The Flight of the Horse

10 best books like The Flight of the Horse (Larry Niven): Seven Blades in Black, Crystal Singer, More Than Human, Velocity Weapon, The Vor Game, Buying Time, Nightfall and Other Stories, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, Tales of Ten Worlds, Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen

Seven Blades in Black
AuthorSam Sykes
Sam Sykes returns with a new fantasy that introduces to an unforgettable outcast magician caught between two warring empires.

Among humans, none have power like mages. And among mages, none have will like Sal the Cacophony. Once revered, now vagrant, she walks a wasteland scarred by generations...
Crystal Singer
AuthorAnne McCaffrey
ISBN0345327861
I read this book as a youth and loved it, but reading it now at age 45 it does not quite hold the same appeal. I see a woman that is hell-bent on remaining without attachments. She is very bright and talented, but remains aloof emotionally (the come-and-go sexual relationships), socially, psychologically...
AuthorTheodore Sturgeon
ISBN0375703713
There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine...
Velocity Weapon
AuthorMegan E. O'Keefe
Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in Velocity Weapon, the first book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe.

Sanda and Biran Greeve were siblings destined for greatness. A high-flying sergeant, Sanda has the skills to take down...
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
ISBN0671720147
A buddy read with Choko and Maria.

Miles Vorkosigan graduated from the Military Academy despite his handicap. He hoped for a decent assignment, but his superiors thought he had an insubordination problem, so they decided a good way to fix it is to assign him to a remote place which in this case...
AuthorJoe Haldeman
ISBN0380704390
In the 21st century, immortality via the complex operation known as the Stileman Process is attainable by a few wealthy and determined individuals, but the motivations that drive humans to live forever remain shrouded in mystery until "immortals" Dallas Barr and Maria Marconi stumble across a dangerous...
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0345310918
A collection of early Asimov short stories, showcasing the development of the author's oeuvre. The title comes from Asimov's breakthrough short story.

CONTENTS:
Nightfall - Astounding, Sept 1941
Green Patches - Galaxy, Nov 1950
Hostess - Galaxy, May 1951
Breeds There...
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0586043985
Buy Jupiter is a collection of short stories that vary both in style and quality. The book contains quite a few stories (24 in total), covering around 20 years of Asimov's short story writing (1950-1972). Moreover, this edition contains some autobiographical writing. Every short story is followed...
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN0575074965
Fifteen stories by "our ablest practitioner of science fiction," ranging from the sinister rescue of a Sputnik and the Pacific to startling and amusing adventures on the moon, in a comet's tail, on Mars and Venus, and the rings of Saturn, and on the asteroid Icarus only seventeen million miles from the...
Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
AuthorMarjorie M. Liu
ISBN1534313362
Maika and Corvin make their way through a warped and lethal land in search of Kippa, who is faced with her own terrible monsters. But when Maika comes face-to-face with a stranger from her deep past, startling truths are uncovered, and at the center of it all lurks a dangerous conspiracy that threatens...
Sunbird
AuthorNeil Gaiman
I got this book, 239 of 1000, together with the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab scent with the same name. I love BPAL, I like what I've read from Gaiman until now, so when these came up on eBay with a buy-now prize I could afford (there are advantages of living in Europe, most US based people don't look at European...
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