The Blue World
10 best books like The Blue World (Jack Vance): The Anubis Gates, Plotted: A Literary Atlas, Bill, The Galactic Hero, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Embassytown, The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Prestige, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Bowl of Heaven, Inversions
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 0441004016 |
Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency...
| Author | Andrew DeGraff |
| ISBN | 1936976862 |
This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps - all inspired by literary classics - offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice,...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0743487079 |
It was the highest honor to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn't interested in honor-he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria...
Tales of Ordinary Madness
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0872861554 |
Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski...
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345524497 |
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space...
The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt
| Author | Andrea Wulf |
| ISBN | 1524747378 |
From the
New York Times
bestselling author of
The Invention of Nature
, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0312858868 |
In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.
Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences....
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0813519772 |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find is Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0765328410 |
In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space:...
On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king, despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies to...
| Author | J.E. Mooney |
| ISBN | 0765334585 |
Perhaps no living author of imaginative fiction has earned the awards, accolades, respect, and literary reputation of Gene Wolfe. His prose has been called subtle and brilliant, inspiring not just lovers of fantasy and science fiction, but readers of every stripe, transcending genre and defying...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0345325214 |
Prolific Grand Master Poul Anderson earned his place of honor within the hallowed halls of science fiction’s best and brightest. His work may not be as engagingly readable as Asimov, or as accessibly impactful as Clarke. He was never as politically-minded as Heinlein and his prose is not as slick...
I realize that I just wrote a review in which I kind of slammed Grant Morrison (see my review for “Final Crisis”), but the truth is, I still kind of like him, especially his non-DC stuff. In particular, I have grown fond of a little series he wrote in the late-80s for the British comic book 2000 A.D. (known...
| Author | Jonathan Strahan |
| ISBN | 1781083800 |
Continuing the award-nominated SF anthology series from multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.
The world we are living in is changing every day. We surf future shock every morning when we get out of bed. And with every passing day we are increasingly asked: how do we have to change...
| Author | Tony Ballantyne |
| ISBN | 0230738605 |
This was a great read! The setting was rather unique, I have never read a book in which all the main characters are robots. It was interesting to read about how they thought and what they fought over or about. There was certainly enough going on to keep me interested all the way through, and I had a hard time...
Here are strange, beautiful stories covering the full spectrum of the late Roger Zelazny's remarkable talents. In Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, Zelazny's rare ability to mix the dream-like, disturbing imagery of fantasy with the real-life hardware of science fiction is on full display....
