The Jupiter Theft
10 best books like The Jupiter Theft (Donald Moffitt): The Second Sleep, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats, The Shrinking Man, Through Darkest America, Third Reich Victorious: Alternative Decisions of World War II, The Lost Ten, Red Hammer 1994, World Engines: Destroyer, Red Phoenix Burning
All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is.
1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones –...
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
| Author | Andrew Sean Greer |
| ISBN | 0062213849 |
1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the break up with her long-time lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives...
I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats
| Author | Francesco Marciuliano |
| ISBN | 1452110581 |
Cat lovers will laugh out loud at the quirkiness of their feline friends with these insightful and curious poems from the singular minds of housecats.
In this hilarious book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, the author of the internationally syndicated comic strip Sally Forth helps cats unlock...
| Author | Richard Matheson |
| ISBN | 0575074639 |
While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the...
| Author | Neal Barrett Jr. |
| ISBN | 0373303025 |
Post Apocalypse America...
Bluevale was about all Howie had seen of the world. Even his Pa, who knew everything, didn’t know much about the way it was before the war.
Scriptures said all of the unclean animals had been wiped out. Howie didn’t know what that meant exactly. He’d seen...
Third Reich Victorious: Alternative Decisions of World War II
Very much a mixed bag of alternative histories. Some, such as Hitler becoming a naval advocate after an impossible rise to (navy)officership in World War One are laughable. The scenario in which Hitler gets the bomb, uses it and then the plucky Allies continue to wage war as if nothing happened is ridiculous....
A desperate rescue attempt deep behind enemy lines . . . this nail-biting adventure has all the hard-edged appeal of the Bravo Two Zero mission.
When Valens, a junior officer in the Roman Army, joins a crack squad of soldiers on a dangerous mission, little does he know what's in store for him....
In the fall of 1993, Russia’s October revolution left the Ultra-nationalists in charge of a collapsing economy and a desperate people. With a disintegrating infrastructure and wounded pride, the Russian president makes a bold move to confront the United States. Red Hammer 1994 is an exciting military...
Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accident. As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins to realise that their history does not match...
| Author | Larry Bond |
| ISBN | 1519635389 |
North Korea has one of the world’s largest standing armies, capable of unleashing a massive arsenal of chemical and nuclear weapons. With an unstable government, under absolute dictator Kim Jong-un, North Korea more closely resembles an organized crime ring than a real nation-state. Millions...
