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10 best books like Sly Mongoose (Tobias S. Buckell): The Cruel Stars, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Blacksad, Velocity Weapon, PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 003, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 007, PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 004, PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 006, PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 008

The Cruel Stars
AuthorJohn Birmingham
ISBN0399593314
Five intrepid heroes must unite to save civilization after a long-dormant enemy awakens and strikes a devastating blow in this epic sci-fi adventure for fans of The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica.

"Frenetic action viewed in a black fun-house mirror."--Kirkus Reviews

The galaxy...
A Brief History of Seven Killings
AuthorMarlon James
WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s.

On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before...
Blacksad
AuthorJuan Díaz Canales
Private investigator John Blacksad is up to his feline ears in mystery, digging into the backstories behind murders, child abductions, and nuclear secrets. Guarnido's sumptuously painted pages and rich cinematic style bring the world of 1950s America to vibrant life, with Canales weaving in fascinating...
Velocity Weapon
AuthorMegan E. O'Keefe
Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in Velocity Weapon, the first book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe.

Sanda and Biran Greeve were siblings destined for greatness. A high-flying sergeant, Sanda has the skills to take down...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 003
AuthorNaoki Urasawa
ISBN1421519208
In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol’s top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders—the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets....
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
AuthorLaurent Dubois
ISBN0674018265
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 007
AuthorNaoki Urasawa
ISBN1421532670
Who Killed Astro Boy? No Robots; Human vs. humanoid!

Pluto has destroyed six out of the seven great robots of the world, and the pacifist robot Epsilon is the only one that remains. Will Epsilon, who refused to participate in the 39th Central Asian War, leave behind his war-orphaned charges...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 004
AuthorNaoki Urasawa
ISBN1421519216
Damn! I thought this series was slightly stumbling in the last volume and was getting ready but then BAM volume 4 kicked it into high fucking gear.

Right off the bat we're given a sweet bitter story about a scientist trying to save a robot puppy. When the "owner" comes to visit it comes to a surprise...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 006
AuthorNaoki Urasawa
ISBN1421527219
A new vision based on Astro Boy - "The Greatest Robot On Earth" Pluto… Sahad… Goji… Abullah… Mysterious figures somehow involved with the serial murders of the great robots of the world. Europol's top robot detective Gesicht has been put on the case, and he's mere steps away from discovering...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 008
AuthorNaoki Urasawa
Series review. Spoiler free! (For Pluto anyway, original Astro Boy spoilers allowed, you've had 50+ years, the spoiler statute of limitations has expired.)

As far as I'm concerned, this is Urasawa and Nagasaki's masterpiece. It's a reimagining of "The Greatest Robot on Earth" (地上最大のロボット)...
PLUTO: 浦沢 直樹 x 手塚 治虫 005
AuthorNaoki Urasawa
ISBN4091815561
Pluto is past it's midway point so a lot is being revealed.

This book mostly focuses on Gesicht and his past. It's a interesting take on the whole "did I or did I not kill a human" and one I thought was handled well. I also like how everything is coming undone. There's no hero so far who is stopping this...
Dragon's Code
AuthorGigi McCaffrey
A new hero emerges in a divided world as one of sci-fi's most beloved series--Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern--relaunches with this original adventure from Anne's daughter, Gigi McCaffrey.

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dragonriders of Pern series, Gigi does her mother...
Humans, Bow Down
AuthorJames Patterson
ISBN1786140047
Hu-bots – robots that humans created as perfect versions of themselves – now control the world. They seized power in a war that almost wiped humankind off the face of the earth. The humans that remain are forced to either work as servants or live in prison camps.

But one teenage girl, Six,...
Infinite
AuthorJeremy Robinson
SEARCHING FOR A NEW HOME...

The Galahad, a faster-than-light spacecraft, carries fifty scientists and engineers on a mission to prepare Kepler 452b, Earth's nearest habitable neighbor at 1400 light years away. With Earth no longer habitable and the Mars colony slowly failing, they are...
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