The Paragon Prison
10 best books like The Paragon Prison (Derek Benz): Snow, Glass, Apples, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, Glasshouse, Keys to the Kingdom, Crown of Shadows, Head Games, Infoquake, Animorphs, Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire, Theories of Flight
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1472262913 |
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran.
A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever...
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
| Author | Simon Singh |
| ISBN | 0385495323 |
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo...
| Author | Charles Stross |
| ISBN | 0441014038 |
When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn’t take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It’s the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees’ personalities...
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 1600108865 |
Re-read 2015
So thanks to my pal, Dan 2.0, I've had the chance not only to finally get my hands on the volumes of this series that I haven't been able to read, but also to do a re-read of the first four that I did manage to get my paws on back in the day.
I had forgotten how good these suckers were!
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| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 1600106951 |
The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair, in the third storyline of the Eisner-nominated series, Locke & Key! Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black door, and raises an army of shadows to wipe out anyone...
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 1600104835 |
Following a shocking death that dredges up memories of their father's murder, Kinsey and Tyler Locke are thrown into choppy emotional waters, and turn to their new friend, Zack Wells, for support, little suspecting Zack's dark secret.
Meanwhile, six-year-old Bode Locke tries to puzzle...
| Author | David Louis Edelman |
| ISBN | 1591024420 |
How far should you go to make a profit?
Infoquake, the debut novel by David Louis Edelman, takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It's a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases,...
| Author | K.A. Applegate |
| ISBN | 0590112058 |
Animorphs "RM" is an exciting series for young adult readers about five teens who are given the power to "morph" into any animal they touch and then to absorb its DNA. This power is granted them by a dying Andalite alien named Elfangor, who also warns the teens that Earth is being threatened secretly by...
| Author | Andy Lane |
| ISBN | 0426204158 |
‘I’ve been all over the universe with you, Doctor, and Earth in the nineteenth century is the most alien place I’ve ever seen.’
England, 1887. The secret library of St John the Beheaded has been robbed. The thief has taken forbidden books which tell of mythical beasts and gateways to...
| Author | Simon Morden |
| ISBN | 0316125156 |
Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award
Theorem: Petrovitch has a lot of secrets.
Proof: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's keeping a sentient computer program on a secret server farm - the same program that nearly destroyed the Metrozone a few months back.
Theorem:...
| Author | David Louis Edelman |
| ISBN | 1591026474 |
Natch has just won his first battle with the Defense and Wellness Council for control of MultiReal technology. But now the Council has unleashed the ruthless cunning of Lieutenant Executive Magan Kai Lee. Lee decides that if Natch's company can't be destroyed from without, it must be destroyed from...
| Author | Katherine Applegate |
| ISBN | 0590879979 |
Official Summary:
The end of the world. Not something most people think about. Not something we even expect to ever really happen. But what if you found out an asteroid the size of New Jersey were about to collide with the earth? What would you do? It's the year 2011, and that's the question Jobs is asking...
| Author | Katherine Applegate |
| ISBN | 0590880748 |
When the world ended, there was the Eighty. Eighty people given the chance for survival. Given the chance to board a revamped space shuttle programmed to find them a new place to live. Somewhere to start over after an asteroid had destroyed the entire human race. Now, after a five-hundred-year "nap,"...
| Author | Katherine Applegate |
| ISBN | 0590880780 |
It is time to confront a strange new reality. Of the eighty people chosen to escape earth's final destruction, only a handful remain. They're all that's left of the human race. They've traveled 500 years into the future, and about as far as possible from the life they once knew. Now, marooned on a strange...
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 1613772270 |
Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...! After the gruesome murder of their...
