The Golden Torc
10 best books like The Golden Torc (Julian May): The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die, Araminta Station, The Summer Queen, Helliconia Winter, Children of the Lens, The Neutronium Alchemist 1: Consolidation, Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold, The Wild, The Walrus And The Warwolf, The Dark Design
| Author | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| ISBN | 0553071807 |
If you can't stand violence, horrible people and or anything unpleasant do not even think of touching these books. They will utterly repulse you, and probably scar you for life.
But they are fantastic.
The Gap series, spanning five novels is a saga of abhorrent charters, deep space...
The planet Cadwal is forever set aside as a natural perserve, owned and administered by the Naturalist Society of Earth, and inhabited by a very limited number of skilled human scientists and their families. But this system has been complicated by the passing centuries, and has become a byzantine culture...
| Author | Joan D. Vinge |
| ISBN | 0765304465 |
Sequel To The Hugo Award-Winning Bestseller The Snow Queen
The Summer Queen is the extraordinary sequel to one of science fiction's most celebrated novels, The Snow Queen. Set in a fully realized universe of wonders, this spectacular space epic, itself a finalist for the Hugo Award, is one...
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0743445163 |
This is the final volume of the Helliconia Trilogy -- a monumental saga that goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. The centuries-long winter of the Great Year on Helliconia is upon us, and the Oligarch is taking harsh measures to ensure the survival of the...
It was beginning to look as if no one could prevent the destruction of the Universe. For a strange intelligence was directing the destruction of all civilization from the icy depths of space.
Kim Kinnison of the Patrol was one of the few men who knew how near the end was. And in the last desperate...
| Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0446605174 |
0 star (rounded to 1 for unfortunate technical reasons).
Peter Hamilton is to science-fiction what the Marquis de Sade is to erotism: thousands of pages, hundreds of cartoonish characters (reduced to toys playing the situations), repetitive situations ad nauseam (but always described...
| Author | Jack L. Chalker |
| ISBN | 0345311221 |
Grand Scam
Robots were infiltrating the Federation. Someone was kidnapping people and substituting indetectable, synthetic imitations. Somewhere, aliens were studying the Federation, using techniques beyond human developments. The trail led back to Cerberus and the Lord who ruled...
| Author | David Zindell |
| ISBN | 0006497128 |
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| Author | Hugh Cook |
| ISBN | 0552133272 |
Swordsmith's apprentice Drake Douay is sentenced to death by drowning for vandalism and destruction of property. As Drake is swimming back to shore, he chances upon Zanya, a red skinned, red haired beauty, and decides he'll do anything to get into her knickers. Can two ships of pirates, revolution,...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0345419693 |
Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought--all since the dead of Earth found themselves resurrected in their magnificent new homeworld. Yet the truth about the Ethicals, the powerful engineers of this mysterious "afterlife," remains unknown....
| Author | David Wingrove |
| ISBN | 0440217555 |
A dying old man's dreams warn the Seven T'Ang that a fierce storm is approaching...so dark, so deadly it can destroy a world. Not even the T'ang, rulers of the magnificent mile-high city-kingdoms of the planet, can predict from where the danger will come. As assassins spread outward to a fortified palace...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0712618163 |
There is a song you dare not sing - a melody that you dare not play, a concerto that you dare not hear: It is called a Song of Power. It is a gateway to another world - a gate that will lock behind you as you pass, barring you from the Earth forever. Resist at all cost. For it is a world of great danger and great beauty...
