The Callahan Chronicals
10 best books like The Callahan Chronicals (Spider Robinson): Before Mars, Sharpe's Company, To Be Taught, If Fortunate, The Last, Have Space Suit—Will Travel (Heinlein's Juveniles, #12), Falling Free, Vessel, Redemption's Blade, Atlas Alone, After Atlas
After months of travel, Anna Kubrin finally arrives on Mars for her new job as a geologist and de facto artist-in-residence. Already she feels like she is losing the connection with her husband and baby at home on Earth--and she'll be on Mars for over a year. Throwing herself into her work, she tries her...
| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0451213424 |
Number 13 in the Richard Sharpe series.
The siege of Badajoz from January to April 1812.
Of all the conflicts during the Peninsular Wars the taking of Badajoz by the British army was right up there in acts of great heroism. But sadly the acts of rape and pillage done at the hands of the victorious...
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
| Author | Becky Chambers |
| ISBN | 0062936018 |
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.
Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel,...
| Author | Katherine Applegate |
Byx is the youngest member of her dairne pack. Believed to possess remarkable abilities, her mythical doglike species has been hunted to near extinction in the war-torn kingdom of Nedarra.
After her pack is hunted down and killed, Byx fears she may be the last of her species. The Endling. So...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 1416505490 |
My first Robert A. Heinlein work read and still one of my favorites.
Heinlein produced his juvenile books for Charles Scribner's Sons mainly in the 1950s and these were what many consider to be some of his finest work. I’ve always thought that the period between 1957 and 1966 was his zenith,...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
Leo Graf was an effective engineer. Safety regs weren't just the rule book he swore by; he'd helped write them. All that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was profoundly uneasy with the corporate exploitation of his bright new students... until that exploitation turned to something...
| Author | Lisa A. Nichols |
| ISBN | 1501168770 |
An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story…. A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian.
After Catherine Wells’s ship experiences...
Ten years ago, the renegade demigod known as the Kinslayer returned. His armies of monsters issued from the pits of the earth, spearheaded by his brutal Yorughan soldiers. He won every battle, leaving burnt earth and corruption behind. Thrones toppled and cities fell as he drove all before him. And...
| Author | Emma Newman |
| ISBN | 0399587357 |
Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about vengeance, and a woman deciding if she can become a murderer to save the future of humanity.
Six months after she left Earth, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the...
| Author | Emma Newman |
| ISBN | 0425282406 |
Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man’s murder is much more than it seems...
Govcorp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But...
