The Last Defender of Camelot
10 best books like The Last Defender of Camelot (Roger Zelazny): Bill, The Galactic Hero, The Stress of Her Regard, Phule's Company, Armor, Orphanage, The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories, Tangents, The Parafaith War, Redliners, Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0743487079 |
It was the highest honor to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn't interested in honor-he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria...
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 0441790976 |
When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom.
Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey...
WIllard Phule is the heir to a super-rich munitions company, and also an officer in the Legion. Unfortunately he gets a little too gung-ho during a peace treaty, and catches the ire of his higher-ups. They can't court-martial him, so instead they try to get him to quit by shipping him off to a remote swamp...
| Author | John Steakley |
| ISBN | 0886773687 |
Alternate cover edition can be found here.
The military sci-fi classic in a striking new package
Felix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armor designed to withstand Earth's most implacable enemy-a bioengineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with...
| Author | Robert Buettner |
| ISBN | 0446614297 |
Military Science Fiction for the Rest of Us
Brief Synopsis:
The story starts with Jason Wander, a somewhat misguided youth with two options: join the military or go to jail. Enter the devastation caused by the alien race later termed as "the slugs." The story follows Wander and his exploits...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0839824335 |
4.5 stars. The title story is without a doubt one of grandmaster Poul Anderson's best shorter works, having won Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in 1971/2. This is a beautifully written story of a furtive, indigenous people on an alien planet recently colonized by humans. The humans are seemingly unaware...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 1857989791 |
Multi-award winning author Greg Bear established himself as the most ambitious & imaginative of the potential successors to Arthur C. Clarke with his bestselling space operas Eon & Eternity. Tangents is his 1st collection of short stories & includes two tales that won both Hugo &...
| Author | L.E. Modesitt Jr. |
| ISBN | 0812538943 |
Some bad ideas go back a long way and this one goes all the way back to the original home planet: Someone's god told them they had a right to more territory--so they figure they can take what they want by divine right. In the far future among the colonized worlds of the galaxy there's a war going on between the...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0671877895 |
”Redliners is possibly the best thing I’ve written. It’s certainly the most important thing, both to me personally and to the audience I particularly care about: the veterans, the people who’ve been there, wherever ‘there’ happened to be.
Having said that, Redliners isn’t a book...
Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
| Author | Bill Plotkin |
| ISBN | 1577314220 |
For millennia, ceremonies and initiation rites have helped societies survive and thrive by marking life transitions. In contemporary America, except for bar mitzvahs, graduations, and weddings, these rituals are conspicuous by their absence. Written for people in search of their true selves--particularly...
The Problem of the Puer Aeternus
| Author | Marie-Louise von Franz |
| ISBN | 0919123880 |
The Latin term puer aeternus means eternal youth. In Jungian psychology it is used to describe a certain type of man - charming, affectionate, creative and ever in pursuit of his dreams. These are the men who remain adolescent well into their adult years, generally full of life yet strangely draining...
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
| Author | Francis Weller |
| ISBN | 1583949755 |
Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective...
A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace of Wildness
| Author | Martin Shaw |
| ISBN | 1935952013 |
A BRANCH FROM THE LIGHTNING TREE is centered around several key elements:
1.It features four texts and commentaries -- Welsh, Russian, Siberian and Norwegian myths that explore the process of leaving what is considered safe and predictable and journeying out into wild, uncertain areas of nature...
| Author | Jack McDevitt |
| ISBN | 1481497979 |
After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact—which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series.
After...
