The Green Odyssey
10 best books like The Green Odyssey (Philip José Farmer): The Sheltering Sky, Noble House, Barrayar, Scaramouche, The Tripods Trilogy, Glory Road, Mr. Midshipman Easy, City at World's End, The Night of the Long Knives, A History of Warfare
| Author | Paul Bowles |
| ISBN | 0141023422 |
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa, The Sheltering Sky is at once...
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The tai-pan, Ian Dunross, struggles to rescue Struan's from the precarious financial position left by his predecessor. To do this, he seeks partnership with an American millionaire, while trying to ward off his arch-rival Quillan...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| ISBN | 0743468414 |
4+ stars. Barrayar--a Hugo winner and Nebula nominee back in 1991--is a book that improved dramatically for me on reread. It's more interesting, subtle and complex than I initially gave it credit for. And it's fascinating to see the development of Cordelia and Aral's characters from their initial...
| Author | Rafael Sabatini |
| ISBN | 0451527976 |
“Last Wednesday he had been engaged in moving an audience of Rennes to anger; on this Wednesday he was to move an audience of Guichen to mirth...”
Once he was André-Louis Moreau, a lawyer raised by nobility, unconcerned with the growing discontent among France’s lower class—until...
| Author | John Christopher |
| ISBN | 0020425716 |
Long ago the Tripods, gigantic three-legged machines, descended upon Earth and took control. They used "Caps," administered ceremoniously near each child's 14th birthday, to control humans' brains and keep them docile. Now there is pleasant life in villages, little technology, and no war--but...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0765312220 |
E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him:
"ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years...
| Author | Frederick Marryat |
| ISBN | 1404353879 |
A timelesss tale of a midshipman's rise in Nelson's navy.
Widely regarded as Marryat's best work, Mr. Midshipman Easy is based on the author's adventures sailing with Lord Thomas Cochrane. This classic seafaring tale is a fascinating account of naval life and warfare, of French prisons and...
Written near the dawn of the Cold War era and soon after mankind first became aware of the fearful possibilities of the atom bomb, "City at World's End" yet remains both highly readable and grippingly entertaining today, more than 65 years after its initial appearance. Edmond Hamilton's book initially...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1604596651 |
Last weekend I stumbled across a number of public domain sci-fi books on Amazon. Fritz Leiber had several titles available, with this one being one the more provocatively titled. (I thought it was going to be some sort of sci-fi Nazi thing.) As it turned out, the story (a novella of about 90 pages or so)...
| Author | John Keegan |
| ISBN | 0679730826 |
Brilliant. A cultural history of war from antiquity to the present day in a single volume. Keegan starts with the symbolic forms of war among the so called "primitives," including those from the neolithic, using much archaeological evidence to do so. He then moves on to the advent of the chariot by the...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 1585673919 |
Jimmy Pitt, wealthy English world traveller, bets he can burgle a house that night, and luckily red-headed ragged Spike Mullins (full of Cockney thief cant) sneaks into his flat, and offers the destination of grafting New York Police Captain McEachern. Still dreaming of the first-class dark-haired...
