The Man of Gold
10 best books like The Man of Gold (M.A.R. Barker): The Windup Girl, The Postman, You Are Not a Gadget, Consider Phlebas, Against a Dark Background, Cities in Flight, Orion, Kiln People, Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography, Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie.
| Author | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| ISBN | 1597801577 |
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...
Emiko is the Windup...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553278746 |
This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin's The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science...
| Author | Jaron Lanier |
| ISBN | 0307269647 |
Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary look...
| Author | Iain M. Banks |
| ISBN | 1857231384 |
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could...
| Author | Iain M. Banks |
| ISBN | 1857230310 |
She came from one of the more disreputable aristocratic families.
Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. On an island with a glass shore - relic of some even more ancient...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 1585676020 |
Originally published in four volumes nearly fifty years ago, Cities in Flight brings together the famed "Okie novels" of science fiction master James Blish. Named after the migrant workers of America's Dust Bowl, these novels convey Blish's "history of the future," a brilliant and bleak look at a...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0812532473 |
2.5 stars
Even though there are many interesting ideas in this book, the story itself was a bit of a chore to finish.
The story is basically that of Good versus Evil ... except that Good doesn't really know what it is doing, and Evil isn't really all that Evil at all. Even the Gods are a bit...
In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is cheap. No one knows that better than Albert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, who has sent his own duplicates into deadly peril more times than he cares...
Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography
| Author | M. Şükrü Hanioğlu |
| ISBN | 0691151091 |
When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Atatürk created around himself--would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides...
Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie.
| Author | Luigi Serafini |
| ISBN | 3791306510 |
Questo codice miniato fantastico e misterioso, "l'enciclopedia di un visionario" (nella definizione di Italo Calvino), continua da anni ad affascinarci per la sua capacità di rivelazione, che si cela dietro l'enigma di una grafia chiarissima eppure sfuggente. Una nuova edizione, arricchita...
