The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey
10 best books like The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey (Fred Nadis): Foucault's Pendulum, The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, The Man with the Golden Torc, Whitechapel Gods, Mister Miracle, This Book Is Full of Spiders, Superman, Last Son of Krypton, Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Miracleman, Book One: A Dream of Flying, The Year of Our War
Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic...
The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man
| Author | Tom King |
| ISBN | 0785196579 |
The Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? So he heads back to the beginning, to the laboratory where Ultron created him and molded him into a weapon. The place where he first rebelled against his given destiny and imagined that he could be more -that he could be a man. There, he builds...
The Man with the Golden Torc
| Author | Simon R. Green |
| ISBN | 0451461452 |
Five stars stands for awesome, and that's what this book is! I loved it. I was a little worried that I wouldn't like it as much as the Nightside series, but boy was I wrong.
This book takes my love of James Bond spy movies and supernatural stories and makes a wonderful hybrid, but it has Simon R. Green's...
| Author | S.M. Peters |
| ISBN | 0451461932 |
A thrilling new Steampunk fantasy from a talented debut author
TWO GODS-ONE CHANCE FOR MANKIND
In Victorian London, the Whitechapel section is a mechanized, steam-driven hell, cut off and ruled by two mysterious, mechanical gods-Mama Engine and Grandfather Clock. Some years...
| Author | Tom King |
| ISBN | 1401283543 |
No prison can hold him. No trap can contain him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide celebrity sensation known as Mister Miracle, and he is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. But can he pull off the ultimate trick–and escape death itself?
Something has gone horribly wrong with the perfect...
This Book Is Full of Spiders
| Author | David Wong |
| ISBN | 0312546343 |
Originally released as an online serial where itreceivedmore than 70,000 downloads,John Dies at the End has been described as a"Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft. The book went...
Superman, Last Son of Krypton
| Author | Elliot S. Maggin |
| ISBN | 0446823198 |
As the dying planet of Krypton tears itself apart, Jor-El, Krypton's greatest scientist, launches a tiny interstellar ship into the frigid void of space bearing its hold his only child - the infant who will become Earth's Superman. From his childhood in Smallville, to his emergence as Metropolis newsman...
Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
| Author | The Harvard Lampoon |
| ISBN | 0451452615 |
A quest, a war, a ring that would be grounds for calling any wedding off, a king without a kingdom, and a little, furry "hero" named Frito, ready - or maybe just forced by the wizard of Goodgulf - to undertake the one mission which can save Lower Middle Earth from enslavement by the evil Sorhed...Luscious...
Miracleman, Book One: A Dream of Flying
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 0913035610 |
KIMOTA! With one magic word, a long-forgotten legend lives again! Freelance reporter Michael Moran always knew he was meant for something more-now, an unexpected series of events leads him to reclaim his destiny as Miracleman! The groundbreaking graphic novel that heralded a literary revolution...
| Author | Steph Swainston |
| ISBN | 0060753870 |
Unique among his fellow immortals and mortal folk alike, Jant Comet can fly. His talent is a gift and a curse that has earned him a place in the Castle Circle as Messenger to the Emperor San -- soaring high and free above the bloody battlefields of his world, carrying word back to his master of progress and...
Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
| Author | Mary M. Talbot |
| ISBN | 1595828508 |
Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father''s Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted...
| Author | Bryan Talbot |
| ISBN | 0224090003 |
Convicted psychotic killer and extremist fanatic Edward "Mad Dog" Mastock violently escapes the guillotine's blade in the Tower of London to once again terrorize the Socialist Republic of Britain. But dogging Mastock's bloody footsteps is his longtime adversary and nemesis, Detective Inspector...
| Author | Mark Pilkington |
| ISBN | 1602398003 |
Part personal odyssey, part espionage adventure, and part social history, Mirage Men delves into the world of UFOs, those who believe in them, and those who would have us believe in them. This is not your average UFO book. Mirage Men explores the strange and symbiotic relationship between the U.S. military...
Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary letters and let them loose on the most vital and popular corners of cinema history: midnight movies, the New Hollywood of the sixties and seventies, film noir, screwball comedies, international...
| Author | Charles Fort |
| ISBN | 1585092789 |
Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern...
| Author | Cullen Bunn |
| ISBN | 0785190309 |
Deadpool's wildest adventures are collected in one blood-soaked volume! What if Deadpool decided to kill everyone and everything that makes up the Marvel Universe? What if he followed that up by slaughtering the most famous fictional characters in classic literature? And what if he finally took...
Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions
| Author | John Michell |
| ISBN | 1579122280 |
Personally, I LOVED this book. There's an unbelievably sick bibliomaniac who's obsessive drive to collect ruins him, the inventor of the ice battleship (he proposed them to Mountbatten and Churchill!), but my favorites of all were the trephanationists--I want so very badly to see the film "Heartbeat...
The Vision, Volume 2: Little Better than a Beast
| Author | Tom King |
| ISBN | 0785196587 |
Once upon a time a robot and a witch fell in love. What followed was a tale of the dead and the dying, of the hopeful and the lost, of the wronged and the avenged. And in the end, after both had fallen, the witch and the robot rose from their dirt and eyed each other across a field of blood and bone. Forty-five years...
