The Digging Leviathan
10 best books like The Digging Leviathan (James P. Blaylock): The Stars My Destination, The Windup Girl, Wanderers, Anathem, A Little Hatred, The Demolished Man, Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder, The Voices of Heaven, The Vikings, Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0679767800 |
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hit men—and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous...
| Author | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| ISBN | 1597801577 |
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...
Emiko is the Windup...
A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope.
Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she...
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 0061474096 |
Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and...
The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.
On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the...
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 1857988221 |
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder?
Ben Reichs heads a huge 24th century business empire, spanning the solar system. He is also an obsessed, driven man determined to murder a rival. To avoid capture, in a society where murderers can be detected...
| Author | Bonnie MacBird |
| ISBN | 0008201080 |
The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta. A beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts, kidnapping and dynamite on a whisky estate...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0312856431 |
Science Fiction. Humans have colonized the inhospitable world of Pava, but they still have to worry about budget cuts back on Earth and their own lack of resources. I've said it before, I will say it again. Pohl: excellent at science fiction; bad at people. His human characters spout cliched, boring...
| Author | Else Roesdahl |
| ISBN | 0140252827 |
Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. This encyclopedic study brings together...
Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America
| Author | Seth Abramson |
| ISBN | 1982116080 |
For the first time, the full, explosive record of the unthinkable: how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for financial gain and covert election assistance.
Looking back at this moment, historians will ask if Americans knew they were living through the first...
Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0679767835 |
Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than in these seventeen short stories—two of them previously unpublished—that...
