of blessed simplicity. For ten centuries they have kept the...
Destination Unknown
AuthorJeffrey Burger
ISBN0615692885
An epic science fiction adventure that reaches from the surface of our familiar planet and the safety of terra firma, to the dark, vast expanse of deep space and distant star systems.

Jack Steele is an ex big-city cop that left the department after losing a friend in the line of duty. Recovering...
AuthorP.D. Smith
ISBN1608196763
For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population-3.3 billion people-is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers-the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this unique work of metatourism...
The Army of Light
AuthorStephen A. Fender
ISBN1482311437
It had started with an attack on a research station near the frontier region, the furthest portion of the Outer Sphere of Unified space. Then, one by one, subsequent border systems began to fall victim to the unknown attackers.

The Kafaran had arrived.

The fighting raged on for nearly...
Alexander Outland: Space Pirate
AuthorG.J. Koch
ISBN1597804231
Captain Alexander Outland of the Sixty-Nine (short for Space Vessel 3369, of course) is the best pilot in the galaxy. He’s also a pirate, a smuggler, and loved and loathed by women in umpteen solar systems. His crew of strays and misfits includes an engineer of dubious sanity, a deposed planetary governor,...
AuthorJack McDevitt
ISBN1937008711
The biggest issue I have with this well-written, but dull, novel is it should have been a novella.

There is a SHOCK ending, which caused me to guffaw tea out of my nose and choke for ten minutes. As I am writing this I am sniffling and breathing through raw tissues still occasionally dripping out...
Make Your Own Luck
AuthorJoanne Lewis
ISBN1937698718
Make Your Own Luck, a Remy Summer Woods mystery, is the unforgettable and moving novel of a young attorney who refuses to believe thirteen-year-old Bonita Pickney killed her father, Patrick Pickney, despite her insistence of guilt. Remy risks her relationship with her own father and her life to prove...
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