The Iron Dream
10 best books like The Iron Dream (Norman Spinrad): The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Camp Concentration, The Difference Engine, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944, Eye in the Sky, Mindswap, The Dead Mountaineer's Inn, The Hammer of God, The Chain of Chance, Feuer und Blut: Ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus einer großen Schlacht
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1407247425 |
Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book - SF: 100 Best Novels
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer...
| Author | Thomas M. Disch |
| ISBN | 0375705457 |
Flowers for Algernon has become a minor classic, and, thanks to the movie, even people who haven't read it often know the story. Poor Charlie Gordon is given an operation which turns him from a mentally subnormal dishwasher into a genius, but the treatment turns out to be flawed. It's a great weepie, and...
1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the...
| Author | Antony Beevor |
| ISBN | 0670918660 |
The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian
On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1400030102 |
While sightseeing at the Belmont Bevatron, Jack Hamilton, along with seven others, is caught in a lab accident. When he regains consciousness, he is in a fantasy world of Old Testament morality gone awry—a place of instant plagues, immediate damnations, and death to all perceived infidels. Hamilton...
| Author | Robert Sheckley |
| ISBN | 0765315602 |
In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which your consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien...
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at the remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. He’s there to ski, drink brandy, and loaf around in blissful solitude.
But he hadn’t counted on the other vacationers, an eccentric bunch including...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 1857231945 |
"Entertaining. . .[Clark] handles both ideas and characters with deftness and wit; in short, the outstanding living science fiction writers is romping".-- "Chicago Sun-Times". In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, an amateur astronomer...
| Author | Stanisław Lem |
| ISBN | 0810117304 |
Written in the style of a detective novel, The Chain of Chance is classic Lem: a combination of action, hard science, and philosophical investigation. An ex-astronaut is hired to look into the death of several wealthy businessmen. The authorities suspect a pattern, but neither the police nor a supercomputer...
Feuer und Blut: Ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus einer großen Schlacht
Ernst Jünger was a decorated German soldier and author who became famous for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. The son of a successful businessman and chemist, Jünger rebelled against an affluent upbringing and sought adventure in the Wandervogel, before running away to briefly serve in the...
Accidental space adventurer Cal Carver has had a rough few months. He's fought spider-dragons, battled space clowns, and been repeatedly tortured by the galaxy's oldest assassin.
And don't even get him started on the squirrel-tits.
Now all that's behind him, Cal just wants to kick...
Hap and Leonard investigate a racially motivated murder that threatens to tear apart their East Texas town.
While Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, is recovering from a life-threatening stab wound, Louise Elton comes into Hap and Leonard's PI office to tell...
Featuring unexpected stabbings, maniacal puppets, and a dog with a head like a testicle, Space Team: The Hunt for Reduk Topa is the twelfth book in the Space Team series, and the perfect jumping on point for new readers.
Sick of the stress, aggravation, and multiple genocides they've had to...
| Author | David Lynch |
| ISBN | 0571220185 |
David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape in 1977 with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original and imaginative directors at work in contemporary cinema. Over the course of his career, he has remained true to a vision of the innocent lost in darkness and confusion, balancing...
Phoenix, Vol. 6: Nostalgia
| Author | Osamu Tezuka |
| ISBN | 1421502585 |
Considered by many the peak of Osamu Tezuka's artistic achievement and called his "life work" by the author, PHOENIX is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guarden of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating...
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Ingen av dem anar det mossgröna mörkret som närmar sig, som bäddar in deras hus och plötsligt förvandlar dem till...
Camp Scoundrel: Doing what it takes to survive paradise
When ex-SAS soldier, Michael Purdy, comes in front of the judge for hacking the bank account belonging to the Minister for Invalidity Benefits and wiping out his personal wealth, he braces himself for a prison sentence.
What Michael doesn’t expect, is to be put in charge of a group of offenders...
Phoenix, Vol. 7: Civil War, Part 1
| Author | Osamu Tezuka |
| ISBN | 1421505177 |
Considered by many the peak of Osamu Tezuka's artistic achievement and called his "life work" by the author, PHOENIX is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guarden of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating...
