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10 best books like The Adversary (Julian May): The Legacy of Heorot, The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die, Araminta Station, The Morgaine Saga, Children of the Lens, The Neutronium Alchemist 1: Consolidation, The White Mountain, The Wordsmiths and the Warguild, The Clan of the Cats, Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold

The Legacy of Heorot
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...
The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die
AuthorStephen R. Donaldson
ISBN0553071807
If you can't stand violence, horrible people and or anything unpleasant do not even think of touching these books. They will utterly repulse you, and probably scar you for life.

But they are fantastic.

The Gap series, spanning five novels is a saga of abhorrent charters, deep space...
Araminta Station
AuthorJack Vance
The planet Cadwal is forever set aside as a natural perserve, owned and administered by the Naturalist Society of Earth, and inhabited by a very limited number of skilled human scientists and their families. But this system has been complicated by the passing centuries, and has become a byzantine culture...
The Morgaine Saga
AuthorC.J. Cherryh
ISBN0886778778
The Chronicles of Morgaine is one of the tattiest, most worn out and dogeared books on my shelf - I own a 1986 edition of this and it has survived about six house moves, numerous car-boot-sale culls and a protracted period in a cardboard box in a loft during the 1990's - and it is probably the most read of my...
Children of the Lens
AuthorE.E. "Doc" Smith
It was beginning to look as if no one could prevent the destruction of the Universe. For a strange intelligence was directing the destruction of all civilization from the icy depths of space.

Kim Kinnison of the Patrol was one of the few men who knew how near the end was. And in the last desperate...
The Neutronium Alchemist 1: Consolidation
AuthorPeter F. Hamilton
ISBN0446605174
0 star (rounded to 1 for unfortunate technical reasons).

Peter Hamilton is to science-fiction what the Marquis de Sade is to erotism: thousands of pages, hundreds of cartoonish characters (reduced to toys playing the situations), repetitive situations ad nauseam (but always described...
The White Mountain
AuthorDavid Wingrove
ISBN0440213568
A towering world-city covers almost every acre of  every continent. Seven high-tech fiefdoms, ruled  by seven lords united in unimaginable power. But  now the wheel is broken. the Seven are divided at  last. Armed rebellion has broken out in Chung  Kuo's few remaining open spaces;...
The Wordsmiths and the Warguild
AuthorHugh Cook
While on the run from an arranged marriage, Togura Poulaan accidentally kills a monster and is mistaken for a great hero. The Wordsmiths, an organization of wizards, send him on a quest to solve the mystery of the Odex, a shiny disc that seems to be a magical treasure chest, frequently vomiting forth treasure,...
The Clan of the Cats
AuthorRobert Adams
ISBN0451152298
THE HUNTER

When Milo Morai, the Undying High Lord, and his Horseclans warriors found the tower ruins, they welcomed it as the perfect citadel from which to hold off the packs of ravenous wolves eager for their blood. But the ancient building hid a secret far more dangerous than either wolves...
Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold
AuthorJack L. Chalker
ISBN0345311221
Grand Scam

Robots were infiltrating the Federation. Someone was kidnapping people and substituting indetectable, synthetic imitations. Somewhere, aliens were studying the Federation, using techniques beyond human developments. The trail led back to Cerberus and the Lord who ruled...
Hidden in Sight
AuthorJulie E. Czerneda
ISBN0756401399
Picco’s Moon was where it all began for Esen-alit-Quar, Youngest of Ersh’s Web. It was here where Ersh, the Oldest, had chosen to make her home; here, too, where Esen received her early training as a shapeshifter and a member of the Web.

When Ersh’s Web was destroyed, Esen and her human...
The Wild
AuthorDavid Zindell
ISBN0006497128
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The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped
AuthorSheri S. Tepper
ISBN0441240925
There were seven cities in the Chasm. built to cling to the great cliff wall, woven into the massive roots of the flattrees! Once there had been eight cities - but the eighth had disappeared one night, fallen into the chaem's mysterious depths. No one hadever ventured to the bottom of the chasm. No one had...
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