Surveillance

6 best books like Surveillance (Julian May): The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Drifters, Regeneration, Echo Burning, Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light, The Machine's Child

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Author

Suzanne Collins

Except for the whole "science that makes absolutely no sense even if it is set in the future as it has no actual basis in reality, and you need a basis in reality to make the science believable and my biology background made me cringe" thing, the last two books weren't terrible but they weren't great either....the...

The Drifters

Author	James A. Michener
ISBN	0449213536

In his triumphant best seller, James Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of six young runaways adrift in a world they have created out of dreams, drugs, and dedication to pleasure. With the sure touch of a master, Michener pulls us into the dark center of their private world, whether it's in...

Regeneration

Author	Julie E. Czerneda
ISBN	0756404118

With the alien Dhryn cutting a pathway through the inhabited spaceways-bringing about the annihilation of many of the races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following-time is running out for all sentient life-forms. Can biologists Mackenzie Connor and Emily Mamami solve...

Echo Burning

Author	Lee Child
ISBN	0515133310

Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you’re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That’s Jack Reacher’s conclusion. He’s adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs...

Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light

Author	Tanya Huff
ISBN	0886773865

1.5 stars. This is one of Tanya Huff's very early novels. I'm a fan of her work, and this wasn't a bad book, but it's not my kind of urban fantasy story.

It started out promisingly, with an interesting set of heroes: a mentally disadvantaged young woman, a street musician, a bag lady, and a cat, of...

The Machine's Child

Author	Kage Baker
ISBN	0765315513

Kage Baker's trademark series of SF adventure continues now in a direct sequel to The Life of the World to Come. Mendoza was banished long ago, to a prison lost in time where rebellious immortals are "dealt with." Now her past lovers: Alec, Nicholas, and Bell-Fairfax, are determined to rescue her, but...