The Killing of Worlds
10 best books like The Killing of Worlds (Scott Westerfeld): The Golden Transcendence, Lazarus Rising, Three to Dorsai! (Necromancer, Tactics of Mistake, Dorsai!), David Falkayn: Star Trader, Relic of Empire, Grimmer Than Hell, The Hub: Dangerous Territory, Pandora's Legions, Between Darkness and Light, Privateer
| Author | John C. Wright |
| ISBN | 0765349086 |
Begun with The Golden Age, continued with The Phoenix Exultant, and now concluding in The Golden Transcendence, The Golden Age trilogy is Grand Space Opera, an SF adventure saga in the tradition of A. E. Van Gogt, Roger Zelazny and Cordwainer Smith. It is an astounding story of super-science, a thrilling...
The hugely popular Starfist saga featuring Marines at war in outer space is the only military science fiction series written by real combat vets: David Sherman and Dan Cragg. Now comes the explosive hardcover debut of this series–packed with hell-torn action and blazing adventure.
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Although these books fall into some of the trappings of Golden Era science fiction - few and stereotyped female characters being the most prominent - the overarching theme and development of particularly American yet Nietzschean ideas about human evolution makes for good reading. The first book...
1. Poul Anderson remains one of science fiction's most popular writers, and this generous volume of his best work, with wide-ranging themes and settings, will attract his thousands of fans and win him many new ones.
2. Included is a complete novel, Satan's World, and a number of equally...
| Author | W. Michael Gear |
| ISBN | 0886774926 |
Alternate-cover edition can be found here
The call to battle…
The Forbidden Borders, an unassailable gravity-powered barrier, confine rival human empires to a few star systems, leaving them to strive endlessly against one another for domination. Now the balance of power has...
A collection of David Drake short stories, including a couple of groups of related short stories. Many of the stories come from shared universe books, so it sometimes feels like only part of the story is included.
The quality of the stories is pretty good. None bad, none really outstanding....
| Author | James H. Schmitz |
| ISBN | 0671319841 |
The Federation of the Hub: thousands of rough, ornery and tough-minded human worlds with only the subtlest of governments holding them together. It's prime real estate for criminals, unscrupulous corporations, and invaders from beyond Federation space. But in Hub space, a citizen is expected to...
| Author | Christopher Anvil |
| ISBN | 0671318616 |
The aliens of Centra have won the war against Earth only to find that they are not clever enough to keep the peace.
The humans infiltrate all the military and political levels of Centran society. They end up fighting FOR the Centrans on far away planets.
Who is who?
"We took this stitching-gun...
Between Darkness and Light
I thought this was the last book of a 7 book series, but I came to the end and it didn't feel over. Looked at the author's website again and there is another book "under construction". "Shades of Gray".
Ok, I know I'm impatient when it comes to series books, but this book, number 7, came out in 2003....
| Author | James Doohan |
| ISBN | 0671319493 |
THESE SPACE PIRATES ARE THE GOOD GUYS! Peter Raeder was an ace pilot until a battle cost him his hand -- and his right to fly the fighter ships he loved. So he became Flight Engineer on the fast carrier "Invincible," a crack new ship with a picked crew, ready to fight the fanatical Mollies and their spiderlike...
| Author | Catherine Asaro |
| ISBN | 0765345579 |
The Birth of an Empire
Skyfall goes back to the very roots of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. But when he meets Roca, a beautiful and mysterious woman from...
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0812521757 |
It's not one of her strongest works, but I really like the world-building and the aliens, and the interaction between the aliens and the humans. There are lots of lovely touches like the description of food, too. It's also notable for showing same-gender relationships, written during a time when that...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345383753 |
The newly discovered planet of Senisran was a veritable paradise. Its vast oceans were dotted with thousands of lush islands containing vast deposits of rare-earths and minerals. But Senisran was also the Humanx Commonwealth's problem child, for each island was inhabited by a different tribe of...
| Author | Walter Jon Williams |
| ISBN | 0380820218 |
“Space opera the way it ought to be [...] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” -- George R.R. Martin
Following The Praxis, Walter Jon Williams’ critically-acclaimed mix of space opera and military science fiction,...
