The Deceivers
10 best books like The Deceivers (Alfred Bester): The Ballad of Black Tom, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, This Immortal, The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories, The Chicago Manual of Style, Morvern Callar, Across the Sea of Suns, The Variable Man and Other Stories, Chanur's Homecoming
| Author | Victor LaValle |
| ISBN | 0765387867 |
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.
Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case...
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 1534308466 |
The first original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE FADE OUT and FATALE.
Teenage Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts, those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and pills have been an obsession since the death of her junkie...
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld
| Author | David E. Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0520215621 |
Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong—more than four times the size of the American Mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0671698486 |
Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Commissioner, he's been given a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a guided tour of the shattered remains of Earth is not something he relishes- especially when it is apparent that this places...
| Author | Nicholas Gurewitch |
| ISBN | 1593078447 |
There's a theory about the instigation of the French Revolution -- and I'm not saying I ascribe to it, but I certainly am enamored of it -- that there was so little knowledge of food science that wheat and other grains were stored without regard for safety or preservation. So much of the grain used for baking...
| Author | University of Chicago Press |
| ISBN | 0226104036 |
The 15th edition of
The Chicago Manual of Style
has been superseded by the 17th edition.
In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet,...
Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0446611565 |
In 2021, radio astronomy on the Moon reveals the presence of life by a nearby red dwarf, on a tide-locked planet.[1] To investigate, Earth's governments convert a space colony into Lancer, a Bussard ramjet powered interstellar ship based on the design of a crashed alien ship discovered in the Mare Marginis....
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0722129629 |
Billed as a complete novel along with a selection of shorts, The Variable Man itself is more of a novella these days. A man is pulled accidentally from his own time into the 22nd century where his very existence is a variable factor that the computers planning the war against Centarus can't plan for.
This...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0886771773 |
The epic conclusion to the Hugo Award-nominated saga begins as alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching...
