Strength of Stones
9 best books like Strength of Stones (Greg Bear): Red Moon, Turning Darkness Into Light, Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven, China Mountain Zhang, The Expert System's Brother, The Dark Beyond the Stars, The Rosewater Insurrection, Undone Deeds, The Godmakers
| Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| ISBN | 0316262374 |
American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding.
It is also the first visit for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts...
Turning Darkness Into Light
| Author | Marie Brennan |
| ISBN | 0765377616 |
As the renowned granddaughter of Isabella Camherst (Lady Trent, of the riveting and daring Draconic adventure memoirs) Audrey Camherst has always known she, too, would want to make her scholarly mark upon a chosen field of study.
When Lord Gleinheigh recruits Audrey to decipher a series...
| Author | Marjorie M. Liu |
| ISBN | 1534306919 |
Maika Halfwolf has begun to unlock the mysteries of her past - but the challenges are only going. In this third volume of MONSTRESS, collecting issues 13-18, Maika's journey takes her to the neutral city of Pontus, where she hopes to find temporary refuge from her pursuers. Unfortunately, Pontus may...
| Author | Maureen F. McHugh |
| ISBN | 0312860986 |
With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an...
The Expert System's Brother
| Author | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| ISBN | 1250197562 |
I love this author! He has such a brilliant imagination.
In The Expert System's Brother we visit a planet centuries after its settlement by humans who had discovered it was virtually uninhabitable. As a result they made a number of serious changes to their descendants to make them able to survive...
| Author | Frank M. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0312866240 |
For two thousand years, the starship Astron has searched the galaxy for alien life--without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space.
The ship's captain--immortal, obsessed--refuses...
The Rosewater Insurrection
| Author | Tade Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316449083 |
All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret.
The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive Kaaro, is at the forefront of the cold, silent conflict. She must capture a...
| Author | Mark Del Franco |
| ISBN | 1937007251 |
Connor Grey, a druid consultant for the Boston P.D., usually helps the cops solve their “strange” cases, but now he’s the suspect in the midst of one. Wrongly accused of a terrorist act that rocked the city to its core, Connor evades arrest by going underground, where rumors of war are roiling....
| Author | Frank Herbert |
| ISBN | 0450017982 |
This book may be the ultimate secret agent novel.
It could also be the most insanely ambitious work of anthropological science fiction.
It's also a gold mine for anyone interested in Frank Herbert's work.
Let me explain...
The Godmakers is a fix-up novel, a cluster of short...
