The Black Star Passes
10 best books like The Black Star Passes (John W. Campbell Jr.): The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, Goldfinger, Dandelion Wine, The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, The First Book of Swords, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War, The Ghost Pirates, City at World's End, The People of the Abyss
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0684862212 |
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection...
| Author | Ian Fleming |
| ISBN | 0142002046 |
Auric Goldfinger is the richest man in England—though his wealth can’t be found in banks. He’s been hoarding vast stockpiles of his namesake metal, and it’s attracted the suspicion of 007’s superiors at MI6. Sent to investigate, Bond uncovers an ingenious gold-smuggling scheme, as well...
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0671037706 |
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0441004229 |
Contains the 1st 3 Stainless Steel Rat books:
The Stainless Steel Rat (1961): DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes & recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised...
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
| Author | John A. Nagl |
| ISBN | 0226567702 |
Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl—a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the current conflict in Iraq—considers the now-crucial question of how armies adapt to changing circumstances...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0812523563 |
The gods decide to devise a Game of great fun: their colleague Vulcan forges 12 magic Swords, each with a different power, and scatters them across the world. Play begins in grand and gloriously violent fashion as Swords are gathered and used to control chance, enhance fortune, and change destiny. The...
The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legend—but Homer’s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a debilitating, waning ten-year campaign. The story’s focus is not on drama but on a bitter truth: both armies want nothing more than to stop fighting and go home....
| Author | William Hope Hodgson |
| ISBN | 1421925818 |
"The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its...
Written near the dawn of the Cold War era and soon after mankind first became aware of the fearful possibilities of the atom bomb, "City at World's End" yet remains both highly readable and grippingly entertaining today, more than 65 years after its initial appearance. Edmond Hamilton's book initially...
| Author | Jack London |
| ISBN | 1598189735 |
From the author's preface: "The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the underworld of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was open to be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who...
The Second Book of Swords
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0812519345 |
I really enjoyed this book. It's like a heist movie but in an epic fantasy setting, and it's quite a refreshing change from all the newer fantasy novels that seem to follow the same basic formulaic plot.
The second book picks up the story five years later, and we get to follow Mark, Ben, and Barbara...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0708881513 |
The third and final novel in 'The Book of Swords' trilogy.
More stories of the twelve Swords continue with the Lost Swords series.
The gods, the creators of the twelve Swords, realize their error in giving powerful Swords to humans. The humans, both good and evil, are ready to fight to the...
