Strategos: Born in the Borderlands

8 best books like Strategos: Born in the Borderlands (Gordon Doherty): The Kraken Wakes, Stowaway To Mars, Marius' Mules XII: Sands of Egypt, Legionary (The Thrice Named Man, #2), Scythian (The Thrice Named Man, #1), Lord Edward's Archer, Chocky, The Seeds of Time

AuthorJohn Wyndham
ISBN0140010750
I will probably always nod to Wyndham's Day of the Triffids as a crowning piece of SF, but The Kraken Wakes takes on a very similar tone, albeit very different problems.

The two both have a heavy focus on science and rationality in the face of unfathomable problems. Triffids had mass blindness...
AuthorJohn Wyndham
ISBN0340158352
Aircraft designer Dale Currance undertakes a journey to Mars in an effort to capture the prize being offered to the first man to complete an interplanetary journey, but a female stowaway throws his plans into disarray.

An international prize of one billion has been offered to the first man...
Marius' Mules XII: Sands of Egypt
AuthorS.J.A. Turney
Winter, 48 BC. Caesar and his small force are trapped in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Caught up in the dynastic struggles of the House of Ptolemy, the consul has sided with the clever and ruthless Queen Cleopatra. Her brother and fellow monarch Ptolemy XIII languishes in the palace, a hostage of Caesar’s,...
Legionary (The Thrice Named Man, #2)
AuthorHector Miller
The year is 225 AD and the Roman Empire is on the brink of a precipice.
It will take a man with iron in his veins to set things right and accomplish the impossible.
From a humble upbringing, a boy emerges who is destined to change history.
This is the story of Lucius Domitius Aurelianus.

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Scythian (The Thrice Named Man, #1)
AuthorHector Miller
The year is 225 AD and the Roman Empire is on the brink of a precipice.
It will take a man with iron in his veins to set things right and accomplish the impossible.
From a humble upbringing, a boy emerges who is destined to change history.
This is the story of Lucius Domitius Aurelianus.
Part...
Lord Edward's Archer
AuthorGriff Hosker
ISBN1911445669
13th Century, Wales and England.

To young Gruffyd, life has been unkind. Eking out a meagre living with his father, he has learned very quickly how to look after himself in the hostile borderlands. His father, an archer, has taught him well and at seventeen Gruffyd is a keen and able bowman. Young,...
Chocky
AuthorJohn Wyndham
ISBN0140031219
Cover Artist: Harry Willock

Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense - it was like listening to one end of...
The Seeds of Time
AuthorJohn Wyndham
ISBN0140013857
Varied short stories by John Wyndham, some from before WW2 and some decades later, and still fresh, 20 years since I last read them.

If Wyndham makes you think of spooky children (Midwich Cuckoos) and triffids, prepare for something different and, I think better. There is plenty of variety...
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