The Hacker and the Ants
10 best books like The Hacker and the Ants (Rudy Rucker): The Damnation Game, Dragonsdawn, Dragon's Kin, R.U.R., Prelude to Foundation, The Windup Girl, Revelation Space, Forward the Foundation, The Woods Are Dark, False Memory
| Author | Clive Barker |
| ISBN | 0425188930 |
There are things worse than death. There are games so seductively evil, so wondrously vile, no gambler can resist. Amid the shadow-scarred rubble of World War II, Joseph Whitehead dared to challenge the dark champion of life’s ultimate game. Now a millionaire, locked in a terror-shrouded fortress...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0893662135 |
The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists - until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Suddenly deadly spores were falling like silver threads from the sky, devouring everything - and everyone - in their path. It began to look as if the colony, cut off from Earth and lacking...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0345462009 |
Beginning with the classic Dragonriders of Pern, Anne McCaffrey has created a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great telepathic dragons. Millions of devoted readers have soared on the glittering wings of Anne’s imagination, following book by book the evolution of one...
| Author | Karel Čapek |
| ISBN | 0486419266 |
R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot." Mass-produced, efficient and servile labor, Čapek's Robots remember everything, but lack creative thought, and the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning. When the Robots revolt,...
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would...
| 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...
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0441009425 |
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal,...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0553565079 |
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Here, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring...
| Author | Richard Laymon |
| ISBN | 0747235503 |
This is the first book I've read by the author, and it was pretty good, if a little insane. Okay, more than a little insane.
There are so many crazy people in this book - it was difficult to determine who was the craziest, though I think it was Lander Dills.
A pair of back-packers; Neala and...
| Author | Dean Koontz |
| ISBN | 0553580221 |
I really enjoyed False Memory, perhaps not as much as some of Koontz' more traditional works of fiction, though. It's a powerful, eerie and deeply psychological novel in nature, sure to impress many horror fans, but its characters were very conventional and aside from a few great page-turning moments,...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0517287773 |
In Anne McCaffrey's New York Times bestselling DRAGONSEYE,
join Weyrleaders, Holders, and Craftmasters in the creation of the legendary Star Stones and the teaching ballads of Pern!
It's been two-hundred years since the deadly Thread fell like rain upon Pern, devouring everything...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0345480309 |
For millions of readers the world over, the name Pern is magical, conjuring up grand vistas of a distant planet whose blue skies are patrolled by brave dragons and their noble riders, a paradise threatened by the periodic fall of deadly Thread. But not all dangers descend from the skies. Now, in their...
They said it could never happen - that the day would never come.
They were wrong.
Five years post-collapse, former Texas Ranger Lucas Shaw is surviving hardscrabble in a kill-or-be-killed wasteland. When an enigmatic young woman enters his life with a desperate plea, Lucas must...
After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley
| Author | Rob Reid |
| ISBN | 1524798053 |
The definitive novel of today’s Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much...
Critically acclaimed bestselling author, Matt Shaw - #1 bestseller in Horror Fiction with hundreds of 5 star reviews - brings you: A Suburban Haunting.
When Craig's uncle passes away, he didn't shed a tear. The pair hadn't spoken for a couple of years now after a family row and - with that in mind...
WARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREME HORROR NOVEL. There is gore. There is bad language. There are scenes of a sexual nature.
PORN tells the tragic tale of Victoria Sheldon - a young lady who wanted nothing more than to become an actress. With times being hard Victoria finds herself in the world of Adult...
Critically acclaimed bestselling author, Matt Shaw - #1 bestseller in Horror Fiction with hundreds of 5 star reviews - teams up with the equally talented and disturbing author, Ryan Harding, in this gruesome tale of revenge and justice
If you have ever been cheated on, you know how much it hurts....
| Author | Todd McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0593053613 |
In Dragon’s Kin, bestselling author Anne McCaffrey did the unthinkable: for the first time ever, she invited another writer to join her in the skies of her most famous fictional creation. That writer was her son, Todd McCaffrey. Together, they penned a triumphant new chapter in the annals of the extraordinarily...
