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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5

10 best books like The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 (Jonathan Strahan): The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal, The Steel Remains, Schild's Ladder, Thirteen, The Bookseller, Permafrost, Perihelion Summer, Nightflyers, Ali: A Life, The Solar War

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
AuthorDavid E. Hoffman
ISBN0385537603
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War

While...
The Steel Remains
AuthorRichard K. Morgan
ISBN0575084812
A dark lord will rise. Such is the prophecy that dogs Ringil Eskiath—Gil, for short—a washed-up mercenary and onetime war hero whose cynicism is surpassed only by the speed of his sword. Gil is estranged from his aristocratic family, but when his mother enlists his help in freeing a cousin sold into...
Schild's Ladder
AuthorGreg Egan
Twenty thousand years into the future, an experiment in quantum physics has had a catastrophic result, creating an enormous, rapidly expanding vacuum that devours everything it comes in contact with. Now humans must confront this deadly expansion. Tchicaya, aboard a starship trawling the border...
Thirteen
AuthorRichard K. Morgan
ISBN0345485254
The future isn’t what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs–private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero–into the body-swapping, hard-boiled, urban jungle of tomorrow in Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies, winning...
The Bookseller
AuthorMark Pryor
ISBN1616147083
Max—an elderly Paris bookstall owner—is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Marston launches a search, enlisting the help of semiretired CIA agent Tom Green. Their investigation...
Permafrost
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.

2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch...
Perihelion Summer
AuthorGreg Egan
ISBN1250313783
Greg Egan's Perihelion Summer is a story of people struggling to adapt to a suddenly alien environment, and the friendships and alliances they forge as they try to find their way in a world where the old maps have lost their meaning.

Taraxippus is coming: a black hole one tenth the mass of the sun...
Nightflyers
AuthorGeorge R.R. Martin
ISBN0812545648
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.


Indistinguishable SF: "Nightflyers and Other Stories" by George R.R. Martin


Dragons have always been cool, Video games have always been cool, real ale has always been cool. (Union) Rugby has always been cool,...
Ali: A Life
AuthorJonathan Eig
ISBN0544435249
The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with unique access to Ali’s inner circle

He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us himself). Muhammad Ali was one of the twentieth...
The Solar War
AuthorJohn French
ISBN1784969265
After seven years of bitter war, the end has come at last for the conflict known infamously as the Horus Heresy. Terra now lies within the Warmaster’s sights, the Throneworld and the seat of his father’s rule. Horus’ desire is nothing less than the death of the Emperor of Mankind and the utter subjugation...
First Hand: My Life and Irish Football
AuthorEoin Hand
Eoin Hand's term as manager of the Republic of Ireland soccer team is often overshadowed by the glory days of Jack Charlton. If Charlton had good luck, Hand was all too familiar with its quarrelsome sibling: bad luck. This is the inside story of his time in football, from his start with Swindon Town at eighteen,...
The Pressure Game
AuthorKevin McStay
For the first time one of the top GAA managers in Ireland reveals the inside story of what it’s like to ‘Walk the Walk on a County Sideline’. Former Mayo Allstar footballer Kevin McStay gave up 20 years of working as a commentator and analyst on RTE’s ‘Sunday Game’ to take up the position of...
Even Heskey Scored: Emile Heskey, My Story
AuthorEmile Heskey
ISBN1785315005
The revealing autobiography of former footballer Emile Heskey. One of Leicester's favourite sons, he moved on from City to Liverpool in an £11 million deal, winning a total of eight trophies and over 60 England caps. Even Heskey Scored is the story of a largely unsung player, loved by his team-mates,...
The Solar War
AuthorA.G. Riddle
We thought the war was over.
We were wrong.

They decimated Earth during the Long Winter.
Now the grid has returned, and they won't stop until the human race is extinct.
On a ruined world, humanity's last survivors fight against impossible odds.
In their darkest hour, they...
Claws of the Panda: Beijing's Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada
AuthorJonathan Manthorpe
Claws of the Panda tells the story of Canada’s failure to construct a workable policy towards the People’s Republic of China. In particular the book tells of Ottawa’s failure to recognize and confront the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate and influence Canadian politics,...
Written in Fire
AuthorMarcus Sakey
The explosive conclusion to the bestselling Brilliance Trilogy

For thirty years humanity struggled to cope with the brilliants, the one percent of people born with remarkable gifts. For thirty years we tried to avoid a devastating civil war.

We failed.

The White House...
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