Spindrift

7 best books like Spindrift (Allen M. Steele): How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, The Legacy of Heorot, On the Steel Breeze, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, The War Against the Rull, Doctor Who: Timewyrm-Exodus, Three Laws Lethal

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
AuthorDaniel Immerwahr
ISBN0374172145
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire

We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN0671695320
The colonists from Earth have spent a century in cold sleep to make the first journey, one way, to settle a planet in another solar system. Avalon seems perfect, a verdant, livable world still in its prehistoric age. The biologists and engineers who busy themselves planting and building scoff at the...
On the Steel Breeze
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
ISBN0575090456
It is a thousand years in the future. Mankind is making its way out into the universe on massive generation ships.

On the Steel Breeze is the follow-up to Blue Remembered Earth. It is both a sequel and a standalone novel, which just happens to be set in the same universe and revolves around members...
AuthorJim Steinmeyer
ISBN1585426407
The seminal biography of the twentieth century’s premier chronicler of the paranormal, Charles Fort—a man whose very name gave rise to an adjective, fortean, to describe the unexplained.

By the early 1920s, Americans were discovering that the world was a strange place.

Charles...
The War Against the Rull
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0312852398
When A.E. van Vogt wove several of his classic stories of The Rull into a novel, he created a work of enduring popularity in the science fiction field. Now back in print for the first time in the 1990s, this Tor edition includes "The First Rull," a story that postdates the novel and makes this book the first...
Doctor Who: Timewyrm-Exodus
AuthorTerrance Dicks
ISBN0426203577
The pursuit of the Timewyrm leads the Doctor and Ace to London, 1951, and the Festival of Britain -- a celebration of the achievements of this small country, this insignificant corner of the glorious Thousand Year Reich.

Someone -- or something -- has been interfering with the time lines, and...
Three Laws Lethal
AuthorDavid Walton
A science fiction thriller in which fleets of self-driving cars make life-and-death choices

In a near-future New York City, where self-driving cars roam the city streets, rival entrepreneurs Brandon and Tyler compete to produce the smartest AIs, training them in a virtual game world to...
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