The Malacia Tapestry
10 best books like The Malacia Tapestry (Brian W. Aldiss): 2010: Odyssey Two, The Inverted World, The Separation, Gods of Risk, The Glamour, A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, The Star Fox, The Psycho-technic League, The Earth Book of Stormgate, The Vital Abyss
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345413970 |
Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft--to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong...and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.
Without...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0060134216 |
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city & carefully removed in its wake. Rivers & mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move,...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 1882968336 |
Christopher Priest excels at rethinking SF themes, lifting them above genre expectations into his own tricky, chilling, metaphysically dangerous territory. The Separation suggests an alternate history lying along a road not taken in World War II. But there are complications. In 1999, history...
As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen-year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for a place at the university, David leads a secret life as a manufacturer for a ruthless drug dealer. When his friend...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0575075791 |
Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. When Susan...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0812522257 |
Raconteur, bon vivant, troubleshooter for the decaying Terran Empire, Dominic Falndry doesn't crave further danger in the service of galactic unity.
But duty calls, so it's back to the spaceways for the most elegant Special Agent is a hundred star systems--straight into the well-laid plans...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0586026312 |
No one will believe the truth about the ingenious plot of the Aleriona people to claim title to the almost untouched planet - New Europe. Only Gunnar Heim dares risk his life and interplantary peace to set New Europe free from control of these strange and alien beings. A space-age patriot carves a civilization...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0812530594 |
A collection of Psychotechnic League stories.
In the beginning was World War III...
Out of the flames was born a new civilization, a new humanity dedicated to one world rather than to many nations, to one peace rather than many wars. Never again on Planet Earth would one group of humans...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0425059332 |
One of the great modern works of the imagination, this book tells of the trader van Rijn and the adventurer Falkayn; it rounds and completes the future history of the Polesotechnic League that spans four thousand years of Earth's interstellar empire; and it chronicles Mankind's encounters with the...
| Author | James S.A. Corey |
| ISBN | 0316217565 |
From New York Times bestselling author James S. A. Corey . . .
Somewhere in the vast expanse of space, a group of prisoners lives in permanent captivity.The only company they have is each other and the Belters who guard them. The only stories they know are the triumphs and crimes that brought them there....
Posted at Heradas Review
“There are things I didn’t see before... ...there are other things here.”
Holy shit. This changes things.
I love that we get these short stories and novellas between the main Expanse novels. If the novels are considered big, pulpy action movies...
